Which movies sum up Los Angeles the best?

To Live And Die in LA

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Blade Runner

It's almost November 2019 when the movie takes place

Tangerine

Escape from LA is pretty much a documentary at this point

was just about to post this, absolute fucking Kino

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T2, Collareral

Looks good.

The Neon Demon
La La Land
Speed

Good taste user has good taste

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Grand Canyon

Too old to die young

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Boogie Nights
Inherent Vice
Magnolia
Collateral
Heat

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MTV's The Hills perfectly captures the beauty of the city and the shallowness of its residents.

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This Is The End.

Falling Down

>Forget it, Jake

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Is this the most kino city?

Escape from LA
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Planet of The Apes

Obviously.

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Nightcrawler

For some reason there's nothing more kino than a 90s movie set in LA.

LA is a nightmare city that should be firebombed into oblivion. Fuck LA, and if you live there, fuck you too.

Applies in 2019 as well

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2000s, Collateral
1990s, Falling Down.

Battle Los Angeles

Because it's full of illegal aliens

>jelly eastcoaster or hick detected

The Player (1992)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Two of my favorites from Robert Altman, and really comfy LA-core.

War isn't illegal.

End of Watch

okay so it's not relevant to what OP was asking at all.

This

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>La La Land
That sums up what people think LA is like. In reality, LA is just slums filled with Mexicans.

Elysium
End of Watch

Planet of the Apes

you're an anchor-baby, aren't you?

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Eating Raoul

What about Big Lebowski?

LA is mostly a big suburb full of Mexicans with shitty apartments interspersed throughout the city where the really poor people live

Heat, Terminator 2, Collateral, Training Day

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Blood In Blood Out

There's no Chinatown in LA

Okay faggot, I'm in Ktown,

Yes there is you fucking retard

Crank 1 and 2

No there isnt

Fuck you, moron

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repo man
terminator
la story

>Training Day

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To Live and Die in LA

LA Stories

Under the Silver Lake

There's also a japanese section. I forget what's called. Japtown?

Little Tokyo

Hi Maynard

The Shield is the only TV series that show how much of a piece of shit LA is.

Hawthorne

I love that movie, it's one of my all time favourites, but I'm not sure if it really defines LA. It could take place anywhere else in America and it would feel the same. Same with Pulp Fiction.

his entire filmography

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Is it more jap than Torrance?

how come LA's skyline never became iconic?

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That sweet camera shot following the car down the ramp.

William Friedkin you genius

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It's shit compared to real cities

Literally just Heat and Collateral take place in LA though.

Thought Torrance was mostly white with the occasional Asian or middle class Mexicans. But yeah Hawthorne is full of Japs.

I really liked its atmosphere, felt like inherent vice done with more soul, except it shits the bed in the end

Torrance? It's been japanifided, and Asians too. Pretty sure most of the coastal cities that were ghetto have been gentrified

I drive past it every day. Right off the 110, hill street. All chinks.

By Sunset and Figueroa? My route is near there don't see that much chinks, spics though.....

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mid90s focuses on the slummy and non glamorous areas of LA, which makes up most of it these days

Nah man Torrance is where a huge majority of Asians are. Hawthorne is more Hispanics and black people and some asians

Mulholland Drive does a nice job of capturing the idea of Hollywood/LA.

How many of the areas shown in this scene have since become homeless camps?

>tfw dream of living in LA but never will

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How many people go to that karaoke in little Tokyo to see that old man who's always there just performing

Comfy movie

Not worth it to live in LA, it is way better to live in a suburb 30 miles away so you can visit often but save some money on rent. You will also be closer to other attractions like Disneyland too

Battle: Los Angeles

The cast was really solid and it made the environment and story more believable

It's great but also rough. There's so much shit to do and places to go. But the issue is money. Also so much fucking construction in the way making bad traffic even worse. Try to avoid staying in a ghetto spot for too long but really you'll end up in one without knowing it. It flows rich to shitty back to rich in the blink of an eye

What suburbs do you recommend? Any other advice?

Miracle Mile

This

Thanks for the info. What's the best places to live do yo think? i.e the best line between affordable and not a shithole

The fuck you talking about? Rent in SGV, Lakewood, Paramount, Whittier, etc is the fucking same, minus the parking

Anaheim is where Knotts Berry farm and Disneyland is. Most young people are going to Korea town or highland park (even then you’ll need roommates)

It's all super pricy. You can probably land a shitty little spot in South Central but even there it's pricy. You're gonna want to be practically in another county for a decent price

Why? Every other wannabe famous) popular/"unique" Chad/Stacey moves here

I'm going to celebrate when the Big One hits.

This
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SGV is still like $1500 a month for regular apartments but that's way better than paying $3000 for a studio in LA

Cameraman here, the way he's holding that camera is cringy

Don't listen to this retard. Anaheim, aka Anacrime, is a shithole, look at Burned Park, Garden Grove, Westminster, Or HB. Anaheim and Santa Ana are majority spics, and both are filled with homeless people

I think it's strange and beautiful. Not moving for the people, don't know anyone here, no reason to think I'd suddenly be mr popular anywhere else.

SGV is good but housing is really tough to find since more and more people are realizing that it's better to not pay insane amounts of money to be suffering in LA. Some people like Orange County too but I'm not the most knowledgable on that area since I've only been there to see sporting events or to Disney/Knott's

KTown is filled with $1k or less apartments

>Miami vice

I did not know that

fucking idiot mongoloid

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It's not the most iconic even living here. La is sprawling as opposed to concentrated. So a lot of the great and well known spots are dotted all over downtown and the suburbs.

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Season 2 of True Detective does an amazing job

Craigslist, but most of these Korean owned apartments want good credit, 2x the SD, and a stable job, no welfare receipients too

Thank you guys, plenty to think about

Dude all of la is majority latino unless you live in like Beverly Hill or Santa Monica then it's like the fucking sun rays are bouncing off of every surface

Fuck yeah. I go just for him because fuck buying anything around there

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everyone in this thread kys

There definitely is a Chinatown, but if you want a REAL china town (with actually good food as well) you'd want to go the San Gabriel Valley (Arcadia, Alhambra, etc). The richer chinese live there as well.

Buena Park and GG and Westminster are majority Asians and white, HB is majority white. Don't be poor and live with spics, find a better area. Where you at right now?

The gentrification wasn't as thorough as east coast places, it's a weird mix of old ghetto and nu shit

Stupid fucking nigger

I fucking love this movie

just you kys

The Chinatown is these cities suck, it's not like NYC where's it's actually like china

It'll get there. They are paying off the spics and nigs to move out. $5-10k to GTFO

you think we give a shit

tell us more about the intricacies of being a cameradude

The food is more authentic though, it's definitely not as walkable as in NYC but that's an LA thing. Aside from DTLA and Koreatown and some other parts, LA county is terrible for pedestrians.

I live in Torrance. And I don't care about living with them. It literally doesn't matter you racist shit

Pulp Fiction or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The LA scene in Annie Hall is also pretty accurate.

I mean parts of Torrance is overwhelmingly asian (there's also a sizeable Japanese community)

what's his camera setup

I don't doubt it, but the process has been a lot slower here.
You have a sharp contrast between the area immediately around the new stadium and the rest of Inglewood, the headquarters of SpaceX and the rest of Hawthorne.

>nobody has said LA Confidential

Based, fuck that overrated piece of shit

Okay Paco, I'm sure having 20 people living in a 1 bedroom with each having an old Civic doesn't complicate things for others

Yes Torrance is big time filled with Asian people. But living near or among Latinos is no bother either.

Get out of my city you spic

Fucking gay movie fails to define LA
Now THIS movie defines LA you pinche maricon.

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Yeah but it's a block though, it's nowhere near close to NYC, which is weird since it's LA, fucking little Ethiopia looks more authentic

Yes because that's all Hispanics and exclusively them

But you were trying to say everything was majority hispanic.
Torrance isn't remotely majority hispanic, we only even have one gang. We're mostly white and asian.

Night crawler

Yeah of course, people here just parrot shit.

Hint Paco, it is, everyone Hayes it, even blacks

The Shield, peak early 2000's kino. LA is nothing but a bunch of blacks and mexicans going against each other and themselves seeing who can get the most people hooked up on drugs, with a few Koreans and Muslims and shit mixed in, all of which hate each other. The only thing holding the city together is a few white people with badges.

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One thing California does not need is more Mexicans. Don't be a fucking idiot just to spite le raycists, admit there is a Mexican overpopulation problem.

You don't understand, this user is correct.
Cities in SGV aren't so much a "chinatown" as they are cities that wealthy chinese have colonized. The billboards are in chinese, as are storefronts, but not because of any official designation.

Fantastic restaurants and markets out there.

Well Torrance is huge and has its pockets. I'm closer to Lawndale. Right on the border there.

La Crescenta here. We're Korean-owned.

Yeah this.

"Chinatown" in LA proper is just a few streets with restaurants and shops in it. Proper Chinese enclaves in LA county are further out.

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Seriously, LA supposedly only has 10 million people but if you drive through South LA and pockets of Mexico areas, it'll probably be closer to NYC numbers

kys

I don't like any LA depiction except the first two Fast and Furious movies. For lack of a better word "gritty" low class low stakes racing cars.

Pretty much what I implied. LA's Chinatown is such a letdown compared to other world-class cities

So people can just spout racism and if I have a problem with it it's somehow me refuting overpopulation problems? The guy was saying you don't want to live near the spics. Which is flat out racist. I call it out and now I'm "Paco" yes such civility

LA is very patchy and multifaceted and you can't really just sum it all up in one take. There are very distinct zones and neighborhoods with different cultures. There is also a blend of stark, brute ugliness mixed with a kind of aura of dreams and hopes and histories, so there can be takes on the brutal, frantic, unhappy side of LA, and then takes on... not a 'happy' LA but the dreams and vibes everywhere, which is a very palpable, real part of it too.

If you want the vibes, the sense of dark histories (the lost dreams, the old houses, spanish architecture), go with:
>Mulholland Drive, Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, LA Confidential, Hollywood Babylon, Meshes of the Afternoon

If you want the mean, frantic, brutal LA:
>To Live and Die in LA, Falling Down, Repo Man, Fade to Black (also has allusions to the star system though), Maps to the Stars

Then there's the two opposed Hollywoods, East and West Hollywood. East is hipster / Silverlake / Echo Park Hollywood, and then West Hollywood is the gelled haired, flashy, exclusive club-attending, Disney starlet, Ryan Seacrest/ Adam Levine side of Hollywood.
>West Hollywood is depicted some in Bling Ring, The Neon Demon, The Canyons, Maps to the Stars, but generally these people don't do movies about themselves realistically so much as just star in big popular schlock; Disney / Nick,etc
>East Hollywood... I dunno, some mumblecore movie or something, but those usually depict NY

Then there's the South Central and East LA sprawl:
>Born in East LA, Friday, Menace 2 Society, etc

For the way LA and the larger sprawl looks with its wide streets and glowing lights at night:
>Drive, Collateral, Nightcrawler, The Neon Demon, Too Old to Die Young, Heat

Or maybe most accurate for most people, just this world of endless ugly buildings, quick-e marts, strip malls, parking lots and random characters, and driving and taking the bus etc:
>Tangerine, Speed, mid90s, Repo Man, Fade to Black, Bill and Ted, Point Break

Based

It's not racism, it is the problem, Mexicans are the problem, even more than homeless nigs

They Live

It is but little Tokyo can be fun. It'll try to gouge you for all you're worth though

very thorough and accurate

That's really any major city you retatd

Just go to SGV, it's alot cheaper and more fun

Yeah. The cutesy japanese stores run by koreans are ripping so many people off with their $40 plush thingys.

Based post

yeah... but what about the steamed curry buns? honestly worth it to go for those

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Same poster here...

I'd add Body Double to the vibes/dark histories category as well as just evoking traveling through all the different areas and shopping centers etc.

I wanted to mention the Sprawl as well, which is part of LA but then extends down through Long Beach, Orange County, out to the Inland Empire, Redlands, San Bernadino, and all the way down to San Diego:
>Brick, Poltergeist, ET, Bill and Ted, Nightcrawler, The Bling Ring (the suburban parts of the movie), Repo Man

Not that good. And besides, that is chinese food. Better to just go to curry house and get curry pan

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Dude your people are a problem. What dont you get about that spic boi? It's not racist to point out facts.

You didn't read the whole post then, it gets into very particular regions. And if you'd argue with it, you have no experience with LA.

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Yeah and my gf loves those places. I just take her to a sushi place for distraction and get us a little drunk so she doesn't pout for a $60 plush cat

The whole point is most major cities have specific areas that it's known for. NYC is such for one, you think Brooklyn and Manhattan and it's neighborhoods are the same?

Good call. sushi is fulfilling and there's plenty of good options in the area. It's especially nice when you can find the places where only japanese people there work because they will always be better than the ones that have koreans/latinos

Yes well la is known for its sprawl in ways New York isn't.

Well, yeah, sure, I'd argue that too. My point was just that LA too has its distinct areas and so if you want to see any of those captured, here are the films to see.

That said, everyone knows that LA in particular has a problem of all its zones/neighborhoods being more remote from each other, the problem of how it was zoned /built so you have to drive everywhere - the bus system is inconvenient and slow and subways / trains didn't catch on big yet, and trolleys were removed (there's even a movie about that).

As such, there's a sense of kind of these separate worlds in LA, and some are mashed next to each other, like a slum next to a wealthy neighborhood (common in California), but a lot of it is also separated by these kind of bleak, wasteland-like zones that you don't want to walk through (and that would take an hour or two to walk at least).

and you're not relevant to the topic of straight men

Got any sushi place in particular you'd recommend in that area?

Which are the wasteland zones they sound kino

Coming from someone who’s lived in LA his whole life. Pic related
I’ve also eaten at the place in the movie. The place is Angelo's Burgers in Lynwood

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Meant to include Cobra in there. Like a lot of movies it could go in several of those categories, because like LA, it's a blend of those different qualities and contradictions. It mean and dumb and traverses 'trashy' areas, but it also has an almost cartoonish, glamorous, dreamy side too, this world of models and movies and the city itself seeming cartoonish and movie-like.

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Real fucking kino and totally underrated by Yea Forums

They most certainly are not. They feel like you're moving through a sad future. Broken windows burnt buildings. Rubble. And fucking homeless everywhere

Bosche

They're everywhere, in LA as well as the sprawl... basically the zoning in Southern California is crazy libertarian, where they can just tear down old buildings or neighborhoods and put in ugly parking lots or supermarkets, and as a result, driving in any direction, you pass constantly through long stretches of just really ugly concrete areas that were meant to be thriving industrial zones or shopping areas or big box stores or low rent areas, but the area went downhill and now it looks all empty and bleak and bleached out, and basically you're just driving / walking by some concrete walls for long stretches, or neglected buildings interspersed with liquor stores and laundromats with tweakers hanging out outside.

Basically just see the Watts area, or anywhere in South Central or East LA, or then basically all the lowlands areas of Orange County... kind of just endless strip malls and industrial zones and then more-or-less ghetto-y neighborhoods. In contrast to the hills neighborhoods in the sprawl which are walled off, intentional communities with really samey landscaping / lawns and architecture.

Escape from New York
Goodfellas
Donnie Brasco
Casino

>it focuses more of character drama than procedcure
why would i watch more girl relationship drama shit

Definitely underrated in this regard. It's not perfect but it does succeed a lot of the time

Bada-bing! *kisses fingers* Now *THAT'S* LA, knowhatImean?!

Because you're the type of loser who sees character drama as girly like you're 12 still

Fargo
Hot Fuzz
The Thing
Home Alone

>girl relationship drama shit
What? At least learn to express yourself.

>character drama
relationship drama*
it's inserted into a series as soon as they run out of their initial plot ideas so at least girls will keep watching it and they can eek out a few more shekels rather than putting it out of its misery

>Or maybe most accurate for most people, just this world of endless ugly buildings, quick-e marts, strip malls, parking lots and random characters, and driving and taking the bus etc:

I'd also add Jackie Brown to this category, and although it's a bit cartoon-y - still kind of accurate - Pulp Fiction. Even like these retro diners and stuff; that's not so much Tarantino adding his own taste onto it as much as how it actually is there - particularly as it was in the 90s. Or go to any boutique or downtown walking area in LA, or in Fullerton or Santa Ana or Pomona in the sprawl, and you'll find places like that.

Sounds like something from a nightmare

It's been a while since I've had sushi from there so I can't remember which ones in particular were good. Ramen however I'll highly recommend you go to orochon ramen since their ramen doesn't just taste like instant noodles like 90% of the ramen places white people love.

Honestly, I think this clip from the Cleveland Show(of all fucking places) is one of the funniest satires of Los Angeles I've ever seen. Every time I get stoned while stuck in traffic I think of it.

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That was good

Holy shit, that is kind of perfect.

Pomona has gotten really shitty. The antiques row has some nice stores with cool shit but pretty much everywhere else is packed with drug addicts and homeless people. It's beyond disgusting. There's also a nice burger place called Tom's Family Restaurant where the employees are super nice which is a nice place to hide from the bums for a moment.

cleveland show is great, people wrote it off as "black family guy"
>why is it important for roberta to be a virgin daddy?
>if i told you that you could open a new soda pop or have one that had seven penises in it, which would you prefer?

>although it's a bit cartoon-y - still kind of accurate - Pulp Fiction. Even like these retro diners and stuff; that's not so much Tarantino adding his own taste onto it as much as how it actually is there - particularly as it was in the 90s. Or go to any boutique or downtown walking area in LA, or in Fullerton or Santa Ana or Pomona in the sprawl, and you'll find places like that.

Speaking of that 'retro-diner' side of LA (which you also see in Mulholland Dr), there's the movie Swingers. This side of it has slightly receded... not so much diners, which are still popular in downtown LA, but from the 80s into the mid 00s or so there were these greased haired, sideburns guys who came out of this kind of Gen X New Wave / ska / litegoth thing. LA and Orange County in the late 70s / early 80s had its own flavor of New Wave that could maybe be summed up in Danny Elfman... this sort of vaguely surrealist-goth-y (with Mexican Day of the Dead imagery), New Wave-y, ska-ish, swing-ish thing with suits and cleancut hair etc. Maybe boilerhats, suspenders, creepers... all that. It started with these art scene people at CalArts and places like Santa Ana etc, art punks basically, but then kind of persisted in this SoCal punk culture through these record stores and retro clothing stores and kind of came to a head in the late 90s. It was the reason for Third Wave Ska, No Doubt, Tarantino, Swingers, that whole aesthetic. It's what you get a glimpse of a bit in the look of Reservoir Dogs and the retro aspects in Pulp Fiction. LA had a lot of this here and there but it was even more popular and persistent out in Orange County and Long Beach.

At the same time though - going back through the 80s and 90s even - the hip elite around Hollywood had more of this psych thing, which has since kind of asserted itself more and spread more to other areas. There was a psych underground in Silverlake through the 90s, which grew more in the 00s and since.

>There was a psych underground in Silverlake through the 90s, which grew more in the 00s and since.

Which is why Lana Del Rey's music is Laurel Canyon / slow-psych at this point. It's something very distinct to LA, which I think is partly to do with the particular vibe of its hipster areas, the way the land and neighborhoods and flora look, its histories and vibes. There's a blend in that particular underground of psych and Hollywood glam and country. Which is obviously just particular to that place.

Outside of the 5 unis there it's fucking ghetto, I'm pretty sure I've seen students moonlight as hookers

I have lived here my whole life and cant imagine living anywhere else.

Fuck the homeless though, we will win this war in the end.

I lived there for 10 years as a kid, considering moving back when I graduate college.
IDK, it's not perfect but I've been getting serious nostalgia for it in the past year.

Yeah I've heard that the prostitution problem is pretty rampant. There's tons of signs that prohibit people straight up standing in certain areas.

that's illegal. it's public property

Yeah, I've commuted throught Figueroa and Florence in the early mornings and El Cajon Blvd in SD and the prostitution problem is worst there, and tbqh, if I was was to get one, it'll probably be there

Die Hard's too white to sum up LA. It's like an alternate universe at this point.

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Not if they call it "loitering" or "vagrancy"

We should just herd them up and ferry them off to Catalina island

If you like a lot of male nudity you're in for a treat

It should be one of those historically important films like Boyz N the Hood is.

>no one has said Boyz N the Hood

Blood in blood out too

Sounds like college.

Torrance is like 60 white/ 40 Asian (normalized)

A lot of Japanese and Korean businesses have offices there, or even US headquarters. Also pretty expensive to move in to the nicer parts (west and south) where houses are between 1-2 million

Hell yeah brother