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Movies - New York or Los Angeles?

Try to guess whether these movies took place in New York or Los Angeles.
Dear nitpicker: We are not asserting that the entirety of each movie took place in the city
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Last updated: August 2, 2021
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First submittedAugust 2, 2021
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1. Ghostbusters
New York
Los Angeles
2. King Kong
New York
Los Angeles
3. Clueless
New York
Los Angeles
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
New York
Los Angeles
5. Big
New York
Los Angeles
6. Terminator
New York
Los Angeles
7. Pulp Fiction
New York
Los Angeles
8. Rebel Without a Cause
New York
Los Angeles
9. When Harry Met Sally…
New York
Los Angeles
10. Blade Runner
New York
Los Angeles
11. Spider-Man
New York
Los Angeles
12. Taxi Driver
New York
Los Angeles
13. Chinatown
New York
Los Angeles
14. Boyz n the Hood
New York
Los Angeles
15. West Side Story
New York
Los Angeles
16. Die Hard
New York
Los Angeles
17. Goodfellas
New York
Los Angeles
18. Coming to America
New York
Los Angeles
15 Comments
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Level 91
Aug 3, 2021
I never really paid attention to Blade Runner, but the high density city seems like something that will never happen in Los Angeles.
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Level 65
Aug 19, 2021
Blade Runner and its sequel take place in a future (even though the original movie is actually set in a date now in our past) very different from the present. The geography of the whole world seems different, as there are vast sea walls made to protect cities from the rising oceans caused by Global Warming to it constantly raining in Los Angeles, to other cities like Las Vegas being totally abandoned.
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Level 91
Aug 4, 2021
Wow, surprised I got them all. Most were easy, but there were four or five I wasn't sure on and guessed right on them all.
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Level 67
Aug 19, 2021
Missed on Big because I always associate Tom Hanks with Los Angeles, but I remembered after seeing the answer that Zoltar is located on a boardwalk not far from where I grew up in New York.
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Level 87
Aug 4, 2021
Trying to imagine "Goodfellas - the LA Years" !
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Level 56
Apr 14, 2025
LOL ....Tommy's rturn!!
+10
Level 94
Aug 5, 2021
Die Hard gave me some pause because McClane is a NYC cop and Die Hard with a Vengeance is set in NYC.
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Level 67
Aug 19, 2021
Had the same thought, but got it after a moment's hesitation.
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Level 65
Aug 19, 2021
Also, the original trilogy (I pretend 4 and 5 didn’t happen. 4’s actually a fairly OK action movie, it just feels more like a generic action movie than a Die Hard movie, and it is PG-13; as it doesn’t feel like a Die Hard movie to me, I generally don’t consider it alongside the trilogy. 5 is pure trash) further blurs the line.

In 1 he is a New York cop in Los Angeles.

In 2 he is an LA Cop (back w/ Holly) in DC.

In 3 he split w/ Holly & is a New York cop in NY.

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Level 59
Aug 19, 2021
Ive only seen Die Hard so 11/18. Cool quiz!
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Level 66
Aug 19, 2021
I thought this would include Karate Kid.
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Level 56
Apr 14, 2025
I think Ghostbusters was in L.A. because it shows the Eastern Airlines building which was in L.A.

I could be wrong through

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Level 51
Apr 14, 2025
definitly nyc
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Level 85
Apr 14, 2025
The movie is set in New York and the Eastern Airlines Building is in New York. Idk how someone can be so confidently incorrect.
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Level 70
Apr 25, 2025
I knew 14/18.

For Goodfellas, I assumed mafia movie -> New York

Then I counted and had much more New York, so the rest I put to L.A.

Result: 17/18