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Ohio's not gonna be real pleased about that.

Even though Deliverance is set in Georgia, it should represent Mississippi because Georgia doesn't have inbred swamp people.

Taxi Driver isn't even the right choice for Manhattan, much less Upstate NY. Have the people who made this been to any part of NY?

Dazed and Confused is set in Austin, Texas.

I vote for that over No Country for Old Men.

Speaking as a lifelong Wisconsinite, I consider the "American Movie" choice downright insulting. Take it from me, we're not all brain-damaged, delusional hicks.

Does the movie on the map best represent your state?

NJ: Clerks

Yes. Yes it does.

I'd like to take a copy of it to everyone who has caused Jersey Shore to continue to exist

AND SMACK THEM UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH IT.

idiots.

I'm going with First Blood, because maybe it was set in Washington but it was shot in British Columbia, the land of my birth.

In fact, I invite you to join me on a road trip to Hope, B.C., its primary shooting location, and a town so proud of this that even now there's a wooden cutout of Rambo through which you can thrust your face for fan photos.

You don't even have to pay to use it, except in the sense that everyone who travels to Hope pays for it one way or another.

The Departed. OK, that's cool.

Kayanne -- I too was born in MD, and I too have only heard of Pink Flamingos. Can we just make an exception and sub in The Wire?

Agreed about New York. I grew up in Syracuse, and contrary to popular belief, the majority of the state is nothing like the city.

Now I live in Indiana. I would say Hoosiers is pretty accurate, but if they ever make a movie about the Colts, that will be The One. People here get legitimately angry at me when I inform them that I don't give a shit about football.

I understand why Chicago (erm, I mean Illinois) is represented by Blues Brothers, but I think the Batman movies represent the city better. The skyline, the streets and the corrupt politicians, it’s all Chicago.

Field of Dreams? Unimaginative twats. We're never going to get away from that crapola, are we?

How about this -- JJ's Star Trek! Ass kicking bar with aliens, starship construction docks, tweens driving Mustangs into crevasses (even though those don't exist here) to blaring reditions of "Sabotage", and robot highway patrol officers.

Iowa. Fuck, yeah.

After living in a small town these last 3 years, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is probably more reflective of Iowa than Dreams, IMO. But we'd take Twister (filmed in Iowa not far from where I sit), or even Bridges of Madison County. At least the movie is far more watchable than reading the book.

What the fuck is "Gummo?"

[checks IMDB]

Sounds great. Really.

I'm going to go open a wrist now, because apparently Ohio is the most boring state in the union.

Seeing as how inhanced human/cyborg police officers do indeed patrol the streets of Michigan, sure, Robocop works. If it was me I would have gone with any of these:

8Mile (probobly the best choice)
Gross Point Blank (wishful thinking)
The Crow* (The crime is so bad in Detroit we've outsourced to vengeful spirits)
Toy Story (I had no ideo this took place in Michigan...but wikipedia says it did so it must be true)

*What I would have gone with, Devils Night is seasonal appropriate

I have several states to choose from, but just going with my birth state (Tennessee) and my current state (NC), I can't really complain.

But Gummo for Ohio is completely ridiculous. Either a Michigan Wolverine fan made this map, or the creator was the basis for the Gummo character. Because Heathers is EASILY the best choice for the best Ohio movie. (Unless the main character in Almost Famous lived there, in which case I'll kill all of you for the chance to claim that movie for Ohio).

And speaking of Michigan, would you rather have Robocop or Gung Ho? It's a fine distinction.

Junebug says North Carolina to me. It got all the little details right.

What I meant was

ideo=idea

I don't know what wrong with me.

SCARFACE for Florida? I would have thought COCOON.

Cyrus was pretty good representation of Silverlake (LA). When I watched it in London, it made me so homesick, I booked a flight back that night!

Oooooh, I remember people here getting soooo upset about the movie Fargoooo, and hoooow it was in noooo way reflective of the way that most people talk here in Minnesoooota.

I'd think that Grumpy Oooold Men would work well. Alsoooo, Junooooo.

I don't like Fear and Loathing for Nevada just because as someone who lives 8 hours away but still in the same state, I'm sick of the fact that everyone thinks Vegas is the only thing here. I'd suggest Kingpin due to the tournament in Reno or maybe even Tremors as the first one was set in the middle of fucking nowhere sagebrush in Nevada. Which is approximately 98% of what you'll see in the 320 miles between my town and Vegas.

I am perfectly fine with Tennessee being The Evil Dead as opposed to Black Snake Moan or something else equally as terrible. I have no complaints.

But after living in Mississippi for a few years, O Brother Where Art Thou is far, far off. I can't really think of any movie I would have for MS but if a People of Wal-Mart movie was ever made (please, no) that would about cover it.

Are you kidding me? The beautiful cultural heritage of Michigan isn't getting correctly portrayed? Michigan!? There's nothing in Michigan except water and roads out of Michigan.

Oh wait. Somewhere in Time.

Is that better?

(Actually I'd vote for Roger and Me but I don't think that'd do much to improve the cultural milleu.)

Why not Gone with the Wind for Georgia? And Grumpy Old Men for Minnesota?

As for Louisiana...Southern Comfort is OK. Specially with lime. Wakka-wakka! At least it wasn't The Last Exorcism

Another option for Georgia might be Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It even has Uga, go dogs!

The fuck? You stick Missouri with Jesus Camp, and yet you give Arkansas a kickass movie like True Grit? I guarantee you that for every redneck fundentalist we have in this state, you'll find ten more in Arkansas.

I'm surprised by all the other secret Marylanders here.

If there was a TV exception: clearly The Wire

Baltimore w/o TV exception: Diner

Rich eastern shore people: Wedding Crashers

And of course who can forget Step Up 2 The Streets?!?!?!?!

I'm from Wisconsin, represent. I don't really know what American movie is, but by the imdb page I don't think I agree with that. I personally would nomin8 The Matrix, because of all the crazy shit that goes down in my hometown of Wauwatosa, WI (a Native American word for firefly). This one time some people vandalized 50 stop signs so they said "STOP VOLDEMORT". And we won the basketball state championships? What a wild suburban maze.

However, currently being a student of UW-Madison, our state movie is obviously Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield. It was filmed here and rumor has it RDJ partied with the badgers.

I'm just glad my much-maligned state is neither Garden State nor a mob movie. Clerks I can live with, though Mallrats might have been more apt.

As a proud Baltimorean (living in Philly) I would have to go with Wedding Crashers for the following reasons.

-I went to a prep school with a bunch of Sack Lodges

-About 8 in 10 Marylander would proudly proclaim "Crabcakes and Football - that's what Maryland does!!" without a sense of irony.

-Most of the movie takes place on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay which is the best part of MD.

As far as Pennsylvania goes I would reccomend picking two movies because people from Philly and Pittsburgh barley aknowlege they are in the same state. Example Groundhog Day - Pitt; Rocky - Philly

superasente,

I grew up in Dayton, home of the Wright Brothers, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Roger Clemens and Wright-Patt AFB. I've never been to Akron, though I did visit The Flats in Cleveland on a couple of occasions, so, you know, close enough.

When I first saw this on the main page I thought it was going to be like a comment diversion where we chime in on what movie represents the state we live in. I thought "I unfortunately make my habitat in Georgia at the moment, so I will say Deliverance". Imagine my glee when I saw the decision was already made for me.

And by the way, white people aren't the only ones who commit incest down here...

::walking into the room with many papers, his glasses resting on the bridge of his nose, hair dissheveled::

Point of order, sir! Point of order! Fuck this bullshit map. While Wayne's World mentioned Delaware, that movie in no way represents our state...FUCK THAT.

Delaware is 100% the backdrop of Fight Club. Wilmington to be specific. Watch the fucking paper-bag covered DVD version's commentary. They even talk about how they had to look up specific names for people and places in Wilmington to make sure nobody would sue over usage. Nearly 85% of the major players in the banking and credit card games make their homes in Wilmington and more than 1/2 of the Fortune 500 is based here. And 27 of the Fortune 100. I live in the city of Wilmington. 19808 is the zip code for the western part of the city near Newark. You get to New Castle by leaving downtown Wilmington via Rt. 13 and driving 2.2 miles. Delaware City is 12 miles from here. You can view Penn's Grove, NJ from the top floor of the building I work in...the downtown Wilmington office of the largest bank in the country.

I dream of the day that I have a front row seat in the theatre of mass destruction, the demolitions committee of Project Mayhem having wrapped the foundation columns of my building with blasting gelatin, two minutes from seeing primary charges blow base charges and a few square blocks being reduced to smoldering rubble.

So whomever made this cute lil map, while I applaud the effort of a novel and original idea...WACTH some fucking movies next time instead of just googling movie quotes + {statename} to throw something together.

I hope you die in a fire.

:: walking out of the room::
Fucking Wayne's World...Christ! Next thing you know this dickhead will be saying Fanboys is representative of Nevada because they fucking drove through their...

I lived in Baltimore during college and John Waters' movies have a special place in my heart. They remind me of some of the sketchy people and things I saw while living there. I especially like Pecker and Cecil B. Demented. (He is the one director I feel its a requirement to watch the movie with commentary. That man has some stories and can turn a phrase.)

I thought "I unfortunately make my habitat in Georgia at the moment, so I will say Deliverance". Imagine my glee when I saw the decision was already made for me.

Aww Kris! If you really think that, then you're probably living in the wrong part of Georgia (i.e - more than thirty minutes away from either Atlanta or Athens)

Fuck, I would even take Drumline or Remember the Titans before fucking Deliverance

How about Driving Miss Daisy?

And HEY! Zombieland was partially filmed in Decatur!

What I'm trying to say is, cut us some slack. Deliverance is hardly a movie representational of Georgia anymore than Wrong Turn is for West Virginia.

Also: Why isn't Fried Green Tomatoes selected for Alabama? My Cousin Vinny? Really?

Reposting my NC movie love from 'jiba love yesterday:

Cape Fear (both of em)
Being There
Junebug

and I'd even pick Nights in Rodanthe over Bull Durham.

PS, there are no women in NC who look or talk like Susan Sarandon, even the ones who moved here from somewhere else. She played a southern woman in The Client too. Just wrong.

I actually kind of like One Night at McCool's for St. Louis, which I basically think of as Missouri. Waiting for Guffman does a pretty good job of capturing rural Missouri, but half the population of the state lives in St. Louis, so I think of it as more representative of what people from the state or visiting the state will have experienced.

There's also King of the Hill, but Jesus H. that one is depressing, and really doesn't represent the state or city as it is.

I also agree that No Country for Old Men isn't really "Texas the movie." It's kind of like when movies get made about Australia and they're all red dust and outback. Nobody lives in those parts of Australia, or the No Country for Old Men parts of Texas, so natives are likely to look at you funny when you say those movies capture their home.

What about Friday Night Lights for Texas? That's probably a lot more like it, particularly if you INSIST on staying away from the big cities.

Washington - Sleepless in Seattle
New York - King Kong

Michigan=Gran Torino

You know, North Dakotans tend to be Lutheran or Catholic. And for the most part, seem to think religion is a private thing, not to be spoken about (lest it start an argument) and certainly not pushed like the people in Jesus Camp. So, as a North Dakotan, I say no. This choice poorly represents my state. Sadly, Besides Fargo, I can't think of another ND movie.

Of all of the movies that have taken place in Virginia they chose Remember the Titans? Really?

I'll have to spend some time thinking to figure out what I like better.

As Vangie kind of already pointed out, if anything Fargo represents ND, not MN (Fargo is in ND, not MN, although I do realize that some scenes took place in Minneapolis).

I would definitely pick Juno or Grumpy Old Men over Fargo any day. Also, Minnesotans generally don't talk like they do in the Fargo movie, that's only for the hicks in the small towns. Most of us speak in what would be considered the "Received Pronunciation" of American English.

I haven't read the comments yet to see if there are any other Montana residents here, but A River Runs Through It only represents SOME of Montana.

As someone who has lived here 20+ out of 27 years and doesn't hunt, fish, farm, rodeo, listen to pop country music (alt-country is another matter), I find I get terribly cranky when the state is reduced to some sort of "down home" stereotype.

I don't know if I've seen a movie that more accurately represents what it's like to live in some of the larger cities like Billings (well, if it were Billings, it'd be a boring movie full of chain store sprawl...), Great Falls (where I live), Missoula (where I used to live and is probably closer to Eugene, OR or Boulder, CO in style), Bozeman, etc...

However, if you did some sort of weird hybrid of Northfolk, The Slaughter Rule, Suburbia and A River Runs Through It, then we might be getting closer.

TN got The Evil Dead!! SWEET!

How did Washington not get "Say Anything" or "Singles"?

Ok, Singles is pretty Seattle-centric, but so was the NY entry.

Oh on a side note 5 movie that better represent ohio than gummo

The Oh in ohio
Detroit rock city
Traffic
Almost Famous
Howard the Duck

Thank you.

Slingblade would also have been a great choice for Arkansas, seeing as it was filmed and set here.