- October 20, 2006 -
But Christian Bale is hot, so it wasn't all bad.
Bad Movie Sets and a Lesson in Colorado Geography
We went to see The Prestige tonight in Belmar. It was okay. My chief complaint lies in that the alleged Colorado mountain was so wrong as to be laughable. First of all, the snow does not accumulate in such stupid patterns, like around the tree bases and whatnot. Sorry, it doesn't happen. A slight dusting over the rest of the grass would never stick around like that. Driving up the mountain pass with a bare dirt road despite the snow on the ground? This is so wrong it's almost offensive. The road would be covered too, and deeply, and there would maybe be some coach tracks leading up but no bare road to be sure. And the trees themselves? They don't exist. The only trees you will find on a mountainside in Colorado Springs are evergreens and aspens, not the obviously deciduous brown-barked picturesquely twisty things in the movie. The set was obviously a studio setup and one badly designed by someone who has no freakin' clue what Colorado actually looks like. The only bit that looked like Colorado was a stock footage-looking sort of scene of a train snaking along a rocky mountain face. That looked very Southern Colorado-ish, but also quite out of place since there wouldn't have been a mountain train necessary to get from the East to Colorado Springs since it sits on the plains, and the bare rocky sort of mountains like that are in Southern Colorado.
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