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GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
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Having only been to the 'burbs when Pearl Jam would play in Illinois, this will be my first time in Chicago and obviously at Wrigley Field. So to prepare I am watching a couple of movies or tv shows. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blues Brothers, 30 for 30 "catching hell", The Fugitive. What some others that I am missing? Anybody got any favorites? 10 more days till Wrigley!!!!
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  • EddieshometownEddieshometown Posts: 979
    That's a good list. I'd add Untouchables or making the Chicago Mob on AMC
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  • buck502000buck502000 Posts: 8,951
    Cubs World Series game
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  • tschavtschav Posts: 2,840
    High Fidelity (no brainer)
    The Dark Knight / Transformers 3 (both shot in Chicago with large downtown battle/chase scenes)
    Hoop Dreams (older documentary, but a great one about inner city basketball)
    Drinking Buddies (if anything, for all the Chicago craft breweries in it)
    If you want TV, check out Shameless
  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    buck502000 said:

    Cubs World Series game

    So that scene in Back to the Future part 2?
  • droptheleash9droptheleash9 Posts: 1,433
    Cubs are going to win it this year.
  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance Posts: 23,243
    Home Alone
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  • CubuCubu Posts: 91
    Pretty in Pink was actually filmed at my school. Saw it happen...
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  • CubuCubu Posts: 91
    If you want to watch Chicago get blow up, Transformers 3 was filmed here too!
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  • Ray J. T.Ray J. T. Posts: 4,023
    NBC has a great series going on Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, and Chicago Med. might want to give them a shot. You can probably start catching up on demand or online.
  • tweedyfanjentweedyfanjen Posts: 881
    Cubu said:

    Pretty in Pink was actually filmed at my school. Saw it happen...

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  • keelycankeelycan Posts: 409
    High Fidelity
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  • chitownp76chitownp76 Posts: 1,469
    Vince Vaughan shoots a lot of movies here. The break up and the dilemma for sure
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  • CubuCubu Posts: 91
    No tweedy, but I did see Molly Ringwald.
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  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Home Alone

    i second that!
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    Rookie of the Year
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    LiteTheMatch said:

    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Home Alone

    i second that!
    I just think of Home Alone as an x-mas movie and nothing else.
  • toyacoyahtoyacoyah Posts: 13
    Some good ones on here. I'll add Candyman
  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Posts: 16,430
    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)
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  • mattcozmattcoz Posts: 2,202
    edited August 2016
    Public Enemies

    I used to live around the corner from the old Biograph theater when it was filmed. It was very cool how they transformed everything to how it looked in 1934.
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Drinking Buddies

    An under the radar pick, set at my favorite Chicago brewery!
    Post edited by mattcoz on
  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    mattcoz said:

    Public Enemies

    I used to live around the corner from the old Biograph theater when it was filmed. It was very cool how they transformed everything to how it looked in 1934.

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Drinking Buddies

    An under the radar pick, set at my favorite Chicago brewery!
    I have not seen Public Enemies since it came out in the theater, I remember liking. Going to have to check that one out again.
  • wgwg Posts: 411
    Im going with a youtube

    Cubs WGN broadcast of Harry Carey circa 1990-1992 preferably with Mark Grace in the starting line up.
  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
  • tweedyfanjentweedyfanjen Posts: 881
    GT1015 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
    See it. Any movie with Nick Miller (New Girl reference) is a must. Of course, if you prefer Olivia Wilde that's understandable.
    I'm through with screaming
  • Indifference71Indifference71 Posts: 14,825
    mattcoz said:

    Public Enemies

    I used to live around the corner from the old Biograph theater when it was filmed. It was very cool how they transformed everything to how it looked in 1934.

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Drinking Buddies

    An under the radar pick, set at my favorite Chicago brewery!
    Good movie. Even better that it was set at Revolution Brewing! I drink their stuff all the time.
  • mattcozmattcoz Posts: 2,202
    GT1015 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
    No, have a Revolution beer.

  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    tweedyfanjen said:

    GT1015 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
    See it. Any movie with Nick Miller (New Girl reference) is a must. Of course, if you prefer Olivia Wilde that's understandable.
    New Girl is great! One of the reasons I saw "let's be cops"...or only reason.
  • GT1015GT1015 Posts: 184
    mattcoz said:

    GT1015 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
    No, have a Revolution beer.

    I don't think this beer makes its way in to MN, but I think I might have to stop in the brewery. Checked the website and they have a beer called 1ZENUFF. It is 11% ABV!!! sounds good to me.
  • tweedyfanjentweedyfanjen Posts: 881
    GT1015 said:

    tweedyfanjen said:

    GT1015 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Hoop Dreams
    Drinking Buddies
    Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
    Mean Girls
    Shameless (tv show)

    Have not seen Drinking Buddies. I will have to have a Goose Island beer and watch this one.
    See it. Any movie with Nick Miller (New Girl reference) is a must. Of course, if you prefer Olivia Wilde that's understandable.
    New Girl is great! One of the reasons I saw "let's be cops"...or only reason.
    Forgot about that one. Ugh. Still, Nick Miller. I like to think I'm the female version of him but a little more driven.
    I'm through with screaming
  • RibbertronRibbertron Posts: 164
    Blue Brothers
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