why don't they ever make movies based in Denver?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in...

Okay, so not all of these are necessarily set in Denver, but "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" is pretty obvious, no?

Things to do in Denver when you're Dead.

Which tells you that Denver is basically a gag city for movies. The Cedar Rapids of 1995.

"nice sized city" this is a way of saying "we're in the top thirty markets, unless you count metro areas, in which case they still don't break the top 20. I'm not bagging on the city when I say the skyline looks like Toledo.

Toledo

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&b...

Denver

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&b...

One problem is that Denver isn't quirky or arty, so few budding film makers or scriptwriters plot their first movie there. It isn't Austin or Santa Fe. It isn't even Flint or Xenia.

It's out of town, which often means more expensive.

Cold weather halves your time to film.

It has a very new downtown. You can film a 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s movie in Cleveland by switching a couple signs and calling a local car club.

They aren't desperate. I'll go with Cleveland again here, as at least part of a spiderman movie was shot in Cleveland, because it is dead easy to shut down a street for the day. Then people thank you for coming to the city and tying up traffic. They give you tax credits and you're allowed primae noctis. with any local news anchor.

Notice the monster list guy? Notice how most of these movies are westerns filmed outside of Denver? Cliffhanger takes place entirely on a mountain, how exactly is that a Denver made or set movie? Was the green screen there?

Here are some of the more recognizable movie titles:

True Grit

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Independence Day

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Magnificent Seven

About Schmidt

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

War Games

Nurse Betty

The Mask of Zorro

Die Hard 2

For Love of the Game

Vanishing Point

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Naked Spur

Dumb and Dumber

Cliffhanger

How the West Was Won

Ice Castles

Sleeper

Catch and Release

The Bucket List

The Claim

The Glenn Miller Story

Bandits

License to Kill

The Naked Spur

Resurrecting the Champ

Silver City

First Knight

The Hunted

The Unforgiven

Larger than Life

Nemesis Rising: The Airband

the movie 'identy thief'' is based in denver! or the guy lives there. also 'were the millers' the main character lives in denver. also referrersto being a small time denver pot dealer!

Dude denver has like fifteen skyscrapers it doesnt really look like a city when you are in it cause the actually city part is like 5 blocks long.

FWI i live in Firestone;

cus denver sucks.. speaking from someone from fort collins.

because denbur is boring!