Films in this library shot in Hawaii, a chain of islands used for anything tropical, prehistoric or paradisiacal. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
HawaiiAquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The last film of a continuity that had already been cancelled, released into an audience that knew it, with a villain whose plan is to…
AustraliaThe later Pirates films rate 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. On Stranger Tides cost four hundred and ten million dollars, which made it the most expensive film ever made at the time, and Dead Men Tell No…
CaliforniaIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and eighty-five million dollars, seven hundred and ninety million back, and it is still the film that damaged the…
CaliforniaSteven Spielberg's 1981 archeology adventure launcher. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
Hawaii2002 Lee Tamahori Bond film with Brosnan's final outing. North Korea, invisible Aston Martin, Halle Berry, CGI surfing.
CaliforniaAdam Sandler as a rage-filled bathroom-supply salesman. The film that proved Sandler could act when directed by someone serious.
HawaiiDavid Koepp and Michael Crichton adapted Crichton's 1990 novel. The film made approximately one billion dollars worldwide on a sixty-three million dollar budget.
CaliforniaThe 7.5 rating is honest evaluation. Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper.
California50 First Dates is one of the more substantive Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the second major collaboration between Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer had established the romantic comedy partnership that 50 First Dates extended.
CaliforniaFoundational dual-perspective Pearl Harbor film. Equal substantive treatment of American and Japanese forces.
HawaiiWaterworld had one genuine asset going in: a production design concept that was visually striking and physically coherent. A world covered in water would look exactly like this.
CaliforniaAvatar is a white savior film wearing the costume of environmental progressivism, and the combination is more offensive than either element alone. The Na'vi, despite everything that makes them extraordinary, apparently needed Jake Sully.
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