Show t v i it I t t 1 1 i- i 1 I i i. i r l 7 7 1 1 J. J r five r O lIe 0 7 1 j t- t J r f. Jr thO r. r jt 4 M r. r v Ie r ri i I 11 fr f r a if V SI 1 t rL 4 v t m- m tP v Movies M vies filmed in Utah i V II I Christian Leikam Opinion Writer Utah is East Hollywood While almost r everyone everyone knows that the High School School Musical Musical franchise was filmed in Salt Lake you may not know that some actual quality movies have been filmed here too While there is an expansive list of movies shot in Utah theres there's only room for five items on this list Here is a list of the top five movies filmed in Utah in no pa particular order Number Five Wild mid Wild mid West Pest It doesn't come as a surprise that a movie called Wild Wild West would at least pass through Utah This cheesy awesome Will Smith movie takes it a step further The The- climax of the film actually takes place in Utah even if not where they say they say Promontory Point in Northern Utah they show Monument Valley in Southern Utah If youve you've seen this movie but dont don't remember the scene heres here's heresa a refresher Its It's the one with the gigantic robotic spider that shoots fire and missiles being operated by bya a racist double amputee While that concept might be weird Dr Arliss Loveless only wanted to kidnap President Ulysses S. S Grant So that totally makes sense Number Four Dumb Dumber In this movie Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne dont don't make it as far west as Utah on their cross-country cross trip A fair amount of this movie was actually filmed in Utah though mostly in Park City for the parts where they're in Aspen Colorado According to some more Utah shooting locations included Lake Point Orem Provo and Salt Lake International Airport Number Three Better Off Dead In Inthis Inthis Inthis this classic dark comedy Lane Meyer John Cusack deals with his surreal high school life and skis in his free time Skiing is a big element in inthis inthis inthis this movie mostly because Meyer has to beat the jock that his girlfriend left him for in a ski competition The ski scenes were shot at Alta ski resort particularly the scene where Meyer gets getsin in a sword fight using ski poles with his neighbor Ricky Smith Locations in the Salt Lake Valley were were- also used like the Dans Dan's Grocery Store on 3 32 00 m South in Holladay Number Two Jeremiah Johnson JO Starring Robert Redford President and Founder of the Sundance Film Festival this movie follows Jeremiah Johnson a mountain man who wishes live an idyllic life in the wilderness When a misunderstanding leads to a vendetta against him by r I the Crow Tribe the life he wanted slips away Number One The Sandlot Except for a scene at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles this movie as entirely in filmed t Utah The Sandlot is about Scotty Smalls who moves to a new neighborhood and spends his entire summer playing baseball with neighborhood kids Filming locations for The Sandlot include Rose Park Ogden Midvale and Salt Lake City |