tubby and Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 i just watched "The Shawshank Redemption" again last night. i was struck once more by how many movies contain a geocaching scene. i realize that this may reveal an obsession, but it seems that so many movies have at least one scene like this. What is your favorite Geocaching scene from a movie? i want to mark a cache with a volcanic rock some time. Or somehow figure out how to make a cache that can "only be found by those who already know where it is." with a compass that doesn't point North. Groundspeak, what have you done to me? Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Seven had a good cache....or bad depending on your point of view. Quote Link to comment
+Perrin Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 (edited) I liked all the effort they went through in Armageddon to try and hide a cache before it got to Earth. Too bad things blew up in their faces There was also a very interesting multi cache in Die Hard with a Vengance Or was that more of a puzzle cache? Edited February 15, 2004 by Perrin Quote Link to comment
+Geo Ho Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Mopar and I watched Shawshank Redemption a few weeks ago and we commented on the Caching spin at the end. Man wouldn't we all like to find a cache like that? Oh! Wait! I have . . . a Where's George trading cache! Ha! The problem is keeping someone from cleaning it out . . . where I have seen that happen before? As for Seven . . . I saw that one too . . . I definately do not want to find a cache like that!! Ack! Happy caching and stuff! Quote Link to comment
SE7EN Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Seven had a good cache....or bad depending on your point of view. What? Quote Link to comment
+DEBGodfrey Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Today is my first day of caching (did I spell that right?). My son and I have decided to begin with seeking...then work our way up to hiding. One of the ways I explained to him what all this was about was to compare it to the final scenes in Shawshank. He said he's gonna look at movies..and LIFE!..in a different way now. He's homeschooled, so we've added the following lessons to his lessons for this month. Earth Science(s) Longitude/Latitude Mathematics with a compass/GPS Language Commication (report writing/submission) Aint it cool!??! Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 You can't forget the cache hide in the snow, near the end of "Fargo". Quote Link to comment
+astheravenflies Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 "The Shawshank Redemption" - man I loved that movie. Great story by Stephen King. It makes it on a lot of top ten best movies. The cache find scene is classic. Quote Link to comment
+RichardMoore Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 How about "Cutthroat Island"? It showed caching in the early years. RichardMoore Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 The Indiana Jones movies. Always my favorite. Quote Link to comment
+DustyJacket Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Aliens - using the radio receiver to find the colonists, and then the little girl........ Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 One word....Excalibur. Sn gans Quote Link to comment
+MountainMudbug Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Saw Cliffhanger again last night, some big money in those caches - they tracked with GPS, too Liked the self-moving cache Sly made, nice twist on the game. Quote Link to comment
+WebbyCat Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 My favorite scene is in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", where all three men are running around in the huge cemetery looking for the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 My favorite scene is in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", where all three men are running around in the huge cemetery looking for the cache. Same thing happened in Dirty Dingus McGee! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Paint Your Wagon would be an example of an illegal hunt. That and the fact that Lee Marvin should never have been allowed to sing. Quote Link to comment
mufasa1023 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 How about "28 day's later" the goal is to find the virtual (anywhere but the U.K.) and geez all those muggles...... Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Seven had a good cache....or bad depending on your point of view. What? Ummm....errr.... the movie 'Seven'. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow's head. Quote Link to comment
+astheravenflies Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 "Saving Private Ryan" - trying to find a human cache with no fixed coordinates. Quote Link to comment
The Old Goat Patrol Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 The ultimate: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World! Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Any of THESE movies would be good. Quote Link to comment
+kbraband Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 I recently saw the WW II movie "Hell is for Heroes" on a cable TV channel. There's a scene in which one of the American soldiers sneaks into no-man's land on his belly dragging an ammo can connected to a wire. Night caching! Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 The ultimate: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World! "To log this cache as a find, please email me the letter that the cache is hiding under." Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 The ultimate: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World! Hmmm, this sounds a lot like MY cache. lol Quote Link to comment
+Coaster Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 I'm a huge fan of Shawshank Redemption. Alot of the movie was shot in Ohio and I'd always wanted to go out the the field where they shot the "geocaching" scene. Well I was talking about the movie at work one day and one of the guys I work with is from the area they shot the movie in. It turns out that they shot that scene on his grandparents land. I haven't hit him up yet but I'm going to try to get out there this spring once it's nice. Depending on the distance from the road and what premissions I can get there is a small possibility I could but a cache there. I can only hope. Quote Link to comment
Farmer Ted Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 How about "The Goonies" Quote Link to comment
+WindChill Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 How about the final scene of "The Rock". November 22, 2003 by sgoodspeed (1 found) Found this cache after visiting alcatraz island. Took JFK assasination microfilm, left in a hurry. TFTC Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 I think any movie where they have to find a certain phonebooth at a certain place at a certain time fits in this category. Quote Link to comment
+Fatboy Slim & Rainey Belle Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 The newer version of Planet of the Apes. Walberg had the ultimate GPS/PDA. "Cache maintenance way over due. Needs cleaning and fresh swag. Took nothing, killed some muggles, destroyed log." Saw this the other night and thought of this thread when he was looking for the 'mother-ship'. Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Pirates of the Caribean..the ultimate reverse moving multicache. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 (edited) Fandango had a member's only cache I liked. Edited March 10, 2004 by SamLowrey Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Excalliber was a pretty good reserved FTF flick. Quote Link to comment
+mattopia Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 While not a movie, the book Cryptonomicon has a part where someone gives one of the main characters GPS coordinates that take him to a massive pile of gold in the middle of the woods. It's a very, VERY good book. There are a number of other uses of GPS throughout the book. Shawshank was an amazing movie. I'm in Ohio, the prison they used is less than 2 hours south of me, and I imagine the field has to be in that general area. It would be great if Coaster-COG could hide an actual cache there!! mattopia Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 (edited) Not a movie, but saw something similar to caching on a PBS channel a few weeks ago. It was talking about Churchhills auxillary force of villagers he had when the germans were going to invade england. They would pass secret notes around and hide them in things that people use for caches today. Like fake bolts and etc. They had one thing a telephone pole that marked the pole with a number. Behind the number was a tube into the wood. They would hide notes in there for the next person to pick up to move along. If the number was upside down, then there was a note in it, if not, then it was empty. A lot of other neat stuff too... Edit: Mistyped what I was trying to say. I initially put when England invaded Germnay and meant to put when they were going to. The show played it like it would of happened or like it did happen actually. The hiding places for the notes were to pass the information on to the radioman, which on this show was the minister in the church and he had the radio hidden in the pulpit. Here's a link about those secret auxiliary forces. http://www.warlinks.com/pages/auxiliary.html Edited March 11, 2004 by woodsters Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Went out last night with Smtycolt and Strohem to see Without a Paddle. The movie's about three childhood friends who get back together to go on a treasure hunt. No GPSs were used, but there was plenty of map work and a crappy compass. Very funny movie. I think there were way too many times when we were all thinking of each other, "Yep, that's exactly what YOU would do." Bret Quote Link to comment
+Team FUBAR Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 I'm a huge fan of Shawshank Redemption. Alot of the movie was shot in Ohio and I'd always wanted to go out the the field where they shot the "geocaching" scene. Well I was talking about the movie at work one day and one of the guys I work with is from the area they shot the movie in. It turns out that they shot that scene on his grandparents land. I haven't hit him up yet but I'm going to try to get out there this spring once it's nice. Depending on the distance from the road and what premissions I can get there is a small possibility I could but a cache there. I can only hope. I'm from ohio and I would love to see a cache from the movie. Where at in ohio was that filmed? Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Today is my first day of caching (did I spell that right?). My son and I have decided to begin with seeking...then work our way up to hiding. Good choice. Shawshank Redemption was shot at the old Mansfield Reformatory, I would say, about 35 to 45 minutes (time) SW of you, on the north side of town. That's 25-35 minutes east of me on Rt. 30. Quote Link to comment
+Sagefox Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 The Lord of the Rings had a pretty good travel bug. Quote Link to comment
kayaker22589 Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 That library made one big cache in The Day After Tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
BabyFox Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Yeah I agree with: The Lord of the Rings had a pretty good travel bug. posted by Team SageFox. I'm not just agreeing because we share the same surname (I'm "BabyFox") LOL! Ok I like the name too. I am replying also because I am currently wearing a replica of "the one ring" from Lord of the Rings around my neck. I loved the movie that much lol and I have Gandalf's brooch replica too pinned to my pocketbook. I wonder what the average speed of THE ONE RING TB in Lord of the Rings was? haha. I would consider "City Slickers" to be included in having a cache. Though it was a treasure of gold they were seeking, they had lost the map at one point but remembered to "cross over the buffalo's back" and "the hand points the way", etc... so had to figure out what those things all meant and keep looking for the next clue that they could recall just like a MULTI-CACHE. It reminds me of a recent cache that I did (unsucessfully), the clue said "stand back and look for where the bushes are different". In the City Slickers movie, they don't see the buffalo's back or the hand (I forget) until they stand back and then they see everything clearly. Shawshank Redemption however yeah is the best cache movie and best movie ever! I will sign off now by translating the "Elvish" inscription on my Lord of the Rings ring into english: ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL ONE RING TO FIND THEM ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM. Quote Link to comment
Pantalaimon Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I haven't seen the movie in a while, but if I remember correctly, "Red Dawn" had a disturbing caching scene. Luckily the Wolverines found the cache before the Russians did. Pan Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I liked the geocaching scenes in "To Kill A Mockingbird", where Boo Radley leaves little trinkets in the knothole of a tree for the three children to find. Quote Link to comment
+5 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Went out last night with Smtycolt and Strohem to see Without a Paddle. The movie's about three childhood friends who get back together to go on a treasure hunt. No GPSs were used, but there was plenty of map work and a crappy compass. Very funny movie. I think there were way too many times when we were all thinking of each other, "Yep, that's exactly what YOU would do." I too saw some of that movie. As soon as the map came out, I thought caching. What I saw of the movie was pretty funny. However, the cave scene kinda scared me...Reminded me of a quote from my anual deer hunt..."Hey, what happens in deer camp, stays in deer camp..." Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 What I saw of the movie was pretty funny. However, the cave scene kinda scared me...Reminded me of a quote from my anual deer hunt..."Hey, what happens in deer camp, stays in deer camp..." LOL....the three of us (Smtycolt, Strohem and I) also went down to Nashville for Geo-Woodstock II together. Our mantra in the months prior to the trip was, "What happens in Nashville stays in Nashville." I'm really freaked out that you said that! Bret Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Any of THESE movies would be good. Yup - I was just thinking Pirates of the Carribbean was perfect. The coin was it's own beacon you had to track down. Quote Link to comment
+W8TVI Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Star Trek Nemesis has the best geocaching scene. Come on, they have a geocaching shuttle AND dune buggy. And when they get out of the car they use the "tricorder" (we all know that its really a GPS unit) to find the B-4 Multi-Cache. Noel Quote Link to comment
annekat Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 "Hey, what happens in deer camp, stays in deer camp..." Why would you send your deer to camp. I just don't understand. I like to follow deer trails sometimes to get to the caches. Trouble is, they don't geocache much. It's nice when they do. But they ALWAYS take the salt licks, and they leave nothing (though they usually sign the log.) Quote Link to comment
blocko1000 Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Blair Witch II had a caching scene in it. After the first night in the woods, they had to find their tapes from the video cameras. The guy finds them hidden under a wall. Quote Link to comment
+Pyewacket Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Waterworld. Quite a battle for FTF in that movie. Quote Link to comment
+switchdoc Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Can't believe no one has mentioned 'A Fish Called Wanda' yet... There's a difficult micro! Quote Link to comment
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