"Place Beyond the Pines," the upstate New York crime store filmed mostly in Schenectady, was unveiled this week at the Toronto Film Festival.

After viewing the film, movie critic Hollywood-Elsewhere blogger Jeffrey Wells said he thought the premise was pretty unbelievable. Why? Because people in upstate New York, and especially in Schenectady, are unattractive and have "a certain genetic look." And, well, the female leads in the movie — Eva Mendes and Rose Byrne — are much to pretty to have hailed from, and live, upstate.