March 07, 2004

• ooh - cool garden. Reminds me of Butchart Garden in Victoria. Watching cheap sci-fi (Kung Fu: Legend Continues, Tek War), the most fun game for Torontonians is to play spot the location. Forever Knight was the most fun though, because it was really set in Toronto - then they'd do something silly like film a scene suposedly set at "St George [Subway] Station" (right downtown) at some grassy suburban station. haha! Okay, maybe this is really specific humour.
• lol jb, I get the "humour". My friends and I used to have fun watching those shows (especially Forever Knight) and trying to figure out where exactly they were taped. Although being from the suburbs, I sucked at this game. Thinking back, I really can't believe that that was much fun... ahh the magic of liquor.
• I used to do that with anything set in San Francisco ("Charmed", "The Hulk", "Monk"), suddenly realising that the cable car doesn't even go down that street, or that a certain view isn't actually possible from the part of SF they're meant to be in.
• The problem with Forever Knight is that they just kept filming at night. What's with these vampire shows anyways? ;) The best moment was when I was watching the very end of the cheesy 80's flick Separate Vacations, they had this shot of a car driving up a road from a tall apartment building (suposed to be a hotel) to a nearby house - and I realised that's my street! I know that building! They missed shooting my building by one block! For GTA people, the scene was filmed at Islington and Dixon, just south of the 401. I've moved since, but I would rewatch the film, just to see that scene again.
• Twin Peaks is always fun to go check out the real locations for - Snoqualmie, Washington is so scenic that it's a great trip whether or not everyone visiting is a Twin Peaks fan.
• The Exorcist stairs are in Georgetown. I'd be happy to provide the .05 tour to any Monkeys who travel to DC and wish to see them...
• Living in Toronto can really spoil suspension of disbelief for some movies. I spent most of X-Men thinking, ``Oh, yeah, it's supposed to be New York.'' Apart from all the Toronto landmarks it was shot in, the smokestack from the concentration camp sequence at the beginning is apparantly just up the street from a friend of mine. A Toronto photoblogger caught the filming of Resident Evil 2, around New City Hall. The Ref was not shot in Toronto. The exteriors were shot in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario (v. pretty town and first capital of Upper Canada). The interiors were shot in a newly built house just outside of Toronto. My high school drama teacher went there when they were tearing down and got some of the set (the fireplace) and a prop from the original ending of the film.
• Vaguely related - this is my favourite film for the disconnect between where its set (New York) and where it was filmed (Vancouver). They don't even make any attempt to make it look like New York. Its fucking marvellous.
• the movie superman..or one of them, anyhow, had scenes filmed here, at kingston penitentiary. something to do with the big old limestone wall. margot kidder was in it and i think i remember her being rescued off the wall.
• Previously discussed in this MeFi thread, which has some useful links.
• Vaguely related, part 2 - This film was filmed in (and set in) my home town. Which was nice. Its quite a good film, too, which is a bonus.
• Cool, dng. Actually, I probably wouldn't have heard of that film, and it sounds interesting, thanks.