Juno

[PoolMan]

admin said:

I think this probably happens to you a lot more than us non-Vancouverians/non-LA folk due to the sheer amount of films shot there.

Ha... correct you are, and the streak continues. I've been at home sick this week, and picked up the new Battlestar Galactica from the library. The building they walk through near the beginning of Bastille Day is the Vancouver Public Library (the big round curvy one), and I used to study kickboxing with the girl who plays Dualla.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

[sarahbot]

The VPL has been in so much sci-fi that I think it basically holds a guest-starring role in reality.

[PoolMan]

True, that. It's a very neat building.

For the non-locals, it looks like this:

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

My God! Someone cut it in half!

[PoolMan]

With a chainsaw.

[TheLuckyOne]

Bet it was Knives Chau. That girl crazy.

Wait... Toronto and Vancouver are pretty much the same city, right?

-D

[PoolMan]

Just like New York and LA.

[CheshireKat]

poolman said:

Has this ever happened to you?

I used to live about a block away from the "San Dimas Mall" in Bill & Ted, (AKA Metro center mall in Phoenix), but in the 20 some odd years since they made that movie, the entire mall had been redone and I recognized nothing. Worst offender of all, the ice rink was removed years before I moved to AZ! (Interesting sidenote, I didn't know that "my mall" had been in a movie till I read it in MRFH)

[DarthShady]

It was kinda like that when I saw National Treasure. Pretty much every Philadelphia scene in that movie was shot at some place I'd visited for school field trips. Not that weird since they're all huge national landmarks & that was pretty much what the movie was about.

Also, it was a pretty big deal in my hometown when Kevin Smith shot a scene for Jersey Girl in a diner about a half hour away from my house, but I still haven't seen the movie (nor do I really care to.)

[StarOpal]

The last time this happened was with Die Hard 4's Baltimore scenes. In fact, my grandmother worked at Woodlawn.

But I've lived so many places, that this happens quite a bit.

[duckie]

For us, it was when Peter Jackson, Mark Walhberg and Susan Sarandon descended upon our town this past fall, for the filming of "The Lovely Bones". Not since Steve McQueen was here to film "The Blob" has Hollywood graced us with their presence. Look out Vancouver, we're the next hot spot for filming!

[coccatino]

OK, having an infant has left me in serious movie-withdrawal, but I FINALLY got to see this in its entirety last night.
Loved it. Especially loved Michael Cera. Got reallly freaked out by Jason Bateman from the start, and was right. eek!
My mother-in-law watched this with us and was really annoyed by the hipster talk, though. She compared it to Napoleon Dynamite (which she will never forgive us for making her watch). I didn't find it nearly that annoying, but I can see how she would.

On the other topic of recognizing things in movie from real like- yeah- any Kevin Smith movie shot in Jersey. I have family in Red Bank. Several things from M Night Shamaylan movies shot in Philly area. I also get that feeling any time I watch The Office because it's set 45 miles from my current house. Anytime they mention Lackawanna County or the Steamtown Mall I have to laugh. Also, the opening credits contain footage John Krazinski filmed in Scranton out the sunroof of a friend's car, so that's all really familiar.

[sirgallahad2]

My claim to fame is that the bar in the movie "From dusk till dawn" was filmed on the lake bed a mile away from the house where I grew up. That and they filmed the desert town scenes in the "Hulk" movie in the town of yermo. if you watch the scene where the little girl is looking out the window of the ice cream place you'll see a mountain sticking up. my house is right in front of that mountain and my high school was to the right of it. when the bomb goes off it goes off on top of my high school. I was the only guy cheering during that part.