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Obviously not a scifi fan. So much filmed there most significantly various stargates.
Pitch Black was shot in Australia... I was at a bar in Coober Pedy (the only bar in town, I think) stepped out for a smoke and there's the spaceship from Pitch Black just sitting in the parking lot LOL.
I don't know about that... the primary motivation of Riddick in the second one was to help the girl from Pitch Black. She's in the prison mentioned in Pitch Black because she wanted to get eyes like Riddick had, which was something she asked about in Pitch Black. He finds out where she is from the priest from the first one. The Necromonger plotline was new, but that plotline and the prison plotline felt like they were from different movies.The Necromonger plotline was abandoned in the third movie (which was disappointing since I liked that part) and the third movie has more in common with Pitch Black than the previous Chronicles of Riddick movie.
I think it's more accurate to say the Necromonger plotline in the second movie was the outlier in the series. Which is unfortunate since I would've like to see where that went, but it wasn't a good fit for a "Vin Diesel is an awesome baddass" kind of movie.
Well it was actually called the First World War before the war ended because people already knew there was going to be another one.
Anyway, only three characters survived Pitch Black and Chronicles features two of them prominently, only the priest didn't have a big part. But it's a priest, not too much they could do with a character like that in an action movie.
-- Charles à Court Repington, September 10, 1918 (with emphasis added)
Historical revisionism happens when someone ignores history because they want to win an argument. Which is what you just did. Which is particularly ridiculous given you were just using that as an analogy to make some other point. But the fact is, that while most people called it "The Great War" while it was ongoing, historians started calling it the "First World War" before the war had ended.
So... why was it called the Second World War and not the Second Great War, if no one ever referred to WWI as as the First World War before WWII started?
See what you're doing is doubling down on historical revisionism because you can't admit you're wrong. It was called the First World War before WWII started, in fact before WWI even ended. WWII wouldn't have been called that if no one was referring to the previous war as the First World War before that.
One historic district in Winnipeg regularly stands in for pre-fire era Chicago.
And various other parts of the city can easily act like many mid-west American cities.
One of the malls here hosts the shooting of a hallmark channel Christmas movie almost every summer.
That just brought back a memory for me. I remember a career day or something like that at school and one of my classmates brought his aunt who worked on that movie. She showed us some early pre-sfx footage she had of the t-rex chase where it was just a tennis ball on a stick. Definitely not something that could happen today, but that was before every kid had a camera on them at all times.
This would've been the (school)year before the movie came out, 2005/6. I suppose it's possible it was publicly available at the time. It doesn't really matter, it was just a cool memory from decades ago. I hope it didn't come across as a classic "my uncle works at Nintendo" kind of comment.
Not a Stargate one. I know a few sci-fi movie were shot in notable Canadian cities, such as Chronicle in Vancouver, but I never really recognized Canada in a sci-fi film, no.
Canadians that live in Vancouver and Toronto do this a lot for various films set in "American City, USA":
Alberta has a thriving film industry, too. Nearly any Western, or show that's written for Texas and vicinity will have scenes shot in Alberta. The Last of Us was shot in Calgary, Edmonton, and Canmore along with various "wilderness" locations. The giraffes in the series are Calgary Zoo residents.
Even if you've just visited, you're like "wait, that looks really familiar" sometimes.
It's 'cause they get a tax break, or so I've heard.