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I don't want to say that Trump made you a favor, but I realized that I had completely forgot about Canada. Are you aware of this? (lemmy.world)

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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Obviously not a scifi fan. So much filmed there most significantly various stargates.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chronicles of Riddick (all of them) was shot in Canada.

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost nothing in the story line followed through the next two, it was a stand-alone movie. I should have said ‘both of them’ instead of ‘all of them’. Maybe the next one will be filmed in Canada as well.

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw Major Johnstone, the Harvard Professor who is here to lay the bases of an American History. We discussed the right name of the war. I said that we called it now The War, but that this could not last. The Napoleonic War was The Great War. To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche. I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.

-- 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Canadian film industry is so huge that a great majority of 'Hollywood' films have at least part of the movie shot in Canada

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Night at the Museum (all of them) was a big one that very few people realize was shot in Canada.

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Canadians that live in Vancouver and Toronto do this a lot for various films set in "American City, USA":

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.