...as "Seattle," ha.
And trying to make Chinatown of Vancouver look like some rough and tumble hood with siren sounds and bums on the ground... rather than old ladies buying vegetables.
There are about five Black people in all of Vancouver and they found all 5 to put outside Sandra Bullock's boarding house.
Fun stuff.
i noticed.
shareIt’s a good thing you don’t live in Los Angeles. If I was unable to watch a movie that wasn’t filmed where it was set, I wouldn’t be able to watch much.
shareWho said anything about not being able to watch a movie that wasn't filmed where it was set?
And I don't live in either Vancouver or Seattle.
It's just 1) a consistent and funny pattern of making movies in Vancouver and then saying they are set in "Seattle"—or anything but a place in Canada, and 2) the extreme lack of any attempt to cover the Vancouverness.
I couldnt watch the original Star Wars after I found out it wasn't filmed on Tatooine
shareAlso funny that they show a clearly recognizable, full frame image of Vancouver, that clearly is Vancouver and not anything else.
shareThere were thousands of blacks in Vancouver in 2000, likely more now. You can tell who's from Africa, they play soccer.
There lots of seedy areas: hookers, addicts, homeless, mental cases. Probably too dangerous for filming.
I'm guessing you're from greater Vancouver.
Wow, thousands of Black people. You get the point that it doesn't look like a US American city, right? They have to "import" Black people into the scene.
And wow, the seedy area of East Hastings Street... one block of druggies on one side of the street. Skateboarder kids in the back alleys. Indians clutching their pearls on the way to a bhangra dance competition.
Vancouver is downright quaint when compared to any major US city, and Chinatown specifically is like a ghost town with no one on the street except people going to buy a newspaper or to eat dim sum.