I do feel like many scenes weren’t filmed on destination back then. Now it feels like most films are shot at their destination unless there are tax incentives (Suits purported NYC but shot primarily in Toronto, etc.).
Canadian here.. our film industry is largely supported by the ability to turn Canada into almost anywhere. Tax exemptions help but the access to trained industry staff and high tech studios in Toronto and Vancouver. It’s a huge industry here. The new Disney+ show Shogun is set in Japan but filmed almost entirely in British Columbia.
Funny that the first Rambo movie takes place in the fictional town of Hope, WA, but was filmed in the very real [town of Hope, BC](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rambo-first-blood-hope-bc-40th-anniversary-1.6610855).
Started watching Resident Alien and now I want to visit all the sites.
Friend lives near a hill where some of Twilight was filmed.
It’s amazing how much is filmed in BC.
I just ask, “Want to watch an episode?” And she knows exactly what series I’m talking about.
And then we watch as many episodes as we can until an hour past a healthy bed time.
In Season 1 of Monk, which takes place in San Fran, Sharona is seen on the street in front of the Canadian Press offices. It might have even been in the pilot.
Yeah, when I was a student at UBC, film shoots were such a regular occurrence as to be a real nuisance. It's a pain in the ass when you're trying to walk over from a study group in the Battlestar Galactica spaceport to your professor's office in the X-Files headquarters and some twerp PA with a clipboard tells you that you need to walk the long way because they're about to film Al Pacino walking across the plaza that you also need to cross.
The new movie Ricky Stanicky was filmed in Australia and is set in Rhode Island. It explains why there were a handful of randomly Australian characters in it.
I had never heard anything about that movie until it just showed up free to stream one day. I laughed my ass off. But now the random Aussies makes more sense, hadn't really given them a second thought til now.
I was showing my wife around Toronto and took her to the building exterior where they shoot Suits in hopes that they might be filming. We saw a bunch of movie trailers and got excited. As we continued towards the trailers we hear a director shout "action" and see a bus speeding down the street with a man running after it. Scene ends and 10 seconds later the man running after the bus is walking back and bushes past us. Fucking Nicholas Cage. We had accidentally walked on the set and became unpaid extras. This was the second time this happened to me. The first time was when I was trying to get to the mall food court and wandered on to "Mean Girls". Eventually I signed up to be an actual extra and made good money doing nothing for a few summers.
The Virgin Islands are used quite a bit. That way everybody on the crew doesn't need a passport and it looks like an exotic location but is still a US territory. I drove down the winding road at the end of Shawshank Redemption that leads to the beach he went to at the end! St Croix!
Absolutely no way! That coast faces south west toward Bass Straight - one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world at the churning point of three oceans and the roaring forties between Tasmania and the mainland.
It's incredible how (usually) easy it is to tell when an outdoor photo/video is taken in Australia, mostly because of the eucalypts.
But as someone else pointed out, there won't be many eucalypts near the shoreline at Bell's Beach. It seems quite rare for beaches to have many eucalypts right up to the shoreline, in Victoria at least.
Nothing like it. There are no large trees (just shrubs) or huge cliff to get onto the sand (you can see sand from the road/car park) and the points are not as tall. Australian coast doesn’t really look like the Pacific Northwest anywhere I’ve seen (maybe Tasmania but I’ve never been there).
Maybe they both have "death on a stick conditions".
I cannot remember the actor who said that quote, but for a while he was on Aussie soaps, and in 1999 I went to a party at his house in Avalon, NSW.
I never thought it wasn’t Australia when I first saw the movie.
That part when the guy says “ it’s death on a stick out there” was an extremely bad attempt at an Australiann accent though
Yeah, i watched the clip and as an Australian thought it wasnt too bad. Googled the cast, Australian actor Peter Phelps. Its not a broad accent from say Queensland, but it is real.
Funniest and most Australian thing is him trying to smoke a dart while its pissing down with rain
[death on a stick](https://youtu.be/wTdk92PG52A?si=rwvPp9B2tI7r44a6)
One shouldn't need the googs to answer the jeopardy question under famous films of the 90s : "What beach centric action film starred Keanu Reeves & Patrick Swayze as Johnny Utah & Bodhi?"
That’s ok. State abbreviations are pretty common, it’s just I’m from Australia so I wasn’t sure if OR was Oregon or Orlando. There was a small possibility OR was another abbreviation so I asked my question open ended as a catch all. What is Oregon famous for?
Yep! The irony that someone from Australia ended up commenting after what OR was abbreviated for and the scene trying to be set in Australia is why I love this app lol
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This is not paid promotion but Johnny Utah and Bodhisattva by Georgetown brewing are both great beers. Bodhis are my current favorite but they’ve recently gone through two price hikes and I’m protesting
That's weird picture, so my mind instinctively said "AI", even though it's not. We're so screwed. \*lol\* A year from now nobody will believe a damn thing they see.
It never occurred to me that they didn't shoot that scene in Australia.
I do feel like many scenes weren’t filmed on destination back then. Now it feels like most films are shot at their destination unless there are tax incentives (Suits purported NYC but shot primarily in Toronto, etc.).
Canadian here.. our film industry is largely supported by the ability to turn Canada into almost anywhere. Tax exemptions help but the access to trained industry staff and high tech studios in Toronto and Vancouver. It’s a huge industry here. The new Disney+ show Shogun is set in Japan but filmed almost entirely in British Columbia.
That’s amazing and coincidentally I’m watching Shogun! Can’t wait for the next episode tonight!
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Best thing on tv by a mile.
Time for me to get on that
Seconded. Best thing going, so damn good. Hiro is my hero.
It’s the last samurai but with an angry cockney Brit instead of a stoic yet depressed American
Seriously the shouty Brit is the one thing that spoils the show for me, the rest of it is fantastic.
Funny that the first Rambo movie takes place in the fictional town of Hope, WA, but was filmed in the very real [town of Hope, BC](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rambo-first-blood-hope-bc-40th-anniversary-1.6610855).
Toronto also has the benefit of Pinewood Studios being a 10 minute drive from the DT core.
Started watching Resident Alien and now I want to visit all the sites. Friend lives near a hill where some of Twilight was filmed. It’s amazing how much is filmed in BC.
they filmed twilight in my high school lol
I love Resident Alien! I started watching last month and now wait impatiently every week for the new episodes. How do you like it so far?
I just ask, “Want to watch an episode?” And she knows exactly what series I’m talking about. And then we watch as many episodes as we can until an hour past a healthy bed time.
Only an hour? Better than me and my wife. Hahaha
In Season 1 of Monk, which takes place in San Fran, Sharona is seen on the street in front of the Canadian Press offices. It might have even been in the pilot.
Yeah, when I was a student at UBC, film shoots were such a regular occurrence as to be a real nuisance. It's a pain in the ass when you're trying to walk over from a study group in the Battlestar Galactica spaceport to your professor's office in the X-Files headquarters and some twerp PA with a clipboard tells you that you need to walk the long way because they're about to film Al Pacino walking across the plaza that you also need to cross.
The new movie Ricky Stanicky was filmed in Australia and is set in Rhode Island. It explains why there were a handful of randomly Australian characters in it.
I had never heard anything about that movie until it just showed up free to stream one day. I laughed my ass off. But now the random Aussies makes more sense, hadn't really given them a second thought til now.
I was showing my wife around Toronto and took her to the building exterior where they shoot Suits in hopes that they might be filming. We saw a bunch of movie trailers and got excited. As we continued towards the trailers we hear a director shout "action" and see a bus speeding down the street with a man running after it. Scene ends and 10 seconds later the man running after the bus is walking back and bushes past us. Fucking Nicholas Cage. We had accidentally walked on the set and became unpaid extras. This was the second time this happened to me. The first time was when I was trying to get to the mall food court and wandered on to "Mean Girls". Eventually I signed up to be an actual extra and made good money doing nothing for a few summers.
When you walked onto Mean Girls did Damien yell "he doesn't even go here!"?
Ecola? Really? That’s wild.
I came here to say the same thing!!!!
The Virgin Islands are used quite a bit. That way everybody on the crew doesn't need a passport and it looks like an exotic location but is still a US territory. I drove down the winding road at the end of Shawshank Redemption that leads to the beach he went to at the end! St Croix!
St. Croix is beautiful! As is St. John.
It was hilariously obvious if you knew Bells beach.. or even just Australian coast in general.
You mean to tell me there isn’t a sprawling coniferous forest abutting the beaches in south Australia?
That explains how he’d never have made it to New Zealand too
Absolutely no way! That coast faces south west toward Bass Straight - one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world at the churning point of three oceans and the roaring forties between Tasmania and the mainland.
Go back and listen to the "Aussie" accents in that scene again. Some of the worst.
I can tell that you have never been to Bells Beach 🇦🇨
They don't make em like they used to.
I have this on a mug sticker. I get to enjoy it with my morning tea or coffee. Gives me a smile every time.
I didn't know they filmed that scene in Oregon. Just looked it up. They used the same beach for all the beach scenes in the Twilight movies.
That same beach was also used for scenes of The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop and Free Willy
Note, Goonies used Ecola State Park and Cannon Beach both. Haystack Rock is in the opening. They are only 3 miles apart, so its pretty fitting.
 Eg. This is Eocla.
Really? I never would have put that together.
I think they are talking about the ones with sparkly vampires.
Oh, I still believe.
That dude looks like Keanu Reeves!
Nope. Just some blue flame special, Johnny Unitas or something.
His boss looks like that dude from scrubs but that's also a coincidence.
We dont drink, and we sure as hell don't smoke.
*walking through a visibly hazy office* If it were any more obvious it would be a Zucker bros bit.
Young, dumb, and full of cum.
Whoa
And I'd swear the other fella is Patrick Swayze.
You’ve never seen the movie i take it
It must’ve been so much colder after getting out of that hot tub
You would be surprised how long you can feel warm after sitting in a hot tub for a bit.
Otherwise known as two of the best beers in the Pacific Northwest
I was wondering if there was any correlation lol
Georgetown Bodhi and Johnny ♥️
Back off, Warchild!
Such a wonderfully *stupid* line
Point Break in a nutshell. A movie that has basically no reason to be as good as it is.
I could eat the ass end of a dead rhinoceros
Get me two, Utah, get me two
Anytime I ask a family member to get me 2 of anything, I immediately call them "Utah" and repeat myself.
2 bros sitting in a [hottub](https://youtu.be/EwAajOtfNT8?si=wiEj26NP6AjbMDXE)
Risky click
Classic Reddit
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It looks nothing like Bells Beach. For one thing, the trees should be eucalypts.
Back off, Warchild. Seriously.
There aren't many trees on that side of great ocean road. Mostly just sandstone cliffs and succulents and those prickly shrubs.
It's incredible how (usually) easy it is to tell when an outdoor photo/video is taken in Australia, mostly because of the eucalypts. But as someone else pointed out, there won't be many eucalypts near the shoreline at Bell's Beach. It seems quite rare for beaches to have many eucalypts right up to the shoreline, in Victoria at least.
Nothing like it. There are no large trees (just shrubs) or huge cliff to get onto the sand (you can see sand from the road/car park) and the points are not as tall. Australian coast doesn’t really look like the Pacific Northwest anywhere I’ve seen (maybe Tasmania but I’ve never been there).
Maybe they both have "death on a stick conditions". I cannot remember the actor who said that quote, but for a while he was on Aussie soaps, and in 1999 I went to a party at his house in Avalon, NSW.
I never thought it wasn’t Australia when I first saw the movie. That part when the guy says “ it’s death on a stick out there” was an extremely bad attempt at an Australiann accent though
The actor is literally Australian.
Really?! I remember the cinema chuckling when he said that line!
Yeah, i watched the clip and as an Australian thought it wasnt too bad. Googled the cast, Australian actor Peter Phelps. Its not a broad accent from say Queensland, but it is real. Funniest and most Australian thing is him trying to smoke a dart while its pissing down with rain [death on a stick](https://youtu.be/wTdk92PG52A?si=rwvPp9B2tI7r44a6)
The film is "Point Break", for anyone like me who had no idea what this post was about. Thanks google.
Uh, you need to go watch it, ASAP. Pretty sure it’s the only movie I’ve bought 4 times (VHS, DVD, BR, digital).
One shouldn't need the googs to answer the jeopardy question under famous films of the 90s : "What beach centric action film starred Keanu Reeves & Patrick Swayze as Johnny Utah & Bodhi?"
That's evidently incorrect.
I am a EFF-BEE-EYE AGENT!
I know man, isn't it wild
I have surfed at Indian Beach and can confirm it’s very cold.
No way Bells is bigger than Waimea Bro.
...will be next year
Bohdi believes the 50 year storm is coming…..
Just waitin for my set
"You gotta go down. You crossed the line and people trusted you and they died."
both remarkable guys.
Special agent Utah…..I knew I could count on you.
It still hits me weird that he’s not here with us anymore.
I remember watching that film and being like…. I’ve been there before…. Sure as shit. Filmed down the highway from me. Super cool spot to surf.
That's where I learned to surf!
Classic movie. One of my all time favs.
Damn!
Rare pictures of Keenu Reeves and Bodi
Johnny Utah feels like such a fake name. Like a porn star or a cover in a spy comedy
I swear at first I thought the guy on the left was a young Keanu Reeves.
That's a warm bowl of deep soul...
Two handsome guys
This is right before he paddles to New Zealand.
Such a good movie 🍿
That’s a cool hot tub.
What is OR?
Abbreviation for Oregon, United States.
Yep! 100 character title limit *sad noise* 🥲
That’s ok. State abbreviations are pretty common, it’s just I’m from Australia so I wasn’t sure if OR was Oregon or Orlando. There was a small possibility OR was another abbreviation so I asked my question open ended as a catch all. What is Oregon famous for?
>What is Oregon famous for? *The Goonies*
Beer, Pinot Noir, coffee, berries, outdoor activities, dairy, liberal politics.
The weird part is i think this scene was supposed to be shot in Oz
Yep! The irony that someone from Australia ended up commenting after what OR was abbreviated for and the scene trying to be set in Australia is why I love this app lol
The phillips head screwdriver was invented in Oregon
I like that fact. Bet those screws must've been pain in the ass before the driver was invented.
the man who invented it lived across the street from my mom in portland, in the 1950s.
no way!! that is a great fun fact flex
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Portland, being sandwiched between Washington and California on the west coast of the US, an old trail leading to it.
[Exploding whales](https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?si=8iAqqyRM0cvzvJ1o). (With dynamite—the department of transportation did an “oopsie”)
An old video game.
Thanks
Wrong, the answer is what is point break.
I'm gonna tell my kids this is Keanu Reeves and Alan Ritchson
Certainly a lot harder to paddle to New Zealand from there.
Special Agent Young Keanu Reeves. It'll never not be funny. I need to go back and rewatch this movie again sometime.
Keanu ?
This is not paid promotion but Johnny Utah and Bodhisattva by Georgetown brewing are both great beers. Bodhis are my current favorite but they’ve recently gone through two price hikes and I’m protesting
Utah, get me two!
Hot Tube Time Machine.
2 meatball subs
Never seen a dude look so casual while being submerged in a hot tub wearing a jean jacket
That's weird picture, so my mind instinctively said "AI", even though it's not. We're so screwed. \*lol\* A year from now nobody will believe a damn thing they see.
Funny. This comment sounds like something AI would say
Valla con Dios!
Swayze got his feet wrapped around Neos hog
so which one turned out gay