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Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" & Toronto's Starring Role

golodhendil said:
Just came back from it. Almost a full house (granted it was Sat evening in downtown Boston), and the mood of the audience after the movie seemed pretty good.

Part of the plot/dialogue seemed a bit unclear, perhaps because some scenes were cut out? But it was wonderful to see (and hear) all the Toronto landmarks featured so prominently. Only thing is I don't think the word "Toronto" was actually uttered or shown once in the movie.
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So it treats Toronto the same way Flashpoint does - it shows off the city and its landmarks but doesn't actually name the city. It's a step in the right direction I guess. Speaking of shows with flash in the title, FlashForward is starting to feature Toronto prominently. It's where Dominic Monaghan's character and his family live.
 
MisterF said:
So it treats Toronto the same way Flashpoint does - it shows off the city and its landmarks but doesn't actually name the city. It's a step in the right direction I guess. Speaking of shows with flash in the title, FlashForward is starting to feature Toronto prominently. It's where Dominic Monaghan's character and his family live.
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What is FlashForward?
 
I did enjoy seeing Liam Neeson's character's iPhone with "Fido" written on it :)
 
ladyscraper said:
What is FlashForward?
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It's a show on ABC (Thursday nights I think unless they moved it), based on a sci fi novel by a Canadian author about a world wide blackout in which every citizen of Earth experiences a minute or so of their future. I think it has something to do with a large Hadron collider type experiment.
 
I saw it on Saturday at the Varsity. A very full house and most seemed to enjoy it. It touches some subjects not everyone would be comfortable with, but as a whole it comes-off quite well. I did find a scene at the end to be a bit cringe-worthy, but in general, I thought it was a very good effort from Egoyan and a very fine-looking city to boot!
 
Toronto looked sexy in Chloe... amazing considering it was winter. Hope this starts a trend to have more major hollywood productions set (and filmed here).

Now that Toronto has really made it's big screen debut: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/04/05/ott-sacrifice-gooding-slater.html

... might just be the first time in the history of film or television that somewhere else is dressed up to look like Toronto. Love it.
 
ratoronto said:
Toronto looked sexy in Chloe... amazing considering it was winter. Hope this starts a trend to have more major hollywood productions set (and filmed here).

Now that Toronto has really made it's big screen debut: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/04/05/ott-sacrifice-gooding-slater.html

... might just be the first time in the history of film or television that somewhere else is dressed up to look like Toronto. Love it.
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that is utterly bizarre. and ottawa standing in for Toronto...AND L.A.? i'm almost outraged. this must be how new yorkers feel when toronto pretends to be NYC.
 
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