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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755399 - 10/20/16 04:12 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Burke Dennings said:
Let me ask you Canadians something.  Have any of you heard of a movie from 1939 called 'The Wizard of Oz'?



I have it on Blu-ray somewhere. Don't have anything set up to play Blu-rays at the moment though...


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Ezuma]
    #23755401 - 10/20/16 04:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

One of my favorite movies in recent years is Canadian.  Movie called 'Turbo Kid'.  It pretty much tops anything I've seen come out of Hollywood for a while.  :shrug:


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: psi]
    #23755409 - 10/20/16 04:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Alright, I must've just been talking to someone who isn't very into movies then.  Wizard of Oz is great, I'm glad to know that some Canadians watch it.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755410 - 10/20/16 04:15 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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I know you're joking, but the other day I encountered a 28 year old Canadian who had never heard of it.  Kinda blew my mind, and I got to wondering if you guys mostly stick to Canadian movies or what.  I mean, that makes sense.  I do watch a lot more foreign films than many people I know, but I still might not know the most popular Canadian movie of the 1930s.  But Hollywood is something of a global juggernaut, so I think American movies have a lot of visibility in every country.




Not knowing Wizard of Oz seems a little unusual.
Hollywood and US tv is fairly common here, but seem to recall Canadian channels having a particular quota of Canadian content that has to be met.
It was a bigger deal when my house only had an antenna that got one 'local' channel while the neighbours had a pirate card for their satellite that picked up all the US channels. :lol:

Cannot actually think of anything on my movie rack that was Canadian made aside from Bon Cop Bad Cop, which was more something that I picked up out of interest while living in Québec.
:shrug:

Alternatively, we are apparently too busy chasing rolling cheese for fun.
:gocanada:


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Tantrika]
    #23755413 - 10/20/16 04:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I've seen videos of those cheese chases.  They look dangerous.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755416 - 10/20/16 04:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

A lot of David Cronenberg's movies are pretty classic. I like the B-horror style stuff.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: psi]
    #23755423 - 10/20/16 04:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I think you and I discussed Cronenburg a couple years ago.  He's great.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23755431 - 10/20/16 04:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Theres places here that will sell to you without a card and its completely out in the open, like business front downtown out in the open. Cops wont bust them as long as they look like a legit business. I just want some extra security when it comes to potential legal proceedings.




Getting legal coverage is a bit of a toss-up depending on which province you live in.
It is more difficult to find a doctor in Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba than Ontario or BC -- not sure about the East Coast, and personally travelled to Ontario to get my first card while living in Québec.
It is possible with doctor shopping though; alternatively, if you have those compassion clubs in your city they may be able to provide you with the name of a local doctor who prescribes, but it is a little spotty.

There are apparently still places in BC that will register you with a licensed producer if you are willing and able to fly out there.
They used to do it simply by faxing them your medical record and having a Skype appointment, but that has apparently been canned and it is only possible by physically traveling to the clinics now.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Tantrika] * 1
    #23755433 - 10/20/16 04:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Most of our actors and celebrities go the states because theres way more money  down there then up here. Keanu reeves, Jim Carrey, Micheal Cera, Mike meyers, Seth Rogan, Ryan Reynolds, all of them are Canadian. We gots the skills.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23755434 - 10/20/16 04:24 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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BTW Trendal how'd you manage to get a medical marijuana card?




I had a stroke about 10 years ago that left me with a lot of spasticity in my right arm. I went to a doc and said that marijuana helped, and I got it prescribed.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou] * 1
    #23755439 - 10/20/16 04:26 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Dan Akroyd, too.

Implying that Keanu Reeves has acting "skills" is a bit of a reach.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Patlal] * 3
    #23755445 - 10/20/16 04:28 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Yay, the name of my country has been said.



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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755447 - 10/20/16 04:29 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Dan Akroyd, too.

Implying that Keanu Reeves has acting "skills" is a bit of a reach.



*Aykroyd

That's it.  Where is the real Burke?:lol:


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755458 - 10/20/16 04:34 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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I think you and I discussed Cronenburg a couple years ago.  He's great.



Yeah I thought I remembered that. I forget if I mentioned then but I saw a talk he gave at a university here, pretty cool.

IIRC the "Cube" movies were Canadian productions.

Some Canadian TV can be decent too. The original Degrassi series were corny but pretty good. "The Odyssey" was another show I remember being pretty good, about this kid in a coma who dreams this post-apocalyptic world. "Read all about it" was another cool show, an educational show on reading with some pretty dark sci-fi elements for a kids' show.

A bunch of American TV is shot here, sometimes with many Canadian actors playing the bit parts (as on the X Files). Around my area a few years ago I saw filming stuff set up for "Alphas" and "Warehouse 13".


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: psi]
    #23755463 - 10/20/16 04:37 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Dang, it looks like I'm losing it.  :drgonz:

Happy birthday, man!


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755467 - 10/20/16 04:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

:lol:

Thank you!:awesome:


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23755470 - 10/20/16 04:40 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Dan Akroyd, too.

Implying that Keanu Reeves has acting "skills" is a bit of a reach.




You cant say the Matrix wasnt mindblowing when it was first released. His other movies might have sucked but he was perfect for that role, and he made it what it was. So yeah, skills. Mad skills.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: psi]
    #23755472 - 10/20/16 04:41 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Dude, that first Cube movie is incredible.  The acting leaves something to be desired, but the story is amazing.  It's like a whole parallel to what living on Earth is like.  I did not realize that it's a Canadian film.  The dudes who made Cube also made this excellent comedy that tackles equally philosophic/existential material, it's called 'Nothing'.  I guess Canada makes some awesome movies sometimes.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23755476 - 10/20/16 04:43 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

No, the Wachowski siblings made that movie what it was.  Keanu was wooden.  I always felt that if he hadnt been killed years earlier, Brandon Lee could have been the Neo that film deserved.


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Re: I heart Canada [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23755477 - 10/20/16 04:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Burke Dennings said:
Dan Akroyd, too.

Implying that Keanu Reeves has acting "skills" is a bit of a reach.




You cant say the Matrix wasnt mindblowing when it was first released. His other movies might have sucked but he was perfect for that role, and he made it what it was. So yeah, skills. Mad skills.



It wasn't mind-blowing on account of his skills. 
That being said, there is something to be said for his whole stone-faced and stoic thing he has going on.


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