Partially discharged

Ay, but we were 'appy living in our squallor

If you want to see dodgy looking areas, have a gander at this (sorry for the poor camera quality)

http://streetviewgallery.corank.com/...ys-in-the-hood

Have a scroll around this charming neighbourhood......

dboy

wow, surprised the google fella got out alive! And people say the down town east side is bad!

oicur0t

It's obvious they prefer to spend money on cars and clothes than on diy.

Alan2005

I don't have the stats, but I reckon there are more british films than canadian ones. How many canadian films can you list? (and I don't mean american ones made up here on the cheap)

Aviator

• Away From Her
• Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
• Black Christmas
• Black Robe
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop
• Les Boys
• The Company of Strangers
• Le Confessionnal (The Confessional)
• The Corporation
• Crash (1996)
• C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Cube
• Cypher
• Dead Ringers
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire)
• Down to the Dirt
• Duct Tape Forever
• Eastern Promises
• Exotica
• The Five Senses
• FUBAR: The Movie
• Ginger Snaps
• Goin' Down the Road
• The Grey Fox
• H
• The Hanging Garden
• Hard Core Logo
• Highway 61
• A History of Violence
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
• Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)
• Le Violon Rouge (The Red Violin)
• Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal)
• Johnny Mnemonic

• Last Night
• Léolo
• Lilies
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Mambo Italiano
• Margaret's Museum
• Maria Chapdelaine
• Meatballs
• Men with Brooms
• Mon oncle Antoine
• My Winnipeg
• New Waterford Girl
• Neighbours
• One Week
• Outrageous!
• Passchendaele
• Porky's
• Prom Night
• The Rocket
• The Saddest Music in the World
• Saint Ralph
• Scanners
• The Sweet Hereafter
• The Take
• Tales from the Gimli Hospital
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
• Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
• Videodrome
• Water
• waydowntown
• Wavelength
• Whale Music'
• Winter Kept Us Warm
• Un Zoo la nuit (Night Zoo)

Alan2005

Is that it? I actually thought there would be a lot more than that.

Aviator

You're just beating yourself up again over failing in Canada, don't be so hard on yourself. Envy gets you nowhere, just accept what you have and put up with.

Oink

Is that it?

MartianTom

Passengers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449487/

A USA/Canada co-production, filmed in Vancouver (Gastown and Spanish Banks Beach). Don't rush out, though. Shyamalam-lite. Not really worth it.

Aviator

Probably not, all I could remember in 30 seconds Peace Arch Entertainment are a Canadian company that produced the Tudors amongst others.

ExKiwilass

The problem Canadian film has is all the main theatrical distributors are owned by American companies. Priority is given to American films. It's hard for local filmmakers to get distribution even in Canada. And when they do, more often than not the distributor puts the film on at a crappy time or day, with no advertising, so the numbers seem crap, then the distributor has the excuse to pull the plug and put on more US shite like Dogs in Space or whatever.

Almost Canadian

So I take it that films contribute massively to the world. Great, now I know what to send those starving people when Save the Children runs its next commercial about starving kids in Africa - a Judy Dench boxset

Oink

The problem with Canadian films are that they're boring.

ExKiwilass

oh, this is one of those threads.

Never mind.

Alan2005

Oh come on AC. You are being churlish here and you know it. You asked for an example of what the UK gives to the world and you got one.

If you really want to know what the best thing the UK gives to the world is, it's us brits.