Cincinnati Kicks @$$!!
Who knew Cincinnati was so cool?! Oh sure, they have race riots and a high murder rate, but boy those locals sure know how to blade!
shareYou right about that and I never been the C-town.
share*beep* dude, you don't know what your missing. I have lived here my whole life and, let's face it.........this place *beep* blows. Music scene has been taken over by mainstream pop-punk (aka the new boy band rave), our baseball team tricked us into thinking they were professional, and our river is still flooding our dreams.
shareYeah just so you guys know, I've lived here all my life and no one here likes hockey. Its so not a hockey town. No one roller-blades (today or in 1993). Its a rediculous stereotype for our city. It doesn't even snow that much in the winter like they seem to show in the movie. I still love the movie though. It does show some pretty shots of our town.
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I don't think that anyone in the movie who was blading actually "lives" in Cincinnati! It's called a "movie"
Great. Then he's driving back from Miami at 20 miles an hour with the parking brake on.
Personally, I think with a great Theatre community, one of the top 5 colleges for voice in the country, two professional sports teams (so what if thye lose we get to watch the visiting team), a gorgeous river, great arcitecture and beautiful catholic churches, etc. Cincinnati is a wonderful place to call home.
shareI Know! What was the deal with that "Everyone here plays hocky" thing. Um, we're not in Canada. Anyway, this movie, pretty much sucked all the way through, but I love my hometown, I love Seth Green and Jack Black, and I liked the scenes shot in Crone Conservatory.
shareWhat Boy Bands? A former member of 98 Degrees running for mayor does not make this a Boy Band town. The media is not even pay attention to his campaign, nobody is going to vote for him.
shareI drive down the road which is a part of the "Devils Backbone" where Jack Black's character goes into the woods and the other character falls onto the porch. If you drive up that hill you will reach CVG Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
shareI have to say that I love the fact that Devil's Backbone took them all over the city and they kept jumping from Ohio to Kentucky and back. Haha, movies can be so fake sometimes. Also, there is a street called Devil's Backbone. It's on the Ohio side, near my house, and it is a tiny little residential street. My old dance studio is there. I think they probably saw a stree sign while filming and thought, "Hey, that's a good name for a street!"
shareTo the people who say this isnt a hockey town are kinda of right. From 91 to 98 the Cyclones sold out over 75% of their home games. Thats pretty impressive. We have some pretty good junior teams as well that regularly compete with the Canadians but this is definantly much more of a football town.
By the way the high school scenes are a stew of going back and forth between SCPA and West Hi. The outside is west hi and some of the interiors are as well but the bathroom scene and a couple others are SCPA.
The whole doesnt snow thing......We get it pretty bad every couple of years but it by no means is like Cleveland or Buffalo. Remember two years ago there was at least 3 inches of snow on the ground for over 40 days????
Cincinnati does have some of the most beautiful architecture around. This is prolly my favorite midwestern city. Ive also lived in Chicago and St. Louis and they just dont have the charm Cincinnati does (insert race riot or murder joke here).
Props to the film maker for having Cyclones jerseys in the movie.
You and your fecking rope!!!..................................... "yes but do you have a flag?"
Robertson's? I took dance classes there!
shareThere are actually two different Devils Backbones. I have a friend who lives off of the one which you are referring.
Cincinnati may be bland at times and sure I want to travel and live in other places, but it's where I've called home all 22 years of my life. Airborne certainly is not representative of the city as a whole, but it's a fun movie and I love anything dealing with Cincinnati (as long as it's positive). OTR is one of the worst neighborhoods in the US, but it's silly for anyone to judge the entire city off of OTR and/or the race riots we had a few years back. We're not the only city to have these sorts of problems. Cincinnati, also, as other people have said, has some beautiful architecture, locales, and history.