In a review of Defendor I saw a description of the movie location as an "anonymous post industrial slum". Although they are partly correct, the movie is referred to as "The Hammer", which everyone in Southern Ontario knows is Hamilton.
It looks far worse in real life.
does it really have serbian mob too?
i've heard there's a big serbian minority living there, so if there's no serbian mob then making the bad guy a serb is really insensitive.
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True, they called it "The Hammer" throughout, and anyone who's ever been to Hamilton can tell you where this was shot.
I mentioned this in another thread at one point, but to be a bit more specific... 1) In a deleted scene on the DVD, you get a quick glimpse of a sign at one point that says "Anvil City", so they did change it, technically.
2) The "Spectator" is the same, only they went out of their way to remove the "Hamilton" part of that title, and the layout of the paper is different.
3) when they are in court, you can see "Ontario" written on the sign behind the judge, so whether it was intended to be Hamilton or otherwise, it's most definitely Canada. Why they didn't just say Hamilton I'll never know.
Personally ("Anvil City" sign or not) it's impossible for me to think of it as anything other than Hamilton. For that matter, I would be surprised if Hamilton didn't have at least 1 or 2 mentally challenged superheroes living here for real. Matter of fact I see a few of them every Fri/Sat night in the Summer walk by my house, at 2am, going home from Hess
They have the uncanny ability to knock over the mailbox on the corner, scream loudly & kill more braincells in a single bound. Douchebags by day, drunk douchebags by night. Special indeed.
shareThere was also a weird kind of reference to the Hamilton "mountain" - when Kat was describing where Captain Industry's lair was...
"It was up the hill...on the mountain...there were airplanes and farm smells." It describes Mount Hope (Hamilton airport) perfectly.
Nobody in Hamilton calls it "the hill". It's "the mountain". But that wouldn't sound right to out of towners.