Radiant City Trailer

[dogterd]

Don't forget to vote Conservative on May 2.

[jakejohnjack]

@dogterd HAHA! So true.

[trackgril175]

hahah oh my goodness! this is so not the way things are! i have lived in a city and in suburbia...suburbia is not "soul destroying"! cities and suburbs have their pros and cons, but my goodness, they're making the suburbs out to be some mindless place with fake people!

[samambayeah]

Are there any specialist, urbanist/architect or sociologist here defending suburbs and urban sprawl as an acceptable or positive urban occupation? Or just people trying to defend and support his lifestyle? Yeap, that's what i tought.

[dogterd]

@samambayeah I'm a sociologist,a sociologist that loves people... when they stay off my lawn and don't talk to me unless there's a civil emergency. As far as lifestyle defence, where am I going to store my yard full of boats, quads, and extended cab 4x4's if I live in the core? I need all that stuff to fully express myself. Oh, and I need a place to hang up all the animals I shoot so I can process their carcasses. The simple fact is that Canadians are independent folks who need lots of space.

[ablahooobla]

At the time, Evergreen seemed to relatively undeveloped. As of right now, Evergreen is great. I believe this movie takes a depressive view on a great community. 

[dogterd]

recently inner city residents in Calgary have been complaining about all the bottle pickers ransacking their recycling bins and rooting through their yards looking for recyclables. Of course this is not a problem in the suburbs, unless of course you live too close to a Commuter Train Station. The secret is to live far enough away that you need a big truck to carry all your stuff home from the "Power Centre", then you can avoid the crazy street people.

[Ravenashleyninja]

Is Adam lamberg in this?

[dpriss]

drug addicts, drug dealers and grow-ops are in suburbia..right next door to your kids ... u just don't see it b/c it is inside a home, garage or behind a fence. In the city its visible but also isolated in certain areas.

[theantielvis]

The movie was created by Jim Brown, host of the Eye Opener on CBC Radio 1 in Calgary. Don't know if you can buy it in America.

[whataboutoddd]

Would this movie not have been BETTER if there weren't actors involved?(*and actually had been a documentary?)

I liked this movie, until i found out that these people were actors. I thought this would be a serious take on suburbia and bad urban sprawl.

I was thoroughly dissapointed in the end.

I wonder what the directors would say to my questions...

[redpepper75]

dude. im moving to evergreen next month. im not kidding.

[redgixxer18]

dance on a powerbox!

[iSplode]

Calgary is such a paper town. And I recognize almost all of these places.

[BlackAngusYoung]

Great movie everyone should see. Especially your relatives.

[dogterd]

To those who have criticized me on this thread for expressing my right to live in a safe, quiet neighborhood, I invite you to view two videos here on Youtube. First, the video "Hastings Street" posted by jpoon783783, and the other is titled "Through a Blue Lens", which has about 5 segments.

View those films and ask yourselves honestly, would you want your kids anywhere near that kind of activity? This is my point, and millions of North Americans feel the same as I do about this subject.

[van3288]

I'd like to invite you to many of the neighbourhoods not far from Hastings: Commercial Dr. or South Main, both safe vibrant areas where many would like to raise their kids. Conversly, travel to suburbs such as parts of Surrey or Poco (outside Vancouver) and you'll find much higher crime rates. Suburbs are not inherently safer. Traffic accidents followed by suicide are the two leading causes of death in teens. Both are higher in the suburbs, as is obesity.

[MissssLC]

hey its ashleigh fidyk! I go to school with her! =].

[700Cupcakkes]

LOL the girl with blonde hair is my friend, her name is ashielgh we trained gymnastics together. at altadore gymnastics center. GO TEAM

[kouklo38]

i just watched this last night, and I highly recommend it!!!

[dogterd]

This is a good film, but I love my quiet suburban neighborhood. The downtown area of my city is plagued with drunken, drug addicted schitzophenric homeless bottle pickers. I'd rather get in my SUV and drive than listen to them push shopping carts up and down my back alley.

[tgold1968]

Nature abhors a vacuum. How about filling the void between your ears with something other than suburban elitism, prejudicial drivel and general ignorance about the conditions that made your downtown a mess. in some MSAs, the same can be said of delapidating older suburbs.

[dogterd]

Utopian dingbats like you just hate to face the facts.

If you're such a hero, go to South Africa. They need your help. All their doctors are here with us in Canada.( that's right... living in the suburbs with me!) They voted with their feet.

You don't even have 1% of a clue of what you're talking about, so please become another American gun-violence statistic immediately, thank you.... that is all.....

[JobBildaz]

Thank you for reminding me why I never want to live in the suburbs dogterd. Thank you so much.

[dogterd]

hey, they're running a new "adopt a junkie" program in Vancouver.... you should give a homeless junkie a new home! (make sure to pick up some adult depends diapers for those "accidents" !)

[shpua2011y]

Because the suburbs have people who DON'T liek living around drug addicts and bums? LOL. You fucking idiot, you.

[shpua2011y]

You are obviously one of these fucking idiot lefty, liberal pricks who think a person doesn't have the right to dislike living around " drug addicted schitzophenric homeless bottle pickers." Fuck you and every imbecile who voted this HONEST comment down. The elitist, PC-dinosaurs are you. But yoru time will pass, just as every other bullshit sociopolitical fad has passed. Your current existence is simply a result of the a post-WWII environment. You're an unthinking zombie without knowing it.

[nzca]

stfu

[winniferfong]

Can anybody tell me how I can get a hold of this on dvd??? I cannot find it online! I live in the U.S. and i know it's been released in Canada a few months ago. I saw a screening of it in August here in California.

[JunkOnVideo]

this is the best fake/real documentary ever made about suburbia!!! Go see it people!!!

[WingsTM]

Wow, I am SO glad this movie was made.

I live in the suburbs right now. I'm lucky enough to have a really nice backyard in a wooded subdividion, buy Houston has a SERIOUS problem with sprawl. I see forests torn down every day to build an empty husk of a strip mall and this aspect of America's society has got to change.

[sookiyaki]

yeah, the architecture of these houses definitely bites, but i hate the big box stores and the endless concrete even more. i like walking down to the main street in my urban village and picking up my fruit at one store, fish at another, cheese at another...still takes less time than navigating parking lots and endless line-ups full of shopping carts.

[chickenfriedrice14]

Looking foreward to seeing tyhis.

Personaly you wouldn't be able to pay me enough money to live in a suburb, too much of the same looking things and not enough green, rivers and mountains, shopping in local stores are the best, and you can feel free, who cares if you have to drive 30km+ to do alot shopping, you make a day of it.

[auscanman]

Highly recommend this movie if you get a chance to see it!