Why would you call a movie Kiss TOLEDO goodbye and not even shoot a
single frame of Film in Toledo Ohio. NOT ONLY THAT but you try to pass
off WELL KNOWN Hollywood LANDMARKS as being in Toledo, Like Micelli's
Italian Restaurant... COME ON you guys!!! And who did your casting? And
HOW did this movie get made????? WHy did it get made, and why is this
Lubbock guy WORKING? Good money was thrown into this horrible movie.
Amen to that. I live in Toledo, and I was hurt. There are two gratuitous references to nearby places; other than that(come to mention it, even that--placing a cut-rate lighting shop in tony Perrysburg), everything, accents, scenery, social background, is just wrong. The stock southern fishing hole where the shoot-out takes place is from Mayberry, and nobody who ever fished in Ohio would believe it. The pipe-smoking Old Pop character bears no resemblance to an Ohioan. And Mom was at Kent State! Some cokehead's idea of local color, right up there with "Apocalypse Now" placing Toledo on the Ohio River.
The film appears to have been made in Covina CA; apparently "Kiss Covina" was already spoken for by a porno producer. Couple of cute situations here, and had it been actually sited in a mid-sized midwestern city they would have come off much better. Akron, maybe("Now there's a town..."), or Decatur. Or Toledo. Hollywood movies are all about Hollywood: Hollywooders just can't face the real thing.
Actually, Apocalypse Now didn't place Toledo on the Ohio River. Colonel Kurtz asked Willard where he was from. Willard says Toledo and Kurtz asked him how far it was from the Ohio River and Willard says about 200 miles.
shareYea this movie made me angry, watched it just now on HBO or some channle like that. The only true reference to Toledo that I saw in that movie was Max reading the Blade.
shareI don't see what is so wonderful about Toledo. I have driven down there twice already from Michigan, and both times nothing, NOTHING was open but a gas station. All those buildings around the COSI (?) on the Maumee River, they're nice buildings but not a damn thing is open. Why and how is that??? Really!
We thouhgt we would have dinner and come back home since there was nothing else to do, well guess what! Even the restaurants were closed. I wanted to like Toledo, because I liked the buildings and I like the river, so we gave it another shot. Both times was on a Sunday, but early in the afternoon. I don't get it at all. Why would a "mid-size midwestern city" have to close everything on a Sunday? Toledoans don't leave the house on Sunday or what? It's ridiculous. I might as well have just saved an hour and gone to Detroit. At least I can get something to eat there on a Sunday.
I actually watched some of this movie just to see if there are any redeeming qualitites whatsoever about Toledo. I can't blame Hollywood for not taping it there. It's like a ghost town.
There are things open in Toledo on a Sunday...just not downtown...except for the bars. No one goes downtown on the weekends. It's too bad. I used to live downtown. Hopefully it's getting better. Toledo does have great food, though. You just can't go on a Sunday. Detroit also has great food, though...so I'm not sure why you would drive all the way to Toledo if Detroit is closer. Also, don't judge a city that you've only been to twice on Sunday afternoons without a plan of where you were going. Probably if you would have called ahead, you would have saved yourself a lot of time and then you wouldn't be on here slandering a city.
shareYes it is a known fact that the film was partial filmed in Cali, but what people don't know is.....
In 1998 Carty Finkbeiner, the mayor on Toledo, said that the producers did not offer the city of Toledo enough money to file here; yes I live in Toledo born and raised. Carty Finkbeiner…….. this man should never have been mayor or given power of any kind!!! So, the film took shots from Cali and.... get this.... Chicago...... they didn't mind taking money from Hollywood! When watching this movie the majority of the film is filmed in Chicago and a few shots from Cali. Needless to say I know this fact because Carty has a big mouth and I know enough people.... Carty Finkbeiner, the worse mayor of Toledo screwed us out of a movie, and only continues to turn this city into "Little Detroit." HELP!!!!!!
The movie takes its plot a bite farther then most mobsters’ movie, but Toledo, Ohio, was a huge mafia city way back when! This is a little secret since no one that lives here seems to know this! Go Figure!!!!! Go to the Library and look for "Nothing personal, Just Business” This book will show people why the this movie was created, and some history that Toledo holds.
Thank you to everyone who just posted acting like they knew what the frack they thought they were talking about!!!!
~Anders
toledo deserves respect. i have lived my last 30 years away from there, but i lived my first 25 in the toledo area and its environs, and i know things about toledo that are good.
al capone and his men (and women) would rent the whole top floor of the Park Lane Hotel when they were in toledo. also, eleanor roosevelt, bob hope, cary grant, woody hermann, all stayed at the Park Lane Hotel, one block from the art museum.
that this movie doesn't show much of toledo is not toledo's fault, just a corrupt mayor's fault.
if it's worth anything, toledo has built one of the three best AAA baseball parks IN THE COUNTRY!!!
oh well, i just thought i would say thank you to toledo.
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