Captain's blog: 2004/07

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Posted Friday, July 16, 2004 at 7/16/2004 12:26:00 AM

Just came back from the official Canadian premiere/ promotional screening of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle at Paramount. After the long lineup and metal detectors we finally got in. About a third of the seats were white taped as reserved apparently for Alliance Atlantis people, the rest were nearly filled but we managed to find a central column seat. A police officer from the movie, as well as the stars John Cho and Kal Penn dropped by to say hi. Kal Penn was wearing a I (Heart) L.A. shirt while saying how he liked Toronto, so I thought that was funny. And they mentioned how we the audience would recognize filming locations since it was filmed in Toronto, made to look like New Jersey.

IN the film there was a shoppers drug mart that looked familiar, as well as the hallway that looked like it was filmed in U of T’s Hart House, but that was about all I could recognize.

Also what stood out for me was when one of the bad characters remarked to Cho: “Better Luck Tomorrow” – most likely a reference to the independent film with that name that Cho starred in a year or two ago, which was also the first film of Cho’s that I saw)
 
All in all a very crazy, sick-humoured funny film and a great way to conclude a long 15 hour day*
 
* writing that Toronto architecture essay comparing Cumberland & Storm’s University College (1856-9) with W. Storm’s Victoria College (fin 1892)