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blaseblasphemener
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 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: Australia: the movie |
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I highly recommend this film. Fantastic!
Exciting, interesting, historical, and a tear-jerker.
Love the country, and now love the movie too. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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Wrong forum.
This movie was a pile of crap. Incoherent and non-cohesive story line with crap dialogue. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Wrong forum?
The movie is showing in Korean theaters. It's an English movie.
Seems to apply to living in Korea to me.
Sorry you couldn't follow the story, it was quite easy for me.  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Off-topic forum.
And I choked on the Disney-like sterotypes and indeed the film had a very strained long but weak narrative thread, it basically being two movies in one, like watching two very old saturday afternoon 'the lone ranger' adventure serials back to back (the cattle drive and then the war), the middle of the movie sagged like an old love motel mattress. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: |
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It was very Hollyweird PC-
white christians = bad
minorities = good
Nicole Kidman = perfect in every way  |
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blaseblasphemener
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ellegarden
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:16 am Post subject: |
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The movie should have ended after the first hour. Everytime I thought the movie would end it would continue for another half hour.
NeverEnding Australia |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: |
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| ellegarden wrote: |
| The movie should have ended after the first hour. Everytime I thought the movie would end it would continue for another half hour. |
Don't say that! That means its headed for Oscar glory! (think: Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator... they all shoud've ended earlier)
But Australia isn't a bad editing job with scenes that are sometimes waaay too long, no, it has a distinctive story arc that ENDS! but the film continues.
And it looks like that boy's role was groomed to be a best supporting actor nomination, and if it wins, it'll fit in well with the pantheon of the academy, in a shirley temple and that poltergeist child sort of way.
The lead actors should get NOWHERE NEAR an oscar nomination, gawd, they were paint by the numbers cardboard figures, fine for showcase theater to be watched from row 37 but that's about it.
Disappointing but high marks for production quality (even if some scenes were used repeatedly/recycled).
It was no epic.
If they want to know how to make a good, long sweeping epic they should have watched more closely films like Gandhi, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List.
Australia (2008) felt like a combo of The Mummy and Mary Poppins. |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| I enjoyed it, despite the Korean bitch sitting next to me, who, when the first shot of the little Aborigine boy appeared on the screen, murmured "Ohmo! Dirty!" and giggled... |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| NightSky wrote: |
| I enjoyed it, despite the Korean bitch sitting next to me, who, when the first shot of the little Aborigine boy appeared on the screen, murmured "Ohmo! Dirty!" and giggled... |
someone needs to show her pictures of koreans 100 years ago!
yeah the movie.. well.... ummmmmmmmm
I liked it.. BUT...
It was not an Epic! was to studio looking, to many sets all looked to faked in some ways, kinda reminds me of pirates of the carribean or some other disney flick.. to much make up on the actors, everyones to clean and everything ... yeah the film needed to be more dusty, raw, dirty, shot on location more, and without all the studio looking props etc...
hugh was cool! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| NightSky wrote: |
| I enjoyed it, despite the Korean bitch sitting next to me, who, when the first shot of the little Aborigine boy appeared on the screen, murmured "Ohmo! Dirty!" and giggled... |
Don't get upset at her personally, after all, as they say, "it's a cultural thing" |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| NightSky wrote: |
| I enjoyed it, despite the Korean bitch sitting next to me, who, when the first shot of the little Aborigine boy appeared on the screen, murmured "Ohmo! Dirty!" and giggled... |
Don't get upset at her personally, after all, as they say, "it's a cultural thing" |
It's a cultural thing to be a tactless, mouth breathing, fuckwit? |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| NightSky wrote: |
| I enjoyed it, despite the Korean bitch sitting next to me, who, when the first shot of the little Aborigine boy appeared on the screen, murmured "Ohmo! Dirty!" and giggled... |
Don't get upset at her personally, after all, as they say, "it's a cultural thing" |
Ok....if you're Korean it's part of your culture to think people who have a dark complexion are dirty. Nice culture that ancient Korean one then.
It's a closed minded racist thing really. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Well if they made a Korean war movie and showed the women walking around towns bear breasted. Every one could say: Wow saggy *beep* and huge nipples. |
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xpat
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ellegarden wrote: |
The movie should have ended after the first hour. Everytime I thought the movie would end it would continue for another half hour.
NeverEnding Australia |
That last line is so true in more ways than one. |
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