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[Spike]

Terrible, terrible movie.

Freddy got Fingered was a better movie compared to this piece of trash.

No redeeming qualities at all to be found in this flick.

[Rebound]

Saw Australia here in Australia. Have to agree it was really more like 2 movies. It was so long, they should have chopped it in half and made part 1 and part 2. Acting was so so, Nicole Kidman looks like she's getting old and trying to hide it with bo-tox, it was over-full of political correctness. Some good action scenes. Good history lesson. Favorable portrayal of the Kooris (aboriginies).

Interestingly, here in oz, people seem to have a double-sided attitude about it; on the one hand, they think its great to have a movie made about their country. On the other, some people I talked to kind of resent being singled out as recent racists, etc, to the rest of the world. Bad press. One final interesting thing was that just before the movie started, they put a warning up that went like, "members of X Y and Z Koori tribes watching this movie be warned that certain events portrayed in this movie may be difficult to watch and not entirely historically accurate".

[manlyboy]

[Panda]

I finally watched it, I cried a lot.......It is a successful movie to earn my cheap tears.

But except Kidman's fashion show, nothing really impressed me... I expected to see something more powerful before I sat down, then I was disappointed.

The grandpa is a good point but he is too vague an image, very empty, the little boy finally went with his grandpa, it was made very factitious.

I give it 6.5/10.

[Fat_Elvis]

I don't know why people think it's PC, I thought it was subtly racist in its use of stereotypes. Look at how Chinese people are represented with the buffoonish chef Sing Song. The Japanese are shown as a bunch of murderers. Indigenous Australians are shown as noble savages, and the black guy still gets killed!

How is this movie PC? Because it has the stolen generations as a theme? So what?

[Ya-ta Boy]

I was disappointed with it. Someone had said it was Australia's 'Gone With the Wind' so I was expecting a romantic movie. It wasn't very. On top of that, I thought the 2008 sensibility was shoved on 1939--not believable. And what did 'The Wizard of Oz' have to do with the movie? A good deal of the movie was cartoonish--cartoons that aren't funny are just silly.

[TECO]

[mises]

This was absolutely the worst movie I've seen since A.I. The FT described it like watching a 3 hour long national anthem. It was just awful. With a healthy dose of the "mystical negro" theme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

[Fat_Elvis]

[samcheokguy]

it was a war movie,
about slavery
with a romance,
and a western
with a cattle drive
and a political thriller
I was waiting for the chinese cook to bust out some kung-fu and it would have combined every genre ever made!

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Cheonmunka]

I slid through it with me mouse cursor, looked really boring. I read it was a war moving about the Japs invading Darwin.
Didn't look like that - just some horse riding or rustling ..

I enjoyed a movie Crocodile, sort of an Australian flick. Not Crocodile Dundee, One about a huge crocodile lurking in a billabong sussing people out then eating them when they least expect it. It was fun yet quite suspence filled, too.

[crazy_arcade]

Anyone want to see a great Aussie flick then check out

"He Died With a Falafel in His Hand"

[Ilsanman]

Well Koreans are darker than me. So I must be cleaner than them.

Oh wait. That's racism.