Me, being probabley 15 when i watched this, found it highly amusing to watch Bubby (what a guy) do what he did and react the way he did....
Are me and my mate Ste, the only ones that found this film AMUSING??? it was funny as fu*k!!!!!!!!!
Bad Boy Bubby was SUPPOSED to be funny. If anyone here's heard of Joseph Campbell and the hero of a thousand faces you'll know exactly what I mean. I think that's why everything to do with him is so extreme.
Think of Bubby's life as a quest (crossing the threshold-into the real world, standing up to the gods - killing his mother and father). Did you guys watch the bit on the DVD when they said the American film studios are talking about a remake with the ever reliable "quirky" guy johnny Depp? *shudder*
By the way, I think the ending was kinda Hollywoody too...but that's the point in it?
Rolf said that he was making a story about abuse and recovering from that cycle. It makes you think, if Bubby could get away from it all everyones got a chance.
My favourute bit is when there's all those women coming out of self-defense and he grabs one by the ya-ya's.
Lol. Anyway, it's my favourite australian comedy
Bad boy bubby wasn't meant to be a comedy. It is one very funny film. I first time i seen it it was a bit disturbing. Thats why I think we laugh out of fear. Its like the movie happiness. It is very disurbing but it still make you laugh. I love BBB as a rock singer. Bubby knocking back a threesome lol cause her tits weren't big or floppy enough. The main thing is I think how did bubby make it in the real world ten years later.
shareThe Reason There was a kind of "Hollywoody" Ending was beacause at the time it was made there was a debate in South Australia about bringing the DEATH PENALTY back and the Director was a strong activist against the penalty. The Original ending was that bubby was going to get hung, but to protest against the SA government he opted for the different ending.
Im an Australian, and really wish there were other Australian film makers out there with this kind of originality and guts.
If you like Aussie comedy, i suggest you try and track down some stuff by "THE D GENERATION" they were an 80's / early 90's comedy team. They were behind THE CASTLE & THE DISH. They had a tv show called THE LATE SHOW, there is a 6 hour dvd out now called THE BEST BITS OF THE LATE SHOW, i strongly recommend buying it, look on Ebay.com.au or shop.abc.net.au or ezydvd.com.au
Enjoy
I could swear that the director in the interview said that the original idea for the ending was the one he used. (he said he worked on the story for ten years)
When the debate about capital punishment came up he was so annoyed he thought about changing the ending to Bubby getting the death penalty for the murders. However he decided not to do that.
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This film was hilarious.
Me and me mates loved it.
A true Aussie classic.
This and Romper Stomper were the greatest Aussie films released in the previous decade, without a doubt.
I ain't your pal, Dickface!
This film had me in laughing fits all the way through. Especially the part when he wraps the cat up in gladwrap. The scene where he is walking around outside with his gas mask on and is stopped by a couple of Aussie blokes in a vehicle is absolutely hilarious. It was most definitely dark humour.
shareIt takes me a lot to laugh out loud but I was watching this late at night and probably woke the house up with my laughing. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time or I probably would have spat it out in fits.
share Did you guys watch the bit on the DVD when they said the American film studios are talking about a remake with the ever reliable "quirky" guy johnny Depp? *shudder*
WHAT!!! i love johnny depp!!! BUT HE WONT BE BUBBY!! johnny depp doesnt look weird enough to be bubby!! if america get a hold of this film it will be ruined!!! stoopid hollywood people always ruin classics with remakes!!! how old is this film, it surely cant be old enough for a remake yet??!!?!?!!?!?! THEY ARENT ALLOWE TO REMAKE IT!!!
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Nah, my mate and i watched it a few times when we were about that age aswell and found it funny as!...but also the earlier parts before he leaves his house were disturbing aswell but then a couldn't help but laugh :P
shareIt's brilliant. It will make you laugh, cry, think and it'll shock you too.
I became totally involved in bubbys journey.
Inspiring.
and it's got tit's in it.......great big whoppers of things.
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It WAS funny as hell, yes. It was a Comedy-Drama.
BUT....
A lot fo you people seem to be laughing at the wrong things, IE: the things that were not supposed to be funny, and aren't. A few of you liked it when he suffocated the cat. Wow, you guys are sick *beep* Did you think it was funny when he got raped too?
But seriously, the movie was great, and funny. It's too bad some of you are so messed up that you found the dramatic parts funny.
I don't think it's the idea of suffocating a cat that is found funny, but more how he carted the cat around.
At least thats what I found funny about it.
The movie was indeed intended to be funny. I read in an interview with Rolf de Heer in the norwegian magazine "FilmGuiden" where he states his worry that a maybe the audience won't be able to pick up on the humor of the movie.
He also stated that it was never meant to be a "black comedy" but rather more of an "Amusing piece of entertainment" and he followes up by saying "The story of the movie had me in stiches when i wrote it, so naturally I was conserned with how a potential audience would react to the whole thing.."
This movie IS FUNNY! Sure it deals with "tragic" and to a certain extent even obscene stuff, but so did most of the Greek Comedies written thousands of years back. It's still funny..
I think you are either reading to much into it or not reading enough.
This movie is funny, but I also found it to have a weird existential message to it. It's the real anti-Passion of the Christ and Bubby is the new messiah.
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me and my mates watched it when we were about 18 and were ping ourselves it was so funny!
shareThis film is hilarious. Its has a message but i'm not sure what it is. When we were at school a mate got hold of it and instructed us all to watch it.
Very funny.
"I hate smart *beep* and a cat wrapped in polythene. Poor old Bubby.
When one of my mates had finished watching it he was asked for his thoughts
"A man *beep* himself and shags his mother"
This film is hilarious. Its has a message but i'm not sure what it is. When we were at school a mate got hold of it and instructed us all to watch it.
Very funny.
"I hate smart c#nts" and a cat wrapped in polythene. Poor old Bubby.
When one of my mates had finished watching it he was asked for his thoughts
"A man *beep* himself and shags his mother"
This is one of my favourite films - first saw it on telly years ago. When its funny its very funny and when its serious I think it still works. Me and my mates still quote it to this day as it is one of the most quotable films I've seen.
I will resist the urge to write down my favourite lines as you all know what they are.
I'll have to check out Sweetie.
It does kinda remind me of a wierd American film I saw called Gummo which has kids torturing animals and having sex with retards - this is also funny, somehow.
This is a message for everyone out there who thinks nothing of using the "r" word. It is a term of derision (for those of you who don't know what derision means, it means that the "r" word is insulting, and loaded with hate). The "r" word is just as bad as the "n" word; you just may not realize it because the disabled community has never been as well organized as the African American community, nor as vocal in their protests. Please use the terms "developmentally delayed" or "developmentally disabled" or "mentally handicapped". If you can't manage that, at least say "retarded". If you insist on using the word "retard" to describe people, you will only make yourself look at best, thoughtless, at worst, cruel, and most likely so small and insecure you have to put down a group of people that have little means (note, I say "means", not "ability"; ability they may have) of defending themselves.
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...I will add my thumb up to this film. I thought it was one of the few Aussie film I've enjoyed. Funny enough alot of assies seem to hate it!
To be honest I found the first 20 minutes or so quite disturbing. I don't think I am easily shocked and I would usually even laugh at something like this, but I really just felt pity and disgust at the whole situation. I did laugh out loud quite a few times once Bubby left, but overall it was a very emotional film for me. A rollercoaster between absolute disgust, pity, hilarity and sadness. A lot of it is very intense, in a strange sort of way.
shareIt is probably the only decent movie those kangaroo humpers ever made...
Get back to the barbie mates!
covering the cat in cling film was the funniest thing ever. me pop now.
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I think we were supposed to be concerned about our reactions to this film
if you laughed the whole way through, you're a sicko. if you didn't laugh at all you need to stop carrying so much defensive *beep* around with you
it's like, life is *beep* love it.
"Christ kid, you're a weirdo!"
This a CLASSIC. Anyone into serious cinema should see this film. I went through so many emotions while watching this. Like David Lynch crossed with Mike Leigh and Lars Von Trier. Blackest of black comedies. 10/10
shareSee Rolf's new film Ten Canoes. The most important Australian film ever made. The first to be made that is entirely in an Aboriginal language. Can you believe that?
shareYou dont need to laugh ALL the way through, just at the funny bits. Some of it is deliberately harsh, to give us that dialetic feeling in that the bad bits make the good bits that much funnier.
Brilliant stuff.
I remember when all this used to be fields
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yeh it was a surreal movie. Funny in some parts just sad in others. well made movie *beep* cool!
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Obviously you are a yank and haven't seen many Australian films. BBB is a classic along with all of Rolf de Heer's films. I can't actually name many funny US films, you people obviously don't have a sense of homour. Maybe that is why you make so many bullsht big action films.
shareI found this sick in parts and funny in others
shareI found this film highly amusing and I first saw it when in New Zealand about 10+ years ago!
I have watched it since while showing it to someone else who too thought it hilarious.
Yes, there may be some disturbing scenes but overall i think it is a true Aussie classic which needs to get the recognition it deserves and SHOULD NOT be re-made by Americans or anyone else as I don't think they could do it justice.
I remember seeing this film about 10 years ago, I think it was on Channel 4. I can't remember too much, but I do remember laughing a lot.
People who say this isn't a comedy need to have their sense of humour checked.
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It's an amazing piece of work, made me laugh till my sides hurt for half of it and cover my eyes and peep through parted fingers for the rest.
I think this film is so misunderstood by so many people who cannot get over the first 20 minutes where he is locked in the flat with his Mom.
Did it shock me? Hell yes, I'd never seen anything like it and haven't since. But the fact Bubby thought it was the norm, and it was all he had ever known was what drew me in. Added to the fact he is basically a man-child and couldn't comprehend the horror of what he was doing made it all the more despicable and yet compelling at the same time, I just had to keep watching to see if he would ever make it out of that dark flat and meet other humans.
I love the way the film steers you towards comedy then, following his adventures with the band, cake Lady, my jaw was hurting so bad from laughing after the traffic cop pulled him out of the cake Lady's car.
Then you are bought crashing back down again with the rape scene, saddened and at the same time uplifted when he starts communicating with the handicapped people, and then grinning from ear to ear when he finally gets the little house with the picket fence and starts a family with Angel.
Its an emotional roller coaster from start to finish and I think the people who slam it are totally missing the point of the film, to be honest I feel sorry for them that they can't see past the limits they have set themselves as to what defines "good taste".
My eyes are wide open and in many ways seeing this film made me look at the world a little closer and take more notice of the small things that make such a big difference.
Peace.
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"If you shout at the top of your lungs, you shout as loudly as you possibly can." I was afraid the neighbours would call the Police!
shareThis movie would have been so MUCH better if Bad Boy Stubby had been killed and eaten by Hannibal Lecter. Another great ending would have been if he'd committed suicide after killing his parents and then cats could have descended from everywhere, eating their decomposing flesh. Now THAT would have been funny as fVck.
Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
Every time he got up with the band and said random *beep* to the music I crack up. Not the only bit that's funny to me but the parts with the band are the best.
shareI laughed out loud at the blasphemy bits, especially near the end. Blasphemy was not allowed by the censors all that long ago and even today many filmmakers steer clear of including stuff like that in their movies for fear of offending religious sensibilities.
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