In my opinion.
Amazing atmosphere, tension, closed in spaces created by fantastic framing, moody colours.
love it
Everyone should follow one basic rule. Throw out all extreme opinions (e.g. the best ever, the worst ever, etc.) Best Aussie film ever ... hardly ... please quickly ignore.
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Better than ALL of those films? Probably not.
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Better than ALL of those films? Probably not.To be fair, I'd place it above "Skippy and the Intruders". share
Certainly a great movie by most standards. But I saw Snowtown recently and I think it's even better (IMHO). I was really knocked out by it.
shareCurious what others would think about 'The Proposal' when mentioning Australian movies. I thought it was very nicely done. Way up there.
shareWhat is the release year of the film you're referring to?
shareMy apologies.
I got my movies screwed up.
I just tried to find the movie I was thinking of and its actually called 'The Tracker' (2010) and I think its a NZ movie. I found it a very good movie just the same though. I highly recommend it.
Why I said 'The Proposal' is beyond me. Sorry about that.
Some of my favorite NZ films are Once Were Warriors, The Quiet Earth and Smash Palace. Some of my favorite Australian films are Walkabout, The Year of Living Dangerously, Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, and of course, Animal Kingdom. I wonder if the film you might have been thinking of is The Proposition, with Guy Pearce. I've never seen it, but I understand that it's pretty good. My guess is that you live ' Down Under '. Am I correct? I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
shareAnimal Kingdom is better than both movies (in my opinion)
shareHear! Hear!
' Animal Kingdom '.....Now that's a movie! Great ending.
For a very original film that genre-hops all over the place, I really love Geoffrey Wright's Metal Skin (1994). I've only watched it twice, because I felt really uncomfortable. Another great cast, too. When I was working at Ted's Camera Store in Brisbane, who should turn up in front of me but Ben Mendelsen. He was wearing these huge late-period Elvis sunnies, so if he was wanting to be incognito, that's a big fail. Another actor I met in Sydney was Eric Bana...he was hiding under a cheap cap & shades again - fail.At least I thanked him and shook his hand. For a little off-topic (and blatant name dropping!), Jana Wendt came up to the photographic counter in a Mosman pharmacy, and I nearly lost it. She's incredibly radiant, and friendly in person. And then I started stuttering and blushing, totally losing any cool I had that day. She and Kate Bush look quite similar, so I'd marry them both.
And another Aussie flick I could recommend is The Last Wave (1977). Peter Weir definitely has talent - he could take WW1 and make it an existential experience. I bow to them all!
I sure wouldn't have minded meeting Ben Mendelsohn or Eric Bana. Since I live in the US, I'm not familiar with Jana Wendt. I Googled her image and I can see the resemblance to Kate Bush. Okay, here's a bit of namedropping in a round about way. Since you mentioned the name Wendt, I went to high school with John Ratzenberger, the actor who sat next to the actor George Wendt ( no relation to Jana, I'm sure ) at the bar in the American television series ' Cheers '. I would imagine that Cheers was probably aired in Australia. John was a funny guy in high school, too. More namedropping: I delivered Carlos Santana's mail for almost 10 years. Still more namedropping: Michael Douglas came into a liquor store I was working in many years ago. I have seen ' The Last Wave ' and I liked it. I saw Green Card, The Mosquito Coast, Witness and Dead Poets Society when they came out and liked them. However, they don't hold up for me. By the way, I went to the same junior college that the late Robin Williams attended and would see him around campus. He was a sweet guy. Too bad about his recent demise. His family lives less than 10 miles from me.
shareWow - I can't top that one, unless you know Gough Whitlam was. Died recently, unfortunately. He's a former Prime Minister in the 70's. If you've seen The Falcon and the Snowman, you get an idea of the influence he had on Australia, plus the rest of the world, particularly the USA and China. His driver/minder/ninja/whatever came into the photo shop where I was in Sydney, and asked if I could help The Big Man with some old photos. I'm a former Socialist Worker, so I was absolutely starstruck.
I 've also seen John Ratzenberger, in the 1978 film Superman The Movie, but he played the role pretty straight. And I'm sorry, but I never watched Cheers! I watched a few eps at the start, because it had Ted Danson from Creepshow.I'm obsessed with that movie - it's still the only horror movie where I wouldn't watch the screen, or hear what was going on. I was 13, so it made a real impression, particularly The Crate story. As Kramer would say, "Mess you up!". I think my copy of Animal Kingdom is pretty much done, so I'll see if I can watch it before I need to sleep.
ps, yeah, meeting Michael Douglas would be cool, I used to watch him in The Streets of San Francisco (!), and really loved Black Rain, Basic Instinct, and Falling Down. Awesome actor.
Be sure to check out Metal Skin, though, made by the director of Romper Stomper. It's gold!
Not sure about that but I'm surprised a lot of people don't talk about this movie.
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