Aussie Pulp Fiction


... Is all I can say. Loved this when I was a kid and after a rewatch just now (at 27), still as good as ever.

Would have to be the best Aussie film out there. Never ceases to amaze me how much talent Heath had at such a young age even.

His reaction at the bank after the buddy gets knocked out should be in the national art museum.

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Loved this when I was a kid and after a rewatch just now (at 27), still as good as ever.
Feel the same way after not seeing it for awhile. It's a top Aussie film. Heath, Bryan Brown and a young Rose Byrne are all fantastic, as is the support cast. Kind of reminds me more of Guy Ritchie's stuff, rather than Quentin's.🐭

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Just watching this right now (-found it for a quid at a second-hand market) and kept wondering which other film I'd seen him in, as he has such a tremendous sense of...'menace' about him.

Had to pause the film just to look him up and was lead to a film that I both hate and think is one of the best films out there- he played 'Denzil' in 'Ghosts of the Civil Dead.' I've only ever seen it the one time but what a film and what an actor!

The only other film that has produced such a strong 'love it but couldn't sit through it again' feeling in me was Gary Oldman's 'Nil by Mouth.'
Does anyone else know what I mean?!

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Btw, I was talking about David Field and the factthat IMDB 'led' me to 'Ghosts of the Civil Dead!' I was trying to start a new thread but buggered it up, so apologies for screwing it up...

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have you seen "the killer inside me" w/ casey affleck?

I DO CROSSWORD PUZZLES IN PEN CUZ IM JUST THAT CONFIDENT

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Yeah that's what I was thinking while watching this movie. Normally, anyone attempting to do their own version of a classic usually stuffs it up and all I can think of is how it was much better when it was called Pulp Fiction (or whatever it is).. but this is an exception. In fact the director may not have been inspired by Pulp Fiction at all and it's just coincidence. But it was different enough for it to be a really good movie in its own right. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. Great movie.

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