Ruined the whole filmm well except for the ridiculous plot ,the awful overacting,the rotten humor ,the script ..well everythin really .
Baz ...you had the chance to make a great film about your country,,and instead you made somekind of circus movie again ..you should just have made them sing on top of an elephant again.
And her botox acting very stiff and lacking in any discernible talent!
shareOh, just saw the first hour. Could not take any more. Was it a comedy, farce or just really, really bad?
And Kidman's plastic face. So dreadful.
Wrong on so many levels.
you rip my knitting
You stuck it out a whole hour?!?!?
You have a stronger stomach than me, I could only stand about 15 mins before I started retching.
What are you into? Justin Bieber, Spiderman and 'Friends'. No wait...you're into 'Fast and Furious'. Of course, every half a second a new piece of action to keep your tired eyes alert. Right? Yes, Australia-the movie is not for the mindless!
shareChrist, the lot of you have really bad taste in movies. So what if it doesn't have space frontiers, or speeding cars doing 200mph or ... now what is it you guys in America love so much? Oh, I know, superheroes like Batman. Let's face it, you were just the wrong audience for this film. I personally think it should have only been seen in Australia. I know some Americans loved it, but I think it means more to Australians and Americans are too insular and don't want to be interested in aspects of other countries that they don't understand. I mean one complaint on one site was he couldn't be bothered knowing about Australia's history (ie the bombing of Darwin).
Forget the botox face. I'm not a fan of Kidman in most of her films but she did exactly what she was supposed to do in this film. Start out being prissy and aristocratic, meet up with somebody the complete opposite (Drover) and eventually fall for him. Through the progression of the film, she transforms herself and becomes less stuffy and shows she's prepared to become more of a gritty cowgirl (for want of a better word).
Not verbatim, but part of an interview with Hugh on the matter:-
QUOTE: As for the movie itself, it was Baz's take on paying homage to the classic Hollywood movies he grew up loving of the 30's and 40's. His father owned a cinema in rural New South Wales and he spent a lot of his youth looking at those old Hollywood movies, like 'Gone with the Wind', 'Giant'. The brilliance of it was he was doing it with an Australian voice. It has an Australian flavour to it but it is different to what people expect. Broad comedy like 'African Queen'. Almost slapstick at the beginning. There's elements like 'Out of Africa', 'From Here to Eternity'. The biggest I get is 'Gone with the Wind', because here you have, like GWTW, all these different elements. It's a great feast of entertainment, but at the heart of it GWTW was about slavery and the civil war. The heart of 'Australia' is about indigenous people, racism and ultimately I think the message is of hope. It somehow captured what is going on in the world today. There's a mixed race President about to take over in America. The seemingly impossible is about to happen, and in a way it is summed up in this movie. The line Nicole's character says and I repeat "Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be" is very Baz. Baz is full of hope and optimism for the future. It was great from my perspective playing an Australian so I could use my own voice. I remember Nicole was so jealous. She said "I'm in a movie called Australia, we're all Australians here and I still have a dialect coach!! Because she, you know, was English. END QUOTE
It wasn't overacted. It was mimicking the style of movies of the past. Even the camera work was mimicking it - the close ups. Baz used a 'Leane and Lucas' approach to making the movie with epic wide outback location work and combining it was studio work. It was filmed in one of the remotest parts of Australia where most Australians have never been. A lot of it was on aboriginal lands and no-one has been there before (except aboriginals). Hugh loved it. He said it was incredible, unbelievable, awesome. It was an experience you have once in a lifetime and if he could do it again, he'd jump at the chance.
I could tell you a lot more, but it is enough for this reply.
FYI I'm Swedish not American , and yes I'm sure a lot of effort and great ideas went into making this film. Doesn't make it better though. I think most people got the nod to 1930-40's era of moviemaking .. It wasn't that discrete . But still don't make a botoxed overacting Nicole get any closer to Kate the great ( Katherine Hepburn )
The movie SUCKS
I get the feeling that you're a wrinkled old woman who is really bitter about that fact that Nicole Kidman was 40 years old when making this movie and looked fantastic. This is a really stupid reason to be bashing an actress and a movie, a damn good movie at that.
Well to each their own. Sorry to hear that it seems to have offended you. As for botoxed face, to be honest, I never noticed it. I actually thought she looked quite gorgeous in parts (the ball scenes and towards the end when she was with the Australian soldiers and heard the children's voices in the mist.) Considering she's just a little younger than me, I think she's got near perfect skin. She was 40 at the time. AND something, as a Swede, you probably aren't familiar with, is really unbearably hot, dry conditions - no freckles appeared, no sunburn - amazing. I'm a redhead. It's very hard to keep freckles at bay when you are in direct sunlight.
shareSpeak for yourself - don't lump the rest of us Australians in with your love of this horrible movie. I couldn't even finish it, it was so cheesy and an embarrassment to our country. Cheesy melodrama does not automatically make a movie great, so don't go telling everyone else they have bad taste in movies.
"...so don't go telling everyone else they have bad taste in movies. "
Everyone else? Read what I wrote. I was referring to some people. You're within your rights to hate the movie, think of it as 'cheesy' or whatever else you deem it is, but don't assume your hatred of the movie can be interpreted as every Aussie's hate. You'd be way wrong if you have that impression. I know quite a few Australians that look at it quite often and love it. I've got a friend that has been through 4 DVD's wearing them out because she's looked at the movie too many times. And no, I'm not referring to myself. I have 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray. I look at it occasionally, not all the time.
GWTW was a proper movie. This is a circusact gotten out of control. There are really no redeeming features. It also flopped megastyle and deservedly so.
shareDidn't flop megastyle. Didn't do well in Hollywood though. It was pulled out of cinemas very quickly so a lot of the general population in the US couldn't see it. I think the Hollywood big bosses forced the reviewers to give it a thumbs down, knowing the American audiences take stock on what reviewers say before seeing movies. Doesn't work that way down here though. Most Australians don't read reviews. Did well in Europe I hear and did well down here in Oz too.
shareAs far as I can remember it was in the videorentals almost overnight in Europe.
shareI loved her in this. and just a tad tight, but still she was superb!
sharei couldn't believe what she had done to her face, her lovely face
the movie was awful too, nothing worked in this movie 3/10
so many movies, so little time