Fat pizza 2?
Ho moi gawd !
Is this a sequel to Fat Pizza ??
That would be like fully sick bro - hooley tabouli...bring it on again Paulie and Habib !!!
I'll call all moi cousins to come round.
Toula H.
Nice Post Nutjob,
Just watched this film and although it does have Lebanese Australians in it- it isn't the kind of dumb-arse racial comedy that this OP intends to make fun of.
In fact this is probably the best example of an Australian film that just drives itself forward focussed on the story of some down and out guys trying to pull themselves out of the crap world they live in.
It's probably the most "Un-Australian" film made in Australia in the past ten years- which is great- it doesn't stop for characters to do wacky Australian dialogue or quirky aussie behavior or shots of the outback, bbq's or the opera house.
So let's all just cool it with the pathetic racist stereotypes- because thats what this film does.
It's probably the most "Un-Australian" film made in Australia in the past ten years- which is great- it doesn't stop for characters to do wacky Australian dialogue or quirky aussie behavior or shots of the outback, bbq's or the opera house.
I've read these sorts of characterisations of 'Australian films' a few times lately and they leave my puzzled about what films people have actually been watching. I guess desert and wilderness scenes are moderately common, but BBQ's, the Sydney Opera House and quirky behaviour? I watch many AUS films every year and have seen precious little of that stuff, aside from that string of undeniably quirky films way back in the mid-90s. Hell, the more common complaint lately seems to be that Australian films are all too bleak.
I'm genuinely curious...
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I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.
I'd somewhat agree about the movie not having the 'quirky' Aussie stereotypes that we see all too often in Aussie movies. "The Jammed" is another movie like this, 'down and diryu' but realistic.
shareOh definitely, it's with The Jammed in the not-so-quirky camp, but what exactly are the quirky films that are perceived as typical of the Australian film industry in the 00's? Just looking at the last three years, say to 2006, there's Kenny and Charlie and Boots certainly. Perhaps Mary and Max and Happy Feet. What else? This is a genuine question.
It feels to me like most of the prominent films from the same period are profoundly un-quirky and quite sombre: Noise, Home Song Stories, Beautiful Kate, The Square, Disgrace, Men's Group, Last Ride, Jindabyne, Candy, Romulus My Father, Blessed, West, Samson and Delilah, 2.37, Ten Canoes, Unfinished Sky. There's barely a light-hearted or quirky moment in any of them (neither a good nor a bad thing: some of these films were good, some poor). Even relatively popular coming-of-age films like Clubland a.k.a. Introducing the Dwights and The Black Balloon were pretty harrowing in spots and relatively free of the aforementioned clichés.
I obviously don't see every Australian film and am probably missing a whole bunch of the quirky ones. But I can actually sympathise somewhat with those who, in contrast, criticise the Australian industry for already making more than it's share of sombre films about suburban discontent, substance abuse, mental illness and crime.
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I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.