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Jindabyne (2006)
I tried and failed, and so has this movie.
I'm trying to stand up for Australian cinema and its artists, but with this movie I had to walk out. It is only the second time I've done that in my life.
What is it with the current crop of ideas in film making. I'm sick of the landscape being one of the characters, again. Thank you Film Finance Corporation, another peep hole drilled into a story so the market of overseas moviegoers can see us Australians as a largely dysfunctional collection of neurotics and drones. Why did this film teach me to loathe the characters to the point of not caring for what was to happen to them, hence me leaving the cinema. I felt the same seeing "Wolf Creek", but I persevered with that one.
One of the things I was most annoyed about, were the inane set if cliché "quirks" that seem to be weirdly applied, masquerading as character development, surely not "Little Fish" again, but then, I suppose it was. I'm given to understand that the running time was to be 120 minutes.
Send it back to the Avid.
Don't be freighted to throw the turgid script and meaningless scenes out. It's really a short story anyway.
I don't know why I had to endure the scene of one of the characters peeing beneath the power lines. Was that a spoiler?
Criminal Ways (2003)
Strictly a no-go area.
After seeing this abuse, I can't help but be sorry for the money I spent to see the Wannabes. Nick G has been believing that he can't fail. I can assure anyone reading this, he has failed.
Someone has to let him know.
He failed to engage me in the characters, he failed to make be believe the events and he even failed to follow the simple rules of story telling.
This flick is for no one, too crude for tots and too stupid for adults. There is nothing in this film for anyone.
The slight nod to an international audience was even a debilitation to the movie, and God knows what anyone should think of The Australian Film Industry if this crud gets seen abroad.
A total embarrassment.