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MikeJF posted:But what was with that pair of pilots - the Aussie guy and his South African son. Hey mate, they smacked a kaiju upside the head with a loving boat. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqu4Lgc1ivA
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It's like they wanted to hire Grant Bowler but decided he was took expensive.
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Pwnstar posted:Australian movies annoy me a lot because there seems to be a rule that they have to be about Australia and really push the fact that they are from Australia and Aussies are cool and top blokes all round etc. what's that documentary that was filmed in WA about the world ending, a giant poo poo head is on his way to an end of days party except life kicks him in the balls a few times until he's not quite a complete piece of poo poo that one portrays Australians very positively imho
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These Final Hours I thought it was an alright movie.
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They should fund some indie filmmaker who has a dream of making a movie about a slacker surviving a zombie apolypse but set in... Australia.
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I always saw Australian films falling between cheeky funny or cynical, granted I can't think of many Australian movies of the top of my head currently. Also Babadook was a good Australian movie imo.
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Plebiscite is Edit: or maybe I just heard the radio incorrectly starkebn fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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If anyone hasn't seen it after the recent resurgence in popularity, find a copy of Wake in Fright and watch that. It's the pinnacle of Australian cinema.
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starkebn posted:Plebiscite is invalid I didn't think they were ruling today. Or are you talking about the George Robertson take? e: ah yes. I think they'll do it tomorrow and it will be in writing so maybe even later.
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Lid posted:The best Australian game was LA Noire and it turned out that was made by slave labour. And it was also overhyped bad a tech demo killed its studio bad (again) cutscene simulator You Are The Detective (press x on all the things) an actively misleading UI bad Pwnstar posted:Australian movies annoy me a lot because there seems to be a rule that they have to be about Australia and really push the fact that they are from Australia and Aussies are cool and top blokes all round etc. Australian media has no 'voice'. It's films by Australians about Australia. Typically, an Australian text is about one of the following (and often includes multiples): city folk vs country folk, the beauty of the outback, A Refugee Story, foreigners are invading (somehow, with magic, maybe?), suburban life is Hard. It's rare to find genuinely good Australian media. Babadook was pretty good, for example. But by far the majority of it feels cheap and janky and like it's trying to emulate whatever is popular without any real imagination. Ever since writing a game, and filling Facebook with my writing, I get targeted ads for Australian creative projects -- movies, TV pilots, books and the like -- and they're almost always garbage that can be summed up as 'popular thing but in Australia'.
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Cleretic posted:Yeah, awesome, make a movie ostensibly about an autistic that actually focuses only on his brother and how hard he has it dealing with this, that's great.
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A CONTROVERSIAL Sydney University lecturer who backed Syria’s murderous al-Assad regime has travelled to Pyongyang and pledged “solidarity” with the North Korean dictatorship against “aggression” from the West. Amid increasing threats by despot Kim Jong-un, Sydney University international politics lecturer Tim Anderson organised a “learning and solidarity visit” to the regime’s capital. For fucks sake
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Lid posted:A CONTROVERSIAL Sydney University lecturer who backed Syria’s murderous al-Assad regime has travelled to Pyongyang and pledged “solidarity” with the North Korean dictatorship against “aggression” from the West. MLs gonna ML.
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Surely they can just cancel his passport or something. The US is technically at war with NK and that means that we probably are too
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And, really, it's probably just cheaper to make reality TV, and import it from the States, than it is to actually create something.
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Milky Moor posted:It's rare to find genuinely good Australian media. Babadook was pretty good, for example. But by far the majority of it feels cheap and janky and like it's trying to emulate whatever is popular without any real imagination. Ever since writing a game, and filling Facebook with my writing, I get targeted ads for Australian creative projects -- movies, TV pilots, books and the like -- and they're almost always garbage that can be summed up as 'popular thing but in Australia'. Everyone I know that's a parent found Babadook significantly more frightening because it's mum and dad horror.
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I look forward to Turnbull coming out and saying that an academic should be sacked for their political views.
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JBP posted:It's the pinnacle of Australian cinema. Starstruck  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUW5jF3nVJY&t=138s Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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babadook was bloody terrible and the only reason for its bizarre positive reception is that years of superhero movies have left audiences so starved for subtlety and symbolism that being repeatedly told "THE CARTOON MONSTER IS SAD MUM RAGE" seems like profound storytelling to them also lol at the characterisation of the docs people when the kid's like "my dad died!" and they act all shocked and speechless. child protection caseworkers, notoriously sheltered and hypersensitive individuals. then at the end he has a massive bruise from attempted strangulation that they don't even notice and that's meant to be a happy ending somehow
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the old ceremony posted:babadook was bloody terrible and the only reason for its bizarre positive reception is that years of superhero movies have left audiences so starved for subtlety and symbolism that being repeatedly told "THE CARTOON MONSTER IS SAD MUM RAGE" seems like profound storytelling to them Yeah, I thought this too. Also it wasn't scary (except for the scenes with the rad book) and the reused monster sounds just reminded me of other things instead of what they were supposed to do.
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Milky Moor posted:And it was also I do actually like it though.
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The best Australian game is Rome Total War
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the old ceremony posted:babadook was bloody terrible and the only reason for its bizarre positive reception is that years of superhero movies have left audiences so starved for subtlety and symbolism that being repeatedly told "THE CARTOON MONSTER IS SAD MUM RAGE" seems like profound storytelling to them Also this. I'm never quite sure how objective I am when it comes to Australian media (I've seen Black Balloon, too, and as someone pointed out...) because there's a big part of me that just goes 'Well, it wasn't horrible'. JBP posted:Everyone I know that's a parent found Babadook significantly more frightening because it's mum and dad horror. Well, yeah, it's not really a story about a monster at all. I mean, beyond that monster of a kid, I mean.
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Endman posted:The best Australian game is Rome Total War WAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR DOGS
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52 Tuesdays is the best Australian film.
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Lid posted:A CONTROVERSIAL Sydney University lecturer who backed Syria’s murderous al-Assad regime has travelled to Pyongyang and pledged “solidarity” with the North Korean dictatorship against “aggression” from the West. um, free speech? i thought we were mad about the chinese forcing our lecturers to be politically correct, but we're ok if it's about north korea? what happened to all that It's Okay To Say No [to the hypocritical oppression of the DPRK's sovereign right to defend itself by any means necessary]?
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Greatest videogame of all time iajwife is out of town tonight, think I'll be firing up the SNES and HOWZAT HOWZAT HOWZAT HOWZAT HOWZAT
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Beam Software's Aussie Rules Footy on NES is the best game ever. OUT OF BOUNDS ON THE FULL
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Actually I believe you'll find the correct answer is Jonah Lomu Rugby on PSX
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Zenithe posted:Yeah, I thought this too. Also it wasn't scary (except for the scenes with the rad book) and the reused monster sounds just reminded me of other things instead of what they were supposed to do. I don't think it was bad but I don't get the hype. Also, killing the dog seems like something that would have been shocking in a horror movie fifteen years ago but cliche as hell today.
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.
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Zenithe posted:He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. That soundtrack still gets play in my house
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Bad Boy Bubby
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Does Grimoire count as an Australian game? (made with 100% neanderthal labour)
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Best Australia Game
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Tantalus in Melbourne worked on the Twilight Princess HD port.
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My dad used to play the poo poo out of this.
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Best Australian game ever made was the 1982 The Hobbit, you'll never see better.
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