hamradio Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wonder do American people leave the Australian McDonalds hopping mad. Anyone getting hungry watching this movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I lived in Australia in 1984 and it was the ONLY time I ever went to a McDonald's in my life. I was desperately searching for a cup of coffee, egg sandwich, pancake, ANYTHING for breakfast! I thought a Holy Grail was found when I spotted LOVELY! a pancake house...it ended up being a high end restaurant that served steak (or kangaroo) on top of a pancake-an abomination. BTW the cute animal that sniffed the sleeping girl's head was a wombat, adorable creatures. None of the animals there have a fear of humans so you really could sit & observe them for hours. I spent a lot of time with Aborigines. It always struck me they had very black skin but soft curly hair, not kinky like Africans. Interesting movie, if not a bit heavy handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 At the beginning a guy was grinding kangaroo meat into ground beef for hamburger patties. I Googled it and surprised its sold worldwide. Got a kick out of the lizard with the smaller one half swallowed, got to thinking was that a Geico Gecko. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I saw this on some other channel, maybe the Independent Film Channel. I watched nearly and hour, and I got bored with it, because all the kids did was walkabout. So, I saw them walk about an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 >I watched nearly and hour, and I got bored with it Then you missed the sexual references and full nudity? Geez, I thought it was pretty titillating, although as I said before, just a little heavy handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I'm not the type of guy to sit through 1 1/2 hours of borning movie just to see a 2 minute nude scene. Anyway, the nude scene is on YouTube if anyone wants to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 But you will sit through an hour of it. You display much more persistence than I. Sometimes it only takes thirty seconds of a movie for me to know I won't like it. I find that while movies can often get worse, they almost never get better. My thinking is that if moviemakers don't have the ability to make a movie good at the beginning, they won't have it later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Well, maybe it wasn't a full hour. I just kept expecting something to happen. But all they did was walkabout. Then it dawned on me that that was the movie's title, so I figured that was probably all they were going to do. So I gave up. If the title had been "Swimming Naked in the Pond in the Outback", I might have watched it a little longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Fred.. Have you seen The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - a South African comedy? This has got to be better than Walkabout - it's actually funny.. in a silent movie kind of way. Kind of an unintentional walkabout film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 >FCD: >If the title had been "Swimming Naked in the Pond in the Outback", I might have watched it a little longer. Something you will thankfully not have to do, knowing the good bits are immediately accessible on YT. (But don't misunderstand me, I like Walkabout. It's a brilliant movie. It's other movies I don't have time for.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 You know, now that you mention it, The Gods Must Be Crazy would be a great film to show as part of the Story of Film series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 >I like Walkabout. It's a brilliant movie. It reminds me of that home-made movie that TCM used to air a lot, the one with the little kid walking around Coney Island by himself for 1-1/2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Ah, well. But, as I say, it doesn't bother me a lot that people don't like the movies I do. It means there's all that much more of it for me to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 >You know, now that you mention it, The Gods Must Be Crazy would be a great film to show as part of the Story of Film series. I don't know why it didn't make the series, it's really a nice film - maybe that's why. I couldn't help that, it just slipped out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I'd encourage anyone to give *Walkabout* a try, because some people like it very much. I can't help thinking that given 1) a great story premise and 2) spectacular scenery, Roeg gets about as little out of the material as possible. It doesn't help that his idea of subtlety is bonking us over the head with a cast-iron skillet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 kingrat wrote: << It doesn't help that his idea of subtlety is bonking us over the head with a cast-iron skillet.>> Big mystery is why did their father went bonkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 >I'd encourage anyone to give Walkabout a try, because some people like it very much. I can't help thinking that given 1) a great story premise and 2) spectacular scenery, I hope everyone watches it and I hope everyone likes it. I didn't like it because 1) it was boring, 2) the "sex" interest in the film, the young girl, was much too young, maybe 16 years old. I would prefer a 28 year old Marilyn Monroe type or maybe a 35 year old Lana Turner. 3) the killing of the small animals made me sick. I don't like to see animals killed, cut up, and roasted over an open fire by a primitive cave-man type of boy. He was a nice kid, but not my idea of a good chef. When the boy shot a small Kangaroo with an arrow, then he cut his legs off, then he began to roast them on an open fire, I thought I was going to barf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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