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Baz's AUSTRALIA test screens where TITANIC had it's first screening! Same results? Let's see...

Anger! Hostility towards the opposition! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 01:58:14 AM
Aaaaangeeeeer!!!
"aborigines- australia's blacks" by Ace of Knaves	Jun 30th, 2008 02:00:35 AM
accurate analogy, but somehow frightfully hilarious
TOO SOON!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:00:51 AM
Really.
and where is the goddamned moriarty dark knight review by Ace of Knaves	Jun 30th, 2008 02:02:10 AM
post now plz
This reviewer NUKED THE FRIDGE!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:07:00 AM
I smell plant.
And this won't even make $100 mill domestic box office. by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:09:41 AM
Bet on it.
Did women have lip implants in the 40s? by BenBraddock	Jun 30th, 2008 02:16:11 AM
Why Nicole, why??!!??
PLAAAAANT!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:16:13 AM
This review was brought to you by Planty McPlant.
Australia pwns teh suck! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:17:44 AM
TEH SUKK!!!
Nicole Kidman is the sexiest tomboy beanpole ever! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:18:25 AM
With nipples and flames on her suit.
this would be the first no retarded shit Baz movie... by quantize	Jun 30th, 2008 02:20:09 AM
..in a long time, IF it's anything like the reviewer says. thats a big IF though. People actually liked Moulin Rouge and I didn't think films got any dumber or sillier than that.
Baz Luhrman GOTTA EAT!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:24:20 AM
Seriously.
DAMN YOU, George Lucas! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:25:06 AM
Damn you to hell!!!
Baz Luhrman is cooking the books!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:25:39 AM
Oh yeah brotha!
AINO! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jun 30th, 2008 02:26:17 AM
AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO! AINO!
Aboriginies- australia's native americans by _SnakePlissken_	Jun 30th, 2008 02:27:28 AM
just happen to be black
Aboriginies by JimBobCooter	Jun 30th, 2008 02:30:07 AM
This season's American Blacks.
Harry is corrupted by Filmrage	Jun 30th, 2008 02:42:33 AM
Nice to see Baz getting off his ass and making something. On a side note. I just read Harry's 'Indy4' review. What a pice of bullshit. You know Harry is writing a positive review for a movie that he knows is shit when he spends the first half trying to encapsulate why it is that we love Indy from way back when (in other words "so please indulge me when i praise amovie that in reality is extremly sub par") I've said it before (and usually find that my account no longer works for a few months as a result) and i'll say it again . . . Harry is too weak a person to be objective about a movie if it's related to geekdom. He would rather produce a dishonest review than have his pet properties be tarnished in any way. It's people like him and the fanboys who got pissed off with negative indy reviews (calling them 'note pad reviewers) that fucking perpetuate the shovelware that we keep getting. If enough geeks do backflips over shite then why should studios make the effort? Basically, Harry felt that condemnation of the anemic Indy 4 would tarnish the whole serries so he decided to decieve himself into thinking that he had in fact seen a great movie. He probably told himself that this movie was indeed as good as the first 3 but as he's older now he naturally can't see it so in honour of his former childhood self who would probably love indy4 he's gonna praise it. The fact is that the first three indys had a sharpness and snappiness to them that made them great and they stand up today. (coincidentally Spielberg and Lucas also had a sharpness and snappiness to them back in the day, no longer). Harry does not care about movies. He's like Quenten fuckhead Tarantino. His present head is so far up his inner childs ass that he can't recognise shit from shinola. Or worse, he recognizes it but decieves himself into thinking that he saw somethng great, then even worse, tries to decieve us into believing that. Fuck that shit. Indy 4 was a pale imitation of an Indy movie. Do you know what it was? It was on par with all those crap Indy-a-likes that came out in the few years after the first Indy. How sad that pukus and rantberg have lost their fire. it's a sad day when an Indy movie is even worse than some of its own imitators. Harry's reivew of Indy4 seperates the wheat from the chaff as far as true movie lovers go. Those of us that love movies and love excellence and especially excellence in movie making are willing to critisise even our most beloved icons in the service of that excellence. Harry is not. Harry elevates his pet geek loves above excellence and he is unwilling to be honest with himself. And if he can't be honest with himself he certainly can't be honest with us. Therefore his reviews have lost all credibility; as has he. Maybe one day he will wake up from his childhood worshiping rut and get real about what is and isn't great and treat everything equally. Maybe.
HELLBOY ON INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO!!!!! by force10	Jun 30th, 2008 02:43:29 AM
jUST
filmrage by THE KNIGHT	Jun 30th, 2008 02:55:20 AM
Sounds like you have a pent up load of semen in you buddy.
Filmrage, where were you by BenBraddock	Jun 30th, 2008 03:04:48 AM
when it mattered? I agree with you but you missed the boat, son
Melodramatic? from the guy who made Moulin Rouge? by newc0253	Jun 30th, 2008 03:14:50 AM
whoda thunk it? i kid. Moulin Rouge sucked balls but Lurhman's other films have been great and the trailer for this looks great also.
set in Australia in WW2 when the japs attacked the country (I gu by Joey17	Jun 30th, 2008 03:32:54 AM
You guess? More bombs were dropped on Darwin than Pearl Harbor...
$30 mil? yeah right. by Holodigm	Jun 30th, 2008 03:33:12 AM
the titanic comparison is apt, because the female crowd is going to eat this up exactly like they did with titanic. i'm calling it right now, if fox does the right job marketing it, this is going to go north of $400 million.
I've never gotten why Kidman gets roles where by ThrowMeTheIdol	Jun 30th, 2008 03:37:37 AM
...she's supposed to be high class or snooty. I don't get that vibe from her. She seems more like a waitress to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just saying though. Too bad this movie didn't star Naomi Watts, I'd really want to see it then.
QUANTUM OF SOLACE teaser... by Finding Forrestal	Jun 30th, 2008 03:40:45 AM
...is up on Moviefone.
Oh, and BTW... by Finding Forrestal	Jun 30th, 2008 03:44:57 AM
...it's totally fucking badass.
this will not do NEAR Titanic numbers by ShiftyEyedDog2	Jun 30th, 2008 03:52:41 AM
even if it were the same style, tone, quality, etc... it was Leo and Kate that made the teens and tweens come back again again and again. it coud be big, but not NEAR that big. the cast skews too old
Finding Forrestal by DocBosch	Jun 30th, 2008 03:58:04 AM
Where? Link!
Ah, found it.... by DocBosch	Jun 30th, 2008 03:58:40 AM

Dammit by DocBosch	Jun 30th, 2008 03:58:52 AM
http://www.moviefone.com/insid emovies/2008/06/27/director-ma rc-forster-talks-quantum-of-so lace/
QOS teaser link... by Finding Forrestal	Jun 30th, 2008 04:01:45 AM
http://tiny.cc/2eSkh
Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Jun 30th, 2008 04:18:16 AM
Damn You Michael Bay
Downset! by Tom Whitaker	Jun 30th, 2008 04:27:32 AM
I'd forgotten them. But what are they doing in the first post?
Overrated by fiester	Jun 30th, 2008 04:33:40 AM
Baz is shite.
Just like City Slickers! by Catnip_Thieves	Jun 30th, 2008 04:35:04 AM
Only, y'know. Not funny.
Because women only just kill the boxoffice... by JackRabbitSlim	Jun 30th, 2008 05:00:45 AM
With Sex and the City doing a mega ... 145 mil. Don't get me wrong - that's a nice chunk o change - but it ain't in Titanic's ballpark. Shit, it ain't even in the same league. Titanic was the perfect storm - quality chick flick - a sudden out of the blue next hottest thing ever in Leo (who exactly is going to be that in Australia? Hugh? Hah hah) - and a more-hooks-than-baitshop song that was played incessantly. Titanic wasn't a movie - it was a phenomenon we won't see the likes again of in our lifetime - if our lifetime happens to be 2-7 years - boxoffice records usually get broken every 15 years or so.
Aboriginals are STILL the Australian version of black people by Riley Martin	Jun 30th, 2008 05:02:42 AM
Aboriginals are STILL the Australian version of black people in 2008 :D
Your a fuckwit Riley Martin by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Jun 30th, 2008 05:18:35 AM
If you guys are gonna try racial humor can you at least be funny?
Riley Martin votes for a White Australia by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Jun 30th, 2008 05:20:23 AM
cause, you know the whites are the proper Aussies right? Fuckwit.
Hey Fuckwit...... by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Jun 30th, 2008 05:22:00 AM
your shoelace is untied.
i don't understand Oscar buzz by kungfuhustler84	Jun 30th, 2008 05:49:38 AM
from people who have only seen trailers for a movie. It seems completely ridiculous to me. It's called good marketing people. The whole point of the trailer is to make you believe it is Oscar worthy stuff. Don't get me wrong, I want this to rule just as badly as the next guy, but claiming it will already win ten Oscars just because the trailer feels epic and cool is just dumb.
Let me guess, the prissy bitch lives... by TopHat	Jun 30th, 2008 06:08:25 AM
...so she doesn't become a prissy bitch anymore. Typical: woman always survives unless the male character is really tortured, then, she can die.
Shit... by Sebilrazen	Jun 30th, 2008 06:36:42 AM
...as another resident of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Area, let me say sorry. This person must be from the south end of the Cities and... fuck it - We have a bunch of less than stellar minds up here, we don't get many movie premieres, no good independents except at the Uptown and Lagoon, maybe the Eden Prairie... but who the hell drives to Eden Prairie for a damn movie? Sorry, I digressed. It depresses me when they screen a pre-reel here and then some idiot that doesn't grasp grammar and/or a semblance of intelligence gets to see it, it makes me sad. Calgon take me away. Just think Harry, you get to spend the 4 day weekend up here with our drivel at ConVergence. Sorry.
The Murdon empire is not as secure as it once was by emeraldboy	Jun 30th, 2008 06:37:07 AM
If this film bombs and bombs badly. The shareholders will once again get pissed off. Murdoch is a shrewd old bugger. But he cant hold off the irate shareholders for ever.
This is gonna be like Gone With The Wind... by Knuckleduster	Jun 30th, 2008 07:03:05 AM
... with funny accents.
Gah by Series7	Jun 30th, 2008 07:13:39 AM
when will hollywood learn! Why can't they get real actors from the coutry/dialog for the film they are making? This is worse then Daniel Craig playing a jewish guy in all of his films.
Also by Series7	Jun 30th, 2008 07:14:45 AM
Who else here would've prefered an ole school No Escape or Condemed instead? The real history of Aus.
Gah by zacf	Jun 30th, 2008 07:53:51 AM
Maybe you are just referring to the non lead characters. But Jackman and Kidman are both Australian (even though that doesn't really matter for Kidman in this one).
it's going to make at least 100 mill domestically by zapano	Jun 30th, 2008 08:06:04 AM
i don't like Baz's films but the women seem to love them
Not to be a pedantic asshole, but... by 433	Jun 30th, 2008 08:13:45 AM
...it's such a big part of who I am. The TITANIC screening took place at the (now defunct) Centennial Lakes 8, a few miles away from the Mall of America.
Sin-twities??? by Nozoki	Jun 30th, 2008 08:22:21 AM
Are you fucking kidding me? I stopped reading at "Mall of America-n idiots". What a lack-wit.
Yeah Series 7, are you talking about the right film? by half vader	Jun 30th, 2008 09:38:45 AM
The only way this film could get more Australian is if it had Bill Hunter in it. Oh well, I guess we can't call him "the ubiquitous Bill Hunter" anymore. And good on Baz for telling Rusty Crowe to go jump when he threatened to do another "Eucalyptus" & started throwing his weight around. Good actor, but Jesus...
I fucking hate Baz Lurhman. by rbatty024	Jun 30th, 2008 09:38:56 AM
His over the top melodramatic schtick needs to stop.
Where is Harry's Wall-E review? by Zombieflicker	Jun 30th, 2008 09:41:03 AM
He liked it better than sliced bread, but where is his review? Are you just being a lazy bastard Harry? I better see a Hellboy 2 review from you!
the australian version of black people in the 1950s by Cedar_Room	Jun 30th, 2008 09:43:51 AM
hahahahahahaha
KNIGHT by Filmrage	Jun 30th, 2008 09:47:44 AM
Better to have my own stuff pent up inside me than be full someone elses you jizz obsessed cumgargler. Better late than never and it's not just about the Indy review either. Sadly, It's harrys MO now. If it sucks but it deals with holy geekery then it get's a pass.
Baz: Plant all the phony reviews you want by Rubiks Doob	Jun 30th, 2008 10:29:08 AM
They won't disguise the fact that this looks like a turkey of monumental portions. So I'd suggest at least a Thanksgiving release.
Wrong location, Harry... by fellini8	Jun 30th, 2008 11:33:17 AM
Everyone thought we'd screen at Mall of Americas, but we didn't. We screened outside of Minneapolis in Edina, MN under the moniker "Great Expectations."
Filmrage by THE KNIGHT	Jun 30th, 2008 11:36:50 AM
I still haven't had a chance to read his indy 4 review. I'm sure you don't care whether people agree with your setiments or not, but I know you're glad you got it out your system!
Baz is the man by AlwaysThere	Jun 30th, 2008 12:13:58 PM
I'm seeing this day one. It won't be Titanic though, nothing today or tomorrow will ever replicate that films success.
by ToughTitty	Jun 30th, 2008 12:24:21 PM
Titanic screened at Centennial Lakes General Cinema...not MOA. Also...Baz was there yesterday...in addition to some producers and tech staff (his wife who designed the costumes was there as well) I enjoyed the film...it needs some cutting, though. A HUGE departure for Baz...but I think he did a great job. And that's all I'm saying.
I stopped reading review... by solartaco3	Jun 30th, 2008 12:33:59 PM
...because reviewer was a fucking idiot.
"ustralian version of black people in the 1950s" by BBSloth	Jun 30th, 2008 09:54:25 PM
Ummm....Okaaaaay. I've never heard Aboriginals described as a "version" of black people before.
Sebilrazen by mypantsaretootight	Jun 30th, 2008 10:42:09 PM
The Edina is also a Landmark Theatre and is not showing Get Smart. You can take the bus there from Uptown.
QUESTION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN IT.... by DJ5	Jul 1st, 2008 12:21:27 AM
Why does the drover leave Lady A at one point (right before the bombings according to this review)? And does he say he'll come back for her, he just has to leave for a little while, or is it more of a "goodbye" not able to be together? I would really appreciate anyone who can answer! =)
Prossor by half vader	Jul 1st, 2008 08:56:01 AM
It was already on location in Namibia getting ready to shoot a few years back then the war happened and the Hollywood backers pulled everyone back from O.S. So close...
IMDB by DJ5	Jul 1st, 2008 02:34:03 PM
To those who have seen the movie (or wrote the reviews) please go onto IMDB to the "Australia" forum. I would love to ask some questions. Thanks!
ToughTitty by DJ5	Jul 2nd, 2008 06:11:47 PM
Could you please post on IMDB about Australia? (on the "Australia" forum) I really want to ask you some questions about the movie - I would greatly appreciate it. Just let me know on here if you can, thank you!

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