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Reviews
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Interesting , with great sound track
This documentary could have been excellent if not for the constant self phrase from the crew on" how great we were "and chest beating about being " Bad Asses and rock stars" from the urban flith"
The footage and sound track was great,
however the whole tough guy attitude became a little irritating.
Overall a interesting historical story about the birth of the sport.
Wolf Creek (2016)
Not a good advertisement for Oz
This series all starts well, then they seem to run out of ideas very quickly. apart from John Jarret who is as usual brilliant but not used enough,the rest of the cast performances tends to be lackluster or typecast. There are some very bad American accents,the obliquity outback landscapes with kangaroos crocs snakes and spiders. Every Australian male is portrayed as a as either a sex offender, a complete idiot or both and the woman are all portrayed as complete bitches.
The story line is where thing get patchy, for a 19 YO girl who was shot and and left for dead and whose family had just been slaughtered, not one relative or government official from the USA bothered to head to Australia to inquire and escort her home, no, she's dropped off at the airport and told take care of yourself and have a nice life.No major homicide investigations,no media, just one country cop to take care of the lot and who seems to think it was a all a big accident.Dozens of tourist missing in the top end and no one is slightly suspicious there is something odd happening up there. I would have thought a large homicide investigation may have given this show a bit of credibility and interest.
They try to focus on the two main characters the Cop and the Girl with the bad American accent , unfortunately they're are not interesting enough to hold attention or interest. It seems to want to portray the top end and the outback as some kind of wild west or Mad Max type scenario.
It is very frustrating that Australian film produces have to resort to the clichéd Aussie Drongos and instead to try to portray Australians as having some intelligence and sophistication. This series had so much potential but wasted on poor performances, scripts and plots.
San Andreas (2015)
This movie is disastrous
Look I get it , I wasn't expecting Academy award performances, however I wasn't expecting a script written by 15 year olds ,or a Bruckhiemer movie on meth! I'm serious I could have done a better job. The CGI was hokey at best, may as well be watching a cartoon. It ticks every Hollywood cliché. I hated this movie so much I couldn't even make fun of it!
Don't start me on the two English characters I just wanted a building to fall on them. And the daughter didn't get interesting until she was almost dead. Rock, I hope you got paid well!Because I don't think the rest of the cast and production would have!