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Barons (2022)
Good commercial. Anachronistic (amnesiac distortion viewed from 2020s)
This is not how it was for sure (outside the waves).
Good camera work. Shot in some of the richest parts of Sydney metro. Sure hard to look ugly. Will certainly awaken dreaming now that it is showing in USA market (sorry, you cannot afford to live there), Tourism Board of Australia will like it.
2020s casting certainly has certain dose of amnesia.
70s population of Australia was quite different from what it is today. It was before influx after Vietnam war, with all the migration restrictions.
Even those OZ-sales pitch series like Neighbours or Home and Away were still quite cleansed, and they were peaking in late 80s and 90s, almost 20 years later.
So, this overdone casting backflip makes it even funnier.
So, sure, enjoy the seascapes, dream of surfing (sans sharks) and endless summer, but this is not how it was.
Nowhere near. It was quite a no-go zone then. Just remember Cronulla riots which happened in this century. Westies not wanted.
Good commercial. For surf gear companies and "picture with koala by Sydney Opera House" tourism.
Longmire (2012)
Good timekiller
Have been watching reruns lately. It gets you in with its imaginary city vision of "cowboys and indians" etc.
For starters, yes, the much used (and slightly CGId, especially horizons hills) outdoors vistas are definitely what it is, northern NM, certainly not Wyoming. At least, now I know what was that out-of-place long black movie trailer doing on the side of the road in Eagle Nest in 2012.
A series set in Wyoming, without a single snowflake, and I have seen at least 30 episodes. Apparently, all crimes were happening in summer.
Acting is following the city people image of "those people there", fairly routine and taking itself very seriously.
Development of plot reminded me here and there of Lost (you know, when they were just patching up more and more outrageous stories, without getting anywhere, just to come up with complete nonsense, and start claiming "spiritual" intent)..
So much so that sometimes you feel not just being offered a red herring, but being taken for a goose chase. Where they cut the story suddenly with a blunt ending, just because there are only two minutes left in the episode. Reminds me of that Indiana scene where a magnificent swordsman comes at Indiana, and shows off his fancy moves. And Indiana just draws a gun and shoots him.
And it is not that only one arc or plot line ended that way, but about dozen or more of such.
Aaaand, just do not start me talking about their depiction of reservation ,casino, tribes, what not.
Anyway, if you have nothing to do, watch it, which is pretty much the essence of 99% ot things on Imdb. So, do not take it as a negative review.
Though those silly ending of plots really peeve off here and there.
As for outdoors, Eagle Nest and Angel Fire, NM are ok for rich city tourists and weekend houses, but, if you want real outdoors, it is not there. More like burbs in the hills. You have to walk a bit for that, as in "for hours and days", Up.
Perhaps try the real Wyoming, outside tourist towns.
Breath (2017)
Nice to see South-West and Big Southern again
Enjoy the vistas. Movie paints them right. I will write about the painting, not the plot. About product placement, too.
Tim Winton's story adding up some farcical ex-suburban plot to the usual package of nostalgia for places away and before. I do like his books, but not the re-runs of the same theme. Cloudstreet this is not.
When it becomes product placement. Product is Australia. West in this case.
This time, unlike beach shack places further north, Winton story takes place down south, in the wettest part of WA. Not Lancelin, Seabird, Gray or similar, but more Windy Harbour way. Which brings lots of darker hues in visuals, much more than one would usually get in the perennial sun bleached bright landscapes of WA.
Wind chimes in sea breeze. Plus some sheets sweat and regrets.
Still much better than any greed of 2000s Liquefied Natural Gas Chevron conquest hordes of once-was-Western Australia. Escapism at its best commercial self.
Enjoy the good parts.
As for those who decide to travel (or even follow the worn-out "6-month backpack routine") to WA (after all, Sando's wife is a tourist of kind), note that it was Disneylandised since (not just 70s, but even since early 2010s). Whole of it, not just Perth, Exmouth, Coral Bay, but down south as well. As silicon as it comes. Zac Efron time.
It would be like going to USA Pacific North-West now, after watching Twin Peaks. A bit late for the party. And even Cobains and grunge have been dead for a long time.
Better enjoy this movie, and then go to the places about which the movies have not been made yet (if there are such).
If you still do go there, sharks and getting shredded along the rocky bottom are for real (and nobody will make a book or a movie about you, if you get hurt). And it is all suburbia, oblivious of surroundings.
Bokeh (2017)
Tourist brochure movie, product placement
One was those movies meant to show the background or "paint the spirit" of a location, where the story line is just an excuse.
Better watch some documentary.
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Repetitive Gibson - Bad Remake
If you got in the middle of the movie, you might mistake the scene for any other from any other Gibson revenge movie, doing Chuck Bronson stuff.
As for remake, Joe Don Baker was right. This is a completely wasted betrayal of the original series, where the brooding gloomy feeling (which still made you want to watch the next episode), was replaced by wham-bam, and a classic Hollywood ending (I am glad that they still did not show the Hollywood closing lines of "what the characters did after the movie").
Watch it if you need some usual gung-ho. It does the job. Gibson does the job.
For real story, watch the mini-series, brood away.
Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (1989)
Laughing at hypocrites
No PC brownie points awarded for watching this movie.
Just blunt commentary of political correctness contortionism with which so many try to cover their own faults.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Awful plagiarism of itself. And please, Oscar?! Come on.
This is what you do when royalties from previous franchise movies are not bringing enough money. Costumes and story taken from second Mad Max, plus the kid-gang from third. Naturally, all the currently fashionable political correctness fads and statistics also observed.
Patched up story. Over the top "action" CGIs inserted just because there must have been a set quota for "action per minute" rule.
And then, the final insult to injury were the Oscar nominations!!!???
For a substandard copycat action franchise movie?! Please.
Somebody must have done some good lobbying in Academy ranks.
In short: dimwitted disastrous disgrace
Godzilla (2014)
$160 mil for a movie half of which you cannot see
Regurgitation of all monster, Godzilla and militaristic clichés.
Another wam-bam literally blockbuster, in need of which you may sometimes be, with buckets of popcorns and health harming sugary sodas.
BUT, a big but, is that half, or more, of the movie is just shadows in the dark, poorly made, and you can just guess what is actually going on in the dark.
It is dumbfounding that somebody spent all that money and missed such an obvious fault.
Advice to producers: battles between monsters can happen in daylight, too!!! Please, see under: Transformers. Please, try dusk at least!!!
For viewers in need of cathartic blockbusting popcorn soda experience, try some other movie. Any Godzilla, even the first ones, would do. Any monster movie, actually. As long as you can actually see what is going on