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Fellas, time for another episode.

c'mon c'mon c'mon.

Sarah Michelle-Geller is not needing projects....
More on that later - but - it amused me no end to hear you guys rail for 500,000 on Australia, which was start contrast to the aap 500 word limit. I would love to see a Stolen Generation Happy Meal - wonder what the toy would be,
But back to SMG:
Apart from having fun doing voices for Robot Chicken, she has been doing a fair share of movies. Face it really, she never needs to work again (thanks syndication) she what she does choose to do she does for herself. I can't remember the name, but I recently saw a pseudo-Altman flick where she played a "lead" about futuristic LA - which was actually good. A quick search on line showed a large list of work coming our way soon - Veronika Decides to Die doesn't look half bad.
Cheers
T

Some time recently you were discussing whether you needed to see movies you didn't want to watch. Why the F would you want to do that? If I wanted to listen to Margaret & David, I'd be requesting Pete put on that skirt...

Do what you love. (We) punters will tell you if you're getting too self indulgent.

From time-to-time there's something interesting in the mainstream. If you don't like Indy 4, just say so. You don't think we're going to take YOUR word for it, do you? We'll make up our own minds, but we'd still like to hear what you think.

This 'Transformers' Star Trek will surely reach a new generation of 11 year olds (barf). There was nothing wrong with Star Trek - each series was getting better than the last, until they tried to make a prequel (What's twice as bad as a sequel? ...)

Lost their balls, played 'safe' with Enterprise and sunk the franchise. Jump another hundred or a thousand years into the future, wimps. If Gene were alive to day - he'd be kicking heads, rooting starlets in his wheelchair and telling his producers to use their fracking imagination and jump forward a few centuries.

Thanks for a great podcast. And be yourselves.

Really good show except for the half hour in the middle where you went round and round and fucking round on Australia and then couldn't stop and came back after the break and kept going on it! For such an alleged shit film you sure spent a long time trying to define the exact essence of the shit. Having said that, I prefer you get the shows out un-edited: "a show on the pod is worth two in the cloud". BTW, your show is the only movie and tv related podcast I listen to so don't worry about just blatantly repeating what all the other blogs and podcasts are saying.

Loved the show as always. Just listened to the Cool Shite review and they also pretty much summed up film same way you guys did.

I think Justin wanted to see Arnie Late Show skit, I am sure it's on the DVD's I have so I could probably extract it if you really wanna see it. He is a genius :P

Can I hold the cattle prod behind Dave next week? The dramatic pauses this week had me reaching fir by iPhone on more than one occasion to see how I'd paused it.

I wonder if the reason Dave makes sense, offers suchreasoned arguments and pauses to measure his language is perhaps due to a lack of alcohol. Have you guys stopped drinking during the shows? Get Dave on the piss. Yeah, nah, you know.

Loved it as usual

Fanboi #2 (I think #1 goes to Griff)

Patrick, your Stockholm Syndrome comment is the greatest thing I've ever read. Brilliant sir.. *clap clap clap*

Hey guys,
It's funny, I agreed with many of your points about 'Australia' and also thought it was a pretty shoddy film and yet, I must say that I enjoyed it overall.
Despite the many plot holes, the pretentious title, the messy mash of 'Australian mythology', the appalling dialogue and the general 'Baz-ness' of it, I found there was enough charm there to make it pretty entertaining.
Here's what I thought were some of the positives:
1. Brandon Walters, the kid who played Nullah. Definitely the star of the show here. Very charismatic, great acting, very watchable.
2. David Wenham, a great villain. At once evil and yet geez he can be funny. If you haven't seen 'Gettin' Square' yet, rent it as part of your 7 weeklies, just for Wenham's performance.
3. Maybe it's just me, but it was really cool to see some great Australian actors together in the one film - Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Ben Mendelsohn, David Gulpilil... the list goes on forever.
That's probably about it.
For me, this film was a bit like experiencing Stockholm Syndrome. At first you kind of hate it, but once you give in to it and try and forgive it for it's (extensive) flaws and just go along for the ride, it was a pretty enjoyable flick, though it's nowhere near the epic, nation-defining film that the Australian government were hoping for.
It also felt like this film was possibly once 4 hrs long but then 1 hr was cut indiscriminately, making it disjointed and illogical at times (e.g. the bulls appearing out of nowhere at the start of the film). I sense a director's cut in the works for the DVD.

A bit harsh on the Australia review, I think. To call the film out on all the stereotypes is kinda of weird, especially when you played up to them yourselves during the podcast. Haha. Who's to say the film wasn't taking the piss out of all those stereotypes too? After all, that's kind of part of Australian culture. Just look at The Castle (which is apparently now Australia's favourite film? According to the AFI anyway).

The title doesn't concern me too much, cause it's not supposed to be representation of the country itself, just like how Casablanca isn't a film about the city of Casablanca.

Anyway, despite the horrible dialogue and predicable story line, I did actually find it quite entertaining for the most part. Jackman and Kidman did nothing for me. Though I do agree with Pete on Kidman's comic timing at the start. Both characters could probably have been played by anyone else really, there wasn't much too them. But overall it wasn't too bad. A pretty typical Baz Luhrmann film. I don't know why people expect anything different.

Also, I've never even seen anything Star Trek related before, but JJ's film sounds awesome. Can't wait to see it. Love Alias and Lost...

Best. Wobbleboard. Ever.