is it a movie about australia?

god help us. nicole kidman & hugh jackman boring the tits off everyone

the most disgusting concept for a film i can think of

is there sugar cane fields or is it sheep stations? or both?

I hope it bombs.

it's a fast tracked to BLU RAY type movie.

Everytime I catch a Qantas flight I feel like I'm a promotional partner in the film.

I'm looking forward to Janet Albrechtsen, Andrew Bolt and Gerard Henderson's reviews of the film.

I've never hated a film I've never seen so much in my life.

It looks like a boring, long-winded, wanky, titanic piece of self-indulgent tripe, a 2 hour ad for an Australia that doesn't, and never has, existed.

And Nicole Kidman? For fuck's sake.

is it about a farmer? does she wear a summer floral dress and boots?

I bet there's a massive lightning storm..wow CGI lightining will look great on blu ray.

i think it'll be good. Baz is a great Australian artist.

With her recent botox experimentation Kidman seems capable of only making the one expression.

what happened to all her freckles?

yes i am giving Baz the benefit of the doubt for now

he's crazy ambitious, so points for trying i say

plus i don't think you can make a film on that scale in this country without a ridiculously huge and irritating marketing campaign to match - just cos of the way success is now measured on the audience numbers for the first screening or whatever stupidity.

How's he gonna get the gayness into this?

I saw Baz in the street yesterday evening.

I hope he uses colour better than those stills..very dreary and drab.

'' How's he gonna get the gayness into this?''

Perhaps a shearers' nude scene a la ''Sunday Too far Away'' Wobbling bum cheeks ahoy, boys!

That aside, this film is going to super-stink.

Looks like Wolverine's getting friendly with the manscara, too.

''(it's) a 2 hour ad for an Australia that doesn't, and never has, existed....''

i'm sure it did exist once.

the film after all is set on a cattle station (they still exist!) during the period in australia's history when darwin was bombed.

i'm kind of looking forward to seeing it just out of curiosity - but why nicole kidman baz?! she's so boring these days!

That doesn't look that bad.

i'll see it

im interested to see what he does with it, always liked the book

you can see all the ''made for 3d'' bits, even in the trailer.

I still don't get why he chose to do 3D but it really doesn't look so bad. Then again I don't recall the trailer for Australia, maybe that led one to believe it would be okay too.

Gatsby needs its own thread.

Don't post about it in this dog of movie thread.

Looks like a return to form for ole' Baz!

Good to hear Bono absolutely ruining one his band's last decent songs.

Less is more, cockstick.

...that's Jack White covering 'Love Is Blindness'

It's a great version.

Ha! I stand corrected. Sounded just like late-era Bono cocking it up a notch.

I really don't mind Jack's take on the song... full version on youtube if you're interested.

...you're right about it being one of U2's last great songs though!

Looks like a return to form for ole' Baz!

He has form? When?

Tense mixup.

''He *HAD form? When?''

NEVER. HE NEVER HAD FORM. I HOPE THIS FILM SUCKS.

but i will take back everything bad i said about baz if it doesn't.

He HAD form? When?

Strictly Ballroom was a great little film. Romeo+Juliet however is Baz ''on form'' - that movie rocked on several levels.

Moulin Rouge and Australia sucked huge hairy dogs balls.

Gatsby looks like Romeo+Juliet but set in 1920's New York.

strictly ballroom has dated hard. romeo & juliet was style over substance and claire danes looking through a fish tank.

romeo & juliet was style over substance and claire danes looking through a fish tank.

LOL

i liked Moulin Rouge - does that make me gay?

september said 4 minutes ago:
strictly ballroom has dated hard

surely not as bad as Romeo & Juliet has....

I am looking forward to this. I was initially worried when I heard 'Baz Luhrmann', even more worried when I heard '3D', but that trailer looks ok.

i think i got a bit over an hour into australia after going in no great expectations of it being great or shit and then decided that that was enough.

it wasn't bad, just bland.

the great gatsby, however, cannot be fucked up surely. great story, great characters, killer dialogue, carey mulligan...how can it go wrong?

i don't think baz can fuck up great gatsby as much as david fincher fucked up fitzgerald's the curious case of benjamin button.