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i'm not an ozzy, dipshit. i refer you to your nearest globe

Yeah, god forbid we should all respect and enjoy each others' companies.

Looks pretty but here's hoping for a lower cut-per-second rate than Moulin Rouge had.

Bryan Brown? A W E S O M E.

Kinda wish Naomi Watts were in this, since she's the best actress in the world and all.

The trailer looks like he's gone quite slow on this one...

Bust.

Changeling Clint Eastwood from Australia to Magic Man, The Boy From Oz.

It will do well, but not as well as America.

Saw this trailer the other day. And all I could think of at the beginning when Nic is telling the story was The Fall.

"Yeah, god forbid we should all respect and enjoy each others' companies."

Why never!

I think readers here already know my stance on the trailer and my thoughts towards the movie so I won't go into it again.

Although, I was quite annoyed the other day when I went onto iTunes to purchase the music used ("St Crispin's Day - The Battle of Agincourt" from Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V) only to discover it was one of those blasted "album only" tracks and that I'd have to spend $20 on the entire thing when all I wanted was one song, normally worth $1.69. And I can't find the song anywhere on P2P. I'm going to have to hunt through the local libraries.

Not that I know anything about Australia, but I didnt understand what that trailer was about. I do however pride myself on knowing a thing or two about movies and the public. I suspect they will feel the same. Selling passion between those two leads is good. Selling passion, amid some kind of vague, possibly war-related tumult -- less good. Stakes, please.

Come on, cob... anyone from Oz'll tell ya it's about a jackeroo near Yarawonga who whoopsies his cozzie at a billabong and ups-the-duff the Sheila played by "Our Nic" while drinking a middy and smoking backie before eating bickies at brekkie.

With Emil Minty as "The Feral Kid."

Speaking of The Fall, it looks like it won't make it's way to Toronto, which pisses me off.

Aris, that's because it's not a trailer, most people just call it that. It's more of a teaser than anything else. It's still six months away so there's plenty of time to get a proper trailer out.

And, umm, isn't the war (they mention WWII at the start because it's partially set during the Japanese bombings of Darwin) sort of "upping the stakes" enough?

Of course the war is enough stakes. All we saw, however, was some Japanese bombers, and I don't know my history.

I guess you're right though, since it's merely a teaser. Still, not the most compelling or creative teaser from a potential Oscar contender.

The big dumb Luhrman font and the final series of close-ups, combined with that rather old sampled score, make it look like some 1985 CBS TV movie that ought to star Kenny Rogers.

But like you say, it's still early, and Jackson is cool.

i love the feral kid. he's a hard-out little dirtbag and a dab hand with the boomerang... (reminds of my son, actually, with the glaring exception that my boy's lips never stop flapping)

I'm not too sure about this one. I admire Baz as a director. His antics are energetic and he pushed them bit by bit for his first three pictures. Clearly he wants and needs to go in a different creative direction. But I fear that in the change, we will see more of his difficiencies. Cliches for one. I know it is only the trailer but it stikes me as "an epic" with all the "elements" required to make it epic. Another thing that REALLY concerns me is the Nicole Kidman's face. Botoxed beyond belief there is narey a blemish on it anymore. There are no signs it has been lived in... and therefore it has no emotion.

Well, he finished his "Red Curtain Trilogy", hence the chance of pace from Ballroom/R+J/Moulin.

Lex, what's odd about the choice of music? It's from Branaugh's version of Henry V and The Good The Bad and the Ugly. They seem quite inspired choices, and not the same ol - oh, i dunno - John Williams?

And, really, the font? Umm okay.

And, people, his name has two Ns.

This looks like it's based on something that Bryce Courtenay should have written, but with more forced "epicness".

And, I'm new here, but when you go correcting other people's spelling you should be careful your own is accurate...there's no "U" in Branagh.

Where there's blood, there be wolves!

I dunno. I kinda dig the vibe of the trailer.

If you were going to make a big-budget romance, and you wanted to create at least a little interest in the US, could you possibly do worse than to cast Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman as your leads? I'm trying to think of a realistic couple more off-putting than this one, and I'm coming up short. Tea Leoni and Bill Pullman? Rene Russo and Jeff Daniels? Whoopi Goldberg and Nathan Lane?

I remain hopeful...but I've always thought Luhrman was over-rate by critics.

I think this movie is perfectly marketed for it'd key demo: WOMEN.

Romance, horses, hot men on horses, pretty backgrounds. Ca Ching.

I fail to see how Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are not known enough in the US or big enough names for a big-budget movie. I would actually say the reverse is true, that Baz could have done not much better with his choices of leads (in terms of bigger names).

And there is no need to list the "big-budget" movies that both have been in to disprove the above absurd statement.

I think it's more an issue of starpower - The Prestige opened to a respectable-but-not-amazing $14.8 million and The Fountain, significantly less, while Kidman's brand has been tarnished lately by her string of duds.

Yeah, what jeffmcm said. There's a difference between being well-known and being well-liked. Kidman's ability to keep Americans away from the movie theater in recent years is uncanny. And Jackman...well, who can forget "Viva Laughlin"?

who can forget "Viva Laughlin"?

I suspect just about everyone on the planet.

Good stuff.

Isn't this a musical too? didn't I read that somewhere?

Do it with Tea Leoni and Nathan Lane and I'll break my rule and be there opening day.

Exigence, :) Touche!

And I imagine almost everyone has forgotten Viva Laughlin. I imagine everyone wants to forget it with every fibre of their being.

Jeff, again, I'm pretty sure everyone is a bit worried about it's potential box office in America, but internationally it should do quite well. The Golden Compass was far from a flop around the world.

Hopscotch, no. Unless you consider brass bands playing at parties to be musical sequences.

God, I'm sounding more and more like a LexG/IO in relation to this film every day! I apologise. I'm sure there'll come a point when I can't defend something about it.

I'm not the fucking devil. So stop apologizing. It does look like a good movie. Here's to Baz finally getting some OSCAR LEVEL dap.

since the thread is dead:
io --- i disagree with the first part of your statement (but'cha ARE, blanche, ya ARE the 'fucking devil')......but, i'm with you on the last part.......

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