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Wolf Creek (2005)
Summary of all the bad posts
After watching this movie I decided that I had to go home and write to IMDb to warn and complain about all the illogicalities.
Well, to prove how bad this movie is, it seems that just about everyone noticed the same things, from the sun rising in the wrong direction for W.A. (not such a big deal), to the ridiculous viewing of the home movies. I think that is the scene that ruins it for all but the apologists. The comment that it allows the introduction of the concept that young children had also been murdered is good... trouble is it STILL is so illogical and doesn't make sense.
Anyhow, there were several more illogicalities mentioned by many posters but there are yet two more not mentioned by others.
Ben's a city boy and yet he feels confident enough to tell a truckie in the middle of the outback to **** off... ??!! even after the truckie was already quite threatening. Yes, this could be shrugged off BUT what about the ending?? Ben is found with all sorts of injuries, and the wounds from having had nails put through his hands... and yet with that sort of injury he was locked up for four months while there was an investigation? Now that's ridiculous. How did the police decide he got those injuries if it wasn't through someone else unknown, still in the bush? As for the police not being able to find the hide-out, Ben escaped on foot, how far could he possibly have walked with no water? Surely if the police started from where he had been found it wouldn't take too much effort to find the hide-out? It was exactly tiny.
Apart from that, I thought the use of close-ups in the beginning was a bit clichéd. i.e. use a close up so that you can suddenly have someone jump out without being seen, to scare the audience.
F Troop (1965)
The best comedy ever to come out of America
Without a doubt the funniest thing to come out of America. It also sums up the time when it was made and I can't see anything similar ever being made again.
As children we watched it but now as I watch it again and again I realize that I never got the jokes the first few times through anyway.
e.g. Agarn needs to see the medicine man at the Indian camp to find out whether he's a kleptomaniac so the medicine man gives him some deer skins to look at that have berry blots on them (i.e. a Rorschach test) and asks him what he sees. In explanation the medicine man say that this test was invented by a great Indian medicine man called Roaring Chicken. For short they call it the RoarChick Test!! Now that is clever AND funny.
Many other similarly clever jokes. Great scenes of pathos with lots of sentimentality before the days of the studio audience which nowadays bursts into sickening applause over that sort of thing. Catch it if you've never seen it... or watch it again if you have. It's still funny.
Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1982)
Glimpse of life in Ukraine.
The film is set in western Ukraine. It's one of a relatively small number of films that were made in Ukrainian. The plot is basically about a Ukrainian émigré that comes back to his village in Ukraine after many years away. There are some interesting scenes of some strange new year festival.
As is usual for most soviet films of this era - well the Ukrainian ones at least - the plot jumps all over the place. Besides the return of the rich patriarch, there's also a sub-plot centering around the local beauty that all the young men in the village are after. Considered a great film in Ukraine... not sure anyone else will think so. The film is actually in Ukrainian, NOT Russian as indicated in the notes on IMDb.