Thursday 13 October 2011

dogs that are red, acting that is over

yep, dragged myself, the smallest fry and 1 x smallest fry friend to the bonza flick this past sunday arvo. place was chock full of elderfolk, and the two sprogs with me were two of perhaps five kids in the entire theatre. odd. anyway, thoughts: lovely dog. great soundtrack. the rest was an embarassment of riches, in the 'perfect diction with a funny ocker accent' department. the cast was utterly unconvincing as redneck oilfields blokes, and the clangers were thick in the dirt. at one point I believe character even mentioned broccoli. because of course every desert dwelling uneducated mine worker circa 1974 knew all about broccoli. laughably bad flick, but a good yarn and a coupla tearsies at the end for moi and the sprogs - dog lovers all. sniff sniff. did I mention how much I liked the dog?
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  1. cathmarywayfairy14 October 2011 at 07:31

    Circa 1974, did ANYONE in Australia know about broccoli?
    Now, if it had been brussell sprouts, we would have been in business.
    Feature of any Sunday lunch at Nana or Grandma's house were those boiled little vegetable travesties. All the mint sauce in the world could not redeem them.

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  2. cathmarywayfairy14 October 2011 at 07:34

    ...or butter and salt. That didnt help either.
    And I meant to say, at least you got Red Dog.
    Kid A selected the Smurf Movie these holidays. Sigh.

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  3. Anonymous14 October 2011 at 12:01

    ha! I've just been hit up with a request for smurfing, since you mention it. woe is maters at smurf time :(

    meanwhile, I LOVE brussels sprouts steamed, then pan fried in butter, garlic and seasalt. try it, you might be converted :D

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  4. Anonymous14 October 2011 at 12:56

    Have we had the regulatory Smurf conversation post yet?

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  5. DaisyChain14 October 2011 at 20:30

    Even more unlikely than the broccoli was the eponymous doggie finding his way back from Japan!

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  6. cathmarywayfairy15 October 2011 at 06:32

    @ darthy: dunno, to try them like that would entail buying or growing them and thats not likely to happen anytime soon- husby is similarly scarred and if i brought a bag of Brussels Sprouts home he might cry.

    @ Smokey: what is there to say about Smurfs? is it the movie, or Smurfs in general? Do you have a conspiricay theory?

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  7. pdjones15 October 2011 at 18:10

    Broccoli was barely on the horizon that year. I thought the move was saved by good character acting. The actual form was terribly flawed with all those flash backs. Actually the whole movie was a flash back until red dog died on the grave.

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  8. cathmarywayfairy16 October 2011 at 08:51

    Hmmm. Jonesy seems to be suggesting it's a doggy Cloudstreet....

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  9. Anonymous19 October 2011 at 19:32

    jonesy, didn't you thunk the character acting was a little overdone? bonza style? australians do ocker SO badly, I find. the only acting I could tolerate was from the yank, which is deeply troubling in a number of ways .. but lets not get into that now ... where were we? brussels sprouts, that's right.

    as I said, butter, garlic and salt :D

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