What movie/s are you watching?

[Mervi]

On topic, I could watch all of the Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings movies again and again and again (and have!) BUT, I simply can't go past The Man from Snowy River as 'favourite'. You would all watch it and go "Wha...?!" but the poem, the man, the musical score, the life and the landscape, well, it's a purely sentimental, Australian thing!!

The movie? Haven't seen it, but I absolutely love the tv series, even the stupid 3rd and 4th seasons with the soapy plots and the wrong Danni (and zero Kathleen, don't let me get started on that!)

[Farseer]

The movie? Haven't seen it, but I absolutely love the tv series, even the stupid 3rd and 4th seasons with the soapy plots and the wrong Danni (and zero Kathleen, don't let me get started on that!)

Poem? Yes. Song? Yes. Movie? Yes. Musical? Yes. Book? Yes. Hotel? Yes. Festival? Yes! Hmm...I am rather embarrassed to admit it but I didn't even KNOW there was a TV series based on The Man from Snowy River (I just had to Google it to learn more!). Here's a sneak peek of the movie, a scene that has become known as "The Descent"...gives me the shivers every time I see it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBXLYJwgt4

[Farseer]

I also have to admit that Hugo Weaving is one of my least favourite actors, right next to Guy Pearce...which is really sad, seeing as they're both Aussies!

A forgotten (though vital!) addition to this 'least favourite actor' list of mine is, I'm sad to report, yet another compatriot...HUGH JACKMAN...ugh! I know probably the rest of the world loved him in 'Australia' but I thought he was very badly cast as "the drover"...not my image or experience of an Aussie country male at all!! Wolverine, yes. Drover, no. What say you?!

(then again I am constantly wrong about how Australian humour will be understood by those who aren't Australian!)

I agree, Nuytsia! I laugh myself silly when watching an Aussie classic like 'The Castle' or 'Crocodile Dundee' but, at the same time, wonder how the rest of the world can possibly appreciate the gags. Still, I am often glad to discover that they do!

[Mervi]

Hmm...I am rather embarrassed to admit it but I didn't even KNOW there was a TV series based on The Man from Snowy River (I just had to Google it to learn more!).

My mind. Consider it blown.

The tv series was shown here in the 90's when I was just a kid and I lovedlovedloved it. Then they re-aired it this year and it was every bit as good as I remembered.

Here's a trailer of the series I found - it's dubbed in Italian so it's a bit but you get a good idea of the characters and the cinematography. Most of the rest of the clips in youtube are about Brett Climo's character alone.

[Farseer]

Ah, mystery solved...firstly, I was busy having babies in 1993 and 1994 when the TV series was released and, secondly, it also aired on the Channel Nine network which is not available here in Queensland areas away from the coast. We have Imparja television, which is a combined Channel Nine/Channel Ten network servicing remote eastern and central Australia and is administered by Indigenous Australians.

Thanks for the link, Mervi - overlooking the fact that Guy Pearce and Hugh Jackman are in it (!!), it looks great, and I'm on track to receive the first season boxed set - nice!

[Mervi]

*Is ignorning the part about Guy Pearce because he was my first celebrity crush But agreeing with you on Hugh Jackman - who luckily only appears in 5 episodes in the last season that sucks anyway. *

[Nuytsia]

*Is ignorning the part about Guy Pearce because he was my first celebrity crush

Mervi, you like Flight of the Conchords AND Guy Pearce??? (quite possibly not in the same way though)
Great minds think alike!!! *high five*

I vaguely knew there was a Man from Snowy River TV series, but until I watched the clip you linked to I had forgotten what it was like. I am pretty sure I watched it now that I see it. Hah I loved it with Italian dubbing !! Hilariously wrong. Especially when the woman says something before she punches a guy in the face and then children laugh (both sounded way too girly in Italian!)

Farseer I thought people would watch MORE TV when they'd had a baby.
How many channels do you get total? Tasmania AS A WHOLE doesn't get Channel 10 !!!! What the??? But (at least since I've lived here) we get it from Melbourne IF you have a digital receiver (so we bought a cheap set top box).
When I lived in Albany I think we got one channel 'Win' which was I THINK like your one, plus of course ABC (and SBS? can't remember). We may have got one other channel..... hmmm this story is going nowhere.......zzzzzzzzz

[Farseer]

Farseer I thought people would watch MORE TV when they'd had a baby.

Not me! Ahem...maybe I was doing something wrong (though both my boys were pretty high maintenance early on, due to a few medical dramas)?! I went for YEARS without really watching TV, listening to the radio or reading a book...I even missed Allan Border's last season of international cricket AND Queensland's first ever Sheffield Shield win and that's saying something (way off topic...you are a bad influence on me ...but I was an absolute cricket nut and therefore that's the best measure I have for my total lack of media immersion in those years!!).

How many channels do you get total?

Growing up, I only had the one and, being out of town, that was usually fuzzy (ABC, which was all I needed for the cricket and footy anyway!). It wasn't until I reached my last year of high school that we finally received commercial television (the first show I saw was a re-run of 'Happy Days' and it was awesome to see the Fonz without having to be on holidays in Brisbane!).

Nowadays we get ABC, SBS, Impara and Seven Central (though, as we are out of town and have satellite television, we do also receive inter-state versions of ABC and SBS eg we can watch a show on Qld ABC but, if we miss a part of it, we just have to wait a few hours and can then view it again on Western Australian ABC !). In saying that, we can't watch a thing when it rains (which is very annoying seeing as how cricket season coincides with our wet season!!).

Everywhere on the coast/down in the south-east corner etc receives ABC, SBS, Channel Nine/Win (I thought they were the same?!), Channel Seven and Channel Ten (as well as all the rest of the free-to-air digital channels you can now get with a new HD TV set - ABC2, ABC3, GO! etc).

Sorry all...it's Nuytsia's fault !!!

[Nuytsia]

Sorry I thought I was in the 'weird TV facts' thread heheh!!
I'm going to make comments there now ....... or else I'll get in trouble......

[Farseer]

We all know that I'm only aware of it because I'm so terribly guilty of it (and trying to change my ways lest I be taken to Lady Patience's chamber!).

Speaking of movies, what did you all think of 'Avatar'? I thought the Na'vi were modeled far too much on the Native American people (speech and dialogue, use of bows, relationships with horses and nature, war-paint, war-cries etc) and I just couldn't get past that aspect, no matter how wonderful the effects and cutting-edge cinematography etc.

For me it was like a really bad modern remake of an old western with the cowboys just having been replaced by the military...even if I could have swallowed the rest of what was offered , the line, "We'll fight terror with terror" did it for me...fair dinkum!

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ps I should mention here that I was glad to see * Avatar spoiler *

Spoiler

that the 'natives' won, for a change...of course, that ending alone pointed out how nicely the script fit into the fantasy genre!