This movie gives Australian's a bad name.. - The Hunter (2011) Discussion

[–] Jimbo_BSD 12 years ago

Not really. It's a story about a particular type of people in a particular place. It's not about Australians. Have you seen Winter's Bone? Every character in that film is a mess. Everyone is poor, uneducated, mostly out of work, violent, etc. You could make the same argument that film gives America a bad name. But it's not about America or Americans, it's about the characters in that story.

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[–] rkw2705 12 years ago

Good point Jimbo..
I only saw Winters Bone a fortnight ago and it really resonated with me..

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[–] Jimbo_BSD 12 years ago

Cheers. Both are good films, but I think I probably liked Winters Bone more.

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[–] pandyam 12 years ago

Or for that matter "Wake up in Freight" .. it does not mean it gives Aus a bad name... I dont think so

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[–] npanou 11 years ago

"Wake in Fright", and most Aussies are good people in that movie- they are just alcoholics. The protagonist simply wasn't built for that world.

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[–] LTUM 10 years ago

by pandyam
Or for that matter "Wake up in Freight" .. it does not mean it gives Aus a bad name... I dont think so

by npanou
"Wake in Fright", and most Aussies are good people in that movie- they are just alcoholics. The protagonist simply wasn't built for that world.

lmao i just spent ten minutes googling 'wake up in freight' lmao

...i was picturing a guy who inadvertently passed out drunk in a FEDEX truck or something and woke up en route, lol

(actually it sounds like a pretty good plot. somebody call simon peg!)

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[–] SloppyJ30 10 years ago

Winter's Bone, while a good film, is also just another chapter in the venerable subgenre of Hillbilly Horror. I've also seen kissing cousins "Out of the Furnace" and "Homefront" in the past two months. Pretty much every drama set in a the rural USA makes rednecks seem like, at best, simpleminded inbred clowns, and at worst, murderous psychos. They all eat 'possum, tote around shotguns, live in shacks in swamps or on rivers, never bathe, have less than half of their original adult teeth, and everyone has a sibling or cousin who cooks meth. I wonder how these movies play in West Virginia?

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[–] Captain_Wesker 8 years ago

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[–] timlin-4 12 years ago

Nonsense, I'm organizing a tour to Australia for people who want to learn how to deploy the Vulcan nerve pinch. It's sold out. Still some slots open for the adventure tour where we'll bathe with little children.

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[–] TxMike 12 years ago

No, I believe Australians had a bad name long before this movie came out.

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[–] Sugarminx 12 years ago

*snort*

LOL

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[–] driver84 12 years ago

Yeah, Crocodile Dundee and its sequels ruined Autralia forever.

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[–] advertise78 12 years ago

rkw2705,

I wouldn't worry about it. Americans, at least, have seen enough movies that make us look bad, that I doubt many of us develop our opinions on other countries from movies. I'm sure citizens elsewhere are savvy enough to ignore the movie BS as well.

From my experience, American opinions on Australians are fairly positive anyways.

Cheers,

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[–] driver84 12 years ago

I'm not serious about my previous post, I'd live in Oz in a heartbeat.

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[–] toocool00_au 12 years ago

As most Australian's will tell you, we do not consider Tasmania apart of Australia. Honest!

Europe has gypsies, america has hillbillys we have tasmanians.

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[–] zeehaen 12 years ago

Tasmanians are wonderful, intelligent people, and actually Tasmania is one of the oldest states in the nation. It is very much a part of Australia. Tasmanians have held strong semblance within Australia's history, and contributed to many nation-shifting endeavours, such as the founding of Melbourne in 1835 by settlers from Launceston.

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[–] MrBlondee 12 years ago

The Tasmanians therefore have their good right to define themselves as "Tassies" and call all mainlanders "Aussies".

Yeah that's right. Tassies don't see themselves as Aussies. Tasmania is also, very different in it's own, it's like a little continent, just gorgeous.

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[–] doomedmarine 12 years ago

As someone who lived there for 20 years and all around Australia for the rest of their years, I can tell no one here on this forum has actually been to or lived in Tasmania from the comments.
Things like Aussies, and Tassies? Really? Get your head out of your arse, They call the rest of Australia "the mainland" and other Australians "mainlanders" but they still consider themselves and refer to themselves as Australians or Tasmanian when referring to their locality, the state gets abbreviated to "Tassie" in reference, no one there calls themselves or says "Tassies" if Anything it's Tasweigans (tas wee gens) like people from Western Australians are Sandgropers.......

IMDB cracks me the *beep* up these days with some of the crap I see posted on here by people who are totally clueless. I remember when it was a film discussion site and not facebook......

If you can suspend your belief and expectations, you'll enjoy more films than you do now.

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[–] MrBlondee 12 years ago

I've lived in Tasmania for 2 years and everything I stated was based on what I heard around me living in Longford and Launceston. You might live in Hobart and have a more cosmopolitan idea if Tasmania.

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[–] kamma-mason 11 years ago

You're full of *beep* no one has ever called themselves a Tassie...

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[–] doomedmarine 11 years ago

@MrBlondee lol I lived in both Launceston and Longford for that 20 years, parents still live in Longford. Not once in that time have I heard anyone use that term "Tassies". I think you're full of *beep*
The few times I travelled to Hobart nobody used it there either.

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[–] Amygdalahaha 12 years ago

Some of us do. I , however, do not. It's the 'north island' and nothing more to me. Of course, my head's probably in my arse as I've only lived here all my life consisting of 38 years. You'd know better. You'd know we don't call ourselves "Tassies" (we do), or "Taswegians" (we do) because of your extensive experience of all things AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSIE OI OI OI. Oh, we never say "Aussie" either, right?

I apologise. I'm so culturally inept when it comes to my own state.

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[–] doomedmarine 11 years ago

I'm so culturally inept when it comes to my own state.

The first step to recovery is admitting it lol.

or "Taswegians" (we do)

If you bothered to actually read I didn't say "Tasweigans" wasn't used and actually stated it was.

the 'north island'

Really another fictional term, now the North is a separate island to boot?
You just get funnier and funnier. You weren't raised in Cornwall or Ross Arden at all were you? That would explain a lot if you were. lmao

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[–] BigScreenDom 12 years ago

let it go and stop obsessing

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[–] thedude716 12 years ago

The real reason why I wouldn't visit Australia is more likely the number of spiders that inhibit your country.

Otherwise, a few weird blokes wouldn't bother me.

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[–] subotica500 12 years ago

To be fair the last film I saw set in Australia was Wolf Creek. At least the natives were slightly friendlier in this picture.

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[–] doomedmarine 11 years ago

I find it hilarious how our deadly animals are small and most, like Spiders are easily squished are always pointed out by those who live in countries with Bears, Mountain Lions, Brown Recluse Spiders, Rattle Snakes etc etc etc.

I'd feel safer walking through any Aussie forest than an American one any day.

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[–] kelvin_wks 11 years ago

Because spiders always around you and they are too small to notice often~ so you dont have to go jungle to get them?

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[–] mmack66 12 years ago

Gives Australian's what a bad name?

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[–] razorblade-dude 12 years ago

All these REAL photos of proud Australians with a dead tasmanian tiger hanging from their hand should be much more of a concern for you! Shame on you, how your people slaughtered this beautiful animal to extinction and for what?

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[–] doomedmarine 11 years ago

really? you serious?

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[–] miruleyall 11 years ago

op confirmed for a fackin poofta get off me lawn mate ya drongo

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[–] billycan 11 years ago

We'd have cleared the country of crocodiles too, except there is always the chance of one taking a Yank tourist, thereby earning their keep.

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