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We had gotten dressed up and drove down in the rain that had been coming down all afternoon.
The evening was also the opening of a new arthouse multiplex set on what is basically a huge roundabout of a one way system taking traffic out of the city.
The screening was due to start at 7.00 with drinks at 6.30.
A kilometre from the cinema traffic stopped.
It took 25 minutes to get to the junction where the entry to this new complex (cinema/retail/restaurants) was right on a traffic light.
We got into the complex at 6.50.
A great mass of people was outside in the rain. No one was going in.
The bright young glittery things all bleached blond and dark eyed, their short black sequinned dresses reflecting more light than those eyes would ever manage. The children of the Paris/Lyndsey culture were beginning to look cold and bedraggled clutching their small bags to themselves.
The security unshaven in their tuxedos stood hands crossed across their stomachs.
They had sold all 6 screens for the same time and weren't ready.
Men with light sticks were trying to steer cars down into the bowels of the carparks.
More cars were continually arriving. The police looked like they would rather be at home.
We drove down 4 levels, spotted an exit sign and drove out into the damp night.
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I havent seen so much sexual electricity between a couple since Clark Gable met Vivian Leigh
Nichole Kidman was born to play that part..Hugh Jackman was great too.
I enjoyed the Movie..an Epic...maybe not perfect but at least among the best I've seen all year.
Wife, son and I went and saw it at the local movie theater Friday after Thanksgiving.
The good . . . beautiful Australian scenery, and the aborigines, esp. the grandfather, Jackman's right hand man, and the kid. Some of the horrors of the bombing of Darwin were well portrayed.
The bad . . . I'm sorry, but independently, all three of us expressed our disappointment in this movie. A mess of a movie. Worn out stereotypes of British city slicker woman and outback roughneck . . . these characters were cardboard cutouts. Digitized special effects of scenery were cheesy, detracting from this movie being taken seriously as a period piece, etc.
In a sense, this movie paralleled the disappointing Pearl Harbor, where the love story ruined what could have been the definitive movie on that chapter of history.
I still think it is worth seeing on the large screen, especially since movies from Australia are few and far between (I did enjoy Rabbit Proof Fence, Walkabout, and The Tracker . . . glad to see David Gulpilil back at work in cinema). Sorry to be so negative . . .
... someone said "It must have been hell to be in it"' without pausing I said "The attack or the film?".
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...on November 22 at the Aero Theatre, but it was sold out so I missed it. Guess I'll have to wait...
That was actually in Bowen on the same day as the Sydney premiere.
Just keeping the facts straight :-)
David Aiken
And it certainly wasn't the premiere for us!
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