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		<title>Phil says AUSTRALIA is epically boring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epic in scope but pitifully small-minded, Baz Luhrmann's AUSTRALIA wants to cast the same romantic spell over viewers that films like GONE WITH THE WIND or TITANIC have in the past, but the film it most readily recalls is Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOUR. Like Bay, Luhrmann is a director who obsesses over stunning images but who has no idea how to assemble those images in a way that's coherent or satisfying. He simply hurls everything he's got at the screen with a feverish intensity, swamping his film with glossy visuals, but his pictures have no depth beyond what we see on the screen. They are exhaustingly shallow, particularly when Luhrmann takes over two and a half hours to tell his story, as he does with this ridiculously overcooked national epic.


AUSTRALIA'S biggest failing is the way Luhrmann squeezes in enough content for three or four films while barely managing to generate enough drama for one. At its core, the film is a very old-fashioned love story, with two people from different classes and opposite sides of the globe falling for each other, as seismic historical events gradually creep up behind them. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is the prim, uptight Englishwoman ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike thought the 2 hour 45 minute AUSTRALIA was boring too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been mixed opinions surrounding this film. A huge, lengthy, effects-laden and cliche-riddled extravaganza that is sumptuous to look at as it is pointless to think about. Baz Luhrmann's film is a ridiculous amalgamation of several (very unoriginal) plots and genres that tangle incoherently in this sweeping 'epic'. Perhaps the most telling signs that it isn't going to be the most cohesive film are the tags attached to it by imdb. Whilst not something I'd like to rely on to judge films generally, when the genre tags say 'Adventure &#124; Drama &#124; War &#124; Western' you know all is not well.

Starting out as a drama about an English noblewoman who sets out to Australia to organise her husband's business affairs only to find him dead, the film evolves into a strange outback comedy, before becoming a love story, and then ending up as a war epic.



It seems like a lot of the budget was spent on scenery. The grand canvases of the raw outback and the fiery destruction of the Japanese warplanes were all completed with intricate detail. However, they completely undermined their own goals by being so obviously computer-generated that they looked like those crappy desktop backgrounds from ...]]></description>
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		<title>20th Century Fox force Luhrmann to change AUSTRALIA ending?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian report that 20th Century Fox have forced Baz Lurhmann to change the ending to his soon to be released $120 million epic AUSTRALIA after "intense discussions" resulted in a more commercial friendly ending being shot.

It would seem audiences at test screenings weren't happy with the ending Luhrmann originally intended.



I won't spoil details about it for you but if you visit the news source at the above link, you can find out for yourself what the issue was.

Rope of Silicon spoke "at length" with a rep for Fox yesterday who it's suggested that indeed the ending was changed but it was Luhrmann who instigated it.
Baz Luhrmann is a "final cut" director and the studio has always been supportive of his choices.
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman star in the movie which has used CASABLANCA style imagery to promote this as being a love story on epic proportions. New poster from ROS...



The movie opens Nov. 26th in the U.S. and Dec. 26th in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA becomes a Thanksgiving release</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann's first film since 2002's Moulin Rouge will now open on Thanksgiving Weekend.

The WW-II love drama Australia will now bow on November 26th, one week after it's original November 14th date. It is the latest switch around for late 2008 which was caused by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moving very late in the game to next Summer.


The reason for the move is obvious. The 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace which has huge momentum as the first "true sequel" in the franchise was recently moved to that date in the U.S. to fill the void left by Potter.

Variety also suggest that Luhrmann's movie is still not yet complete and he is still shooting for pickup scenes with the leading actors down under and a good deal of editing still has to be done. This extra week gives him slightly more time.

Australia will now open directly against Transporter 3, The Road, Four Christmases and Milk. ]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #78 &#8211; MOULIN ROUGE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001 Australian director Baz Luhrmann brought the musical back to the big screen with spectacular sparkle by unleashing the magnificent Moulin Rouge! on unsuspecting cinema audiences. Embedding a heartstring-tugging story with stunning visual style and song-and-dance numbers, Baz’s biggest hit so far is a bravura blast of experimental filmmaking that presents turn-of-the-century Paris through a postmodern pop-tinged filter.


The scene where Ewan McGregor’s penniless writer Christian captivates Nicole Kidman’s kinky courtesan Satine is one such sequence that creatively brings together Luhrmann’s offbeat ideas. Taking the two protagonists and placing them on the top of the elephant tower in the grounds of the infamous Montmartre nightclub, Satine and Christian embark on their passionate love affair by singing a more cinematic version of Elton John’s “Your Song”

The “Your Song” sequence shows that not only do McGregor and Kidman have believable chemistry but that they can also hold a tune - all the while expressing the joie de vivre that serves as the very essence of the film. As with the rest of the movie it’s pleasing on both eye and ear and bursts with life and exuberant flamboyance. Moulin Rouge! carries its credo of “freedom, beauty, truth and love” through to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly epic, with heavy emphasis on character, visuals, set designs and music (did I hear a little of Morricone's score from The Good, The Bad &#38; The Ugly in there?).

It's the trailer for Australia, the long awaited return to the big screen of Baz Lurhmann (Romeo &#38; Juliet, Moulin Rouge) and stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic action-adventure flick set during the northern area of the country during World War II.

It centers on the story of an English aristocrat (Kidman) who joins forcer with a cattle driver (Jackman) to drive her 2,000 heard of cattle across the country's unforgiving land whilst it's being bombed by the same Japanese forces who attacked Pearl Harbour some months prior.

Looking pretty good, I can't honestly say I'm sold on this film yet but I did enjoy the trailer. From what I've heard the movie is nearly all a two actor show, so it's a real challenge for Kidman and Jackson to keep our interest for what will no doubt be a very long movie.

VISIT AUSTRALIA IN HD HERE!
This one opens in November and will no doubt have some heavy Oscar hopes next year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Images from Kidman/Jackman/Luhrmann&#8217;s epic AUSTRALIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you name a movie after a country the size of Australia - then you better damn well make sure your film is epic as hell.

Thankfully Baz Luhrmann is one of the kings of epics. His productions (too big to be called just films) of Romeo &#38; Juliet and especially Moulin Rouge were marvellous artistic ventures that felt like classical theatre plays that came to life on film.

I expect Australia to be the same. If you were like me and thought Atonement was a vastly over-rated piece of mediocre cinema then keep your eye on this one. It's not due out till November (probably December UK) but I'm pretty excited. I would take Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman over James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley any day of the week.





MORE PHOTO'S HERE BUT THEY AREN'T QUITE THE SAME QUALITY! 

source - if you can't tell by their photoshop work... is IESB. ]]></description>
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