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crikey! what's between like and love? very like?? bets aside, i very liked Australia

Posted by pigby (aka chris) Nov 27 '08, 23:35

there's only about 15 minutes of Moulin Rougey type Baz wackiness in the beginning. the rest is pretty conventional epic love story

the first half is better than the second half, and it works better when it's being an outback western than when it's being Pearl Harbor

and even though I'm not usually a Nicole fan, she more than holds her own. Hugh's character is more one-note but he plays that one note winningly

i don't think it's as love it or hate it as Moulin Rogue. if you like big screen spectacle, with all the good and bad that the genre comes with, it more than delivers

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If you want to see a fantastic sweeping epic, with no schmaltz and no Boz Looniness, I recommend you rent "Mongol" - Trish Nov 28, 01:08 1
- i love the schmatlz and Bazitude. it could have used more, actually -- nm - pigby Nov 28, 01:11
heart? -- nm - b! thankful. Nov 28, 00:53
kissing at recess. -- nm - mafic Nov 28, 00:43
Hmmm, that's an underwhelming review. - psilotum in davis Nov 28, 00:23 1
- it's far from perfect but it's far from "Far & Away" - pigby Nov 28, 00:27

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crikey! what's between like and love? very like?? bets aside, i very liked Australia

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