The Problems with the Rest of World (RoW): Australians on Movies.
Before The Matrix:
- ME: Did you see the Fifth Element?
- AUSSIE: I hate those big name Hollywood MOVIES! They are all crap! Too many special effects! Have you seen [Insert Australian movie here]?
- ME: Yes. It was pretty good. I liked the part where…
- AUSSIE: Oh. How about [Insert YA-Movie from down under]?
- ME: Sorry, no. What’s it about?
- AUSSIE: Blah, blah, blah, blah.
- ME: Sounds interesting. Who’s in it again?
You get the idea.
After The Matrix:
- AUSSIE: Did you see the Matrix!
- ME: Yes. It was effing great!
- AUSSIE: It was filmed in Australia. Did you know that?
- ME: Yes. I really love the scene where…
- AUSSIE: Uh, huh. That part was filmed in [Insert location somewhere in Australia]. You know that Hugo Weaving is an Australian, don’t you?
- ME: Yes.
On and on it goes.
I have noticed this trend in Canadians, Brits, and Kiwis. My question is, what happened to, “I hate those big name Hollywood MOVIES! They are all crap! Too many special effects!” Seems like location is more important than the actual movie itself.
I smell a steaming pile of bullshit wafting from the RoW.
I think it’s the RoW railing against the Hollywood machine. With the exception of Bollywood and the African movie industry where the life expectancy of a new film is measured in mere days rather than weeks, the RoW recognizes that Hollywood is the oppressive machine that cranks out movies. Whenever a popular, blockbuster movie gets made outside of the bastions of the Hollywood soundstages, the RoW takes it on as a bit of pride that the movie was produced in their “backyard” and not in Hollywood.