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Rasczak
21-01-2006, 8:29 PM
Picked this up on DVD yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it :thumbsup: ...right upto the note at the end where it says it was based on real life events. I knew nothing about the film before buying it - a standard impulsive purchase as so happens occurs on Friday evening - but I was amazed that it was based/inspired by real life events, i.e. that the people in it were real people who actually disappeared.
If the case was solved it would be fine...if the fate of the young women was known it would be fine... (provided on both accounts it was done in a repectable way)...to change the names and call it total fiction would be fine...but to make a film like that which showed brutal injuries to real people whose ultimate fate has been unsolved seems...well in very bad taste.
I am probably one of the least sensitive people on the planet...but to make a film that shows the women being slashed/injured/raped/hunted down/tortured etc seems awful. What must their poor parents feel when watching this film?
I actually feel :censored: guilty about ever watching this film now :suicide: Have I completely lost the plot on this or does anyone else feel the same?
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gooner#14
21-01-2006, 8:50 PM
seen this in hmv to day almost bought it might do now:smashin:
partyweb
22-01-2006, 7:17 AM
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I actually feel :censored: guilty about ever watching this film now :suicide: Have I completely lost the plot on this or does anyone else feel the same?...
Looks like Gooner#14 doesn't :grin:
Rasczak
22-01-2006, 7:57 AM
Looks like Gooner#14 doesn't
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Clearly not. It was quite a good film though :thumbsup: Just a bit morally dubious!
BIGRED
22-01-2006, 8:50 AM
wolf creek is not actually based on any one event , rather it is inspired by various incidents in australia's history (Ivan Milat, Bradley Murdoch, the Snowtown killers)........ the important word being inspired ;)
Rasczak
22-01-2006, 11:00 AM
wolf creek is not actually based on any one event , rather it is inspired by various incidents in australia's history (Ivan Milat, Bradley Murdoch, the Snowtown killers)........ the important word being inspired
Oh I see. The way it appeared at the end - when they were saying where 'Ben' lives now and that the two named girls have never been found - made it sound like it was about real people. :blush:
Razor
23-01-2006, 11:13 AM
Didn't it was a true story, its now going on the 'to buy' list. :)
i liked the movie, but i think the "true story" thing held it back somewhat. they sort of hinted at rape and torture but stopped well short of showing anything too harsh.
BIGRED
23-01-2006, 12:32 PM
it wasn't a true story ........ does anyone rememeber fargo
they sort of hinted at rape and torture but stopped well short of showing anything too harsh.
Head on a stick anyone :rotfl:
Watched it last night, painfully slow beginning but it picked up :thumbsup:
Head on a stick anyone :rotfl:
potential spoilers below
yeah but you didn't see if he did anything to this head on a stick.. they could have at least shown her again at the end perhaps sharing the same fate as the one we saw "hanging around" earlier in the movie..
Razor
23-01-2006, 12:46 PM
it wasn't a true story ........ does anyone rememeber fargo
:eek:
BIGRED
23-01-2006, 1:36 PM
:grin:
BIGRED
23-01-2006, 1:43 PM
when fargo was released it was claimed that it was "based on a true story" (and that the body lying face down in the snow was the artist formerly known as prince) both of which were infact untrue......... wolf creek is claimed to be based ona true story when in fact it is actually inspired by real events ........ lots of diferent real events went together to inspire the writer :thumbsup: it would make me think twice about visiting huge craters in the middle of the outback though :eek:
Bristol Pete
24-01-2006, 6:11 PM
I was lucky enough to watch this movie at the cinema in Australia on general release. Cracking and bought the DVD last week. Its not Goodfellas is it but fine enough. Over in OZ, people actually got up and walked out during the head on a stick scene.
The last half hour is brutal, inforgiving and final, much like the subject matter.
Oh, and the actor John Jarrett plays a right old softy in one of OZ's biggest TV shows, Mcleods Daugters.....:)
Pete.
per-Sony-fied
25-01-2006, 8:03 PM
I liked it. Saw it last night but I didn't think it was scary, scary as they made it out to be but nonetheless once the guy in the truck came to help you just knew there was trouble brewing and this helped to keep you griped.
Without giving to much away I couldn't understand why they didn't attempt to push start the car when they were miles from nowhere :confused:
Well worth a few watches.
Bristol Pete
26-01-2006, 12:07 AM
Without giving to much away I couldn't understand why they didn't attempt to push start the car when they were miles from nowhere
Fair comment but thats the old horror cliche being used to good effect and making sure the movie lasts over half an hour :) How many films have we all watched screaming - start the engine, dont go outside, lock the door......
Pete.
Bristol Pete
26-01-2006, 12:15 AM
By the way all, forgot to say but the director of Wolf Creek is currently working on a new film, again based in OZ but about a killer crocodile :) I pressume he is hoping to reinvent the killer croc genre and juxtapose it against classics such as .....
um....
well....
ah....
ho hum....
Crocodile Dundee? (tenuous I agree).
Nope. Ah, Lake Placid - does not count as comedy really.
Pete.
per-Sony-fied
26-01-2006, 8:34 PM
Fair comment but thats the old horror cliche being used to good effect and making sure the movie lasts over half an hour :) How many films have we all watched screaming - start the engine, dont go outside, lock the door......
Pete.
Yea know what you mean. Just thought it a bit weak and unconvincing at that part. I mean going right out in the wilderness with no car knowledge and no way of outside contact... duh! Could've made it last another another 5-10mins :)
Bristol Pete
26-01-2006, 10:31 PM
I mean going right out in the wilderness with no car knowledge and no way of outside contact...
Suppose the really scary thing is that 'real' people actually do that everyday of the week and never come home and even the best laid plans can turn sour when you come up against someone horrific like Bradley Murdoch or Ivan Milat :(
gooner#14
30-01-2006, 11:21 PM
the only scary thing about it was it cost me£2.50 to watch it, utter toss not scary, no story, violent my ass! and i thought the skulll scene was laffable .id heard people say that it was awfull !! pah it was nothing if the camera had stayed till she died that would be better?as u can guess i didnt like it , in fact i hated it so much i wont even buy it to get the devils rejects 4 £7.99 id rather pay full price for i m h o a hell of a better flick
BenchyUK
31-01-2006, 1:39 AM
I didn't find it scarey but not a bad film. If you want scarey then go and see hostel, the new Tarintino film
BIGRED
31-01-2006, 7:07 AM
I didn't find it scarey but not a bad film. If you want scarey then go and see hostel, the new Tarintino film
try new Eli Roth film ;)
cdrider
31-01-2006, 7:51 AM
Turned this off just as the bloke arrived at Wolf Creek to help with the car. Found it slow and the acting terrible. Keep hearing good things about it through so might try it again on a slow day.
Turned this off just as the bloke arrived at Wolf Creek to help with the car. Found it slow and the acting terrible. Keep hearing good things about it through so might try it again on a slow day.
that's like turning off independence day when jeff goldblum says "time's up" or turning off titanic when you hear "iceberg, dead ahead!" .. i would suggest you give it another go!