OMG

HAHAHAHAHA

Harrison Ford, I love you.

he’s making a break for it

I saw this trailer yesterday before Australia. I’m probably not going to see the movie, but I laughed so hard I cried at the part with the car at the end.

Australia

I went to see this today. I enjoyed it a lot… mild spoilers will follow, as usual, but I don’t have a whole lot to say about it. I don’t think I’m going to give away anything really.

The best way to describe this movie… it’s like if Moulin Rouge! morphed into a western, had a baby with Indiana Jones on an Australian cattle ranch then got divorced and remarried Pearl Harbor, you would get this movie. It was very old fashioned, kind of cheesy in the old movie way – which is what I expected. I thought it was going to be one of those sweeping epic romance movies, and it is exactly that. It was an absolutely gorgeous movie visually, which I loved about it… I also have to say that Hugh Jackman was very much in his element. Hugh Jackman as Australian cowboy equals much hotter than anything else I’ve ever seen him in… I was never much of a fan, but now I am. Thanks for that, Baz. And I also liked that Nicole Kidman was named Sarah, because, you know. I’m like that.

And just so everyone knows, the only times I cried were when it was something happy. It isn’t a sad movie.

And the music! I loved the music. It was beautiful.

The thing I didn’t like about this was that it felt long. I don’t care if a movie is long, I just don’t want it to feel like it’s long. I don’t know how to fix that, I have no suggestions here… but the movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes, and I felt every second of it. Also, I really hated that you never found out Hugh Jackman’s real name. Okay, his name is not “Drover.” That is just his job, he drives cattle. “I’m a drover, no man hires me, no man fires me,” blah blah blah. Okay, fine, but I’m assuming your mom didn’t name you that. I guess that’s part of the character’s mystique, but still. I had a problem with it. (I know I’m a big hypocrite for complaining about this because one of my favorite fictional characters of all time is the Doctor, but I don’t care.)

Oh, and yes, that is David Wenham playing the bad rancher guy. I couldn’t tell for the whole movie for sure if it was him, because I only recognize him when he’s Faramir or when he’s a monk (which I think he was in Van Helsing? I’m pretty sure that was that movie).

That was another thing… the bad guys in this movie are bad, but they’re not… hmm. I’m not sure. They’re just kind of annoying. I never thought anybody was ever actually in danger of something bad happening. It was the kind of movie where you know everything is going to be all right… and I’m happy that it was in the end, but without that sense of something being at stake, I felt sort of removed from the situations. Something was missing there.

Other than that, I thought it was a good movie. It’s grown on me a lot in the hours since I watched it.

For no one’s benefit but my own:

Hugh Jackman was so hot in this movie. I haven’t really been all that attracted in the past – maybe mildly, at points, but guh. This movie. It’s probably the fact that he has his normal accent in it. And the whole cowboy thing. And the scruffiness. The scruffiness definitely counts in his favor because when he shaves in the middle of the movie and goes to the ball with Nicole Kidman (that’s when the famous kiss picture happens), I was sad.