Acting as a mediator between two divided camps within my friends on how to proper appraise this cinematic work. I have refrained from rating but have acknowledged what I have seen.
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Australia 2008
Australia, the film ™️, is without a doubt, one of the worst movies I’ve seen. Its bad by any metric, its never really been acclaimed by any audience throughout the world. But to an Australian, its badness is particularly egregious. It’s a down right offensive portrayal of Indigenous Australian culture. It’s an utterly cringeworthy attempt of historical revisionism, some lame attempt to spin a grand national narrative about the country itself. It’s painfully self-conscious in its “Australianness”, constantly winking to…
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The King of Comedy 1982
A character study about a pathological liar, both to others and himself, desperate for his dream of being validated as a successful comedian to come true. De Niro is in his prime here, he really feels like a different person but credit has to go to Sandra Bernhard as well, who is equally convincing in playing a delusional obsessive fan of a talk show host. Their desperation is funny in a cringe-worthy way, but they are not playing their roles…
