Posted on 12/09/2008 3:12:23 PM PST by digger2
HUGH Jackman has a funny way of selling Australia - both his movie and his country - to Americans. I mean, likening us to Nazis? Let’s check the transcript of the actor’s extraordinary rant this week on The View, a popular women’s TV chat show in the US hosted by Barbara Walters and Whoopie Goldberg. And let’s check if, at the end of it, you’d want to see either the Baz Lurhmann movie in which Jackman stars or the evil country which spent $40 million on tourism ads meant to piggyback the film’s “success”.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.news.com.au ...
Nobody ever said you needed brains or common sense to be an actor.
Hugh and series.
Huge Jackass. Well at least he was on the View so no rational human being had to sit through it.
Leftists are taught to spew any bilge imaginable because so long as they are “progressives” no one will hold them to account.
Jackman is just parroting some nonsense that was spoon-fed to him..... why expect a pretty-boy actor to have a brain and use it?
Such a funny name.
Something to play with.
Hugh Janus?
Hugh Jakov?
Hugh Jigo?
Hugh Jasshole?
Australia —
Production Budget $130M
Domestic Total for 2 weeks: $32M
Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=australia.htm
For someone who has lived my whole life in the So Cal area, let me tell you that the $130 is more like $250 — no way will this turkey make even half of its cost back.
Why does Hollywood never understand why it is punished? It is simple — produce movies that people will like and yet have some heft. Get actors and actresses that can consistently act.
Jackman is all right, but has joined Carry, Farrel, Stiller and others as actors withe medium chops who are no longer the flavor of the week.
This thing was stillborn. More like Ishtar than Gigli from what I understand. I won’t be wasting even one of my 3 Netfliz selections on it.
Why didn’t Jackman just blame Bush? Everybody else on the View does....
Australia’s eugenics program existed. No refuting that
The Eugenics Education Society in Great Britain was used as a model
It’s documented
Why he uses this dark, confusing blip in the history of Australia to pump his movie though: beyond me
The movie is a mess that starts as a comedy, moves to a film about racism by whites against blacks, then an action-adventure, then a chick flick, then becomes a war drama, then ends with a chick flick / racism ending. By the time its over, your ass is as sore as your brain.
Watching this thing, you realized how over-budget and all over the place it was. The script was obviously rewritten over and over again during filming. It was predictable as it gets. It had every cliche you could imagine, including getting it pounded over and over again about how evil white people are.
It sucked. Your summary was pretty accurate. I kept checking my watch, but it dragged on and on and on. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a worse exposition. The war drama part was all right, but by then, who could care or take it seriously. I was rooting for all of the company to fall over one of the cliffs, but it didn’t happen. Just a couple of computer generated steers.
A total crap-fest.
The difference between G/F and Wife.
Scenario 1:
G/F: Let's go see that new movie, Australia!
You: Heck yeah! Then lets come back home and do it ALL NIGHT!
G/F: Sounds great!!
Scenario 1:
Wife: Let's go see Australia!
You: You go and give me a summary when you get home.
The Eugenics Education Society in Great Britain was used as a model
It's documented
Not as simple as that. And the Eugenics Education Society (est 1908) had nothing to do with it.
It was begun 80 years earlier by "progressives" concerned that the tribal Aborigines would become corrupted by Western ways (such as capitalism) and decided to protect them by establishing missions (or concentration camps) to keep them from European ways - kinda like "separate development", without the "development".
One result of this was the idea of mixing the races was frowned upon and resulted in a policy of removal of the mixed race children so their Aboriginality could be bred out in the larger European community.
This is now thought to have been a bad idea. That at the time it was a "progressive" idea is an embarrassment and has resulted in the idea for there to be an apology by present Australian governments for the "racist" policy. One strong advocate of this is Ronald Wilson. Who apparently did nothing of note before he was 50, but if you look closely you might note that in the 60s he was Moderator of Assembly, Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. And yes, in the 60s the Presbyterian Church was still "stealing the generation" of mixed race Aboriginals, a policy for which he thinks those who weren't doing it, should apologise. And if he's made a personal confession, I've missed it.
He’s no Mel Gibson, that’s for sure.
He also seems to not fully understand the meaning of either ‘literally’ or ‘decimated’ - I don’t think the Australian government, eugenics program or no, managed to kill off an entire tenth of their population.
Hate to admit it, but yes, I got the G/F scenario that night, but then again, I always like deals were everyone wins.
It’s interesting that it was about the Jap bombing of Darwin in Australia. I remember when I was touring the Normandy battlefields 5 or so years ago and the guide asked everyone in the group a trivia question that if we got right, he’d give us our money back for the tour.
It was what city received the highest tonnage of bombs in WW2? The answer is Darwin. And he said in his decades of giving tours, not one American has ever gotten the question right.
So at least Darwin gets some recognition.
I don’t think Jackman, BabaWawa or any of the libs on the view mentioned that another groups that big on Eugenics was Planned Parenthood and early abortion supporters like Sanger.
I guess they just skipped over that part.
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