Crikey

First of all, it has been far too long since a post has made it's way on here. With Thanksgiving craziness and traveling around it has been tough to get a chance to post, but alas here we go.

Over Thanksgiving it has become a family tradition of seeing a "girly" movie. In the past years on Thanksgiving I have see Rent, Enchanted, and movies of the like. This year I saw Australia.

Now I did make a prediction on an earlier post that this movie would have a shot at being nominated for Best Picture, it doesn't. I also claimed that Hugh Jackman could win a Best Actor Award, he can't. That being said this is a good movie, not a great movie. An epic love story that only spans a two year time period.

The story was not all that unique. Basically Titanic lite. Girl upper class, Boy lower class, she needs his help and he helps. The interesting part of the film involves the story behind the Stolen Generations of the half Australian half Aboriginal children that were taken from their mothers and placed at a Missionary. It is an important part of Australian history that most of the rest of the world knows nothing about.

The visuals of this film were the strongest aspect of it. You can really see how much effort director Baz Luhrmann puts into his films. But like I said before nothing new story wise. Worth seeing but it is a long movie that easily could have been cut in half and been just as strong.