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CASHED-UP KENNY
SMH film reviewer Garry Maddox:
I remember thinking Kenny was funny in a preview but not having high expectations for it in terms of ticket sales ... Before release, I would have thought takings of $500,000 would have been a reasonable result. Now it has taken 10 times that and there are still weeks to come.
Maybe Lancet is running the box office.
Poor old Kenny - loved by the public, reviled by the tossers.
I see for the AFT Awards it is up against a whole bunch of wanker taxpayer funded dross such as Jindabyne and Ten Canoes.
Any takers, Kenny will win NOTHING and Ten Canoes will virtually clean up - best picture, best director. The fucking lot. Any leftovers will go to Jindabyne. Anybody want to take a small wager here?
I was under the impression that Ten Canoes was a drama, but I saw it described somewhere recently as ‘the first indigenous comedy’. I’m sure I did. Can anyone confirm this?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 19 at 08:15 PM • permalinkOne of the prerequisites for a prize at the AFT awards is that the nominated film has to haemorrhage taxpayer dollars, usually because the only people that see it are luvvy film critics who get free tickets, or otherwise the film is just crap.
“Kenny” is “laugh out loud” funny, has a story line about about an ordinary everyday bloke, and is making pots of money for the producers.
Therefore, it has absolutely no chance of receiving an AFT award.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 10 19 at 09:19 PM • permalinkI think we’re all on the money here fellow scribes. Ten Canoes is an indiginous wank. The reason I know this is because Margaret told me so:- “This is a brave film, I’m glad it was greeted so warmly in Cannes recently. It’s really one of those must-see films”.
And well, David reckons:- “No, I think it’s a really, really beautiful film and a very important film”.
This is why it will clean up big time (BTW it is spoken in aboriginal dialects), which is kind of an insurance policy taken out by the director to ensure the plaudits from his peers. Movies that are unintelligible to the vast unwashed are surefire winners.
The more mysterious a movie, the more obscure the reason for making it in the fist place, and the more self-indulgent the director can be, then, it’s an absolute winner. Since Canoes has taken a tad over $3million at the boxoffice, well, George Lucas, eat your heart out.
Why is the predictability of the AFI Awards so nauseating? Come to think of it, why are all these Award shows so bloody leftwing predictable? Just look at the Walkley Awards for heaven’s sake. Pure unadulterated shit!
Reminds me of a film script I wrote a few years back for Kevin Bloody Wilson. No highbrow wank; just bloody funny. (Majority opinion, not mine.)
I sent a copy to a former lecturer of mine, a friend, who’d taught me film study. He was, by this time, in the “Orstralian fillum industry”, making Important Fillums™.
His response?
“And what exactly would you like me to say about THIS?”
Kenny will have to win a token award, simply because the wankers would lose any credibility left they have with the public.
You may think our betters in the fillum world do not care, but any further erosion of public sympathy could put at threat all those lovely tax payer dollars, which we all know HoWARd is just dying to snatch off those that need it most.Best costumes?????
bondo, every movie would be better with zombies!
Star Wars—much better with zombies, maybe zombie storm troopers who eat Obi Wan.
Gone With The Wind—zombies! Zombies of slaves from Tara’s past that eat Scarlett, her sisters, and Melanie, and turn Melanie’s baby into a baby zombie!
Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood—the “MacBeth” couple are actually zombies, and eat the Emperor of Japan!
Actually, I saw “Throne of Blood.” If you ask me the characters were zombies.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 21 at 09:16 PM • permalink
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