May 20 2008Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' Trailer--Now With ACTUAL Aussies!
Set in northern Australia just prior to World War II, Baz Luhrmann's Australia (starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman)--like his prior work on Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!--looks like a visually rich, masterfully composed piece of cinematic artistry. Seldom is a trailer capable of portraying equal parts epic, romantic adventure and steak sauce commercial. This one does it.
Observe, under the cut.
Australia Trailer [Apple]
Reader Comments
1. Wayne - May 20, 2008 11:48 AM
You Call that a knife?...THIS is a knife!
That's not a knife, that's a spoon!
ah, i see you've played knifey-spoony before!
2. Frankie - May 20, 2008 12:11 PM
"...takes place in a faraway land called....Dog"?!?!
That's what she said, right?
...Ahh! I see where they send all the Austrailians who try to pull knife-spoony!
3. pdrunk - May 20, 2008 12:34 PM
"Australia." It's Australian for "Gone with the Wind" ripoff.
4. Art Vandelay - May 20, 2008 12:56 PM
pdrunk - May 20, 2008 12:34 PM
"Australia." It's Australian for "Gone with the Wind" ripoff.
You should be writing for this Blog with that sort of snappy wit.
F*****g idiot.
5. kc - May 20, 2008 1:21 PM
didn't she say 'oz' ?
6. collective - May 20, 2008 1:44 PM
what the shit wolverine is canadian
7. 4rt - May 20, 2008 1:47 PM
sure she said oz....tis fuckin bullshit thou...the film looks crappy as well...whads with the cheap ass titles at the end? thats so low fuckin quality..half of the budget was probably spend on the salary for jackman and kidman
8. Droogie - May 20, 2008 2:34 PM
OMG! I hear Ennio Morricone's music everywhere! I'm going insane!
9. pdrunk - May 20, 2008 8:16 PM
Look Art Vandelay. I don't come over to your place and slap the dick out of your mouth, so do me the courtesy and just say "Hey fuckhead, did you even watch the trailer?" And then I would say "Yes I did and it looks like a beautiful film about something I don't care about." And then you can say "That's because you're an uneducated twat." And then I can say "My degree from community college says otherwise." Then there would be much more flaming and name calling that would go absofuckinglutely nowhere until we get to...
I like Baz Luhrmann. I'm not going to see this, no matter how beautiful the film looks. I've seen this story before and it doesn't appeal to me.
This would be followed by some residual "whatevers" and "Who gives a fuck?"'s and maybe some more name-calling until I crawl underneath the rock I came from and you return to your import/export business.
And... scene.
10. proteon - May 20, 2008 8:54 PM
Do you even have a backup rant for if you DID go to Art Vandelay's house and slap the dick out of his mouth?
11. pdrunk - May 20, 2008 9:40 PM
I don't believe I do. No. Not really. Pretty much played that one until the wheels fell off and the chuck wagon feel off the cliff and exploded.
12. Chuck - May 20, 2008 10:29 PM
GAY!
13. mat - May 21, 2008 8:52 AM
Can we all move on from the dickslapping and focus on the real issue at hand, and that is Nicole Kidman doing accents again... she sounds like she filled her mouth with sand....
14. uni'tard - May 21, 2008 9:34 AM
she has the storytelling ability of an ADHD crystal meth addict. if i were that little girl, i would have told nichole kidman to shut the fuck up. i'll give you long awkward pauses that confuse coherency...
15. sudo - May 22, 2008 10:01 AM
"Seldom is a trailer capable of portraying equal parts epic, romantic adventure and steak sauce commercial. "
I just had a strong feeling of Marlboro country, too.
16. Prazzie - June 13, 2008 11:03 PM
Damn that looks boring. Pity, I like Baz's work. Maybe it's the opposite of those exciting, hilarious trailers that show all the good bits in the trailer, then sucks. So it looks boring as hell because they saved all the juicy bits for the paying customer...maybe. I hope.