While away on my working trip to Los Angeles, I finally found time to see a movie. At home, I am always to
o busy to sit still for the required 3 hours or so of movie time. I was staying at the Hilton LAX, which I might add is a really nice hotel on Century Blvd., only 5 minutes from the airport. I always judge a hotel by how comfortable the beds and pillows are and I love, love, love a bed that is dress in a sheet duvet on the bed rather than bedspreads which was the case here. The bed and pillows were divine however, what would have been a comfortable night rest on these heavenly pillows was ruined by the clank, clank, clank of the ice machine. Unfortunately my room was right across from the ice machine and unfortunately this hotel uses metal ice buckets. The sound of the ice cubes hitting that metal bucket in the middle of the night was deafening, which answers one of the most intriguing questions of the universe. Do people really get ice in the middle of the night? Yes they do!
o busy to sit still for the required 3 hours or so of movie time. I was staying at the Hilton LAX, which I might add is a really nice hotel on Century Blvd., only 5 minutes from the airport. I always judge a hotel by how comfortable the beds and pillows are and I love, love, love a bed that is dress in a sheet duvet on the bed rather than bedspreads which was the case here. The bed and pillows were divine however, what would have been a comfortable night rest on these heavenly pillows was ruined by the clank, clank, clank of the ice machine. Unfortunately my room was right across from the ice machine and unfortunately this hotel uses metal ice buckets. The sound of the ice cubes hitting that metal bucket in the middle of the night was deafening, which answers one of the most intriguing questions of the universe. Do people really get ice in the middle of the night? Yes they do! A nice perk to this hotel, being stranded without a car, was that a shuttle to Manhattan Beach was provided, where it was that I saw the movie, Australia.
I am seldom moved to see movies, what with the cost of the movie, popcorn and soda will set you back a small fortune. I always sneek my water bottle and snacks with me. I've seen whole families buy hot dogs, drinks and snacks at the show, which gives dinner and a movie a whole new meaning. But Australia was one movie I wanted to see, no matter that I had to hunt down the theater in an area unknown to myself and walk two giant blocks away from the mall and the shuttle drop. After lunching on Baja Fresh, I found the 19 screen theater down the street just in time to catch the 2:25 matinee although it was already 2:40 when I got in, screen blackening to the opening scene. I couldn't have planned it better.
Australia was everything I had hoped it would be. A big epic drama, with romance, drama, suspense and bittersweet tenderness. I have read some reviews of the movie criticizing it's false grandeur a
nd unreal history, for heavens sake, it's for entertainment value not a history lesson! The boy wonder, an unknown Brandon Walters as Nullah, with his singular most poetic line of the entire movie, "I will sing you to me" was mesmerizing, whose wide doe eyes enveloped you with a sense of wonder and innocents. I thought Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah was perfect in her role of aristocrat gone down under and Hugh Jackman, well there's a reason why he's People's sexiest man of the year. One word, WOW! And ladies, hold on to your seat with that scene of him showering in the outback, as my daughter would ask, "Do you think he's yummy?" Yes dear, he's way more than yummy!
nd unreal history, for heavens sake, it's for entertainment value not a history lesson! The boy wonder, an unknown Brandon Walters as Nullah, with his singular most poetic line of the entire movie, "I will sing you to me" was mesmerizing, whose wide doe eyes enveloped you with a sense of wonder and innocents. I thought Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah was perfect in her role of aristocrat gone down under and Hugh Jackman, well there's a reason why he's People's sexiest man of the year. One word, WOW! And ladies, hold on to your seat with that scene of him showering in the outback, as my daughter would ask, "Do you think he's yummy?" Yes dear, he's way more than yummy!To all the movie critics that might pan this movie, for it's lack of acting and accuracy, I say, Crikey mate, it's damn well great entertainment and if I wanted a history lesson or Shakespearean acting then I would see some Henry James movie. But this movie represents what movies used to be in the genre of Gone with the Wind or the likes of Pearl Harbor. I miss movies like this, I miss the sweeping scenes, the romance wishing I were the Nicole Kidman character being swept up in the arms of the Drover and leaving me with the affects of the movie long after I have left the theater. This movie should definitely be seen on the wide screen, so pay the money, buy the popcorn and soda and settle in for a great story.-Single D
1 comment:
Dear Single D,
I thought your blog on Australia was really good! I whatched the movie like ten times thats how much I liked it! It so Romacy and Dramatic! Well I'll look at more of your blogs!
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