Comments on: Why Did AUSTRALIA Bomb?

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:30:34 +0000

I knew from the very first day this movie was going to be a big time bomb. You make a movie and market it under the tourism Australia and with a name Australia, an epic.. No matter how good the plot is who cares when people aren’t dragged into the theatre?

I believe and thats strongly, this movie should have been made quitely and should have been advertised heavily closer to the date.. and most of all should not have been named Australia as the movie name..

may be some day i may download and watch it..

By: fred

fred — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:11:53 +0000

first of all the article is right about the stars not being earners. compare kidmans earnings to tom cruises for instance on box officemojo. toms numbers double kidmans. she is overrated.

it isn’t picking up either. 1 week in with 80 more theaters its doing half as well as opening weekend. its dying in other words. unless you have a ridiculously good film it needs a good opening to survive.

and well theres just nothing compelling about what they are selling. it doesn’t help that they seem to think this is some kind of tourism advert. countries shouldn’t be funding films like this. what were they thinking.

By: Gazz

Gazz — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:38:43 +0000

Didn’t you know? ‘Joe The Plumber’ is the new ‘Joe Public’ Lol

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:59:19 +0000

I am NOT Joe The Plumber. Just want that on the record.

By: Gazz

Gazz — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:52:00 +0000

Supposedly it’s picked up quite a bit of “traction” over its opening weekend and since then too – while other movies trailed off over the Thanksgiving Weekend (bar FOUR CHRISTMASES or whatever you call it!) AUSTRALIA started badly but slowly picked up.

Good word-of-mouth I suppose? Coz every “critic” I’ve spoken to hates this ****ing thing with a passion, but every average “Joe The Plumber” type that I’ve asked says it is ****ing brilliant!

By: lived

lived — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:00:30 +0000

people around the world simply dont care that much about australia the country to go see a movie with australia as the title baz lurhman was deluded to think otherwise

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:59:12 +0000

That ghost movie is The Others. That 3-way movie is The Hours.

By: HAZMAT

HAZMAT — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:52:48 +0000

well…jackman was the main actor in the prestige…and that movie to me was a 5 popcorner…and nichole kidman was in that ghost movie! i love that movie! and the one when she was one of the 3 women that are in 3 different time zones or whatever…and one of the other ones is julinne moore…well she got a ****ing oscar in that movie! (i thought moore should have gotten it..WHATEEEVEEER)

so thats proof to count off reason #s 1 and 2

#3…the film wasnt marketed..AT ALL. i saw no previews and no comercials…nothing. not even a poster…

#4 i love long movies

and i didnt see it, alot of people didnt…maybe it was for bad reviews or lack of good marketing…but to dislike nichole kidman and the jackman is retarded

i was too busy watching the transporter 3 (what a pice of SHIT!!!) and i loved the first 2 but…my GOSH was that a bad movie (the watchmen trailer was the best and only good part…)

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:04:27 +0000

Seems like I’m one of a few who dug the hell out of this movie. Every other review is tearing it up for being too long with too many plot threads going on. Bad reviews couldn’t have helped.

By: Gazz

Gazz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:53:00 +0000

There’s another factor you’re forgetting… The “Gazz / Kristina Support Club” element.

It seems outside of WALL-E and THE DARK KNIGHT, any film me or you gives massive props to in order to get some good word of mouth going or to champion the flick, it ends up tanking:

I’ll only speak for myself here but, from the UK end, there’s 0THE MIST, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOUR DEAD, OUT OF THE BLUE, ZACK & MIRI MAKE A PORNO, THE FOOT FIST WAY… all films I’ve championed the living hell out of and are genuinely brilliant films – all of them flopped or under-performed here in Blighty!

So, maybe the thing to do here Kris is to go back into your review, savage it, change the rating to a “two-zer” and AUSTRALIA will add $110 million on to its take-home within 36 hours!

Seriously!*

*There is no basis in fact to this whatsoever!