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Red Dog (2011)
Cute dog, but average movie
I'm as patriotic as the next Aussie and went along to Red dog expecting big things. Sure the dogs cute but the 'Aussie bush characters' are about as far fetched and unbelievable as you can get. Overacting, unauthentic, non believable characters abound throughout the movie. Having an American written in as the 'lead character' smarts as a ploy to grab the lucrative American Audience. Why else would this appear in the storyline. There was no context for it at all. The scenery of the Western Australian outback was really nice, but it didn't make up for the lack of a real plot or an explanation about why everyone who ever saw the dog wanted to own it and take it home. Rumours of a Red dog two are surfacing....surely not, let dead dogs lie
Drive (2011)
not worth the drive to the cinema
I had high expectations of this movie, even talked my wife and adult daughter into watching it too. Actually that wasn't very difficult when I mentioned that Ryan Gosling was in it...they both seemed REALLY interested all of a sudden. Both had recently seen crazy stupid love and were fans of his 'work' there. So what went wrong with Drive? Well a combination of things really, including but not limited to: Lack of interesting plot Gratuitous violence that even Tarantino would find disturbing Gosling's character being undeveloped, his motives unexplained and his behaviour erratic Disjointed nature of the storyline – the husband? What's his story? Why was he in jail? Great actors used poorly All in all pretty disappointing really and certainly not worth the hype. How on earth is this movie averaging 8.3! Gotta be studio execs voting 2000 times each surely?