Tomorrow when the War Began Movie.

[Xul]

I have to say really looking forward to this movie. Must be behind the times because I only just found out it was coming out! Was a massive fan of these books when I was a little tacker. Probably the first time I heard the word 'landrover' mentioned as well!

The best part is I was watching the trailer and they have the Defender and everything!

[THE BOOGER]

great series of books unfortunatly red dawn bet them to the movies by a few years amazing how simalar they are:( hope we do the movie better than the yanks:D

[seano87]

I'm really looking forward to it coming out as well.

One of the main houses they use in the movie as (not sure if it portrayed as Ellie's, or maybe Corrie's) is a house that is owned by someone my mother used to work with - who had children same age as me, and I spent many days playing at in the house and the property.

The town scenes of Wirrawee are set in Raymond Terrace and Maitland I believe, and they use Dungog showground as far as I know. They renovated an old shop opposite Woolworths in Maitland (where I worked for 6 years - they filmed there in about January I think it was).

I enjoyed the books, and it will be nice to see some reminders of where I lived for 22½ years, now that I've only just moved away from the area.

Seano

[long stroke]

I agree, it looks like a great movie, and by the looks i pretty sure i remember reading the book:cool:
will have to go see it..

TIM.

[Ausfree]

Yep, the main street of the fictional town of Wirrawee is at Raymond Terrace, not far from me. It is an unbelievable street, a real time warp, popular with wedding photographers up this way!!!:)

[VladTepes]

and they use Dungog showground as far as I know.


I sold my Rangie to someone in Dungog. Maybe it'll make it in as well ?!

[Hendrik]

Just came back from seeing this one. Was pretty good I thought, good explosions and things like that....and was good to see the old 110 in it.

[Landy Smurf]

my brother and his gf saw it yesterday and was really impressed with it

[MEANZ06]

im assuming this just came out in theaters?

i looked on line and cant find it is why i ask.

from the trailer it looks pretty good. it has a very similar story line as the american movie Red Dawn (1984)... :)

[LieutenantRover]

Just saw the post below

[101RRS]

Sorry mate you have lost me on this one.

What is below??

Or is this a teaser thread with all being revealed later?

Garry

[isuzutoo-eh]

Yep Meanz, movie based on a popular series of Aussie books.

Think I might have to see that one Gold Class...:D
Loved the books as a kid, might have to re-read them instead of working on my toys

[Ace]

Never read the books but i saw stuff getting blown up on the previews at the last movie I saw so im keen to see it to :D

[VladTepes]

umm isn't it a KIDS (teenagers) movie ?

[THE BOOGER]

are there any movies not aimed at teenagers today they have the most money to spend (mums and dads):o

[LieutenantRover]

I put up a post about tomorrow when the war began then saw the thread further down the page, wasn't meant to be confusing. I have just seen the movie and it's not bad. Good add for a Landrover county

[LieutenantRover]

Just saw it *****

[ramblingboy42]

beloooooooooowwwwww!......ffffffffffalllllliiiiiin g brick!

[BMKal]

I put up a post about tomorrow when the war began then saw the thread further down the page, wasn't meant to be confusing. I have just seen the movie and it's not bad. Good add for a Landrover county

Where did you see it Brian - is it on in Kal already ? :o

[LieutenantRover]

Yep, I saw it with the other half at the local theatre next to H N store.

[F4Phantom]

top class movie, almost exactly the book, so close the only things they left out were additional story lines which the movie would not have had time to recreate effectively. It will go into one of the top 10 best Aussie movies ever IMO.

Also because the movie ends at the end of book 1 of 7, I imagine they have a few more in the pipeline.

[long stroke]

Awesome movie!!
I agree they followed the book very well, only missed a few things!
I didn't even know there were more books:angel:, i might have to read them.

P.s the county sounded abit like an isuzu (diesel anyway) but it had a v8 sticker on the side?


CHEERS TIM.

[Gazz]

I saw it today and yes it is a very good movie considering that the story around the traps is the budget was only around $70 000. My daughter tells me that there is several books and the movie was book one. I look forward to futurer installments, its good to see Australia can still produce movies for dollars that are in the realm of us common folk.

Gazz :D

[QLDMIKE]

My wife and I saw it on Saturday arvo, it is a pretty good Aussie movie. The CGIs are pretty good and not over the top. My wife read the books and she loved the movie.

We give it a 4 out of a possible 5 star rating.

[easo]

I'm in the process of re-reading the series before I go see it.

Easo

[Gazz]

I forgot to mention that a county has pride of place :D
Gazz

[SO69WA]

Just seen it,

cant understand how this isnt direct plagerism of "RED DAWN" (which i saw orig when a very impressional 16yrs old), it seamed a very real possibility back in the cold war days for the US, the CIA was always stirring things up! Afganis, Iraq/Iran-Contra, Elsalvador, Lybia, etc, and Redneck Reagan was not going to tolerate outlaw states any more(much like Good OL W BUSH) and we worried about being dragged into a **** fight,

Whoz going to have a crack at Aus now! Did i see a China Star on those Helmets, i though they already owned us:p

Bit HO HUM really, Must be My AGE!,

The best bit?, was the Stoner describing the Neighbours being shot as either him being super stoned or this aint your typical day in Werrabie!! HA HA!!

OH! AND THAT A TOJO DIDNT GET A LOOK IN!!

[Dinty]

G'day All,
Attached area couple of shots taken the day after filming finished, couldn't be there while it was being shot U know that 4 letter word aka work, anyway here are 5 pix so you can see what you didn't see in the flick, Dungog showground LOL
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/Thedayaftertomorrow002.jpg't=1283765126
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/Thedayaftertomorrow001.jpg't=1283765164
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/Thedayaftertomorrow005.jpg't=1283765201
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/Thedayaftertomorrow003.jpg't=1283765232
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu319/DJM110/Thedayaftertomorrow004.jpg't=1283765302
cheers Dennis

[ScottW]

I just saw it with the girlfriend. We both thought it was great. Non-aircon earlier county (pull up door handles) with the V8 stickers, but a confused isuzu sounding engine. Is was a diesel at idle, but changed a little when driving...

In case you were worried about it being a teenie movie, it wasn't that bad. (I haven't been a teen for over a decade)

[Ace]

went and saw it with stacey and marcos the other night, was brilliant, loved it. Cant wait for the next installment, i hope there are 7 movies to match each book.

matt

[easo]

went and saw it with stacey and marcos the other night, was brilliant, loved it. Cant wait for the next installment, i hope there are 7 movies to match each book.

matt

Make a good book/DVD box set.

Easo

[Ace]

Make a good book/DVD box set.

Easo

we can go halves, i'll keep the DVD's you keep the books :D

Im not much of a book fan, never have enjoyed reading books, I cant sit still long enough

[Landy Smurf]

same why read a book that takes days or weeks to read when you can just watch the movie in a few hrs

[easo]

we can go halves, i'll keep the DVD's you keep the books :D

Im not much of a book fan, never have enjoyed reading books, I cant sit still long enough

All ready have the books. But cheers anyway. :p

Easo

[Ace]

All ready have the books. But cheers anyway. :p

Easo

LOL, ahh well, it was worth a try :D

Im with you Tony, only thing i read is 4wd magazines and car magazines, and ...... i think you get the picture :angel:

[vnx205]

same why read a book that takes days or weeks to read when you can just watch the movie in a few hrs

Because it is often quite a different experience. No movie can hope to include all of what is in a novel, and I don't just mean leaving out a few events or a few characters.

That question deserves the same sort of answer as asking, "Why drive a Land Rover through a National Park to get to a place on the other side when you could just drive around the highway in your Commodore to get to the same place?" :p

[easo]

LOL, ahh well, it was worth a try :D

Im with you Tony, only thing i read is 4wd magazines and car magazines, and ...... i think you get the picture :angel:

So you like books with pictures?

Easo

[Ace]

So you like books with pictures?

Easo

yep, books with pictures. But i only get certain picture books for the articles :D

[Xul]

Because it is often quite a different experience. No movie can hope to include all of what is in a novel, and I don't just mean leaving out a few events or a few characters.

That question deserves the same sort of answer as asking, "Why drive a Land Rover through a National Park to get to a place on the other side when you could just drive around the highway in your Commodore to get to the same place?" :p

I agree 100% mate. I've never seen a movie based on a book which even came close to being as good as the book is.

LOTR would be the best book->movie I've seen but even then it has squat on reading the books.

Tomorrow When the War Began was pretty good as well, I'd probably had preferred it more if I hadn't read the books though as I'm real nitpicky and notice all the little errors, some of which I reckon could slip them up if they make more movies (i.e., how close Cobblers Bay is).

I was a bit sad when they took the Landy into town near the end as well seeing as that didn't happen. Pretty sure they took a Beemer. Poor Landy getting into the hands of the baddies. :(

All in all I was pretty impressed though, a bit too much Hollywood in it but I guess they have to do that to sell the movie. The acting was mostly pretty good, except for in some of the more emotional parts they didn't pull it off to well.

Come to think of it one of my main problems was how stereotypical Chris was. It may have worked well for ratings but he wasn't like that at all in the books.

Definitely worth seeing if you haven't yet. Now to go on a Holiday and try and find the places where they filmed Hell.

[uninformed]

good to see that some here know the movie Red Dawn.... Patrick, charlie, Lea, Jennifer, C. Tomas.....

So the question Begs, when were these books writtern?

Serg

[Ace]

I wonder when the next movie comes out, they cant leave us hanging to long.

[easo]

Finlay seen it last week, I enjoyed it. I did see hydraulic lifting arms throwing the petrol tanker into the bridge pylon. I recon for an Aussie film they did a great job.

Easo

[Disco Muppet]

apologies for thread digging, but I FINALLY got around to watching this.
As a few have picked up, I was a tad confused by the diesel clatter from a V8 county :D
Overall it was well done, a few things were a tad different than I imagined, particularly chris, and the way they went all gung ho at the end.
But a good watch :D

[p38arover]

Never heard of Red Dawn or Tomorrow when the War Began.

[Fluids]

Ron ... you need to get out more ;)

:angel:

[p38arover]

Ron ... you need to get out more ;)

:angel:

I'm not a movie buff. If they don't grab me in the first few minutes, I turn them off. However, I have seen one movie this year - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

[flagg]

Ron,

You should make the effort to see Tomorrow when the war began. It is a great film.. starring a very nice County :cool:

[p38arover]

Ron,

You should make the effort to see Tomorrow when the war began. It is a great film.. starring a very nice County :cool:

Nahh. I've owned a County. :D

[THE BOOGER]

Ron they are doing a remake of Red dawn but without Patrick swayze:D

Red Dawn (2012) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/)

and for those that are interested the screenplay for red dawn was written way before tomorrow when the war began:( so no the yanks didnt copy it may have been the other way round:(

[Ausfree]

"Red Dawn" was made way back in the 80's, I think. It's been on TV several times!!:) In fact just checked, it was made in 1984!!!

Red Dawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[goingbush]

....
As a few have picked up, I was a tad confused by the diesel clatter from a V8 county :D
....

I haven't seen the film yet, I just ordered a copy to watch,

but I was equally confused by the YZ80 2 stroke sound coming from the kids XR75 (4 stroke bike) in Terminator 2

You reckon for the money they sink into these movies they would al least get the detail right

[Disco Muppet]

I haven't seen the film yet, I just ordered a copy to watch,

but I was equally confused by the YZ80 2 stroke sound coming from the kids XR75 (4 stroke bike) in Terminator 2

You reckon for the money they sink into these movies they would al least get the detail right

The worst one for me is guns that have been fired till empty, then in the next shot are still firing :D
Some people really shouldn't be continuity editors hahaha.
Cheers
Muppet

[p38arover]

I was a tad confused by the diesel clatter from a V8 county :D

Ditto with an episode of The Bill that was filmed in Sydney. The Pommie sound effects team assumed all taxis are diesels and had the Sydney Holden and Falcon taxis clattering away.

[easo]

But will there be a second movie to keep in line with the books?

[Disco Muppet]

apparently there are two more movies planned, and after that it will become a tv series....