Thread: Red Dog [movie]

Originally Posted by ugu80

I had the same problem with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Went and saw it, being a science fiction tragic. Hated it. Then everyone was talking about how great it was. Girlfriend (it was long ago) wanted to see it - took her, thinking I might have missed something the first time, it was still crap. Years later out comes 'the directors cut'. 12 extra minutes that explain the who thing and transforms the movie. Went again.....it was still crap. I paid to see that stupid move three times to come to the inescapable conclusion that it was crap....and people still me its their favourite movie of all time.

I agree with you about that one. I thought it was rubbish. At least I had the good sense to see it just once.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

The bit about the dog jumping on ships and traveling to Japan and back seemed a bit far fetched, After all there is customs and quarantine. You just can't jump on and off as you please.

Perhaps you are too young to have been brought up on some of the great Aussie tall stories that were popular around the middle of last century.

The really clever ones started of being quite credible and they gradually became more outlandish, but you could never quite put your finger on the point where the story progressed from quite believable, through a bit unlikely, then a bit hard to swallow, to quite obviously impossible.

Bill Bryson used a similar technique in some of his writing. When he was describing Australia'a venomous snakes and spiders, the first few in the list were real. the next few sounded familiar, the next sounded a bit unlikely and the last ones were quite obviously made up. However, it wasn't obvious where the change took place.

"Red Dog" is a bit like that. Unless you are prepared to let yourself be taken along for the ride, it probably all seems a bit silly.

Originally Posted by ugu80

I had the same problem with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Went and saw it, being a science fiction tragic.

I thought it was a true story!

I spoke to someone who lived in Karratha at the time that the movie was set in, and she knew the red dog.
She told me it was nothing like the movie and was a snappy unfriendly bugger that nobody liked.

But hey why ruin a good story, like Rabbit Proof Fence was apparently BS and the WA protector was nothing like portrayed , so much so that his son AFAIR was talking about suing the producers.

AND Ita Buttrose's husband did NOT abandon her with a baby, he left 3 years later and recently received a settlement from the producer.Of course Ita came out last week and said I tried to tell them.

Movies that pretend to deliver fact rarely do.
Regards Philip A

is there a film about Ita Buttrose?

Have we run out of interesting stories on which to base films?

Originally Posted by PhilipA

like the movie and was a snappy unfriendly bugger that nobody liked.

Originally Posted by ugu80

Am I only person on earth who thought it was crap?

Same goes for Slumdog Millionaire.
From the other end, I did enjoy 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'.

The legend of Red Dog returns