Abbott is apparently thinking of trying to woo the independents. I dont think this is a good idea. They cant be trusted and have shown that they care about nothing other than their own hides.
Oakshott and Windsor would have preferenced the coalition ahead of labor on their how-to-vote cards, and then "preferred" labor in parliament.
That is straight up deception and it may well reveal curruption.
The coalition won that election. The people in the independent's electorates would have voted coalition if they knew how the independents were going to behave. The preference of the people of Australia and of those in these electorates was clear and was totally disregarded by the independents.
I want to know why.
We know one thing for sure: that the Tamworth Two sided with the government because they felt there were more likely to sit for a full term than the Libs, by Windsor's own admission. STOP. REWIND. Windsor openly admitted defying the will of the nation in order to remain in the manner to which he had become accustomed for as long as possible. He knows he is toast at the next election after what he did.
As for Oakshott. What does he get if he runs the full three years. He gets set up for life. He wants his pension, and he only gets it if he sits as an MP for two full terms. Thanks a bunch Oakyboy. Now we all have to work our fingers to the bone and watching Labor waste our tax money on one ill-fated misguided project after another, just so you can avoid work at all.
But Oakshott and Windsor are honourable men. NOT!!!!!
The anti-curruption enquiry into Oakshott allegedly helping a local company dump toxic waste needs to be prosecuted to the hilt. He should be forced to resign so there is no longer a labor majority. Then an election will be called and the Australian people will finally have their voices heard, dispite the best efforts of the Labor party and their self-serving mates.
There can no negotiation with liars and cheats
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
TRUE SHIT
Speaking of pretentious people and things, has anyone seen Red Hill yet? I saw in the The Age (i occasionally flick to the front page of the site to get a feel for just how moronic leftards are being on any given day) that the movie tanked on it's opening weekend. I thought, hey i'll give an "Aussie western" set in the high country a chance. Anyone who is expecting True Grit will be bitterly disappointed, as was I. This was True Shit.
I'll begin at the beginning, which was terrible. A strange snarling presence in nearby picturesque hills is sensed by horses in a field, and spooks them. But the director didn't want to scare horses so he filmed a flock of cockatoos flying away with neighing sounds overdubbed to give you the "vibe" of a stampede. Lame does not begin to describe. Incidentally the origin of this snarling turned out to be a panther let loose in the Australian Alps, who made an appearance later on, but had nothing more than a metaphorical relation to the storyline. It was part of the opening scene, and yet it had no impact on the plot whatsoever. This was really, really bad writing.
The hero of the film is a city cop about 25 who moves to the country. He gets' a gruff and nasty reception from the local country cops. They and all the country people in the film are portrayed was either violent rednecks or weak morons. The reason for the move is because the hero's wife needs quiet surroundings because of a troubled pregnancy. After this point is established, the wife and the pregnancy have nothing whatsoever to do with the story. The hero sees his wife for 2 minutes at the start and 2 minutes just before the end. at these times their dialog is nothing more than cooing noises. Basically female characters did not exist in this film and those that do are sheltered from being part of the story.
That wouldn't matter so much if the hero was not also sheltered from being part of the story. The hero does not actually do anything for the entire film that actually affects of diverts the flow of events, he just sorta watches it all happen. He watches as the "bad guy" slaughters a bunch of cops in a remote town one after the other. This execution process is dragged out for 2 hours. There is basically enough action for one 30 min cop show. Typical of most Aussie scripts there is really really poor timing and contempt for the audiences desire to actually be entertained.
But back to the hero. He did have a tiny bit of an arc, because at the beginning he admitted to his commanding officer that he was unable to shoot a kid back in the city who pulled a gun on him, resulting in himself being shot (but clearly surviving). When he justifies his action to his CO saying "maybe he just needed help, not a bullet". The other cop's reply is "We'd be having a very different conversation if you were dead". Actually, they wouldn't be having a conversation at all. But stupid dialog aside, the hero's arc is to try an overcome his inability to shoot people. He achieves this in the end when he all-off-a-sudden discovers he has a quick-draw super-accurate shooting arm. Duh.
But the worst part about the film was not it's poor pacing, irrelevant characters and b-stories, implausible scenarios or character actions. It was it's predictability. About 15 mins into the film we find out, thanks to the cliche of a news report in the background, that an inmate has escaped prison, and is armed and dangerous, and he's aboriginal. It was clear at that point that this person was the "bad guy" but he could never be the real bad guy and the real bad guys would be racist redneck country cops. Of course those cops had conspired to send an innocent man to jail and he was after payback, and the movie would inevitably and predictably just be a playing out of this revenge tail. At some point later on we would find out the real story and realise that the killer was fully justified in murdering every adult male in a country town.
So the real protagonist is the Aboriginal guy, his name is Jimmy. But he is not given an dialog until the very end when he gets one line. He just looks scary and kills people. Is that racist? Probably. Anyway the white hero has nothing do to because the righteous path is being followed by the aboriginal guy as he dispatches all the cops and other bumkins, and if the hero disrupted the carnage then that would be against the flow of the morality tale. In fact the hero aides this process. It is the hero's inability to shoot crims that precipitates this whole chain of events when he fails in his duty to protect the town from the escapee, by putting down his gun when confronted by him on the high road on the edge of town. It doesn't occur to the hero that an armed ex-con is entering the town where his pregnant wife and child are located, bent on slaughter. Or maybe it does, but he has some sixth sense that the man aiming a gun at his head does not want to kill anyone who doesn't deserve it. I mean as if. As it happens the Aboriginal guy does not shoot the hero at this point because the hero manages to clumsily fall off a cliff instead. Talk about a useless cop.
At the end (i presume anyone reading this far does not care about spoilers) the white hero finds out the full story of what the locals did to Jimmy and his wife before Jimmy was sent to jail. He does not find this out from detective work. He just get's lucky and finds a repentant redneck who spills the beans before hanging himself. Once again the hero cop fails to stop someone from dying. Then he calls for backup from a nearby town and tries to arrest the real bad guys. It is at this point he discovers he is a crack shot when he has to kill a couple of yokels, in self defense naturally. But Jimmy the Aboriginal guy is given the honour of killing the head yokel (i'm tellin ya he's the real protagonist) and he does this in full view of the cops just arrived from the nearby town. Of course these cops dont know the full story and respond by killing the Aboriginal guy. The white hero once again just watches on as this all unfolds without any of his input. THE END.
There you have it. Predictable crap. I'm sorry to say it but Australian scripts are piles of shit. NZ films take a massive dump on ours.
Incidentally the movie was worth going to because beforehand i saw a trailer for a remake of True Grit coming out with Jeff Bridges playing the old part of John Wayne. I so badly hope they redo the classic line "If I ever meet a Texan who didn't drink out of horse's hoofprint i'll shake his hand". Now that is a script.
Australian films will never be any good again until we re-adopt the mantra in Mad Max: "We're giving the people back their heroes".
I'll begin at the beginning, which was terrible. A strange snarling presence in nearby picturesque hills is sensed by horses in a field, and spooks them. But the director didn't want to scare horses so he filmed a flock of cockatoos flying away with neighing sounds overdubbed to give you the "vibe" of a stampede. Lame does not begin to describe. Incidentally the origin of this snarling turned out to be a panther let loose in the Australian Alps, who made an appearance later on, but had nothing more than a metaphorical relation to the storyline. It was part of the opening scene, and yet it had no impact on the plot whatsoever. This was really, really bad writing.
The hero of the film is a city cop about 25 who moves to the country. He gets' a gruff and nasty reception from the local country cops. They and all the country people in the film are portrayed was either violent rednecks or weak morons. The reason for the move is because the hero's wife needs quiet surroundings because of a troubled pregnancy. After this point is established, the wife and the pregnancy have nothing whatsoever to do with the story. The hero sees his wife for 2 minutes at the start and 2 minutes just before the end. at these times their dialog is nothing more than cooing noises. Basically female characters did not exist in this film and those that do are sheltered from being part of the story.
That wouldn't matter so much if the hero was not also sheltered from being part of the story. The hero does not actually do anything for the entire film that actually affects of diverts the flow of events, he just sorta watches it all happen. He watches as the "bad guy" slaughters a bunch of cops in a remote town one after the other. This execution process is dragged out for 2 hours. There is basically enough action for one 30 min cop show. Typical of most Aussie scripts there is really really poor timing and contempt for the audiences desire to actually be entertained.
But back to the hero. He did have a tiny bit of an arc, because at the beginning he admitted to his commanding officer that he was unable to shoot a kid back in the city who pulled a gun on him, resulting in himself being shot (but clearly surviving). When he justifies his action to his CO saying "maybe he just needed help, not a bullet". The other cop's reply is "We'd be having a very different conversation if you were dead". Actually, they wouldn't be having a conversation at all. But stupid dialog aside, the hero's arc is to try an overcome his inability to shoot people. He achieves this in the end when he all-off-a-sudden discovers he has a quick-draw super-accurate shooting arm. Duh.
But the worst part about the film was not it's poor pacing, irrelevant characters and b-stories, implausible scenarios or character actions. It was it's predictability. About 15 mins into the film we find out, thanks to the cliche of a news report in the background, that an inmate has escaped prison, and is armed and dangerous, and he's aboriginal. It was clear at that point that this person was the "bad guy" but he could never be the real bad guy and the real bad guys would be racist redneck country cops. Of course those cops had conspired to send an innocent man to jail and he was after payback, and the movie would inevitably and predictably just be a playing out of this revenge tail. At some point later on we would find out the real story and realise that the killer was fully justified in murdering every adult male in a country town.
So the real protagonist is the Aboriginal guy, his name is Jimmy. But he is not given an dialog until the very end when he gets one line. He just looks scary and kills people. Is that racist? Probably. Anyway the white hero has nothing do to because the righteous path is being followed by the aboriginal guy as he dispatches all the cops and other bumkins, and if the hero disrupted the carnage then that would be against the flow of the morality tale. In fact the hero aides this process. It is the hero's inability to shoot crims that precipitates this whole chain of events when he fails in his duty to protect the town from the escapee, by putting down his gun when confronted by him on the high road on the edge of town. It doesn't occur to the hero that an armed ex-con is entering the town where his pregnant wife and child are located, bent on slaughter. Or maybe it does, but he has some sixth sense that the man aiming a gun at his head does not want to kill anyone who doesn't deserve it. I mean as if. As it happens the Aboriginal guy does not shoot the hero at this point because the hero manages to clumsily fall off a cliff instead. Talk about a useless cop.
At the end (i presume anyone reading this far does not care about spoilers) the white hero finds out the full story of what the locals did to Jimmy and his wife before Jimmy was sent to jail. He does not find this out from detective work. He just get's lucky and finds a repentant redneck who spills the beans before hanging himself. Once again the hero cop fails to stop someone from dying. Then he calls for backup from a nearby town and tries to arrest the real bad guys. It is at this point he discovers he is a crack shot when he has to kill a couple of yokels, in self defense naturally. But Jimmy the Aboriginal guy is given the honour of killing the head yokel (i'm tellin ya he's the real protagonist) and he does this in full view of the cops just arrived from the nearby town. Of course these cops dont know the full story and respond by killing the Aboriginal guy. The white hero once again just watches on as this all unfolds without any of his input. THE END.
There you have it. Predictable crap. I'm sorry to say it but Australian scripts are piles of shit. NZ films take a massive dump on ours.
Incidentally the movie was worth going to because beforehand i saw a trailer for a remake of True Grit coming out with Jeff Bridges playing the old part of John Wayne. I so badly hope they redo the classic line "If I ever meet a Texan who didn't drink out of horse's hoofprint i'll shake his hand". Now that is a script.
Australian films will never be any good again until we re-adopt the mantra in Mad Max: "We're giving the people back their heroes".
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