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Matthew and Mitch deep dive into the 2019 horror extravaganza the Furies! With lots to say about gender politics and lots of murders to occur, there is no end in sight for the things they can discuss!
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Transcript
Introduction to 'On The Southern Screens'
00:00:04
Speaker
I am the night rain. You're terrible Muriel. Talk to me. You gonna do that Pogger Pogger? You've been talking the cops. Today is a brand new No, that's it. It's the vibe.
Discussion on Australian Intonation
00:00:17
Speaker
G'day, fellow Aussie film lovers, and welcome to another episode of On The Southern Screens, the most vaguely mythology-related Australian cinema podcast. I'm Mitch. And I'm Matthew, and we're back? I like the way you did a classic Aussie intonation where it's up at the end of a sentence when you're not actually proposing a question. I like all my statements to be questions. It's called...
Spoiler Alert & Film Focus Clarification
00:00:43
Speaker
Messing with the other person in basic conversation. That's what it's called. That's exactly what I was thinking. I was going to say being free, but I forgot the word. Free. I remember back in my, this is Matt Law, back in my years in acting school, had an English acting teacher who actually got really annoyed when we would do that, when we would finish a sentence on a high. When it wasn't a question. see what you're saying. did it wrong. Yeah, exactly. it wrong. When you bring attention to it, it's like the weirdest thing ever. It's a subconscious thing that Aussies do and no other culture in Australia does it. In Australia or the world?
00:01:24
Speaker
What's the movie we're watching today, Mitch? Well, today issuing another spoiler warning. yes It's classic um on the southern screens formula. We issue a spoiler warning. Yes, the tradition at this point. Yes. For the 2019 The Furies. Not The Furries. I must stress. Not The Furries. Not The Furries. I had to ask before I watched this. You had to check. Is there actually an Australian film called The Furries? Let me check right now. No, there is no Australian film or any film for that matter called The Burries. So you're telling me there's a gap in the market? Just when I think they'll make a movie just for me, we're out of luck. Yeah, because you're stuck with your FNAF films. Screen Australia, you know what to do, mate. Get out that development funding ASAP. Make another Nicolas Cage FNAF ripoff, but this time i'll do it Australian. Yes.
00:02:13
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. We don't need to about this. We need to talk about The Furies,
Overview and Critique of 'The Furies'
00:02:16
Speaker
mate. The Furies. What made you choose this film this week? I need to know. Well, I wanted to watch a fun, gory, messy time. I'd seen this before when I was 19. I bought the Blu-ray. Yes, okay, cool. Because I support films. good boy and i remember really enjoying this but well we'll see if my opinions have changed that's it we'll take a little journey mate we can track where my values lie as a film enjoyer i was younger versus now it's an interesting thought experiment mate it's like going back to austin powers as an adult like is it as funny as you remember probably not is an elongated pissing scene for two minutes as funny as you remember probably not bro is the furies as good as you remember let me hit you with my little intro I have here. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Go for it, lad. In a patriarchal world run by horrible men who exploit women and their bodies for both profit and pleasure, enjoy a movie centered on watching a bunch of young women die in the middle of nowhere.
00:03:14
Speaker
Not only that, but they get killed by a bunch of faceless men whose main character trait is having a mask and no morals. Follow Kayla, an epileptic woman who loves following the rules, and her rule-breaking friend, whose name doesn't matter because she's in the movie for two seconds as they try to survive a round of the deadliest game. In the filmic equivalent of mashing two types of genre together, the battle royale, a la the Japanese film Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, and the slasher, such as Friday the 13th and Halloween, come together for you to enjoy all your characters being annoying as crap, or actually not being characters at all.
00:03:46
Speaker
Eight women called beauties are linked to eight masked murderers called beasts. If the linked beauty dies, the masked murderer dies too. So it's a race to see how many beauties the beasts can kill as well as protecting their own. But that isn't really played up like that and the people who just kind of run around and killing each other. But don't worry. Kayla's epilepsy was actually just the shine masquerading as a debilitating illness and she can hook into the ocular implants all the contestants in this sick game have. Except only the ones the killers have. So she can see through their eyes and use that to...
00:04:14
Speaker
Find her friend. and and And then also use it to watch her friend die. Oh, no. And then she rips out of her own eyeball because she's based like that. But don't worry. There was also sequel bait. There was. They didn't make it. But it's cool that they thought they would. Hey, mate, everyone's got a dream. yeah What can I say? The Furious 2, let's make it happen, The Furious 2. The extra R denotes that it's some it's like Ghostbusters 2. Like the ghost is holding up the two. But it's two. Two R's. It's furries. It's like holding up a sign with like ah an R sign, you know. no I don't know what I was thinking when I watched this when i was younger. This movie's a bit doggy doo doo. It's such a, now I don't want to judge Mitchell Hale's movie taste at 20 years old, but like it's such a random pick. Were you going through like a horror thing back in the day? Like how did you come across it?
00:05:02
Speaker
Just kind of whatever looked interesting in the JB Hi-Fi Blu-ray section. Oh, hell yeah, brother. I do frequent the JB Hi-Fi Blu-ray section once and twice. That's going to rare treat going forward. They're getting rid of all their Blu-rays. Are they really? They're straight up, like, they're they're dropping stocks and stuff. Yeah, like, I mean, stuff isn't coming out here. Like, physical media is not coming out here. Jesus. Why would you go to JB Hi-Fi otherwise? What the f***?
00:05:23
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I mean, some people like music, apparently. I don't know who they are. And I guess iPhones. You can buy an iPhone there, I think. But yeah, so I watched this and I was like, oh, you know, this is kind of campy, kind of fun. It's a bunch of people killing each other. Some of these kills are kind of cool. But I've since watched a lot more slashes. I've watched a lot more horror. I've watched a lot more movies. In general. He's widened his palette. And this is kind of lackluster
Film Setting, Production, and Feminism
00:05:50
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in a lot of areas. i know films like these, the characters aren't really the important part. But yeah if you think about it, they kind of are actually. Because some of the most iconic characters of all time have come from horror films. I'm talking Ellen Ripley from Alien. I'm talking Laurie Strode from Halloween.
00:06:08
Speaker
I'm talking number of camp counselors in the Friday the 13th movies. Joking. Reference. Yeah, we'll get into it later, but I just have no experience with slasher movies at all. That's fair. I'm a big slasher fan. You said a thing and I said it with a weird intonation, so I'm guessing it was a joke. The problem with this movie is that all the women characters that you're supposed to be rooting for are annoying as balls. They're as annoying as balls. Yeah. I understand that in this situation, I too would be screaming horribly and also being scared. But I'm not in this situation and I'm watching people be in this situation. So I don't want to watch that.
00:06:46
Speaker
Also that Rose character, was it Rose? The, the, um, the, the, the homeschooled character. young girl who looks about like 25. Yeah. She's like 25, but she acts like a 13 year old. Yes. Infuriating character. Yeah. um not Yeah. Even before she turns evil in quotation marks, honestly, her turning evil was the best thing that character could have done. Mitch, I'm holding my tongue, brother. i have much to say. pop off. I think that it's just, and I'm sorry to get on like the whole feminism high horse or whatever. Yes, no, please. Yeah. It's such a slap to the face to make a allegedly pro-women movie. like a whole like the The premise is like, oh, the women are fighting back in this battle royale game, but then just make them the most surface level. The movie starts with one of the characters writing...
00:07:36
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the patriarchy. Yeah, it's just so basic. Milk toast. It's like, yeah, good job, guys. You really made some subversive characters on this one. You got them there, bro. It's like... Good job, 50-year-old white male who wrote this. Well done. Good job. Yeah, who also directed this movie as well. It makes me want to roll my eyes as soon as I see it because there are movies that have done this way better. And again, as you say, as someone who's not really into the slasher genre, into horror movies, because quite frankly, they're a little bit scary for little Matt. Bit spooky. can't get into it because the characters, they don't have a character and they just die after two minutes with no fanfare or it is just the most basic motivation, lacklustre character because we got to get to the next actiony moment, which is signalled only by action music playing with no real sort of threat whatsoever. music in this so i had look at the review i wrote back in the day because i had letterbox back then i've had letterbox for ages and even back then i wrote along the lines of music's kind of insane for what's going on the screen even back then wrote i could recognize that but the music really is going kind of whack wild on this one and it's very star wars prequels like it's like popping off for no reason it's just a bunch of dudes walking through a hangar where in this case it's bunch of people walking through a mining town also mining town reference most australian thing ever go to the quarry mate i worked in the bloody mines for 18 hours yeah honestly real so apparently they filmed it around canberra love a good act movie and the historic mining village of bewong in new south wales i want to bewong as well me too man me too i actually knew someone who worked not knew someone who worked on the film i knew someone whose mom worked on the film oh sick okay we were tangentially related to this production maybe i should say some nicer things about it which there are some things actually do like about this film but anyway i'm sure they don't care what do they do do you know i think they were either producer or i think they were like semi high up in the whole hierarchy of it all is actually my favorite movie we've seen for under sudden screens. get me some development funding real quick? I don't think they listen to the podcast. I mean, the main character eventually locks in. And I'll give her this. The epileptic stuff is like, oh, it's bit spooky because when's it going to happen? could happen when she's in a moment of dire straits whatever. But they never really use it that way. It's never actually really used as a point of tension, except for right at the end. And also, like, why is it called the Furies? Is it just because it's women killing people? Like, there's no actual relation to... It's pretty loose. There's a bigger relation to, like, a Disney movie in this, because they've got the Beauty and the Beast thing going, but they don't really, like, touch into the mythology stuff at all that they implied going happen. yeah it feels like they've read a greek mythology textbook and we're like that go for it i don't know man it's just if you're going to write disability into your movie i think it's gotta have more of a payoff like a great example of this is bring her back that aussie horror film where one of the lead characters is blind and that actually plays into unlocking the mystery and the distrust and the doubt between her and the other characters in story like it actually progresses the story forward as opposed to here where it is hindrance sometimes like maybe but then also it's like a superpower as well because she can unlock her brain and using the i don't know the wi-fi network can travel her ocular nerve through one eye ocular implant into another
00:11:11
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What? I don't buy it. I'm sorry. didn't it. wonder if her ocular eye has NordVPN. This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. That's it. Please sponsor bro. If you are going out into public places. If you are in an Aussie battle royale in the ACT. The idea of slasher villains who are forced to actually team up with their quarries is actually a really interesting idea. But that's not what happens in this at all. Like, there's no point. They're just sort of figures. You know I mean? There's no relation, at least from my perspective of watching the film. And I mean, like, she kills the one that she's attached to, which in all honesty, rightfully so. He did murder a couple other women. He's the one who cuts off that second woman's face, right? Which was a sick kill. I loved that. some of the uh effects are pretty good in this that's my favorite part of the movie actually is just the amount of practical effects but then also just the kills in particular uh someone who has not seen a like a slasher in a little while well that's pretty like you know it's probably basic as hell for the in the wider slasher atmosphere but i thought it was really cool someone them were fun i think there wasn't enough though you get a couple and then there's not a lot you get that part where you get to watch a woman pull out her own eye though from the back that's pretty fun i really enjoyed that part that was that was really cool and as someone who is major like icky ew thing is eye oh it's eye stuff yeah that hit me it's a common ick lot of people don't have it so i feel like they were playing it safe by doing eye stuff i think she's lucky that they didn't put it behind both eyes honestly it's true otherwise which is what was thinking is like how do you not know i Yeah, true, they used the wrong eye. How do you know it's the same eye every single time? It's like naming sheep or whatever, and you put four when there's actually three. It's like they just did it on this one woman just to, like, psych them out. And now she's blind, baby. You don't know, but it's just...
00:13:03
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Mitch's face palming as we're explaining this. understand why they didn't play further into this idea that the beauties and the beasts had to work together. That's the hook of the film. Yeah. Is that you're immune from one of the killers because if they kill you, they die. That wasn't even that apparent to me when watching it, to be honest with you. I think the back of the Blu-ray explains it. I don't think I've seen any online thing saying that though. That's the thing too. Like when you watch it blind, you sort of just dropped in. It's not explained very well. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's not really explained well. And again, movies don't have to explain things like I'm a little baby or whatever. But, you know, just some context would be nice. We start the movie in this forest and she gets saved by another slasher creature. But then we cut to them in the city or whatever and it's her getting captured. Does that scene come back from the start of the movie? No, I think that was a previous round in quotation mark. Was it? Oh, okay. Yeah. At the end of the movie, when Rose won, they say, take the winner and prepare for the next round or something. So I think the idea is that they just keep doing iterations. So this is my thing. didn't realize this the first time. I must've not realized this the first time I watched because I an idiot. No, you just washed over the movie. you what I mean? You ingest it like I've ingested this time. This is something I should have picked. There's no explanation why it's occurring. Yeah, yeah. I figure it must be they wanted to do in the sequel because at the end, the final thing we get is her breaking into some guy's house. She was watching the footage of one of the bad guys. Yes. Like one of the kills we saw earlier, the face cutoff kill. And he's a rich man because he has a Ferrari out the front. And the license plate says Ferrari. Does it really? Did you see that? I didn't even notice that. That's actually hilarious. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I pick up small things like that. I didn't even notice that. But we also know he's rich because his house does things when he talks to it. House, make me a sandwich. Was the house's voice a female voice as well? That'd be
Slasher Tropes and Audience Engagement
00:15:00
Speaker
interesting thematic-wise if it was. Yeah, interesting little... decision but too bad this movie isn't deep poor filmmakers i'm sorry filmmakers of this movie you know so she breaks into the house and she tortures him for information about who else was involved in these hunger games but via halloween aussie fortnight the hunger fortnight the hungry night aussie hungry fortnight i think that's our episode title right aussie hungry fortnight i have to remember that when i upload beautiful She tortures him and then she's seeing the ghost. It's not actually a ghost. It's probably just her being insane.
00:15:34
Speaker
Of her dead friend who does like these palm reading things that they used to use to communicate with each other. Point is, the film is setting up a sequel where she goes off and murders all the people involved with this game, which does sound interesting. But... You have to give us something. Like, the film has to be... Like, the whole conflict is let's get out of this game, but we don't actually understand what the game is until, like, the last five minutes of the movie when she goes after this man. But even then, we don't actually... Is it just for entertainment? Is it just entertainment? Yeah, yeah. He said these playbacks are garbage. He didn't say like, oh, it's not making me any revenue. That's the thing. He's like, these playbacks are garbage. He didn't say then say another line where it's like, the customers or the viewers want to enjoy this or something like that. He just says the playbacks are garbage. like So like, were you doing research? Just give me freaking anything. yeah How can I sell my energy drink now? you know, it's like something like that. How can I? I feel like there's a lot more women in the world than there are bloodthirsty killers. So I just don't understand. Like, are they making the bloodthirsty killers? too it Like, are they taking men and then like mutating the crap out of them or something? Or is it actually just as an epidemic of slasher men in this world as well? Like slasher killers, which is an interesting concept. It's people that watch the Manosphere. They're the people that are the slashers. They just turn into grotesque husks. It's just the Tate brothers. and yeah Yeah, exactly. They see a strong independent woman and they're like, I got her to kill, kill, kill, kill. One of my favorite parts of the movie. Something good is that part when they're in the actual town section itself um and she kills one of the killers by like screwing that twisty thing in. And then the another killer walks in and sees her doing that and they just scream at him and he runs away. like, shit, shit. Yeah, no, the way he moves was pretty funny. He's like, I'm out. I'm not dealing with this. Get me geary out of here. It's just...
00:17:26
Speaker
interesting is interesting the way we want to go with through watching all these movies for this podcast and through my own experiences i understand how difficult it is to get a movie up in this country which is why i feel sort of bad dogging on this little underdog movie do you know what i mean because that yeah again i think that the idea has potential i think that's the kills as someone who hasn't really seen much slasher movies i think they're pretty sick to be honest, especially that that first one where he like rips the face off with the ax, though that was pretty gnarly. I think it's cool that it's shot in Australia. I think that it's interesting that it doesn't really have much Australian-ness in it, but it's just set in Australia, which is something I think is an interesting little sub-genre of our of our nation's cinema. But you just got to, if you're going to swing like this and make something high concept, you got to go all the way with it in movie one. you know what mean? Yeah. You can't just dilly-dally and then pray for a sequel because, as we know, where is it? Yeah, that's the thing. And I think my issue is that I know less than you, but I still know how hard it is to make something. When it comes to screenwriting, you're way better than me. Just wanted to say that for the record. Thank you. Man studies screenwriting. He's a way better screenwriter than I could ever be. That's my one skill. No, no. we're Moving on. Let me be self-deprecating. I love you, Mitch. I love you too. Thank you. Thanks, man.
00:18:46
Speaker
I think my issue is that I think the letterboxing was insane, but I can get over that. It was just really thin, right? Like I wasn't going in insane on that one. They were using like 1.6 anamorphics, which is is not familiar. It was really whack. it just I thought my iPad wasn't working. For me, that the biggest thing that I hated, and it's not a Matt movie prejudice, but like it's getting close, is just how desaturated the movie is. Yeah, I was also i going to suggest that too. look i don't like so I don't like the colour grading of this either. It's shot competently. Yeah, I agree.
00:19:18
Speaker
The acting isn't horrible. i think especially from our lead think she kind of sells the movie more than i think the movie kind of deserves i'm i'm unhappy that i haven't seen her in more stuff i'm sure she maybe is in more stuff i just haven't seen her around but would like to see her in more things i think my gripe is with the script itself yeah i think the plotting and the events that occur it wasn't compelling It's a shame with high concept stuff because you get into the lore, you get into the repercussions, you get into the potential for sequels, but you gotta hit the ground running with some real heat. Do you know what mean? gotta let the audience walk away and feel like they got a complete story, even if you want to tell more. Lord the Rings, right? You get a complete narrative in the first film, even though you know there's two more movies and it leaves it massively open for the sequels to occur. And you get the You get world building, you get a lot of character work. You're invested in the characters so when they set up for their journeys going forward, you're more interested. Whereas in this, it's kind like, I don't know what Kayla's deal is, except that she didn't want to break rules and now she breaks rules. And she was living a suburban life with her. yeah. And she was going go uni. So she's what, like 19, 18 maybe? Yeah, I guess so. And now she's thrust into this atmosphere. And again, that's where sort of the problematic aspects of it come out because it's like one part of me is like, are they trying to do the narrative of like, let's see what a dumb Gen Z woke person would do in this life or death situation? didn't even get that read from it, but okay. I don't know. That's sort of how it read to me, at least. Sure. Especially when it's only women that are in the events and it's only the main characters start with the pulp, the patriarchy, graffiti thing. And it's just eye roll.
00:21:05
Speaker
Eye roll for me, at least. but The only part of the friendship we see between her and the friend that she's looking for from the whole movie... is just her friend being a complete twat to her so her friend goes you need to break more rules and then the main character kayla goes no i don't like breaking rules it's hard for me because i have epilepsy the the friend goes oh my god you and your epilepsy always moaning alone about it always complaining always being a little dick about it can you like just not be like epilepsy It's like, are you serious right now? Yeah, interesting. Interesting. Where's the empathy here? Like, this is your friend, dude. Like, yeah why are you treating her this way? And then they leave and she gets kidnapped. And then they both get kidnapped and they don't see each other until the part of the film where the friend's throat then gets cut because Rose is an insane person. What do you think of that character? trend I guess it's a big twist, right? That Rose becomes the villain. So I'd forgotten a lot what happens in this movie. It's okay.
00:22:00
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I'd never seen it either. I figured The Friend wouldn't survive just because that's how these movies usually work. Okay. But I completely forgot about Rose and I forgot about how the movie ended. rose is just an insane character and not in a good way. No disrespect to the actor who is playing it exactly as written. I think she's done a perfect job at doing what she was told to do.
00:22:18
Speaker
don't think what she was told to do was correct though. And that's not her fault. I think, once again, the script is irritating. My favorite line was, I'm not scared, I'm Rose. Yeah. Oh my God. I thought that was really funny. It's this weird like dichotomy, not dichotomy, but like this weird back and forth between her being an absolute idiot and completely incapable of doing anything herself and being a complete and utter waste of space. little NPC. An NPC. Yeah. like someone to be protected but then also just having these moments of like recognizing epileptic fits and putting two and two together about which beast was coming towards them so then killing the friend yeah like yeah what is this character are you trying to say just like homeschooled people are nuts like what is going on i mean they are but like not like this bringing out the bold claims yeah think it's just like come at me homeschooled people no jk you're gonna love you you're great But yeah, it just feels like she's written to be dumb when the script needs her to be dumb. know what I mean? it's just so un-nuanced. And I guess there's
Reflections on Film Production in Australia
00:23:20
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the whole character trait of her not wanting to be alone and being abandoned and stuff and coddled, I guess, is the motivation behind that. It's compelling, but it just, again, it comes up when the script needs it to come up and it isn't natural. know, it doesn't flow. Maybe what they were trying to go for with her was that she was worried that her friend Kayla was going to abandon her now that she found her new friend. Yeah. So she killed her, but it doesn't come out that way. It just comes out as her thinking she's doing the right thing to survive this encounter with one of the beasts. Weird. Weird and wackadoo.
00:23:55
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So if she'd killed the friend in a situation that wasn't like that, like maybe they went to sleep and then woke up and found the friend dead or something like that. And it's like, oh, one of the beasts mother got it. But then like, why didn't the one of the beasts get one of us as well? Like why'd they only take, you know, stuff like that. like Building that distrust. like ah Like an Enemy Within type thing as well. Because then they try something like that with the blonde lady whose name I don't remember, but she just gets mulched immediately. Sheena, I think. Sheena or something like Sheena. That's a very Australian name. Sheena. Sheena, mate. You want to go listen to some Daryl Braithwaite? I don't know. those um
00:24:29
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It's like this interesting storytelling that could have been done through this. Like this interesting... because not even that's were you spooked you're not a horror guy right like i wasn't too spooked i thought the only times i felt like oh icky was like when the eye stuff was happening but that wasn't even spooks it was just like icky yeah yeah icky slashes don't necessarily have to be horror right but no they don't have to inherently be but they have to be tense though Yeah, okay, yeah, I see that. Either you have to have created a bunch of really horrible characters that you're excited to see get murdered, which these guys aren't, it just feels mean when they're murdered, or you create a bunch of likable characters because you know what movie they're in, and some of them have to die and you don't want them to. And that's the more effective option, I would say. Look, i I enjoy a movie where I want all the people suck and I'm happy for them to die, but I also, I like both. I like both versions and this is neither. Yeah, especially when the movie was like starting and people were just dying left and right. Kayla would meet someone and then you'd think, okay, this is the sidekick throughout the movie and then they'd die. yeah And then like two minutes later, there'd be another person that comes in and it would happen like three or four times. And it's just, at that point, it just becomes muddled in my opinion. Yes. But what would I know? What would I know, man? What would we know? There's something i just want to bring up like as like a thing throughout this podcast. It's been an interesting relationship with me critiquing media because like I'm not the biggest fan of like being like, this movie that hundreds of people poured money, blood, sweat and tears into sucked, especially because like I'm like in that industry and stuff. So it's an interesting relationship that I have to criticism on this podcast. Brothers by the Chris Stuckerman. oh my god yeah um' we're only gonna review good australian movies no i don't know man i just it's just something i've been wrestling with think it's i agree because there's like a part of me that doesn't really want to rag on a film even though i've spent this whole podcast this whole episode ragging on this movie i think you know maybe rough maybe i shouldn't have but i guess if the movie permits it you know we haven't just said the movie sucks we've discussed like what we think worked well yeah that's true i think it's helpful for us as creatives to pick apart things and see what does and doesn't work i think it's helpful for other people out there to
Community Engagement and Next Episode Preview
00:26:40
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hear the the thoughts and the opinions that they might not even agree with yeah yeah because i'm not saying that we are we're not correct yeah this is our opinion this is yeah we're just this is the most subjective podcast of all time anything about art is subjective there's yeah i hold the belief that there is a level of objectivity in certain things but overall it is subjective i don't know we're trying to create a product here as well we're trying to be interesting we're trying to try yeah we're trying to be engaging the movie guys yeah i get you i get you often are pretty positive and i think we've been decently positive about this movie too yeah yeah yeah you know in some ways yeah it's important to show that there's some failings in here that it went for something about social change that i don't think it did a very good job of doing and i think it
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shows that we need more perspectives in the film industry to make something like this with probably like the touch of someone who's not a white straight male you've done more than i've ever done with a film genuinely like you can hold that over us i hold no ill will over this movie and look i think in terms of its messaging i think it's not offensive i think you could say a lot worse things in a movie you know what mean say a lot worse things and you could do it a lot more poorly I think you needed another se if few guys on that script. I think you had a really good idea, um but damn, tighten that script up and figure out what was interesting about this idea a little bit more, I think. And make it funny as well. Add some funniness. Add a few jokes and funniness. Yeah, make it funny. This is really dire. If I was ever to make a slasher movie, I would have just one character that would be like the whole, you believe this shit? guy like you know what mean what like a marvel film no not even quippy but just like a guy that like critiques and bs's their way through the whole movie brother has clearly never seen scream yeah i haven't i haven't actually so you should watch scream you'd enjoy scream from the sounds of it yeah one day can i give my top australian thing of all time can mitchell what's the most australian thing about the
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far The furries. I think the most Australian thing about the furries is that there is a mining town that got turned into a tourist attraction and it it has Eureka in its name. yeah That's it. Get on that Salver and Hill train. Salver and Hill. Yeah, it's Eureka Creek, I think was what this town was called. Eureka Creek. mate can we do a field trip to sovereign hill please wait you want us to go to a sovereign yes is there a movie about that blockade the sovereign what's it called eureka stockade or whatever let me see let me look it up there's surely a movie about that there's one from 1949 also let's watch that and go to sovereign hill it's a british film like i coined a wikipedia so we can't and it's about us though we can talk about it very very true Matt, where can they find us to um tell us that our negative opinions were incorrect? Yeah, well, you can give us hate mail at ah threads, Instagram, and you can watch our TikToks. I don't know if TikTok has a messaging feature. They can message us.
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They can message us on it. Give it a bloody crack. That's all I'll say. See if can have a go. See if it works. See if you can handle it, mate. See if it bloody works, eh? Yeah. at undersouthernscreenspod but then if you don't know how to use the TikTok messaging feature give us an email at undersouthernscreenspod at gmail.com fantastic and also please please don't send us hate mail like you're doing alright you're doing okay like I've seen lot worse movies dude but We'll probably watch a lot worse for this podcast. Yeah, probably will too, yeah. We would love it if you would leave
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a review and perhaps put a five-star rating. If you think it's worth it, mate. If you think it's worth it. If you don't think it's worth it, leave nothing. but Yeah, we'd really appreciate your five-star patronage, mate. Really enjoy that if you gave My serotonin would be... very my endorphins would be lifted mate wait is Sarah trying to think that sends you to sleep yeah we don't know much but we're not looking it up what's the movie for next week the movie for the next week of under sudden screens i leave the movie for next week greatest movie very topical open the canal gonna bomb Iran
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Very, very topical. Very topical. One month ago. What a gross man. The movie for next week. We're going back into modern Australian cinema town. We are watching the 2026 Netflix film Apex starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. I was going to say we should watch that. It's been on my Instagram feed. Yeah, it's on the feed. I've been getting it a lot. I love how every realer is like, can you believe that Eggsy from Kigsman is doing an Aussie accent? It's not even that good, to be honest with I've heard it. I think I have opinions, but I shall wait to watch the full thing before, and also the actual episode before I give Give him a little teaser, mate. What do you reckon?
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Give the scoop. I'm going to be real. It was like a really quick cut together. like yeah it was like socialified or whatever. Yeah, it was a socialified version. It was something. It was something. it it was it was character It was a character, that's for sure. And if you want to find out what character, tune in next week for the Apex episode. movie. 2026. 2026 on Netflix. Buzz.
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I think it's time to end. Mitch. Yeah, we need to cut this out. End the podcast right now. Bye, everyone. And keep an eye on them southern screens.
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Thanks for listening to another episode of Under Southern Screens. We'll be back next week to talk more films down under. We just want to attribute that our opening title is Heavy Duty by Zoo and our closing title is Heavy Weight by Fell Creek. Thanks so much for listening and Mitch and I will see you in the next episode. See you next time.
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Under Southern Screens would like to acknowledge the stolen lands on which this podcast is recorded and produced and pay tribute to the Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation and Kamaragal people of the Eora Nation.
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Sovereignty was never ceded and we pay respect to all Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.