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It's time to Go (Chemical Brothers, 2015) - Apex (2026)
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Matthew and Mitch find themselves out in the bush once again, duking it out with the scariest thing of all! A British man who says he's Aussie!
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Pop Culture Quotes & Introduction
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I am the night rider. You're terrible Muriel. Talk to me. You gonna do that Pogger Pogger? You've been talking the cop. Today is a brand new No, that's it. It's the vibe.
00:00:17
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G'day fellow Aussie film lovers and welcome to another episode of Under Southern Screens, the most scrawly Australian cinema podcast. I am scrawly! And I'm Matthew. that was I was not expecting that. i told you I was going avant-garde with this one. He said it before we started recording, I'm going to go really avant-garde. with
Avant-Garde Humor & Editing
00:00:36
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this one. I didn't expect it to not be a language. Oh, okay. There we go. He's one with nature, yes Mitch Hale today. i like to whistle like a bird. Hold on, let's see. We're going to do it.
00:00:49
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Oh, that was good. That's good. Yeah, there we go. And people then say, hey, Mitchell, bird is that? And I go, I don't know. You'd be a good ornithologist. The Haley tit. There you go. Well, you know, he's got two of them. But anyway. Boobs. Can we cut that? Can we cut that?
00:01:04
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we got the Man boobs. It's my favorite like quote from Summer
Film 'Apex' Discussion & Spoilers
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Heights High is when the the teacher, he like goes up to the whiteboard and just writes on the whiteboard, man boobs. It's so long since I watched that show. It'll be 20 years since it came out next year. So that's a little good niche thing for you there. not as Maybe we should watch it. I'd be down. Well, it is. Because it's only one season, Yeah, one season, limited series. I reckon 20th anniversary. Let's get it going. That's next year, you said? Yeah, yeah keep it in the bank. If we're still doing this, which I hope we are, i i i yeah i absolutely yeah I say we do it. It'll be better than watching straight to Netflix action stuff like today. That sounds bad. ah It sounds like I hated the movie that we watched today. I didn't. But anyway, what are we watching? Today i am going to say watch out.
00:01:52
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Because we're getting hunted by a film, Apex. The spoilers are going to catch Yeah, we're being hunted by the spoilers. That's what we're being hunted Yeah, that was the bit I should have gone for instead of itself. That's right. We'll sometimes need a little comedic leg up, and that's why we're a little Yeah, exactly. That's why we're a doer. I listen back to all our episodes just to see kind of where we can, not we, where I can do better. Same here. I do that as well. Also just to make sure that the, like, I know you check it when you do it because you do most of the um editing, but I just like to make sure that, you know, in case you missed any, like. If Mitch says like a racial slur in the middle of the podcast, he wants to double check. Yeah. When i dropped the um the slurs, I like to make sure that you've took them out instead tricking me. And and then you're like, I have. And then I listen back and go, no, you haven't. There's one right there. That's it. You haven't said anything yet that could end your career. No, but I've gotten close.
00:02:41
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um Jury's still out. There's a lot of things I say and I don't like that because it frustrates me. when Because now I hear it when I'm talking and I go, this pisses me off. You've become hypercognizant of your analytical voice. I'm the exact same, honestly. I think we're just bad at this.
00:03:01
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It's alright. We have a lot of confidence in our podcasting dreams. We're still learning. We're new. We're going to turn a page. We've just watched the Netflix movie Apex. This is a new era for under southern screens. We have. We've gone to Netflix. We've gone to Netflix. We're streaming. We're just like Auntie Donna. Oh my gosh. I wish. don't even think it's just deliberate. We managed to watch two movies back to back about women being chased by psychopaths in the Australian wilderness. Very true. Very, very true. I forgot about that. This wasn't deliberate on your part, was it? Can be honest? I completely forgot we watched The Furies last week.
00:03:36
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I guess that just goes to show like... How little it stayed. Either that or if you think your film idea is wholly original and you're reinventing the wheel, you're not. They differ in a lot of different in a lot of ways, but the base concept... I mean, to be fair, you boil anything down far enough, it's like everything else. You boil anything down, it evaporates. You boil anything down, you're left with a pot. Damn straight.
00:03:58
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Should I get into the intro this week, Yeah, yeah. Let's let's do it. Let's intro it. Let's rock and roll. sounded so sad. It's okay. I'm sorry. That wasn't meant to be. This week on Under Southern Screens, we're taking a look at Apex, a brand new rip-roaring survival action thriller film released in April 2026 that feels like if Uncharted had about 15% more cannibalism. We follow adrenaline junkie Sasha, played by Charlize Theron, as she decides to take a gap year to Australia
Critiquing 'Apex' - Accents & Direction
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in substitute for getting a real job as an accountant or sales coordinator at Baker's Delight or something. That's a crazy pull, sorry.
00:04:35
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That's what I do. I like spice things up a little. She does this because her husband... It is a question mark, to be fair. It could just been a boyfriend. Who knows? Tommy, played by Eric Banner, unfortunately dies in a horrific rock climbing accident, which is sad for Sasha, but good for Eric Banner as this is probably the easiest paycheck he's ever gotten for 20 minutes of screen time. While in Australia, Sasha partakes in Australia's natural wonders, but comes across the greatest threat to a backpacker traveling around Australia, crazy British men. Namely, Taron Egerton, playing the character Ben. I think he's Welsh. Is he?
00:05:09
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I think Taron Egerton's Welsh. No, but they say British. They say British film. in the movie, he's British. But also, he's Australian, though, because he's, like, first generation. That's true. Wait, what did he live in Britain? bitlin I don't remember Britain. This is unimportant. don't know why I'm doing this It's good to fact check and don't. Yeah, even though was was wrong.
00:05:28
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Ben takes a particular interest in Sasha and what follows is about an hour and a half of cat and mouse with epic wilderness stunts and a little bit of bad Australian accent play just to keep the stakes high.
00:05:40
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This film was directed by Baltazar Kumakar, sick name. Mm. and was filmed in the Blue Mountains in Sydney in February 2025. Apex is an interesting watch, as it feels like if someone ran a script through an Ausploitation theme generator about 10 times, to the point where any impact or gratuity is smoothed clean, but it does have sick whitewater rafting, so that's cool. What did you think of Apex, Mitchell Hale? I must know. i mean, it's just a race. It's okay. Yeah. It's okay.
00:06:09
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it's a movie man i thought that the furies was probably the most aggressively fine movie i think we've topped it it a week later this is better than the furies i agree yep i do agree with that so that kind of means the furies drops on the tier scale well that's fair enough the longer we watch more movies yeah you know the worst movies are gonna get i mean i'm sure there are weird mob is now at the bottom now what was there from the beginning yeah true yeah there's not a single movie we have watched that i've disliked more than a weird one Well, we got to fix that next week. I was talking to you about this before on the Instagrams. I'd seen one movie of
Film Design & Audience Engagement
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this director's previously, which I didn't know. So he did the 2022 Idris Elba led Beast, which is a movie where Idris Elba fights a lion in... Africa. That sounds awesome. I remember having a good time. Now, it was 2022. I saw it in cinema. So I was a younger man. And as you recall from last week, my younger film opinions maybe should be held with a grain of salt. He's an evolved man. I think there's statute of limitations on film opinions. I agree with that 100%. People grow. People grow, people change. If you hear an opinion of mine about a film that's about three or four years old, you can kind of ignore it, I think. Disregard that. Because every once in a while, I'll go onto your
Technical Critique of 'Apex'
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letterbox and I'll see like i'll watch a movie and I'll see a review from you from 2017 or something like that. And I'm like, wow, bro is active in his film opinions. Yeah. Even the back then. Anything between 2017 to 2018 is backdated by me so i kept... a lot of all new movies i watched in what month i watched them in on ah a section of my notes that's awesome on my iphone and then i found out about letterbox so i backdated all of that so that would have been an effort all those reviews are actually from 2019 it's like a modern day australian kevin mccarthy he just loves the movies so i do love film so much Is it just me, and I know that we should be talking about the film, but do you get a slight ick when you see like those film enthusiast interviewers on like Instagram reels and stuff, and they like take up five minutes at the end of their interview just to show the star their film journal? And it's just like the entire, like it's the same concept every single time, and it's just like, oh, it's it's just a movie that you were in. Yeah. What does the actor gain from that, and what do I, as the viewer, do? I don't know if I get an ick, but I do cringe. Yeah, it's just... I do find it hard to watch. There's one guy who asks really good questions, but then he also does that. I don't deny that they're good interviewers. I just think that that aspect is, you know...
00:08:45
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It's a bit weird. They have a level of familiarity. parasocial. Yeah, they have a level of parasocial familiarity with the actors, and it just makes me really, like, I get cringey watching because I can kind of, look, I'm not in the actors' minds, so I don't know this, but looks like the actors aren't on board with the level of familiarity. Well, I think Just because they're in that chair all day. This is the 17th person you've seen this hour. Exactly. How can you gain any sort of emotional bond between... Firstly, if you're on an interview time limit. And then secondly, the only connection they show you is a ticket stub from a movie that you shot 20 years ago. And you're not here to talk about the movie. You're here to about the movie that you did now. Exactly. Yeah, it's weird. Anyway, that's just my opinion. This movie. You mentioned that you didn't like Terry Richardson's accent. Look...
00:09:30
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yeah you want to give your opinion actually first don't know man look i think on the scale of australian accents done by not australians at the very top there's caitlin deaver from apple cider vinegar who i don't know if you've seen that show but it's fantastic we'll have to watch it it's like it's fantastic and then at the very end of the scale trying to think awful aussie accent i'm thinking the two actors in um anyone but you because they filmed that in australia and they didn't get australians to do the If they did get Australians, those guys hammed it up way too much. And if they didn't get Australians, garbage accent. Taron Egerton, it's not bad, but it's very accentuated, that makes any sense. It's very exaggerated. was thinking about this the day after I watched it. The way I'd describe it is it's definitely a stereotypical Australian accent that you kind of wouldn't really get an Australian doing. Yeah. But it's kind of legitimized in a way because he does some idiosyncrasies with his voice that are very recognizable as Australian. It's not brilliant, but he does kind of legitimize it in some ways. Like, I actually don't mind this I would have thought it'd be really cool. To get an Australian to do it? Well, yes, to get an Australian to do it because that would actually be freaking awesome. Yeah. Because they say in the movie, and we said this before, they say, oh, he's from Britain or whatever. His family's from Britain whatever. How sick would it be if halfway through the film we find out that he's crazy or whatever? He's just putting on the accent. He's just putting on an accent. That would be actually so good. He switches to his normal from Kingsman accent. There was a moment right after Charlize Theron Sasha broke his leg. When he like said a line in pain or something and I think a little bit of British slipped out. I thought that that could have been, what a cool direction that could have gone in. But again, that's really cool. Yeah. I think in terms of like, and I said, same problem with like biopics where people complain that, oh, the actor doesn't look anything like the star accent work. I think though I'm making a big deal about it in the intro and stuff like that, it obviously didn't really hinder my opinions on the film. I just think overall this film's just kind of meh. Do you mean? agree. It's very meh. It feels like the film believes that it has these surprises and revelations that are in store for you. But I saw a lot of these revelations and stuff coming forward. Yeah, yeah. Now, if you didn't, that's fine. I watch a lot of movies. I just know how a lot of movies go. That's just kind of how it is. You consume a lot of one type media.
00:11:49
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You start to see a lot of patterns in that type of media. see the patterns. It's like when people go to a footy game and they're able to judge who's going to win. Yeah, they can start predicting scores and stuff like that. Patterns. It's exactly the same. This is not just a film thing. This is just I can do it for film because I've seen so much. And also we studied for this as well. And we also studied film. Like this is my thing. This is my little niche. I can't do it for anything else. I'm sorry. I feel people who don't see film the same way you and I see film would still get the reveals. So I'm talking about like, as soon as he mentioned that he made the jerky, I was like, that's human. Yeah. Yeah. That's human meat.
00:12:29
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Also, there's that part at the start where she's messing up the climb. Eric Banner is going, don't worry, you got this. um I'm like, that exact kind of climb right there is going to be like the last thing she has to do at the end of the film. And yeah well yeah I think I was right. Yeah, I was, wasn't I? The whole ending is about it. The whole ending is like the climb and then she has to do a very similar, like, around. like and she bloody Mission Impossible 2's it. What a reference, what reference, what reference.
00:12:53
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I think the structures are very, very clear. And again, for a general audience, I can see it working, but I feel like if there was just a little bit more depth in the way it's structured, that could be cool. The other thing too, and I keep hearing all these rumors that, oh, new Netflix movies, new Netflix shows are being amended to like- keep attention spans and stuff like that. Especially at the start when Sasha and Eric Bana's character on that mountain, it felt like they were explaining everything they were doing. They were like, all right, I'm going cut the wire now. And then there's a shot of them doing it. And I get that maybe that would be the case when they're on a mountain and stuff. But it just felt like they were trying to keep attention for the audience while they were on their phone and stuff. It's just, yeah. They design content around the idea that you're not actually watching it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Which is a horrendous design brief. I agree. I 100% agree with that. When you make a piece of content, you should expect it to be watched. Do know I mean? As a viewer, it is your duty to meet whatever you're viewing on the level that it is expecting to be met Exactly. And when it comes to a movie, the expectation is that you freaking watch And if you're not paying attention and you're on your phone, that's not the problem of the filmmaker to try and re-engage. That's a problem with the audience member. Now, that's not to say there aren't boring movies or there aren't movies that suck.
00:14:18
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But as soon as the movie starts, you've whipped out your phone. Your opinion's a little bit invalid. You haven't engaged. It's like if a book repeated lines or like use specific
Analysis of 'Apex' Execution
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words in larger font to keep attention. Which is what eight like books for eight-year-olds do. Yes. They don't have the attention span to read Ulysses yet. But anyway, like again, small nitpicks as the movie went on, it became more oratory based, you know, sound design, you know, the cinematography I thought became a little bit better. It was nice that the Australian Outback was kind of colorful, maybe a little oversaturated, but it was nice. It was okay. i also The thing I do like about this film is that it was compact. It wasn't a larger narrative. There was yeah three characters, pretty much. Three ones that you spend proper time with, yeah. And it's just a singular story, a singular narrative. yeah It doesn't try and sequel bait by having Sasha go to Ben's family's abode. Sorry. It's just as simple. It's contained. The reveals are paid off. One reveal that I didn't see coming was that Ben ate his mum. Nora. Oh, that was cool. And it was conveyed subtly, I think, as well. i You got that? Because there's part of the start where she makes a joke about his mum. I was like, nah, he straight up killed his mum. When he says like, oh, you were the first she was the first or whatever. It's like, oh, you know what I mean? just like yeah What I find a bit confusing with this film is it seems to take a little bit of time to try and humanize Ben. Yes. And I'm not exactly sure what the point was because by the time they try and do that, he's beyond redemption. He's a yeah mass murderer. He's a creep. And the thing is we don't even really get much from it. as well as's the thing right he doesn't become a tragic figure because the film doesn't spend enough time on him for it to be tragic a different movie with different goals could have done it but this movie the character is sasha who we're following she's who we are identifying with she is our audience conduit she's who we want to succeed yes so why is the film spending any time on basically he's a basic slasher villain We don't give a crap about Freddy's backstory. That's why some of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies did poorly.
00:16:28
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They were like, we got to give Freddy some backstory. It's like, yeah no, he's just a murderer. That's his thing. He's an obstacle, essentially. An obstacle that needs to be overcome. We should be really humanizing... Sasha, spend more time just humanizing Sasha. But... I think it's interesting the what could have beens are here. Why does Sasha get it attracted to Ben? how well How I read it, even though it wasn't, I don't think it was this, but it would have been great to see the reasons why Sasha initially, before he was revealed to be Psycho Man, because he's quite, he's actually quite normal at the beginning of the film. Like he's just like a normal dude, like seems really, really casual or whatever. yeah It would be interesting to see Sasha gravitate to Ben because she's reminded of Eric Banner's character or something like that. Or make that more of an explicit point. There's no reveal when he turns evil either. I mean, I know yeah it's in the trailers and all that, but even in the movie, there's no reveal when he turns evil because Sasha from the beginning is suspicious of him. Yes, yeah. And so we as the audience go, oh the main character knows something. Yeah. We, therefore. Know something's up 100%. Yeah, we know something. So it's there's no peeling away of the layers of Ben because we know, ignoring the fact we've seen trailers, yeah we know he's crazy because Sasha knows he's crazy. If Sasha bought into Ben's sort of- yes every man then it would be a bigger betrayal it'd be so much more insane you'd be like no girl he's crazy but there's no reason for her to think he's crazy yet yeah and she's and he's like being a decent guy but then he hits you with the oh yeah you did really well at the campground line and you're like oh no he really do be crazy like you know like i really actually quite enjoyed that second encounter they have after she has her stuff stolen That gradual reveal was cool. yeah And then i I liked the use of the Chemical Brothers I was wondering because I'm not but very into sort of alternative music like that. is That's like a licensed song? It's 2015's Chemical Brothers Go. Sick. It's a fun song. I thought it was really cool to have him kind of start dancing and to be like this really erratic, weird yeah dance. Like this uncomfortable to watch dancing. But
Film Industry Trends & Personal Opinions
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still, while Taron Egerton's accent may have not been brilliant through this movie, I do think his acting was very good in this movie. Yeah, he goes all out in terms of a performance. I don't want to gloss over Charlie's throne either. Both of them carried any of the good things in this movie.
00:18:53
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I mean, sorry, that's a lie. There's a lot of technical stuff in this movie that's also quite good. One technical aspect I really like going off what you're saying about Taron Egerton, like that reveal of him going crazy. I really like how the camera goes in and out of like the depth of field shifts with him. The actual camera kind of plays into his mind state a little bit and fun. Yeah, very like wavy, but like in terms of depth, I feel for that focus puller man because he was going in and out of focus that as he was like rocking forward and backward. Was it coming in from like this below angle as well? So the poor cameraman's probably on his knees coming and It was red. And even in that fight scene, which reminded me a lot of Fury Road, actually, when they were, like, fighting with the chain. thinking the exact same thing. Yeah, I went, damn, Charlize Theron really do be having similar fights.
00:19:36
Speaker
Two chain fights in 10 years. yeah Yeah. I love the camera work in that. It was so cool. like It was good. It's more just I think the movie tries to be more clever than it actually is. But it doesn't really have the answers. Yeah. If it's stuck to, like, the brief. I keep saying brief today. don't know why. Maybe I'm from you on underwear. Just start saying b****.
00:19:55
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<unk> we I made that joke. What a reveal. heard it here first. On the southern screen.
00:20:08
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I don't know how, but we should make that the social for this episode. Me when I reveal personal information about myself. Dude just doxxed his ****.
00:20:23
Speaker
Anyway. movies, man, they're turning us crazy. We're going to become Ozploitation characters sooner. We are. Oh my God. But not the not the heroes, the crazy ones who make the heroes laugh horrible. I'll be the funny one. I'll be the Bruce Spence. I feel like that's my purpose. Here's my question though. Why did Taran... And this is nitpicking. I'm sorry for cinema-sensing this. d Why did Taran Edgerton put pepper spray in the bag? Yeah, right?
00:20:48
Speaker
Now, I'm not saying that's a that's a floor of the film. I'm just saying why. well actually, i I have another question. So that you know the part when she first escapes him? He's playing he's playing the Chemical Brothers. She escapes. She gets in the boat. She goes down the river. Boat capsizes. Epic whitewater rafting moment. Which was fun. And then she finds the phone that's playing the footage of the couple who we then see later in the cave. And then Taryn Androgen shoots a crossbow bolt at her head. Did he deliberately miss or is he stupid and did he forget that he actually needs to do a ritual? I feel like that's toying with her. But like, again, it's not explicit. It's not clear. yeah But my other thing is, is that I feel like the ritual thing is a get out jail free card as a reason as to why he doesn't take all the opportunities he has to kill her. Yeah. Because damn, she straight up lost. She's just lucky that he's a he was going to do a ritual. When that that fight ended and she like down and out was like, well, this is a short movie. Oh, wait, there's an hour left of the movie to get 40 minutes left of the movie to go. had the exact same thing when Tyrone Edgerton fell off the cliff and I was like, there's still 18 minutes of this movie. What are we doing here? I didn't like his death either. Yeah. I think the ending, the finale is all ah all a bit of a wet fart, to be honest. I think it hinges on the audience's buy-in on the emotional euphoria of seeing her complete the climb in spirit that she didn't succeed in at the start of the film. The problem is that I don't care about that climb. Because to me, all that climb did was take away Eric Banner from me. There's not even much stakes because it's like Taron Egerton. He's gone. His legs busted. is' basically just waiting to die. I don't understand why she didn't just wait for him to die. She said, I could do this. I could wait. yeah And she just doesn't though? Because then she's like, it has to be a tandem climb. And i'm like, why? Maybe I don't know anything about climbing. To be fair, that I reckon that's actually not a problem with the film. That's probably my knowledge is an issue there I should ask a co-worker of mine. She's an adrenaline junkie. She'd know. Ask them about like why a certain climb would have to be tandem or not. It's alright.
00:22:47
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It's okay. Like, it's not the it's not bad. it's It's a little bit less than okay for me, I think. I think i yeah I didn't have a lot of fun with it. I know I've said a lot of good things about this movie, but I feel like I just bounced off of a lot of the movie's um attempts at being more than it I feel like it should have been. I think, for me, the best movies of the movies that know what they are. Yes. And I don't feel like this movie fully knew what it was. It's Identity Crisis.
00:23:11
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tore a lot of the experience down for me. It attempts to be a unique swing at like an Aussie adrenaline junkie thriller, but it's just a bit baseline and the questions that it brings up aren't super, super substantive, I think. So there's not much to dig for. It feels like an Ausploitation film that wasn't made by an Australian. You know there's more depth to this genre. Talking to Alex about That Ate Paris, our deep dive into the Mad Max um franchise, there's more to it than just it's in Australia and it's grotty. There's more to them than just that.
00:23:47
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The only linking thing here is that it's set in Australia and Eric Banner's in it for 20 minutes, I think. But it's advertised and marketed like an Aussie film, so we're treating it like that as such. And it's also interesting seeing how far we've come when it comes to ah whitewater rafting cinematography between this and The Hobbit 2. Do remember in The Hobbit 2 how they would like use GoPros? They used GoPros, yeah. Yeah, and it looks like absolute doo-doo. And here they got a cinema camera on that raft there, man. I think the issue is that um I am a Hobbit lover. You like the Hobbit movies? I know they're not good, so I would never claim that they're good. But Peter Jackson has made, in my eyes, only one bad movie. Well, look, I think with the cards that he was dealt on The Hobbit, the fact that he made anything at all... It was an absolute... night reading If you think The Hobbit is P.A. Jackson's fault, read into what actually happened, all right? In all seriousness, though, he did kind of ruin the New Zealand film industry by destroying... I think he union busted a bunch of stuff, which is not great, but also...
00:24:51
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The Hobbit's not his fault. But yeah, Matthew, can you please tell me about this film set in Australia, out in the Australian Outback, with a man who's definitely Australian. We swear. What is the most Australian thing about this movie? It was long and hard. It was long and hard decision that I made two minutes before we started recording this podcast. That's 120 seconds. In my opinion, the most Australian thing about Apex is the obsession people have with beef jerky in this film. That's crazy. I don't know. Everyone I meet is just like really into beef jerky. I like Bull Tong, which is the... Bill Tong, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bill Tong's great. Love Bill Tong. Not into it.
00:25:27
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It's too chewy. I'm South African. You're South African brother, like Charlize Theron. Oh, true. Has she starred in the most movies that we've... Oh, yeah, Bruce Spence. Yeah, very, very true. Bruce Spence is number one. Bruce Spence is winning because he was in three and she's in two. Oh, no. Also freaking Mel Gibson. Oh, yeah, true.
00:25:43
Speaker
Well, he's tied to three. We just actually see it with after all the shit we just talked about him. We need to watch more movies and we need to watch more movies with um Eric Banner in it. Have you seen Chopper? I have seen Chopper. We could do Chopper though. Like I, that's one we should do.
00:25:58
Speaker
yeah That's an important movie. Just because we've both seen it doesn't mean we can't watch it. Like that's not, that's a must. We did a month of watching movies. We'd all see. We'd both see. Yeah. This is for you guys. This is for the listener. We should get some more Sam Worthington in there. Oh yeah. Yeah. Miranda Otto. Yeah.
00:26:13
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Well, when we watch more Aboriginal films, we'll surely get more of those kinds of actors in here. And then we can beat out Mel Gibson. We just need Mel Gibson to not be the We can watch Mel Gibson? We can beat out. Not beat off. I didn't say beat off. I said beat out Mel Gibson. He'd like that, I think, given his, you know, his... His obsession with Jesus. obsession with violence. And pain. Yeah. And pain. Oh, this episode turned weird really quick. know what's frustrating? I like Hacksaw Ridge. I think it's a morally dubious film, but I actually like Hacksaw Ridge. I see clips from it all the time on Instagram reels. It's like the founder. I just can't watch the whole movie. The Japanese are pushed back and they're playing really heroic music because the Americans won, which is great. But then that same heroic music is being played over a bunch of generals doing... It sounds like Sudoku. Seppuku.
00:27:04
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yeah I'm not touching that one, buddy. They're both Japanese words. ah Yeah, fair enough. It's seppuku. And it's playing this really insanely heroic victory music over these people killing themselves. And I find that... a little conflicting. for What are we talking about right now? What's going on here?
Podcast Conclusion & Future Plans
00:27:23
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What what have I let happen to this podcast? We got political. Yeah, we have to edit it all so much out of this. We have to get rid of this, dude. Wipe the whole episode. If you're listening to this episode. It's a miracle. It's a miracle. i don't know how I've got enough out of this. But you know what Mitch? I had fun. And that's all that matters. I'm glad we both enjoyed this. I guess it shows like when a movie is like mildly underwhelming that we just end up talking about other that doesn't matter. doesn't even count as an Australian film. I don't like, you know, who made this? What do we watch the next week? Oh yeah. Next week we're getting a special guest in. Ooh, I'm excited. we won't tell you who it is though. Well, no, we're not going to tell you it is. And we're going to be watching stone from 1974. I'm locked in. I'm really excited for this. I wonder who the special guest is going to be. It's going to be Tracy Grimshaw, Zachary Wayne. You're really teeing up our um listeners to like be a little bit disappointed. Is it going to be the the founder of Baker's Delight? What have you looked up? Are you looking at a list of things? are you just thinking this off the top of your head? This is off the dome. This is off the dome, brother. This interesting. I'm looking at the running time for Stone and either IMDB's mucked this up or the theatrical cut is like half an hour longer than the director's cut. What heck? Yeah. kellyll the Running time for the theatrical says 126 minutes and 99 minutes is the director's cut. Okay. So we need to pick now. Are we watching directors are we watching theatrical? i bet you watch directors. That's insane. That's insane. We're not watching different movies. all that It's your movie. Let you pick. I think we do theatrical, not because it's longer, but just because that's what was originally put out there. And it'll be more readily available.
00:29:01
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I have no idea. Actually, that's a good question. You know what? We'll figure it out off air. Yeah, yeah, we'll figure this out. You don't have to listen this. Listeners, if you have any suggestions for films you want us to watch or you have any reviews for movies you've seen, please send us an email at undersouthernscreenspod at gmail.com.
00:29:18
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00:29:37
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who And the podcast. Oh, and keep an eye on the southern screens. Bye. Thanks for listening to another episode of Under Southern Screens. We'll be back next week to talk more films down under.
00:29:49
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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.
00:30:00
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See you next time.
00:30:04
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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.
00:30:17
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