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Old Yesterday, 10:05 AM   #1
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Default What's your favorite classic Australian movie?

Here's a few of mine to get the party started..


  1. The Big Steal
  2. Young einstein
  3. Risk - starring Bryan Brown
  4. Freedom
  5. Getting Square - P iss off birds -
  6. Malcom
  7. Kenny
  8. Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2
  9. The nugget
  10. The Castle - Tell em their dreamin -
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Bad Boy Bubby.
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Dead Calm - Nicole Kidman
Malcolm - Colin "Did they stick yer dads head back on" Friels.
Alvin Purple
Queen of the Tar.
Breath - Simon Baker
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So many Australian movies are pretty cringeworthy I hate to admit.
Remember Australia by Baz Luhrmann.
I'm a proud boomer, so a couple of mine are,
Sunday too Far Away
The Sundowners
Breaker Morant.
Puberty Blues
But a more recent one, this year my son took me to a gala premier, a WW1 movie made here in WA,
Before Dawn, about diggers living in the trenches. Highly recommended.
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Wake in fright.

And Bad boy Bubby. You need to watch them twice to understand everything that's going on.
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Id forgotten about Dead Calm, was a good one
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And Mad Max 1 and 2 of course
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The cars that ate Paris (directed by Peter Weir)

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Red Dog
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
last cab to Darwin
On the Beach (1959 & 2000 versions)
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Metal skin and Idiot box, both featuring Ben Mendelsohn.
Metal skin for the cars and street racing.
Idiot box for the relatability to me at the time, the cars, scraping together change for a longneck at the bottlo and the Triple J news theme playing in the background. I still say 'Get a dog up ya' to my mates
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Metal skin and Idiot box, both featuring Ben Mendelsohn.
Metal skin for the cars and street racing.
Idiot box for the relatability to me at the time, the cars, scraping together change for a longneck at the bottlo and the Triple J news theme playing in the background. I still say 'Get a dog up ya' to my mates
Speaking of Ben Mendelsohn - "Prime Mover"
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Red Dog
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
last cab to Darwin
On the Beach (1959 & 2000 versions)
Surely one of the funniest lines in Australian movie history..................

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Original Mad Max
Romper stomper
Bad boy bubby
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Default Re: What's your favorite classic Australian movie?

In no particular order...

Red Dog
The Castle
Bad Boy Bubby

Malcolm is a worthy mention too.

Whenever someone comes to me and says "I want to watch some great Aussie movies, I get out copies of The Castle and Bad Boy Bubby" and watch them back to back.

It also warms my heart to see so many mentions of Bubby here.
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Two hands is an ok one. I reckon it was heath ledgers best before he went all Hollywood
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