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Post by frankyt on Apr 27, 2020 13:45:52 GMT -5
Based on the book of the same name, with a lot of the same jargon used in the book carrying over to the movie it's actually pretty refreshing. Kurzel has always had a way of really making bleak and sterile landscapes really beautiful and he does more great work here.
The one kid from 1917 (who is both British and Australian) plays the elder Ned Kelly quite well, theres a bunch of familiar faces throughout the movie with hoult playing a ****stable (sing it with me) excellently.
As the movie really hits it's stride you almost think it's all gonna work out for Ned. An equally artsy and brutal ending wraps things up nicely. A little more compelling opening 40 minutes would have rounded it out nicely, but instead it's a little overlong because of it.
Give it a watch. I'd go 7/10.
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 27, 2020 14:24:12 GMT -5
I saw the trailer for this, it looks pretty wild. How did you watch it, is it available to stream somewhere?
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Post by donny on Apr 27, 2020 14:30:40 GMT -5
Yeah, it's on Amazon to rent. I just rented it last night. Will check it out this week.
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Post by Dracula on Dec 12, 2020 19:31:21 GMT -5
True History of the Kelly Gang(11/14/2020)
The outlaw and bushman Ned Kelly is something of a central myth of Australia and dozens of movies have been made about him going all the way back to 1906. I haven’t really seen any of these earlier films and it might have been a mistake to start with this one because, in spite of the title, this is a more fictionalized and revisionist look at the life of the outlaw and whatever subversions there are to be found here were perhaps a bit lost on me given my relative unfamiliarity with the traditional version of the story. The film was directed by Justin Kurzel, who’s coming off the rather disastrous Assassin’s Creed movie but who did some fairly interesting if not entirely successful work before that. This looks at both the childhood and late criminal career of Kelly and stars George MacKay in the lead role while also featuring the likes of Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, and Essie Davis in supporting parts of various sizes. Kurzel generally gives his films a certain haunted stillness and this one isn’t really an exception. It’s not a movie that makes being Ned Kelly look fun and instead depicts him as a guy who was pretty much channeled into the criminal life by his upbringing and society, which is an approach but not necessarily one that felt like a grand revelation. In fact I kind of think this movie lives in the shadow of another movie with a grandiose title about an outlaw from an Australian filmmaker: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This doesn’t really hold a candle to that movie either in terms of production or thematic resonance, but that’s not to say that there aren’t some solid qualities to it that make it worth a look, especially if I’m giving it some benefit of the doubt that there may be some subversion here that’s going over my head.
*** out of Five
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