A fun, often really funny doc on 70s Aussie exploitation cinema, mostly worthwhile for the insane production stories—how did they not fire Dennis Hopper from Mad Dog Morgan? It definitely made me want to dive deeper into Aussie genre films outside of Mad Max; I was glad to see the underrated creature feature Razorback get some love here. It’s razor-focused on Ozploitation films, so it’s not a broader history of Australian cinema as a whole (the talking heads throw Picnic at Hanging Rock and non-genre Aussie films under the bus; not cool) but for what it is it’s enjoyable. That said, the doc hints at how misogynist the industry was at the time but doesn’t fully dive in and still seeks to celebrate the films that came out of the movement (predictably, this is most egregious in the earlier section on soft core sex comedies), and Tarantino is at his most obnoxious film-bro-ey here. The guy really seems to get off on violence against women.
A fun, often really funny doc on 70s Aussie exploitation cinema, mostly worthwhile for the insane production stories—how did they not fire Dennis Hopper from Mad Dog Morgan? It definitely made me want to dive deeper into Aussie genre films outside of Mad Max; I was glad to see the underrated creature feature Razorback get some love here. It’s razor-focused on Ozploitation films, so it’s not a broader history of Australian cinema as a whole (the talking heads throw Picnic at Hanging Rock and non-genre Aussie films under the bus; not cool) but for what it is it’s enjoyable. That said, the doc hints at how misogynist the industry was at the time but doesn’t fully dive in and still seeks to celebrate the films that came out of the movement (predictably, this is most egregious in the earlier section on soft core sex comedies), and Tarantino is at his most obnoxious film-bro-ey here. The guy really seems to get off on violence against women.
