My girlfriend and I flipped to a movie channel where a movie called Wolf Creek was playing. I knew nothing about it, hadn't heard of it, but she had it on the netflicks list, so she was kind of happy to see it so that she could take it off the list. Anyway we caught it just as the three young backpackers got back to their car and found that it wouldn't start. Then some slap-happy bushie shows up and tries to help them out and eventually tows them to an abandoned mine complex of some kind. They sit around the fire joking, then go to sleep, then the real stupidity begins.
Let me say that I don't particularly enjoy watching stupidity on screen. I can not understand why the writer/director assumes that people are somehow completely brainless when faced with an extreme situation. Like when a good guy with a pistol kills a bad guy with a machine gun, then leaves the machine gun behind, duhhh!
So in the morning, one of the girls wakes up in some kind of shed tied up hand and foot. She struggles and cries for awhile, but can't seem to get free or do anything. That is until dusk, when she suddenly discovers a piece of broken glass to cut herself free with. Strike one!
She gets out of the shed and hears screaming comming from another building. It's the maniac bushie torturing the other girl, shooting a rifle at her and then he starts to make a move at raping her or killing her with a knife. The free girl sees this by peeking through a window and decides to start a big fire out side with some liquid she sprays all over a car interior (a diversion). It works and the bushies exits the building, with his rifle and starts trying to put it out and screaming, etc. Then she sneaks inside and spends time trying to calm the tied up girl instead of finding a suitable weapon or a knife to free the tied up victim. I start screaming at the TV, "WTF are you doing!!!"
Strike two!
She hides under a work bench as the Bushie comes back in and gets back to the business of raping the tied up girl. The free girl gets his rifle and has it trained on him. So I'm like "Shoot the SOB!", no she sits there shaking uncontrollably while the bushie tells her it's not loaded. Finally she shoots and it appears that the bushie is barely hit in the neck. He stands for a second, then colapses face first onto the floor. It looks like a superficial wound, so why he colapses is a mystery. So I'm like, "OK game over, shoot him in the head, cut his throat with the knife, bash his skull in with a hammer what ever." But no, she fucks around with the gun, can't fire it again, then beats him in the back a couple of times with the butt, and that's it! She frees her friend and doesn't do anything else to him.I'm screaming at the TV again, "WTF are you doing you Goddam idiot! Fucking kill the SOB while he's down you dumbassed bitch! This fucking movie is too stupid, I can't take it any more!!" (click, /changes the channel)
Strike three!
My girlfriend is laughing at me and trying to calm my ass down, with the same old, "it's just a movie" that anyone would say to someone that's worked up over a movie. Of course she's right. I don't normally get so worked up over movies, but there is a particular style where the characters become complete morons and I start thinking that the dumbshits deserve to die. Mostly I'm pissed off that the director couldn't come up with something better, so they resort to turning people of reasonable intelligence into morons. Wolf Creek is actually a pretty good movie up to the point that the characters become idiots.
Wolf Creek, a rant...
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Shit, do you live on the same planet I do? Most people are drooling, babbling morons. Throw in the stress of a life-threatening situation and I'm surprised anyone lives through shit like that.
Oh, and Wolf Creek is one of those flicks that's supposedly "based on a true story." Which means 10% of what really happened inspired the other 90% of the film.
Oh, and Wolf Creek is one of those flicks that's supposedly "based on a true story." Which means 10% of what really happened inspired the other 90% of the film.
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I read a few articles on the true story, Wolf Creek isn't really even close. The true story is that a couple was on their way back from a park driving down a road and some guy tells them to pull over. So they do and he says he saw sparks flying out the back of their car. The guy get out to take a look and the guy that pulled them over shoots him. Then he grabs the woman, ties her up and throws her in the back of his van. While he disposes of the dead man, she escapes into the bush and hides for four hours. The bad guy looks for here for awhile and gives up. She flags down a couple of truckers long after the bad guy left and eventually the territorial police find the bad guy and he is convicted. They never found the body of the guy he killed.
So you might say elements are barrowed, but basically it's not that close to what really happened. I think what really happened would have made a better movie. The woman in the true story was under extreme pressure and kept her wits about her in a terrifying situation.
So you might say elements are barrowed, but basically it's not that close to what really happened. I think what really happened would have made a better movie. The woman in the true story was under extreme pressure and kept her wits about her in a terrifying situation.