Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood
R | 28 August 2008 (USA)
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As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Reviews
Robert Joyner

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Billie Morin

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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Darin

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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Francene Odetta

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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tavm

Just watched this documentary of the Australian exploitation pictures of the '70s and '80s-known as "Ozploitation"-on Netflix Streaming. Quite fascinating to see scenes of various sex comedies (with all that full frontal nudity), horror films (with plenty of gore), and actioners (like the first Mad Max movie with Mel Gibson) represented here. Quentin Tarantino provides a fan perspective as we meet various producers, directors, stars, and many critics of Down Under provide many pro and con comments of those drive-in pictures. The only one-besides Mad Max-of them I've actually seen showcased here was one called Road Games starring two Americans-Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, both of whom are also interviewed. Many exciting scenes of that movie were shown but when I watched it as a kid on HBO, I didn't remember those but long boring stretches taking place on the road. Maybe I should watch it again to refresh my memory. Anyway, the way many of those "money shots" are presented are soooo quick cut edited that part of the time I found myself laughing especially whenever a particularly funny comment is said during them. So on that note, Not Quite Hollywood gets a recommendation from me.

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Ali Snavely

After watching this awesome movie, I was more in love with Tarantino than ever and psyched to watch as many of the referenced movies as I could get my hands on (with a few exceptions that didn't appeal to me). I desperately searched online for a list of the movies they referenced, but could find NOTHING complete, so I watched it again and typed up a list as I went, with the titles and years of all the movies they list. I believe it's complete, and I think all the years are correct, but please correct me if I'm mistaken! I broke them down by genre like they did in the film. Hope this benefits someone!! Happy hunting!*Foreign/Negative Portrayal of Australia* Age of Consent 1969; Ned Kelly 1970; Wake in Fright 1971; Walkabout 1971*Sex/Crude Humor* The Naked Bunyip 1970; Stork 1971; The Adventures of Barry McKenzie 1972; Barry McKenzie Holds his Own 1974; 96—TV show; Alvin Purple 1973; Alvin Rides Again 1974; Eliza Fraser 1976; Australia After Dark 1975; The ABC of Love and Sex Australia Style 1978; Felicity 1978; The True Story of Eskimo Nell 1974; Hoodwink 1981; Centrespread 1981; Fantasm 1976; Fantasm Comes Again 1977; Pacific Banana 1980*Scary/Buckets of Blood* Inn of the Damned 1974; Night of Fear 1972; Lady Stay Dead 1982; Brothers 1982; Patrick 1976; Long Weekend 1978; Snapshot, aka Day After Halloween (US title) 1979; Thirst 1979; Harlequin 1980; The Survivor 1980; Roadgames 1981; Nightmares 1980; Howling III: the Marsupials 1987; Razorback 1984; Dark Age 1985; Next of Kin 1981 *Hard Core Action* Stone 1974; Mad Dog Morgan 1976; The Man From Hong Kong 1975; Death Cheaters 1976; Stunt Rock 1978; Mad Max 1979; Chain Reaction 1979; Midnight Spares 1982; Race for the Yankee Zephyr 1981; Turkey Shoot 1981; BMX Bandits 1983; Fair Game 1985; Sky Pirates 1986; Return of Captain Invincible 1982; Dead End Drive In 1985; Blood Moon 1990 *Newer Stuff*--not necessarily Australian, but in the same vein-- Wolf Creek 2004; Undead 2003; Storm Warning 2007; Saw 2004; Rogue 2007

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hendersonhall

It's informative, all right, but after a very short while you realize that all you're watching is a bunch of clips of junk exploitation pix & mostly fatuous comments on them. OK, so Tarantino (we're not on a first name basis) was blown way by the outrageous idea of having an almost nude woman as a hood ornament on a car. So what? Some tastelessness is highly enjoyable (most of Tarrantino's work is) because of style, panache & great dialogue. With rare exceptions, the Ozploitation stuff shown in this pic is not. It's just juvenile & I'm old enough to be sorry I wasted my time watching this one. Most of the reviewers have disagreed or will disagree with this comment. Well, that's Show Biz.

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jonathan-577

Subtitled "The Wild, Untold Story of Ozsploitation", and that's what we get: a 100-minute cavalcade of all (?) the dizzy highlights of Australian exploitation cinema. The parceling into sex comedy/horror/action subheadings serves the material quite nicely, giving us a broad view of the aesthetic: ideologically working class, plain-spoken, and very male. That latter point is given just enough emphasis as the female participants offer their diverse bewildered reactions to the paces the filmmakers put them through, without getting all superior; the one pompous ass film critic who tries THAT trick is roasted on a spit. There's a lot of initiative, energy, and inspiration on display in this exhausting avalanche of quick clips; I was writing down titles like a mad man, there's a lot of stuff I'd never heard of that I'm dying to see. Genre film-making is presented, rhetorically, as a polar alternative to the classy upmarketing of familiar exports like Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford et al...even though Beresford was responsible for the Barry McKenzie series and Weir bequeathed us The Cars That Eat People. But dichotomy or not, I can tell you with certainty that Patrick has now jumped The Last Wave on my must-see list. Quentin Tarantino is dispensed in quantity, but I didn't get annoyed; he knows of what he speaks, and he's well-mixed with the folks who were there.

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