Krayy
21st October 2005, 20:48
Well the wife and kids are off at the Outlaw's, so I had to take the opportunity to head to the movies to check out this long awaited flick.
First, I have to mention that they played the latest Harry Potter trailer before the main feature, and bugger me it looks the biz. Will definitely have to truck along to check that one out.
For me, it wasn't the man's achievments, which are exceedingly well known, it was the journey. Tony Hopkins fitted the outgoing larrikin mould so well, his performance just dragged you into the story and carried you off. Burt Munro, a charming bugger by all accounts, is depicted as a driven man, an obsessed man, but a lovable man none the less. True, a screenplay takes liberties, but I can't really imagine all of the adventures that he has on the way to Bonneville as not having happened. From being almost shell shocked at the foreign climes of North America and it's "colourful" peoples, to being dragged into bed by a desperate widow (although I did want yell "Don't do it Burt!!"), to making his first run on the flats, it was a fantastic journey.
Number 8 wire never looked so good as the Indian streamliner. The only thing I would have liked to have seen more of would be of the evolution of the bike and the creation process, but that may have slowed the film's beginning up too much.
All in all, it's one I will be pre-ordering the DVD of, and checking it out on the big screen is a must IMHO.
10 out of 10, and thank you Roger Donaldson.
First, I have to mention that they played the latest Harry Potter trailer before the main feature, and bugger me it looks the biz. Will definitely have to truck along to check that one out.
For me, it wasn't the man's achievments, which are exceedingly well known, it was the journey. Tony Hopkins fitted the outgoing larrikin mould so well, his performance just dragged you into the story and carried you off. Burt Munro, a charming bugger by all accounts, is depicted as a driven man, an obsessed man, but a lovable man none the less. True, a screenplay takes liberties, but I can't really imagine all of the adventures that he has on the way to Bonneville as not having happened. From being almost shell shocked at the foreign climes of North America and it's "colourful" peoples, to being dragged into bed by a desperate widow (although I did want yell "Don't do it Burt!!"), to making his first run on the flats, it was a fantastic journey.
Number 8 wire never looked so good as the Indian streamliner. The only thing I would have liked to have seen more of would be of the evolution of the bike and the creation process, but that may have slowed the film's beginning up too much.
All in all, it's one I will be pre-ordering the DVD of, and checking it out on the big screen is a must IMHO.
10 out of 10, and thank you Roger Donaldson.