Friday, May 15, 2009

'Gallipoli'

Honestly, the film kinda bored me even if it did include a young, handsome Mel Gibson.

What I thought was most interesting is the Australian's participation in a war that never really affected them. In fact, most wars don't except for maybe the Japanese island jumping. Even then, would the Japanese even really want Australia. It's a dump. So much that the British sent their prisoners there and didn't seem to bother to eradicate the indigenous cultures. Add in the poisonous snakes and spider, sharks and the coral reef, then you have an undesirable island.

Anyway, these Australian guys were signing up for a horrendous war probably because their countrymen were already involved, but, otherwise, I would've been hard to get up for a war that was a billion miles away.

Australia, by the way, does have a number of Outback Steakhouses.

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