The Reel Rejects - CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

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I just want to say that heartbreak feels good in a place like this. It does. It does. I'm very excited. Let's hop into this. A lot of unsaid about him and his role in this movie. Before we get into anything, leave a, leave a like on the, what I'm trying to say. please leave us a rating on Apple and Spotify if you happen to be listening to the audio version of this

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I don't know what to say right now it's fascinating Because this started off from a place where, yeah, like, I'm aware of Crocodile Dundee from being alive and just knowing that, yeah, like, this is a character in pop culture. I've seen Paul Hogan's image. But yeah, yeah, cultural osmoses and nothing else. So coming into it, you think, okay, this is a movie from like the late 80s or, you know, in my mind, late 80s, really 90s somewhere in there. And I got the sense that, yeah, it was going to be like a fun kind of huge. humorous adventure movie, maybe with like an almost serial or a cartoonish quality.

And like, that's in there, certainly. And it's weird. I guess I'll split this into two movies. It is two movies. It really is two movies. And it's like I loved the first movie. Right. Same.

I was really into the first movie. I loved Crocodile Dundee, part one, where they were she was the fish out of water. and they're in the bush and they're learning together and kind of trading, you know, vibes and philosophies and challenging each other. And, you know, you're oscillating again between scenes that do match that comedic quality, that lighthearted quality, that adventurous quality that I was expecting.

Then you have scenes that are more sort of reflective and show that this man is, you know, a perceptive and thoughtful kind of man of the land who has a lot of respect for nature, but who is, you know, a part, an active participant in the circle of life, so to speak. Just all that stuff is really interesting. And when you're in the bush, there's a lot of, whenever I say that, I just want to go, Bushland Adventure, Morty.

What's that animator's name? Comment below if you've made it this far. But, yeah, the way it would let you, like, luxuriate in just being out there and kind of feeling almost the surprising aspects of his mindset. and his sort of zen almost through the landscape, through the music, through really drinking in the majesty. And I like that the second part of the movie doesn't full on just have him like reject society or something. Like, you know, he's game to engage with wherever he is. That's cool and interesting. But yeah, that first part, I was so kind of dazzled and really kind of loving the grab bag of interesting tones that they mash together because it is very.

like straightforward in how it kind of gets to business and starts out and everything and then yeah it's good you know it becomes a second movie when they go to New York but before we get into that I guess yeah some basic thoughts oh boy

oh boy oh boy so so we had a lot of fun we a lot of fun today like John said this was two different movies two very different movies like he said something early on that kind of stuck with me that this was like kind of before sunrise the first half of this movie

and before sunset no it's before sunrise before sunrise I always mix them up as much as I know before midnight is the third one yeah before midnight before sunset it's like the second one anyway yeah I like the adventure of seeing these two kind of come together we're kind of making a lot more like character commentary in the first half

you know like oh yeah like every time we see him in a different face like different shade of his character his personality you know like we see him first with the the crocodiles and people in the bar and then we see him uh with her in like the jungle the different settings or the different scenarios that they're in and i really dug seeing that seeing them explore their their story within this uh this context of him kind of like guiding her and keeping her safe and whatnot and i feel like it's i'm really curious to see what the script writing process was like this because this was very much two different movies and I feel like the first movie could have been its own movie like there definitely could have been like a oh maybe we get

stuck or maybe we have to like stay in this jungle a little bit longer we learn a little bit more but there's like this sort of internal conflict between between us and there are our ideologies and but this movie kind of crams the two ideas because i because when they were talking about him going to New York and the fact that he didn't really know anything about the world. I was like, okay, I'd be curious to see where they'd take that in the second one. They're like, psych! We're doing it this one. We're doing a two for one, baby.

And that second movie was interesting. It's a bit of a roller coaster. It's a bit of a roller coaster. Oh, he is still alive. Okay. Yeah, it was very much, I will say, I enjoyed the movie overall. Sure. But I did like the first half of the movie more than the

second half the second half was wild was crazy but then I don't know I'm here okay there's like these are there my god like four or five there's like three oh 2001 was the last one okay okay um yeah just seeing like the development of their relationship and like the wrench of like oh she actually has a man out here and I like that he was he was like chill about being in the city even though like he was unfamiliar about it could have easily like rejected it and like been overwhelmed and like wanted to retreat but they're like no he's like kind of chill like he's learning to adapt he's going to be a part of this this environment and i think that was that was something fun about he's like a very likable

charming dude with his fish out of water tendencies or or fish out of water nis and it was it a little problematic yeah a little bit in like that second half but most of the movie is a little problematic. And then there's one, two, maybe one and a half, I guess, just given how the second scene plays out. But yes, there's one moment that is at this point in time, especially quite glaring. And I know that in the 80s, certainly, you know, if you had people who are transvestite or transsexual characters or anything like that, usually they would be appearing as the butt of some joke. So like, I know that this is in line with the time. But it Doesn't make it any less like, he did just assault hers.

He totally did. He just grabbed her crotch. Like, Dundee would catch a charge or two if this was made today. That was, you know, like, and that's a moment that like, it, and I know people be mad. Like, I mean, you know, I'm not trying to erase a movie like this from history. It's already, it already exists. And we're all adults, or at least many of us on planet Earth or adults, like, you know, destroying this movie isn't going to fix all the ills of society.

But yeah, it is a thing where it does. dampen my enthusiasm because it is like a thread that they clearly, because they call back to it, bothered to put in. And I mean, like, it is indicative the second time of like, well, he has encountered this another time here and does the same thing, but it just comes across as some kind of, like, weird, greed, you know, it's like, it's still problematic and it's still not good in that moment either. and luckily in the script the character decides to be like oh you know

so like I don't know the second scene is slightly less ugly than the first scene which I guess you could argue is maybe some kind of slow growth toward tolerance but I'm not gonna pretend like there's really much redeemable

about that particular beat and it's a bummer because it's like really charming watching him with the other guys and like doing the handshake with the one dude in the red like you know that that hat in the red patent shirt you know and you know he links up with the cabby which is at first like so so charming and then he pulls him aside and it's just like ah like this one moment had to exist in this movie didn't it because up until then it's it's also yeah it's like i do genuinely

kind of prefer the first half when you're you know in in the bush lands but like i still enjoy the premise and i get what's appealing obviously about him going to man and going to New York, you know, and interacting with the city. And I like that they do still, to some degree, it makes sense that it should be paced differently when he gets there, because obviously that's how the city is by comparison. But they still maintain some level of that, like, okay, he's kind of, now he's the one who's kind of getting his bearings, and we're taking a little bit of time to let that happen. He's not just either immediately rejecting or immediately just grade at everything. He finds a way to be himself and make it work with the city, and that's kind of neat.

And, you know, there are some bits and gags that you would expect and some that you wouldn't. Like, I thought the whole her doing a story about him thing was going to turn into some melodrama about like, oh, you just, you know, played with my emotions to get me to come out here to make your newspapers sell more, you know, copies or whatever. And that's never really a thing. You know, it's just kind of like, and the newspapers do it great. People love your story. So, you know, like, yeah, there's, there's, and I love. There's never any real conflict in the movie. It was very much just like a ride of just

And there's like smaller conflicts that he had With like people trying to step to him But like never like a story conflict between like Him and the girl Like no on the only Conflict I guess was the fact that She was gonna engage him And he was like oh I don't want to be part of this

Duceus I'm out and then she was like no wait I love you and it was all right It was very quick It was very light to the surface But like I don't know if the movie was trying To be one to two to add that drama To add that that challenge It just wanted to be light

I just want to be fun. It's almost like a series of sketches. Kind of, yeah. I can see that. And, yeah, not that they all have to be funny sketches, but yeah, like, you know, a series of, you know, kind of riffs on each particular setting. So how did you feel about their relationship? I know, I was very vocal about how I felt about what was going down.

Yeah, the way, the way she, I was certainly kind of sitting there taking aback being like, what are you? What do you want here? Like, what is, yeah, what is your vibe? on this because yeah it is a fun surprise to be thrown your way and to remember like oh yeah he is there at the beginning of the movie

and then she goes out here and it seems so clear that you know she's taking a liking to him and again they challenge each other in ways that you know cause them both to both confront little aspects of themselves and maybe rise to certain occasions or grow in different

ways but also they harmonize and it's really nice so yeah all that stuff really sold me and then when she gets back it was that was a genuine thing part of me was like maybe she did just dump him I can't tell I could never tell and so in a way I almost appreciate that like

that could echo real life because sometimes with certain people you can't quite tell where you stand and what your entanglement means or is and you know certainly I don't know if they wanted to depict like a weird nuance like that

it did just seem like she's with this guy it felt more like here's the vibe of the 80s It's just like she's, especially in New York, she doesn't, I don't seem to grasp or be kind of concerned with the idea that, yeah, like, I'm clearly with this guy and clearly, it seems like, yeah, they're not just dating. They're, like, in a committed long-term relationship. And I'm also getting to know this guy who I've taken a liking to who's, you know, I've been flirting back and forth with, who I've kissed. Yeah, like, part of me was like, I guess this character just kind of doesn't proceed. what could be like questionable about like maybe if we have some more nuanced i think me

watching it reading between the lines was like okay clearly he's this guy who's like more well off he's like accustomed to like the the the high society life or whatnot he's like he's very privileged and like her she comes from a privileged family so i'm sure that's like that's the only that's the pinnacle of what you could ever hope to achieve yeah you know this guy has a silver spoon in his mouth they come from this they work in the same field so like okay yeah we have that in common but then she goes to down under and she sees like this guy is very much

of the land has more traditional protector provider masculine qualities and she's like oh he's such a man makes me feel like a woman and so then she's very attracted

to that and then like got with him but then I just I would have liked to see her more perspective and see like more of the rifts between their relationship between her boyfriend and him rather than just seeing

him from Dundee's perspective and just seeing he's like he's like a pompous dick And I feel like it just makes it easy to root for him. I don't know. The movie's not really trying to challenge your perspective in that way. But I like those sort of things. That's just the kind of movie watcher I am.

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But, yeah, it was an interesting thing. And then she just breaks up with him, like, off-screen, which I guess- Yeah, we just don't even see that resolution. And again, I guess because in the second part, we're a little bit more in now Dundee's, perspective it's like he will wander off and she'll do some stuff and we'll be with her in the first half and then the second half she'll wander off and he'll do some stuff and we'll be with him instead so it's like they do reverse the roles in a way where it makes sense to me why we didn't get a big scene of her breaking up with him or something yeah definitely yeah because the first

half of the movie definitely felt like we were in her point of view and like it literally felt like two different movies because when we're in the the was it the bush lens right like yeah we were we were seeing dundee in his world through her eyes and then once we got to new york it was dundee through viewing the eyes of new york it was like okay this is legitimately two different movies but i had fun in both but i said i enjoyed the exploring this unfamiliar uh terrain with the bushland part of the story yeah it's like the first half it was charming i guess it was like this full of wonder in conclusion i guess yeah it's like the first half does feel more yeah and partly too because I'm much less accustomed to that kind of a landscape so maybe there's a mystique that I'm also responding to but I feel like there is a more interesting blend of just the way things are introduced and brought on and you get these again just more moody and atmospheric little interludes and elements and again the way in which like yeah he's like ah there's no place for a girl and then she's like well you know I

I'm going to, you know, you can't tell me what to do, though. I'm going to prove to you that I can be out here. Like, okay, well, yes, this was harder than I anticipated, but also, like, there's, yeah, there's that growth of, like, they're kind of, I got, the only reason I'm not super mad that they, like, wound up together or something is because, like, I get what's great about them when they're together. Yeah, no, they had great chemistry. Yeah, and it's, like, even the parts of him in that half of the movie that are a little dated

are like, well, yeah, but clearly this guy will, you know, respond if she's like, no, but I'm game to be out here. you know, and I'm game to learn, you know, and so yeah, I don't know, the second half feels more about we get some bits with him in the city and we sort out the love thing. And that's kind of what that's about. Whereas, yeah, the first half was a little bit more slice of life and a little bit more contemplative while still also being fun and wild and, you know, comedic and all sorts of other things. I will say something that I did like that was like kind of consistent throughout, I felt was the fact that Dundee, there's nothing malicious about him he was just like this guy was very in tune with specific part of the world but he was genuinely someone who was who had a good heart i feel and but he was just a little ignorant to the way things work sure yeah i think yeah i definitely think he was ignorant to the way things worked especially coming to america and just like you know respecting people's

spaces and then you shouldn't grab people just don't grab people's crotches yeah just like you know, there's a lot of it, yeah, that you're like, you know, given that you just live remotely out here off the land and all of that, that they have that conversation too about like, hey, what about nuclear weapons? You must feel some type of way about that because that affects everything and that would affect certainly the well-being of the land and the circle of life and that whole thing about bringing it closer and like, well, how about the Aborigines? How do you feel about their plight and their claim to the land and him being like, well, if you look at it cosmically, we're all, you know, only here for a minute, the land.

And we all just want a place to roam and be free and all that. And like that's not a solution to a tough issue. But like, you know, yeah, there's stuff like that that does suggest like, yeah, this is a thoughtful guy who can grow and who is, you know, mostly accepting of most people. Yeah, I'll say the first movie, the first movie felt like a character bonding. You can chuck up to like, well, okay, maybe he's not as, you know, ahead in his thinking in certain respects but hey he's been out in the wilderness he doesn't he's not ever been exposed to some of this stuff yeah the first part of the movie felt like a like a character bonding challenging

learning each other experience and the second half of the movie felt like a sitcom yeah yeah which is still fun yeah it's like the sitcom i still like the sitcom version but yeah i it's like yeah when it's like when the sequel gets streamlined and more sort of it it because that's the thing is like it does feel like a first movie would be oh she meets this guy in australia and then the set up for part two is he goes to New York. Exactly. And then we go someplace else, you know, like, I feel like. So this all, yeah, I feel like they really did knock out two movies in one here.

But, but yeah, for the most part, a very fun ride, a very fun blend of, you know, influences and, and, yeah, just like it made me think of interesting movies. I thought the filmmaking on display was nicely handled in terms of especially when, again, in Australia, how they were shooting certain things and accentuating points of. view and the you know just the the the character of the place you know it's like there's a lot of filmmaking here that I wasn't necessarily expecting and this does again seem like like a big somewhat atorish project for Paul Hogan which um he made one in 2020 is he still playing crocodile dundee I feel like that was like a Super Bowl gag or something like that oh this is a movie maybe we can I want to do a little bit of trivia before we get out here okay if we ever come back for more dundee

We'll see what that one's about. But apparently this is based on, I guess, the true life exploits of a guy called Rod Ansel, who was a cattle grezier and a buffalo hunter. It's 44. Yeah. So, yeah, he lived out in the remote country in the Northern Territory and, yeah, and had many a survival story. And I guess served as the inspiration with this and was killed in a shootout by policemen. What? Wow. Holy crap. Wow. Oh my God. We're going to have to deep dive on that later on if somebody in the comments wants to break it down into something digestible. I'll take a lookout for it.

The Sydney Harbor Bridge is shown in the beginning of the movie from the hotel while Sue is on the phone in New York. Paul Hogan helped paint this bridge before he started his life as an actor and was said to have kept his co-workers laughing a good bit of the time. It's crazy. Apparently, Paul Hogan also walked around saying good day to New Yorkers during his first trip to Manhattan. Second biggest box office hit of 1986. And for a while, I am told it was by Wikipedia, that it was the highest grossing film of all time in Australia. That's crazy. Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, you know, he's got to be a national treasure. Of course. There were steel rubber and aluminum versions of the Bowie knife on set. Hogan kept one of the steel knives after the movie and probably. promise never to sell it. I hope he has it. That's right. Yeah.

And David Gulpili, Nev, who played Nev, choreographed the traditional Aboriginal dance shown in the movie. He's one of the most famous and acclaimed tribal dancers of all time in Australia. Oh, yeah. Pretty crazy. Oh, my God. They're hell of facts on this. But, yeah, those are some of the good ones. Of course, Paul Hogan had no idea this is going to be an international success.

Yeah. Cast and crew slept in huts in a... a nearby miners camp while shooting in the outback. It's crazy. It does feel like, especially in that part of the movie, that they really immersed themselves in that. Totally. Anyway, thank you for tuning in, guys.

Leave us any other interesting facts and feelings. Imagine people have a lot of feelings about Crocodile Dundee. It's going to be a fascinating video to put together. Anyway, you got anything else to tell the people for a boogie? Oi. See you down under, mates. That's a, that's not a knife. That's a knife.

That's a knife. That's a knife for today.