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Greetings Film Fiends and welcome to John Doe's Film Blog. 30 years of dedicated celluloid obsession has meant that I have seen a few films. Drawing attention to some of the lesser discussed gems that I love. Cult classics, obscure curios and quality genre pictures. This blogs purpose is to translate some of my passion for these films and with luck, inspire you the reader to go check em out.

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Film & TV on DVD - January 2008

John Doe's Favourite Movie Weapons

January 29th 2008 00:01

What is your Favourite Film Weapon?

Weapon of Choice

The telegraph.co.uk is reporting that a recent survey conducted by Twentieth Century Fox asked 2000 fans “What’s your favourite film weapon?” You can see the Top 10 results below:

20th Century Fox Survey - Top 10 Favourite Movie Weapons
1. Lightsabre (Star Wars)
2. .44 Magnum (Dirty Harry)
3. Bullwhip (Indiana Jones)
4. Samurai sword (Kill Bill)
5. Chainsaw (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
6. Golden Gun (James Bond - The Man With The Golden Gun)
7. Bow and arrow (Robin Hood)
8. Machine gun (Scarface)
9. The Death Star (Star Wars)
10. Bowler hat (James Bond - Goldfinger)

No surprises with #1 and a few there John Doe would definitely include as personal favourites. (Eg: 44 Magnum, Bullwhip, Light Sabre, Bowler Hat)

So what are your favourites?

Here are some of JD’s alternate favourites from cinema history.(In No Order)

The Gattling Gun from Wild Bunch
See a gatling gun clip from the Wild Bunch

Bruce Lee Nun-chucks – Enter The Dragon

Bruce Lee unleashes his fury

Deckard’s Gun – Blade Runner

Deckard's wide barrelled pistol

Conan’s Atlantean sword – Conan the Barbarian
See Arnold as Conan the Barbarian wielding his device of death in the ways of steel.

Robocop’s Gun - Robocop

Robocop - Freeze and he'll shoot

Rambo’s Knife – First Blood

Thats not a knife...that's a knife.

Freddy Krueger’s Glove – Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy's fingers of death

Connor McCloud’s Highlander Sword – Highlander
See a Highlander clip to “Mad World”

Krull Boomerang Blades - Krull

Watch the sharp edges when it comes back

Teeth Gun - Existenz

Jude Law and his tooth decay fighter

The T1000 – Terminator
The Terminators in action

Arthur’ s Excalibur Sword – Excalibur

The blade that would be king

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder in flight

Lee Van Cleef's Gun - For a Few Dollars More
See Lee Van Cleef play the hat game with Clint Eastwood

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John Doe’s 23 Australian Cinema Favourites

January 26th 2008 00:01

What are you watching this Australia Day?

Australian Cinema for Australia Day

G'day, Australia Day is here (January 26th) and John Doe realised that in over a year of blogging he never posted a review for an Australian film.

JD has to admit that most celluloid shot on Terra-Australis tends to be way too geocentric and culture conscious to entertain. Seldom attempting anything other than a quintessential Down Under tone, most seem to delight in taking the piss out of the dumb “Ocker” mentality. Larakins, wombats and drongo's that generally exploit the recycled stereotypes of the under privileged.

The superb classic Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The local product seemed to reach it’s zenith of creativity in the 1970’s with a massive run of incredibly satisfying stories. During the decades that have followed the occasional gem has proven we can produce quality material. A resurgence in genre films may well provide some relief after the repeated dull examinations of trailer trash relations and brain dead demographics.

So while your swimming at the beach, throwing down a tooheys, or playing backyard cricket near a BBQ remember there are some great Australian films out there that deserve remembrance on this, our National Day.

She'll be right mate, Advance Australia Fare because here are Johnny D’s top homeland delights. (In No Order)

Andrew Dominik’s Chopper
"A little bit of the old chop, chop" with a jailhouse scene from Chopper.

Bruce Miles and Michael Pattinson’s Ground Zero

Ground Zero Poster

Phillip Noyce’s Newsfront

Newsfront

Fred Schepisi’s Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and The Devil’s Playground
A scene from the twisted religion of an all boys school in The Devil’s Playground

Ray Lawrence’s Lantana, Jindabyne and Bliss

Jindabyne poster

Bruce Beresford’s Don’s Party and Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and The Last Wave
Trailer for the atmospheric, racially charged thriller The Last Wave

John Hillcoat’s The Proposition and Ghosts of The Civil Dead

The Proposition

John Duigan’s The Year My Voice Broke

Year My Voice Broke Poster

George Miller’s Mad Max
“I can see the interceptor” the high octane opening for the post apocalyptic actioner.

Rolf De Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby, Tracker and Alexandra’s Project

Bad Boy Bubby Poster

Simon Wincer Phar Lap

The U.S poster for the film Phar Lap

Sandy Harbutt’s Stone
See the trailer for drive in biker classic Stone

Tim Burstall’s Petersen and The Last of the Knucklemen

Last of the Knucklemen DVd Cover

Richard Franklin’s Patrick and Road Games

Patrick DVD Cover

Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Turkey Shoot and The Man From Hong Kong
Watch kitsch Kung-Fu madness with former James Bond George Lazenby in The Man From Hong Kong Trailer

Rowan Woods The Boys

The Boys - David Wenham and Toni Collette in the preamble to the vile Anita Coby murder

Here are 2 fine examples of when Hollywood shoots on location and successfully captures the culture

Stanley Kramer's On The Beach

On The Beach DVD Cover

Fred Zinneman's The Sundowners

poster for The Sundowners with Robert Mitchum

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Choke – First official Clip

January 22nd 2008 00:00

Choke Sundance Clip

A preview shot of Rockwell in Choke (twitchfilm.net)

Way back in June 2007 JD did a post on the big screen adaptation of Author Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive work Choke.

At the time cast and crew were being put in place and now it has been announced that the film will have its premiere in competition at this years Sundance Film Festival.

In conjunction with the screening the Sundance Channel has released an interview with Writer/Director/Actor Clark Gregg. In the clip below he discusses the plot and production plus there are some snippets from the completed work.

Another Choke shot (twitchfilm.net)

Feeling dizzy with a peculiar sense of orgasmic bliss….Johnny D is self asphyxiating in anticipation of Choke’s arrival in Australian Cinemas. Rather than repeat myself (read: feeling lazy) with casting and basic information you can click here to read my previous post.

Images courtesy of twitchfilm.net

Here is the first clip from “Choke”