80'S GRAB BAG: Crocodile Dundee (1986)
“How do you like your goanna? Medium? Well done?”
CONTENT WARNING: Homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, poaching.
Our 1986 entry for this series is one of the most baffling movies in this series. This movie rivaled none other than Top Gun for the biggest box office win of 1986, and made a handful of Australians truckloads of cash. It lived large as the biggest Australian cultural export to America for nearly 30 years. And it’s also just an absolutely awful movie. The comedy isn’t funny, the romance isn’t romantic, and almost half the movie is spent on a slow walkabout in the Outback. There’s a handful of jokes and moments that loom large, but they’re held together by the flimsiest of stories. And somehow, some way, the Academy saw fit to nominate the film for Best Original Screenplay. Join us for this Aussie travesty as we watch Crocodile Dundee this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive..
Excerpt taken from “Opening Title Theme” from the soundtrack to the movie Crocodile Dundee, written and composed by Peter Best. Copyright 1986 Paramount Pictures Corporation; Best Results Pty. Ltd.
Excerpts taken from the movie Crocodile Dundee, copyright 1986 Rimfire Films Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from “Fatal Attraction” from the soundtrack to the movie Fatal Attraction, written and composed by Maurice Jarre. Copyright 1987 Paramount Pictures Corporation.
