(Cody is doing research when Gaza gives him a talking to)Gaza: This wouldn't have anything to do with your bunyip theory, would it?Gaza: Hey come on, where have you been the last few days?Gaza: Hey listen what you do's your own business … but there's a limit and the limit comes when it starts affecting other people …Gaza: Cody, I can see what you're up to here with your bush pump and I don't like it.
A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget. Big bass?Cody: Sort of … (looking at Kauffman's book) Anything in there about Donkegin?Kauffman (hesitating on the word): Donkegin? Blackfellas sense these things… and they know enough to keep out.Haggard: Yeah, well there's only one thing we can do. Whatever questions there are to be asked, he's the one asking! A family is thrown back in time and must survive in a dinosaur dominated land.
You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Gosh, imagine Rambo as a 14 year old!
Feel free…All the films mentioned by name in Kim Newman's definitive encyclopedia of horror films, Nightmare Movies.
The divers surface with the news, and then as they return with a cylinder of air for Cody, the whole town turns up at the pond … to see the monstrous shape emerge from the water, and Cody in the mouth of the beast.His foot's stuck in the donkegin/crane, and he can't get out, he shouts to the onlookers, but then he jumps into the heaving water, and the divers help him to shore and into the arms of Gaza … and Wendy.And then as Charlie gives a wave of his hands, the crane monster returns to the pond's waters… as the townsfolk work out what it was… old mining gear, a donkey engine turned into Donkegin.Daylight, and Cody returns to the now partially drained pond, to see a kadaicha man - who looks very much like Charlie Pride - on the cliff above. It has a raw decency to it, with fantastical elements, and a sense of adventure where kids are allowed to do what they want, even if those wants have clear consequences.
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship. He comes across some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog dreamings". To see a frog on a stone suggests new and pleasant business opportunities and capital gains if you invest effort and time. I can’t express how much I would have loved to see this as a kid! (She scoops up some squirming, wriggling tadpoles in her hand)Wendy: Those aren't fish stupid, they're tadpoles.
Now mine's okay, 'cause it's anti-magnetic right? Like yes I know I know I should be watching Bergman and Fassbinder and being all seriously but I kinda just wanna see a kid go on a vision quest with a fishbowl on his head. In the way I wore the VHS tape for The Goonies into dust. (After mourning the dead dentist Neville, and as Gaza unveils his new car)Gaza: Well, when you've gotta go, go fishing … hey, shut your goggles (dragging a cover off a bright red convertible car): Da dah! Thundarr the Barbarian and his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel wander a devastated future Earth and fight evil wherever they find it. '"Harris suggests that when Trenchard-Smith replaced him, the schedule was trimmed so that the film could still come in on budget, and filming recommenced afresh … (though unfortunately Harris also puts the budget at $388,000, a risible sum of money for a 10BA film).These accounts have subsequently been clarified by the discussion of the matter that's featured in the interviews in the Umbrella DVD release.Writer and co-producer De Roche notes that he took a co-producer's role on the film and that a couple of weeks into the shoot, they started to get notes from the investors that they were unhappy with it and with the rushes they were seeing, and the rate they were getting through the schedule … and as a result they were De Roche reserves high praise for co-producer Barbie Taylor keeping the film together at a time when it had threatened to fall apart:Brian Trenchard-Smith recalls a different restaurant for the crucial meeting:Trenchard-Smith explained that he brought his own approach to the film:"To me, it was a mystery adventure …a kind of 'rites of passage' film really, now it was meant to have overtones of thrill, but when you try and trick the audience into believing that you've killed the kid, three quarters of the way through, their appetite for thrills has probably diminished… now if they're sensible they know we haven't really killed the kid, we're just gunna manipulate their emotions a little bit for awhile… and then show his heroic and clever survival … but to me it was more rites of passage, supernatural mystery, and the first film on which I ever ate witchetty grubs …Finally, after explaining that he'd met Barbi Taylor when they worked on a Richard Franklin film, and that he was happy to be paid to go down to Australia to look at a different part of the world, Henry Thomas is interesting in his DVD interview, when he explains how the original director Russell Hagg didn't see the film as an adventure film, so much as a family film, and suddenly Thomas found himself training for a big choreographed dance routine, saying he found it really bizarre, and after a couple of weeks, the producers got together and decided that perhaps they'd hired the wrong guy for the job. Good for the first and second acts. there was no one hotter his age. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. No doubt the theory is that no-one will much mind for a kids' flick - the same thinking that saw the Cinemascope There are two extras - the trailer, in widescreen format, hinting at what might have been for the feature, though the image is not in as good a shape as the movie on the disc - and interviews with some of the creative team, a handy bonus, running some 30'50".The interviews were recorded by director Mark Hartley for his documentary First up is writer Everett DeRoche, who takes up the first 9'35", then Henry Thomas takes up the story until the 20'04" mark (ending by saying that he only saw the film when he was 14 or 15, and not on a big screen as intended, but it's a film people still write to him about because it stuck in their memory after seeing it as a child, Each has some interesting insights to contribute for anyone interested in the making of the film.For much of what is said, see this site's 'about the movie' section, but it's worth recording Trenchard Smith's final remarks here:Well, now there's an answer as to where you can get hold of them in the digital domain, and not just by watching cable …(Note: the illustrative stills on this site still come from a VHS copy, and will be updated in due course.