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Melbourne in the 80's and 90's, before you were born you little whipper snapper, used to be the busking capital of the country. There would be buskers on every corner day and night doing all sorts of shit. Those buskers usually caught public transport home and the weird and strange of those people would often do their acts on the train. Half the carriage would sit there like the bloke on Last Train To Freo, watching but looking away each time they were seen. Others got involved. Carriages of all sorts of acts was the norm for so long. It was great. Then the City of Melbourne pretty much taxed buskers out of the area.
 
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I watched Truck Turner last night. Fucking ruled. Sure Isaac Hayes ain't the greatest actor but the soundtrack is fire and it has some of the funniest dialogue I've ever seen in a blaxploitation. Like in the first scene he puts on his coat to leave and realised his cat pissed on it, so he attacks his cat but leaves smelling like cat piss anyway, and then gets mocked for it by his buddy. The whole movie is weirdly obsessed with cats, like in the intro credits there's a hobo walking his cat on a leash through street trash.

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Dunno whether you remember it but a few years ago there was a big arse fucking roo that was popping up in all sorts of stories because of how ripped he was, his name was Roger.
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That's what they should have tried to make Rippy look like.
But in scenes where the characters were looking up at him you'd swear it was Rooey II, this big fucker from Border Village.

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But then when you see long shots of the thing you'd swear was from some 80's tv show about a boy and his pet kangaroo.

Aussie cinema really doesn't get better than this!
 
Looking at my list of 2024 released movies that I actually saw, it's pathetic. Just 7 movies. 3 I liked a lot, 1 that was okay but not really something I'd watch again. Another that should've been a lot better than I found it to be and 2 that were abominations of filmmaking.

So I won't be doing any official article list of movies this year.