Giant Movies That You Never Hear About Anymore

DCSaints_Fan said
Also in the late 80s, there was this Australian guy named Yahoo Serious. He made this movie called Young Einstein, who seemed to be all over MTV for a period of time, then the Berlin wall fell and he dropped off the face of the Earth.

Yahoo Serious is a bit of a sad story unfortunately. He has popped up a few times since but his films are few and far between. I vaguely remember “Mr Accident” from 2000 but that’s about it. He recently surfaced in the news after being evicted from a rental property:https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp...after-falling-27000-behind-in-rental-payments

Mr. Blue Sky said
Along these lines, Crocodile Dundee was a legit cultural phenomenon.. It spawned sequel(s), aNd it’s stars Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski were all over the tabloids.. Today, it seems to have been relegated to the dustbin of history, sort of an artifact only remembered (if at all) for the lines ‘Throw anotha shrimp on the bawbi’ and ‘THAT’S a knife.’

Paul Hogan was huge here well before his portrayal of Mick Dundee (in fact, the “shrimp on the barbie” line was from a Tourism Australia campaign that was first launched in the US two years before the Crocodile Dundee movie).

An enduring depiction of Australia that has very little basis in reality: nobody here uses the word “shrimp” and until the age of about 12 I only knew the word as a colloquialism for a short person. A “shrimp” is a prawn. And don’t get me started on Outback Steakhouse. Literally none of that stuff bears any resemblance to anything here.

Makes me wonder how badly we get local adaptations of different types of international cuisine wrong. I’m pretty sure the beef vindaloo takeaway I get from Bombay Nights up the road isn’t the real article given the reverence for cows.

On the topic of Australian movies/actors, and drawing the above themes together, I don’t know how big it was internationally, but Babe (the movie about a talking pig) was absolutely huge here.