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asterisk: not
mine.
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probably
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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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Blinder
(2013)
Blinder
is a drama set in the
world of a local Aussie
Rules football club. Tom
(Oliver Ackland) is
currently a kicking coach
for an American college
football team in Boston
when he gets the call that
his old coach (Jack
Thompson, sadly not
playing the same character
from The Club) has died on
the eve of the grand final
in which his old team, the
Torquay Tigers, are
playing off. Tom returns
to Torquay and remembers
the reason why he left
Torquay, a scandal
involving himself and his
teammates being involved
with an underage girl.
After being dropped from
the 2002 grand final for
having a poor attitude,
thereby missing a chance
to impress scouts for the
AFL, Tom goes about
improving himself for the
next season. He also
starts seeing Rose (Anna
Hutchison), whose 15
year-old sister Sammy
(Rose McIver) is a water
girl for the Tigers.
Things seems to be going
great for Tom, but Sammy
is getting a little too
close to his teammates,
especially his best mate,
star forward Morts (Josh
Helman). 10 years on and
the events of that fateful
night after winning the
2003 premiership still
hang over those involved.
An OK movie that probably
plays better as a TV drama
than a feature, but is
pretty watchable
nonetheless. Blinder is a
rare foray into Aussie
Rules football (off the
top of my head there's The
Great Macarthy, The Club
and Australian Rules) and
I've gotta admit, some of
the aspects on show are
pretty laughable (like
players thinking they will
get drafted to the big
league from a local
football side) and there's
absolutely no dramatic
tension in the football
games even with 3(!) games
decided after the siren.
Apart from that, the movie
is more about Tom coming
back to town to face his
demons and except for the
cop out that Tom was
drugged during the
incident, Blinder is not
bad. And Angus Sampson as
the show-off full forward
is pretty funny.
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