Australian cinema is not without its jaw-dropping flops and this messy, misjudged Barry Humphries vehicle was one of them – even with Dame Edna
If Hollywood is the mecca for international moviemaking – a place where much of the magic happens – it is also the giant-sized laboratory where botched experiments explode most spectacularly. Cinema history books are littered with tales of bigger than Ben-Hur (or should that be bigger than Battlefield Earth?) box office disasters and a degree of guilty pleasure can be gleaned from reading about them.
Australian cinema operates on far lower overheads but our film industry is not without jaw-dropping flops to call its own. One of the most legendary is 1987’s Les Patterson Saves the World, co-written by and starring Barry Humphries as one of his alter egos.
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If Hollywood is the mecca for international moviemaking – a place where much of the magic happens – it is also the giant-sized laboratory where botched experiments explode most spectacularly. Cinema history books are littered with tales of bigger than Ben-Hur (or should that be bigger than Battlefield Earth?) box office disasters and a degree of guilty pleasure can be gleaned from reading about them.
Australian cinema operates on far lower overheads but our film industry is not without jaw-dropping flops to call its own. One of the most legendary is 1987’s Les Patterson Saves the World, co-written by and starring Barry Humphries as one of his alter egos.
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- 10/18/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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