[film] Tomorrow When The War Began

[LincM]

Given that they've got shored units and that it's based in the northern states, it's kind of implied it's Indo, Mauritius, maybe Thailand or PNG, but not as likely.

[van]

Mauritius

Yes... I can see how this small island off the coast of Africa, with its 1.2 million people and a GDP a mere fraction of ours, would look to invade Australia...

[Mongbert]

Depends how badly they want Koalas. Maybe they have special properties we don't know about, like they're a major component for space travel.

[LincM]

Mauritius

Yes... I can see how this small island off the coast of Africa, with its 1.2 million people and a GDP a mere fraction of ours, would look to invade Australia...

Australia could well serve as a base of operations from a tactical war position. Nobody's nukes are pointed here, so if they take over, it'd take a long time for the koreans to point their nukes away from alaska and to here, and the americans away from cuba, korea, russia and canada and across to here. Having said that, trheir tactics to take over in the first place are moot.

[logosmonkey]

You realize nukes aren't really pointed at things anymore right? All we'd have to do is type in the coordinates for Sydney or Melbourne and launch.

[van]

BUT WE'RE SO LOVABLE

[Mongbert]

Why would anyone harm the country that gave us Rolf Harris?

[LincM]

You realize nukes aren't really pointed at things anymore right? All we'd have to do is type in the coordinates for Sydney or Melbourne and launch.

Um, no, that's not quite right. It's not as simple as that. I realise that in "Spies Like Us" they pretty much just throw it around and all, and in most war movies, people are nuking one country on the other side of the world etc etc, but that's just not how it works logistically. Like I said, where Korea have their nukes they only have the capacity to hit Alaska. The won't even hit Canada, let alone the mainland of America.

Funny, though, how America has twice the rest of the world's amount of nukes, yet they call another country a nuclear threat? Hmmph.

[Silv3r]

If I was fighting against someone with two knives, I'd be just as worried as if I were fighting against someone with twenty. Either way I'll likely end up stabbed.

[LincM]

I'd be more afraid of a guy staning at arm's reach with one knife than a guy on the other side of a field with 50 of them. Distance is everything (and so is thirst, apparently).

[Mongbert]

I don't feel it'd be appropriate to talk about nuclear holocaust AND Australia without asking if anyone has seen 'The Beach' or read the book by Neville Shute.

[MightyLeeMoon]

Aside from it being laughable that anyone would invade Australia....

The intro to the first trailer almost had me hit stop before the good stuff began. The bit in the waterfall...with the chick taking off her shirt and the boys playing rugby or what have you...looked way too much like an abercrombie ad or something.

Hopefully the movie doesn't spend too much time hanging out with the fun, good looking, college kids on vacation in the middle of nowhere....like it's a Friday the 13th flick or something.

[IsaacMahomie]

Hopefully the movie doesn't spend too much time hanging out with the fun, good looking, college kids on vacation in the middle of nowhere....like it's a Friday the 13th flick or something.

That's one of my favorite things about Red Dawn. They know what we're here to see and get the invasion started in practically the opening scene.

[LincM]

The intro to the first trailer almost had me hit stop before the good stuff began. The bit in the waterfall...with the chick taking off her shirt and the boys playing rugby or what have you...looked way too much like an abercrombie ad or something.

That's actually an apt description of my late teen years, hanging out at the cotter dam in canberra, playing footy (yes, unless you live in Melbourne, real football in Australia is Rudgy Union), swimming in the creeks and waterfalls, girls taking their tops off.

Okay, so the girls were just taking their sweaters off to be bikinied in the water, but close enough.

[van]

yes, unless you live in Melbourne...

...or Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Might want to check some numbers on average game attendance between AFL and NRL too, smartarse.