crocodile dundee, live blog

So I've just gotten around to watching this adventure classic, and omigod is it awesomely bad. Watching it after my Australia adventure is brilliant. Some notes:

• The buffalo? Totally would have been scared silly of the car. On my Kakadu trip, we were driving along in our four wheel drive bus and saw a water buffalo cross the road ahead. As we got closer, it spied us, and mad a mad rush for the woods. We passed very, very slowly and it watched us from its cover. As we stopped to take pictures, it backed up until it was totally hidden from sight.
  
• The riverboat scene is spot on Mary River. Flocks of birds taking off in tandem, floating lily pads, picturesque mangroves sticking out of the water... The only inaccuracy is that crocodiles do NOT run that fast unless they are being provoked or haven't eaten in months.
• Dundee's facts about his "attacker" crocodile not wanting to eat him but simply doing a death roll to save him for later are correct.
  
• The scene in the morning where girlie decides to set off for the escarpment by herself? With the gun? The huge rock in the background? I climbed that and took several pictures from it. Also the escarpment that she is heading for is the boundry between Kakadu Park and Arnhem Land. I climbed that, too.
• Lots of pandana palms. True. l;sjljlhniu!!!!! Holy shit I called that crocodile attack. YOU NEVER GO NEAR THE EDGE OF THE WATER. DUH. He should have warned her instead of waiting for her to be attacked.
  
• Camping scene where Dundee checks out her butt -- I don't understand where the yellow sand came from. I was in the outback for seven days and didn't see anything that wasn't red.
• Aboriginals only wear decorative paint during ceremonies. I like that his dad works for tourism. Totes realistic. Ok the paint makes sense now that they are doing a dance.

It's now the New York portion of the movie and I don't have much commentary to add except Give Me a Break, he's grown up in the bush but are we supposed to believe he never went to school or read a newspaper? I hate when they make "country boys" completely ignorant, instead of just culturally ignorant. (Also the woman comes off looking like a bitch for taking things like a bidet for granted. Please.)