Piled into Alex's hippie van with Alex, Nick B, Nick S, and Josh, and went to Josh's house to watch Gallipoli afterschool, not because I'd intended on going, but because I had rushed to hand in my EE to the IB office and missed the bus. Sarah G and Christine came in a seperate car. I've been testing out a theory that when guys are together they seem to like talking about dicks a lot, though this is a bit hard to observe because of a Schroedinger's Cat thing.. guys are simultaneously talking and not talking about dicks until you observe them. But the theory seems to hold water even when I hide on MUDs and people think I'm male. Nick B got markedly cruder once he stepped into Alex's van. We got fairly unperverted as we entered Josh's house, and after we started eating pizza and the brownies Mrs. R had baked us (yay!) we got into a discussion on post-modernism and moral relativity...
The movie was all right. I dunno. Certainly not what I was expecting.... it wasn't really a war movie, but more about a group of people who're in a war, if that makes any sense. The battle scenes didn't start until fairly near the end- Sarah and Christine actually left before the battles started because Sarah had to leave by 4:30 and Sarah was Christine's ride. Alex kept pointing out 'gay' scenes. It didn't help that the movie starts out with two men yelling, "Deeper! Faster!"
Christine and Sarah were confused as to why we were all cracking up. And I personally noticed that there were a lot of gratuitous crotch shots where the camera would just linger on a guy's crotch. And also, lots of bad 80's synthasizer music instead of a sweeping orchestral score you would've expected. And campy pre-war idealism that got on my nerves because I didn't think anybody would be that stupid... as someone said, "Do you know why they're so eager to join the war?" "To get out of Australia!" Me and Alex got to yelling, "COO-EE!" a lot, which is actually a lot of fun once you get over the cheesiness of yelling something like that. Took Alex some time to realize which character was the younger, handsomer, 1981 Mel Gibson.