Welcome to Woop Woop (1998)

I've been a fan of this film since 1999 and have enjoyed watching it again and again in the company of many Woop Woop virgins. While the response to the film even among my friends runs the gamut, appreciation for the film's originality, grittiness and dark humor finds us on common ground.I most recently shared it with a friend who asked twenty minutes into the film, "So where is this going?" A little annoyed as he pressed for my explanation, I replied "Let it show you - the surprises in store are the fun of it!" To best sum up why this is one of my all-time favorite films of the off-the-wall variety: It just makes me laugh every time I see it. These days, that's saying something.

Even out in the far reaches of country Australia only morons and half-wits talk anything like the characters in this film. These kinds of parochial insulting "parodies" of Australian life are what killed the Australian film industry. We are not a bunch of "bushies" or "surf low lives" we are, for the most part, well educated, intelligent urbane people who live on a giant dry island. Our culture is made up of British, Scottish and Irish immigrants mixed unhappily with the indigenous population and topped up with people from everywhere on earth. To try and "capture" the essence of Australians with these degrading, ill conceived attempts to pump the lowest common denominator (The Castle, Kenny, Razzle Dazzle etc) just shows how skewered the Arts are in Australia to w*nkers - it's truly f***king terrible.

I just saw the movie (between 1.40 and 3.10 a.m.) as it was broad casted on Dutch television (SBS6). Weird, entertaining, funny and quite philosophic; especially at this hour of the night ;-). I was very surprised to find only really BAD reviews of Woop Woop at the internet. It seems my choice in movies/books etc is not the mass-opinion.This Monday I'm buying it, it's at least number 6 in my 'all time favourites' list :-) 'The usual suspects' & 'Lost boys' are some other examples of great movies (I think) and those are (in average) really well reviewed, so it's not that I only like weird ones. Go see Woop Woop! It's fun ;-)

I thought this movie was brilliant. I first saw it in the middle of the night when I was about to go to bed. Then this movie came on and I had to watch it. It has some parts where you are just like wtf? But, it's a very funny movie. It will probably go over better with potheads, but if you like movies like Dumb and Dumber, you will love it! It's just one of them dumb movies that you have to give a chance and wait to get into. Plus it has the best sex scene in a movie I think I have ever scene. I couldn't find this movie anywhere to buy, so I had to look it up on Ebay. It was definitely worth the time and money looking for it. Just watch it all the way through and you will be happy you did!