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Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia - IMAX Sydney, Darling Harbour

Dip the 3D glasses in the sink and hand them fresh to the patrons. Watch as they find a speckle of water on their lenses and force themselves to smooth out the warp of plastic in the novelty size visors. To no avail of course, merely on there to spur them to wipe clean and wipe away the smear between them and the massive drop of a theatre screen otherwise known as the LG IMAX screen. Massive, and clearly the kind of screen all gamers should throw up on as they look for the super hidden secret whistle for that plumber from Brooklyn loves his fluting so.

Donald Sutherland, father of Keifer, and man with a hairy face to match an equally hairy voice. Perfect for narration on documentaries. And here, on the typical creatures wandering around times of the prehistoric, them goliaths which predate the mutant spawn over in Japan they call Godzilla. Here there be monsters known as dinosaurs. And in particular, with a name for Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia, them roaming the wilds of Argentina.

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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Directed by Tim Irwin, We Jam Econo is close to being one of the best band documentaries I’ve ever seen.

The documentary follows Mike Watt around as he reveals the story of the Minutemen and, in doing so, the story of punk rock – albeit, a type of punk rock that, by dint of its innovation, creativity, and refusal to be constrained by trends, is sadly in short supply these days. Watt shows himself to be an extremely passionate, intelligent, and equally principled individual, and his insight into both the band and the scene that he helped create is enlightening.

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Deep Sea 3D - IMAX Darling Harbour - 21/06/06

Five minutes to quickly turns to ten minutes over the hour. No sign of open doors and three women eat out one box of popcorn with their mouths open. Kernels hit the ground with as much frequency as the clicking and yapping of their jaws. Talk over the popcorn intensifies as they struggle to find the coordination to hit their mouths with their hands. A streaming sight of yellow explodo is done and all over with each encroaching patron.

Steadily the stream of people flapping about builds to line the foyer. Or whatever they call that area in front of the candy stand. Not everyone calls it a foyer.

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Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore

There are those who say Michael Moore is a bad person. They'll say he's unpatriotic. That he's slovenly and loud. There are also those who say the complete opposite; that he is saintly and wonderful and hang onto every word he says. This film fits into the same category as his previous Bowling for Columbine which brings to the screen things that may not provide comfortable viewing. It's not the kind of film you'd expect a comedian to make. It does point out the connections between the Bush administration, his cronies, Oil, the Bin Laden Family, and Fat Stacks of Cash. I was able to follow things like that because Jello Biafra had introduced me to such ideas in his spoken word tour last November. And the crowd he drew was more than partially full of idiots. There were only one or two such idiots in the cinema who decided to make their feeling more vocal. But I was only paying to see one whiner, and he was on the screen...

The film does progress in an easy to follow manner. And he does illustrate how "the money" filters through from one end to the other, and whose hands it graces on its merry travels. There are sequences of the film that show a whole bunch of Dubya clips in and out of context, so as best to make him look like an idiot. Not a difficult task, really. Out of context or no, the fact remains that George W Bush is, to his frail reeking core, an idiot. He'd still be an idiot if Moore made no films at all. This is beside the point. The point is, after 9-11, there was a lot of covering up and delaying of investigations. This film seeks out the possible reasons behind such things.

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