Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

YES, YES, FUCKIN YES! This doc was great! Plenty of recommendations for future movie nights. This is a loving look at overlooked filmmakers who ended up being influences on later filmmakers. However, Mr. Hartley doesn't shy away too much from the hard questions about the images of Australians in these films and if these films were "too American." There's a lot I could write about this documentary. This is definitely much different than your average clip or trailer video.

The first third is too lewd for my tastes, but my new knowledge of vintage Australian horror is pleasing!

Constantly had me jotting down titles of films that looked absolutely amazing. A loving look at B-movies. I can't wait to check out "Patrick", "Long Weekend", "Razorback" and all the other promising genre flicks mentioned here. Props for unadultered, unashamed love for the B-movie.

As an Australian who is not into trashy movies I have mostly avoided these films and the cringe they would illicit. Being presented here with such affection and flair softens my views enough to check some out. The interviews are fun, the music rules and the 'she'll be right' attitude of early productions is classic.

The film moves fast - it cuts from commentator to commentator and from clip to clip so quickly I felt my head spinning. Aside from that, it's an honest and humorous look at some wild films. I kind of wish it moved a bit slower so I could have a better understanding of certain people and concepts, but I understand the desire to keep it dynamic and interesting. I definitely want to check out a lot of the films featured in it, though. The opening credits are spectacular.

That one guy REALLY doesn't like "Picnic at Hanging Rock". And that other guy really doesn't like anything at all. Fortunately all the others really seem to like most of what they did except when they don't, and probably for good reason. I know my list of Australian movies to watch grew by a fair bit.

An insight into the forgotten world of blood, bikers and boobs from Down Under. The directors, actors and those influenced like Quinton Tarantino, Greg McLean, James Wan and Leigh Whannell share the stories of a fledgling film industry that embraced a Guerrilla style of genre film-making. An absolute must watch for anybody who thinks they're an expert on cult/trash cinema.

John Holmes had a big ol' dick, thanks documentary about the Australian exploitation film industry for informing me about that. This is basically just a clipshow of boobs , explosions, Quentin Tarantino talking about jerking off to Mad Max and more boobs.

Hartley's thoroughness is admirable, pulling together a slew of clips and talking head interviews with many of the central figures behind the freaky features. The film is a little scattershot, piling on clips with only glancing context. It winds up playing as a wild greatest hits collection, which is, admittedly, pretty fun in its own right. Certainly, watching this grab bag seems a better way to experience the films than actually sitting through any of them.

A friend aptly stated that this is- and I paraphrase- "all the fun parts of exploitation, but without all of the filler in-between". That's as good a summation as any of a film that barrels between the bawdy and the bloody, interspersing clips of Australian exploitation with interviews in which key players recount all of the fun stories surrounding those flicks. It's a lot of fun, especially for anybody interested in that less pretentious side of movie-making.

Entertaining documentary about the Australian genre cinema. I didn't remember how many there are, and the film does a good job at covering majority of them with good quality clips. They also have a lot of interviewees from various areas of the industry. My biggest gripes are that some of the key films are covered pretty superficially and some of the interviewees are clearly playing heightened roles of themselves to make it more entertaining - which is unnecessary.

The pacing is a little too hyperactive for my taste, but it does settle down eventually and gets pretty interesting. I have zero interest in most of these movies, but the stories of their production are fun to hear about.

Fun, informative and generally well edited lesson on not that well known genre history.

Why do Australian's neglect their own cultural history? This film never comes close to answering that fundamental question because it's too concerned with telling us that something 'wild' and 'unprecedented' happened while engaging in revisionist mythology about the supposedly 'great' genre industry of time's past. Tarantino's presence validates a lot of junk that otherwise would have been consigned to its rightful place: the dustbin of history. Great advertisement for Madman dvd's though

A mad look at the Ozploitation films made at a time when Australia was trying to prove its films were only artsy, with insightful commentary from those that made them and contagious enthusiasm from their fans (like man-child Tarantino). Most of the films shown look rubbish, but they've taken all the best bits out of them and stuck them in this doco. Grouse! Also, this film proves, despite the accent, just how damn attractive Australian women are, for some even in their 50s.

A fun documentary, which clearly comes across, but one without substance and a more "highlight reel" sort of feel to it. I didnt find that too annoying, but actually found myself thinking that I'd be better off watching some of these movies rather than a documentary singing their praises with snippets and clips and not much else.

A fun and energetic look into a specific genre of film I knew little about, and left me with quite a list of titles I need to see once it was done. Mission accomplished. I especially loved the looks into the gung-ho, on the fly filmmaking from the earlier years.

They did manage to get interviews with just about everyone, which was cool. But there's not much there as far as content. Most of it is just a re-telling of plot synopses with no real connection or flow.

I don't give a damn about exploitation films. So 100 minutes of people waxing rhapsodic about movies that I most likely would hate isn't that fun for me. There are a few good anecdotes, and there was a small handful of movies I might want to check out but for the most part I couldn't care less. The doc failed to get me excited about its subject, and is probably appeals mostly to the already converted. I also found the editing annoyingly rapid at times, although some of the graphics were clever.

"Its shallowness is nonetheless in tune with its subject: the gory, violent, sex-crazed Australian exploitation films of the '70s and '80s." - Nick Schager

excellent documentary, i learned so much! aussies are crazy!!!!

Sort of like the documentary Z Channel in that even if you don't find the presentation itself interesting, you'll still be left with a killer group of films to look into.

Wonderful documentary! I've been jonesin' for a good "movie about the movies" for awhile, and this totally delivered. My curiosity about Ozploitation genre cinema has gone from "nonexistent" to "piqued" overnight. In fact, my Netflix queue has more than doubled in size. I'm screening "Patrick" tonight!

I liked the idea of 'Not Quite Hollywood'. When I read the synopsis. It promised an examination of Ozploitation films and the folks who made them. Instead, you get a lot of "remember when". They insist we should love their work, yet barely explain, let alone examine, why these movies were made or successful at all. They do a little, but not enough to justify the love they share over the films. I wasn't around for these flicks, so the nostalgia was completely lost on me and this doc hinges on it.

This documentary starts strong and never let's up. I knew very little about Aussie films other than The Mad Max films, Breaker Morant, and a few others. Not Quite Hollywood informs and entertains simultaneosly. I only wish it was easier to get my hands on copies of the films discussed. If you don't mind extreme gore, profane and vile language, and frequent nudity check NQH out!

Decent documentary with some interesting stories about the making of austrialian "Ozploitation" films.It could have been a bit more detailed but a good watch.

Didn't have any clue about the mentioned movies. Some I really like to see. Edit: I started a collection with the same name.

Fun and entertaining and certainly piled up my must-see list for the near future. Sometimes it's too dynamic for its own good, but that's minor nitpick.

very good Documentary

"As important as any history of "legitimate" Australian cinema - and 10 times the fun - it's a shot to the heart for anyone who thought Down Under was only capable of dreary, culturally relevant filmmaking."

A bit longer than it could have been but mostly interesting. I had no idea there were so MANY crap films made in Australia in the 70s and 80s!