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   From: notgonn@happen.com   
      
   "Andreas Kohlbach"  wrote in message   
   news:87vcmq8log.fsf@usenet.ankman.de...   
   > Mark McDougall wrote on 28. February 2012:   
   >>   
   >> On 21/02/2012 7:50 PM, Clocky wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Well, think of it this way... is a computer featured in a movie equal to   
   >>> the   
   >>> same computer not featured in a movie?   
   >>   
   >> An Australian telemovie... it's more than likely to be utter rubbish   
   >> and seen by no more than a few dozen people (after all that's Channel   
   >> 10's total audience these days). In case you haven't been paying   
   >> attention the last 40 years, we Australians can't make television,   
   >> certainly can't make movies,   
   >   
   > Weren't the Mad Max movies made in Australia? Even though the USA didn't   
   > "got" the first movie, it was a huge success elsewhere, especially in   
   > Europe. And spawned two more films, which then also were quite successful   
   > in the USA.   
   >   
      
   Moulin Rouge, Crocodile Dundee, Babe, Shine... all did well - off the top of   
   my head.   
      
   >> and no-one will give a toss about a computer used in it.   
   >   
   > But it could be the sole high light in the whole movie. :-)   
      
   For us, anyway.   
      
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