🍿 David Stratton's Infamous Review Of 'The Castle' In 1997

The late David Stratton's comments about The Castle have resurfaced.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jamnation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He lost Dave Stratton last week. He used to do
the reviews, the movie reviews with Margaret Promarants and really
part of our upbringing.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh absolutely, and for many of us who grew up
with no movie culture apart from I know how you
like to watch sps on a certain night and the
cheese cloth would fall off someone's shoulders as they played
the piano.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
And jeeze cloth inside. Buz mondays, that's true.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Right, it was world movie time for you. But he
and Margaret bought the world cinema to suburban Australia. They
really did.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
And he reviewed many, many, many movies. But one that
popped up in my algo that's algorithm was his review
of The Castle. The Castle. I just love that movie.
I love it so much and whenever it comes on,
I to find myself watching it because it's such and
it gets better and better.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's one of Australia's most loved films.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But let's go back to the lens of nineteen ninety seven.
David wasn't a big fan.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, I'm afraid it wasn't for me. Margaret. I really
didn't get onto the way lengths of this film at all.
I thought it was patronizing towards its characters. I didn't
find it funny. I mean, I just thought it was silly,
and technically it really is. I mean you say it's rough,
I mean it's very rough.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Very How many stars are you going to give this?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'll give it one and a half out out one
and a half stars.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
But you know there was a guy who turned down
the Beatles, remember that, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, he said they're
not going to go They're not going.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Anywhere, and been spoken about this recently. Who's going to
drink juice? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's right, you were offered.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's from me.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
There was an offer to get in on the ground
level of boost juice. So I'm going to drink juice.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It wasn't a dodgy deal all at the time. I
just thought it was going to be a trestle table
Jeanne and Ellis with a trestle table making juice and
people buy it.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Who's going to drink that?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
And you know, these are the things like you look
at all the in your life. And David years later
came out and said he was wrong. Yes, And that's
the thing about a critic. You can be wrong with
the sliding.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Doors for all of us. You know the things we
got wrong, whether it's a movie, a band, whatever it is,
you think that's not taking.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Off anything else you've done, or you missing.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Always finger on the pulse, always correct. You did say
that I'd never make it like I said, Always correct.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I wouldn't do a show with him.