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'Steve Irwin: "The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course" His First Big-Screen Adventure!'

08:56 / 05.12.02

Has anyone out there seen “The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course” starring Steve Irwin? I believe this to be one of the greatest films ever (above “Soccer Dog” and the “Air Bud” trilogy) but have experienced great difficulty in finding like minded individuals with which to share my enthusiasm. I now turn to the free thinking “Barbelith” community in search of my much desired “Steve-o” enthusiasm vortex.

One of the most interesting aspects of this film is the curious mixture of Hollywood drama and adventure documentary; the words ‘edutainment extreme’ couldn’t possibly be put to a more noble use than in the description of “The Crocodile Hunter: Collision course” starring Steve and Terri Irwin,(let us never forget Terri Irwin).

This is my first post on "Barbelith" so forgive me if you people have already discussed this exciting film.

08:59 / 05.12.02

Haven't seen the film - yet.

Much respect for Steve Irwin. Probably in love with his wife.

Welcome to Barbelith!

The Natural Way

09:10 / 05.12.02

Ah, a fine cock!

I think you should expand on some of the film's themes - really bring them out.

(Something very fucking strange just happened: I was typing and suddenly my post split in half and flew down the page. I couldn't stop it. Weird.)

I'm just waiting for the inevitable cries of "look, I've got as much of a sense of humour as anyone, but shouldn't this be the Film & TV?", and stuff about topic abstracts....

09:12 / 05.12.02

For future reference, fraelyboy, this type of thread really should go here. Oh, and welcome to the 'lith.

09:16 / 05.12.02

Shit. Was still typing that as Ruuuuuuuuuunce posted. Oh well, at least I deleted the part about topic abstracts...

09:29 / 05.12.02

sfd - are you in love with Terri Irwin, or is Steve in love with Terri Irwin? Or both of you? Enquiring minds wanna know.

09:56 / 05.12.02

the irwins have a street team?

10:24 / 05.12.02

You know, I thought that whole thing about the ill-fitting subject matter as I pressed the "post" icon. Oh well. Clearly many of you have not seen "Steve Irwin: The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course". For those people I shall attempt to convey

The Film starts off in space. Miles above the surface of planet earth a sattellite quietly goes about its' orbital business when it inexplicably explodes! Part of the sattellite (flight recorder)falls to Earth, (Queensland, Australia)and is promptly swallowed by a crocodile. From here the story progresses along three lines:

1. American Government espionage people on a mission to retrive the flight recorder from Australian outback.
2. A roughty toughty rancher lady who's sole desire is to kill the mangy croc that's been eating her cows. This is the same croc that contains the super secret flight recorder.
3. Steve and Terri (Who no doubt love each other very much) travel almost aimlessly around the outback catching/finding various animals and talking to us, the viewers about them.

Steve and Terri's friendly and informative chatter draw you into the film whilst the other threads distance the viewer by being boring and predictable. When these variously styled plots collide things start getting strange for the viewer. The espionage guys are fighting Steve and Terri (who have the croc in the back of their truck). Whilst you watch, Steve updates you on the progress of the battle:

"Crikey! I've got him angry now!"
"Tell you what, I'm gonna teach these boys a Steve-o lesson good and proper."

This is all deeply amusing.

I'm off in to town now to pick up my comics, whilst I'm gone I suggest all of you either buy, rent, borrow, steal or put "Steve Irwin: The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course" on your birthday/Christmas wants list. Spread the pleasure.

10:31 / 05.12.02

Just to clear things up: it's me that's probably in love with Terri, a fine figure of a woman - anyone who can sit on a croc's head and not be fazed is worthy of admiration. I suspect Steve is definately in love with her.

10:44 / 05.12.02

I can't remember ever falling in love with a person working in popular mass media such as Terri Irwin, but I did definately have a crush on Diana Rigg for a while. I think it was all the action-suit wearing karate chopping. Sigh.

The Natural Way

11:59 / 05.12.02

But what did you learn from this that I couldn't learn from, say, the popular film 'A Fighting Alan' and its sequel 'He Moves - Steel Fist'?

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13:03 / 06.12.02

Oh, little Puppy Runce. Alan is a sheep whereas Steve and Terri Irwin are humans who have sworn to protect animals. I fail to see how you are equating the two.

13:56 / 06.12.02

So what do we learn about crocodiles?

And - does Steve directly address the camera throughout, as in the TV show?

19:15 / 06.12.02

Yes, Steve addresses the camera throughout, as does Terri. No one else realises the camera is there. Steve and Terri can percieve their universe, setting them on a much higher plane of consciousness than the predictable drones working for the CIA or the cruel rancher lady.

just some of the things we learn about crocodiles:
They don't like cruelty.
They are less active at night.
They can't digest metal, "...even a beer can'll kill 'em".
The best way to transport a crocodile is in a big box.
Crocodiles recieve great respect from Steve and Terri Irwin.

19:22 / 06.12.02

Ah. So it's a metafiction, then.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:56 / 06.12.02

Does that mean he's fictional? I don't know if that's going to make him any less punchable, for me...

12:45 / 07.12.02

Just imagine a picture of Steve, Terri and baby Irwin with the caption:

"What's a meta fiction, mate?"

Crikey. Flamin' mongeral computers.

12:57 / 07.12.02

What's a metafiction, mate?

Well, Steve I'm glad you asked, but would it really have been so difficult to find the answer yourself?

And fraely: the HTML you want is
<img src="http://TheURLofThePicYouWant">

17:26 / 07.12.02

Jack Fear, what a lovely chap. Having now looked at the definition of metafiction and having talked with Steve about the piece ("The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course"), we have concluded that yes, one could certainly infer metafictional tendancies in "The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course" but Steve maintains that "...the main thing I wanted to do was promote animal welfare, mate."

17:33 / 07.12.02

Interesting way to come at the whole fictionalized reality of TV shows, though. Sort of an anti-Jackass, anti-Survivor, y'know?

18:22 / 09.12.02

G'day.Thinking about it now, this film isn't so amazing. The circumstances under which the film was watched have influenced my opinion of it greatly. A couple of days after my 27th birthday and I was suffering from the blues. I'd just had a shit day of having to let a girl down gently which left me feeling like a arsehole. Writing the day off I headed to bed for an early night when "Strewth!" there it was. My housemate, Ste had bought it for me. Crikey! Such unexpected kindness moved me deeply. As me and Ste skinned up and enjoyed "Steve Irwin: The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course", a fondness for the movie was forever impressed apon me. Consequently I shall forever argue the case for this film over others such as "The Royal Tennenbaums" or "Buffalo 66".

18:23 / 09.12.02

Oh yes, Steve Irwin is cuddly, not punchable. DO NOT PUNCH STEVE IRWIN.