There's not a chance the Australia movie will live up to the hype

As if the upcoming Australia movie had not had enough expectation heaped upon it, now Nicole Kidman has come out and claimed the experience of filming it transformed her life. As the Sydney Morning Herald article breathlessly states:

It's clear the making of the film transformed her from the inside out: "There's a lot of emotion attached," she says.

So let's summarise the things this movie, which seems to just be a traditional love story set in WWII era Australia, is said to have achieved or is expected too.

1. Reaffirmed Nicole Kidman's sense of Australianess (even though she plays an English woman in the movie).
2. Save the Australian film industry
3. Save the Australian tourism industry
4. Generate huge amounts of international interest in and sales of Australian products
5. Helped get Kidman pregnant, as she spent her weekends swimming in the "fertility waters" in the remote region of Western Australia where they were filming.
   

Ok number 5 was a joke, but still is there nothing this movie is not going to achieve! Next thing we will hear it is going to single-handedly save us from the international financial crisis.

I guess we'll find out in November.

Rant over. The cranky pants are off!