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"Ayers Rock sits there like a large boulder on the landscape."
I paraphrase, but only just. I enjoyed Long Way Round and Long Way Down, but I thought the third time would be a mistake, and so it proved. Ewan MacGregor-less, this time By Any Means features at least a hundred means of transport (if you are allowed to count different trains and taxis as different forms) on a journey from Ireland to Sydney. And only taking friend/producer Russ and cameraman Mungo with Charlie son of John Boorman. And a translator. Or a fixer. And presumably various camera crews - I wonder do they stop the train so they can film it leaving and the platform receding?
Boorman's all-purpose commentary: "It's beautiful. It's awesome. Bloody brilliant. This is fantastic. I can't believe it."
Yes, but why?
I paraphrase, but only just. I enjoyed Long Way Round and Long Way Down, but I thought the third time would be a mistake, and so it proved. Ewan MacGregor-less, this time By Any Means features at least a hundred means of transport (if you are allowed to count different trains and taxis as different forms) on a journey from Ireland to Sydney. And only taking friend/producer Russ and cameraman Mungo with Charlie son of John Boorman. And a translator. Or a fixer. And presumably various camera crews - I wonder do they stop the train so they can film it leaving and the platform receding?
Boorman's all-purpose commentary: "It's beautiful. It's awesome. Bloody brilliant. This is fantastic. I can't believe it."
Yes, but why?
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