Rogermex - yes. I’m still laughing at “we’re werepeople not swearpeople.”
One of my coworkers is from NZ and said wilderpeople is great. Will watch.
learning that Taika Waititi is Jewish as well as Maori was one of the best moments of my life and also explains his uncommon handsomeness― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 12:36 PM (yesterday) bookmark flag link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 12:36 PM (yesterday) bookmark flag link
Yes! I love him.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
its almost as if we shpuldnt be offended that some kiwis opinion is worth more than ours
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
Oh you know that’s not what I meant. Also, lol:
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:39 (five years ago) link
anyway watch it before fri week or im not talkin to u
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:40 (five years ago) link
Lol will do.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I don't know, there are so many things about that that make me want to be on board, but at the same time I would be lying if I said watching that didn't make me a little sick to my stomach.
One huge thing in its favor is recognizing Thomasin McKenzie as the star of Leave No Trace. She was so good in that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
Jojo Rabbit is a good movie
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 27 October 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
good to hear. it looks great. some reviews were a bit 'meh'. seeing it thursday when it opens here.
― akm, Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
I found it pretty remarkable. It's not perfect perfect -- couple of broad moments here and there even in context which were a bit 'hmm' but I half wonder if that has to do with the source novel. But overall, really well done. It has to manage a very careful trick given the decades of cinematic interpretations, especially the broad comedy and the extreme sentimentalizations of the past. And giving nothing away, some excellent music cues throughout, and the final key one was astounding.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
Is it ‘Heroes’
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 October 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
Not exactly
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
You teas
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 October 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
Tease
yeah this movie is excellent. One of the things that kept striking me while watching it, and hit home later when I scoured reviews, several of which are lukewarm and a few of which are absolute pans, is that you don't see satire like this in movies much any more. Having grown up with Python, Mel Brooks, etc, it's nothing for me to see someone doing a funny pisstake on Hitler; but when was the last time anyone did this in a major film? I don't mean to be all 'people are too woke' but I saw my fair share of "this is not a funny subject and therefore this movie is garbage" reviews which is 100% missing the entire point.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Thomasin McKenzie - this girl is excellent in this role. I have to watch Leave no Trace.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
She and it are both incredible. That's a really special movie for lots of reasons.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
musical cues: these are all really great too, even the obvious one at the end. The opening of the film, with scenes from Triumph of the Will synched to "Komm Gibt Mir Deine Hand" rivals Trainspotting for great use of music and visuals. And I saw at least one review that was absolutely horrified and disgusted by it. FFS.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
Taika Waititi really looks like Michael Palin doing Hitler.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
Ugh, really? I found most of this film dismal.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Thought this was pretty good. Waititi consistently hilarious as Hitler ("we're having roast unicorn for dinner!"), ScarJo is great, and some v good music cues as Ned noted. Some of the comedy doesn't quite land and in a weird way I wish it was actually funnier/sillier than it turned out to be. It's strange to think how something as objectively terrible as the Benigni movie instantly got Oscar plaudits, but then this gets tut-tutted and swept under the rug as not being reverent enough - dismissed as a comedy in bad taste even though it definitely gets at the horror and violence underlying the premise. Kudos to Waititi for even trying to get this made/expend his industry capital on such an obviously personal and odd project.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 January 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
benigni was pre internet tbf
looking fwd to this. not sure hes landed a full movie yet but his high points are always great
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
I will say this: Rebel Wilson is awful in p much everything, including this.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
I feel as if I'm through the looking glass.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
cant discount it! whats it like?
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
I cringed for most of the morning watching it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
bad morning!
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
Peter Bradshaw was apoplectic about it and gave it one star.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
That'll show'em!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
so what are people's complaints exactly
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Movies based on LOL HITLER MAKING FUNNIES are dumb in 2019; it's cheap because nothing is at stake, and cheap because it's used for the sake of the moral education of young chiseler.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
*a young chiseler.
Anyway.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
Thought this was great - people writing it off as a satire in poor taste are clueless. It’s not a satire at all - only Nazism and its ideas are ridiculed. Everything else in the film is true and heartfelt, which is why it works so well to shitcan Hitler and his dumb anti-life ideas. Cast are all great, too.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 5 January 2020 07:17 (four years ago) link
It's true -- Nazism needs ridiculing, who knew.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 January 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
I just didn't find it funny and I thought it was pretty cringey.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Sunday, 5 January 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
I wonder why these lame attempts at making a comedy movie within a nazi/Holocaust setting keep failing so badly? Well no actually I don't much tbh.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
not enough fallen madonna with the big boobies iirc
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
Not enough, I lieb you baby, I lieb you, now lieb me alone
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing you guys haven't seen Look Who's Back yet, fucking Gordon Kaye is comedy genius next to this shit!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
It’s not a satire at all
the "anti-hate satire" tagline was a major faux pas, then
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
I liked it
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
You say this like the events of the past three years haven't happened.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
and a satire of the Trump era would be redundant too when every day brings events that would cause Swift's brain to melt.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
I don't really agree with that, I can think of at least two Trump satires that have been fantastic (The President Show and Tim Heidecker's On Cinema character). Granted those are small-screen/smaller stakes satires.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
also feel like Nazis require ridicule as long as they are subject to being resuscitated
otm, never stop making nazis ridiculous
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, January 6, 2020 12:26 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i thought this was really good, it's about the present. everyone is in vague 40's period voice, except waititi's imaginary friend who speaks like a snide internet anon
― goole, Monday, 6 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
fwiw I found ScarJo's "they did what they could" (in ref to the ppl strung up in the square) and her later direct advice to "do what you can" to be really moving
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
This gets a lot of points for effort, but I don't think Waititi quite pulls it off. He is not menacing enough when Hitler gets mad, and while I love the stylized scenes like the one at the swimming pool, he is just not quite a strong enough stylist to really make it pop. Wes Anderson could have created something amazing out of this. On the flipside, it's a better story than the one in Grand Budapest Hotel.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link