Taika Waititi

the werewolf rumble is a one-shot gag but amazing windup and probably the biggest laugh in the series

ENBB if you enjoyed both it's probably worth checking out Hunt for the Wilderpeople

looks great

That looks brilliant.

Hunt for the wilder people was such an unexpected pleasure. It did not turn out to be the movie I thought it was. Bother he series and the movie of what we do in the shadows are fantastic too.

Prompted by my seeking the absolutely joyous hunt for the wilderpeople today and for not the first time being reminded that this guy has a knack of making films that actually deliver far and beyond what I expect when I see the trailer.

Joyous, I said

― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:57 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

if ppl are still sleeping on this movie 30 months after this known-quantity-grouch used "joyous" twice thats an awful mark against them imo

Agreed, we also found it delightful

Hunt for the Wilderpeople so good, Top 5 last year for me

i couldn't stand this, it was so insufferably twee and indie i had to turn it off after about 10 minutes.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 27 March 2017 16:02 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I like how LG here plays the role of the Sam Neill character and the film stands in for the kid - unfortunately he fails to go on the journey which would redeem both of them.

hee hee

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

Yes! I love him.

its almost as if we shpuldnt be offended that some kiwis opinion is worth more than ours

Oh you know that’s not what I meant. Also, lol:

anyway watch it before fri week or im not talkin to u

Lol will do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI

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.

Jojo Rabbit is a good movie

good to hear. it looks great. some reviews were a bit 'meh'. seeing it thursday when it opens here.

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.

Is it ‘Heroes’

Not exactly

You teas

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.

Thomasin McKenzie - this girl is excellent in this role. I have to watch Leave no Trace.

She and it are both incredible. That's a really special movie for lots of reasons.

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.

Taika Waititi really looks like Michael Palin doing Hitler.

Ugh, really? I found most of this film dismal.

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.

benigni was pre internet tbf

looking fwd to this. not sure hes landed a full movie yet but his high points are always great

I will say this: Rebel Wilson is awful in p much everything, including this.

I feel as if I'm through the looking glass.

cant discount it! whats it like?

I cringed for most of the morning watching it.

bad morning!

Peter Bradshaw was apoplectic about it and gave it one star.

That'll show'em!

so what are people's complaints exactly

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.

*a young chiseler.

Anyway.

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.

It's true -- Nazism needs ridiculing, who knew.

I just didn't find it funny and I thought it was pretty cringey.

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.

not enough fallen madonna with the big boobies iirc

Not enough, I lieb you baby, I lieb you, now lieb me alone

I'm guessing you guys haven't seen Look Who's Back yet, fucking Gordon Kaye is comedy genius next to this shit!

It’s not a satire at all

the "anti-hate satire" tagline was a major faux pas, then

I liked it

I liked it