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Rembrandt

What Crash is awesome!...... 
...anyway just got back from an advance screening (with free icecream!) of 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Taika Waititi's latest. Took new Mrs Rembrandt and both of us had many laughs, kinda like 'Boy' but less serious. Definitely worth a watch and a PG rating too so pretty kid friendly.

jegga

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What Crash is awesome!...... 
...anyway just got back from an advance screening (with free icecream!) of 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Taika Waititi's latest. Took new Mrs Rembrandt and both of us had many laughs, kinda like 'Boy' but less serious. Definitely worth a watch and a PG rating too so pretty kid friendly.
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Sounds like its nothing like the book then. Thats a shame, I read the book quite a few times as a kid.

Rembrandt

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Sounds like its nothing like the book then. Thats a shame, I read the book quite a few times as a kid.</blockquote>
 
Never read any of his. I take it the book wasn't a comedy then?

Paekakboyz

It had comedy in it but it was a bloody good yarn about growing up and relationships between two people who were worlds apart to begin with.
 
Jegga, had wondered if the fat > skinny theme would be included. Going by the promo stuff I've seen it wasn't!!

jegga

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It had comedy in it but it was a bloody good yarn about growing up and relationships between two people who were worlds apart to begin with. 
Jegga, had wondered if the fat > skinny theme would be included. Going by the promo stuff I've seen it wasn't!!</blockquote>
 
Yeah the fat/skinny thing was a was one of my favourite bits of the book . For a Crump book it was actually quite emotional when he saw himself in the mirror for the first time. My mum teared up a bit when she read that part. 
I don't remember much comedy in it though, I reckon it's his best book . There's quite a lot of cool stuff covered in there you wouldn't expect In a Crump book. 
When I was in Australia I was putting my time sheet in and noticed the the guys name I was working with was Crump . I asked if he was any relation and he got defensive and asked if I knew him, when I said no he said " good , he was a fucking jerk". I left it until I got to know him s bit better and he said he was being s bit hard on Crump because with a dad like his he never stood a chance and then started telling me stories about his family which were so horrific I didn't know whether to believe them or not . About four years later I got a book called the endless fear by Crumps brother, he wasn't lying if anything his upbringing was worse than his nephew made out. Crumps father beat him so badly that he had the imprint of his foot on his neck for years afterwards , his father was holding him down like that while he whipped him with a belt. Just like his nephew said he figured out it really pissed off his dad if he didn't cry when he was getting beaten so he would do everything he could not to. After the beatings he'd go and lie under the house for a couple of days on an oilskin he had set up there. 
If you ever find that book it's bloody hard going and I don't know how the author ever found it in him to reconcile with his father when he was older. 
Well , there's today's downer.

Crucial

Sadly that violence from his father passed down the line and many of Crump's many wives and children have spoken out about the bashings he used to dish out. He seemed to have no idea how to deal with problems except hit out or move out.

Paekakboyz

There was a book/article (can't recall) from one of Crump's ex partners and it was full on. He was seemingly charming and a good kiwi bloke to the outside world but god awful to his family.
 
I've got the book sitting out at home, had been meaning to re-read ahead of seeing the movie. Great yarn, not surprised your mum teared up Jegga - as a chubby kid that really got me in the feels too!

jegga

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There was a book/article (can't recall) from one of Crump's ex partners and it was full on. He was seemingly charming and a good kiwi bloke to the outside world but god awful to his family. 
I've got the book sitting out at home, had been meaning to re-read ahead of seeing the movie. Great yarn, not surprised your mum teared up Jegga - as a chubby kid that really got me in the feels too!</blockquote>
 
By mum I may have actually meant 11 year old me as well as her. 
Apparently Crump has kids he never met and never supported financially , his nephew said he came to stay once when he was broke. One night Barry and his dad went to the pub and dad didn't come home for six months . 
The book by his ex is called In salting the gravy, I never read it . His brothers book was more than enough for me .

Tim

<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysias-1mdb-the-secret-money-behind-the-wolf-of-wall-street-1459531987">The Secret Money Behind â€˜The Wolf of Wall Streetâ€</a> <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Mr. Aziz, asked about Red Graniteâ€s financing in a 2014 New York Times interview, identified the main investor as a businessman in Abu Dhabi named Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny. â€œThere was no Malaysian money,â€ he said. 
Mr. Al-Husseiny is an American who then headed Aabar Investments PJS, which is an arm of an Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund known as IPIC. The state-owned firms did business with 1MDB. For instance, IPIC guaranteed some of the Malaysian fundâ€s bonds. 
In connection with the IPIC guarantees, 1MDB reported in corporate filings that in 2012, it sent $1.4 billion to Aabar as collateral. 
Investigators believe this money never got to Aabar in Abu Dhabi but went instead to a separate, almost identically named company that Mr. Al-Husseiny had helped set up in the British Virgin Islands, called Aabar Investments PJS Ltd., said people familiar with the probes.</blockquote>

NTA

Cowboys and Aliens
 
I had seen the last half of this before, but saw it on Netflix and decided to watch all of it.
 
Not a bad concept actually. A little loose in points, but James Bond does a decent enough American accent and brings the ice-cold stare nicely. 
 
Its a good movie to help explain the stupidity in relying on ballistic firearms over melee weapons in an alien/zombie scenario.
 
2.5 Olivia Wilde's out of 5.

NTA

If it had been more of this, it would have rated 6 Olivia Wilde's out of 5.
 
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Mokey

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Get fucked all you fluffybunnys.....
 
yes I meant Romeo and Juliet but Shakespeare in Love is equally sht
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Piss off. Shakespeare in Love was a great movie. Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Colin Firth as the villain, even a young Ben Affleck...I'll forgive them for casting Gwyneth and her mozzie bites. (She shouldn't have gotten Best Actress)

Rancid Schnitzel

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If it had been more of this, it would have rated 6 Olivia Wilde's out of 5. <img src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w550h500/public/wallpapers/olivia-wilde-16g.jpg?itok=XkSENEi6" alt="olivia-wilde-16g.jpg?itok=XkSENEi6"></blockquote>
 
You have Foxtel right? Tip for you. Vinyl (episode 6 I think). You're welcome.

canefan

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Piss off. Shakespeare in Love was a great movie. Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Colin Firth as the villain, even a young Ben Affleck...I'll forgive them for casting Gwyneth and her mozzie bites. (She shouldn't have gotten Best Actress)
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Probably shouldn't have gotten best movie either. Elizabeth was a better film and Cate Blanchett was a better actress

jegga

Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
 
Bit of a tough one, as I mentioned the book was one of my favourites as a kid and I read it a quite a few times when I was the main characters age . The movie only borrows a few bits here and there from the book and one of the main themes -the boy being fat and having a real issue with it because as he says "fat is fatter on brown skin than white". Also the order things happen in the movie is different to the book and it could have done with more of Rima Te Wiatas character imho.
 
Anyway the good stuff.
 
Sam Neill , Rima Te Wiata and the kid are just superb, the boy-Julian Dennison in particular. The family of bush people are pretty good too, I was watching it thinking " I know that guy" when the father appeared , I think most people know someone pretty similar . The settings are fantastic too, the book was set in the Ureweras so I'm guessing the movie was too with cameos from the desert road area. Awesome seeing the lakes etc on the big screen.
 
There is loads of laughs throughout, a lot of them as I point out are a bit corny. 
 
The bad
 
My mrs elbowing me a couple of times early in the movie when Neill was talking to the boy and saying "thats you". Cheers for that.
 
Waititis films usually have a few of NZ pop culture references and corny dad jokes in them , in this one he's gone way over the top and it's almost like he tried to cram one into every single scene .Homages to kiwi movies and ads , they just annoyed me towards the end....actually well before the end.
 
The cyps worker was too over the top to be slightly believable as was Rhys Darbys character . I know its a comedy but they were just tedious.
 
I haven't done a lot of pig hunting but whoever told them that was how you did has obviously never done it at all. Jumping off a bank onto a pigs back with your knife out? Ffs.
 
 
And this might need a spoiler but the continuity dept will have those movie error geeks working overtime, Ricky runs away from the hut without a rifle, comes back without one, goes bush and its reappeared, it disappears again , reappears and then finally after he catches up with his uncle its on his uncles shoulder.
 
 
If you have never read the book you'll probably enjoy it a lot more than I did.
 
 
Talking about the book earlier in the thread I mentioned it was quite different to Crumps other ones and he was apparently a notorious plagiarist borrowing stories from people he met in his travels and his widow has come out today and said she had a hand in writing it. Thats not hard to believe , its a shame theres no actual proof though so she can be given credit where its due. <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/78468554/barry-crumps-ex-wants-credit-for-book-that-sparked-hunt-for-the-wilderpeople'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/78468554/barry-crumps-ex-wants-credit-for-book-that-sparked-hunt-for-the-wilderpeople</a> I'm surprised she stuck out 12 years with him, she must be as tough as old boots.

mariner4life

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If it had been more of this, it would have rated 6 Olivia Wilde's out of 5. <img src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/w550h500/public/wallpapers/olivia-wilde-16g.jpg?itok=XkSENEi6" alt="olivia-wilde-16g.jpg?itok=XkSENEi6"></blockquote>
 
Holy shit! A re-quote just cause. 
She is fucking hot and has no qualms nuding up. I love her i think

Milk

Ummm... so yeah I really liked Batman v Superman and I don't get why critics are so down on it? 
 
Yeah, Lex Luther is pretty weird in it and
 
[spoiler]I don't get Batman's dream. Can he tell the future? How did his subconscious know Louis Lane was the key?
*EDIT: OK the online theory seems to be that's it's some sort of time traveling Flash/Barry Allen warning from the future.
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but at the end of the day Batman fights Superman and I thought it was badass.

canefan

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Holy shit! A re-quote just cause. 
She is fucking hot and has no qualms nuding up. I love her i think
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She is quite saucy eh? I must say I have an unhealthy penchant for long socks, I'm not sure why....
 
<img src="http://www.speakerscorner.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/olivia28.jpg" alt="olivia28.jpg">
 
 :man_in_love: :man_in_love: :man_in_love:

Nepia

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Ummm... so yeah I really liked Batman v Superman and I don't get why critics are so down on it? 
 
Yeah, Lex Luther is pretty weird in it and
 
[spoiler]I don't get Batman's dream. Can he tell the future? How did his subconscious know Louis Lane was the key?
*EDIT: OK the online theory seems to be that's it's some sort of time traveling Flash/Barry Allen warning from the future.
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but at the end of the day Batman fights Superman and I thought it was badass.
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Settle down fanboi.
 
Nah, just kidding, as I noted earlier, I clearly get while the critics are down on it while still thinking it's a watchable movie. 
 
Batman, Batfleck actually makes it watchable which is funny considering the fanboi hissy fits when he was named.
 
I just want to see a Superman movie not directed by Hack Snyder.

Mokey

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You have Foxtel right? Tip for you. Vinyl (episode 6 I think). You're welcome.
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She is quite saucy eh? I must say I have an unhealthy penchant for long socks, I'm not sure why....
 
<img src="http://www.speakerscorner.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/olivia28.jpg" alt="olivia28.jpg">
 
 :man_in_love: :man_in_love: :man_in_love:
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Meh. Far too skinny. Where's the fun if you could snap them in half??

The Silver Fern

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