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Post by Ladyfingers on May 31, 2020 15:45:52 GMT
The soppy corniness is better handled than the zany humour, which feels out of place. This film just doesn't have any control of tone at all. Charitably, I think it's trying to give a kid's eye perspective of Nazi Germany, but instead of making the sinister benign or beguiling, it makes it silly because Nazis deserve nothing except mockery. Some scenes that should be played straight are given an 'Allo 'Allo treatment that drains tension.
There's a lot to be commended in the performances, though. Johansson and Rockwell are excellent. Rebel Wilson is awful and needs to be let go.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 21, 2020 13:59:06 GMT
Turns out this film got plenty of shit reviews?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
I want to meet the people that hate this film just so I can have new people in my life to hate.
Maybe I am biased cos the fucker was written and directed by an NZer but THIS THING WAS FUCKIGN AWESOME. I laughed my ARSE off in spots. Just such a perfect narrative baseline to vaseline the gags in like so many hot and steamy tongueings up the clacker. Who doesnt like taking the piss out of nazis?
Jojo's chubby wee bespectacled pal: "Our only friends are the Japanese and, just between you and me, they don't look very aryan".
Jew girl: "You are not a nazi".
10 year old nazi boy: "Um, I am massively into swastikas"
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Post by hiccup on Nov 22, 2020 21:26:51 GMT
I loved it. I thought it perfectly captured what it would look like to a child who has a mother trying to make things as easy as possible during such horror.
I loved Johansson in this.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Nov 28, 2020 8:19:42 GMT
Turns out this film got plenty of shit reviews?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
I want to meet the people that hate this film just so I can have new people in my life to hate.
Maybe I am biased cos the fucker was written and directed by an NZer but THIS THING WAS FUCKIGN AWESOME. I laughed my ARSE off in spots. Just such a perfect narrative baseline to vaseline the gags in like so many hot and steamy tongueings up the clacker. Who doesnt like taking the piss out of nazis?
Jojo's chubby wee bespectacled pal: "Our only friends are the Japanese and, just between you and me, they don't look very aryan".
Jew girl: "You are not a nazi".
10 year old nazi boy: "Um, I am massively into swastikas"
I thought it was good, with moments of genuine brilliance, but too much Taika Waititi is a problem for me. I liked What We Do in the Shadows a lot, but his "everything's silly, teehee" tone wears on me.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 28, 2020 21:55:52 GMT
but too much Taika Waititi is a problem for me. I liked What We Do in the Shadows a lot, but his "everything's silly, teehee" tone wears on me.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Nov 30, 2020 1:41:13 GMT
Silly is fine, it's the "teehee" I don't like.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 5, 2020 3:13:56 GMT
The day the All Blacks met Hitler and James Bond.  |
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