Are there any good movies from New Zealand without hobbits in them?
It's been 20 years since LOTR, surely they've made other stuff worth watching?
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Are there any good movies from New Zealand without hobbits in them?
Just because it was filmed there doesn't mean they made it.
The director is a kiwi. Author was an Anglo. No Black folk.
no
Dead Alive.
Seconded
Give the yank some frickin recs, eh
Barman! Six milkshakes - easy on the ice cream!
If you want something innocent, wholesome and funny
is it mumblecore
Napoleon dynamite
this movie is DOGSHIT and don't let anyone fool you into watching it.
Proper NZ kinos:
10-7
Motorway Patrol
Highway Cops
Dog Squad
I reckon it’s nice
>It's been 20 years since LOTR, surely they've made other stuff worth watching?
Fun fact: Production of The Hobbit (not LOTR) fricked up our entire little cottage film industry and now we're basically where Hollywood goes to film their shit for cheap rather than us making our own shit anymore. So our films post 2010-ish are mostly shit/non-existent, you really wanna check out our films pre-Hobbit instead.
Hood classic
Best NZ Rom-Com. Also Heavenly Creatures, OP
Craving for some eggs now
that poster is not representative of the film.
Vigil (1984) is kino. Vincent Ward's other films are worth checking out too
Solid kino.
Cook the man some iggs btch!
Of course there is, dummy.
%3D
what do they eat?
Apples and lamb from what I can gather. Probably some fish as well being an island and all
Hunt for the wilderpeople is funny even though the director dude is annoying
Sam Neil’s first kino where he plays literally me. trying to be left alone but gets caught in everyone’s bullshit. It’s absolutely worth watching.
I liked Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
pretty much everything Peter Jackson did before LOTR is kino. particularly the last two:
>Bad Taste
>Meet The Feebles
>Braindead
>Heavenly Creatures
Once Were Warriors is blackpill kino
Whale Rider is good
The Frighteners
Footrot Flats, all time great animated film
>Utu
Fricking incredible "Western". An enraged Maori scout starts an insurrection after being betrayed by colonial authorities, his rampage leading to the formation of a mixed white/Maori unit to hunt him down. Brutal, excellent, movie in the spirit of the best Spaghetti Westerns. Reminds me of Ulzana's Raid in how it handles complex subject matter with nuance.
>The Dead Lands
Another vengeance story, set in pre-European Contact New Zealand. The survivor of a devastated tribe teams up with a legendary cannibal warrior to hunt down the men who destroyed his people. Very stylish, functionally a marital arts film that happens to take place in NZ. I liked the way it both builds up and tears down its own warrior mythology.
>What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
You fricking know this one. Goofy vampire mockumentary. There's a reason it became a successful tv show.
I'd also add Boy and even Hunt for the Wilderpeople to that list.
The minute Waititi went to Hollywood, he shat the bed
Why does Boy make me feel nostalgic for coastal-rural NZ. I grew up up in the middle of the country and I'm white with middle class parents.
I miss pre-hollywood Waititi.
There's no such thing as an Australian or a New Zealander. There are just various ethnicities who are represented far better by their ancestral countries of origin. No Chinese man in Auckland has any characteristics that people associate with New Zealand. As for those characteristics themselves, they're just traits of specific regions and classes from the UK more generally.
You sound like not a NZer. You see an asian young person grown up in Nz and you can tell immediately, they have the same accent, same mannerisms, in 5 seconds I could tell you so much about them, how they'd react in certain situations etc, and they look asian
I agree with you about New Zealand Europeans, we are such a young people and have closer ties to where we originally came from. I’d argue the New Zealand stereotype only really applies to those of Māori decent. Australians do have an identity though because they are a lot older and mostly didn’t come down here by choice.
You're right that fundamentally we're English, Irish, or whatever home culture, but we're still a highly variegated splinter off from the main-stock, more than any individual regions or towns in those countries. For that reason we're far more deserving of pride in our identity than any city or region of England, Ireland, etc.
What identity? The only one down here is farmers that can’t help but blow their heads off with shotguns.
Yeah that sounds about right
Are you genuinely moronic? Our basic orientation is undeniably different from that in England. Our accent, our culture, the way we joke, converse, virtually everything is different in some way. You must be an extraordinarily alienated modern individual if you think you can't be happy or proud in your native character. Not proud in a grand or narcissistic sense, but proud of the character you share with those (friends) around you.
Do you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere? There's plenty down here, human life goes on like it does everywhere else, the beauty of a young girl's face is just as divine, every Jack finds his Jill, men are men, there is a cultured class and an uneducated mass, and so on.
>Do you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere?
Yes i am from a rural community, which is arguably the closest you can get to a true New Zealander. You must be some Wellington gay if you don’t know the suicide epidemic we are in, I personally know 6 people that have killed themselves and I’m in my mid twenties. The best thing anyone can do is move to bongland, unless you are a millionaire director and want a holiday home in Queenstown then it’s a nice place sure.
I'm Australian. New Zealand may lack culture compared to Australia, though it's still produced a lot of good bands, movies and literature, but that doesn't mean you can't be proud of your own existence. Look to your Anglo roots for high culture, or any other country with a high cultural tradition, but don't let that make you feel a distaste for your own home and cultural peculiarities. Ultimately it's the source for the immediate reception and sensual (i.e. through the senses) experience of life. You must always come back to it. Even things as unnoticed as the sight and smell of the native flora.
>Once Were Warriors
>Meet The Feebles
>What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
>Titanic
>Black Sheep
>Goodbye Pork Pie
>Hunt For The Wilderpeople
>Boy
>What We Do In The Shadows
>The Fastest Indian
>The Dead Lands
Omegakek for calling "The Piano" Titanic. I've done the same.
Alone on a Friday night?
If you can ignore all the bits with "men bad!!!", the first season of Top of the Lake is comfy kino and has great visuals. I never watched season 2 but that's another crime case, s1 is self contained.
No, they're only fun when playing midgets
Whale Rider's probably the best one
Mr Organ just has a good mood
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This was dumb as frick though. He basically found a dickhead and stalked him and acted like it was the other way around.
I thought it was very interesting and watched it twice.
The Frighteners is kino, I like to go to the graveyard and little castle they filmed in, was closed for ages from the earthquakes.
LotR is enough for us for the next 50 years.
We're only a tiny country in the middle of nowhere.
WTF else do you even film down there? Does NZ even make porn?? lol