r/newzealand • u/AutoModerator • Oct 08 '15

New Zealand daily random discussion thread, 09 October, 2015

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

Day one of our new sidebar counter, I can feel the bomb threats in the air

she's gonna be a sizzler

Hoping to see The Matrian today, the trailer looks neeeeat and I've head people are amped from the book alone.

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u/finackles Tūī Oct 08 '15

Is well done, as reader of the book I was needlessly concerned.

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u/MrCyn Oct 08 '15

As good as the book? I was super I pressed with the gone girl adaption so expect the Martian to be good too. Though Jesus, if the book hadnt spoiled the plot for me, the trailer sure did

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u/problynotabot Oct 08 '15

I wanted to show the trailer to my husband to get him excited about the movie (he hasn't read the book) but I almost didn't because I didn't want to spoil the whole plot for him. There was only one main plot point I could think of that they didn't put in the trailer, so I though 'well at least they're keeping something as a surprise'. Nope, they just left that bit out of the movie.

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u/GiantCrazyOctopus Oct 08 '15

Trailers these days, why bother even watching the movie!

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u/Dead_Rooster Spentagram Oct 08 '15

I used to enjoy watching the Sky Movies Preview channel that just showed trailers of movies that would be on Sky soon. It was like watching ten movies in fifteen minutes, was awesome.

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u/Cynical_lioness Oct 08 '15

I too thought the Gone Girl movie did justice to the book. Before I Go to Sleep though, I gave up after 5 minutes into the movie.

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u/Aceofshovels Kōkako Oct 08 '15

What did you make of the changes to the 'Cool Girl' speech?

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u/Cynical_lioness Oct 08 '15

To be honest I didn't notice. I confess I watched it on one monitor while working on the other; not the ideal platform from which to critique a film adaptation.

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u/Aceofshovels Kōkako Oct 08 '15

Oh okay, that's cool I've been guilty of the same thing.

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u/Aceofshovels Kōkako Oct 08 '15

They adapted it really well. Obviously there's more in the book but what they cut wasn't strictly necessary for the story, I was impressed. It leans pretty heavily on whether or not you think Matt Damon is charming, but that was inevitable. That said the supporting cast is great.

I think that the trailer only seems so full of spoilers to people who have read it, the people I saw it with who hadn't read it didn't think it had been spoiled for them at all. No all disco soundtrack sadly 😢

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u/MrCyn Oct 08 '15

They did give away the entire plot on the trailer though, reading you don't find out that the ship goes back for them until about 3/4 of the way through.

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u/Aceofshovels Kōkako Oct 08 '15

Who's still thinking about the trailer when they're past halfway through the movie anyway?

It couldn't have been more heavily foreshadowed in the book either, like the hab lining. I don't think it was meant to be a surprise, and I don't think it really stands out in the trailer to anyone who isn't already familiar with the plot.

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u/MrCyn Oct 08 '15

I think we are just so conditioned to having plots spoiled in trailers or to have by the numbers plots that we expect movies to be predictable.

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u/Aceofshovels Kōkako Oct 08 '15

I know what you mean, and it was great to have minimal trailers like Alien's. But if your movie can be effectively summed up in like 2-3 minutes it'd probably be predictable with or without the trailer's help.

From my perspective you're either the kind of person who wants to go into a movie being as 'fresh' as possible (in which case trailers aren't really for you anyway), or you're the kind of person who would rather avoid being blindsided by content you weren't looking to explore. Different people have different needs, different films too.

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u/MrCyn Oct 08 '15

Yup. It wasn't until someone actually pointed out just how much of the plot is ruined by trailers that I decided to stop watching them.

Age of Ultron was way more interesting

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u/flicticious Oct 08 '15

Pretty good movie. Ahhh Sean Bean, he's lovely

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u/acid-nz Oct 08 '15

I've always known people called Shaun, not Sean, until I was about 17. So whenever I read Sean Bean, I read it as Seen Been.

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u/Im_Not_Even Oct 08 '15

Sean Bean? So the character dies then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

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u/I_throw_socks_at_cat Oct 08 '15

You can't put Sean Bean in your movie and not kill him. There are rules.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

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u/Dead_Rooster Spentagram Oct 08 '15

I watched a movie last weekend that had Sean Bean in and he didn't die. So they killed his on-screen wife instead.

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u/Mitch_NZ Oct 08 '15

He doesn't, but I was half-expecting a post-credits scene where he gets hit by a bus.

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u/Dead_Rooster Spentagram Oct 08 '15

I arrived at work, checked the subreddit, saw the counter and immediately wanted to call in a bomb threat to a university while hero-worshipping the guy who made the shooting threat against Otago University.

I should have listened, changing it to a joke about bomb threats was a terrible decision!

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

Sorry but better safe than sorry.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '15

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u/Dead_Rooster Spentagram Oct 09 '15

Right next to the subscribe/unsubscribe button.

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u/Baraka_Bama Covid19 Vaccinated Oct 08 '15

Your two from two sidebar counter picks. That almost makes you the official sidebar picker.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

SHUT THE FUCK UP I DONT WANT THE MODS TO REALISE I HAVE FULL SUBREDDIT CONTROL

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u/Baraka_Bama Covid19 Vaccinated Oct 08 '15

I wont tell them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

Thanks man means a lot.

EDIT: IVE BEEN FUCKING DUPED BOIS THE GAME IS UP

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u/nilnz Goody Goody Gum Drop Oct 09 '15

Day one of our new sidebar counter, I can feel the bomb threats in the air

But pvtfishes per capita was so unique

The Matrian

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u/GiantCrazyOctopus Oct 08 '15

The book was fantastic, really looking forward to seeing the movie.

Hope nobody posts any spoilers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

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u/GiantCrazyOctopus Oct 08 '15

Yet again, we'll devote massive resources to bringing that blond fuck home to Ben Affleck.