The Films You Watched Thread VI: The Undiscovered Movie

[QualityChimp]

I wouldn't say its all played for laughs, the scene where jojo walks into the town square to try to find his mum is defiantly not played for laughs it brings home how desperate and horrible the situation is, spoiler warning --- here is a woman who was trying to hide and save a young jewish girl from being sent to a concentration camp hung in the town square as a warning for everyone else, jojo hugging her feet is heartbreaking. It's not humanising Nazis but showing the power of propaganda and xenophobia and how a country could come to a position where they voted someone like Hitler into power.

Whereas I agree that the shoelaces scene was incredibly moving and a real shock, it just felt like a blip amongst the whimsy and other characters that wouldn't be out of place on Allo Allo.
There are some serious points being made, but they get lost in the generally lighter tone of the movie, IMHO.

[Atticus]

Love how my movie bros - @Atticus and @wakka join in with me in this thread!
Love hearing what you've been watching too.

Yeah, I enjoy it too ... probably my most used thread on the forum

Reading through your MI posts has made me consider watching them in sequence. I went from really liking the first to not liking the second and therefore losing interest in the series, to then hearing how great they'd got and diving back in but watching the recent ones in any old order

Can't wait for the next one at the cinema, now!
I've definitely NOT watched the trailer as you can only see those stunts for the first time once, and I want them in the context of the movie, please.

Yeah, I kind of went against my own code with that when a mate a work said I should watch the stunt from the next film. Incredible as it is to see the Cruiser doing his thing I wish I hadn't gone there.

[Lebowski]

I finished off Jojo Rabbit (2019 via D+) after it left All4.
I was a bit torn with this. It's fun and funny in places but neither consistently funny enough to be a comedy, but too silly to be a proper drama. I cared about the characters and what happened to them.
I also felt a little uncomfortable with the theme of humanising Nazis. Hitler (famously played by Waititi himself) is a crazy and funny cool guy in Jojo's imagination. Most of the other Nazis are sympathetic to the resistance or played for laughs.
Argh, I dunno. I guess if you watched Jojo Rabbit straight after a visit to Auschwitz, you'd think it was too whimsical a take for such a dark part of our past that needs to be remembered for the right reasons (so we don't do it again) rather than sugarcoat it and think it wasn't all bad.

I wouldn't say its all played for laughs, the scene where jojo walks into the town square to try to find his mum is defiantly not played for laughs it brings home how desperate and horrible the situation is, spoiler warning --- here is a woman who was trying to hide and save a young jewish girl from being sent to a concentration camp hung in the town square as a warning for everyone else, jojo hugging her feet is heartbreaking. It's not humanising Nazis but showing the power of propaganda and xenophobia and how a country could come to a position where they voted someone like Hitler into power.

[wakka]

Deffo need to watch Game Night. Really like the sound of that, and you guys aren't the first I've seen recommend it.

Love how my movie bros - @Atticus and @wakka join in with me in this thread!

I agree it's great!

[QualityChimp]

Love how my movie bros - [MENTION=4034]Atticus[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5490]wakka[/MENTION] join in with me in this thread!
Love hearing what you've been watching too.