It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up this week, Taika Waititi and Sam Neill’s 2016 quirky comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Elizabeth
Ready when yall are!
Kathryn
Playing!
Elizabeth
I know absolutely not one thing about that movie other than Sam Neill
Kathryn
Same
Nathan
It’s Middle Earth!
Hannah
And Taika Waititi
Elizabeth
Yay Taika!
Kathryn
Liking the Children’s Book Font for the titles
You can see this social worker wants to put him literally in the middle of nowhere
Elizabeth
Oh yeah she’s done
Hannah
Heh yeah
Thar he is
Elizabeth
Badass from frame one
Nathan
That is one ugly hat.
Kathryn
Quite a glare old Sam has got.
Elizabeth
Agreed
Hannah
This is going to be quite the dive into NZ vocabolari
Wtf phone
Kathryn
Hee
Elizabeth
I thought you were saying that with a Kiwi accent 
The whole hot water bottle is this whole cultural touchstone that I never quite get. I mean I know what it’s for but
Kathryn
Heh, so much for keeping him away from the gun.
Hannah
Wowsa
Elizabeth
Hahah, probably the best person to foster him 
Kathryn
Yeeeeah, not helping
Nathan
And suddenly Ricky realizes he’s not as tough as he thought!
Hannah
Haha I dunno I think this is a good scare straight scenario
Elizabeth
Same
Also I like that he joined in the singing
Kathryn
Not gonna mess with HER in a hurry.
Elizabeth
Awww puppy
Kathryn
Oh lord, remember before COVID when we blew on the food everyone was gonna eat?
Hannah
Is that an American football jersey?
Nathan
Sure looked like a Saints jersey.
Elizabeth
OH NO
Hannah
Whoa
Kathryn
Whaaaaa
Nathan
Didn’t see that coming!
Elizabeth
That’s Taiki isn’t it?
Hannah
There’s Taika
Elizabeth
Jinx!
Kathryn
I suddenly thought of In The Mouth of Madness “Oh no, not the Cahpenters too.”
Hannah
Heh
Kathryn
Ugh, bounced back into the system.
Elizabeth
Ooo sam looks good cuttin wood
Kathryn
“Too soon?”
Hannah
I remember someone on Twitter being like, “I just realized in Jurassic Park Sam Neill is trying to do an American accent” and he quoted tweeted it with just, “bit harsh”
Elizabeth
Heh
Aw, the hot water bottle
hahahah love the note
Kathryn
YIKES
Hannah
Haha
Elizabeth
Hector’s gonna be PISSED
Hannah
“As you can see if you look inside this barn”
Kathryn
Glad it wasn’t attached to the house, damn.
Elizabeth
Chapter two was SHORT
Kathryn
The tone in this movie is just so beautiful all over the place.
Also, when did Chapter 2 start?
Elizabeth
hahahah the hot water bottle!
Hannah
HAH
Elizabeth
He realized Heck would definitely take him up on that
Oooo that’s an interesting wrinkle
Hannah
Not always…nuanced, is this
Kathryn
Crotchety to the extreme
Elizabeth
It’s definitely embracing the goofy
Kathryn
Is this technically a young adult film?
Elizabeth
It has that feel, except for the pig slaughter
Hannah
I thought family film, but it’s PG13
Elizabeth
Wow, nice one Hector
Hannah
Heh, that’s not why people get naked in the cold (thank you, Outside Magazine)
Elizabeth
I was JUST THINKING THAT
Kathryn
Right? Never heard of lost leading to nakedness
TOILET PAPER
They were out there six weeks?
Elizabeth
“Well they got that wrong because you’re obviously white..”
Hannah
Haha Caucasian
Nathan
That’s how long a bone takes to heal, so yeah.
Hannah
Yaip. Haips.
Elizabeth
“He made me do stuff.” *hisses between teeth*
Kathryn
Eep.
Hannah
RICKY, STOP
Elizabeth
IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE
Kathryn
TIME TO STOP TALKING NOW RICKY
Wow, Ricky the badass
Elizabeth
hee “SHIT. JUST. GOT. REAL.”
Kathryn
Couldn’t pick a prettier setting for this madcap adventure
Elizabeth
Yay Nina Simone!
Hannah
Can’t have a chase without Sinnerman
Kathryn
Love this song!
Elizabeth
Meanwhile the dogs are having a great time
New Zealand’s definitely on my travel list.
Hannah
Something about the inclusion of spitting is very funny
Elizabeth
Yes!
Hannah
I’m such a slave to authority I didn’t pick up on how absurd she’s supposed to be
Elizabeth
I didn’t pick up on it till the TV interview
Yipe!
Hannah
Tell me how he got up there without a mounting block
Elizabeth
Don’t logic the plot Hannah!
Kathryn
Damn, too fast for me.
Hannah
I wanted a stunt-mount, damit!
Kathryn
Love how his eyes brightened when he heard Ice Cream
Hannah
Heh he’s supposed to be a different character here?
Elizabeth
Ricky’s definitely found his people
Hannah
Or is that not Taika
Elizabeth
I don’t .think. that’s Taika
Hannah
Ok yeah, bit meatier
Kathryn
This is all sweet but isn’t Hec a sitting duck now?
Elizabeth
Oh yeah
Kathryn
Well there’s a stunt dismount
Hannah
Ok I will take a comedy stunt dismount
Elizabeth
Hee, we didn’t get a stunt mount but we got a good dismount
Jinx!
hahahah I love the graphics
“Tupac find Heck!” confused dog noises “OH YOU’RE USELESS.”
Hannah
This is definitely a family movie made by a man who grew up watching Gremlins
GOONIES, I meant
Elizabeth
hahah
I mean same era
Hannah
Probably both with some fair amount of satire that we missed as kids
Elizabeth
Definitely
Hannah
Haha “a big bag, with a lot of holes in it”
Elizabeth
“And the first movie too before she could do chinups.”
Kathryn
AND WE HAVE A TITLE.
Hannah
Steamroller!
Nathan
Elizabeth
NOT THE DOG
Hannah
That is an ROUS
Kathryn
No fair killing the dog, movie.
Hannah
Ok you get an R rating if you kill a dog, unacceptable
Elizabeth
Yes I agree
Nathan
So, the dog was Zag and not Jack?
Kathryn
Apparently?
Hannah
Heh, we’ve got the CC on here
Elizabeth
Yeah, he’d said at the beginning that Hector should get another one and call it Zig
Hannah
That was his joke about “get another one and call it Zig”
Kathryn
Jinx
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
I kinda thought it was Jag, so I didn’t get the joke.
Elizabeth
“Thanks for bringing her mate.” Awwww.
Nathan
Leonard Cohen!
Elizabeth
I was JUST TYPING TO ASK THAT
The thing he does with the camera pans is very interesting
Nathan
Song is called “The Partisan”.
Hannah
Like a montage that doesn’t cut
Never can get my head around the fact that this is like July
Elizabeth
Right? Watching an Australian show Jada likes and they’re literally celebrating Christmas in July but it’s snowing
Hahaha, Lord of the Rings, that one’s for the nerds.
Nathan
Was searching for GIF of that scene, but couldn’t find one.
Elizabeth
Ricky doesn’t want to laugh but he’s thinking about it
THAT’S RHYS DARBY HE WAS ON NO SUCH THING AS A FISH AND VOLTRON
Kathryn
Oh no way, I love that ep, he’s off the hook.
Huh. I like that haiku.
Elizabeth
I will never get tired of telling people I got to interview him
Yeah that was a really nice one
“You’re pretty likable.” High praise from Heck.
Uh oh
Hannah
Jesus this soundtrack is ALLLL over the place
Elizabeth
I seriously love Rhys
I keep giggling
It only came out a year before this but DEFINITELY some Fury Road vibes
hahahah the slow motion wave and smirk
Kathryn
Okay now they’re getting silly
Nathan
And now we’ve gone Dukes of Hazzard.
Hannah
Omg that was the scene Taika plotted out with cars on the carpet
Kathryn
My first thought “IS THE DOG OKAY?”
Elizabeth
Little Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid vibe when he asked about the bullets
RICKY NO
YAY ANDY
YAY ANDY AGAIN
Hannah
I wonder if her shtick was all about American bullshit
Kathryn
Looks like it
Elizabeth
It REALLY feels like that, the “no child left behind” especially.
Hannah
I thought maybe “no child left behind” was coincidence but apparently not
Hard to see it when you’re in it
Elizabeth
I thought it was pointing at the fact that the No Child Left Behind plan actually left a LOT of kids behind, but that may be too deep
OH YAY HE’S WITH THEM!
“Did you shank anyone?” I love Sam Neil’s reaction shots.
Kathryn
“That really is enough I’m getting uncomfortable.”
Elizabeth
Awwwwwwwwwww
Kathryn
Majestical
Elizabeth
Awwww again
Nathan
Pretty good!
Elizabeth
Talk about a good hearted movie
Kathryn
Heh, from the movie trivia: “Sam Neill described the film as very funny with many funny people in it and one unfunny person, that last one being himself.”
Elizabeth
Hahaha
Oh they’ve done a rock version of her birthday song in the credits!
Kathryn
And apparently Majestical IS a word. It was used by Shakespeare.
Elizabeth
Hahah
Hannah
Interesting follow-up: Blazing Saddles is on
Nathan
Elizabeth
Man I have NEVER watched that movie from beginning to end
Nathan
WHAT?!
Elizabeth
I KNOW
Hannah
It is joke-ful
Elizabeth
That and Young Frankenstein, everybody keeps telling me I’m missing out
Nathan
That’s a good one, too.
Elizabeth
We shall put them on the list
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