Posts by Morgan Nichol
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Islander,
Very understanding and compassionate Morgan Nichol-
I don't go to the movies in order to show compassion to disruptive people, I go to the movies in order to watch a movie.
Given that I'm now paying $40 for seats when I go to the movies, what kind of shit should I as a reasonable peaceful movie goer be forced to endure?
Am I also meant to be understanding of people who apparently only go to the movies because they like to get a lot of texting done in very large dark rooms full of people trying to focus on something that is very easily and specifically intruded on by bright rectangles of light?
I'm actually quite sympathetic of people who need to piss. Especially if I've met friends at a bar before the film, and tapped the seal already, it makes me a bit anxious - so I use a highly sophisticated strategy called 'taking a last minute piss before going into the theatre, even if I barely need to', it seems to work most of the time.
If your bladder can't make it two hours, get a seat on the aisle. Festival aside, this is a problem in normal screenings. Every popular session at normal cinemas in my area appears to have easily user selectable seating. Sit at the side, sit at the back. You won't need to be anxious, and you won't need to intrude on other movie goers experience. No more problem.
Anyway, pissers aren't a very big problem most of the time, it's the talkers and the texters that fuck me off the most.
Oh my god, and people who translate the entire movie for their non-English speaking friend? It happens all the time at my local theatres (Queen St, Auckland). Watch it at home where you can either have subtitles or change to a different language, or try to follow along in the theatre, just shut up.
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Everyone gets caught short, but if you're actually incapable of watching a film without disrupting others, watch at home or (in the case of normal release films) go to a quiet screening.
I'd say that people with bladder problems or various kinds of shit going on in their lives are entitled to go to the cinema too.
They can. Just like people with blood-gushing head wounds can, and people who like to recreationally take huge shits in their pants can. But should they?
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
Arie Smith didn’t buy a gun with a silencer, or actively attempt to acquire a grenade launcher.
Grenade launchers aside, silencers aren't any sort of indication of malice in and of themselves, there are loads of silencers in use in NZ, they're completely legal, and completely common. They're not an assassin thing, they're a "protect your hearing" or "don't piss off the neighbours" or "don't scare off whatever you're hunting" thing.
(Not that I'm any sort of gun guy or whatever.)
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Hard News: Really good, actually, in reply to Richard Matthews,
I was really excited about TiVo… in 2001. Launching in 2009, long after it’d become clear the future of this stuff isn’t recording a programme when it's played (which is soooo 1980s), but downloading it when you want? Utter madness.
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TVNZ7 will still be TVNZ7 if it has advertising. Presumably the demographic will keep the complete shit out. And it seems like running costs are quite low, so just deal with a few less minutes of awesomeness per hour, and we don’t need to lose the great programming we’re now enjoying.
(Or go PBS-style pledge-drive. Or convince the central government to continue funding it, good luck with that.)
Chemical Brothers were good this time, but were properly great last time they were down. Why the difference? Because it was almost exactly the same show, and frankly I expected something new, if not in the music, then in the stage show. The clowns are ace, the screen is great, but let’s get more new stuff in there next time shall we?
Also, seemed weird that they saved the very best of that amazing lighting cylinder thing until after the music stopped.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Emma Hart,
Oh snap! *waves hand in that particular sort of swirly you-just-got-told way*
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to James Butler,
I really don't want either, but I guess if pushed I'd go for the camera. (How big was the thing? Are we talking goatse, or are we talking 'baby the blow job's great but please stop doing that'?)
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Paul, it might seem bloody obvious (because it should be) but thank you for saying scrotum. SO MANY people say testicles when they're talking about their beloved sack.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Yes yes, I'm sure he was inconvenienced by all that but, you know, child birth. Haven't you heard nothing can ever possibly compare?
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Cracker: Gimme Shelter, in reply to KingKenny,
Fair call, I thought the Smashing Pumpkins were great at the BDO, but caught them a year or two ago down at Vector. Worst concert I've been to in a long time, so incredibly disappointing.