Podcast 108: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

The 3 Guys Podcast

Recorded on 3/30/2023

Nature just got gangster. This week we are reviewing the movie “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison and directed by Taika Waititi. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!

The 3 Guys Rating

4.25/5

Notes From The Show

About The Movie From IMDB

Hunt for the Wilderpeople | July 1, 2016 (United States) 7.8

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Cast

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Hec
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Ricky Baker
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Bella Faulkner
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Paula Hall
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PC Andy Tappert
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Ron
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Joe
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Hugh
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Psycho Sam
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TK
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Minister
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Gavin
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Sick Man
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Tourist
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Organ Player
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Church Lady
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Court Lawyer

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Countries: New ZealandLanguages: English

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople | July 1, 2016 (United States) Summary: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Countries: New ZealandLanguages: English

Quotes

Hec: Me and this fat kid / We ran we ate and read books / And it was the best.


Ricky Baker: [reading wanted poster] "Faulkner is cauc-asian" - well, they got that wrong because you're obviously white.


Ricky Baker: Trees. Birds. Rivers. Sky. / Running with my Uncle Hec / Living forever.


Ricky Baker: [Reciting a haiku he wrote] Kingi you wanker / You arsehole, I hate you heaps / Please die soon, in pain.


Officer Andy: Oh look, he's giving a pig a piggyback ride.


Ricky Baker: I didn't choose the skuxx life, the skuxx life chose me.


Ricky Baker: I'll never stop running!

Paula: Yeah, and I'll never stop chasing you - I'm relentless, I'm like the Terminator.

Ricky Baker: I'm more like the Terminator than you!

Paula: I said it first, you're more like Sarah Connor, and in the first movie too, before she could do chinups.


Minister: You know, sometimes in life it seems like there's no way out. Like a sheep trapped in a maze designed by wolves.


Hec: Pretty majestical, aye?

Ricky Baker: I don't think that's a word.

Hec: Majestical? Sure it is.

Ricky Baker: Nah, it's not real.

Hec: What would you know?

Ricky Baker: It's majestic.

Hec: That doesn't sound very special, majestical's way better.


Officer Andy: We're offering ten thousand dollars to anyone who can capture them, dead or alive.

Officer Andy: Oh. Alive. They should be alive.


Hec: Sam, what's the fastest way out of here?

Psycho Sam: Jetpack.

Ricky Baker: [excited] Do you actually have a jetpack?


[Last lines]

Ricky Baker: Here we go. Reckon you can handle it?

Hec: What do you think? Reckon you can find that bird?

Ricky Baker: Yeah, I think I know where it is.

Hec: Seem to remember it was a pretty beautiful place.

Ricky Baker: Yeah, majestical. Come on, let's go. Don't slow me down, old fella.

Hec: You keep up with yourself, young player. Get in my way I'll have your guts for garters.

Ricky Baker: I honestly don't know what "guts for garters" is, so...

Hec: Those gangster talk.

Ricky Baker: Yeah, we didn't choose the Skux life.

Hec: The Skux life chose us.

Ricky Baker: Yeah.


Ricky Baker: Uncle, you're basically a criminal now. But on the bright side, you're famous.


Ricky Baker: Shit just got real! Back up, homies, and let go of my uncle!


Minister: You would think Jesus. I thought Jesus the first time I came across that door. It's not Jesus. It's another door. And guess what's on the other side of that door? Yeah, Jesus. He's tricky like that, Jesus.


Ricky Baker: We'll just tell them you were looking after me.

Hec: Doesn't matter what you tell them, they won't believe you. They'll think I made you do it. I'm not going back to jail, I'm better off up here. This is no place for a kid. You're gonna have to go back, Ricky.

Ricky Baker: To what?

Hec: To the welfare people.

Ricky Baker: No!

Hec: They'll look after you.

Ricky Baker: No, they won't!

Hec: They'll find you another home, you'll be fine.

Ricky Baker: You're not listening! Nobody listens! There's no more homes, just juvy!

Hec: What's juvy?

Ricky Baker: Juvenile prison. They don't care about kids like me, they just keep moving us around until something happens like... Amber.

Hec: Oh no, bugger then. Okay, okay. We're in about a million hectares of bush, that's big, it's big enough to hide in for a while, anyway.

Ricky Baker: Good enough for me.

Hec: But we're heading into winter. It's gonna be rough, no huts, no tents, real bush life. Can you handle that?

Ricky Baker: I can handle it.

Hec: Yeah. And if you play up, I dump you.

Ricky Baker: Okay, Uncle.

Hec: I'd still prefer if you don't call me Uncle.

Ricky Baker: Okay, Hec. So what do we do now?

Hec: We run.

[They run for a few seconds, then stop out of breathe]

Hec: Wait, wait wait. Maybe we don't need to run.

Ricky Baker: Oh yeah, let's just fast walk.


Ricky Baker: It was a relaxing song... and a relaxing sausage.


Hec: You can take him, but I'm staying here.

Hugh: Like hell. People want answers.

Ron: Yeah, answers.

Hec: Look, we got lost, I got injured, he's fine, it was basically a holiday.

Ricky Baker: Not a real holiday because he made me do stuff.

Hugh: Like what?

Ricky Baker: Just stuff. He had a sore leg so he made me do things for him. It was hard at first because my hands are so soft, but I got used to it. I didn't really wanna do it, but it was the only way to survive. It wasn't always hard, sometimes I got to do my own thing. He pretty much never joined in with me though. I asked if he wanted to play with me, but he would just make me play with myself.

Ron: I feel sick.


Ricky Baker: That's not very fair. Some people can't even have babies, and the ones who can, they don't even want them.


Ricky Baker: Ricky town, population... Ricky


Hec: I've been to prison.

Ricky Baker: Gangster! For what?

Hec: Manslaughter.

Ricky Baker: Double gangster! You need a teardrop tattoo!


Bella: [singing] Ricky Baker, now you are 13 years old. / You are a teenager and you're as good as gold. / Ricky Baker, Ricky Baker, / Happy Birthday. / Once rejected, now accepted, / By me and Hector. / We're trifecta.


Bella: [to Ricky] What you wanna do, you hungry? That's a silly question, isn't it? Look at you.


Ricky Baker: I ran out of toilet paper, give me some of yours.

Hec: Eh?

Ricky Baker: I've gotta poop. I need to poop, you need to poop, we all poop.

Hec: Use a leaf.

Ricky Baker: A leaf? Ugh! I hate you.

[Ricky walks away]

Hec: And bury it!

Ricky Baker: I'll bury you.


Ricky Baker: He's molestering me!


Hec: Shit just got real... again


Ricky Baker: Why do you reckon he calls himself "Psycho Sam?"

[Psycho Sam puts kitchen pots on Ricky and Hec's head]

Joe: Here you go. Put these on, to stop the government from tracking you.

Ricky Baker: Never mind.


Bella: [to Ricky] Come on, have some breakfast, then you can run away.


Paula: This ain't no charred foster kid.


Hec: [meeting Ricky] You ever worked on a farm before or you just... ornamental?


Ricky Baker: Shit just got real

Hec: Yeah shit just got real


[last lines]

Ricky Baker: We didn't choose the skux life.

[last lines]

Hec: The skux life chose us.


Bella: [after Ricky gets a dog] What are you gonna call him?

Ricky Baker: I'm still thinking. Something fierce to reflect its true nature. Either Psycho, Megatron or Tupac.

Bella: What's a Tupac?


Minister: Thank you, Selena. Take it away.

[Selena begins to play a funeral piece on the organ]

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