Comments on: Hobbit revisited

By: tracey

tracey — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:32:07 +0000

Dave, so your position is now that it was ok for the government ot change laws and offer rebates because business used its power in the way it knows how, as opposed to a few months ago when you thought it was ok, because the unions were being unreasonable and causing a boycott which jeopardised the film being here (which they didnt)

By: ehoa

ehoa — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:51:51 +0000

The one thing Helen’s definitive account of events does is show up Peter Jackson for being the spoilt brat/prat he is…the most over-rated director in the industry and a Warner Bros toady.
May fat hobbit (Gerry Brownlee fits the bill) fall on his head.

By: True Wheel

True Wheel — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:15:24 +0000

@ Spud: Exactly, no fun for the NZ F&P workers out of a job, plus F&P have had quite a recall problem in the US it seems with product from the new peasant staffed factory.

@ Dave: Don’t play semantics with me laddie. There is a clear power imbalance between the parties involved in the film industry.

By: Spud

Spud — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:50:39 +0000

@Dave – Hi

Fisher & Paykel exercised their right to leave so that they could pay peanuts to peasants!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:31:21 +0000

@True Wheel – “Unionists and anyone else that offered support to the actors were quite entitled to make suggestions on suitable tactics”. Quite right, as is the right of the business or entity taking the financial risk. They have the right to leave, conduct business and film somewhere else, don’t they? ‘Rights’ go both ways do they not, or are a person rights proportional to their personal circumstances, or indeed how they vote?

By: jennifer

jennifer — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:54:16 +0000

fureongo, any idea if Paul Holmes got that part he was after? In the movie, I mean. Not the media training part. We know about that already.

By: Daz

Daz — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:45:39 +0000

Another household here who won’t be watching it.

We have no connection with unions or the film industry, but we are still seething at a government who would sell out our workers to foreign interests, then lie about it to voters.

By: tracey

tracey — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:25:12 +0000

principle not politics fureongo.

By: fureongo

fureongo — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:57:12 +0000

Sad that you are going to probably not watch it. Petty.

Despite the situation around workers rights, by not going you are not supporting those who are trying to make a go of it in life by working on the film.

Dont let politics get in the way of going to watch a film that has many great and upcoming actors from NZ involved in it.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:19:48 +0000

Darien, the BSA is reported as saying that in his TVNZ Q&A interview Holmes was ‘openly biased’ and ‘unnecessarily aggressive’ and ‘displayed active contempt’ against Kelly and the union position. However, this behaviour was okay, according to the BSA, because Holmes was ‘expressing his personal opinion’ and exercising his ‘freedom of expression’. What? I thought it was an “interview” on public television? However, this is an interesting insight into the modus operandi of TVNZ News and Current Affairs, and goes some way to explain why Helen Kelly was lynched by the media, and then in turn by the public.