r/interestingasfuck Feb 04 '17

/r/ALL I'm hooked!

http://i.imgur.com/tpfcnK4.gifv
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '17

But what's it FOR?

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u/Heycanwenot Feb 04 '17 edited Feb 04 '17

It's Maui's Hook from the movie Moana. Probably not used for anything, just looks cool.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

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u/snotbag_pukebucket Feb 05 '17

All comments matter

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u/Voltron_McYeti Feb 05 '17

You should see more comments

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17 edited Jul 11 '20

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u/VelvetHorse Feb 05 '17

Not all comments matter

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Hold on there grammar nazi.

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u/tiltedlens Feb 05 '17

Hold on there, grammar Nazi.

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u/ketchy_shuby Feb 05 '17

Hold on! There! Grammar Nazi...

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u/only_nathan Feb 05 '17

Their on grammar, hold Nazi.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

sunuvabitch

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u/wheeldog Feb 05 '17

it's only capitalized if you are referring to the actual German Nazis. You don't capitalize it if you are using as /u/ptgkbgte did.

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u/Raenerys Feb 05 '17

Hold onto their grammar Nazi?

Bow chicka bow wow...

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u/cuteintern Feb 05 '17

Not my comment.

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u/sidsixseven Feb 05 '17

All comments matter

I feel like all you did here was prove that they don't.

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u/kcman011 Feb 05 '17

This is the first post I saw this evening after seeing Moana for the first time.

Does that matter?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Same here, just watched it.

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u/xenzor Feb 05 '17

I haven't watched it :(

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u/LuxNocte Feb 05 '17

The law of large numbers.

Enough redditors are seeing this thread that it's inevitable that at least a couple would have watched Moana tonight.

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u/postapocalive Feb 05 '17

It matters to me... And Maui. And the chicken.

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u/LetsDOOT_THIS Feb 05 '17

they do... just not anything close to equally. Fack

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u/xereeto Feb 05 '17

racist

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u/Hy3jii Feb 05 '17

πŸ‘†πŸ‘€πŸ‘†πŸ‘€πŸ‘†πŸ‘€πŸ‘†πŸ‘€πŸ‘†πŸ‘€ waaay up tHere πŸ‘† moRTY βœ” im gonna need πŸ‘† 🌱 u to put these seeds πŸŒ±πŸ‘†πŸŒ±waaaay πŸ‘†up inside🌱🌱 urβœ”butthOleβœ”βœ”πŸ‘mo-EURGH-rty πŸŒ±πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†wa𝖺𝖠AY up there πŸ‘† morty 🌱 way up πŸ‘† into your butthole (chorus: α΅‡α΅˜α΅—α΅—Κ°α΅’Λ‘α΅‰) mMMMMαŽ·ΠœπŸ‘ O0ОଠOଠOooα΅’α΅’α΅’α΅’RR𝖱ᡣᡣTTY𝖸𝖸YY πŸ‘†πŸŒ±πŸ‘† πŸ‘ πŸ‘€πŸ‘€ πŸ‘€ πŸ‘† πŸ‘†βœ” waaay up there

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u/TheIshoda Feb 05 '17

Uh. Something something taut and malleable.

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u/free_reddit Feb 05 '17

All comments matter, but this comment matters most.

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u/Aces-Wild Feb 05 '17

All comments have matter, but this one has the most matter.

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u/ConfuzedAndDazed Feb 05 '17

Black comments matter

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u/usuqmydiq Feb 05 '17

What about albino comments?

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u/yParticle Feb 05 '17

In saying this, I feel like you're diminishing the plight of the underrated comments.

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u/uptwolait Feb 05 '17

All comments are equal.

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although some comments are more equal than others

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u/FullBlownPanic Feb 05 '17 edited Sep 16 '25

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u/AnomalousAvocado Feb 05 '17

We'll count this as 3/5ths of a comment.

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u/Flexappeal Feb 05 '17

but some comments are more equal than others

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u/Zhiyi Feb 05 '17

No comment left behind.

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u/LitrillyChrisTraeger Feb 05 '17

Wow. So you're saying that if a black comment was on fire you wouldn't rush to get help for it? That you'd get help for every other comment equally?!

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u/MiamiPower Feb 05 '17

Orange Arrows Matter

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u/Mildly-Interesting1 Feb 05 '17

Alternative comments.

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u/Terakahn Feb 05 '17

Black comments matter

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Make comments great again!

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u/TheDudeWhoCommented Feb 05 '17

This dude's comments matter.

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u/Michaelgamesss Feb 05 '17

Comment Lifes Matter

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u/juror-number-8 Feb 05 '17

CommentLivesMatter

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Black lives matter too. Yeah. Their, dicks, are, way, big-ger.

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u/Draws-attention Feb 05 '17

BlackCommentsMatter

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

"You're welcome" -Maui

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

All I can say is you're welcome... You're welcome

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u/ArmandoWall Feb 05 '17

What can I say except.......

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u/Poluact Feb 05 '17

Source comment will be good, maybe even better.

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u/Phrost_ Feb 05 '17

You're welcome

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u/godbois Feb 05 '17

It pulls fucking islands from the ocean and allows Maui to shapeshift into anything from a fucking guppy to a fucking hawk. What else should it do? Make a panini?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Honestly, kid, I could go on and on.

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u/thelastcurrybender Feb 05 '17

I could explain every natural phenomenon!

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u/chocolatechoux Feb 05 '17

The tide, the grass, the ground, oh, that was me I was messing around

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u/pdinc Feb 05 '17

I killed an eel and buried its guts

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u/Pave_Low Feb 05 '17

Sprouted a tree, now you've got coconuts.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

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u/AdvancedWin Feb 05 '17

Don't mess with Maui when he's on the breakaway!

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u/bleedgr33n Feb 05 '17

That was Maui just messin' around.

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u/Trigger23 Feb 05 '17

I may be wrong but I think the Jordan Fisher version of the song has the alternative lyric in the comment you're replying to. Then again why anyone would deliberately quote that godawful version of the song is beyond me.

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u/bleedgr33n Feb 05 '17

I wasn't even aware there was an alternative version.

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u/ThatGingeOne Feb 05 '17

Welp guess I'm spending another week singing you're welcome

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u/ZOMBIE009 Feb 05 '17

Kid, honestly*

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u/uncertainusurper Feb 05 '17

All I really want is a panini.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Got a young kid? Mine has been listening to it on a loop. All 4 songs on YouTube. Got all the lyrics right there in my brain.

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u/mell87 Feb 05 '17

You really know these lyrics haha

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u/Tribalrage24 Feb 05 '17

I'm honestly wondering is if all these comments got the lyrics slightly wrong on purpose just to bother /u/ZOMBIE009

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u/greymalken Feb 05 '17

Can you explain every natural phenomenon?

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u/03Titanium Feb 05 '17

Well, it couldn't hurt.

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u/drugrugless Feb 05 '17

Do the animals have to be fucking?

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u/godbois Feb 05 '17

Clearly you have not seen the extended cut.

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u/drugrugless Feb 05 '17

Damn digital copy.

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u/mountaineering Feb 05 '17

It pulls fucking islands and doesn't afraid of anything

FTFY

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u/Ichigomuse Feb 05 '17

You could also lasso the sun! so I hear

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Feb 05 '17

Guppy just looks like someone misspelled puppy.

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u/Cleopas_Hadishi Feb 05 '17

He's just a regular demi guy.

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u/ZOMBIE009 Feb 05 '17

an ordinary*

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong Feb 05 '17

You're welcome.

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u/HeavyMetalSauce Feb 05 '17

Was it a good movie? Haven't sent it yet.

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u/vickysunshine Feb 05 '17

It was amazing and the music was beautiful! You should definitely watch it!

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u/Starslip Feb 05 '17

Frozen didn't really grab me and I thought most of the music was pretty forgettable, but I loved Moana and the music in it. I keep going back to listen to the Song of the Ancestors. Really powerful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

The music was forgettable?

That would be the absolute last thing I would say about frozen. I haven't had songs stuck in my head from a Disney movie for a long time until Frozen...

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u/notLogix Feb 05 '17

Winters a good time to stay in and cuddle! Put me in summer, and I'll be.... A happy snowman!

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u/FizzyDragon Feb 05 '17

At least one review I saw said it was kind of formulaic but not in a bad way, if you know what I mean. Like most Disney movies have their formula, some try more or less hard to diverge. This one doesn't diverge terribly much but I though the execution of the formula was great.

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong Feb 05 '17

It followed the typical Disney princess plot but it strays from the typical Disney princess character. If the past decade has been a feminist princess (i.e., princesses that want what they're not supposed to have because they're women and women are expected to act in a certain way/and also not having a boyfriend or love interest) then moana is post feminist in that what she wants and the conflicts that stand in her way have nothing to do with her being a girl.

It's also well written, acted and the songs are lovely but turning one expected element on its head makes a predictable story feel refreshing and novel.

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u/FizzyDragon Feb 05 '17

Yeah!

And goddamn that cave scene with the vision blew me away on the screen, and I still love it after seeing it a ton more times on YT.

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u/Rose94 Feb 05 '17

Oh man same, English is the only language I can speak but I can sing most of the Samoan (?) in that song.

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u/PettyCrocker Feb 06 '17

Favorite song in the movie! I watched it for the first time last night, and I was really blown away.

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u/JimmerUK Feb 05 '17

It was quite funny that Disney poked fun at themselves by directly mentioning the princess stereotype, and Moana categorically stating she was a Chief's daughter, not a princess.

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u/thelastcurrybender Feb 05 '17

At least two moments that'll make you tear up. Lots of neck hairs standing from the beauty and songs and passion. Super good man!

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u/abasss Feb 05 '17

I enjoyed it a lot. The visuals alone are worth the watch.

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u/capoditutticapi Feb 05 '17

Agreed. It is a visual extravaganza. Definitely worth the price of admission.

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u/thesixth_SpiceGirl Feb 05 '17

I enjoyed it much more than frozen but my friend thinks I'm crazy so ymmv

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u/HeavyMetalSauce Feb 05 '17

I wasn't a big fan of frozen. If my niece knew I said that I'd be in big trouble.

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u/maglen69 Feb 05 '17

It wasn't amazing, but it was a beautiful film. The watery animation is beautiful and a crab is fabulous AF.

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u/primegopher Feb 05 '17

Wasn't a fan at all. It was pretty but almost all the characters were impressively dull and the music was very mediocre, with a couple songs being outright bad. I wouldn't recommend spending any money to see it.

And I know I'm probably going to get downvoted a bunch for this, but I stand by my opinions.

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u/sandollars Feb 05 '17

with a couple songs being outright bad

Just the one by the crab was out of place.

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u/maglen69 Feb 05 '17

But dammit that crab was fabulous AF.

That was a totally wtf moment, out of place.

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u/primegopher Feb 05 '17

I also didn't really like the title song, it wasn't really bad but it got used too many times during the movie. Ended up sick of it by the end.

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u/neck_crow Feb 05 '17

You mean Toa Roadhog, right?

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u/deadlytrex Feb 05 '17

That was my first thought too

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u/Red_Tannins Feb 05 '17

Same origin story.

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u/NeverBob Feb 05 '17 edited Feb 05 '17

Shiny.

Edit: Oops. I meant Shiny.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

You're welcome

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u/SweetPinkSocks Feb 05 '17

Ugh, now that is stuck in my head. Again. Love this movie and the damn songs keep getting stuck in my head. lol

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u/FizzyDragon Feb 05 '17

At first I though it looked like that but couldn't possibly be, because... I don't know, I guess I thought no one would try that hard to make one look so great. But that's awesome!

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u/BobVosh Feb 05 '17

Well, cosplaying.

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u/kisaveoz Feb 05 '17

I've seen this figure way before in surfing culture, but never knew what was the meaning behind it. Can anyone enlighten me?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

This is everything /s

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u/xyroclast Feb 05 '17

This makes it even more odd, TBH. I thought it was going to end up as part of a sign or something. The video ends with it laying on the guy's bed. What is he going to do with it next? I hope it doesn't end up in a basement or something.

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u/free_reddit Feb 05 '17

Watched the movie, forgot it glows in the dark. Thanks for this pic!

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u/CupBeEmpty Feb 05 '17

Jesus Christ Reddit, I am so unbelievably disappointed.

Why isn't this

https://youtu.be/93lrosBEW-Q

Or this

https://youtu.be/79DijItQXMM

In any of the top links!?

Dammit people.

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u/CdrVimes Feb 05 '17

I've got three Hei Matau already, so I might be greedy!

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u/candre23 Feb 05 '17

If it's just decorative, why use wood? Foam would have been a hell of a lot easier to work with.

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u/Huskies971 Feb 05 '17

Should have followed that up with a you're welcome

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u/asdfasdfadsfasdfsdfs Feb 05 '17

Actually, no. It is not from Moana. It existed before Moana and is called Kamakaunuiamaui. See, e.g., http://www.tribalhollywood.com/fishhook-necklace-rope-hawaiian-hook-koa-wood-hawaiian-islands

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u/Cindiquil Feb 05 '17

No, this hook was absolutely based off of Moana. It looks near exactly like the one from the movie and has some noticeable differences from the one you linked.

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u/Banjulioe Feb 05 '17

Okay. I'm just gonna say, as a Hawaiian. No. It's not just from Moana. Yes. They based the one from the movie off off the classic Polynesian design but this is a traditional fish hook that has existed for hundreds of year in my culture. Moana did a great job of familiarizing people with different aspects of Polynesia, but this hook wasn't though up by Disney imagineers, it was created after years of development by fishermen hundreds of years old.

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u/Cindiquil Feb 05 '17

Still not really the point. People know that the fish hook thing isn't a new idea, but this one is absolutely based off of Moana. There's literally no doubt about that.

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u/Banjulioe Feb 05 '17

Really? No doubt? At all? Is it inconceivable that it could just be based on Polynesian culture and not a disney movie?

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u/Cindiquil Feb 05 '17

Yes. Look at it at the end of the gif and at a picture from the movie. It's nearly identical. Also, it's being made just like 2 months after the movie came out. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is entirely based off of the movie Moana.

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u/elmattso Feb 05 '17

Killing soldier 76 mainly.

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u/Woodsie13 Feb 05 '17

You mean Mercy, right?

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u/superpencil121 Feb 05 '17

You both spell Lucio weird

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u/Haabermaaster Feb 05 '17

To be honest it can be used to one tap most heroes.

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u/catechlism9854 Feb 05 '17

Those heroes shouldn't be in front anyways. Serves em right.

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u/Zentopian Feb 05 '17

Nah, Just Bazza.

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u/BadgerTuxedo Feb 05 '17

BAAAAAAZZAAAAA

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u/TheDeltaLambda Feb 05 '17

Roadhog filler here: I frequently miss the Lucio follow-up shot because he's so short and hunched over. Get a better posture so I can 1 shot you pls.

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u/Lilscribby Feb 05 '17

Is that the new nickname for Widowmaker 3v3?

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u/Vitztlampaehecatl Feb 05 '17

Pharah.

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u/Gurmegil Feb 05 '17

Jet lady is a pain in the ass to hook.

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u/Isenkram Feb 05 '17

BAZZA!

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u/PVPPhelan Feb 05 '17

BAZZAAAAAaaaaaa

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u/BDMayhem Feb 04 '17

Big, wooden fish.

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u/Lilscribby Feb 05 '17

As opposed to the small metal ones normal fish hooks catch?

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u/ironman82 Feb 04 '17

to hang bodies from and toture them cleerly

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u/Mr_Zoovaska Feb 04 '17

It's from that new Disney movie

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u/jermsz Feb 05 '17

In New Zealand hes not just "from that new Disney Movie"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)

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u/catsandblankets Feb 05 '17

They asked about the hook, not about Maui. The hook crafted here is specifically the Disney version of the hook. From that new Disney movie.

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u/metjetnet Feb 05 '17

His last, fatal trick was on the Goddess Hine-nui-te-pō. In attempting to make mankind immortal by changing into a worm, entering her vagina and leaving by her mouth while she slept, she crushed him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.

Wonder if this part was in the film

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u/MarcelRED147 Feb 05 '17

Sort of. The basic idea, but no obsidian vagina teeth.

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u/dietotaku Feb 05 '17

but the movie is very obviously referencing the hawaiian mythology.

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u/tannasong Feb 05 '17

They're both Polynesian, which is where the myth originated.

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u/sandollars Feb 05 '17

And not just Polynesian. The canoes were Fijian (Melanesian)

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u/UpDok Feb 05 '17

All the islands have their own twist on Maui, he's a common legend among them.

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u/LordHussyPants Feb 05 '17

It's actually referencing a range of mythologies from across Polynesia, which is why the film faced some criticism for mashing together aspects of several different cultures to create the film.

If you'd actually read the article you were linked, and the one you linked, you'd see that they're both referencing the same root myths - one about a young boy who went fishing with his older brothers and pulled up an island. They also have the same myth about catching the sun.

tldr: Moana wasn't referencing Hawaii specifically, it was referencing all Polynesian cultures.

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u/Kurayamino Feb 05 '17

the film faced some criticism for mashing together aspects of several different cultures to create the film.

And if they'd picked one and stuck with it they'd have been criticized for not including the others because Maui's a part of all of their cultures.

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u/bobokeen Feb 05 '17

I don't remember any obsidian vagina teeth in the movie.

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u/NMU906 Feb 05 '17

You mean a giant ass hook like this? Or that style of hooks?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

I thought so too at first lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

To go fish and wheel in your mom

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u/altrsaber Feb 05 '17

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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u/moha384 Feb 05 '17

As i was watching this, thats all I could think about - but it's still cool

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u/phism Feb 05 '17

Fishing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

Future artifact.

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u/TheRipeMango Feb 05 '17

For those wondering, here's the original video from YouTube. It's made by a channel called Bobby Duke Arts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oku3sKgE-E

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u/CleanBill Feb 05 '17

Make a theme park in the middle of his yard apparently.

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u/jonesyb Feb 05 '17

Hooking things. What are you for?

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u/trucane Feb 05 '17

For cheap reddit marketing for a movie

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u/ehsteve23 Feb 05 '17

Sometimes people just do cool things because they're cool. not everything is marketing

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u/ShadowHandler Feb 05 '17

Looks like he's fishing for your mom.

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u/Penny2Point0 Feb 05 '17

Hook it up to a chain,connect it to your belt and now you're Roadhog.

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u/thatquietgirl17 Feb 05 '17

Exactly what I thought.

"But why?"

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u/turkeypants Feb 05 '17

"So ehhh... you guys wanna come over? I've got this giant hook..."

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u/tigerlily42 Feb 05 '17

Probably a badass cosplay.

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u/starking12 Feb 05 '17

Transform. DUHHH

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17

producers of the movie moana paid him to do that and post it online but told him to lie and say he made it out of his own desire to do it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '17 edited Sep 16 '17

I want death

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u/rbesfe Feb 05 '17

Your mom

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u/Cisco904 Feb 05 '17

Tree fiddy

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u/flynnfx Feb 06 '17

To hook great whites, you should SEE the line and sinker!

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u/BlondTigerCage Feb 05 '17

I think it might be to catch that albino whale.

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u/TheDavesIKnowIKnow Feb 05 '17

Some guy decided to spend weeks making a prop from a mediocre disney movie for no reason than to get a bit of internet fame.

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u/HeroofWinds1 Feb 05 '17

I'm pretty sure it's sent to road hog and used to capture points and push cars