it's always funny to me when movie characters have inexplicably great karate skills
― Treeship, Monday, 2 September 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
and the diegetic explanation for that in this film = alcohol, lol
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Monday, 2 September 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
actually Pegg pushed his sweet obnoxiousness too hard in the first third; until the action started I was sure he'd exhaust his tricks soon.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah the fight scene were pristine clear, which is a welcome change from sludgy editing we usually have today. still, the bathroom fight is just very long.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
xp wasn't that the point though? he was a total ass who destroys the world in the end with his assery!
― Nhex, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
The 1.2 million house and Gary going 'FUCK OFF' still makes me laugh.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah, fortunately he destroys the world
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 September 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
and an unrepentant manchild who has no attraction, sublimated or otherwise, to his male friends a la Apatow's.
also in world's end one of the five is divorced, at least two are married with kids (martin freeman may have been married too). meanwhile in this is the end no one ever refers to a girlfriend or any other potentially lost loved one, despite "playing themselves" and Rogen & McBride being married (baruchel was also engaged at the time).
― da croupier, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
but whatever relative depth or poignancy the world's end has, this is the end actually a dramatic climax with an ewok dance finale, rather than an admittedly amusing debate about free will followed the narrated description of a post-apocalyptic world.
― da croupier, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
actually had a dramatic climax, i meant to say
― da croupier, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
Having trouble seeing that as a point in This Is The End's favour, to be honest.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
some people like a long sequel set-up at the end of their movie more than a dance party, i get it
― da croupier, Monday, 2 September 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
you saw TWE's ending as a sequel set-up? gary king lives on in self-assured glory for the rest of his days, period
― Nhex, Monday, 2 September 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
The fight scenes had an HK feel to it b/c one of Jackie Chan's guys was the stunt coordinator. Jackie is thanked in the credits. I started calling moves once Nick Frost did a tiltawhirl backbreaker and elbow drop during the first fight scene.
Also, I laughed hard at the big thank-you to Andrew Eldritch and the SoM song in the credits.
The postscript was weird and kinda disposable except for some of the familiar faces in the bar, but I thought the look that Nick Frost gives the wrapper was perfect.
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
nick frost with mad sammo hung vibez in this.
(really dug it, less than hot fuzz but way more than shaun.)
― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Post-script was way weird, much of the movie really wasn't that funny, but I appreciated the layer of darkness coursing beneath the surface, from the alcoholism and suicide attempt to its proudly, joyfully immature nihilism (as opposed to the depressing nihilism usually invoked). I also liked how the threat of the aliens was never really pressing, just mostly invoked as an inconvenience. I think Shaun of the Dead is the best of the trio on several levels - funnier, more poignant, sweeter, more clever, better references - with Hot Fuzz maybe two and this one last, but I liked it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
there was a thing after the credits??
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link
I'm so tired of sitting through credits for gags that it didn't really even occur to me to check.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah i must have missed that too.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:23 (ten years ago) link
― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, September 2, 2013 11:13 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
i think this is where im at
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
There's no stinger in this. I'm just a film geek who needs to sit thru the credits until I get to the music listings.
Because we live in the modern world, there's an app that tells you if there's anything in the credits. "Anything After" is on iOS, at least.
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
That's just fucked up. If I had that app I would have another app that told me if it's so important they should put it before the credits, because movies are too long as it is and I have places to be and better things to do.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
This movie was not too long, btw, so hats off, Pegg et al. I mean, technically it was too long, in that it could have ended a little earlier, but actual running time was reasonable.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
thx kingfish will look into it
the movie WAS a bit long, but so were hot fuzz / scott pilgrim
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
I really enjoyed the end of the Final Confrontation, as it struck me as being so very British Sci-Fi along with bits of Doctor Who or Hitchhiker's Guide.
Come to think of it, Bill Nighy has been in all three of these films.
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
good comparison, very d. who
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
Not quite as good as Hot Fuzz but this was great. Sisters of Mercy A++
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
i am too cheap to pay the $1 for that app but the word "stinger" clued me into this website:http://www.mediastinger.com/
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 06:31 (ten years ago) link
Also, this is probly the only film where I've loudly said "Holy shit, dude! The Housemartins!" whilst viewing
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 06:42 (ten years ago) link
I admit I may have missed a bit of dialogue while figuring out if it was Lipgloss or Do You Remember The First Time? playing in the background.
Also the fight scenes were great, why is Edgar Wright the only westener interested in making decent fights these days (and/or feel free to point me at anyone else)?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 07:57 (ten years ago) link
Well, movies like "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger" and the movies they immediately begat may have burned people out. That's one theory.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
wtf at this null set
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
and u cankles, egging him on
Because Crouching Tiger had decent fights, everyone else deliberately makes shit ones? Interesting theory.
The fights in the first two Transporters are great, and literally the only thing that's not mind-numbingly shit about Now You See Me is a couple of fights. So we can give Leterrier points for effort.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Wright, Frost and Pegg are so good at dialogue, I wonder why they bother with other stuff anymore.
So people will buy tickets.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
iirc corey yuen directed the fight scenes in the first transporter
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
how soon will there be an apocalyptic comedy about ILMers saving the world at the EMP conference?
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
ILM is like an ongoing apoplectic comedy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
I'd pitch the zing crew in a remake of Judgment night before that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
oh boy, there's a zing crew
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
Zing Crew did the fight choreography in this movie, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
zing chun
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Ice Station Zingra
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
fight choregraphy I think but Leterrier earns even more points for being cool enough to shrug and let Yuen take full onscreen director credit for the whole flick, like "wtf bro if it's a big deal, I just wanted the fights to be good so whatever you like"
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
pretty good movie. not a lot of big laughs but lots of little laughs. was really impressed by the acting all around, but particularly pegg and frost.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Loved that the yuppie aliens had actual blue blood in them.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 November 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Watched it last night as it happens. The least funny, but the most inventive and affecting of the trilogy. Gary turned out to be a pretty interesting character by the end. I found the post-apocalyptic coda to be a bit over-egged though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 8 November 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
The least funny, but the most inventive and affecting of the trilogy.
OTM.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
i can agree with that statement, but mostly because the first two were effectively genre pastiches
― Nhex, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Just watched it, couple of laughs and I now want to by a vauxhall ampera. Talk about massive product placement!
― not_goodwin, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
The word "Brexit" hasn't been mentioned once itt!
― oder doch?, Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
instagram just recommended that I look at this photo of a young Nick Frost that Simon Pegg posted last week, I'm not sure why because I don't follow Simon Pegg or Nick Frost, but it did make me realise something that had never occurred to me before in the near quarter-century since I first saw Nick Frost's face - Nick Frost looks like a bit like Howard Lew Lewis
https://i.imgur.com/KjfJu9e.png
― soref, Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link