The World's End -- Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, etc.

Surely Pegg, he always seems to be the lead guy in these things.

i feel like these guys have already done "dude learns to grow up when the world catches fire" plenty

Yeah that's what's making me go "look forget the manchild BS just go out drinking and deal with aliens or whatever"

Yeah they're at an age where just now learning to grow up is nagl.

Anyway, new poster, release date October of next year:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182b6suretpe2jpg/original.jpg

Trailer!

http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2013/05/07/the-worlds-end-is-nigh-uk-teaser-trailer/

Basically just seems very Shaun redux but with Pegg playing total loser this time out.

This was good… but I wish they would work with Jessica Hynes again.

It was good, better than Hot Fuzz I reckon, maybe not as good as Shaun of the Dead.

There was a distinct move away from referencing other films (while not abandoning it completely) towards social comment in this one.

There are a lot of ways in which I'm the target audience for this, but apart from all of the things that were great about this, Edgar Wright really does know his way around a fight scene.

I liked how Pegg was basically a 90s hipster Alan Partridge.

I liked the fact that it was about a pub crawl, but this wasn't great. Aside from Pegg, who was a kind of David Brent-ish overgrown student, the others didn't have much character I thought, and the jokes were as flat as the guest ale. Still enjoyable, but a mess.

This really made me want a drink
It was kind of a mesh of Shaun and Hot Fuzz imo. Filmed in my childhood town and featuring the 90s music I've been immersing myself in recently, plus 90s schoolkid stuff, so I just really enjoyed all of that stuff. Film wasn't amazing, needed tightening up but I had avoided trailers so enjoyed the Dr Who-ness of it.
Also reminded me of FAQ About Time Travel, if anyone's seen that (don't think anyone did)

I haven't seen it yet but it looked very much like FAQ About Time Travel to me, which I watched one wet day on Netflix while bored and didn't hate.

I've only seen Hot Fuzz from this guy and liked it, but the fanboy-crit jizzing over his stuff is way more annoying than even refs to Bad Boys 2 etc.

Edgar Pegg?

xp yeah you gotta hate that fanboy-crit jizzing

This just wasn't funny. At least the Alan Partridge movie raised a few laughs.

Looking forward to this

hawkwindz, defecate in thy headgear and strike it violently

this had some laughs but ultimately wasn't as good as the others, sad to say. still worth seeing though - i still appreciate wright and co. trying to make these ridiculous over-the-top genre comedies with a heart

is it just me or the end of this movie a pretty damning indictment? (of humanity, Gary, middle-age crises, etc.) surprised at the how dark it eventually all got

Madly disappointed by this. Didn't come close to laughing. Diminishing returns across the "Cornetto trilogy", I thought.

Cornetto? I thought it was Blood & Ice Cream

i had low expectations so i had fun. i was waiting for 'this corrosion' to drop the whole time, glad they let it play out over the credits. :)

Three flavours cornetto trilogy.

I really enjoyed this- it may just be the overexposure, but I think I may actually like this more than Shaun now. Some surprisingly big laughs in the theater where I saw this, too, stuff like Frost putting his hand through the glass, "smashy smashy egg men," the final "Fuck it," lots of little moments

I was stunned at how flat all the jokes fell in this movie. As a comedy, it never rose above the level of cute. Once they start killing robots, it becomes a lot of fun, but it never made me laugh.

shaun of the dead wasnt that funny either, lets be real

I laughed at it a lot when I saw it. I doubt I'd laugh at it now though, given zombie apocalypse jokes are sand in my eyes at this point.

Hot Fuzz holds up a lot better for me because Dalton and Broadbent are so much fun to watch. Wish World's End had a stronger supporting cast.

yeah hot fuzz is my fav thing by these guys

First half dull and uninvolving, third quarter amusing, end fucking terrible.

Hot Fuzz is by far the best - Shaun of the Dead is great but who'd want to watch zombies ever again, etc.

Really amused by this film.

Also, Shaun of the Dead was my favorite film of the last 10 years

This was great.

The very end is weird but the confrontation with the alien Zordon thing at the climax was great

Not bad but I must say...I preferred This is the End a teensy bit.

Agreed that Hot Fuzz is the best one. This falls in the middle.

Not bad but I must say...I preferred This is the End a teensy bit.

Ditto. Having a debate for a climax followed by a narrated postscript is a whole lotta gabbing after a whole lotta action, but I did like this.

I liked the film but the fight scenes were so long. Wright, Frost and Pegg are so good at dialogue, I wonder why they bother with other stuff anymore.

it was refreshing to have one of these kinds of movies where only one character could be described as a "manchild," where even that feels like a severely glib way to describe his situation

ha, i agree with that

me too. i really liked the pathos of gary king, even though his tragedy is a familiar one by now.

and an unrepentant manchild who has no attraction, sublimated or otherwise, to his male friends a la Apatow's.

otm

also I liked the fight scenes in this, because they were essentially old-fashioned saloon brawls

i liked how the robots/replicants were really easy to kill and also filled with blue paint.

yeah -- the big surprise for me was how well-edited and framed the (protracted) fight sequences were.

i was mixed on the fight scenes, they kind of had a sloppy Hong Kong homage feel to them, moreso than even Scott Pilgrim, but the actors here were older and less trained

it's always funny to me when movie characters have inexplicably great karate skills

and the diegetic explanation for that in this film = alcohol, lol

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.

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.

Zing Crew did the fight choreography in this movie, iirc.

zing chun

Ice Station Zingra

iirc corey yuen directed the fight scenes in the first transporter

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"

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.

Loved that the yuppie aliens had actual blue blood in them.

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.

The least funny, but the most inventive and affecting of the trilogy.

OTM.

i can agree with that statement, but mostly because the first two were effectively genre pastiches

Just watched it, couple of laughs and I now want to by a vauxhall ampera.
Talk about massive product placement!

An interesting analysis:
http://htmlgiant.com/film/25-more-pints-revisiting-the-worlds-end/

A case in point. Pierce Brosnan’s character, the patronizing school teacher Guy Shephard, might seem at first like just another version of Timothy Dalton’s smarmy Simon Skinner. And . . . he is, and he’s meant to be. Just think about it for a second. What does the Network do? Well, it replaces you with a younger version of yourself. And what famous character did Brosnan follow Dalton in portraying?

the beginning of this article seemed pretty basic, but it gets into some good insights

the author addresses the ambiguity of the film's messages about "growing up" pretty well, as well as the cleverness of the script that i largely missed

that's the thing about Wright/Pegg for me. They're obviously very "clever", I just don't find what they do to be particularly funny or entertaining

Watched this immediately after 'This Is The End' (on a plane) and despite the other film ending with a Backstreet Boys performance after Satan's penis being lasered off, this was sillier.

Also, what's the point of Simon Pegg leading the robots (did enjoy that ongoing nomenclature discussion running throughout the movie) in a bar brawl against the Mad Max 2 extras? We know they're rubbish at fighting...

Finally saw this - it's filmed almost entirely in Letchworth where I grew up and the early-90s soundtrack sent me on an unexpected nostalgia trip.

yeah ditto me, when they go running across the bowling green esp
(wasn't it founded by Quakers, therefore no pubs originally..)

Yep. Ebenezer Howard and lemonade bars and all that. Now it's got a handful of pubs (most of which are horrible other than the Tavern which appears in the film). A remarkable amount of town drunks all the same. The school disco in the film is actually a cinema irl and Pegg and Co gave a talk and show the other week there. Some of it was filmed in Welwyn, also a Garden City a few miles up the road. I like how they've done city / country / suburbs with this trilogy.

first thing I did after watching this was finally admit defeat that I'm never going to listen to my cassette copy of Bandwagonesque again and buy the bloody album on Itunes

soundtrack was getting me crazy nostalgic

enjoyed the movie -- still like Hot Fuzz the best of the three. really enjoyed seeing Simon Pegg play an unlikeable douchecanoe - he was quite good at it! gary was SUCH a cock, it was awesome.

Did Morbs see this?

I just watched it, and wish I liked it a bit more... I really admire a lot of Wright's timing and visual style -- he's adept at the machinery of comedy the way hardly any of the current Hollywood nitwits are. But ultimately the scifi/action plot doesn't really jibe with the character elements this time? I mean, my main problem with Wright/Pegg's parodies is I hate a lot of the movies they love, but I enjoyed Hot Fuzz in spite of that.

Good jokes th ("We'll always have the Disableds") and yes, the soundtrack was quite a laugh.

(again, Peter Labuza just nails this movie on Letterboxd)

i watched it with Joel last week and said more or less the same thing "the SF gubbins doesn't really add anything"

sort of disappointed that the douchebag Pegg character still ends up kind of vindicated, too

I agree. he's so good at the comedy...and i think he's great at creating really good, shaded characters which adds to the comedy, all that light and shade is great. the scifi plot was good for a laugh but it was nowhere near as strong as the main story and fell into hurried handwaving at the end. not to sound snotty, but I think he undercuts his own talents a bit by trying to drape all the extra stuff over top, maybe over time that tendency will start to fall to the wayside. or he'll get better at um, draping, idk.

but he's definitely a dude where i'm always excited to see what he'll do next.

ie, Ant-Man

yep!

my main problem with Wright/Pegg's parodies is I hate a lot of the movies they love

Conversely, my love for the movies they're parodying only got in the way for me with SotD.

I think the sci-fi stuff jibes really well, I just think the difference between SotD and HF is that Gary doesn't care about it beyond giving him an excuse to continue the pub crawl, which is why the climax is really his desperate run to the final pubs and not the big talk-out with Nighy, though I thought that worked a lot better the second time around. I also wouldn't say it's as much about "vindicating" Gary then a cheerily bleak viewpoint of restructuring the world to fit him rather than the other way around, though the film is fairly ambivalent about a lot of the "progress" that the more "adult" friends have made.

(again, Peter Labuza just nails this movie on Letterboxd)

His conversation with Uhlich on the Cinephiliacs Top 10 podcast was really good, but Uhlich also saw the movie pretty close to how I did.

I related to the Gary King character in an uncomfortable way :(

(again, Peter Labuza just nails this movie on Letterboxd)

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, January 18, 2014 4:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Mainly, I’m feeling a bit tired from the genre-movie-as-metaphor, especially because the strain between the two in World's End is harder to piece together.

thought FCH had a good take on this (hold the Page Down button for about 20 minutes until you get to Part 8)

http://badassdigest.com/2013/10/03/film-crit-hulk-smash-alcohol-withnail-and-gary-king/

having trouble with exegesis in ALL CAPS!

I wonder if anyone wil lwrite a thesis on this as an anti-getting-sober film... Gary does it whatever the cost.

...but he doesn't "end the world," he ends the MODERN world, which is looking like a consummation devoutly to be wished.

You people who consider the new romantic masterpiece Her to be "pro-technology," can't really get by on that here, huh? Zombie electronics are entirely the work of intergalactic overlords, the better to turn us into troglodytes.

I'm so glad I haven't wandered into the Her thread by the looks of that.

xp I don't really see that this movie is pro-ending the world; if anything the movie's ending was incredibly dark to me, that he ultimately destroyed the world for his own selfish impulses. There's some levity in that some of the clones' lives are basically exactly the same as they were, but everyone else gets screwed so one guy can have a crazy night of binge drinking. "Returning to the past" is kind of underlined as sad and desperate here, isn't it? Even with an ambivalent look at the modern world

really i think i'd have preferred this movie if it had just been a coming-of-middle-age pub crawl. the zombie robot shit was almost completely unnecessary but I guess Wrights will be Wrights. The Gary character is a lot like people I know (incl. me in some ways) very relatable.

Saw this last night, and loved it, way more than the other movie. It's funny both movies are more or less 80's kids who grew up playing Ghostbusters and now have millions of dollars and film crews to shoot them pretty much playing Ghostbusters. This movie was almost like a giant game of freeze tag or something. The enemies and story and writing and special effects and just about everything in this movie was heads above the other one. I liked it much more than Hot Fuzz, and for me it's up there w Shaun of the Dead.

The giant angular robots were my favorite part. They look so awesome!

this was p garbage, and if id seen it in a theater id of prob walked out

I was rewatching this last night too, and aside from a couple of really funny moments it barely rises above amusing. I'm not really sure I need to see Pegg as the wayward man-boy again, in fact you could interpret SotD and this (I'll pass on Hot Fuzz, haven't seen it recently enough to remember) as the mature Edgar Wright looking back on Tim from Spaced and casting him in a judgemental light rather than a sympathetic or empathic one. They're not the people they were at that age and neither are we, so maybe we shouldn't pretend we are.

Whoever said Gary = Partridge ^^^ is sort of OTM but there's someone he reminds me of even more. It's not Brent, is it? The inability to take things seriously, the giggling, the in-jokes, the lack of self-consciousness, not being able to see everyone laughing at him?

I could have taken this as a drama without the invasion plot, that the other four are just playing along with Gary (maybe out of loyalty, his mum really is dead perhaps?) who has fried himself on druqs up until the point where he kills a boy in the pub toilet because he thinks he's an alien/robot. Then it becomes about extracting themselves from the situation.

He's sort of the post-snapping point of a lot of traditional British sitcom arcs - Ronnie Corbett or Richard Briers has Gone Too Far and is a piss-weak version of pure Id, oh how embarrassed they'll be when the fog clears - except that he starts from there.

I could have taken this as a drama without the invasion plot, that the other four are just playing along with Gary (maybe out of loyalty, his mum really is dead perhaps?) who has fried himself on druqs up until the point where he kills a boy in the pub toilet because he thinks he's an alien/robot. Then it becomes about extracting themselves from the situation.

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, January 9, 2015 6:11 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this would've been infinitely better, and could've prob been a really good movie

Pretty good list

https://mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies

who has 1000 favorite movies? kinda makes "favorite" meaningless.

i don't, but i could easily compile a list of 1000 movies I like, which is what he did

he has good taste

I think Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead are better overall but the depressing parts of The World's End have left the strongest impression of any of the films. Maybe the sci-fi action direction wasn't the best way for it to go but I can't think of better alternatives.

I'm not a big South Park fan anymore but it reminds me of one of the best episodes with Stan getting jaded and its genuinely quite sad but it doesn't really go anywhere interesting in the second part.

just like that South Park two-parter than ends with Stan as an alcoholic and is never referenced again!

The word "Brexit" hasn't been mentioned once itt!

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