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

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.

actually had a dramatic climax, i meant to say

Having trouble seeing that as a point in This Is The End's favour, to be honest.

some people like a long sequel set-up at the end of their movie more than a dance party, i get it

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

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.

nick frost with mad sammo hung vibez in this.

(really dug it, less than hot fuzz but way more than shaun.)

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.

there was a thing after the credits??

I'm so tired of sitting through credits for gags that it didn't really even occur to me to check.

yeah i must have missed that too.

(really dug it, less than hot fuzz but way more than shaun.)

― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, September 2, 2013 11:13 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think this is where im at

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.

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.

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.

thx kingfish will look into it

the movie WAS a bit long, but so were hot fuzz / scott pilgrim

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.

good comparison, very d. who

Not quite as good as Hot Fuzz but this was great. Sisters of Mercy A++

i am too cheap to pay the $1 for that app but the word "stinger" clued me into this website:
http://www.mediastinger.com/

Also, this is probly the only film where I've loudly said "Holy shit, dude! The Housemartins!" whilst viewing

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)?

Well, movies like "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger" and the movies they immediately begat may have burned people out. That's one theory.

(really dug it, less than hot fuzz but way more than shaun.)

wtf at this null set

and u cankles, egging him on

Well, movies like "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger" and the movies they immediately begat may have burned people out. That's one theory.

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.

Wright, Frost and Pegg are so good at dialogue, I wonder why they bother with other stuff anymore.

So people will buy tickets.

iirc corey yuen directed the fight scenes in the first transporter

how soon will there be an apocalyptic comedy about ILMers saving the world at the EMP conference?

ILM is like an ongoing apoplectic comedy.

I'd pitch the zing crew in a remake of Judgment night before that

oh boy, there's a zing crew

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
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