The 'Hot Fuzz' thread [SPOILER]

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Even though it's not gonna be out for AAAAAGES n AAAAAGES (Feb 16th) it is gonna be amazing yes? And filmed almost entirely in my piddly little home town. And has my old drama teacher in it (who also happened to be Edgar Wright's drama teacher). But more to the point it's the Shaun of the Dead people doing a police movie so how can it fail?

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

but will it have Penelope Wilton?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00077284W.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

how can it fail?

It could be not very funny. Like Shaun of the Dead.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Shaun of the Dead was very funny. And no Penelope Wilton in it sadly alsthough she is in The History Boys if that makes anyone feel better?

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

Were you high when you watched SotD?

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, mildly drunk the second time - last week - but i don't think that increases the breadth of my sense of humour.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

SOTD is excellent. EXCELLENT i tells ya.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

i liked 'shaun'.

but something has died inside me in the last few years -- since moving, oddly, within spitting distance of 'the winchester' and where pegg used to live -- and i would probably be less keen now.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

ILE punters defending "adequate" shockah.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

as far as british films go, it's a fucken meisterwerk though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE SMALL POND

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah yeah

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

That's not true tho cos of Hitchcock, George Formby and at least a dozen Carry On flicks.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

you'll be tellin me you hate D Tennant's Doctor next

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just holding out for 'nathan barley: the movie' obviously.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

ILE punter in 'bitterly hating something he doesn't really care about' SHOCKAH.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also Gumshoe, that's fucking mint.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

you probably hate 'withnail and i'.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

ILE punter in "bitterly hating something he wanted to laff at lots and then had to sit and faintly smile at, with the occasional 'oh that's witty' snort, and no fucking belly roffles whatsobastardever" shockah.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/featureProductionDiary.php?featureID=107

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. One laff. "He was a bit bitey."

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Shaun: Do you want anything from the shop?
Ed: Cornetto.

but that's not the point

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just holding out for 'nathan barley: the movie' obviously.
OTM; that would be well mexico.

The 'Hot Fuzz' footage that they showed at ComicCon a couple of months ago was uproariously funny and has me seriously excited. Wright and Frost were there, but Pegg was off doing something else so sent a 'video diary,' which was also hilarious. Can't wait.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised by the anti shaun sentiment, i enjoyed it but i hadnt seen much of pegg and co before hand

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

is it menat to a pun on 'hot fuss' ?

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, and cos they are old bill DYS

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

a pun on the killers' debut album title? classy.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

surely it's making a better reference than that? can't imagine simon pegg and edgar wright being such slaves to pop culture.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

I seriously doubt it's a Killers pun - 'The Fuzz' is old slang for the cops; the title is most likely in keeping with the aesthetic of hyper-cliched 70s police movies and tv shows. The original title was "Raging Fuzz," incidentally.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

i don't really think it's a killers pun, but, objectively, it scans that way.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if the pun was intentional. It's not like they don't "do" pop culture.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but it's kinda random and not very "them".

they probably do like shitty indie music though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have no doubt of that.

― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=99

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/photos/galleries/45/Hot_Fuzz_1sht_Main-01.jpg
Film Synopsis
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Top London cop, Police Constable Nicholas Angel, finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman, an oafish but well meaning young Constable. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems.

Cast and crew
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HOT FUZZ is written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, reuniting the creative force behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD. Once again, Wright directs as Pegg leads a stellar cast which includes Jim Broadbent, Nick Frost and Timothy Dalton.

imdb link

Simon looks older/odder w/o the mustache

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

simon pegg has been my crush for weeks.

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

bitchin'

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

*awful* poster. like it's straight-to-video brit-flick from the late 90's. seriously that's the worst poster i've seen for some time.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

the poster is meant to be shit.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

ironic, see?

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

rjg will love this film.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

j/k

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

They have a festival (the Hot Fuzztival) in the fuckin' ICA for this: Two weeks of cop films that Pegg/Wright/Frost picked! A Point Break/Bad Boys II double bill in the Institute of Contemporary Arts! This alone justifies the film.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha that is brilliant!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

and 'man on fire'!!! delicious. i kind of hate the ica usually.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I know certain online Britcom mavens regard the Pegg/Wright/Frost axis as evil incarnate but I can't help liking those boys. I shall wait patiently for the DVD, with my fingers in my ears, going "la-la-la".

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of hate the ica usually.

getting served at the bar is an arse when its busy, but their PA system is mercilessly, thrillingly loud.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not, at the end of the day, really a big fan of michael bay and tony scott, but at the same time, there is kind of more formal invention in their stuff than most of the films wot get shown at the ica. ica will sometimes play old hollywood films -- and maybe they will catch up with 2007 in 2037 -- but it is a 'haven' from that sort of bidness usually. ironic given the ica birthed uk pop-art, which was very much pro-contempoary-hollywood.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

saw the edgar wright guy on telly once and he was talking rubbish about something and sounded like a total fanny

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

We've all done it, RJG. Just not on the telly.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

think it was about movies

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

i can't wait for this! people saying that Shaun of the Dead was no less than excellent are mentals.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. Having just watched the trailer, they're either saving all the good jokes for the film, or there aren't any good jokes. Shame.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

there are good jokes.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer for Shaun of the Dead left me unimpressed also but I loved that in the end. I'm hopeful about this (and I'm in the mood for some Pegg/Wright/Frost having just watched the whole of series 1 of Spaced in one go last night (i didn't mean to but the dvd remote was busted and i couldn't be bothered to move).

Also it's on a double bill with Science of Sleep at my favourite art cinema so fun all round.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Why hasn't Marcello mentioned Cannon & Ball on this thread yet?

― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

'thin blue line' meets 'vicar of dibley'

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

no gags in the trailers. at all. that can't be good.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine I trust saw a preview screening and said it was terrific.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

there are good jokes.
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 25th, 2007.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember any gag in Shaun that would have looked well in a trailer.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Actually it's slightly more funny than I remembered but not much...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/trailers-screenplay-E21448-10-2

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also I disagree about the Hot Fuzz trailer - i chuckled a coupla times - but i am in a chuckly mood today for some reason.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Got the tickles?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Just seenthe posters for it and was very pleased to see St Cuthbert's church in it which was the nearest one to my secondary school. can't wait to see it.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Something about Simon Pegg playing the humourless straight man that doesn't sit quite right.

Best part was Danny's line about the plot being completely ridiculous.

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 25 February 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

*awful* poster. like it's straight-to-video brit-flick from the late 90's. seriously that's the worst poster i've seen for some time.

witness:

http://www.canmag.com/images/front/movies2007/hotfuzzposter5.jpg

http://www.filmposters.it/imgposter/grandi/bad-boys-2.jpg

heh.

― CharlieNo4, Sunday, 25 February 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Olivia Coleman's pronunciation of "murder" in the trailer for this really puts me off seeing the movie.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 25 February 2007 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Olivia Colman is the funniest side character in the movie, by far!

I enjoyed this a lot, but I still don't get why Pegg played a badass from the get-go, when I think it would have been more satisfying narratively and comedically to have him be the loser-who-becomes-the-badass.

But very, very fun.

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 25 February 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I laughed like a drain at Olivia Colman, even though she was kind of rubbish and obvious.

Things I liked, already mentioned on Sandbox:

The bit at the start where he's being superiored by Martin Freeman and wants to speak to someone more senior so in comes Steve Coogan but he's not superior enough so in comes Bill Nighy. Art reflecting life, or something.

"don't go being a twat now"

"you'd have made a great muppet"

Adam Buxton getting twatted on the head by a church spire

Pretty much any time Nick Frost opens his mouth.

Ultra-hammy screen-eating by Timothy Dalton

The whole model village thing

― ailsa, Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, aye and Pegg doing the lurch bloke's voice "yarp. yarp. erm, narp?"

― ailsa, Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

liked but still not sure if better than shaun might see if it holds up to repeat viewing

― secondhandnews, Sunday, 25 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think it would have been more satisfying narratively and comedically to have him be the loser-who-becomes-the-badass.

Trouble is it would have taken up valuable screen time - unless you mean he's sent to the country BECAUSE he's a loser and he finds himself? I think that'd spoil the premise tbh. And I think he's a good straight man; he's certainly less naturally funny than most of his co-stars, so it makes perfect sense to give them the majoirty of the laff moments.

― Mark C, Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

"What made you want to be a policeman?"
"Officer"
"What made you want to be a policeman, officer?"

"This shit just got real"

― Dielo, Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

It was well researched, right down to the village being called Sandford (Sandford is the name of the fictitious place used for mock scenarios in the Osprey revision pack for sergeants promotional exams).

I thought lots of it was amusing and entertaining, but there weren't many real bellylaughs in it. BNot as many as I'd been expecting, anyhoo.

― C J, Monday, 26 February 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Motherfucker!"

Nick Frost's swearing is awesome.

I laughed out loud in several places. As I was leaving the whole cinema seemed to be having a SOTD vs HF debate. Also seemed to split the audience half and half (see Adam Buxton).

My vote goes to HF marginally.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 26 February 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Went last night. YEAH!!

"If you want to be a big cop in a small town, go patrol the model village"

― Mark G, Monday, 26 February 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I can't help thinking the giant shootout that basically comprised the last 1/2 hour of the movie was a mistake; in SotD the firepower is narratively unavoidable, here it's pulled out of a hat as a "joke" yet-not-a-joke, i.e. they really do go through with it. And most of the interesting characters and situations that had been slowly built over the previous hour just go out the window. I know Pegg is fanatically fannish about American action movie culture - and that he's said this is NOT a satire of action movies, it IS an action movie, just set in a small English town - but I thought Children of Men had a much more interesting-to-watch take on the kind of "action" that can actually happen in small English places where guns pop out unexpectedly - funnier, too

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

But an old woman got kicked in the face - instantly funny. The shoot-up scenes were satire/homage/straight-up actioner/gigglefest in pretty much equal parts, I thought.

― ailsa, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i sat too close

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

first film I went to the cinema to see since Jackass and I loved it - laughed like a drain.

Did I really see a homage to Joey Deacon in there with the three level interpretation?

― Porkpie, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Should this thread have a SPOILER warning?

One thing about the shoot-out that I particularly liked was the lack of actual deaths. Lots of shots to the shoulder or toe areas.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

in SotD the firepower is narratively unavoidable, here it's pulled out of a hat as a "joke" yet-not-a-joke

I liked the shootout segment, despite it being very obviously set up earlier on, as was the bit with the mine.

(but then, I guessed who the villain was too)

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

SPOILERS (do I need to put that even though it says as much in the thread title now?)

the lack of actual deaths

I loved the Timothy Dalton impaled on the stick bit... Even though the whole theater had just seen the exact same gag in the Mitchell & Webb Movie trailer an hour and a half earlier.

I kind of think, even though I enjoyed a lot of the bits because of Frost's utter likability, the actual spoken referencing of 80s/90s action flicks ultimately does the movie a disservice. These guys are so good at subtly referencing things in all their other work that it comes across as a bit lazy when they have lines about "that scene in 'Point Break'," etc. I feel like the party pooper on this thread, which is weird because I really enjoyed the movie. But if we're being honest, isn't that a bit 'Scream'/mid-90s meta stuff? Maybe I'm being too much of a stickler. It was a lot of fun.

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

No Ben, I felt the same way.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

saw this last night. enjoyed the first half but was pretty bored by the overlong, predictable shoot-out and ending. only half as good as Shaun Of The Dead for me. I think "A great big bushy beard!" was my favourite bit, along with KNOWING Angel would have to do the 'Yarrh' 5 mins before he did.

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

didn't like the way the two detectives came on to Pegg's character's side so quickly - should've been more humiliation of them, or they could've been killed off by Dalton in some imaginative way.

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

It was no SOTD and lacked a few belly laughs, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. Yeah the shoot-out was a bit tedious and there could have been a few funnier lines, particularly from the main characters who were surprisingly straight. Even Nick seemed a bit thin on the ground as far as jokes were even if his character was lovely. I did like the agenda though that a lot of people get upset about hoodies but then it's all "LET'S GO TO WAR RARRGH!"

― the next grozart, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, all that was just thrown out the window so they could go "look, look, we're doing a big dumb action movie FOR REAL!" Yes, yes you are.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Did I really see a homage to Joey Deacon in there with the three level interpretation?

yeah i think Pegg and Wright enjoy the Deacon meme - referred to it in Spaced too.

'Aaron A Aaaronson' or whatever it was = obligatory reasonably obscure Simpsons reference?
what was the deal with the ginger kid at the end tho? didn't get it

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I should see this again because I have no idea what you're talking about. I kind of don't want to, though.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

we had trailers for the Mitchell & Webb film as well as one about some British dorks making a porn movie with Carmen Electra what the hell? ropey Britcom rennaisance alert

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm happy it all went out the window to be honest. Who the hell wants believable character development anyway?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

if even I can spot the jokes immediately tho (e.g. the Bill Bailey twins thing), that's a bit of a worry!

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Magicians" looks disappointing, sadly.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 1 March 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

SotD had believable character development and it was great!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

SOTD just handled everything a lot better imo but it was less ambitious i spose

― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Saw this last night. It was brilliant. Loved it, laughed the whole way through. Dalton was fantastic, in fact there really wasn't a duff moment. One of my favourite bits was in the car chase with the Danny shouting "bang bang" as he fired the gun out the window. Fantastic fun!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mitchell & Webb Movie trailer

???

i think i too need to see HF again. and i will. oh, i will...

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i don't remmeber laughing loads in the film.. but i was a bit drunk so that affects memory perhaps.

i only rmemeber laughing at the bit when pegg went "yarrrg".... "yarrrg"... etc. to the intercom

― ken c, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think SP has really come on as an actor. In everything else I've seen him in, he has this look of "I know it's shit, you know it's shit, but let's just pretend it brilliant, shall we?" in his eyes, which was really off-putting. He's sorted that out and seems to have matured into an actual real-life comic actor, as opposed to a stand-up comedian playing at acting. EW has been ripping off spaghetti westerns his whole life, so it's good to see those techniques in a proper context - instead of satirising an action sequence, he just did an action sequence. Easier, and end of the day, better. I must watch this film again, it IS awesome.

Things that made me roffle:

Already mentioned "If you want to be big copper in a small town . . . " line
Godzilla tribute at the end
Old woman being kicked in the face.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the fact SOTD DVD was featured for a split second while Nick Frosts' character is rifling through the budget DVD bin.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

i saw that, which was virtually subliminal, but did not grok that it was cate blanchett!

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

did not grok that it was cate blanchett!

So THAT'S who that was!!!

The Mitchell & Webb trailer I saw was really a teaser, i.e. not scenes from the movie, but a bespoke bit. As mentioned, the bit is based around a gag that also appears in 'Hot Fuzz.'

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

The M&W film's going to be shit, isn't it?

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's written by the Peep Show guys I think, so not neccessarily.

― chap, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

there's a trailer for it here: http://www.myspace.com/mitchellandwebb

Well, it says it is. I can't see it at work, so I'll take their word for it.

― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Are we sure that it was Cate Blanchett? How are you so sure?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's not listed in her imdb filmography.

― chap, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

what was cate blanchett?

― the next grozart, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

It was in the papers -- I saw it before finding out, so I guess it could be a wind-up, but I don't think so. I was anticipating her staying in the film so didn't notice that you couldn't see her face, it didn't seem anything more than a gag.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Simon Pegg's girlfriend at the beginning of the film, that he goes to meet at the crime scene - she's behind a surgical mask the whole time. I remember reading "look for a certain highbrow A-list actress to make an uncredited cameo in 'Hot Fuzz' as Simon Pegg's girlfriend, but I forgot about that until seeing the Blanchett thing here.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

So that was Cate Blanchett? I was sure I recognised her voice.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

and Peter Jackson was Santa ?

Saw this last night and was suitably impressed, preferred Shaun but then again I love zombies more than coppers'

And not sure if it was just my cinema complex but it was effing loud! Really want to watch it on a small screen to appreciate some of the joke references, which I always miss in cinema environments

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

this was better than shaun of the dead

― RJG, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

True.

― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

I liked "Shaun of the Dead" infinitely more than "Hot Fuzz." I wonder if it's because I'd go see a zombie flick over a cop movie any day?

― Ben Boyerrr, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it really was because I sat too close, but like Ste says the relentless close-ups and machine-gun editing - and the pace of the jokes in general - seemed too fast for the cinema. The pace and style will be almost perfect for a DVD, though, where the gratuitous and interminable close-ups don't engulf the whole world but rather just magnify someone's face a bit.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was tempted to see this while in London but the time was not there. Perhaps I should have done.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

the poster is meant to be shit.

On the radio, when the billionth person pointed out that it was 20 minutes too long, Edgar Wright said that was kind of the point because action movies tend to have lots of false endings that drag on. Crap posters are one thing but a film getting boring just for the sake of accurate pastiche seems to be taking things a bit far.

I did enjoy it, just not nearly as much as SotD, which just felt more human or something. I don't think it's becuase I like zombie films more than action flicks. I don't really have a history of watching either (I did specially watch Point Break in preparation though). Maybe I sat too close.

― Alba, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like zombie films as a rule, but I preferred Shaun to this. Not by much though.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Edgar Wright said that was kind of the point because action movies tend to have lots of false endings that drag on

Yes, this seems like such a cop out response doesn't it.

Ha, I said 'cop' out. wow.

― Ste, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Not reading any of the spoilers, but the flick opens tomorrow over on this side of the pond. The Onion loved it, the RT/MC ratings are at 87/78, etc etc etc.

Can't wait.

― kingfish, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't give two shakes generally about zombies or cops, but I adored 'Shaun of the Dead' and I can't wait for this to come out, even if it's not as good, it's still likely to make me laugh.

― Michael White, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

so wait is this funny? because i know shaun of the dead blah blah but it really didnt look it in the previews

― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the bit with NWA and the fact it's a platonic gay love story

― acrobat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah it's funny. "pop culture reference hilarity" comes thick and fast. It's a bit long tho.

I think I liked it marginally more than Shaun of the Dead.
If you dig Simon Pegg it's obv. a must see.

― Drooone, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and the ultra-violence is fckn funny too.

― Drooone, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

I went back to my hometown (where this is filmed) a few weeks ago. it's not my hometown any more but a movie set.

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

It looks a beautiful place in the film.

― Drooone, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Throughout the film, I was thinking: "This isn't a village - why do they keep calling it a village?" but afterwards I thought about it some more and decided that maybe whole life I've placed the village/town divide down too far down the slider. What do other people think?

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

There were points where I thought it was too large to warrant a village title, like zoomed out shots that showed just how large an area it was.

But mostly yes, I'd say it was a village. I live in a town and it's fairly huge compared to that place.

― Ste, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's actually i have been told britain's smallest city. def not a village.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

blimey

― Ste, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ste - well, I grew up (well, for a bit) in a village and it was fairly tiny compared with that place. Whereas my parents live near a town (definitely a town - just checked on its website) in Oxfordshire called Charlbury and Sandford seems at least as big as that. Sandford has like, a high street with rows of shops! Villages don't have high streets. I am reverting to my earlier position.

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

They only showed a tiny bit of it, basically the market place the top of the high street and St. Cuthbert's Church so as, I suppose to make it seem smaller than it is.

During the chase scenes I kept thinking "hold on, if you run round the corner there you don't end up there" but of course IT IS FICTION. Duh.

here's a link to Wells

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Come to think of it, villages don't have police stations.

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Villages don't have a Somerfields either.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

i think my divide level of town and village is set way too low.

― Ste, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

or is that high?

― Ste, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

it's wrong anyway

― Ste, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

I live in a village and it's got a police station AND a Somerfield (and we're getting a Tesco Metro). Some villages have stations which have quite a few officers based there but the HS one has definitely too many and it wouldn't have detectives. Dammit I'm doing that whole comic book guy thing.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

the film is super carmodizable. my version = a conflict between THE SUN (Pegg) and THE DAILY MAIL (Sanford).

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

The difference for me between SotD and HF is that SotD is one of the best zombie movies I've ever seen, possibly the best ever really. Whereas HF is pretty tepid as an actual action movie.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

brilliant as an episode of midsomer murders thou

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

the film is super carmodizable. my version = a conflict between THE SUN (Pegg) and THE DAILY MAIL (Sanford).

-- acrobat, Friday, April 20, 2007 10:15 AM (42 minutes ago)

More like DAILY MIRROR (but reads The Guardian sometimes) vs DAILY MAIL

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

but Pegg's character is only superfically liberal. he is at heart, till he falls in love with nick frost, authoritarian, a rule follower. anyway the mirror makes sense, he is more COSMOPOLITAN but they are both part of the same SYSTEM.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

The rules Pegg's character follows most closely are politically correct ones from the nu-policing manual. "It's not a force, it's a service". I don't think he would read any red top. I'm not sure he'd read any newspaper at all, in fact. Maybe the compact Times.

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of a paper he is less like than The Sun, in fact!

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

wells cathedral is big

― RJG, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking The Times actually. Although far more likely he'd read some in-house police brochure, keeping himself updated on latest crime-fighting developments and procedures.

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

{i]wells cathedral is big[/i]

It is quite. I shouldn't probably admit this cos its gross but I will anyway.

Several years ago they had scaffolding covering the front of it and so, being young and precocious, and quite pissed (most likely from drinking illegally in the pub in the film actually), decided to climb up it. The proceeded to piss off the top. It was a lifelong ambition fulfilled.

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

ok hmm yes not The Sun but definetely a Murdoch rag, certainly not the guardain or the independent. perhaps Pegg is David Cameron and Sanford is the Tory party.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

so, that's what you meant by my piddly little home town

― RJG, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

i think the thing my convoluted metaphors are getting at is that the film in the end is a truimph of homogenity. the underlying message that outside of the major centres british culture is corrupt and xenophobic.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

x-post Alba, I grew up in Charlbury! Lovely place, very boring as a teenager though.

― Neil S, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I can imagine.

perhaps Pegg is David Cameron and Sanford is the Tory party.

I'd go along with this.

― Alba, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

except pegg seemed convinced and was convincing about what he was saying/doing

― RJG, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hadn't thought about this. Shit man.

Movies
Shooting Itself in the Foot
Gun-Culture Spoof 'Hot Fuzz' Has a Lot Going for It -- Except Timing

By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 20, 2007; Page C05

On a normal Friday, "Hot Fuzz" would be a perfectly respectable choice for filmgoers looking for a hip, fluffy, stupid-smart action comedy. It's the kind of movie that would have been wildly popular on college campuses, before the college campus became a national symbol of carnage, grief and mourning.

This isn't a normal Friday. Blacksburg is still numb. The rest of us are still reeling. And "Hot Fuzz," which pokes fun at America's fetishistic gun culture while deliriously wallowing in it, now arrives on screens striking a tone of antic overkill that, from its giddy lock-and-load sight gags to its climactic shootout on a placid village green, right this minute seems oddly tone-deaf and tasteless.

In the movie business, as in life, timing is everything. Made by the same team responsible for the hilarious zombie satire "Shaun of the Dead," with the same tongues in the same cheeks, "Hot Fuzz" skewers yet another Hollywood genre: the action flick, at its most ludicrously macho, macro-budgeted and over-hyped. Written and directed by Edgar Wright, starring Nick Frost and co-writer Simon Pegg, "Hot Fuzz" may go for a few too many style points, and suffer from the overlong running times that vex so many recent tushie-tinglers, but it delivers the same silly laughs as "Shaun of the Dead," with the same winking sophistication. It's dumb like a London fox.

Pegg plays a by-the-book police sergeant named Nicholas Angel, who, after making his London precinct look bad with a superhuman arrest record, is transferred to a sleepy little town called Sandford. There, he is teamed with a lager-swilling dullard named Danny Butterman (Frost), who aspires to the florid bloodletting and pseudo-cool posturing of such classics of the form as "Lethal Weapon" and "Bad Boys II." Meanwhile, Nicholas's idea of action is watering his peace lily.

Then, it suddenly looks as if Danny might get his wish: Mysterious deaths begin occurring throughout Sandford, which may or may not be related to a missing swan. Nicholas begins to smell a conspiracy. "Haven't you ever wondered why the crime rate is so low but the accident rate is so high?" he asks at one point. A series of chases and absurdly gory murders and shootouts ensues, with the chief aesthetic principle of more-is-more. With over-the-top humor (and sneaking affection), "Hot Fuzz" makes the same point that so many British and European columnists have made this week. Put simply: What is it with you Yanks and your gun love? And must it be your chief cultural export?

Deploying the same mix of genre conventions, slapstick and old-school British humor that made "Shaun of the Dead" such a diverting jape, "Hot Fuzz" glories in the cheeky sendup, not just of American action cliches but British culture, from the habits of the provincial bourgeoisie to those weird "living statues." The cast list reads like an honor roll of the country's finest comic and dramatic talent: Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan and Martin Freeman have too-quick cameos as Nicholas's London superiors, and no less than the great Billie Whitelaw delivers one of the film's funniest one-liners, "Fascist!" (Her longtime collaborator, Samuel Beckett, would no doubt have approved.) Jim Broadbent and Timothy Dalton prove to be good sports as two Sandford characters, and look out for early scenes featuring an eyes-only Cate Blanchett, as well as director Peter Jackson as a knife-wielding Santa Claus.

"Hot Fuzz" could easily have lost 20 minutes of jittery montages, run-on scenes of mayhem and way too many endings; all the fuss and fury slows down what might have been a modest but consistently amusing string of stunts, puns and inside jokes.

But it's all moot. Viewers most likely aren't much in the mood for bullets, blood and multiple murders played for laughs, anyway. One day, maybe. Just not today.

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Cameron pro-death penalty? Pegg never kills anyone, in fact only ever shoots to wound. I think. But also remember that the hoodies in the film turn out to help Pegg - soooooo....that would tie in with the whole 'hug a hoodie' thing...

This is an xpost but is linked to the above strangely.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well yeah. cf. my comment about Irvine Welsh's "Wedding Belles" which aired in the UK the night of the VT shootings, and whose first scene involves execution-style murders played for laughs.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost obv

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also out in the States...

The Tripper
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.

Disturbia
A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.

The Condemned
10 people will fight. 9 people will die. You get to watch

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Pedantic as this is, she means "Point Break" not "Lethal Weapon". Quite important to the film actually.

― Uptoeleven, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

sure they mention lethal weapon but not as much yeh

― RJG, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

But it's all building up to that PB moment...

Looking at US tv schedules I notice that on BBC America tonight, it's the Robin Hood episode "The Assassin"...

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

What I can't stop thinking about is how many first-person shooter games exist in, say, western Virginia, or on the VT campus itself, and how many people actually played them the night of the shootings. And the night after that and the night after that. Blowing away rooms full of people.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Tripper
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.

David Arquette is in Portland tonight, going to do a Q&A right after the screening.

― kingfish, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

the world has waited for david arquette to weigh in

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Conservative leader David Cameron said the way the execution was handled, with Saddam's opponents taunting him on the gallows, was "quite wrong".

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It was a matter for the sovereign Iraqi government how they dispense justice in their country.

"I am not in favour, personally, of the death penalty, and, like others, I found the pictures on the television frankly pretty grisly."

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

dave cameron = nick angel theory rides again!

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

re is it a village?

it is supposed to be but um IT HAS A CATHEDRAL?!?

it was filmed in wells, i think, or somewhere that ISN'T A VILLAGE.

they didn't hide it so well.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

the world has waited for david arquette to weigh in

i think the q&a, being scheduled for months in advance, was much more a "how'd you do this" than a last-minute defensive/defusing action.

― kingfish, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i suspect you're right about that

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

i carmodized a little bit, in s&s. it's about hoodies. angel = cameron is good. he's about "inclusivity", but is still somehow vey vey much a tory. whereas the proper og tories are too wound up about hoodies and ephemera to realize that the supermarket is the bigger threat to their treasured village way-of-life. the supermarket subplot being the more-interesting-than-the-actual-resolution red herring.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell are you all talking about

FWIW i always sort of figured most of the cast of Spaced to be tories

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

angel thinks the conspiracy is about tescos planning permission -- a hot political topic right now, for lots of people in the countryside. you would think true blue tories, despite their love of business, would hate the development of these things. it's a cleft in their ideology.

but anyhoo that ISN'T their main business here: they just hate crusties and hoodies. they are blind to their vital interests.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i think yr reading is more sophisticated than mine but angel is definetely nu-Tory. dylan moran's character is definetely meant to read the guardian i'd say.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

in shaun of the dead that is. not hot fuzz.

― acrobat, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have a burning need to see Bad Boys II now.

Loved the Tony Scott/JSBX booking montages. The action movie stuff didn't work as well as it could have, but it was still pretty good.

― milo z, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

This flick was awesome, but the trailers in front of it(except for 28 Weeks Later) sure as shit were not. Yay, two more wacky comedies of hi-jinx!

Could have been worse, i guess; apparently, some prints had a trailer for the new Larry the Cable Guy movie attached.

I was even laughing at the Aliens joke they snuck in at the end, w/ the swan.

― kingfish, Monday, 23 April 2007 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

no wai, Knocked Up and Superbad look awesome.

I had both of those + 28 Weeks Later (meh) and Larry The Cable Guy (kill me now).

― milo z, Monday, 23 April 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Superbad and Kickin' it Old school

in other news, here's another ref listing interview, this time with Empire

― kingfish, Monday, 23 April 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Edgar Wright on Domino: OTM

― milo z, Monday, 23 April 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh man this movie is genius

― kenan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah im gonna have to see this

btw did anyone else not realize edgar wright did the 'don't' trailer in grindhouse? it was alright but honestly one of the more forgetable ones (it was the only trailer me & the person i went with couldnt recall immediately seeing it)

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh I liked that one, and I knew beforehand that it was him, which probably made me like it more. It was... English. And the voiceover by Will Arnett was ace.

― kenan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

had no idea about that either till just now

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

I found out about Will Arnett later, too, and remembered it fondly in retrospect.

― kenan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

But back on topic, Hot Fuzz was the most fun I've had since... well, since Grindhouse.

― kenan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

Some people complained that it's too long, but don't they understand that it has to be long it's going to have 28 false endings? (Rough estimate.)

― kenan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't seem too long to me. Not as many good jokes as Shaun, not as much heart, way too much overacting (Mark Eldon, arrgh) -- but still pretty good and entertaining.

Props for mentioning Hendon (my parents' home) in first five minutes.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the reason they went on about hoodies was so that you can go 'hur hur the baddies wearing the sinister hooded gowns say they don't like hoodies'.

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like how neatly the script tied together -- all the irrelevant details seemed to have some greater purpose (v. Tom Sharpe-esque). Just needed a few more big laughs.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Pretty awesome, and excellently-scripted! Funniest bit(s): continual references to 'N.W.A.'.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

nice and funny in parts,but i totally forgot about it 2 minutes after getting out of the cinema.
could have been easily waited for DVD

― Zeno, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, every moment Timothy Dalton is on screen. Between this, Flash Gordon and The Living Daylights he has much to be proud of.

I was only half-joking about Flash Gordon.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

loved this, laffed my ass of.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

can the mods change my name from "latebloomer" to "typo mcgee"?

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

typo misspellington

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Funniest bit(s): continual references to 'N.W.A.'.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Don't was totally the best part of Grindhouse.

I liked Hot Fuzz as a genre cuisinart more than the Rodriguez-Tarantino double up, but I'm totally with the majority who got a little overwhelmed with all the cheeky badness overload in the last part. A few too many references, too (Straw Dogs' bear trap), but certainly not as suffocating as Kung Fu Hustle.

― Eric H., Saturday, 23 June 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

have you ever fired your gun into the air and yelled 'aaaahhhhh'

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 June 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcqwnmhfKQ

also in rewatching this recently i've decided that the very best part of the film is the andies.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 29 August 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Pretty damn funny (Frost is a brilliant second banana), in part perhaps bcz I missed most of the references (awful cop movies can suck a dick, and I certainly don't remember much about Straw Dogs). But yes, at least 20 mins too long.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://edgarwrighthere.com/2009/10/the-steamy-hot-fuzz-slash-fiction-tweets-october-19th-2009/

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know why but this one is killing me the most:

Danny gazed at the leaves falling outside the station. He smiled. Rugby season would be starting soon...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

My favorite:

t “Danny wanted to tell Angel that from some angles he looked a bit like Paul Walker. He’d tell him one day…One day.”

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

Funniest bit(s): continual references to 'N.W.A.'.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 21 May 2007 01:55 (2 years ago)

got to love the attention to detail that there's no full stop after the A tho

― RAPTOBER (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 08:16 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Nice seeing it on a big screen tonight (one off revival at a local spot doubtless due to the Scott Pilgrim movie).

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 August 2010 05:04 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

this movie is p smart imo

― all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Sunday, 19 June 2011 02:17 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Seriously this film is on ITV almost every other week

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 30 March 2015 11:39 (eleven years ago)

ITV2 every other day iirc - they seem to alternate between this and King Kong.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:11 (eleven years ago)

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