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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)

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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 (fourteen 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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