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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: melack on April 21, 2007, 02:47:32 pm

Title: Hot Fuzz
Post by: melack on April 21, 2007, 02:47:32 pm: I just saw Hot Fuzz (http://imdb.com/title/tt0425112/) yesterday for the low, low matinée price of $7.50. This movie is absolutely brilliant.

I had heard that the movie was close, but not quite as good as Shaun of the dead. Myself, I thought it was every bit as good, and I loved Shaun of the Dead - and not just because it's the only movie with my first name in the title. The writing is very similar, but this movie spreads the love around a bit more. What I mean by that is, most of Shaun of the Dead's humor came from the interactions between a very small group of friends, but this movie's got a much larger set of interesting characters to draw the comedy from. That and the deep well of American action films that are just asking to be parodied.

Anyways, I read recently that the studio might be giving this movie the Children of Men treatment (read: releasing it on roughly 3 screens nationwide), which is an absolute travesty and a sin against God and Man.
Title: Re: Hot Fuzz
Post by: littlefallsmets on April 21, 2007, 03:40:32 pm: I saw it a couple weeks back for the low low price of "giving my friend who reviews movies for a website a ride into Hollywood for a press screening whereupon I was his plus-one" and... hell, I think it was better than "Shaun".

This may be because I've just... seen a lot more buddy-cop movies than zombie films in my day.

But... man... first two acts are just a very solid British comedy?

And then act three is just GODDAMN COMPLETELY AMAZING.

I will also see the action film "The Condemned" the same way, for giving my carless buddy Mark a ride into Hollywood from the Valley. I hope Stone Cold Steve Austin does not beat me up for laughing through the entire film because... man... I have never laughed harder at a trailers than I did for the trailer to "The Condemned".

Also, since I saw that trailer before "Aqua Teen" in a theatre where I was the only person not drunk or stoned, the whole crowd started cheering my laughter and it was pretty goddamned rad.

"The Condemned" might reach, I daresay, "The Guardian" levels of bad.

It might be as bad as "Hot Fuzz" is good. Oh man, I am looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Hot Fuzz
Post by: robot_god on April 21, 2007, 08:48:58 pm: Personally, I would to hope to get stunnerd, and would bet you feel the same.
Title: Re: Hot Fuzz
Post by: Doc on April 21, 2007, 11:47:11 pm: I saw it a couple of weeks ago and thought it if not better than definitely funnier than Shaun. Definitely a more explicit comedy.
I embarassed my friends by letting out what can only be described as a squeal of pure joy at the line 'Forget it... it's sandford.", I was the only one in my group that got the joke.
Title: Re: Hot Fuzz
Post by: linnea on April 22, 2007, 05:02:09 pm: Quote from: melack on April 21, 2007, 02:47:32 pm
I just saw Hot Fuzz (http://imdb.com/title/tt0425112/) yesterday for the low, low matinée price of $7.50. This movie is absolutely brilliant.

Holy shit, I've been living in the sticks for too long. SEVEN-FIFTY for a matinee movie? That's insane.
Title: Re: Hot Fuzz
Post by: melack on April 22, 2007, 05:43:37 pm: Quote from: linnea on April 22, 2007, 05:02:09 pm
Holy shit, I've been living in the sticks for too long. SEVEN-FIFTY for a matinee movie? That's insane.

Welcome to San Francisco.