Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz / World's End

Hot Fuzz over Shaun of the Dead. Don't see Worlds End yet but the first two films are great. 

Jim Garten wrote: Big fan of Simon Pegg - even like him as Scotty in the Star Trek films. Of the 3 above I'd definitely go for Hot Fuzz, absolute classic & one I can & do watch often; World's End was good, but only seen it the once & just found Pegg's character irritating (I know he's supposed to be, but...). 'Paul' irritating? Shame on you! Have to say though - Nick Frost deserves a big mention here; his sidekick characters act as perfect foils to Pegg's.

I was watching 'The World's End' in cinema few months ago, and it was very sad to see that only nearly ten people attended the seance: a very small hall was almost empty. And it was the first weekend of limited release (only two or three theaters were showing that movie in a city with population 1 million and 200 thousands people).


Edited by ole-the-first - January 03 2014 at 11:39

I think I managed to squeeze a Shaun of the Dead reference into an album review a while back.  That film is definitely a cultural icon.

I enjoyed Hot Fuzz the most (really loved it -- and Timothy Dalton had such an excellent character, but great ensemble all around), The World's End the second-most (was the first of these I watched and also loved it), and Shaun of the Dead a little less, but still really liked it. Shame that World's End didn't get more viewers (I've tried a few epic pub crawls myself).

Although I liked Frost (who sure does deserve credit) and Pegg a lot in Paul, I didn't enjoy the other characters so much (Bateman's character was good too, actually).  It was really the foul-mothed alien Paul that mostly irritated me, and I couldn't identify with the characters as much as in the others.  I kind of felt that it would have worked better as a kids film, and they might have left more of the crudeness out to have a wider audience  The doughnuts thing with the wiggly finger did make me chuckle, admittedly.  Paul could have had a little more charm, I thought.

Another British sci-fi comedy film I really liked was Attack the Block, oh and I watched the Irish film Grabbers similar to Tremors) during my self-imposed New Years bedroom exile (we had a guest that I don't particularly care for) and enjoyed that very much too.

^I thought Run Fat Boy Run was a good movie. Nothing special, but a fun watch. I've always enjoyed Pegg's acting though.

Just wanted to share this: This is my favourite scene from A Fantastic Fear of Everything (a stop motion sequence). 



I had to persevere a bit with the film at first, but ended up loving it (unlike most critics who hated it, but then I genuinely love Zardoz so there's no accounting for my tastes).

I\ll give Paul another chance down the road, and perhaps I'll appreciate it more then.

Although it's my favourite of the "trilogy", I am a  bit surprised to see Hot Fuzz sos in the lead.  I thought that Shaun of the Dead would be the most popular. I do think the World's End really goodand hope more people see it (had thought these films would be more popular here than the results and number of posters indicate).

Dean wrote: One Pegg film I'm trying to blot from my mind is Run Fat Boy Run.

I think Simon Pegg should be of the same opinion too

Dean wrote: Haven't seen Sightseers yet, but I'm slowly becoming a fan of Alice Lowe so will probably get that on DVD soonish...

It was on Film 4 a couple of weeks ago - inspired comedy, wrong on so many levels (knitted crotchless thong? ) but so funny

Edited by Jim Garten - January 09 2014 at 10:13

I disliked Pegg's character, but found the others OK - it did improve later on & I may take another look at it at some point (got it as a freebie from work, so...) - I bet I go back to Hot Fuzz first though.

Saw a SP film over the weekend which must have completely passed me by on release - Burke & Hare (with Andy Serkis). May as well have been called Carry-On Graverobbing, as it had exactly that kind of vibe to it.

So sue me - I thought it was excellent & genuinely funny; everyone hamming it up to the max, the cast was a veritable who's who & bookended by Bill Bailey as a jolly hangman.

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Edited by Jim Garten - January 13 2014 at 06:32