Hot Fuzz is my personal favorite. It's one of my favorite movies actually. Sean of the Dead is a close second. Then The World's End...well...I was let down to be honest. With such an amazing cast I was expecting to really enjoy it, but it didn't really do it for me. A decent flick, but not in the same category as the other two.
Just watched the "Cornetto Trilogy"
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I own the Trilogy and for me, I'm still fighting with myself over which two movies is better: Shaun of the Dead or The World's End.
SotD is a very fun comedy that I can still go back to, quoting along the way, and enjoy throughout. I saw it when I was 13 and loved it.
Hot Fuzz was okay. I think more kids in my school obsessed over it then I did, and it was very funny, I did buy it on Blu-Ray, and it is very good, but it's nowhere near as sharply written. Thankfully it is very funny, which saves a movie I think is just okay, as opposed to being incredible.
The World's End, however, is the one I am in constant conflict with over SotD, I cannot choose which is better. They both have similar themes, a lot of motifs and jokes and other things I cannot say without spoiling the picture. I don't think I saw 10 movies in 2013 to fill a 10 best list, but TWE was on the top of my list (with Pacific Rim and Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug behind it), and I stand behind it.
So yes, I loved the Cornetto Trilogy, two out of three ain't bad, and I still enjoyed the 2nd part enough to buy it. I really want Ant-Man by Edgar Wright to be incredible, here's hoping.
SotD is a very fun comedy that I can still go back to, quoting along the way, and enjoy throughout. I saw it when I was 13 and loved it.
Hot Fuzz was okay. I think more kids in my school obsessed over it then I did, and it was very funny, I did buy it on Blu-Ray, and it is very good, but it's nowhere near as sharply written. Thankfully it is very funny, which saves a movie I think is just okay, as opposed to being incredible.
The World's End, however, is the one I am in constant conflict with over SotD, I cannot choose which is better. They both have similar themes, a lot of motifs and jokes and other things I cannot say without spoiling the picture. I don't think I saw 10 movies in 2013 to fill a 10 best list, but TWE was on the top of my list (with Pacific Rim and Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug behind it), and I stand behind it.
So yes, I loved the Cornetto Trilogy, two out of three ain't bad, and I still enjoyed the 2nd part enough to buy it. I really want Ant-Man by Edgar Wright to be incredible, here's hoping.
Bleeding eyes the following day no doubt... 24hrs solid of Peter Jackson and friends making merry violence in New Zealand... it'd be a bit odd, Martin Freeman turning into Ian Holm and Legolas getting younger and losing all the broodiness... ¬_¬Eamar said:
OT: Unfortunately, haven't seen The World's End yet, but I know enough about it to realise that when I do watch it, I'll love it. Hot Fuzz is my preferred of the other two... because Bill Bailey! =P
I agree they are all briliant Films. I mean they aren't just funny, they're also really well directed and thought out. I studied Shaun of the Dead back in my first year of college which is when I first saw it and I was shocked me just how much effort went into that film, and it is even crazier with Hot Fuzz, where I swear every line has a punchline later on in the movie. In my opinion they are films that get better with every viewing.
I loved Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but still haven't gotten round to watching The World's End yet. It doesn't look as funny as the others based upon the adverts, but then again Paul didn't either, and that was pretty funny.
The only movie marathon I have done like that is for Mardock Scramble. When I finally got hold of the third film I watched them all back to back. Granted they were just over an hour each, so it's like watching a single LOTR film, but I enjoyed it greatly.
The only movie marathon I have done like that is for Mardock Scramble. When I finally got hold of the third film I watched them all back to back. Granted they were just over an hour each, so it's like watching a single LOTR film, but I enjoyed it greatly.
Hey, have you seen Attack the Block? Doesn't have Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost is only there in a minor role, but other than that it's broadly the same kind of thing and just as good, in my opinion. It's about aliens invading a council estate, incidentally.
Other than that I can't think of many films that match the style of the Cornetto trilogy. Paul was a fucking awful film.
Other than that I can't think of many films that match the style of the Cornetto trilogy. Paul was a fucking awful film.
I love Shaun of the dead, it was just funny.
I was looking forward to Hot fuzz and I just felt let down, I have seen it twice and still have no clue where the jokes are! I just don't find it funny, at all!
I think the worlds end is ok, it's not great but I do love the end speech in the film from Simon Pegg. The film took me by surprise though.
I was looking forward to Hot fuzz and I just felt let down, I have seen it twice and still have no clue where the jokes are! I just don't find it funny, at all!
I think the worlds end is ok, it's not great but I do love the end speech in the film from Simon Pegg. The film took me by surprise though.
I was watching a pub crawl movie that turned into a Dr Who episode with middle aged men. Just for context, I can't stand Dr. Who ... tell me which episode this is, something threatens earth/the universe, things look tough but the Dr saves the day in the end.
I watched all of the movies for the first time last October, and just saw The World's End yesterday. For what my opinion's worth...
I really liked Shaun of the Dead. I'm not even a fan of zombie movies, but I just loved the way all of the characters played off of each other, and the ridiculous shit that happens in it.
Hot Fuzz on the other hand is easily my favorite of the three. I loved all of the call-backs to the small jokes made at the beginning of the movie, and the last half-hour or so is just brilliant. I probably like this one the most out of all three since I enjoy watching police-procedurals, and to see it parodied in such an extravagant way is just fantastic.
As for The World's End, I'd say I liked it the least, though that's not by a large margin. I was never a big fan of alien/sci-fi movies, so I guess a lot of the references are lost to me. Still, seeing them all get completely wasted while fighting off aliens and trying to lay low is great. And Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy's banter at the end is gold =P
I really liked Shaun of the Dead. I'm not even a fan of zombie movies, but I just loved the way all of the characters played off of each other, and the ridiculous shit that happens in it.
Hot Fuzz on the other hand is easily my favorite of the three. I loved all of the call-backs to the small jokes made at the beginning of the movie, and the last half-hour or so is just brilliant. I probably like this one the most out of all three since I enjoy watching police-procedurals, and to see it parodied in such an extravagant way is just fantastic.
As for The World's End, I'd say I liked it the least, though that's not by a large margin. I was never a big fan of alien/sci-fi movies, so I guess a lot of the references are lost to me. Still, seeing them all get completely wasted while fighting off aliens and trying to lay low is great. And Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy's banter at the end is gold =P
I really liked the first two but was severely disappointed by The World's End. I hated the protagonist with a passion usually reserved for Joffrey Baratheon, and the film let him get off scot-free in the climax which just pissed me off. It also had the most bizzarely out of place ending I've seen since Mass Effect 3 (seriously, what the hell was that?).
I love the trilogy, Hot Fuzz is the funniest and has the best action, Shaun of the Dead is the most emotional and The World's End is the best acted and most meaningful (although the least funny by a margin too). I love the separate-but-connecting idea of the trilogy.
In terms of marathons, I've done the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition marathon with some friends. I think I might have done it twice even. I want to do Stars Wars, Harry Potter, and know you mention it, Cornetto marathons sometime too.
The only reason his 'friends' came with him is that they recognised something was incredibly wrong in his life and they wanted to help him out. (This is why they got pissed in the first or second pub when they were sitting around drinking. They realised that he wasn't going to talk to them about his problems)
The World's End wasn't about punishing a guy who was a dick, it was about a guy who was ill in his head looking for a cure.
Of course, I don't expect you to suddenly like the film because of what one guy on the internet said =D But if you're curious I'm pretty sure you can see all that stuff actually happen in the film. FilmHulkCritic wrote a big article about how he thinks it's specifically about addiction. It's why I still like the film so much even though it wasn't particularly funny and the action wasn't particularly entertaining
In terms of marathons, I've done the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition marathon with some friends. I think I might have done it twice even. I want to do Stars Wars, Harry Potter, and know you mention it, Cornetto marathons sometime too.
He might have got off scot-free in the climax, but only because he was hanging himself through the entire film. The dude lonely and desperate, absolutely trapped by either addiction or some medical illness and whenever he looked at his life he only saw absolute failure and oblivion. He was broken to the point where he was clinging to his past 10 years after it stopped being funny and it drove him to wilder and wilder acts as he clung to his mania that he could wave a wand and make his life better. To the point where he was going to kill himself getting there.Zombie Badger said:
The only reason his 'friends' came with him is that they recognised something was incredibly wrong in his life and they wanted to help him out. (This is why they got pissed in the first or second pub when they were sitting around drinking. They realised that he wasn't going to talk to them about his problems)
The World's End wasn't about punishing a guy who was a dick, it was about a guy who was ill in his head looking for a cure.
Of course, I don't expect you to suddenly like the film because of what one guy on the internet said =D But if you're curious I'm pretty sure you can see all that stuff actually happen in the film. FilmHulkCritic wrote a big article about how he thinks it's specifically about addiction. It's why I still like the film so much even though it wasn't particularly funny and the action wasn't particularly entertaining
My problem wasn't that he was never punished for his actions, but that he never changed as a person and the film applauded him for it. The whole thing with him being suicidal might have got me to empathise with his character, but the fact that he threw away every attempt by other people to help him out of sheer narcissism was what killed any chance of that happening.BrotherRool said:
They have a TV show??!?!SecondPrize said:
This I will find, and I will watch!
This is so true, I*ll have to watch The World's End again soon, because it took a few looks to notice everything in the movies. The first time I watched Shaun of the Dead for example, I completely missed the "Bloody Mary" joke at the start :/Edl01 said:
Yeah, I've seen Attack the Block, I think it was a nice movie, different, in a good wayIn Search of Username said:
I thought Paul was OK, wasn't super funny, had a few moments, nothing close to anything in the Cornettos' but, still, once watchable.
On some level though, that's what happens to people in these sort of situations. Their brains don't let them take the option that would be best for them. It can be easy to end up lashing out at the only people who care that you exist.Zombie Badger said:
I do find the five minutes at the end a little hard to fit in because most of the film seems to be saying that behaving like Pegg did is messed up and then it changes track for the ending, but I think the important part is that he orders a water at the end. If it was alcohol addiction that he was in for at the start, it means he's thrown that off and not-drinking is one of the things he was a dick to Nick Frost about. So he has to change to a better person at least a little
...although I'm still up for the last 5 minutes being a hallucination or something =D
I agree Star Wars is a great film trilogy, and Lord of the Rings is kind of essential (though perhaps less historic for its actual filmmaking and more the fact that it managed to make a film of Lord of the freaking Rings), but Toy Story is a bizarre inclusion considering there's no Vengeance Trilogy, Indiana Jones, The Evil Dead, The Godfather, The Matrix, Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead, Back to the Future, Die Hard...albino boo said:
...but I mean that's all picking at straws. Indeed Cornetto Trilogy should go alongside Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Toy Story. And a great many other films.
I quite enjoyed Shaun of the dead (I especially enjoyed Dylan Moran as David), but I couldn't get into Hot fuzz or The world's end. I think that is because I don't really like the action genre that Hot fuzz was parodying, and I absolutely detested Simon Pegg's character in The world's end. I don't think it helped that I went to see The world's end at around the same time as I went to see This is the end and I found myself preferring This is the end a lot more and I can't help but compare the two.
I saw the worlds end on my flight back from merica last week. I enjoyed it, didn't think it was as good as Shaun of the dead but it was ok, shame I had to watch it in teeny weenie vision on one of those aeroplane screens though.Guffe said:And it's AWESOME!!!
For those of you who don't know, the Cornetto Trilogy are the three movies written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. Big parts of the cast are the same in every movie and they are "parodies" of Zombie, Action and Alien Invasion movies.
The three movies are: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End
I had previously seen Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, both are very high up in my favorites movies list, but you can always see them again. We were thinking on Tuesday with my friend we should check out The World's End and, since neither of us had anything special to do yesterday (Wednesday), we decide we just do the whole trilogy.
The World's end was a great movie too! I like all 3 of them, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg of course being the main characters in all three movies but the rest of the cast are very good too. And trying to remember who is who in every film is a funny little side quest in itself
As is trying to find all their hidden jokes and messages beforehand in the movies to be able to say what will happen next
Have you guys seen the movies? What did you think?
Have you done a movie "marathon" like this, (not maybe long enough with 3, 1hour45min films to be called a marathon... but you get the point) and what movie series was in question?
I love a movie marathon, just grab some beers and some junk food and watch the night away. To date I have marathoned through:
Breaking bad
The walking dead
Red dwarf
Lord of the rings
The god father
The dollars trilogy
I'm sure there are plenty more but can't remember right now