The World's End
The World's End
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#1The World's End
Posted: 8/22/13 at 8:06pm
Anyone planning on indulging in that final cornetto?
I'm a huge fan of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, so I will be at my favorite theater seeing The World's End Saturday. Anyone else have plans to cinematically do a pub run?
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#2The World's End
Posted: 8/22/13 at 8:10pmI hope it has a good catchphrase. Shaun had "You got red on you", and Hot Fuzz had "Jog on"
#4The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:06am
I haven't seen either of their previous movies, but one of my friends loved them so I'm going to this one with him.
The trailer does look pretty funny. It's a weak weekend for new releases, so it could do fairly well despite not having the widest of releases.
#5The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:09amWhizzer, how have you never seen Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz?
#6The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:14am
I don't know :/
I've never actually seen Dawn of the Dead, or many of the older horror movies that I assumed they were spoofing, so I guess I skipped out on them because I didn't think I'd get the jokes.
#7The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:16amI wouldn't necessarily call it a straight up spoof of those movies. It's not like a Scary Movie or Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth. Shaun of the Dead is more of a comedy that stands on its own. You will get the comedy without seeing a Dawn of the Dead.
#8The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:20am
Ok, cool. I know Shaun of the Dead is held in pretty high esteem and I have been meaning to watch it. Maybe I'll get my friend to watch it with me before seeing The World's End this Sunday.
#9The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 8:57am
Fwiw, Whizzer, I prefer "Hot Fuzz" to "Shaun of the Dead" by miles and miles... but I'm probably in the minority on that. SotD amused me; HF had me literally breathless with laughter in a few spots.
#10The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 11:21pm
I think Hot Fuzz is better than Shaun of the Dead, too.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were also together in Paul, which is a somewhat similar buddy comedy, but set in America (and directed by Greg Mottola instead of Edgar Wright).
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11The World's End
Posted: 8/23/13 at 11:27pm
Oh, Whizzer! You don't have to have seen any zombie movies to love SHAUN OF THE DEAD.
So excited about this! I only saw SPACED just six months ago.
#12The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 2:44pmThis was pretty much a perfect film. Hilarious from the first frame to the last, I honestly haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I think it's safe to say that Simon Pegg has pretty much solidified himself as a genius at this point.
#13The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 3:02pm
The last half hour of Hot Fuzz is so outrageous and hysterical.
This third film completely flew under my radar somehow. I need to see it.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#14The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 3:14pmI'm seeing it in 3 hours in a theater that serves some alcohol. Cannot wait!
algy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#15The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 3:17pmI love Hot Fuzz and can (and do) watch it over and over. For me The Worlds End wasn't as good as Hot Fuzz, but it was still a perfectly enjoyable film - and if I hadn't been benchmarking it against Hot Fuzz I'd probably have said it was brilliant.
#16The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 8:26pm
I love all of Edgar Wright's movies and The World's End is no exception. A bit of Shaun of the Dead, a bit of Hot Fuzz, and clearly somebody watching John Carpenter's They Live! frame for frame. Although I found a lot of the fight/action scenes in a lot of his other movies to be superior there was surprisingly a lot of heart and darker material Wright brings to Pegg's character that has pretty awesome pay-off, in my opinion. I actually found myself getting teary-eyed in some of those moments. I have to give Pegg credit. This is such a specific, different character from either Shaun or Nick Angel and his dynamic with Nick Frost is also pretty different. Also really enjoyed the supporting turns by Eddie Marsan and Paddy Considine.
A very fitting end to the trilogy. I cannot speak to the movie standing on its own but really, do yourself a favor and watch all three movies.
My favorite line:
".... Remember when we reenacted the knife scene from Aliens?"
tied with
"That's why I drink the silly straw! Not so silly now!"
SPOILERS
Okay now that Mr. Brosnan made his cameo, can a mega-budget with Ant-Man have Wright be able to pony up money to get Connery out of retirement for him to be in it? I would love if a James Bond cameo (Timothy Dalton obviously was a supporting player in Hot Fuzz) became the new Cornetto for him.
I also liked we saw nobody who represented the corporation behind the replicants err... robots aside from the "lightbulb". Like Shaun of the Dead, the widespread aspect of the threat and damage gets a more personal scope.
Updated On: 8/24/13 at 08:26 PM
#17The World's End
Posted: 8/24/13 at 8:31pm
I teared up as well. Glad I'm not the only one, since I'll cry at Tampax commercials.
#18The World's End
Posted: 8/25/13 at 1:39pm
I saw went this morning and am sad to say that I didn't really like it. I definitely didn't hate it, but I guess I was expecting something a little more clever. Plus I didn't think it was funny at all. I chuckled a few times (The disabled is out of order/maybe they used too much toilet paper), but not much more.
The first half reminded me of a Young Adult type situation, but Pegg was very irritating whereas I LOVED Theron's tragic F*CK up.
Once the alien/robots were introduced the pub crawl didn't work for me. I didn't care about them getting to The World's End.
My friends said they liked the first two movies a lot more so I'm still opening to checking them out, but seeing this one alone didn't make much of a case for it.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#19The World's End
Posted: 8/25/13 at 2:19pm
I loved this movie. More than loved. It's tied with Star Trek for the best movie I've seen so far this year.
I loved the nods to the previous films. Of course, it had to have Rafe Spall and Bill Nighy in some capacity! The blanks walking as a group at the end reminded me of Shaun. And I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure that the arcade game Ed was playing at the Winchester was either in the King's Head pub, or they just used the same sound effect.
I love the style of movies these guys create. The rapid dialogue you wish you could be quick enough to participate in. The flashes through of things (horrible way to word it), like when they show the four beers being poured and then the water.
Line-wise, my favorite was "What the F*CK is WTF?" and I took "Let's BooBoo" as this movie's catchphrase. And I loved when Andy mentioned he didn't miss too many processed foods, and then a cornetto wrapper flew at him.
My only tiny critiques were that the war of words with the Network got to be a bit confusing, and I didn't understand the end of Gary's story
#20The World's End
Posted: 8/25/13 at 5:05pm
Mavis in Young Adult is not even close to the screw-up Gary is portrayed. She was insecure and hurt but she had a life. Gary was always a straight-up alcoholic for 20 or so years and nobody, not even his close friends, could really say when he was ever sober. He has no life besides bar crawls. To me the alcoholism and his friends struggling with whether or not they are enabling him or being his company from him doing something really stupid rang true.
"...but I guess I was expecting something a little more clever."
Then I am skeptical of whether or not you will like the other movies given there are similar beats and stakes although Pegg plays an easier to digest character than Gary King. The movie was a good bookend. To me Wright actually challenged himself by showing the darker side of the manchild archetype that is presented in much more harmless, heroic fashion in the previous movies. To me it was a very grown-up route, perhaps I just admire the gusto of that change from the previous two movies, but I have read other criticisms of the movie not liking Gary either. But it actually is a pretty good depiction of an alcoholic than say whatever James Ponsoldt does in his indie movies.
I will say to check out Spaced on Netflix. I love the show (own the box-set) and Pegg has a female equal in Jessica Hynes. The show keeps most of the obsessions and geekery with a real-life backdrop.
"Once the alien/robots were introduced the pub crawl didn't work for me. I didn't care about them getting to The World's End."
This may sound like a crutch but....
**spoiler**
They were all drunk when they made that decision to stick with it and obviously only Gary really cared about continuing the bar part of the crawl.
**end spoiler**
To answer Wynbish
**SPOILER**
I think after Gary technically eliminated the younger version of himself he still got his second chance with the replicant version of his friends- except obviously taking the sober path while the real/replicant-modern day versions of the others moved on in their lives. It felt like a cheeky, sci-fi origins story of human leading a pack of replicants against prejudice in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. I quite enjoyed that the movie's moral stance in the end was not to get angry with the robots/replicants- Gary especially not being one to judge others.
#21The World's End
Posted: 8/25/13 at 5:14pm
Also wanted to say, I enjoyed seeing Ben Wheatley players Steve Oram and Michael Smiley in parts (the motorist cop and the Reverend Green, respectively). Wright executive produced Wheatley's film Sightseers, which is one of the more shocking, unforgiving black comedies that I have seen in recent memory. Really worth seeing.
Also thought the whole blue-eyed effect of the robots reminded me of the alien designs for another Wright produced movie, the vastly underrated Attack the Block by Joe Cornish.
#22The World's End
Posted: 8/25/13 at 5:56pm
strummergirl, I guess I didn't mean to imply that Mavis and Gary were in equally bad situations, but rather I brought up Young Adult to give an example of a messed up character who I found lovable, funny and charismatic despite and even because of her flaws.
Gary, in the first half at least, was grating and annoyed me. By the end of the movie I saw what he was going for and the character arc involved, but I was too turned by the first half to care.
I WORSHIP Jessica Hynes after The Norman Conquests; I can still hear her shouting "Balls, Norman, Balls!" Didn't know she was on a TV show so will have to check it out.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#23The World's End
Posted: 8/26/13 at 2:26pmI just thought of something. The pub crawl was 12 pubs, right? And at the end of everything, alcoholic Gary orders water. Was this an odd representation of the 12 steps?
#24The World's End
Posted: 8/26/13 at 2:30pmWell they had no beer since the world had pretty much ended, was how I took it.
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