Hot Fuzz!! (non-spoilered)

[tiggymalvern]

Finally got to see Hot Fuzz last night, yay! About two months after all my British friends told me just how good it was ::sulk::

I'd heard so many people say Wright and Pegg had managed to surpass Shaun of the Dead, and they weren't wrong. It's astonishingly difficult to keep the jokes rolling through the second half of a comedy when you've got all that plot getting in the way, but they did it brilliantly. And even some of the 'throwaway' jokes and sight gags turned out to have plot relevance on some kind of level later on. When I think about the number of drafts and edits that script must have gone through to weave it all together so carefully, it makes my head ache. And I'm sitting here right now, trying to think if there was a single joke in there that fell flat, anything that misfired or didn't quite come off for me, and offhand I genuinely can't think of one.

How many comedies can you say that about?

I just found out from imdb that Peter Jackson was the Santa! And watching the end credits, I had to wonder whether the Robert Rodriguez who contributed to the soundtrack and was on the 'thanks to' list was the Robert Rodriguez - it's exactly the sort of project he'd think it was fun to get involved in, and the 'Desperado' homage with the guns was obvious. I can't find any conclusive proof, but Wikipaedia thinks it was him.

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, the scene with the records was an absolute classic XD The Point Break references throughout the film were really well timed, and of course, you were waiting for the inevitable one at the end :-))))

The UK only have crazy control laws on handguns (and things that should damn well be banned in every society, like assault rifles). Shotguns in rural communities are pretty much a given, so that part of it wasn't potentially OTT. But of course the pistols had to be in there because they were referencing so many other films with those scenes and set-ups :-)

Watching Hot Fuzz really was a case of playing spot the actor, and I still missed so many!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

This is definitely going to be one for the DVD set - it's a film geek's delight!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it could possibly be as funny as SotD, but we were ROLLING AROUND THE THEATER laughing. Couldn't WAIT for you to see it.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you went without us! After all that time we spent anticipating ::pout::

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

We thought about calling you, we really did, but we went the night before you were leaving for Vegas and figured you'd be busy packing and/or studying. And it was a bit last minute too, we decided to go and just went.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I'd go again.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yes, we would definitely have been busy (or I would, anyway, not so much the SO!) But definitely a good one to see with friends!

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

If you decide to see it again, let us know, I think we're both willing to go again. Or we can watch it again when the DVD comes out.

[fuzipenguin.livejournal.com]

I'm betting it really was THE Robert Rodriguez because you're exactly right. And that's so fun that Santa was Peter Jackson, I hadn't known that.

I have to go see it again (no hardship there) because although I absolutely adored it first time through, the last 20 minutes were ruined because the projector ate the film and it take almost half an hour to get it up and running again.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It was my immediate thought it had to be him, but it's not listed on his composer credits at imdb, so I'm stalled at 90% or so.

I love the people they've got involved in this film - Shaun of the Dead obviously did fabulously well in the right places to get so many entirely unrelated people to jump on board, unlike Shaun where almost everyone was from their immediate comedy circles.

the last 20 minutes were ruined because the projector ate the film

Ouch! I hope they gave you compensation for that, that's appalling for any film, but especially for a good one :-(

[ilo.livejournal.com]

I love that there are links between the Sean of The Dead people (though really they are Spaced people, have you ever seen that) and then Robert Rodriguiz and Quentin Tarrantino. It makes me so happy. I had heard that he scored the bit with the guns, and made my friend stay til the end to see his name come up on the credits. He is definately credited on the track listing. I'm sure its him.

Grindhouse was due to be released in a month in the UK, and now they are splitting into two films and doing it in the summer! It makes me so mad!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, we know Spaced, we have a full set of DVDs. Go nerds! :-) Most of the TV we watch is still British, we sure as hell don't watch much of this crap the Americans call TV.

They're splitting Grindhouse in the UK now? The last I heard, that was only planned for non-English-speaking countries who wouldn't know the cultural tradition of the double feature. That really fucking sucks, especially since I bet the bastards are only doing it to double the box office take, as if cinemas in the UK weren't already enough of a rip off.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I've heard they're splitting it to try to make some damn money off it-- apparently they thing people don't like the two-hour thing.

I bet anything it's the Rodriguez. Cool.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

apparently they thing people don't like the two-hour thing.

Are they really dragging that piece of crap out again as an excuse? The longer than two hour film was a big issue when Dances With Wolves came out, but it's been fairly thoroughly disproved since by oh, Titanic, King Kong and Lord of the Rings to name a few low-budget low-grossing films....

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, it has to be a shared experience XD Unquestionably the best comedy I've seen in the last several years, and probably one of the slickest films of any kind.