Hot Fuzz **SPOILERS**

chesterstu said:
Went to see this tonight and there is one scene that i just keep going over in my head and even now, 3 hours, later it's still making me laught. Its in the last 20mins with an old woman.
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In with both feet? :D

I've just got back from watching this (a treat for my nephew). I hated Shaun of the Dead but loved Hot Fuzz and was having so much fun I didn't want it to end.

The church roof. OWW!! ;)
 
Loved it. I particularly like the way the film points you to the same conclusions that Simon Peggs character makes and then totally twists it.

Also any film where a granny gets drop-kicked is worth £6 of my money.
 
i really dont understand how you could be disappointed with it, i had been massively excited about it, then it had died off, mainly because i failed to see it no less than 3 times when i was meant to. however today i decided "stuff this" and went on my own after work, and it was everything i wanted, although really quite different from i was expecting. and yes the drop kicked granny was amazing
 
wow I'm surprised this film is getting such a bad response from some ppl? I went to see it last night with the g/f and i thought it was bloody brilliant!

It has everything, humour/gore/guns/fighting! I didn't find the start particularly slow either, I enjoyed it all the way through - just a really great and funny film!
 
I'm a big fan of the slam-editing style used, really brutal and energetic, and the bassy soundtrack was superb. It deserves a BAFTA for editing and sound, I believe.
 
Brilliant.

Saw it on Sunday with 2 of my other Spaced-bumming mates and it was fantastic. Classic Pegg comedy and i can't believe they had all those Cornetto references in it.

When me and the said Spaced fan mates went to watch SOTD we were the only people in the cinema that were physically "rofl"ing at the "Want anything from the shop?" bit so i really didn't think they'd reference it in Hot Fuzz!

Classic Wright/Pegg/Frost. Don't think i'll ever get bored of these guys, Pegg is a genius imho. Although i am probably biased because he's be in most of my favorite TV shows ever. (read; Big Train, Black Books and Spaced.)

:D
 
I didn't find it particularly funny (and I love spaced) but the GF absolutely loved it. I thought it was brilliant in places, but too long overall. I was somewhere inbetween a massive head-ache and falling asleep by the last 20 minutes.

And the plot? Good lord, some people here are complimenting it! It was quite poor. It doesn't matter in a film like this of course, but it would have been nice for it to have taken the mickey out of it's story arc a bit more. It really was Channel 5 B-movie stuff. That's fine, but it was presented (underneath the superficial jokes) as an overly serious narrative. Shuan Of the Dead managed the unfolding of it's plot better.

Fun film though, definately worth a rent. I love Simon Peg
 
Chads said:
I didn't find it particularly funny (and I love spaced) but the GF absolutely loved it. I thought it was brilliant in places, but too long overall. I was somewhere inbetween a massive head-ache and falling asleep by the last 20 minutes.

And the plot? Good lord, some people here are complimenting it! It was quite poor. It doesn't matter in a film like this of course, but it would have been nice for it to have taken the mickey out of it's story arc a bit more. It really was Channel 5 B-movie stuff. That's fine, but it was presented (underneath the superficial jokes) as an overly serious narrative. Shuan Of the Dead managed the unfolding of it's plot better.

Fun film though, definately worth a rent. I love Simon Peg
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Shaun of the Dead had a plot?
 
krooton said:
The same zombies that wrote the script in the first place?
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Actually now that I think about it the zombies may have been an allegory for the depressing regularity of 21st century life, and the general malaise that allows the majority of the population to shamble through life heedless of their fellow 'zombies' and sustained only by a diet of fast food and minor celebrity gossip.

Shaun's battle with the legion of undead can be read as a reaction against the established normality - an effort to change the turgid status quo that surrounds him - while those who have already succumbed seek literally to consume him (for they are consumers) and force him to join their ranks.

His efforts to rescue his girlfriend, and so rekindle his flagging relationship with her, can be interpreted as a path to redemption. Giving the character of Liz messiah like attributes.

The sub text of Hot Fuzz was something like 'Lets shoot the **** out of Wells.'
 
Enormous fan of Spaced - Series One... but never quite 'got' Shaun of the Dead. I Guess I'll wait for the DVD.

Did love the trailer though, especially Timothy Dalton looking incredibly slimy. 'Here come the fuzz...' Splendid! :D
 
frakker said:
I wanted to love it, but it was fairly average. Perfect DVD rental fodder, just not something to waste £7 on to go watch at the cinema.
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Lucky it only costs me £2 on an Orange Wednesday then :D
 
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