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Damn but Hot Fuzz is a CLEVER MOVIE
Like at the beginning when Nick and the old lady are exchanging crossword clues and she says 'Fascism! Wonderful' and fascism is precisely what the NWA were practising…
Or that Nick is set apart from the NWA by only a hair's breadth: note the repeated line about 'the village's rustic aethestic'. The NWA are basically Nick taken up to 11, what with their obsession with order and (twisted) justice. 'The common good of the community' is the goal of them both. And all the people Nick arrests at the beginning are the ones who show up dead later (he's an Angel of death).
AND THEN IT'S LIKE Danny shows up to humanise Nick and turn him far far away from that direction (not that Nick would ever have started killing people, but who knows what anyone might do For The Greater Good?) and then they have this awesome relationship and make a perfect team and SO HELP ME IT'S SUCH A BRILLIANT FILM ON EVERY CONCIEVABLE LEVEL
February 4, 2013 @ 1:06 am
I have been told I should watch Hot Fuzz, but I haven’t seen it because I didn’t think Shaun of the Dead was funny, and I figured I would have a similar reaction. But you think it’s good?
February 4, 2013 @ 1:47 am
I would never, ever watch Shaun of the Dead, but Hot Fuzz is just amazing. My daughter had raved about it forever, and then I finally caught part of it on cable last year, and was completely in love with it. I HAD to get the DVD after that.
February 4, 2013 @ 2:17 am
Really? What made you fall in love with it?
February 4, 2013 @ 12:10 pm
Simon Pegg’s performance, for starters, because he’s just so…upright and serious and he makes the best faces. The whole tone of the movie about the perfect village and people’s reactions to things. And then there’s the cast…OMG such goodness. (OMG these people I’ve watched for years are so old…) My other gateway to the movie were some fantastic little fics by . I wasn’t into her basic premise, but her treatment of life in Stanford poat-movie just sucks you in.
February 4, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
because he’s just so…upright and serious and he makes the best faces. The whole tone of the movie about the perfect village and people’s reactions to things That does sound kind of hilarious. :)
February 4, 2013 @ 5:17 pm
It is very similar to Shaun of the Dead, both in the relationship between the male leads and the downright gleeful gore moments (both movies have that one bit I literally can’t watch.) But…I’d give it a go! Cos the central theme of Shaun is ‘our lives are indistinguishable from the walking dead’ which is a bit of a downer, but the central theme of Hot Fuzz is more like ‘loosen up, be friends with people, and shoot the baddies.’ Plus the cast! THE CAST!
February 4, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
Ah, cool!
February 20, 2013 @ 12:30 am
Hot Fuzz is 10 times better than Shaun of the Dead.
February 4, 2013 @ 2:38 am
I adored Hot Fuzz, for many of the reasons you point out here … although Nick seems as if he’s got too much heart buried under all that to actually deal with the NWA ultimately. (And I also really, really liked what I could bear to watch of Shaun of the Dead because of what it says about friendship and adulthood and such ….) Now I’m thinking I want to watch Hot Fuzz again.
February 4, 2013 @ 5:18 pm
It’s weird but I’m pretty sure I hated Shaun of the Dead when I first saw it as a teenager? Once I got into adulthood I appreciated it a lot more. Watch Hot Fuzz before the new Pegg-Frost-Wright film comes out this year! :D
February 5, 2013 @ 12:37 am
A new Pegg-Frost (and Wright? I need to know this name, right?) movie – yay!
February 7, 2013 @ 7:48 pm
Edgar Wright’s the director behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead- and the new one is called The World’s End. I have no idea what the actual plot is gonna entail, but it looks good! :D