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Massawyrm Finds HOT FUZZ Positively Arresting!!

Yeah, I'm not saying it.... by The Dum Guy	Mar 7th, 2007 09:17:01 PM
But I'll watch this movie.
I wasn't a big fan of it... by DanielKurland	Mar 7th, 2007 09:18:37 PM
It was a fine movie, that was pretty amusing, and it had a nice kinetic pace I was a fan of, but it's not something I feel I'd need to see again. Granted, there were some jokes that WERE quite good, but overall, I didn't think it was anything special. However, I had the same response to Shaun of the Dead, so maybe my opinion isn't what you want.
good job massa! by MisterCynic	Mar 7th, 2007 09:21:14 PM
you're finally right in one of your reviews. well done.
Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret= YES! by Frijole	Mar 7th, 2007 09:22:06 PM
Kentucky Fried Movie? Noooooo! Bad! Bad movie! No chew toy! Bad! rubs KFM's nose in itself
Hmm... by JonQuixote	Mar 7th, 2007 09:34:13 PM
"He’s making a series of films that not only make fun of other films, but does so lovingly, and in doing so manages the unbelievable distinction of being able to completely exist as a film within the genre it sets out to roast." *** So, uh, like SCREAM?
kind of like scream but without..... by slappy jones	Mar 7th, 2007 09:41:48 PM
the fucking constant wink-at-the-camera smug reminders we are watching a parody of the genre....
HELICOPTERS CHOPPING ZOMBIES?!?! by LHombreSiniestro	Mar 7th, 2007 10:16:00 PM
http://tinyurl.com/38eqlg
amor fati by iwontwin	Mar 7th, 2007 10:17:32 PM
So this is better than LAST ACTION HERO?
Find these guys an editor by Reagoman	Mar 7th, 2007 10:51:09 PM
I'm not sure if the version I saw in Picadilly Circus Saturday was different than the American version, but the one I saw there was like 2 hours and 20 minutes long and needed to be about 90 minutes. It took a full hour and a half before you saw any blood and before anything happened. There's just so long you can watch fast edits and close ups of someone locking a door or putting on their clothes with sound effects. Believe me, I loved Shaun and there's a lot about this movie I loved, but it needed to lose a lot of the build up and get to the action.
I thought the action sucked... by ODM	Mar 7th, 2007 11:23:28 PM
Some may shit on Bad Boys, and Desperado, to a lesser extent, but both flicks have great action scenes which are plotted and inventive. The action scenes in Hot Fuzz involve people firing guns at each other in a two shot. Granted, the film is HELLA FUNNY, but the action was flat and boring.
"BEST MOVIE EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE!!!" by Motoko Kusanagi	Mar 8th, 2007 12:22:07 AM
says Mr. blockhead DAMN YOU GEORGE LUCAS!!!
Great film, if a bit confused. by alucardvsdracula	Mar 8th, 2007 01:22:19 AM
Starts out as a VERY English tv movie, then it turns into the Wickerman before finally turning into Bad Boys/Point Break. Good but Shaun was much better. IMO.
This Is Madness...! by buster00	Mar 8th, 2007 02:26:53 AM
THIS...IS...SPARTA!!
Gotta agree with Reagoman. Needs to be shorter. by Big_Bubbaloola	Mar 8th, 2007 03:08:10 AM
And this coming from a big fan of Shaun and Spaced. It was funny in parts and nasty in good ways (Wicker Man parallel is what I thought it did best), hell even Tim Dalton was great as the sleazy as hell supermarket manager. But it was just waaay too long. And the flash cuts, although amusing for the first time got old quick (nice pisstake of the Scott colour bleed though). Go see it, but don't expect Shaun levels of hilarity. Now Mr. Wright, do a sci fi flick.
Too long? by Boba Fat	Mar 8th, 2007 03:29:06 AM
I thought so too. Very funny though.
Are you people all crazy by Affleckwasthebomb	Mar 8th, 2007 03:43:13 AM
Only Joking. But while I understand the need for this to be trimmed by at least 20 minutes to tighten it all up the flick is fucking hilarious all the way through. I couldn't stop laughing. For some reason this doesn't seem to be having the same universal appeal as Shaun.
Are you people all crazy by Affleckwasthebomb	Mar 8th, 2007 03:51:55 AM
Only Joking. But while I understand the need for this to be trimmed by at least 20 minutes to tighten it all up the flick is fucking hilarious all the way through. I couldn't stop laughing. For some reason this doesn't seem to be having the same universal appeal as Shaun.
hate to be a hater by The hoff	Mar 8th, 2007 04:01:24 AM
so i won't be one. Truth be told i really wasn't blown away by hot fuzz, loved shaun, found what i saw of spaced to be exceedingly funny but just found HF to be chortle worthy most of the time (thats right i said chortle). I was consistently entertained but rarely more than that, and thats not to say theres anything wrong with just being entertained there isn't but after the cock-sucking this movie has received from this site i was hoping for something better. It is about twenty minutes too long as other posters have said and it really isn't very action packed for most of the movie (although the third act is fucking brilliant) and i think this might be my problem with the movie. All of the movies that this is an homage to or reference to have constant escalating violence and hot fuzz just doesn't, theres a few very gory deaths but it's just not paced out as well as shaun and it doesn't follow the formula that most hollywood action films do. Not a bad film by any means just not a brilliant one (but then my brother loved it and he only found one scene in shaun of the dead funny so i guess it's horses for courses).
Damn double post by Affleckwasthebomb	Mar 8th, 2007 04:07:57 AM
And Damn Micheal Bay....Just cause I've never said it before and people seem to like saying it. I thought I'd try it out.
I`m sorry.... by Tripman5000	Mar 8th, 2007 04:21:34 AM
....but I thought this was one of the best,if not THE best films I`ve ever seen!
Have to agree with most who have seen it.(mild spoiler) by Gabba-UK	Mar 8th, 2007 04:28:59 AM
It made me chuckle nearly all the way through and there are two or three massively big laugh out moments (seeing a shotgun-toting granny getting karate kicked in the head SHOULDN'T be that funny but it fucking is) . It IS well written, well acted and obviously made with a lot of love for the subject but it just doesn't have the spark that Shaun did. Maybe repeated viewings will expose bits I didn't see or get the first time round. As for the love in that the film is getting from this site and from other critics in the US that maybe down to the fact that the kind of UK humour that is represented by Wright, Pegg and Frost is new to you guys. To us its old news. Still funny as hell but were spoilt for choice I suppose in the UK when its comes to our comedy. Now I don't want to put anyone off seeing it because its still a good, funny and entertaining film and much better than the fetid turds that Hollywood been making and calling 'Comedy' in recent years. Just don't expect the film to be the heralding of the second coming of Monty Python when it comes to the team behind this. They can and have done much better than this. Look forward to what they can do with sci-fi...
I loved this movie by DirkD13"	Mar 8th, 2007 05:24:53 AM
But I watched Shaun last night and it really is so much tighter, and better shot too. EW needed a couple of million pounds added to his budget to really kick the action into high gear. It's already grossed over £15 million in the UK alone, off a £5 million budget.
I found Hot Fuzz positively boring. by Blarney-Man	Mar 8th, 2007 05:28:48 AM
The cinema I was in laughed 3 times, and two were mild titters. This film is not an action film, and is a very serious comedy.
Also, the santa stabbing Angel in the hand is...... by Big_Bubbaloola	Mar 8th, 2007 09:38:44 AM
none other than that Atkins luvin director Peter Jackson. There ya go fact fans!!!!!
I thought it was just a good film until.... by Brody77	Mar 8th, 2007 11:18:56 AM
....Simon Pegg drove back into town. He's gonna disarm that granny, I thought. NO!!! He fly kicked her in the face!!! For me, as more of an action than horror fan, this is better than Shaun of the Dead. Well done fellas. One question though, why no cameo by Jess? Apart from anything else, she's stunning!
A question to hardcore Pegg fans... by JackLint	Mar 8th, 2007 11:32:11 AM
Does anybody know if he had a falling-out with Mark Heap? They were great together on Big Train and Spaced, but he hasn't been in either Shaun or Hot Fuzz, which has camoes from everybody ( including Kevin Eldon which is awesome). I read an interview with Mark Heap, where they asked him about it and he sounded very bitter. I also heard that Edgar Wright avoids talking about it. Anybody know what's going on?
SHARK VS. ZOMBIE by bennozoid1	Mar 8th, 2007 11:56:08 AM
There IS a reference to SHARK VS. ZOMBIE: The restaurant that Sean's girlfriends wants to go to is a fish restaurant, and what's it called? FULCI'S!........ I liked HOT FUZZ, and have been a huge fan of the SPACED boys since before they were the SPACED boys (anyone seen Edgar's "FISTFUL OF FINGERS"?) but thought it needed to be 30 minutes shorter with more dynamic action....
I agree with some other people by Fuck The Napkin	Mar 8th, 2007 12:17:42 PM
Got some great moments and it's all very clever and that, but it gets pretty tiresome seeing all the same acting/directing/editing tricks that they did all the way through Spaced and Shaun, and seeing them in such a drawn-out movie. Maybe I'm getting bored of their style, or maybe it's just the way this movie's put together. Shame, cos I'm the biggest, baddest Bad Boys II fan there is, and by the time the movie really went ballistic my brain had slowed down from everything feeling too familiar.
JackLint by DirkD13"	Mar 8th, 2007 12:39:39 PM
Simon fell out with Jessica Stevenson a while ago, but I think that may have been patched up now. Mark Heap has been busy working on Green Wing during the shooting of both Shaun and Hot Fuzz, as far as I know there is no acrimony between the two.
GREAT understanding of thee parody film! by Chris Beyond	Mar 8th, 2007 02:37:19 PM
He took the words right out of my mouth. People who do modern parody don't get it. Take MY BIG FAT INDEPENDENT MOVIE for example. So the creators of that film thought that the best way to poke fun at indie films was to do direct scene rip-off and make poo and fart jokes? Did they even understand their audience for that? Top Secret is just amazing. It's parody, but just barely. It's more of a work of absurdist art on screen. True brilliance and you don't need to be a fan of Elvis, War, or Blue Lagoon films to enjoy it!
BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL! by misnomer	Mar 8th, 2007 05:51:33 PM
hot fuzz=very good but not great. Best scene has to be the priest and his "grasshoppers." It's a different type of movie from sotd...it's alot less subtle...more gag/visual driven than the predecesor. still a damn good movie- that, yeah, was 20 minutes too long.
Tompbeast... by Charlie & Tex	Mar 9th, 2007 06:45:11 AM
If you thought that Tim Dalton's "here come the fuzz" line was cool, imagine how it was for us, having to stand behind him and trying to act tough! Lol!
The golden boys by augiedoggie	Mar 30th, 2007 08:16:46 AM
These guys are hysterical. When these guys team up they really know how to do it up. Edgar Wright really made every piece of the plot come back to together at the end... well done sir, well done
Cannot Possibly Wait One Second Longer by DervishMcGee	Mar 30th, 2007 12:25:20 PM
Ever since I saw Shaun of the Dead in the theater (3 times), I've been waiting for this one. A friend of mine saw it and seems to agree with most people here that its solid. Bring on the Fuzz...

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