Hot Fuzz

[Termite Man]

Tickets booked for tomorrow night, what better Valentines Day treat?

That may be the same one me shells and her brother are going to , might see you there

 

[Pete the Greek]

I'm off to see this in an hour...been looking forward to it massively for weeks. Can't wait!!!!!

 

[onenameshelley]

I shall see it, but only cause I fancy the arse off Simon Pegg.

Anyone known if he's had laser hair restoration? His hairline now seems suspiciously lower than it was on the Big Train series two DVD I watched this week

I dunno about that but i did think he looked too thin in all the previews i saw, anyway he is mine you can have nick frost

 

[DotCommunist]

Yes, mere mortals, I had my Hot Fuzz Posters signed by Nick and Simon about 4 months before the film was released. So ner ner

 

[treefrog]

I saw it today, and it's great!

Simon Pegg is incredibly hot in it...

 

[red rose]

That was fucking brilliant

 

[irishshapes]

watched it last night with the misses!
she enjoyed it so much went on to say it was her best valentines!!!
and she reckons it's better that SOTD

i will need to see it a few more times to be ably capable of comparing them!

but i would recommend it to anyone - VERY FUNNY

 

[lizzieloo]

Saw it last night, booked deluxe tickets for Mr Loo and myself as a valentine treat

Supping beer in reclining chairs at the pictures is definately the way forward

Film was great, bit slow to start but it proper got going.

Not sure it would work so well on 'the small screen'

Go to see it at the pictures!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

There isn't a snowball's chance on fucking mercury of this coming to a cinema in china

I'll have to wait for a decent copy

 

[Ranbay]

 

[STFC]

My missus took me to see this as a Valentine's treat last night, and I thought it was excellent, easily as good as Shaun of the Dead. She wasn't overly impressed with it though.

Loads of film references in it, and lots of familiar faces - was the amateur dramatics fella Frank Gallagher off Shameless?

Go and see it, you won't regret it.

 

[lizzieloo]

Loads of film references in it, and lots of familiar faces - was the amateur dramatics fella Frank Gallagher off Shameless?

Yep, Me Loo didn't get that either

 

[treefrog]

I thought it was better than Shaun- and I loved Shaun. Listening to Pegg and Wright on the Guardian webcast now...

http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Film/Film/2007/02/15/FW14.2.07.mp3

 

[ChrisFilter]

I thought it was absolutely fantastic. If it wasn't for Shaun of the Dead I'd say best comedy film in years, and years, and years.

Shaun of the Dead is better though, imho.

 

[theCIA]

cant find a torrent anywhere...

 

[onenameshelley]

absolutely fucking brilliant, so good i couldnt sleep afterwards because i was tooo excited by the whole thing!

I loved seeing all the different people who were in sotd/any other part of Mr. Peggs career as well, edgar wrights girlfriends mum as the shopkeeper, Noel "you got red on you" as Andy, the devine Kevin Eldon, Marsha, jessicawot werent in it though. Did anyone spot Cate Blanchett in it though.

And Nick Frost is fooking ace

 

[Part 2]

Mint film, sneaked my son in to see it ith me yesterday, he's a big SOTD fan so was pissed off when it was a 15. We both had a right laugh, excellent stuff.

Thought Paddy Considine was great in a comedy role

 

[agricola]

utterly superb, IMHO better than Shaun of the Dead

 

[han]

Fantastic film. Loved every minute of it. Nick Frost is sooooooo adorable.

 

[Hellsbells]

I'm looking forward to seeing this tomorow and am glad eveyone here thought it was good. All the reviews I've read have been really really negative.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

cant find a torrent anywhere...

Yeah, cos the torrents 'thing' is very much US-centric, so it takes until it comes out in the US to be out on torrents. The same thing happened with Children of Men

It's v. annoying as, even though I am in China and on a Chinese salary, I would pay UK cinema prices to go and see this, but it seems to not be possible

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'm looking forward to seeing this tomorow and am glad eveyone here thought it was good. All the reviews I've read have been really really negative.

A lot of british films seem to be like that though. Critics slate them and then they are huge hits. 28 Days later was another.

 

[kyser_soze]

Has this also got Lucy whatshername from the Office and SOTD in it?

I loikes her I does...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Well Mr Bradshaw in the Grauniad, who is a fucking-hard-to-please reviewer, rates this very highly

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,2013737,00.html

 

[treefrog]

I'm looking forward to seeing this tomorow and am glad eveyone here thought it was good. All the reviews I've read have been really really negative.

Really? I haven't seen a bad review yet!

 

[maximilian ping]

i hope its better than Shite of the Dead

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Ignoring the fatuous 'shite of teh dead' comment above, I will say 'WHere are all these bad reviews" as per treefrog.

The Sun also give it a top review. So guardian and the sun, at opposite ends of the spectrun, both a good writeup. Hmm, must go to check the daily wail and torygraph.

 

[treefrog]

T Hmm, must go to check the daily wail and torygraph.

they might have some bad reviews- it is a film taking the piss out of Middle England after all...

 

[Pete the Greek]

I went to see it on Valentines Day with Mrs PtG.

I was SOOO looking forward to it, built it up into a massive thing..

but I felt an anti-climax. It didn't meet my expectations, and I was slightly dissappointed.

It was....ok.
But it could have been so much better if they just changed a few things.

 

[gaijingirl]

Just seen it.

Not good things:

I did enjoy it but it basically it is Spaced and SOTD. At the start they did a bit too much of that fast editing thing that they're so keen on in Spaced I thought - got a bit grating. I did feel it was a little bit "same old" and I hope they don't do another one as it really will be getting tired then (IMO).

Good things:

Lots of the jokes made me laugh out loud at inappropriate times (well actually I thought they were appropriate but no one else was laughing with me... ) - there was one particular joke about balls and jugglers and another with some dead hippies both of which, for some reason, made me think of Dubversion - can't think why? And there's a horse in it too for PieEye! I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and the cast was superb - but I didn't spot Cate Blanchett! My friend (who happens to be Mrs Banco de Gaia) works in one of the shops in that village part time and got to be there for the filming... *jealous*!