Edgar Wright

Lee says he absolutely loved a film pitched as Wright's love letter to giallo, a genre he hates. Lee also calls Scott Pilgrim an underrated gem that he loves. Adam says Wright's filmmaking reaches its apotheosis with Baby Driver, and that Spaced shows how well he understands film, using references that are not rip-offs.

In their own words

• Lee Not exactly my favourite of any of those genres, but it's Edgar Wright, if anyone can make that stuff work, I think he's probably going to be the man to do it, so,

  Ep 122 Bloodbath at the House of Death

• Lee And he said, this is my love letter to Giallo, which I hate. So I was like, this is going to be all kinds. But he said Edgar Wright. So I was like, well, how's it going to play? yeah, and I absolutely loved it.

  Ep 132 The Ninth Gate

• Lee Scott Pilgrim is another underrated gem, I think, I love that film.

  Ep 197 Shaun of the Dead

• Adam You know, in terms of film making probably reaches its apotheosis with Baby Driver to be honest, where you know.

  Ep 197 Shaun of the Dead

• Lee You definitely need to.

  Ep 197 Shaun of the Dead

• Adam Well, I suddenly realized, again, going like watching Spaced, that was the thing I got is it was like, that is one of the smartest movies ever. Like obviously, Edgar Wright directed Spaced as well as doing the the Shaun of the Dead and but when you think about it, it's like all of the bits in Spaced where it's like right, we want to recreate this bit of Stanley Kubrick or this bit of Steven Spielberg or the spinning number plate from Back to the Future. You want to put all those things in, but it's actually, you then have to learn how to do all these genuine like film techniques, you know, how to be able to. It's not as straightforward as it sort of sounds and you have to learn how to do, you know, you have to really understand film and I think that, you know, it's such a brilliant sort of thing of, well, we can do all these things without people going, oh, you know, oh, that's just you ripped that off, you know, it's a reference, it's not a rip-off, if you were to just present a film and you put those bits in.

  Ep 197 Shaun of the Dead