- Hot Fuzz
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It’s part 2 of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy, which means we get to make a hot fuss about Hot Fuzz! A film which features four Oscar winners, only two of whom are actually credited; James Bond retrospectively auditioning to be a Columbo villain; and even if we don’t see a dog look up, we do see a Hound say “Yarp”. Whilst “Hot Fuzz” is an exceedingly British spin on the very American sub genre of the buddy cop action movie; it also borders fantastically into the familiar trappings of folk horror; with our hero moving to an insular village of spiteful Daily Mail readers, willing to sacrifice anyone and everyone for “the greater good.” With some returnees from “Shaun of the Dead”, along with more 90s/00s comedy stalwarts and a whole host of distinguished British characters actors; this movie maintains the momentum of its predecessor without ever being in its shadow, and, most importantly, is as funny as fuck. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers and join us.
This shit just got real!
Famous lines
- "Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone "ahhrgh"?"— Danny Butterman
- "Sergeant Butterman, the little hand says it's time to rock and roll."— Nicholas Angel
- "Yarp."— Michael Armstrong AKA Lurch
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LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeAnd as promised, we're here for the second installment of our Cornetto Trilogy series. We're covering 2007's Hot Fuzz.
LeeA film that I literally can close my eyes and play in my mind from beginning to end, pretty much.
LeeAnd and Adam sounds like he hasn't seen it for a long time.
LeeChris, have you seen it before?
ChrisSo, I've definitely seen it before.
ChrisI don't know what state I was in, because it's amazing how much I did I did not remember, and yet some like so in my head, I remember the model village at the end, for some reason that stands out.
ChrisAnd I guess you can see why, it's it's got quite a hard-hitting moment.
LeeOr or a couple.
ChrisBut yeah, so a few a few scenes I was like, yeah, totally. I've seen this absolutely.
ChrisAnd I remember it being great, but yeah.
ChrisI don't know like it's interesting, there is quite a lot that happens, there's quite a lot of different scenes and especially the way it changes in tone and so.
LeeIt's a lot of film for two hours, isn't it?
LeeIt's it feels almost like a whole series that somehow.
LeeAnd that's because it's got so many great moments and classic quatable bits and all the rest of it.
LeeYeah, it's it's a really busy two hours, but it doesn't feel rushed. I mean, it's a masterpiece.
LeeAdam, what did you think going back after so long?
AdamWell, as you say, I haven't seen it for a very long time.
AdamWhen I when I did first I saw it at the cinema, absolutely loved it, and I'm now I've now got to the point where I'm like, yeah, no, I'm I'm definite that Hot Fuzz is probably my favorite of the trilogy.
LeeYeah.
ChrisThat is that is interesting.
ChrisGo on.
AdamThat said, I I am only reserving judgment on that because I'll be it because I've literally only seen The World's End once.
LeeSo.
AdamSo who knows, that could be a real because that I barely recall.
AdamWhereas there were pubs in it.
ChrisYeah, that's oh, no, I remember I remember the Sisters of Mercy, but that was.
AdamBut yeah.
AdamBut no, so.
AdamYeah, so Hot Fuzz.
ChrisReally interesting.
AdamReally loved it at the time it came out, eventually came out on DVD.
AdamSo I would have got that, watched it with all the extras.
AdamAnd then.
AdamI don't know, some at some point, I just didn't.
AdamGo back to it as regularly as I had done when Shaun of the Dead came out.
Lee
AdamSo when that came out on DVD, I watched that and and that would be a that was a fairly regular watch for me.
AdamYou know, for for a while it was at least once a year or whatever like that, you know, at the least.
AdamAnd
AdamWhereas Hot Fuzz for some reason, I didn't do that with.
AdamNow, I don't know if they were you know, whatever it was, I'd have to sort of
AdamI mean, I'll I'll have to go back and work out if there was other stuff on or other stuff was out or.
LeeYeah.
ChrisIt's it's not horror, so so it might have been a little harder to prioritize.
AdamYeah, I think that maybe the thing because I don't.
AdamBecause I'm not really I've seen I've seen loads of action films, but they're not ones that I necessarily return to.
ChrisAnd yeah.
AdamMaybe it's the maybe it's had that same effect. I don't know because I'm not in the mood for an action film.
ChrisYeah, so say that you saw it.
ChrisLike in the cinema because it's I'd forgotten how much action it was, and I could imagine that really working well.
ChrisAnd of course Lee's got the big projector, so it's basically in a cinema.
ChrisSo it fits.
LeeI I know. Yeah, but.
Leeso I watched this literally, without exaggeration, I think I'd probably watch this film every three to four months.
UnknownWow.
LeeAnd I have done for the last couple of years. I love it that much.
AdamI'll I'll just I'll just say, I can see why.
LeeYeah, I know.
AdamNo, this is this is my fault, definitely, I have not watched this for like over the years.
LeeIt's just it's got everything it has got everything and and it's my it's my Sunday movie basically.
LeeSunday afternoon, when you start feeling a little bit down because you're like, oh, I've just got a few hours left until work tomorrow, I just need something to cheer me up and bring my mood up.
LeeThis is my go-to if I'm having a slightly blue Sunday.
LeeI put this on, and it always just and it's got it had the same effect this time as it always does, and I don't know why.
LeeI get this with about three films.
LeeBut there's something about it when it gets to the end and the closing music starts, my first thought is, might as well knock that back to the beginning and start again.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
LeeIt's just such a great journey that you almost want to go back to where it started and just really the whole thing.
LeeIt's just it's phenomenal.
ChrisWhat was really interesting I thought after having watched in such close succession, Shaun of the Dead spaced and then Asylum and then seeing this, it's like, you can really see the evolution of the actors.
ChrisAnd the way that they're similar characters, but yeah, they've made him different enough.
ChrisLike in this, it's so funny how Simon Pegg is like he's still kind of an anti-hero, but it's because everyone around him is so awful that they actually make him bad.
ChrisEven though he is amazing.
ChrisHe's like, I'm the best humans essentially who could ever exist and yet they make him awful again.
ChrisLike it's still unfair.
ChrisBut yeah, for the opposite reason.
ChrisAs from all the other films.
AdamI think that's the thing as well is that we like Britain doesn't really have this kind of action like a buddy cop movie.
AdamBecause obviously it's like Point Break, Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys II all the references in.
LeeYes.
AdamEverything's in there and
ChrisIs Bad Boys I not much good.
AdamI saw Bad Boys I at the cinema and I would like it on record that I want that time back.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYeah.
LeeI don't think I've seen I don't think I've seen either of them.
LeeBut I but every time but then again I didn't see Point Break until about five years ago.
LeeSo now every time I watch this, I do think, I need to add that to my watch list.
LeeAnd then every time I go, yeah, no, I don't think I do.
AdamSee in Point Break Point Break I did see at the time.
AdamI remember like all me mates were watch like watched a lot of action movies.
AdamSo a lot of the eighties and that was another one where I was like.
AdamYeah, okay.
LeeYou just.
AdamYou know, it was like, yeah, that was competently made, no one fell over, everyone remembered their words.
LeeYeah.
AdamThat was it, it left no sort of further effect on me.
AdamSo, yeah, again it's the sort of but Britain doesn't really have.
AdamThose kind of films.
AdamSo.
AdamIt's quite because basically Angels are a pain in the ass.
LeeYeah.
LeeYou know.
AdamTo a great extent.
AdamHe's extremely competent at his job, and actually you do want him to be a police officer.
AdamBut yeah, he is just the rule stickler.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, but as you say, he turns up somewhere where.
AdamVery dreadful people, well, basically rocks up and there's a murder conspiracy that's been going on for some time.
LeeOh.
AdamAnd actually the thing the things that I love most about Hot Fuzz are the bits that I've always thought about with action movies.
AdamLike where it's like like the grand conspiracy that he weaves, but then it turns out it's actually the mundane reason.
LeeYeah, I love that.
AdamBringing the town into disrepute, so it's like, oh, well, he was involved in you know, the solicitor was involved with the property deal and they, you know, he was set to make so much money or he had this on this person.
AdamAnd it's like, no, he was a bloody awful actor. We're not how can we do that when we've got when we've got some semi-professionals as understudies.
AdamYou know, so.
LeeI mean and the other thing with this, I think that elevates it, which just is such a game changer. That cast.
LeeLike, you know.
LeeJim Broadbent.
AdamOh, yeah.
LeeTimothy Dalton, Anne Reid.
LeeAnd then you add those on top of, yeah, all the others who you, you know, as you say, you Kevin Eldons and Paddy Constantine, Rafe Spall, who I love.
LeeIt's just it's non-stop. Everybody who turns up, you're like, oh, I love them.
LeeOh, they're brilliant.
LeeOlivia Coleman.
LeeI I know.
ChrisYeah, even Olivia Coleman.
LeeShe's an amazing actor.
LeeBut her comedy timing in this is fantastic.
LeeAnd I don't know how I do a lot.
AdamWeirdly enough, one of four Oscar winners who appear in this film.
Chris
AdamAnd one of those others is Jim Broadbent, and when I was watching it, I was like, Jim Broadbent and Olivia Coleman, it's a very similar sort of career trajectory.
AdamYou know where it's like someone you saw loads in comedy and like, you know, like sort of stuff like Victoria Wood with Jim Broadbent and he was like in like all sort bits and pieces like that.
AdamAnd then they get this real sort of suddenly the world takes notice and goes, actually, they're fucking amazing actors and look at them in this extraordinary, you know, in this film they've been in or whatever like that.
AdamBut it's yeah, it's just that sort of weird thing that you sort of hark back, you always get that, oh, stop being a serious person, go back and do comedies because they were good.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamBut.
AdamNo, but genuinely.
ChrisEven though Bill Bailey, like.
AdamOh, fuck it.
ChrisHell.
ChrisHe does his classic appearances and again, just gets it so right.
LeeYeah.
AdamThat that was something I do remember from seeing it at the cinema was Dean leaning over to me and pointing out that the two like the twins that Bill Bailey plays are reading.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamThey're reading books by the same author, but the names are different.
AdamBecause it's one of them's reading an Ian Banks book, and the other one's reading an Ian M Banks book, and Ian M Banks is the name Ian Banks uses when he writes sci-fi.
LeeOh.
AdamSo so one of them reads so it was kind of it's like a thing so that anyone picking up his books can either get, you know, straight fiction would be the wrong term, but, you know, like basically so you don't get sci-fi if you are not into, you know.
AdamAnd
AdamBut yeah, that was but so yeah, so we have two Oscar with four Oscar winners.
AdamI have named two, which is Olivia Coleman and Jim Broadbent.
Chris
Adamand also it's uncredited, there's loads of people who are uncredited in this, Steve Coogan's not credited.
LeeYeah.
Adamand it's Kate Blanchett is he's the girlfriend, the woman he's leaving.
LeeI had no I didn't know that until today when I was watching it, and I was like, I always just assumed it was a a bit actress or something.
LeeAnd I was like, I'm just going to have a little check on IMDb and just see, yeah, and then I was like, holy shit, no, it is.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd she's won two Oscars.
AdamSo.
ChrisWow.
AdamAnd the the final Oscar winner, which will be the one that I think Chris will be most interested in, Peter Jackson is the Santa Claus who stabs him in the hand.
Lee
ChrisOh, that is that is quite surprising.
AdamYes.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut again, I think I think everyone after Shaun of the Dead, everyone was like, oh, can I be in the next one.
AdamCan I be in the next one.
LeeYeah, yeah.
ChrisYou could imagine.
AdamI mean, Jim Broadbent apparently specifically asked to be in their next film.
AdamBecause he'd passed on Shaun of the Dead and was like, I saw it and it was brilliant.
ChrisOh dear, regret.
LeeI.
ChrisYou absolutely would, wouldn't you?
AdamI assume he was up for Philip, and I'm not sure whether he would have been.
AdamIn the same vein as Bill Nighy.
LeeYeah.
LeeAgain, Bill Nighy coming back as well.
ChrisWho's also in this.
LeeYes.
AdamYeah.
AdamYeah, we start getting to the point where we've got a few recurring people and people who then turn up in The World's End as well.
AdamLike Paddy Constantine.
AdamBecause Rafe Spall's in all of the three.
AdamAnd but yeah.
AdamAnd can I just say.
AdamBecause at one point we were watching it and Clare mentioned, well, they has Simon Pegg because he's got cool glasses at the end.
AdamAnd she was like, that feels a bit bad because that policeman wouldn't have that cooler set of glasses.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd it was like, yeah, but you've got to make allowances for the fact that this is clearly Nick Pegg and Simon Frost get to do the action films that they love.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd get to be in real shootouts.
AdamAnd it's like, I am not not I'm not not looking my coolest.
LeeYeah.
AdamWhile I'm doing that.
Adam
AdamBut on that same note.
LeeI'm.
AdamThe fucking childhood joy on the faces of Paddy Constantine and Rafe Spall when they use those trollies as a battering ram.
LeeYes. Yeah.
AdamAnd and and Nick Nick Pegg and Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as well are clearly.
AdamBut I think they've been watching them like shoot up the town square and been like, why can't we beat in this bit? Why can't we.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd then it's like.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou get you get a bit of do a little bit of yobbery in the local supermarket.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd again, it's that final act it changes, because it's such a a fun, as you say, it definitely is an action film, but only for the last 15 minutes.
LeeBecause up until that point, it's a kind of mystery and you're trying to work out what's going on.
ChrisIt's full horror.
LeeIt is, it's definitely full horror.
Lee
ChrisI mean that's why.
LeeUntil he kicks the old woman in the face.
LeeYeah.
LeeWhich just makes me laugh every time. It's just.
LeeOh.
AdamYeah.
AdamBut that but also yeah, they've I get the impression like Shaun of the Dead was like, right, we've got all our mates.
AdamAnd all the people we know we can call on and everything else like that, so we've got them.
AdamAnd then with this it's like, right, people are noticing us now.
AdamAnd we can, you know, we can actually put feelers out and we've got a successful film that we can show people and say, that's what we did last time, you fancy working with us now.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd just use that as an excuse to get like so many fucking brilliant British character actors in.
LeeYeah, like.
AdamYou know, I mean fucking Edward Woodward for Christ sake.
LeeI know, I know.
LeeIt's it's funny because he looks so different now that every time it yeah, it.
AdamHe really looks fucking different now he's dead.
LeeWell, yeah, so.
LeeBut yeah, every time it sort of catches, you know, because I now picture him in this film more than anything else.
LeeYeah, so it's it's always a bit of a shock when you suddenly go, oh, yeah, that I mean that is Edward Woodward, but this is how I think of him now, this is my reference to him more than anything.
Lee
LeeYeah, same with Timothy Dalton.
AdamOh, yeah.
ChrisOh, yeah.
LeeAs soon as I see him, it's this.
AdamIt's because he's so fuck I mean, he is.
AdamHe's just fucking having a ball, isn't he?
LeeYeah, yeah.
AdamHe I I really feel that this is almost like, he would have been around, but he wouldn't have been he didn't get asked to be a villain when they revived Columbo in the nineties.
AdamAnd he would have loved two hours of sparring with Peter Falk and just being dropping hints.
LeeYeah.
AdamWell, not not even fucking hints, just blatant like sort of villany.
ChrisYeah, villainy.
LeeOh, it's just.
ChrisThat's it, you like you don't trust anyone really.
ChrisLike from the start, you're like, they all could be in on it.
ChrisLike what is, you know?
ChrisAnd it turns out a lot of them are.
LeeYeah, and literally all of them are, which is fantastic.
LeeAgain, it's that is it Murder on the Orient Express.
LeeIt is, it's that you spend the whole time I it might be him, it might be her. Oh, it's all of them, everybody did it.
ChrisPractically.
AdamBy the way, swearing and spoilers.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamYeah.
ChrisWell done.
AdamIn a swear jar.
Chris2007.
LeeOh, most people have seen it.
AdamThe swear jar.
AdamThe have you freeze frame the swear jar.
LeeNo.
LeeBut what makes me laugh every time is the fact that they've starred out letters in the F word, but not in the C word.
AdamYep.
AdamThat that was the bit that got me.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's that it's Nick Frost getting hit in the face with that being.
AdamFuck off.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's yeah, it's just a such a oh, yeah.
LeeIt's a beautiful film.
LeeI just.
ChrisIt's got everything.
LeeIt's so much for your money, as you say, not only all these actors.
LeeIt's got.
LeeIt's got folk horror elements, it's absolutely hilarious.
LeeIt's got.
AdamTechnically, you get a plot.
LeeYeah.
AdamDo you know what I mean, no, genuinely, you could you could sell the plot of this as a like as a straight film.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know what I mean, it's like it's it's well, it's the fucking Wicker Man.
AdamIt's everything, it's like, you know.
LeeIt is an episode of Midsomer Murders, but with like gob gags in it.
AdamBut on a purely horror level though, the folk horror side of it really is in there of that.
AdamYou know, the outsider comes to the village.
AdamAnd then slowly but surely finds out that everyone there is in on it and.
AdamBut it's it's also got it's quite bloody.
AdamLike the head going in is it's pretty spectacular.
LeeYeah.
AdamI do love the fact that it's sort of as a wonder around and a floy before it hits the ground.
LeeYeah.
LeeThat's such a great kill. Absolutely brilliant.
AdamSo you you've you've definitely got that in there.
AdamAnd I don't know why it is, but it's ever since I saw it the first time, it's always struck a cord with me.
AdamAnd I do not know why.
AdamThat Jim Broadbent is dressed in a Victorian policeman's uniform.
LeeYeah.
AdamI don't know why because that's like that's it's never explained or anything like that.
AdamBut it's just in there as like part of this weird ritual and this cult that has risen up and yeah, just something about that.
AdamIt's because it's like him coming out the fog in that sort of, you know, it's like Victorian gaslight sort of look and yeah.
LeeYeah, it makes him feel more out of place, which yeah, just adds to the kind of uncanny valley of the entire thing.
AdamYeah, he almost becomes a ghost, a spectre sort of thing.
AdamHe's an inspector, there you go.
AdamAnd that's why Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg multi, you know, multi-award winning successful people.
AdamAnd I must confess, I'm not even wearing pants.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, yeah, it's it's I was so pleased when you said you hadn't seen it for a long time, Adam.
LeeBecause when you said about Kevin Eldon, Kevin Eldon was it? And I was like, he's quite a big part. I was like, so how do I remember almost nothing of this film?
LeeAnd again, it's that envy of, oh, I'd love to see this again for the first time.
LeeBecause I just remember grinning like an idiot coming out the cinema, just being like, well, that was on par with Shaun of the Dead.
LeeAnd then I was thinking about it today and I was sort of trying to say which are my favorites.
LeeI think I like them all equally because they're such different films that you kind of can't compare them too much.
AdamOh, yeah, absolutely.
LeeWhich which is excellent, that they managed to make three films in three completely different styles and managed to in my opinion, nail every single one perfectly.
ChrisThey still blend the comedy into it perfectly, so it's yeah, a different style and yet the elements that make them great are still there, so it's like they've been able to adapt while yeah, keeping what works.
LeeYeah, I this this is a holiday coming up now. So I was looking at the fact that San Ford is actually Wells in Somerset, near Wells.
Leeyeah, and that the pub The Crown, you can actually they go, you can actually stay in that pub.
AdamOh, wow. Okay.
LeeSo, oh, yeah, so I was looking that up just before we came on here and I think I might have to squeeze that in later in the year, a little weekend away up there.
AdamYeah, cuz it's yeah, it's Wells in Somerset, which is where Edgar Wright comes from.
AdamAnd they had to they basically had to digitally remove Wells Cathedral out of any shots you could see it in.
LeeYeah.
AdamWell, because they wanted it to be, you know, this isolated village and you've got a cathedral there, that's that's not being a village, that's not just a village.
LeeYeah.
LeeI think it was saying that Wells is the smallest city in England, so it is classed as a city, but it's more sort of, you know, town size.
LeeYeah.
ChrisWouldn't feel like it.
LeeYeah.
Adamthe the supermarket, the Summerfields there is or was the Summerfields in Wells and Edgar Wright used to work there in the school holidays.
LeeOh, yeah.
AdamSo yeah, so they've gone he's gone back and yeah.
AdamI love the fact that it's like, well, where where's, you know, where where can I imagine.
AdamA cabal of nasty.
ChrisYou imagine he might have thought most of this up while working there.
ChrisTo pass the time.
AdamWell, apparently I think originally the supermarket manager was named the same name as his manager when he worked there.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah.
AdamThey said his name was Stockwell and they said that sounded like they'd just done a shit pun on like a supermarket manager's name.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, yeah, of course.
ChrisThat's Stockwell and yeah.
AdamBut so.
AdamI mean that's that's an interesting scenario, isn't it, when it's like, yeah, we're we're we're we want to make sure people don't think that we wrote a joke that's a bit shit.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamThat's that's why.
AdamThat's why these films are the way they are, that's why they're so good.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIs that that attention to detail and everything.
AdamAnd.
AdamBut.
AdamYeah, it's.
AdamI mean, I genuinely do not know why I drifted off it really.
AdamAs I say, it's just, yeah, I should be watching this far more regularly.
AdamBut then in fairness, I don't think I'd watch Sean the Dead for about 10 years.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's nice sometimes as well when you forget how good something is.
LeeYeah, and then you put it back into your kind of more frequent rotation.
AdamYeah.
AdamIt's just have that thing of if someone says Hot Fuzz, it's like, yeah, fuck yeah.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamIt's nice to make a connection.
AdamYou know, it's like.
LeeYeah, I think again, I think this went down pretty well at the was well received at the time when it first came out, wasn't it?
LeeI think it was acclaimed.
AdamOh, yeah.
AdamI think it was a pretty.
ChrisCould imagine it was.
AdamOh, no, I think it was a pretty pretty universally pretty universally loved.
AdamAnd I assume so you know, a box office success as well, you know, it wouldn't have been.
LeeYeah.
AdamI mean, basically after Shaun of the Dead, they were just told, right, what what is the next thing you want to do?
AdamIt wasn't.
AdamThey were just like, right, okay, come and come and do it make us another film. So, yeah, so this was from the point of view of this is what they.
AdamThis is what they came up with wanting to do now that they've been given that free rein that they could sort of
AdamBecause I want again.
AdamIt's it's like you say, it's somewhere between the Wicker Man, Midsomer Murders and and an eighties action movie, but funny.
LeeYeah, yeah.
AdamAnd yeah, that probably was that probably would be a more complicated sell, but when you're actually in that position and it's like, well, this is what we were thinking.
AdamAnd they're going, yeah, yeah, do that, please do that.
LeeAnything you want.
AdamWe want more of it.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, and that's the thing like I'd like them to do, I know obviously they set out to do the trilogy.
LeePretty much from the off and did so.
Lee
LeeBut yeah, I'd I'd like to see them come back and work together on more stuff again.
LeeBecause I know obviously they've gone off and kind of done their own stuff.
LeeSo obviously Simon Pegg has gone off and become an action star.
AdamYes.
LeeYes, and Edgar Wright is.
ChrisI don't think I've seen I don't think I've seen many of his more recent stuff. I saw Paul.
LeePaul.
ChrisI can't remember.
AdamHe's a mainstay of the Mission Impossible films.
LeeYeah, he is, and he's very.
ChrisOh, I've not seen any of them. Okay.
AdamSame. So.
AdamYeah, so yeah, that's why I think that's why.
LeeYeah.
ChrisThat's what that's what went wrong, you know.
ChrisPerhaps I'll check them out one day.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd he he got into Star Trek as well, didn't he, because he was a big Trekkie.
LeeHe was.
ChrisNo, that's right, yeah, he was a believable.
ChrisBelievable younger Scotty, I thought, I mean, I love those. I thought they did really well with those remakes.
LeeYeah, I love those as well.
LeeYeah, I'm glad you touched on that actually.
LeeBecause I remember I because when Paul came out.
LeeI thought that was going to be the third of the trilogy.
AdamWell, because that was the thing is that at that point they'd called it the Cornetto trilogy.
AdamAnd obviously red Shaun of the Dead, this one's blue, which is probably why you watch it on a blue Sunday, like.
LeeYeah.
AdamBecause it's the blue film from their Cornetto trilogy.
LeeOh.
Adam
AdamYeah, and then they were like, oh, so everyone was like, right, so the only other Cornetto is mint, so it's green, so and it's Simon Pegg and Edgar right, so it's probably going to be aliens.
AdamSo that was.
AdamSo yeah, I I think we all did when first heard about Paul, it was like, oh, is this the next, is this the new the new one.
AdamI mean, obviously it became apparent very quickly it wasn't because it wasn't Edgar Wright directing it, but yeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeBut yeah, but that I mean that was a great film as well.
LeeI really enjoyed that.
LeeThat's another one I don't I don't watch as often as I should.
LeeAnd then I'm always shocked when I watch it again just how much I enjoy it.
AdamSee, I again, I think I've only seen it once, maybe twice.
AdamAnd.
AdamThe only thing I remember is the Lorenzo's oil joke at the end of it.
LeeOh.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd obviously and obviously a stoner alien, which is just literally, which is just basically eighties and nineties rave culture.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamIt's just like it's it's an alien, but he's got a beanie on.
AdamAnd he's holding a spliff and he's got take me to your dealer in those sort of mushroom letters that the goodies use.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah.
AdamSo yeah.
AdamSo at that point, I've it's just blurred into like a thousand shops in Camden.
LeeYeah.
AdamSo I yeah, that's all I remember from Paul.
AdamBut I I remember enjoying it's again, it's just I haven't thought to look it back up, I might have to give it another watch.
LeeOh, yeah, no, it's definitely worth it.
LeeIt's it's yeah, it's a I say, it's not exactly a mainstay with me, but it is one I do watch fairly fairly frequently.
LeeBut yeah.
LeeBut what about Nick Frost.
ChrisWhat what has he done, anything recently.
AdamHe did actually.
AdamHe did a series with with Simon Pegg cameo in on Sky.
LeeOh, yeah, Truth. Yeah.
AdamThat was it, Truth Seekers, thank you.
LeeThank you.
AdamI was getting confused, I was going to say The Unexplainers, but that's Mike Bubbins and from Goldie Lookin Chain's paranormal podcast.
AdamSo yeah, so yeah, he's doing that.
AdamBut I mean, I mean basically just he's in.
AdamHe crops up in far more things than Simon Pegg does and I think he's and yeah, and mainly British as well.
AdamSo.
AdamYou know.
AdamCan I just say that.
AdamThis film possibly, and this is not a current observation, this was from when I first loved it.
AdamThis film does feature possibly my favorite line in any film ever.
AdamAnd it's not necessarily it's not necessarily like it's not one of the obvious ones or anything else like that.
AdamBut it's pack it in Frank, you silly bastard.
LeeYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
AdamAnd that and in a weird way, maybe that's the cog in my head with action movies.
AdamIs that I do want to see that in a film. I want to see someone going, oh, for fuck sake.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, this is no, this is stupid now, stop.
LeeYeah.
AdamBecause.
AdamI think there's and can I just say that's not just the action genre.
AdamI think films are on many many films out there where someone at one point should have just gone, you what.
LeeYeah.
AdamOr sort of.
AdamNo, no, pack it in now.
AdamLook, look.
AdamYou're it's ridiculous. What why are you fighting now?
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
LeeIt's great, and it's the callbacks and stuff.
LeeYou know, the the fact that the swan keeps coming back and that like, it is it's got those little in jokes that crop up all the way through it.
AdamBoth the the swan and the dog got credits.
LeeYeah, I noticed that on IMDb.
ChrisOh, yeah.
AdamYeah, cuz the the swan's been in a few things, but the the dog has only been in here.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut apparently that dog and this is this is going to be a deafening course of ours. in the that dog was meant to be a police dog.
LeeOh.
AdamBut he was just too friendly, so they couldn't accept him.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
AdamSo he was a fully trained police dog, but he was just a bit too he's got a dog's face.
LeeYeah, he's got a dog's face.
AdamHe's got a dog's face.
AdamTo to to actually be a police dog, so unfortunately, yeah.
AdamBut that that means he got to be in Hot Fuzz, so good on him.
LeeOh, yeah, I think he won there.
AdamThat apparently I remember at the time they're doing an interview where they said that's actually based on a real thing that Simon Pegg heard from a policeman like a rural policeman of having to take the sort of undecipherable guy from the.
Adamfrom the police station to translate for the undecipherable farmer and another guy.
LeeIt's just genius, it's pure gold.
LeeSo much of it is, it's just.
AdamYou put an action film in the middle of the bill.
AdamIt's like, unfortunately, this genuinely that is rural policing.
AdamAnd probably rural policing is also, oh, yeah, when we killed them, why, because they were a bad actor or they were showing up the they were messing up the
AdamThe look of the village for when we win flower of the year, what is it? Fake I can't remember what they're after.
LeeYeah, no, I just love the fact that they killed Eve Draper, just because she had a terrible laugh.
AdamYeah.
LeeShe had a very annoying laugh, very annoying.
AdamAnd the fact and the fact that Ron Cook, the guy who's who's got the Goldie house, but he made his money in fridges, so he's a fridge magnate.
LeeYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
AdamThat is beautiful. That is fantastic.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah, just looking at it today as well, I saw that so in the the early scene with Kate Blanchett when he turns up.
AdamHe says about Bob, who's just another guy in a white hazmat suit, you don't really see. Yeah, it's Joe Cornish for no reason whatsoever.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah, oh, so.
AdamAnd one of the other guys is Robert Popper from look around you.
LeeOh, is it?
AdamJack Morgan.
LeeYeah, yeah.
AdamSo yeah, the the other like him and Peter created it and yeah.
AdamThen they're in the same series.
AdamBut yeah, that's him.
AdamIn the.
LeeOh, it's beautiful.
ChrisThat's something else I need to watch again.
LeeOh, look around you.
AdamYeah.
LeeYeah.
AdamI'm I'm going to dig that up a lot.
AdamOn the I've I've big it up a lot on the bonus content because I was just like, no, if we can get lots of people seeing fucking look around you.
LeeYeah.
LeeAgain, I don't think a lot of people heard about it because I I think it came. I mean, I didn't hear about it until after it was finished and you brought it around on DVD, Adam, because yeah, it was on.
AdamOh, fuck yeah.
AdamWell, it was the original like the the sort of programs for schools, 10 minute shorts.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, it just it's such a fantastic show. It's yeah.
LeeSo funny for anybody our age.
LeeIt's just so so perfect, the music and the color palette and just the lunacy of the whole thing.
AdamIt's a it's a joy to behold that series.
AdamIt must be said.
LeeRight.
ChrisYeah, so so on to World's End.
AdamYes.
LeeYes.
AdamThis is going to be this is the most intriguing for me because as you can see, I'd managed to blank out like Kevin Elden for fuck sake.
AdamWell, I'm obviously behind schedule on that, so I'll get I'll get to it.
AdamBecause that was the thing you said Lee, knowing it for.
AdamIt was I got that with Shaun of the Dead, didn't have it with this and I was like, why haven't I got it with this?
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, it does.
LeeIt just it worked, and it's one of those as well where the jokes are quite quick fire sometimes, so you'll be laughing at something and you'll miss the next sort of joke that comes in underneath.
LeeOh, yeah, and it's just so the rewatchability on this is through the roof.
Lee
LeeSo on that note, thanks ever so much for listening everybody.
LeeGo and check out Hot Fuzz if like Adam and Chris, you haven't seen it for a while, it's just a magnificent piece of.
LeeYeah, a really well put together.
AdamSlightly fried gold.
LeeIt is, it is, it's exactly what it is.
LeeSo go and check that out, go and check out The World's End and we'll see you in a Fortnite. Thanks ever so much for listening. Good night.
