- Hot Fuzz

0:23 Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.

0:27 Chris I'm Chris.

0:29 Adam I'm Adam.

0:30 Lee And as promised, we're here for the second installment of our Cornetto Trilogy series. We're covering 2007's Hot Fuzz.

0:40 Lee A film that I literally can close my eyes and play in my mind from beginning to end, pretty much.

0:48 Lee And and Adam sounds like he hasn't seen it for a long time.

0:53 Lee Chris, have you seen it before?

0:57 Chris So, I've definitely seen it before.

0:59 Chris I 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.

1:48 Chris And I guess you can see why, it's it's got quite a hard-hitting moment.

1:56 Lee Or or a couple.

1:58 Chris But yeah, so a few a few scenes I was like, yeah, totally. I've seen this absolutely.

2:02 Chris And I remember it being great, but yeah.

2:04 Chris I 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.

2:13 Lee It's a lot of film for two hours, isn't it?

2:16 Lee It's it feels almost like a whole series that somehow.

2:20 Lee And that's because it's got so many great moments and classic quatable bits and all the rest of it.

2:26 Lee Yeah, it's it's a really busy two hours, but it doesn't feel rushed. I mean, it's a masterpiece.

2:32 Lee Adam, what did you think going back after so long?

2:35 Adam Well, as you say, I haven't seen it for a very long time.

2:39 Adam When 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.

2:57 Lee Yeah.

3:01 Chris That is that is interesting.

3:04 Chris Go on.

3:05 Adam That 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.

3:20 Lee So.

3:21 Adam So who knows, that could be a real because that I barely recall.

3:25 Adam Whereas there were pubs in it.

3:29 Chris Yeah, that's oh, no, I remember I remember the Sisters of Mercy, but that was.

3:35 Adam But yeah.

3:36 Adam But no, so.

3:38 Adam Yeah, so Hot Fuzz.

3:40 Chris Really interesting.

3:41 Adam Really loved it at the time it came out, eventually came out on DVD.

3:45 Adam So I would have got that, watched it with all the extras.

3:48 Adam And then.

3:50 Adam I don't know, some at some point, I just didn't.

3:54 Adam Go back to it as regularly as I had done when Shaun of the Dead came out.

3:57 Lee

3:58 Adam So when that came out on DVD, I watched that and and that would be a that was a fairly regular watch for me.

4:05 Adam You know, for for a while it was at least once a year or whatever like that, you know, at the least.

4:10 Adam And

4:12 Adam Whereas Hot Fuzz for some reason, I didn't do that with.

4:18 Adam Now, I don't know if they were you know, whatever it was, I'd have to sort of

4:25 Adam I mean, I'll I'll have to go back and work out if there was other stuff on or other stuff was out or.

4:34 Lee Yeah.

4:36 Chris It's it's not horror, so so it might have been a little harder to prioritize.

4:39 Adam Yeah, I think that maybe the thing because I don't.

4:41 Adam Because I'm not really I've seen I've seen loads of action films, but they're not ones that I necessarily return to.

4:54 Chris And yeah.

4:56 Adam Maybe 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.

5:04 Chris Yeah, so say that you saw it.

5:07 Chris Like in the cinema because it's I'd forgotten how much action it was, and I could imagine that really working well.

5:14 Chris And of course Lee's got the big projector, so it's basically in a cinema.

5:17 Chris So it fits.

5:19 Lee I I know. Yeah, but.

5:20 Lee so I watched this literally, without exaggeration, I think I'd probably watch this film every three to four months.

5:28 Unknown Wow.

5:29 Lee And I have done for the last couple of years. I love it that much.

5:33 Adam I'll I'll just I'll just say, I can see why.

5:35 Lee Yeah, I know.

5:37 Adam No, this is this is my fault, definitely, I have not watched this for like over the years.

5:44 Lee It's just it's got everything it has got everything and and it's my it's my Sunday movie basically.

5:55 Lee Sunday 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.

6:04 Lee This is my go-to if I'm having a slightly blue Sunday.

6:07 Lee I 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.

6:13 Lee I get this with about three films.

6:16 Lee But 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.

6:23 Chris Yeah.

6:24 Adam Yeah.

6:26 Lee It's just such a great journey that you almost want to go back to where it started and just really the whole thing.

6:32 Lee It's just it's phenomenal.

6:34 Chris What 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.

6:43 Chris And the way that they're similar characters, but yeah, they've made him different enough.

6:48 Chris Like 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.

7:00 Chris Even though he is amazing.

7:00 Chris He's like, I'm the best humans essentially who could ever exist and yet they make him awful again.

7:06 Chris Like it's still unfair.

7:08 Chris But yeah, for the opposite reason.

7:10 Chris As from all the other films.

7:13 Adam I 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.

7:22 Adam Because obviously it's like Point Break, Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys II all the references in.

7:26 Lee Yes.

7:27 Adam Everything's in there and

7:30 Chris Is Bad Boys I not much good.

7:33 Adam I saw Bad Boys I at the cinema and I would like it on record that I want that time back.

7:39 Lee Yeah.

7:40 Chris Yeah.

7:42 Lee I don't think I've seen I don't think I've seen either of them.

7:45 Lee But I but every time but then again I didn't see Point Break until about five years ago.

7:50 Lee So now every time I watch this, I do think, I need to add that to my watch list.

7:54 Lee And then every time I go, yeah, no, I don't think I do.

7:59 Adam See in Point Break Point Break I did see at the time.

8:01 Adam I remember like all me mates were watch like watched a lot of action movies.

8:05 Adam So a lot of the eighties and that was another one where I was like.

8:10 Adam Yeah, okay.

8:12 Lee You just.

8:12 Adam You know, it was like, yeah, that was competently made, no one fell over, everyone remembered their words.

8:17 Lee Yeah.

8:18 Adam That was it, it left no sort of further effect on me.

8:22 Adam So, yeah, again it's the sort of but Britain doesn't really have.

8:26 Adam Those kind of films.

8:29 Adam So.

8:30 Adam It's quite because basically Angels are a pain in the ass.

8:35 Lee Yeah.

8:36 Lee You know.

8:38 Adam To a great extent.

8:40 Adam He's extremely competent at his job, and actually you do want him to be a police officer.

8:45 Adam But yeah, he is just the rule stickler.

8:51 Lee Yeah.

8:51 Adam You know, but as you say, he turns up somewhere where.

8:55 Adam Very dreadful people, well, basically rocks up and there's a murder conspiracy that's been going on for some time.

9:05 Lee Oh.

9:06 Adam And actually the thing the things that I love most about Hot Fuzz are the bits that I've always thought about with action movies.

9:15 Adam Like where it's like like the grand conspiracy that he weaves, but then it turns out it's actually the mundane reason.

9:23 Lee Yeah, I love that.

9:26 Adam Bringing 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.

9:35 Adam And 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.

9:46 Adam You know, so.

9:48 Lee I mean and the other thing with this, I think that elevates it, which just is such a game changer. That cast.

9:54 Lee Like, you know.

9:55 Lee Jim Broadbent.

9:57 Adam Oh, yeah.

9:59 Lee Timothy Dalton, Anne Reid.

10:01 Lee And 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.

10:08 Lee It's just it's non-stop. Everybody who turns up, you're like, oh, I love them.

10:12 Lee Oh, they're brilliant.

10:13 Lee Olivia Coleman.

10:14 Lee I I know.

10:16 Chris Yeah, even Olivia Coleman.

10:17 Lee She's an amazing actor.

10:22 Lee But her comedy timing in this is fantastic.

10:25 Lee And I don't know how I do a lot.

10:27 Adam Weirdly enough, one of four Oscar winners who appear in this film.

10:30 Chris

10:31 Adam And 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.

10:43 Adam You 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.

10:56 Adam And 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.

11:07 Adam But 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.

11:16 Lee Yeah.

11:17 Adam You know.

11:19 Adam But.

11:19 Adam No, but genuinely.

11:21 Chris Even though Bill Bailey, like.

11:23 Adam Oh, fuck it.

11:24 Chris Hell.

11:24 Chris He does his classic appearances and again, just gets it so right.

11:27 Lee Yeah.

11:28 Adam That 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.

11:37 Lee Oh, yeah.

11:39 Adam They're reading books by the same author, but the names are different.

11:43 Adam Because 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.

11:55 Lee Oh.

11:56 Adam So 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.

12:13 Adam And

12:15 Adam But yeah, that was but so yeah, so we have two Oscar with four Oscar winners.

12:21 Adam I have named two, which is Olivia Coleman and Jim Broadbent.

12:24 Chris

12:25 Adam and also it's uncredited, there's loads of people who are uncredited in this, Steve Coogan's not credited.

12:38 Lee Yeah.

12:38 Adam and it's Kate Blanchett is he's the girlfriend, the woman he's leaving.

12:44 Lee I 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.

12:52 Lee And 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.

12:56 Chris Yeah.

12:57 Adam Yeah.

12:58 Adam And she's won two Oscars.

12:59 Adam So.

13:00 Chris Wow.

13:00 Adam And 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.

13:10 Lee

13:11 Chris Oh, that is that is quite surprising.

13:13 Adam Yes.

13:16 Lee Yeah.

13:17 Adam But again, I think I think everyone after Shaun of the Dead, everyone was like, oh, can I be in the next one.

13:25 Adam Can I be in the next one.

13:25 Lee Yeah, yeah.

13:27 Chris You could imagine.

13:28 Adam I mean, Jim Broadbent apparently specifically asked to be in their next film.

13:32 Adam Because he'd passed on Shaun of the Dead and was like, I saw it and it was brilliant.

13:36 Chris Oh dear, regret.

13:39 Lee I.

13:40 Chris You absolutely would, wouldn't you?

13:41 Adam I assume he was up for Philip, and I'm not sure whether he would have been.

13:44 Adam In the same vein as Bill Nighy.

13:46 Lee Yeah.

13:47 Lee Again, Bill Nighy coming back as well.

13:48 Chris Who's also in this.

13:49 Lee Yes.

13:50 Adam Yeah.

13:51 Adam Yeah, 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.

13:57 Adam Like Paddy Constantine.

13:58 Adam Because Rafe Spall's in all of the three.

14:01 Adam And but yeah.

14:04 Adam And can I just say.

14:06 Adam Because at one point we were watching it and Clare mentioned, well, they has Simon Pegg because he's got cool glasses at the end.

14:17 Adam And she was like, that feels a bit bad because that policeman wouldn't have that cooler set of glasses.

14:21 Lee Yeah.

14:23 Adam And 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.

14:31 Lee Yeah.

14:32 Adam And get to be in real shootouts.

14:34 Adam And it's like, I am not not I'm not not looking my coolest.

14:36 Lee Yeah.

14:37 Adam While I'm doing that.

14:39 Adam

14:40 Adam But on that same note.

14:41 Lee I'm.

14:41 Adam The fucking childhood joy on the faces of Paddy Constantine and Rafe Spall when they use those trollies as a battering ram.

14:48 Lee Yes. Yeah.

14:51 Adam And and and Nick Nick Pegg and Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as well are clearly.

14:56 Adam But 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.

15:04 Lee Yeah.

15:04 Adam And then it's like.

15:05 Lee Yeah.

15:06 Adam You get you get a bit of do a little bit of yobbery in the local supermarket.

15:11 Lee Yeah.

15:12 Lee And 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.

15:20 Lee Because up until that point, it's a kind of mystery and you're trying to work out what's going on.

15:25 Chris It's full horror.

15:26 Lee It is, it's definitely full horror.

15:27 Lee

15:29 Chris I mean that's why.

15:30 Lee Until he kicks the old woman in the face.

15:32 Lee Yeah.

15:33 Lee Which just makes me laugh every time. It's just.

15:37 Lee Oh.

15:38 Adam Yeah.

15:39 Adam But that but also yeah, they've I get the impression like Shaun of the Dead was like, right, we've got all our mates.

15:43 Adam And all the people we know we can call on and everything else like that, so we've got them.

15:51 Adam And then with this it's like, right, people are noticing us now.

15:55 Adam And 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.

16:02 Lee Yeah.

16:03 Adam And just use that as an excuse to get like so many fucking brilliant British character actors in.

16:12 Lee Yeah, like.

16:14 Adam You know, I mean fucking Edward Woodward for Christ sake.

16:16 Lee I know, I know.

16:18 Lee It's it's funny because he looks so different now that every time it yeah, it.

16:23 Adam He really looks fucking different now he's dead.

16:25 Lee Well, yeah, so.

16:27 Lee But yeah, every time it sort of catches, you know, because I now picture him in this film more than anything else.

16:34 Lee Yeah, 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.

16:41 Lee

16:42 Lee Yeah, same with Timothy Dalton.

16:44 Adam Oh, yeah.

16:44 Chris Oh, yeah.

16:46 Lee As soon as I see him, it's this.

16:49 Adam It's because he's so fuck I mean, he is.

16:54 Adam He's just fucking having a ball, isn't he?

16:58 Lee Yeah, yeah.

17:00 Adam He 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.

17:12 Adam And he would have loved two hours of sparring with Peter Falk and just being dropping hints.

17:17 Lee Yeah.

17:17 Adam Well, not not even fucking hints, just blatant like sort of villany.

17:24 Chris Yeah, villainy.

17:28 Lee Oh, it's just.

17:30 Chris That's it, you like you don't trust anyone really.

17:32 Chris Like from the start, you're like, they all could be in on it.

17:35 Chris Like what is, you know?

17:37 Chris And it turns out a lot of them are.

17:38 Lee Yeah, and literally all of them are, which is fantastic.

17:41 Lee Again, it's that is it Murder on the Orient Express.

17:45 Lee It 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.

17:52 Chris Practically.

17:54 Adam By the way, swearing and spoilers.

17:55 Lee Oh, yeah.

17:56 Adam Yeah.

17:57 Chris Well done.

17:59 Adam In a swear jar.

18:01 Chris 2007.

18:02 Lee Oh, most people have seen it.

18:04 Adam The swear jar.

18:05 Adam The have you freeze frame the swear jar.

18:07 Lee No.

18:08 Lee But 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.

18:12 Adam Yep.

18:13 Adam That that was the bit that got me.

18:15 Lee Yeah.

18:20 Lee It's that it's Nick Frost getting hit in the face with that being.

18:24 Adam Fuck off.

18:24 Lee Yeah.

18:27 Lee It's yeah, it's just a such a oh, yeah.

18:31 Lee It's a beautiful film.

18:33 Lee I just.

18:34 Chris It's got everything.

18:35 Lee It's so much for your money, as you say, not only all these actors.

18:38 Lee It's got.

18:40 Lee It's got folk horror elements, it's absolutely hilarious.

18:42 Lee It's got.

18:44 Adam Technically, you get a plot.

18:45 Lee Yeah.

18:46 Adam Do you know what I mean, no, genuinely, you could you could sell the plot of this as a like as a straight film.

18:52 Lee Yeah.

18:54 Adam You know what I mean, it's like it's it's well, it's the fucking Wicker Man.

18:57 Adam It's everything, it's like, you know.

19:00 Lee It is an episode of Midsomer Murders, but with like gob gags in it.

19:04 Adam But on a purely horror level though, the folk horror side of it really is in there of that.

19:09 Adam You know, the outsider comes to the village.

19:11 Adam And then slowly but surely finds out that everyone there is in on it and.

19:15 Adam But it's it's also got it's quite bloody.

19:19 Adam Like the head going in is it's pretty spectacular.

19:22 Lee Yeah.

19:22 Adam I do love the fact that it's sort of as a wonder around and a floy before it hits the ground.

19:26 Lee Yeah.

19:27 Lee That's such a great kill. Absolutely brilliant.

19:31 Adam So you you've you've definitely got that in there.

19:33 Adam And 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.

19:40 Adam And I do not know why.

19:42 Adam That Jim Broadbent is dressed in a Victorian policeman's uniform.

19:47 Lee Yeah.

19:47 Adam I don't know why because that's like that's it's never explained or anything like that.

19:53 Adam But 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.

20:01 Adam It'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.

20:05 Lee Yeah, it makes him feel more out of place, which yeah, just adds to the kind of uncanny valley of the entire thing.

20:12 Adam Yeah, he almost becomes a ghost, a spectre sort of thing.

20:15 Adam He's an inspector, there you go.

20:17 Adam And that's why Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg multi, you know, multi-award winning successful people.

20:24 Adam And I must confess, I'm not even wearing pants.

20:27 Lee Yeah.

20:30 Lee Oh, yeah, it's it's I was so pleased when you said you hadn't seen it for a long time, Adam.

20:33 Lee Because 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?

20:45 Lee And again, it's that envy of, oh, I'd love to see this again for the first time.

20:49 Lee Because I just remember grinning like an idiot coming out the cinema, just being like, well, that was on par with Shaun of the Dead.

20:54 Lee And then I was thinking about it today and I was sort of trying to say which are my favorites.

20:58 Lee I think I like them all equally because they're such different films that you kind of can't compare them too much.

21:04 Adam Oh, yeah, absolutely.

21:05 Lee Which 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.

21:13 Chris They 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.

21:27 Lee Yeah, 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.

21:34 Lee yeah, and that the pub The Crown, you can actually they go, you can actually stay in that pub.

21:42 Adam Oh, wow. Okay.

21:43 Lee So, 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.

21:49 Adam Yeah, cuz it's yeah, it's Wells in Somerset, which is where Edgar Wright comes from.

21:57 Adam And they had to they basically had to digitally remove Wells Cathedral out of any shots you could see it in.

22:02 Lee Yeah.

22:03 Adam Well, 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.

22:11 Lee Yeah.

22:12 Lee I 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.

22:20 Lee Yeah.

22:21 Chris Wouldn't feel like it.

22:22 Lee Yeah.

22:23 Adam the the supermarket, the Summerfields there is or was the Summerfields in Wells and Edgar Wright used to work there in the school holidays.

22:31 Lee Oh, yeah.

22:34 Adam So yeah, so they've gone he's gone back and yeah.

22:38 Adam I love the fact that it's like, well, where where's, you know, where where can I imagine.

22:44 Adam A cabal of nasty.

22:48 Chris You imagine he might have thought most of this up while working there.

22:50 Chris To pass the time.

22:51 Adam Well, apparently I think originally the supermarket manager was named the same name as his manager when he worked there.

22:56 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah.

22:57 Adam They 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.

23:05 Lee Yeah.

23:06 Lee Oh, yeah, of course.

23:07 Chris That's Stockwell and yeah.

23:10 Adam But so.

23:11 Adam I 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.

23:18 Lee Yeah.

23:19 Adam You know.

23:20 Adam That's that's why.

23:23 Adam That's why these films are the way they are, that's why they're so good.

23:26 Lee Yeah.

23:27 Chris Yeah.

23:28 Adam Is that that attention to detail and everything.

23:31 Adam And.

23:33 Adam But.

23:34 Adam Yeah, it's.

23:36 Adam I mean, I genuinely do not know why I drifted off it really.

23:41 Adam As I say, it's just, yeah, I should be watching this far more regularly.

23:44 Adam But then in fairness, I don't think I'd watch Sean the Dead for about 10 years.

23:48 Lee Yeah.

23:50 Lee It's nice sometimes as well when you forget how good something is.

23:53 Lee Yeah, and then you put it back into your kind of more frequent rotation.

23:56 Adam Yeah.

23:58 Adam It's just have that thing of if someone says Hot Fuzz, it's like, yeah, fuck yeah.

24:01 Lee Yeah.

24:03 Adam You know.

24:05 Adam It's nice to make a connection.

24:06 Adam You know, it's like.

24:07 Lee Yeah, 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?

24:14 Lee I think it was acclaimed.

24:14 Adam Oh, yeah.

24:15 Adam I think it was a pretty.

24:17 Chris Could imagine it was.

24:21 Adam Oh, no, I think it was a pretty pretty universally pretty universally loved.

24:27 Adam And I assume so you know, a box office success as well, you know, it wouldn't have been.

24:33 Lee Yeah.

24:35 Adam I mean, basically after Shaun of the Dead, they were just told, right, what what is the next thing you want to do?

24:41 Adam It wasn't.

24:42 Adam They 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.

24:47 Adam This is what they came up with wanting to do now that they've been given that free rein that they could sort of

24:52 Adam Because I want again.

24:54 Adam It's it's like you say, it's somewhere between the Wicker Man, Midsomer Murders and and an eighties action movie, but funny.

25:02 Lee Yeah, yeah.

25:04 Adam And 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.

25:11 Adam And they're going, yeah, yeah, do that, please do that.

25:16 Lee Anything you want.

25:17 Adam We want more of it.

25:20 Lee Yeah.

25:22 Lee Yeah, and that's the thing like I'd like them to do, I know obviously they set out to do the trilogy.

25:25 Lee Pretty much from the off and did so.

25:28 Lee

25:29 Lee But yeah, I'd I'd like to see them come back and work together on more stuff again.

25:32 Lee Because I know obviously they've gone off and kind of done their own stuff.

25:34 Lee So obviously Simon Pegg has gone off and become an action star.

25:37 Adam Yes.

25:37 Lee Yes, and Edgar Wright is.

25:39 Chris I don't think I've seen I don't think I've seen many of his more recent stuff. I saw Paul.

25:42 Lee Paul.

25:44 Chris I can't remember.

25:45 Adam He's a mainstay of the Mission Impossible films.

25:48 Lee Yeah, he is, and he's very.

25:50 Chris Oh, I've not seen any of them. Okay.

25:52 Adam Same. So.

25:53 Adam Yeah, so yeah, that's why I think that's why.

25:56 Lee Yeah.

25:57 Chris That's what that's what went wrong, you know.

25:59 Chris Perhaps I'll check them out one day.

26:00 Lee Yeah.

26:01 Lee And he he got into Star Trek as well, didn't he, because he was a big Trekkie.

26:04 Lee He was.

26:06 Chris No, that's right, yeah, he was a believable.

26:09 Chris Believable younger Scotty, I thought, I mean, I love those. I thought they did really well with those remakes.

26:15 Lee Yeah, I love those as well.

26:17 Lee Yeah, I'm glad you touched on that actually.

26:19 Lee Because I remember I because when Paul came out.

26:22 Lee I thought that was going to be the third of the trilogy.

26:24 Adam Well, because that was the thing is that at that point they'd called it the Cornetto trilogy.

26:28 Adam And obviously red Shaun of the Dead, this one's blue, which is probably why you watch it on a blue Sunday, like.

26:33 Lee Yeah.

26:33 Adam Because it's the blue film from their Cornetto trilogy.

26:35 Lee Oh.

26:36 Adam

26:38 Adam Yeah, 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.

26:48 Adam So that was.

26:49 Adam So 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.

26:54 Adam I mean, obviously it became apparent very quickly it wasn't because it wasn't Edgar Wright directing it, but yeah.

26:59 Lee Yeah.

27:00 Lee But yeah, but that I mean that was a great film as well.

27:02 Lee I really enjoyed that.

27:04 Lee That's another one I don't I don't watch as often as I should.

27:08 Lee And then I'm always shocked when I watch it again just how much I enjoy it.

27:11 Adam See, I again, I think I've only seen it once, maybe twice.

27:14 Adam And.

27:16 Adam The only thing I remember is the Lorenzo's oil joke at the end of it.

27:20 Lee Oh.

27:22 Lee Yeah.

27:22 Adam And obviously and obviously a stoner alien, which is just literally, which is just basically eighties and nineties rave culture.

27:28 Lee Yeah.

27:30 Adam You know.

27:30 Adam It's just like it's it's an alien, but he's got a beanie on.

27:36 Adam And he's holding a spliff and he's got take me to your dealer in those sort of mushroom letters that the goodies use.

27:42 Lee Yeah.

27:43 Adam Yeah.

27:44 Adam So yeah.

27:45 Adam So at that point, I've it's just blurred into like a thousand shops in Camden.

27:52 Lee Yeah.

27:53 Adam So I yeah, that's all I remember from Paul.

27:56 Adam But 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.

28:00 Lee Oh, yeah, no, it's definitely worth it.

28:02 Lee It'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.

28:10 Lee But yeah.

28:11 Lee But what about Nick Frost.

28:12 Chris What what has he done, anything recently.

28:15 Adam He did actually.

28:16 Adam He did a series with with Simon Pegg cameo in on Sky.

28:20 Lee Oh, yeah, Truth. Yeah.

28:21 Adam That was it, Truth Seekers, thank you.

28:24 Lee Thank you.

28:24 Adam I was getting confused, I was going to say The Unexplainers, but that's Mike Bubbins and from Goldie Lookin Chain's paranormal podcast.

28:31 Adam So yeah, so yeah, he's doing that.

28:33 Adam But I mean, I mean basically just he's in.

28:37 Adam He crops up in far more things than Simon Pegg does and I think he's and yeah, and mainly British as well.

28:45 Adam So.

28:46 Adam You know.

28:48 Adam Can I just say that.

28:49 Adam This film possibly, and this is not a current observation, this was from when I first loved it.

28:56 Adam This film does feature possibly my favorite line in any film ever.

29:03 Adam And it's not necessarily it's not necessarily like it's not one of the obvious ones or anything else like that.

29:09 Adam But it's pack it in Frank, you silly bastard.

29:13 Lee Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

29:15 Adam And that and in a weird way, maybe that's the cog in my head with action movies.

29:21 Adam Is that I do want to see that in a film. I want to see someone going, oh, for fuck sake.

29:27 Lee Yeah.

29:28 Adam You know, this is no, this is stupid now, stop.

29:32 Lee Yeah.

29:32 Adam Because.

29:35 Adam I think there's and can I just say that's not just the action genre.

29:40 Adam I think films are on many many films out there where someone at one point should have just gone, you what.

29:45 Lee Yeah.

29:46 Adam Or sort of.

29:50 Adam No, no, pack it in now.

29:51 Adam Look, look.

29:52 Adam You're it's ridiculous. What why are you fighting now?

29:57 Lee Yeah.

29:58 Adam You know.

30:01 Lee It's great, and it's the callbacks and stuff.

30:03 Lee You 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.

30:08 Adam Both the the swan and the dog got credits.

30:11 Lee Yeah, I noticed that on IMDb.

30:12 Chris Oh, yeah.

30:12 Adam Yeah, cuz the the swan's been in a few things, but the the dog has only been in here.

30:17 Lee Yeah.

30:18 Adam But 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.

30:24 Lee Oh.

30:25 Adam But he was just too friendly, so they couldn't accept him.

30:27 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

30:30 Adam So he was a fully trained police dog, but he was just a bit too he's got a dog's face.

30:34 Lee Yeah, he's got a dog's face.

30:36 Adam He's got a dog's face.

30:36 Adam To to to actually be a police dog, so unfortunately, yeah.

30:39 Adam But that that means he got to be in Hot Fuzz, so good on him.

30:43 Lee Oh, yeah, I think he won there.

30:46 Adam That 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.

30:57 Adam from the police station to translate for the undecipherable farmer and another guy.

31:06 Lee It's just genius, it's pure gold.

31:08 Lee So much of it is, it's just.

31:12 Adam You put an action film in the middle of the bill.

31:14 Adam It's like, unfortunately, this genuinely that is rural policing.

31:17 Adam And 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

31:24 Adam The look of the village for when we win flower of the year, what is it? Fake I can't remember what they're after.

31:32 Lee Yeah, no, I just love the fact that they killed Eve Draper, just because she had a terrible laugh.

31:37 Adam Yeah.

31:38 Lee She had a very annoying laugh, very annoying.

31:40 Adam And 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.

31:46 Lee Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

31:49 Adam That is beautiful. That is fantastic.

31:52 Lee Yeah.

31:53 Adam Yeah, just looking at it today as well, I saw that so in the the early scene with Kate Blanchett when he turns up.

32:02 Adam He 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.

32:10 Lee Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, so.

32:12 Adam And one of the other guys is Robert Popper from look around you.

32:15 Lee Oh, is it?

32:18 Adam Jack Morgan.

32:21 Lee Yeah, yeah.

32:22 Adam So yeah, the the other like him and Peter created it and yeah.

32:27 Adam Then they're in the same series.

32:29 Adam But yeah, that's him.

32:30 Adam In the.

32:32 Lee Oh, it's beautiful.

32:33 Chris That's something else I need to watch again.

32:34 Lee Oh, look around you.

32:34 Adam Yeah.

32:36 Lee Yeah.

32:36 Adam I'm I'm going to dig that up a lot.

32:37 Adam On 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.

33:23 Lee Yeah.

33:26 Lee Again, 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.

33:35 Adam Oh, fuck yeah.

33:36 Adam Well, it was the original like the the sort of programs for schools, 10 minute shorts.

33:40 Lee Yeah.

33:41 Lee Oh, it just it's such a fantastic show. It's yeah.

33:44 Lee So funny for anybody our age.

33:46 Lee It's just so so perfect, the music and the color palette and just the lunacy of the whole thing.

33:57 Adam It's a it's a joy to behold that series.

34:00 Adam It must be said.

34:02 Lee Right.

34:03 Chris Yeah, so so on to World's End.

34:04 Adam Yes.

34:05 Lee Yes.

34:06 Adam This 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.

34:14 Adam Well, I'm obviously behind schedule on that, so I'll get I'll get to it.

34:20 Adam Because that was the thing you said Lee, knowing it for.

34:22 Adam It 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?

34:26 Lee Yeah.

34:27 Lee Yeah, it does.

34:28 Lee It 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.

34:35 Lee Oh, yeah, and it's just so the rewatchability on this is through the roof.

34:39 Lee

34:40 Lee So on that note, thanks ever so much for listening everybody.

34:43 Lee Go 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.

34:50 Lee Yeah, a really well put together.

34:53 Adam Slightly fried gold.

34:55 Lee It is, it is, it's exactly what it is.

34:57 Lee So 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.