Shaun of the Dead is a much loved movie with me and my buddies. Most people I know loved it. For those who got to see Hot Fuzz--is the movie as funny? The preview cracked me up.

Its frigging hilarious. Get a smoke in, few cans and your friends and it makes for a perfect evening.:cheers:

yeah, Ill probally be seeing it either tonight or tommorow.

Did Grindhouse come out in the U.K. yet? Edgar Wrights (director of Shaun and Fuzz) mock trailer for the movie "Don't" was hilarious. Of course, It just couldnt beat Machete.

And speaking of Wright.....the Ant-Man movie is going to rule. He might be able to turn a piece of crap into gold.

I'd rather chew on my dead granny's beef-curtains than watch this tripe again.

Pegg, you are a boring cunt. You took two hours of my life that I'll never get back. I should take you to court for false advertising. Comedy? MY FAT FUCKING ARSE. I've had more laughs at a funeral.

Spaced was excellent but now you're just....

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Just my humble opinion.

Hot Fuzz was absolutely HILARIOUS!! the whole audience in the cinema hall were crying with laughter every 2 minutes. I Loved it!!:)

I thought it was brilliant. Possibly better than Shaun of the Dead (but I dunno if that's just cause i've watched SotD so many times).

I prefer Shaun of the Dead, maybe because it was filmed around areas I know so well.

I found this excellent and top notch.

Can't wait for when it comes out on DVD on June 11th. [INSERT HYPERACTIVE SMILEY HERE]

saw tonight with a few dudes. Hilarious, yet an awesome action movie. That end scenes of the movie were pure Desperado with the guns poppin from the sleeves and the bar.

Dalton, as expected, was the shit. He would have f'ed em up had he not slipped on that minature delivery truck.

What about dawn of the Dead. Dont you guys like that more intense/awsome Movie

dude, many of these types will not admit to liking any American movie that isnt Godfather or Pulp Fiction.

Dawn of the Dead, the new version, was a pretty entertaining movie. Most fans of 28 Days Later will agree. Only thing that sucked about it is that it used Milwaukee as a location, but of course, didnt film here. And there really isnt an island to take a nice boat ride to escape zombies. Maybe a few hundred miles north.

I think our two American friends may be missing the point here ;). Shaun of the Dead was a comedy first and foremost, and that's the genre that's being discussed.

Dawn of the Dead (both the original and the remake) were good, but in a completely different league.

I think our two American friends may be missing the point here ;). Shaun of the Dead was a comedy first and foremost, and that's the genre that's being discussed.

Dawn of the Dead (both the original and the remake) were good, but in a completely different league.

lol, oh I know. I just knew what was going to be said after Joey, the guy who seemed to know nothing of the Beatles or the Bee Gees, asked if you people thought an American movie was better than a British one. :)

Speaking of Dawn of the Dead. Fellow Wisconsinite Zack Snyder is da man! Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Watchmen (the best comic book I have ever read) next year!

ummm isnt the original dawn of the dead actually italian produced by dario argento's company? honestly though, american horror mvoies are normally very very poor. they rely on cheap dramatic effects like for example a door banging to make the audience jump, or alternatively things like huge amounts of gore to revolt us. they aren't scary per se. final destination works, but only as a comedy and the last effective american horror movie i saw was a couple of years ago. if you want to see the difference between american horror and that of other countries watch the japanese version of ring with the american version after.
shaun of the dead is a comedy with zombies in it. its not about zombies, ifnact they never even mention them.
american cinema right now is in gradual decline in places like the uk. this is partly because of the increased success of british movies and our growing film industry, but also partly because of an increasing number of foreign releases that are being shown here. american cinema is also relying increasingly on book adaptations, and remakes of foreign movies.
there have been some american movies i liked recently such as blood diamond, apocalypto and the illusionist, but plenty of them are too brainless for me, and lets face it, those american comedies and horrors with their big breasted stars and gross out humour are made to appeal to american teens. big brainless american movies rarely do well in the uk these days whilst americans often complain that movies we like are too boring.
i mean boxofficemojo doesnt get hot fuzz at all. it calls it "mindless mayhem" and "sneers at values with nihilistic abandon". they then slag it off by comparing it to monty python and saying recent shootings in america mean it's not funny (!) but then they were mean about casino royale whilst praising blood diamond and slags off the prestige simply because the characters are immoral and "unworthy of admission".

I saw this in the cinema at the beginning of last month and really enjoyed it. Its a very British style of humour and I loved it. Being a fan of older fashioned British whodunnits this was a dream a dream combination for me. Very Miss Marple at times. I admit most of the time I was watching it and thinking of them as Tim and Mike though ( which addded to the pleasure ). Great cast, I thought Timothy Dalton was a genious bit of casting, he was great and I would never have considered him for something like this before. Bring on Spaced series three which Simon Pegg has always promised he would make.

ummm isnt the original dawn of the dead actually italian produced by dario argento's company? honestly though, american horror mvoies are normally very very poor. they rely on cheap dramatic effects like for example a door banging to make the audience jump, or alternatively things like huge amounts of gore to revolt us. they aren't scary per se. final destination works, but only as a comedy and the last effective american horror movie i saw was a couple of years ago. if you want to see the difference between american horror and that of other countries watch the japanese version of ring with the american version after.
shaun of the dead is a comedy with zombies in it. its not about zombies, ifnact they never even mention them.
american cinema right now is in gradual decline in places like the uk. this is partly because of the increased success of british movies and our growing film industry, but also partly because of an increasing number of foreign releases that are being shown here. american cinema is also relying increasingly on book adaptations, and remakes of foreign movies.
there have been some american movies i liked recently such as blood diamond, apocalypto and the illusionist, but plenty of them are too brainless for me, and lets face it, those american comedies and horrors with their big breasted stars and gross out humour are made to appeal to american teens. big brainless american movies rarely do well in the uk these days whilst americans often complain that movies we like are too boring.
i mean boxofficemojo doesnt get hot fuzz at all. it calls it "mindless mayhem" and "sneers at values with nihilistic abandon". they then slag it off by comparing it to monty python and saying recent shootings in america mean it's not funny (!) but then they were mean about casino royale whilst praising blood diamond and slags off the prestige simply because the characters are immoral and "unworthy of admission".

naw, the original was George Romero.

I agree about the horror movies. Its all about unrealistic teenagers (cmon, no girl in my high school was that hot), nudity, lots of gore, and cheap thrills--appealing to teenagers. And most of them are basicallly the same movie. I saw the dreadful Dead Silence weeks ago and it was basically the Ring with puppets. There are a few here and there that are good. I think 1408 will be good, as will Vacancy.

Then again, I usually hate most horror movies and seldom will pay to see them. The one I had to see in theaters was the Descent. And goth, I think that Ringu and the Japanese Grudge were highly overrated. The American Ring was better than the Japanese version. Ring 2 on the other hand...

Everybody I know is sick of the remakes. Its just getting old. However, I think Hollywood is held to an unreachable standard. How many good movies come out of it a year? Plenty. But so much garbage comes out that it diminishes Hollywood as a filmmaking instituion. On the flipside--the world doesnt get to see all the garbage coming out of China, India, Britain, France, or Germany. We see Crouching Tiger, City of God, Bride and Prejudice, the Queen, Amile, or Das Boot---and base our opinions on the film industries on these few movies. A ton of good, well reviewed Hollywood movies came out this year---but they are buried by Scary Movie 4 and Jackass II.

I have to call b.s. though on you saying terrible Hollywood movies dont do well in the U.K. though goth. Go to IMDB and look at this weeks top ten in the U.K. Wild Hogs has led the list, followed by Blades of Glory. Mr. Beans Holiday, Meet the Robinsons, Perfect Stranger, and Shooter were in the top ten. I got into it with some other Brits about this on that site awile back and at that time--Night at the Museum was the number one movie in the U.K. People around the world like to see this crap--whatever the culture in my opinion.

And that Hot Fuzz thing is b.s.--I think most people here would disagree with the article. It made 6 million dollars this weekend and was number 6. Entertainment Weekly, a more notable source gave it a B+. Village Voice, NY Times, IGN, Ebert and Roeper, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and the fans at IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes liked it. My cities paper gave it pretty good review too. Many, however prefered Shaun of the Dead and their real complaint was Hot Fuzz was too long.

American teens may think that British movies may be boring....but they are idiots anyway. British movies make alot of money round these parts. Casino Royale, the Queen, Children of Men, etc. got alot of talk and hype---some of them made quite a bit of money. Dont even need to mention Harry Potter.

turns out that dawn of the dead was co-written by argento and edited in europe by argento who recut the film into his own version.his brother, an italian film producer, put up much of the money. argento was also involved in the scoring of the movie and even had the film renamed in his native italy as "zombi".
did you know the descent is a british horror movie? lol. wild hogs will drop out of the top ten just like a rock. american movies normally open at number 1 and then do poor business in the following weeks and get quickly dropped. the biggest grossing movie in the uk last year was casino royale which was 9th in the usa. borat was 3rd in the uk but 16th in the usa. a great example is apocaylpto which had the most successful foreign language film in uk cinema history, it made ten times as much in its opening week as the passion of christ and outgrossed it comfortably on its entire run. not one american comedy in the top 20 grossing films in the usa last year ended up in the top 20 in uk apart from the devil wears prada which was number 10 in the uk and 17 in the usa. night at the museum didnt figure in the british top ten for the year but was second place in the usa!
you might think british movies make a lot of money in america but they dont compared to other places. casino royale is the classic example which in europe did business as well as lord of the rings. we're talking approximately 4 times as many admissions per capita as the usa so it would get a gross of around 600 million in america to compare to what it did in europe!
btw, mr bean is british :) it will be one of the biggest grossing movies of the year outside the usa, in the usa it will do shit business. there's a massive cultural gulf between europe and the usa, and often americans dont realise this. last year's palme d'or winner made 6 times as much in france as the usa and 7 times as much in the uk. reservoir dogs famously made more money from one cinema in the uk than it did in its entire run in the usa as it played there for a year and ended with the uk gross at £6,306,205 and the american gross at $2,832,029.

not too fond of it. Shaun of the dead is a classic, always in my top 10.

-oh yeah, I knew Descent was British before I saw it. One of the best horror movies I have seen in a long time. It was a must see in the theater. I dont think the t.v. screen would do it justice! I heard some British dudes bitching on the net about the American ending though. I had no complaints.

9th in the U.S. for a Bond movie is pretty respectable in my opinion goth. Especially in a year with blockbusters like Pirates 2 (which dominated the world box office), Cars, Da Vinci Code, X-Men, Happy Feet, Night at the Museum etc. These family friendly movies are always going to make a ton more money here because the U.S. simply has a ton of kids and young people. These Memorial Day/Summer/Christmas Day releases are always going to kill anything at the box office. Both Casino Royale and 300 are in the top ten and you cant complain about that. 300 has been bitch slapping everything in the U.S so far this year. Although, I reckon in about a month--300 will BE Spidermans, Jack Sparrows, and Shreks bitch.

Looking at the big list--The Queen made more money than We Are Marshall, Hostel, and John Tucker Must Die. Children of Men made more money than United 93, Snakes on a Plane, and Flags of our Fathers. The Descent made more money than Thank You For Not Smoking, Clerks II, The Marine, An Inconvieniant Truth, and (shock) ATL. Notes on a Scandal/Last King of Scotland made more cash than Annapolis, Larry the Cable Guy's piece of crap, Tenacious D, Bobby, Idlewild, The Last Kiss, and Dave Chapelles Block Party. Scoop (while a Woody Allen movie, but very British) made more money than Grandmas Boy, Turistas, Basic Instict 2, and Lets Go to Prison. Even farther down the list, The History Boys made more money than Bloodrayne and the Good German! And there are a million movies that you would think made alot of money here that made less than those few British movies I picked.

Look at the British top ten last year. Not that different if you ask me goth. For awile this year, Happy Feet was kicking everythings ass in the U.K.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (£52m)
2. Casino Royale (£44.6m, pictured)
3. The Da Vinci Code (£30.4m)
4. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (£29.5m)
5. Borat (£23.7m)
6. X-Men: The Last Stand (£19.1m)
7. Cars (£16.3m)
8. Superman Returns (£16.1m)
9. Mission: Impossible III (£15.5m)
10. The Devil Wears Prada (£13.9m)

And truly, Casino Royale (while an awesome movie and a refreshing breeze from the schlock) is not The Queen or even Children of Men. Its an action movie with British actors and an iconic name. No different than similar films like the Bourne series--which was putting the last few Bond movies to shame. Everyone was pissing on Craig, but he showed those fools he can be Bond. An ass kicking Bond that didnt need invisible cars, inflatable snow suits, and all that bullshit.

Also, dont forget to add DVD sales/rentals into your equations. For 10 bucks to see a movie nowadays, plus another ten if you got a woman (not to mention 5 bucks for a soda and another 5 for popcorn)---it makes more sense to just buy the damn DVD!

Interesting figure about Dogs. Problem about that movie was it was most likely limited release and people didnt know anything about Tarantino yet...could be wrong. I was only 6 years old and my parents were not the type to bring me to flicks with cops getting their ears cut off. Then again, I did see the Crow when it came out in 94'.

And in conclusion, yes...I will be seeing Mr. Beans Holiday. It probally is no Johnny English or Rat Race though. :)

Hot Fuzz was great. It's the little details that got me -- like, for instance, the swear box where the word "F***" (£1) was blanked out but the word "CUNT" (£2) was written out in full. That utterly cracked me up for some reason. Brilliant.

those two detectives cracked me up. Just sitting around smoking and talking shit.

I thought it was a bucket of horse shit dressed up as pig shit trying far too hard to take off hollywood and failing in the most miserable manner conceiveable

I thought it was a bucket of horse shit dressed up as pig shit trying far too hard to take off hollywood and failing in the most miserable manner conceiveable

damn, tell us how you really feel. :cheers:

Overall, I thought that Hot Fuzz was ok, but not as good as Shuan of the Dead. Is it just me, or did it feel a bit flat in places? Also, as a comedy, it just didn't seem to be all that funny - I don't remember laughing all that much compared to Shaun of the Dead. I thought that it worked better as an action movie than a comedy. The last half-hour saved the movie for me, which was excellent and it was nice to see Pegg's stiff and starchy character beginning to loosen up and develop a great partnership with Nick Frost's lovable buffoon. Also, Timothy Dalton was superb as the slimy bad guy.