>>214133594
does that director still make kinos?

>>214133594
I don’t understand this shot.

>>214133869
I haven't seen anything of his post-Scott Pilgrim.

Hot Shots is the best of the 3
The World's End would be good but I'm not some burnout

>>214133869
no, he got blueballed with his ant man and since then he's made shit after shit after shit

>>214133894
Hot Fuzz, brainfartanon. Yeah it's the only one that still holds up and also was the funniest when it was released.

The first half of The World's End is kind of good (a bit painfully because I'm literally the Gen-X stereotype protagonist down) but once the alien invasion of the body snatchers angle starts it sucks ass.

>>214133951
Helps that Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead were movies that parodied and played with their genre tropes. The World's End was just a Gen X therapy session that just becomes a alien movie. No twist or funny callback to anything. Just straight forward. It's dull unless you deeply relate to the absolute loser of a protagonist.

>>214133869
Baby Driver was legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen

>>214134034
kek why? I don't even remember if it was good or bad

>>214134811
NTA but it's fucking cringe. The dadrock needle drops didn't help.

>>214133869
No. He hasn't made anything good since going mainstream. Hot Fuzz was unironically his last great movie. He needs Simon as a writing partner for the warmth and intelligence that he brings. Otherwise he gets too up his own ass with the concept and flashy filmmaking and forgets to write a good story

>>214133951
How has Shaun not held up? I always liked it better than HF. Probably my favorite movie actually. I've unironically seen it dozens of times

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>>214133594
gets ME every time

>>214134861
>>214134034
Baby driver was great, it has great car chases, the music nostalgia shit was popular at the time. Sounds like you have no real grievance, you just hate what it stands for which is understandable. I hate the obsession with classic rock that gen x and older millenials push on everyone.

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>>214133594
>that's the fridge magnate
>his name is george merchant
>made his fortune in kitchen goods
gets me every time

>>214135309
>Dedicates his life to the fridge, gets killed by an oven!

>>214134034
Then you watch like one movie a year.

>>214135116
nah I like Gen X music but it was cringe regardless of the music-sync aspect. the lead sucked (both the actor and the character), the plot sucked, the action set pieces didn't work and the fact that the music choices consisted of forgettable dadrock didn't help

>>214135309
I don't get it

>>214133594
>You want us to go through the whole phonebook?
>Put in a call to Aaron A. Aaronson shall we?
And then the kid at the end of the movie is Aaron Aaronson.

I chuckle.

>>214136851
It took me ages to get this joke because I was never able to understand what the child said with that thick as fuck accent

>>214134982
1 & 2 and some of 3 are absolute peak 2000s comedy

>>214134982
even the still image is making me laugh

>>214136851
Wow never got that one

>>214134982
Unironically one of the best visual gags ever

>>214133594
Genuinely my favorite movie
>you mothers..!

>>214137038
this
its his stupid fucking run

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LOL

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Why is Shaun of the Dead called a horror comedy and held up by many as a perfect representative of the genre? There is absolutely nothing scary about SOTD, it's a 100% straight comedy, albeit in the zombie key. I can understand when American Werewolf is given the same praise since there are a couple of moments that are at least unnerving, if not outright scary, but SOTD I just don't get.

>>214133594
confident glint with a balding pattern is unstoppable. no fks given

>>214137376
well maybe im oversensitive but i was extremely horrified by the part where shaun watches his mother turn into a zombie and then has to put her down like ol yeller after watching the last traces of humanity leave her eyes in real time

>>214137376
this + there's some jump scares + the final standoff where they're surrounded + we're talking about genres here, let's not split hairs

>>214137550
I unironically don't remember that part, I only remember that Nick Frost turns into a zombie at the end, but they still live together

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>>214133869
He fell off when he stopped making straight comedies, World's End was his last decent flick

>>214137376
The part where they rip open that dude's stomach was pretty good

>>214137376
I dunno, it has some creepy moments. The creepy stuff at the start (woman fainting, man running), the zombie mom attacking her kids while Shaun drives past, the body bag moving. Even most of the stuff at the Winchester is pretty creepy, like the zombies outside the door and the shadows slowly approaching the windows

>>214137550
The bite reveal is great. There's a brief moment right before she shows the bite to Liz where Liz asks if she's alright, and the mum gives this very brief but totally insincere smile and never answers the question. It's a genuinely terrific bit of acting. I notice it every time. Shaun gets me every time too. "OH NO MUM! NO! COME ON! COME ON!"

>everyone and their mums is packin round ere
>like who?
>farmers
>who else?
>farmer's mums

>>214134034
same. had to turn it off by 2/3rd of the movie, it was fucking insufferable.

>>214133897
best way to describe it. after marvel fucked him, he lost his spark or something

>>214136702
>makes his fortune in kitchen goods
>fridge magnate
>fridge magnet

>>214138945
>when he returns for the shootout the first encounter is the farmer and his mum

>>214133594
I'M A SLASHER

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>what made you wanna be a policeman?
>'officer'
>what made you wanna be a policeman, officer?

CRUSTY JUGGLERS

>>214135309
I've seen this movie a gazillion times and I never once got that "fridge magnate" was a pun. Fuck me
>>214139310
I think it's more policemanofficer

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>>214133594
It's a simple gag that always gets a chuckle out of me

This visual gag from Airplane is one of my favorite ones of all time. The "No... that's what they'll be expecting us to do." gag near the end is also really funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-n0yctyGY

>>214137376
This might be a news flash for you but Horror is a genre, not a "must be scary" requirement.
Horror can encompass themes, moods and imagery.

Body horror, Gore movies? Unease, disgust, abjection; NOT intended to scare.
Most people describe zombie movies as not scary which can be true.
They are intended to illicit sense of Hopelessness, dread, abjection among others.
Zombies are the looming tide, an ever closing end of days that represents the world is fucked, even if you survive there is nothing left, everyone you love is dead and now wants to eat you.
It's not primarily intended to scare you.

>>214139201
I honestly think these movies are an iq test. Yeah, they're a fun watch but they not hilarious by a long shot

>>214133869
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are lightning in the bottle kind of movies

>>214140163
Do you consider Nightmare Before Christmas horror because it has Halloween archetypes in it? Not all horror ends up scary, but most make an honest attempt at it. For a good example of a real horror comedy (i.e. both scares and laughs) see Barbarian or Weapons.

>>214134922
It's basically an episode of Spaced parodying 28 Days Later with the character names changed stretched out for like 90 minutes, back when the zombie movies had not had a full on comeback.

>>214135309
>>his name is george merchant
>>made his fortune in kitchen goods
I get the magnet joke, but what about these?

>>214140794
A merchant is a person who sells goods

>>214140794
the fridge magnet pun only reveals itself in the third line. the name is not exactly relevant to that joke, it's just what skinner says in between the two lines for the joke.

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>>214133594
Here, have a better quality version.

>>214140847
How does the pun only reveal itself in that line? If he is a fridge magnate, then obviously he deals in fridges and possibly related items. The third line does not contain any new information that could be relevant to make the joke work.

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my favorite background gag is the swear box. it's hard to notice on the first watch because it's not the focus of any of the scenes, just a small detail, but it adds so much when you do notice it
>puts in coin
>LESLIE TILLER WAS FUCKING MURDERED

>COURSE HE FUCKING WAS
>Danny puts in coin
>THANK YOU DANNY

>>214133594
for me its
>Feel free to SPOOL through

>>214133869
After 25 years its worth going back to Spaced

>>214141145
This was at a time when you could get four pints for a tenner. Butterman wasn't playing with those fines

>>214141142
it tells you the joke without making it explicit by giving you a second chance to think about it. just the pun itself would be too throwaway of a line. even so most people never realize it and i only did after a couple of rewatches.

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>>214141145
>four creatively censored swears
>CUNT

The whole scene with the farmer and the sea mine is fucking gold. Kills me everytime
>Yes, I suppose

>>214141142
>that's the fridge magnate
A pun that sounds like "fridge magnet"
>his name is george merchant
Humorous coincidence that a man named George Merchant is a merchant.
>made his fortune in kitchen goods
Needless and overly specific redundant comment, which, given the context of the scene indicates that the whole series of statements is a joke.

It's not a "laugh out loud" joke, but it's appreciable and clever humor.

A similar joke from a different movie:
>Oh right, the poison
>The poison for Kuzco
>The poison chosen specifically to kill Kuzco
>Kuzco's poison.

>>214133594
Every scene with the Andys is pure kino

>>214140752
Why would a Christmas movie be considered horror? Do you just argue for the sake of arguing?

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>>214139950
Was Airplane the first?

>>214133594
This movie and others like it ITT can never be made today. Not just because most writers are shit, but they are specifically instructed NOT to have visually important elements that you need to pay attention to. In netflix movies, it’s mandated that everybody says out loud what they are doing so you can “watch” a movie and not pay particular attention. It’s written like shit on purpose and characters are nok stop yapping.

>>214133594
That's a visual gag that's been done to death countless times since the 70s.

>>214133869
Nup. Turns out his films are really awful when Simon Pegg isn't writing his scripts.
(Though his documentary The Sparks Brothers was alright if you're a music nerd)

>>214137376
No horror comedy movie is scary anon.

>>214143374
And yet it’s still funny every time.

>no luck catching them swans then?

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>>214140920
Thank you, kind anon.

>>214141558
>This might be a news flash for you but Horror is a genre, not a "must be scary" requirement.
>Horror can encompass themes, moods and imagery.
this is what that anon said, by his definition NBC may be classified as horror since it encompasses such themes and imagery. I agree that the definition of horror is somewhat loose (as with almost all genres), but I believe a good of rule of thumb is whether the film is in the least scary or not

>>214139866
>I've seen this movie a gazillion times and I never once got that "fridge magnate" was a pun. Fuck me
That's one of the best things about this movie.
Several years ago in another Hot Fuzz thread someone pointed out the scene where they confiscate all the old guns from Walder Frey and at the end they think he accidentally set off the sea mine and they run and jump over the bushes...
...they were only able to make the jump because those were the very hedges he trimmed that led to the complaint that brought them out there.
What a level of detail.

>>214134982
the "wrong foot" always gets me

Hot Fuzz has a perfect script.
Not that it's a perfect movie but from a writing perspective there is not a single wasted scene or line of dialogue.
It baffles me that Edgar Wright has done nothing but hackjobs since.

>>214137376
>scary
Horror does not mean scary.
The Thing is not scary but still a horror movie.

>>214143964
You don't know who it might be scary too. I know this girl, bitch may get spooked by her own shadow if the conditions are right, I am sure this film would scare her. My point is that there's a pretense at horror, the film at least attempts to scare you, whether you respond to that or not. I don't see that attempt in SOTD, it's just a comedy with zombie trappings. I am reasonably sure even this chick wouldn't find it scary.

>>214133594
I love how his hair is slightly balder irl than in the photo. like how did they even do that? which is the real hair?

>>214140238
>>214133594
I used to cope that he'd make kino again like those, but it's true. He peaked hard on Hot Fuzz, I've seen it like 20 times, still comfy to watch and enjoyable. It's all encompassing and made for natural movie-enjoyers. To this day I've never heard a theater laugh so hard and consistently at a movie. It wasn't even a packed theater. World's End was respectable, but you could tell he was already losing his edge. Baby Driver is an abomination, borderline parody of himself, he was absolutely trying to appeal to mass audiences at that point.

I think The Worlds End is underrated and I say this as someone who hated it when I first watched it.

>>214144125
Probably just photoshopped the photo

Shaun = Fuzz > Baby Driver Opening > World’s Ends

POWER GAP

rest of Baby Driver

I really like The World's End, but I hate the ending because it completely vindicates Garry. Everything goes to shit and he (again) abandons his friends in order to play apocalypse cowboy with their younger duplicates. It's like his character arc reverts at the last minute.

>>214144501
That's basically how all of the Cornetto trilogy movies are. Shaun is still a manchild who fucks up everything by the end of SOTD. Nicholas I guess learns to stop being a bureaucrat but it's only his obsession with being a just cop that makes him go back in the first place.

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>P I Staker
>Piss Taker
>COME ON!

>>214141145
Isn't it "knob"?

It's such a dumb line but it gets me every time
>you got a mustache on ya
>..I KNOW

>>214139950
>>214140920
I aspire to this level of smugness.

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>sounds like a good bloke
>"actually he was arrested for selling drugs to students"
>what a cunt

Were the greater good cult really that bad?
If I had them in my town I'm sure my neighbor's dog would be barking so much.

>>214145337
A neighborhood watch that will kill you for violating the most minor of ordinance sounds really annoying desu
>drove 46 in a 40
>now you have to die

>>214145145
probably shortened to nob in the same way "come" was respelled more phonetically to "cum" as a euphemism

>>214144125
probably just gave him a toupee in the picture

>>214140920
>2.17 MB
needs to be a jpeg

>>214140238
This except only Shaun of the dead

>>214141218
he just wants to make sure everyone gets their just desserts

>>214133594

>>214133869
I liked Baby Driver well enough, but not as much as his other films. I never saw Last Night in Soho, and he hasn't done anything since. Weird, considering how generally well-liked his directing style was.

>>214137709
Almost the entire third act completely drops the comedy. From the moment they enter the pub the film becomes grim and tense except for a brief bit of fun action when the jukebox turns on. Not really sure how you could forget that whole sequence.

>>214143873
The Aaron A Aaronson gag is a bit weak.

>>214148935
Soho is a movie where the director had a great idea for one sequence but nothing else interesting

>>214140920
kek never noticed the 'employee of the month'

>>214133869
He's making that remake of The Running Man. But the trailer was kind of lame, so I don't know how that's going to turn out.

>>214133594
Wish I laughed at this. But I just see it and go, "oh".
It takes some insane combination of racist 4chan humor spun with current events mixed wih some old reference to get me going.

>>214145337
The greater good

>>214141145
I dont get it, its not exactly a funny gag, what am I missing
>guy swears
>puts money in swear jar
>jar has censored swear words with increasing price of severity
Unless you are burgers and have no idea of what a swear jar is or that cunt is the worse profanity word in english profanity (especially to call someone it) it is not even a gag at all.
The T in cunt is a crucifixion cross.
its for the church roof.
Unless that is the gag, that a crucifixion cross is a lower case T. (t) Which is not really funny at all.

>>214138945
It's not my intention to upset the apple cart

>>214140920
>>214133594
other than being funny at the moment, it's still a storytelling element: the expression is exactly the same in picture and real life, but the lighting is completely different. the shadows under his eyes make his smile a bit creepy, they are foretelling that he is a bad guy. either he is completely evil and purposefully pretending to be good as his past self in the picture was, or he still has enough good to look like it, but some evil makes it out subconsciously

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>>214149404
>the living statue commits to the bit in death

>>214136851
>I didn't want to upset the apple cart
>Yeah cause we all sell apples round here don't we?
>Your dad sells apples, Andy
>And raspberries

>>214133869
sean of the dead and hot fuzz are masterpieces. everything afterwards was not worth watching.

>>214134922
Its a funny movie but it’s not as good as hot fuzz

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Gets me everytime

>>214133594
>when's your birthday
>22nd of February
>what year
>every year

>>214139310
Thats not the joke, he's saying literally policemanofficer. Lose the comma

>>214149004
I remeber the pub (the WInchester, right) and its defence and an action sequence with a pool cue set to Don't Stop Me Now, but that's about it

>>214137376
it does get a bit darker once they get to the pub. gore never bothered me but I remember almost throwing up in the cinema as a kid when the guy gets his guts ripped out. I just really wasn't expecting it lmao

>>214149454
of all movies, running man could benefit from another, more faithful adaptation. there's no elaborate course or anything, the contestants sign up then leave the building and are hunted and killed by plainclothes "stalkers" in the streets while the public watches via hidden camera. sounds like a modern-day livestream show or something

>>214137376
The only movies that I qualify as horror comedy are Scream and Hereditary. One of them is intentional.

>>214143454
No movie is scary anon. Except maybe the home videos of your birth.

>>214133869
>>214137879
is the world's end one good? never got around to watching it
also i can never remember its exact title

>>214134034
Meh, it was like a 6.5.

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>>214154483
When Julian wasn't allowed to bring alcohol to the park.

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>>214133594
I'm convinced that people who find this movie funny are retards

The other two were far better

>>214156263
It's not a competition.

>>214155690
good morning saar, do the needful.

>>214156136
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
it's decent

>>214156136
It's OK. Not as good as the first two but worth watching.

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>>214153869
>everybody and their mums is packing 'round 'ere
>like who?
>...farmers
>who else?
>...farmers mums

>>214152156
The joke is that they're all censored except for cunt, which many would consider the crudest word
>>214141462
The merchant joke doesn't really land in America because they don't call them "merchants". He'd have to be called "John Salesman" or something

>>214144501
Not really. He gets sober and rejects the offer to stop aging. He learns to grow up, but he's still basking in the nostalgia of the older days by hanging out with his younger friends. The message is basically "grow up a bit, but still find time for fun and nostalgia". Same message as Shaun really

I still don't understand the "conspiracy" that Angel supposedly uncovers. I know it's supposed to be complex and obtuse on purpose, but I still have no idea what they're talking about. Every time land deals and regulations come up in a story my eyes just glaze over

>>214133869
His casting director needs to be crucified. Every movie since and including Scott Pilgrim has been miscast and full of ugly people no one wants to look at.

>>214156733
the town council wanted the village to stay a picturesque, quaint english village. any time a townsman threatened to upend this by selling their land to outsiders or building the wrong kind of buildng or just generally shitting up the place, the town council would kill them

>>214156117
cabin in the woods

>>214144501
It's based. He finds a way to live the life he wanted to live while leaving behind all the negative elements like the drugs and self harm.

>>214156906
I know that, but what did Angel THINK it was? Something about Leslie selling her land to Merchant's buddies so they can build a Walmart essentially?

>>214133869
Last thing I saw of his is Last Night in Soho which wasn't that good at all (you could see all the big twists coming from a mile away) but that was more down the writing - the directing and visuals were good so he's still got it but needs a good script, ergo if he wants to do comedykino again he needs Pegg

>>214157706
To elaborate if you have seen the movie:
>grr i can't believe doctor who as a pimp killed anya! grr evil man!
>you, you old bastard in the pub, you're him, the evil pimp but old! i will confront you over your evil pimping and murder
>oh my landlady is such a darling
If you were paying attention to the movie you'd have to be retarded to not see the obvious twists coming regarding those three points

>>214152156
the joke is that they're committed to putting money in the swear box whilst actively discussing a string of murders
especially when Nicolas pre-emptively puts the coin in the jar
do you not see how that contrast is funny?

Why does the NWA joke go over people's heads? It's the most obvious fucking thing

>>214157874
what specifically do you mean?

>>214157885
Neighbourhood Watch Alliance
fuck tha police

>>214142833
>In netflix movies, it’s mandated that everybody says out loud what they are doing so you can “watch” a movie and not pay particular attention.
I don't watch Netflix movies, but I'm fascinated by this claim. Can you prove this is true?

>>214150907
SHUT IT!

>>214144798
>>214133594
>>214157874
>>214157923
I think you need to be under 18 to laugh at this.

>>214134982
What movie was scary movie 2 supposed to parody?

>>214133594
baby driver was kino but no one wll say it anymore because of kevin space

>>214158400
I think the main plot is mostly a parody of Invisible Man.

>>214158400
>>214158740
Hollow Man, pardon me.

>>214158400
I think it was supposed to be the haunting 1999

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>>214158953
i don't find it unbelievable but that shit is blog hearsay that was picked up by other outlets

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Did it better.

>Walder Frey is Farmer Webley
>The Hound says "yarp"
>The Archmaester is Inspector Butterman
I used to think the kid in the bar who said he said born in 1969 played Hot Pie but I was mistaken.

>>214158535
I also thought it was kino for what it’s worth.

>>214160076
>Webley
>has a ton of guns
Checks out

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>>214154554
Game theory