Each and every one of these is rated R. These are hilarious for adults, but nightmare fuel for children.
Watching these movies, the only thing that I can think is, how bored must Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost get in Britain. These are the kids of plots that Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes would come up with sitting in his desk at school. Normal England must be too boring for this lot cause all their movies feature some crazy circumstance going on there. These range from zombie apocalypses to *spoilers* murderous neighborhood association cults and alien overlords. These movies are a perfect blend of everyday life and bizarreness that somehow gives these movies a feeling of reality, despite their outlandish plots. The Cornetto Trilogy would be what would happen if Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett got together to make a film. Just to clarify, this isn't a trilogy in the sense that their plots are connected. They do have common themes though, such as absurd happenings in everyday life, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, jumping over fences, pubs, people getting hit by cars, general shenanigans, and Cornettos. Hot Fuzz (Dir. Edgar Wright 2007) My personal favorite out of this trilogy, this may be because it was the first one I saw. I didn't even realize it was a "trilogy" until a while after I'd watched Hot Fuzz for the first time. This movie is Epic. Simon Pegg is by no means the most handsome man on Earth, but let me tell you I fell in love with Nicholas Angel (The character Simon Pegg played). Nicholas Angel is the classic "married-to-my-job" by the book detective featured in many classic films, however Angel is just a little TOO good. Thus he is shipped off to a small sleepy town in the country where there is seemingly no crime. But nothing gets past Nicholas Angel! And soon bad-assery abounds as Angel and his sidekick Danny (Nick Frost) paint the town red (HA get it??). Shaun of the Dead (Dir. Edgar Wright 2004) You've got red on your header. Watch the movie to get the joke (I've got you now). This has got to be the most realistic zombie apocalypse movie I've ever seen. Yes, I do realize realistic zombie apocalypse is a bit of an oxymoron. Lord knows I'd mostly be bumbling around whacking zombies with whatever blunt object was closest to me. I did cringe a little whenever they threw those vinyl records though... rip. The action scenes weren't as amazing as in Hot Fuzz, but we can't all be perfect. This movie features the worst reason to get back together with someone, "Well, you don't want to die alone...do you?". MAYBE I DO. What are you gonna do about that?! This movie has all the classic zombie movie tropes. Thinking the zombies are just drunk or high people, whacking heads off, someone hiding the fact that they've been bitten, that's not your *insert loved one here* any more, and the obligatory mutual murder/suicide that they don't actually go through with scene. World's End (Dir. Edgar Wright 2013) World's End is my least favorite in the trilogy, it's still a really good movie though. I had no idea where this movie was going to go when I first started it, I knew something crazy was going to happen, cause that's how all these movies go, and boy, I was not disappointed! This one really feels like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett wrote it from beyond the grave, also it has a little bit of a Doctor Who vibe at the end. The whole idea of "We're humans and our imperfections/stubbornness/passion/etc. is what makes us human, and we're somehow special because of it" is pretty common in pretty much anything with aliens. Humans have a mighty high opinion of themselves if you ask me. I just realized that that last sentence makes me sound like an alien. I'm totally not an alien *wink*.
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Aubrey KirchhoffI'm just screaming into the void and somehow getting graded on it. Archives
April 2018
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