Saw Hot Fuzz tonight, and was underwhelmed. It got a few chuckles from me, but most of my reactions were "Ah, I recognize that" or "Hmm, clever," or "Ah, tricky." I found it much less funny and far more gory than Shaun of the Dead. On the drive home, I was kinda wishing I had rented that instead.
Unfortunately, I've got to go with dcp on this one. We watched
Shaun of the Dead
before going to see
Hot Fuzz,
and the former was much funnier.
Hot Fuzz
was good fun, but it was not the OMG AWESOME I was expecting from everyone else's reactions. I sort of expected the whole movie
to be like the last twenty minutes, where they exploit all the action-movie cliches.
See, P-C, whereas I wouldn't have minded if
those last twenty minutes with all the shooting & explosions had been cut down to ten. Not that I don't love shooting & explosions (and I wouldn't have cut a second of the fight in the model village!) but that's kind of a one-note joke after a while.
I just loved everything about
Nicholas moving to Sandford, being introduced to all the townspeople, meeting Danny (okay, so the bromance was my favorite part), and beginning to piece the mystery together.
I thought it was much funnier than
Shaun of the Dead,
actually!
Black Sheep is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Flick Filosopher likes it!
Genetic engineering transforms placid woolies into maneating monsters, and oh yeah, anyone bitten mutates into a monster sheep, too. (The creature effects were handled by Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop, and they, too, tickle endlessly by going to great pains to consider what would constitute “scary” in a sheep.)
Oh man, the WAM channel is showing a movie called Spymate that stars Chris Potter and Richard Kind. Toss in Will Farrell and you'd have had a movie that would spur me into a spree killing rampage in the theater.
Right now, Disney's home page is showing a 9 minute clip of Ratatouille.
The trailer for that was giving me all kinds of SF2F flashbacks, between the music and the claymation animals. Heh.
On my periodic jaunt to apple.com's trailers, I watched the one for
Nancy Drew.
Horrors! Shock! Call me a grumpy old timer, but that's not my Nancy! This movie looks to be a
Clueless/Mean Girls/Scooby
damned
Doo
mishmash. I liked
Mean Girls
and loved
Clueless.
But there's no George, unless you count the sassy hipster who helps her acclimate to the big city. And there's no Bess unless you count the chunky boy who hangs out with her.
There is a Ned, but who cares? Also, what teenaged boy these days has the curse of being named Ned? Still. I wanted my George and my Bess and less country mouse who triumphs. *My* Nancy is hip!
But there's no George, unless you count the sassy hipster who helps her acclimate to the big city. And there's no Bess unless you count the chunky boy who hangs out with her.
There's a George and a Bess according the cast list on imdb, but I agree -- this does not look like the Nancy Drew I knew and loved.
I think it would have been wonderful if they'd made a period piece, with Nancy and Ned and George and Bess in the 1930s or 1940s, but I'm Studio Wisdom (tm) said no one would go see it then.
