It was pretty much note-for-note the epilogue I was expecting. The whole movie is great fun. I especially loved all the new characters. In my opinion this is also the monkey's best work.

I'm spending my weekend watching Dolph Lundgren movies, something to cheer me up.

First up was Bridge of Dragons. I have no idea why it's titled that since there are no bridges or dragons. It's a post apocolyptic future where Ruechang is a general forcing Princess Halo to marry him. He dispatches his favorite warrior, Warchild, to go after the Princess. At one point, before the wedding, she snuck out to fight in some weird stick fighting while standing on posts thing. She fought Warchild who beat her.

Anyway, Halo runs, Warchild goes after her but ends up falling in love with her. I think, we only get one kiss and she calls him Soldier all the time. Not at all like "Farm boy" Princess Bride way, more because it has to be better than calling him Warchild.

I think maybe this was made for tv because the violence was very A Team ish and the kiss was fairly chaste.

It was bad, but bad enough to be MST3K worthy. Luckily I could fast forward through the boring parts.

Dolph is only shirtless once but the military uniform is mostly a vest and pants with no shirt. And all of RueChang's helicopters, jeeps, etc have 666 on the side, but no mention one why.

Argh.

I saw World's End but did not stay for the epilogue. Can someone whitefont? Or email.

t smacks head sharply

What was I thinking?

I totally agree that it was the monkey's best work. I liked the film more than I expected to and was struck by the political commentary, the existential sadness and unexpected lack of slapstick.

The performances were good though I felt Yun Fat was not given enough to do.

My favorite gracenote was a very small one...but in my favorite pirate history, Under the Black Flag, there is an entire chapter on female pirates including one of the most successful of ALL pirates, Madame Cheng, I believe her name was (need to find the book and check that) who appears in the movie! Very cool detail.

The credits end and a title screen comes up, "Ten Years Later" A (presumably ten-year-old) kid is running through a field towards a seaside cliff singing, "A Pirates Life." The camera draws back and we see Elizabeth Turner (she hasn't aged a day!) she puts her arm maternally around the boy's shoulder and looks out to sea. We follow her gaze to the mast of The Flying Dutchman. Will Turner hugs the mast staring towards the shore. The camera pulls back majestically and we fade out.

Finally saw Hot Fuzz. Oh, I barked with laughter--Jess, I don't know if I was the only one in the theatre that got the ref you mentioned, but I think I was the only one that cared.

First and foremost, though, I'm appalled by how well I remember Bad Boys and how much I want to see it again.

Still, clever and fun.

I can attest that Hot Fuzz is even better the second time. I'll let you know about the third.

Jess, I don't know if I was the only one in the theatre that got the ref you mentioned, but I think I was the only one that cared.

Ha! Then my work here is done.

Thanks so much Laga.

Actually, at that moment in the film when they are in that place doing that thing, I turned to my companion and described exactly what you described. Either I'm psychic, or that was wicked predictable!

Oh well, nothing will rival the monkey jumping out of the screen at the end of the first one.

If you haven't seen the interview with Rush, Nighy and Chow at moviefonedotcom, I highly recommend it. I'd love to have a dinner party with Rush and Nighy. They seem like such charming, erudite, courtly gentlemen.

A friend just worked as Nighy's dresser in the recent Broadway show he did with Julianne Moore and reports he was kind and charming and incredibly funny.

That is my sense of him. Nice to have it confirmed.