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Starting point is 00:02:37 leave a like on here also um you know this is where's that i don't know your bills there say it erin say your thing oh yeah man ring that bells and get notified anytime a new video is coming out and of course prepper thank you for any now these highlights these uh your turn around's been incredible so really appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing yeah well we have a couple of questions for patrons that we will get to but i want to hear your thoughts first aaron what are your honest thoughts in this movie i really enjoyed it that was a lot of fun i really appreciated all of the references and the love and homageing to these other films a lot of which i've watched on the channel so it's kind of cool almost like a

Starting point is 00:03:22 full circle moment getting to appreciate things i saw heat on the channel why didn't see the bad boys movies And I also haven't seen the point break. But, you know, the movie also gives more context with those. But I did see Bad Boys, just in my own personal time. But anyway, I thought it was a really strong second entry from Edgar Wright. And it was different enough from Sean of the Dead where I didn't feel like I was watching the same thing. I never remotely felt that. But you do see like sort of parallels and contrast between those two films.

Starting point is 00:03:56 but for this movie to stand on its own I think did a really great job with Simon Pegg and his his arc about you know him being so so stiff and then having the counterbalance of Nick Frost character so you kind of soften them up a little bit but still being the only person really trying to figure out what's going on and having these other people kind of join him at the end there I thought that was really cool I thought the action was really strong and yeah I just enjoyed it overall I think I like Sean of the Dead a little bit more than this one, but I think I had more fun action-wise with this one. But overall, yeah, I had a great time with it.

Starting point is 00:04:38 What do you think, man? How do you feel it? Yeah, I like the movie a lot. I know for sure I would put Sean of the Dead in my personal preference. I would put Sean of the Dead above it. But it's not about comparing it to Sean of the Dead, like because I was fully aware we were walking into something like entirely different. The first thing that really sit out to me is, of course, Simon Pegg as Nicholas Angel, such a cop name. And it's really, I see it with, like, myself with so many movies that we watch or shows where it can sometimes be hard to, like, not think about the other character that they were playing.

Starting point is 00:05:16 Because in our time, like, the uploads might be spread a week apart, but we shot Sean of the Dead just yesterday. Yeah. And, you know, like, here's an example. I can give you. I watched the show Jessica Jones, which has David Tennant as Kilgrave. And then, like, a year or two later, I watched Doctor Who and got to the David Tenet. It was hard for me to not think about Kilgrave, even though it's a completely different character. I had all this association with it. And to watch Sean of the Dead yesterday, vastly different character and not vastly different in terms of like their hair or mirror and

Starting point is 00:05:54 whatever it is they're vastly different overall and i didn't think about sean once when watching it i was able to nor did it seem like simon peg was ever acting you really did the role you know like there's this adam samler movie called um you don't mess with the zohan have you seen them i'm familiar with it i've never seen it well he did like a lot of rigorous training for it it's the first movie he ever got like buff for he did like actual fight training for and it still feels like like Adam seven playing a sketch character though at the end of the day even though he really committed to it all around still felt like doing a sketch character but i wouldn't even say that for sim and peg in this that's that's my point it still feels like a fully three-dimensional character

Starting point is 00:06:37 and uh i think nick frost is is a little bit more similar to ed and uh sean of the dead but he's not like repulsive in this movie he's not like a gross vulgar slacker or some shit you know uh he's he's just a a boy with little motivation and stuff but the fact that they're it's that what they carry over is people who are very different but have some unusual similarity and their unusual similarity is like they both give each other what what they're what they kind of need you know um that something totally like you know on his name uh in the movie what's the cross character name um danny danny okay um and like Danny allows him to have a life where Danny gives him the gift of being able to, you know,

Starting point is 00:07:30 actually chill out a little bit, have some fun, get some laughs in his life. Watch some movies. Watch some movies and find and not taking himself so seriously in other parts. And, uh, Simon Pegg, Nick gets to inspire him and help show him the ways to become in a better cop and being able to, but together they get to be the action heroes that they like in the movies. And it's kind of cool how the movie. really earns its finale like there's a such a big setup to it and it showed me it hit me when he uses the rifle the air rifle on the on the game that they don't even show him firing that

Starting point is 00:08:07 like they reserve that whole thing with him using any weapon till the very end and i've loved that attention to detail it's uh it's another movie where i think they there's so much detail way more than i think um sean the dead is because this one has a it's so rapid throughout and it is like a lot more dialogue to keep up with but by the time it gets to by the time you're in the finale it's like they've they've they've tied up everything there's a lot of loose ends that no there's no loose ends and everything is like completed it's a perfectly wrapped gift package you know um yeah it's it's super tight and he's one to not set up things for no reason and then having those things come back only makes it more satisfying even if they're like really tiny things, you know, like the fascist and hag at the very beginning when they come in and then how that came back in the finale was really funny. Also the thing with the bomb and the thing with the guns as well and the geese. Like that's what makes for more rewarding experiences because you ask your audience to pay attention, you don't spoon feed them. And when you do

Starting point is 00:09:18 finally come back for these things, it only feels that much better and is that much more rewarding because you were uh you trusted the director to you know have patience and deliver at the time they wanted to yeah they could have easily solely made an action comedy but they made sure to actually throw in like detective work to make it a true investigation movie as most of the movie is more investigation what the hell's going on here murder mystery slasher vibes you know and i i thought that that was like a i thought that was a smart way to get you hooked into this because this is a different type of cell than like a sean of the dead which is very straightforward you know zombie apocalypse

Starting point is 00:10:03 right and here it's like i don't even remember what the trailers were for this movie i'm not sure how you really pitch this without giving away so much of what happens in the finale because the finale is like jam packed with action i will say i think i dawned on me right now one of the preferences is that i think that i have over it um and i'm only using it to illustrate a point is that and it's not a bad thing though is that sean of the dead to me was definitely honoring the movies that it was inspired by but it really still felt like it was 100% doing its own thing whereas this one definitely is doing its own thing uh i do think it is a lot more overtly um showing it's inspirations though like it's so much more kind of they they border more into spoof at times more than

Starting point is 00:11:01 i felt like the prior one did and again it's not a bad thing it's just a different film and i i like the uh i like seeing like a love letter type of film but again like the buddy cop side is very different usually in a buddy cop movie characters when they're teamed up they're they're kind of like bitching at each other a lot they're arguing it's argumentative and then eventually they you know get to like each other and they really bond or some shit think about them all think the weapon rush hour 48 hours they all do that and this one their dynamic was very different and so that allowed for a unique version of a story right yeah yeah you never really see someone like that the hyper efficient cop with the kind of slacker fanboy and then balancing each other out in that kind of way

Starting point is 00:11:49 Because, yeah, you normally got the, you know, the straight edge one with the one that's, like, more loose cannon or more off the cuff. Like, yeah, like you said, like rush hour or high noon or Shanghai noon and films of those vein. So, yeah, I enjoyed it. You know, they, those two actors just work so well together. It doesn't matter what their dynamic is. They find a way to bring those characters in a way that feels organic. And I appreciate it. um what do you think about the action scenes uh i liked i liked the way that edgar wright was able to utilize his quick cutting style to make the action like hyper um hyper alive hyper edited and some of the points it got a little bit hard to tell what was happening or just like it was just uh cuts were a little too quick for me but i think overall the uh the kinetic energy of the the section of the movie that

Starting point is 00:12:49 that it was one, homage, but two, using that to kind of have this culminative moment largely was strong. There's just a couple moments where I was just like, oh, my gosh, it's a lot happening. Yeah, this one's a little bit more time capsule in category, right? Like, this, I think you appreciate it more if you have an awareness, and they call out some of the movies directly, you know, like Bad Boys 2 and Point Break, because yeah there's a lot of Michael Bay in here and there's a lot

Starting point is 00:13:22 of Tony Scott especially who did Man on Fire, Domino a lot of those like Denzel action movies and yeah like the I don't remember them as like a story or movie but I did that visual type of style like when they're holding up the

Starting point is 00:13:42 when they're arrested what does that call the mugshot moments yeah that type of editing is very much like that was Tony Scott, who I was obsessive in the way he does it. It's like a very specific style that he had. And yeah, so like those influences are strong. And I think the sound design is such a character in here. Like sound is a punctuated thing in all of Edgar Wright films and definitely Sean of the Dead.

Starting point is 00:14:09 And I felt like it was more of a character more so here. Like almost every single thing had a sound. It was like kind of meant to be more over the top, I think. you know like you'll just hand someone something you know and it's and it's uh not even like a close up on the hand or something it's just a quick little moment there's so much or a guy will put his hand on the shoulder or knee or something and then like constantly and i started to wonder if there were sound designs that were like okay when he does this any single time he pops up in screen does this we're going to use this sound design and i thought the sound design character of choices were

Starting point is 00:14:45 great the editing as consistent as always like i don't understand how eager right shoots because there's so much coverage at any moment and to hyper edit that is uh seems like a really big uh undertaking so whoever his editor is uh kudos man because that's a fucking hard ass job timothy dalton what you think i thought it was hilarious yeah yeah he was uh he was over the top and and charming yet nefarious at the same time which is an interesting line to walk you know i think it definitely plays on some of the expectations we have of of him and his career in that regard but yeah i thought it was a a really fun antagonist to the film and i thought it was going to be the thing where he was so overt that he's not actually going to be the villain but the fact that he still was one of one of

Starting point is 00:15:36 the antagonist and that was more so the twist uh still made the movie interesting so i enjoyed him good what did you think i mean he was one of my favorite parts of it i love timothy dalton i think he's such a captivating actor and yeah like doom patrol penny dread felt like i've actually never seen his bond movies um so i'm but i'm only like indoctrinated into old man timothy dalton and i i like uh anytime he's on screen he he has this like magic pull you know he really understood the assignment here and the rest of the sporting cast too i think there's a a pretty good job I feel like I should have liked the Andes more considering how much time was given to them.

Starting point is 00:16:19 And I don't know. I didn't find them like particularly funny. Yeah, they were all right. Yeah, I'm surprised by the lack of use of Olivia Coleman. Granted, I imagine the point in her career. She's not what we know her to be today. But she's such a strong actress. I think they could have utilized her a little more.

Starting point is 00:16:40 Just a bit, just a bit. And so to get it straight, to keep their idyllic town in order to win this contest, that's why they were killed with everyone. This is wild. I could have. Such an insane motivation. Yeah. It is interesting, like how complicated of a mystery it was unpacking and then how simple it actually is, you know. I was wondering if there's like a bit of an actual commentary they were attempting to make in some way.

Starting point is 00:17:11 yeah because when he does his police work his uh his end of the movie quote unquote of like this is how i figured it out and this is your motivations like you think it's gonna be about like real estate and like all these things like no we just didn't like them because it kind of they're kind of screwed up the vibe they're ruining the perfect image in order for them to win this contest and i like how there's only a subtle moment where you see the judge is there not subtle but it's a short moment or do you see the judge is there and when this town is under crazy destruction you know showing that you guys aren't getting what you want it and even the swan thing coming back was so smart all these things that feel like innocuous uh the movie even sold me more on things that might have just been for bits or to feel innocuous but then they end up turning out and there's something that's actually kind of uh very important for what's to come and i think the violence even though this is not the horror one i think the violence here's kind of shocking more shocking oh yeah did it fell on his head yeah or even the joke with the under the chin with teet all and i'm like that's a fucking gross

Starting point is 00:18:12 sort of like Sean of the dead to me the only really gross one was the guts one you know the dude's bag yeah it's like one death but here there was something like when the thing when the thing falls on is but it still feels like so heightened in Sean of the dead

Starting point is 00:18:28 and you could tell it's like makeup where for some reason when that thing falls and crushes that reporter's head there's something that felt more disturbing about it to me than the other ones yeah also the head's just like immediately cut to the heads on the ground was oh god not expected yeah that that violent with it there is something uh very striking about this one for sure yeah that's a trip i want to read some uh trivia actually

Starting point is 00:18:51 yeah trivia yeah we never do trivia i know i know this is one where i actually want to check it out a little bit and uh i didn't find it as funny as i was like it's pretty i think it's funny um yeah i guess i didn't find it like hilarious but i thought it was there's funny really funny hilarious and i found it really funny yeah i feel like the with shana the dead it was balancing more tones

Starting point is 00:19:18 but it was hitting all of them pretty successfully like i feel like shana they were dead definitely had more heart you know this one had more action and was like uh more revolving around its mystery but i do like the sense that both those characters lost their

Starting point is 00:19:34 relationships in the beginning of the movie for their sense of uh of negligence towards their partner but for different reasons the first draft of the script included a love interest named victoria for nicholas she was cut from subsequent drafts but a good amount of her dialogue was given to danny often without any modifications i think this is one of the earlier bromance movies you know before judd apato and seth rogan and that made it like super clear it's romance uh okay nick frost only agreed to do the film if he could get to name his character he was at last

Starting point is 00:20:10 also asked to watch over 20 action films to warm up for the role he only watched one bad boys too that's so funny when in costume nick frost and simon peg often were assumed to be police officers many strangers asked them for directions and instead of telling the truth they went along with it they claimed it made them feel more powerful oh he got right originally wanted to call it hot fuzz with two teas and simon peg objected fearing he would have to explain the additional tea and hot in every single interview about the film and god damn that is true i don't get the two tees even i don't even understand what it means yeah the two t's okay here we go uh i was i was when i was watching the movie i brought something about this up a simon pegg and echo right interviewed many real i was saying

Starting point is 00:20:54 like it seems like they had to get the dialogue down and the research stuff that's why i said at one point they did they get a cop consult and they're saying they interviewed many real police officers while doing research for the film many lines of the film such as I prefer to think my office is out on the street came directly from those interviews. The stylized scenes of Nick doing paperwork were inspired by the officers noting that paperwork is a huge part of the job

Starting point is 00:21:19 but is never depicted in cop shows and films. It was another thing. Like at the very end we were saying, I was like, yeah, you never see this part. The visual style was inspired by Tony Scott's films. Roger Ebert's bigger little movie Gloucesterbius also used as a reference source. Oh, sweet, sweet.

Starting point is 00:21:35 Simon Pegg lost over 28 pounds. And preparing for the roll. All that running. It wasn't a good shape. Yeah. Semi pack out weapons training, of course. Wouldn't expect nothing less. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:21:47 Do you want to see? Hold on. I can pull rotten tomatoes. Do you want to guess what they got? I'm pretty sure it's pretty high. I would say it's like a, I would say it's like 90% on running to me? I imagine it's high. I imagine like the praise.

Starting point is 00:21:59 He's going to beat me to it. No, I got it. I think the audience would put it at like, what did you say it was? 90% critics, 85% critics, 95% audience. you said 90% critics yeah you're very close on both 91 for critics 89 for audience there you go yeah yeah that's a lot of love a lot of love a lot of love well um yeah overall really enjoy the hell out of the movie uh let's ask there's a couple of questions here that we told the patrons are shooting schedule and there's uh one comment here that is super duper nice

Starting point is 00:22:30 uh dab slobog gregg and aaron reacted to one of my favorite movies of all time LFG fuzz is a desert island movie for me legitimately every single time watch the movie i find a new joke or something to appreciate so if and i just realized you shot them today we ain't seeing them for three months damn it you are wrong you don't know the upload schedule i know nothing i hope you enjoyed this reaction my friend thank you for supporting us at patreon and crabman says after this watch where would you both rank this among your favorite buddy cop films whoa that's a tough question There's a lot of really good buddy cop ones. Well, what's your favorite buddy cop one?

Starting point is 00:23:11 What'd you say? There's so many. Okay, I've topped my head. I'm going to say rush hour two. Rush hour two is really good. So that's top for me. But there's some good ones. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:23:24 There's, I haven't seen the lethal weapons in a long time. That's a, that's a toughie. Oh, eight? Let me see. Let me try to do this. my head here a little bit um i would say i want to say lethal weapon is number one but it's probably rush hour one i'd say rush hour one i'm trying to think like specifically cops rush hour one or does just look at the franchises there's rush hour that this is really hard

Starting point is 00:23:56 right the shanghai movie is um because i'm bad boys bad boys is fun you know we have four of those is i wouldn't put like rush hour i don't have high regard for rush hour three um i like the weakest of the trilogy yeah and then like let the weapon i don't know i'd probably put this out like okay there's rush hour one and two or somewhere there lethal weapon uh those four movie after those yeah and uh i've ever actually revisited the bad boys movie so i might want to do that but i i don't i don't recall like being super in love with the bad boys movies remember like really liking them um i've seen each of them once but i i had a good time with with all four of them i think i like three the most i remember three having the most heart yeah you know ripd that's number

Starting point is 00:24:51 one yeah i'd probably put this like somewhere there it would be after the lethal weapons and rush hours that i love that's where i would put it yeah also i've never seen rapd but uh you know let us know if you have in the comments. Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, this one was really good, really strong. I got to brush up on my history and my buddy cops, but I'm sure this will be up there, at least in the top 10. And that's a tough question.

Starting point is 00:25:14 It would be, yeah, after the first two rush hours for sure, the first two lethal weapons, I'd say best case, it's like fifth. Yeah. Anyway, guys, thank you so much for being here. Keep a look at us as we wrap this up here with the final one in the Cornetta trilogy. that one i really thought i remember uh a lot more with this one i thought a lot and and it was incredibly like not coming to my mind and i the greater good line i was like the greater good i knew that was from here um but why the town was killing people i i could not recall at all yeah

Starting point is 00:25:54 i want to say i saw this in like 2010 but i also did not remember the only thing i remember I mean, how's it? And World's End, yeah, that is a... That's a blank for me. It's going to be like a blank slate for me. All right, guys. We'll see you soon. Omni Media.

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The Reel Rejects - HOT FUZZ (2007) IS HILARIOUSLY AWESOME!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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