The Reel Rejects - THE WORLD'S END (2013) IS SEVERELY UNDERRATED!! MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:01:34 and so you can get notified until a new video is coming out. Yes, thank you very much. Prepper, thanks for down these highlights. You've been doing an amazing job. Really, really appreciate it. All right. Well, Aaron, what's the first thing that comes to mind when Tom and thinking about this experience we just had?

Starting point is 00:01:53 Fun, surprising, heartfelt, real. exciting those are those are more than one thing but i felt all of them simultaneously um this was a lot of fun i think that this is probably my second favorite of the three i mean shone of the dead this one of them hot fuzz being the third place there but yeah it was definitely far from what i expected i didn't remember a single thing about the movie i thought the ending was unexpected and exciting um if they had a a spinoff i doubt it because you know we haven't heard anything about any continuation on this since then it's part of a trilogy but um yeah the way it was shot the way it was character driven and then the hard pivot into the sci-fi

Starting point is 00:02:41 setting which only put our characters in a situation that heightened the immediacy of the drama they were experiencing and then in contrast with you know what the reason they were there in the first place with um going on the pub and then how that became heightened because of the situation I just thought it was all really well done. For a second I was like, okay, I think this alien plot is kind of hijacking the character-driven thing which brought us here in the first place and definitely came as a surprise once the movie took that turn, but they found ways to weave that back into the narrative, which only made the central point of them being there more sad and, yeah, poignant to a place that it, you know,

Starting point is 00:03:24 allowed us to have an arc that was fulfilling, that made sense. coming from a real place but they did it in an unconventional way which i really appreciated yeah but yeah those are um my shot my thoughts in short Greg what did you think i would probably agree with you on the ranking uh as i i think all three of these are are amazing films yeah all three are incredible and it sucks when you rank and how when people receive a ranking how like interpretations come down to it as if like we're putting a film down um and i know hot fuzz is often cited as people's favorite and it's usually between shot shonda then hot fuzz like which one is the person's favorite and hot fuzz often takes the cake but for me i would

Starting point is 00:04:09 i would actually put this as the the second amongst the three hop fos is amazing um but in terms and i think each one of them provides something a very different i think even hot fuzz is probably the the sharpest one in and the most refined in terms of the Edgar right style um And in terms of like messing with genre as well, this one really did something different where it told it the other two are kind of like a riff on a very specific type of film and this has its own story about a guy who's an alcoholic stuck in the past unable to move forward and it's a road trip movie. It's a buddy movie with this alien turn that occurs halfway through. And I was, like, when the moment came, I wasn't even sure what was about to happen. Yeah. And it was like, oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:05:04 I thought, my mind kept saying it's an alien movie. I didn't realize it was like this like robot thingy movie. And but yeah, for sure when I was younger, the nuance and the emotional depth. It's like it's easier at any age that I think to absorb a hot fuzz or Sean of the Dead versus like an experience such as this, which is a lot more mature in what they are. deal like the like he's uh you see that gary even like tried ending his life at one point he harmed himself and and the struggle of like massive depression and the pain and i like how the action scenes and the the adventure they get thrown into pull this out of them yeah um pull out like the anguish and the physical struggle pulls out the emotional struggles that they have with each other

Starting point is 00:05:56 and I appreciate too how like the film was stylized but like I think Sean of the Dead and and hot fuzz there's no slight to them as one of the geniuses of those films is the editing and filmmaking of it really is like it draws attention you know you're very aware of the filmmaking flourishes and the transitions and while there were so many times we appreciated it this one I actually found myself thinking about that less as the movie went on whereas it really feels like a staple of the character and i like if anything was to be a restraint on the egg of right direction i'm like i guess that would qualify as restraint even though this movie is still just as composed and uh thought out that it does feel like the

Starting point is 00:06:44 the more adult version even right down to them having a dramatic blowout at the end and i I love how Simon Pegg and Nick Frost all three of these films have managed to embody three different characters. It's really easy to just maybe have them show up and be like, play your type. Play the type we like. And we often do that with

Starting point is 00:07:04 American actors, you know, especially when we have a duo work together again. Like for a long time there was like the Apatow crew. A long time there was Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson to play a Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson type. Shit like that. And this trilogy, they're not playing.

Starting point is 00:07:20 a type. They're playing, they really are embodying these, these characters. And it was super impressive watching their performances here because Nick Frost is a, it's a complete 180. Like, this is, this is in some ways a more drunken, depressed version of what a Sean could have turned into for, for, for Simon Pegg's character, right? Like, because Sean is like a slacker and loves to drink. And in some ways, they're like, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like an old version of him. Not exactly the same guy, but you can see some of those shades. Whereas Nick Frost is like a pendulum swing from what he did in Hot Fuzz and John Debt.

Starting point is 00:08:03 Right? Like, it's so different. And he's so freaking believable at the same time. Yeah, I love the, I love this one. Kind of a lot. Yeah, same. I was like, why is this one so slept on? This is definitely underrated.

Starting point is 00:08:18 And yeah, I think this is arguably Nick Frost's strongest performance because he does have to carry the dramatic weight of, you know, the history that those two characters have gone through. Coupled with, you know, using that anger coming from a real place to then essentially the comedy as well. And I feel like because he got to play a lot of those different shades, it not only speaks to his ability as an actor, both within this film, but in comparison to those other films. because he is more of the comic relief, kind of dumber, slacker. And, you know, he's good at playing those roles, but I do enjoy seeing him within the context of this one. And they both have kind of gone through their own experiences with pain. Obviously, Gary with, you know, him being stuck in the past,

Starting point is 00:09:07 once we lived the glory days, him coming out of the hospital. And Nick Frost, having lost his wife and his family and his kids, and then kind of relapsing back in alcoholism over the course of the film because of the events that have happened. So they both have been carrying this thing with them, whereas Simon Pegg's character is more avoiding and not wanting to face all of those things.

Starting point is 00:09:32 I guess they're both not really wanted to face it, but coming from two different places. I think that the way it was executed and using their personal plights as the defense of humanity that we have the right as people to go through trials and tribulations, and fuck up and which is you know our weird our right as humans to be able to do that and the alien was like you guys are lost cause screw it but in a weird way being more connected has kind of messed us up on on some levels that you know previous versions of uh or previous generations of humanity they had to experience i don't know it's it's a pro and cons one level we're all connected on the other side you know, we're, I don't know, more,

Starting point is 00:10:19 we're, technology has enlightened us, but has also made us more cynical. I don't know, there's a larger conversation there. But I think that kind of to, I think it's something you touched on a little bit is that with this being us watching in 2025, as opposed to watching in 2013 when it came out, we're allowed, I'll be able to pick up on a lot more of those themes

Starting point is 00:10:40 because we have grown up both of individuals. I just turned 30. Greg is 47 and we're you know we we've been there we've you know he's he's a gray hair now I'm proud of him getting a prostate exam today that's beautiful to come yeah yeah come come on but uh yeah I I've seen the Gary Kings you know and you know but the high school washouts and it's interesting that, you know, even though it takes place in England, that type of guy, the type of architect

Starting point is 00:11:19 does exist all over the world. And, yeah, I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it as much as Sean of the Dead. I know I said it's in a ranking system, but like, Sean of Dead was here at World's End was right here. Because if, like, they're doing similar things about addressing potential and pain, but executing it in a very different ways.

Starting point is 00:11:39 Yeah, fully. And the writing on this was so good because you really, You really, all three of them are really good at it. I think this screenplay, this one's obviously the most character-driven. Even if it's not your favorite one, I think there's no question about it. It's like an objective point that this is the most character-driven one out of the three. And the way they handle the dialogue between them all, it doesn't feel like exposition.

Starting point is 00:12:09 There's a natural way that they're delivering exposition that is telling. of the characters like you're watching the begrudgingness of them being here them not even really understanding what got them to agree to come here and then through reliving and recounting certain stories of yeah there is this ultimately there is a kinship and that it's not so black and white the memories shared between them while there's obviously some darkness and some you know resentment in place for them especially towards the Andy character Gary character I mean the the history between them really shines like the the script on them is is so well done that I really felt like they were friends from way back when and I could see what they were saying

Starting point is 00:13:03 a lot of the time like they were painting a good picture because as they're recounting the memories and saying stuff there's so much emotion behind how they're saying it that it's painting a picture of their past and i think like having that very elongated uh opening to show the fun and to capture that 90s style esk of the the life that they had does aid in uh being able to imagine um but yeah this is uh this is a really impressive trilogy too you know like there are thematic similarities as we were talking during it uh thematic similarities of the hive mine small towns pubs, friendship. There's like a lot of bromance stuff

Starting point is 00:13:46 in all three of these. That's a really big prevailing quality as well. I'm sure there's like other things. And I mean, there are characters who you wouldn't expect that turn into action heroes. Nicholas in Hot Fuzz is obviously the most overt action hero, but Nick Frost was able to become that in Hot Fuzz. All three of them have different types of violence,

Starting point is 00:14:06 different types of action, but that is a through line. There is a sort of thing. here to all three are small town banality type of lifestyle you know normal routine mundanity that eventually some inciting incident happens that turns this whole thing upside down you know so i think this is like cool complementary pieces that they that they provide and i didn't i mean this is the first one where i noticed the lighting a lot and it got progressively more green to reflect the mint chip or whatever the hell flavor this one is and also you know alien sci-fi shit and i don't know if there is like a specific lighting color to the other two i i didn't i didn't notice that i don't

Starting point is 00:14:52 think pick up on that yeah i think it's it's easier for me to notice that with a movie like this especially because like the matrix i can recall being the first movie i really noticed that um like a color association because it's reflecting the matrix numbers yada yada yada and sci-fi alien so of course some notice i'm more likely to pick up on something like that so that was really cool and also the additional characters in here were all excellent patty constantine uh you know as steve is obviously a really big contribution to it i love martin freeman getting actually be a character this time versus a cameo he like he's he got a small cameo on the first one a bigger came on the second one now he's an actual character here i don't know who is the other guy the one who was who was bullied

Starting point is 00:15:37 I know the actor I can't remember his name but he's really good yeah he's amazing too like when he was being abducted I was feeling really sad it's cool how they found ways of each one of them

Starting point is 00:15:48 gets an opportunity to confront their past like Nick Frost and Simon Pegg is very much in them being is in their friendship and resolving that the riff that happened there

Starting point is 00:15:59 the one guy going up against the bully and watching how that has probably held him back so much in life you know and Steve getting the girl

Starting point is 00:16:10 the love of his life not so much for Martin Freeman but everyone else I like Pierce Broson's cameo I think he brings a lot of presence to it the fight scenes were surprisingly really cool

Starting point is 00:16:22 like they were they were pretty awesome I know a lot of people love like the gun action of hot fuzz but I personally like the action more here than hot fuzz no that's probably the hottest take to say but I agree with you I prefer the action here than hot fuzz

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Starting point is 00:18:19 That's 20% off with code rejects at liquid iv.com. Thank you again, Liquid Ivy for sponsoring this video and making my day-to-day so much better. Hmm, you said one thing that I think I may have to disagree with you a bit a little bit, was. the I felt like this one when it comes to character development is probably like a second into Sean of the Dead because Sean of the Dead that's like the inciting first scene and then you know that circumstance is what brings him to the point of leadership and it's a and each situation plays into you know him confronting these different aspects of his life and the subtext and history behind those things but it's that it's coupled with the growing

Starting point is 00:19:01 theme or the growing circumstance of the zombie apocalypse which finally comes into full frame when he's with Nick Frost's character. I think this one and I'm tossed right I'm tossed because well first of all this does I agree with you on the front that this is super character focused and they do pin a vivid picture of their history but part of me wonders if the tension of what they were facing and the mystery of it would have been more impactful

Starting point is 00:19:28 if they kind of did a similar thing with Sean of the Dead were like they're hinting that something's wrong versus the abrupt twist that oh no this is a different kind of movie now and I'm debating in my brain which I would like better I like the way it was executed here but I feel like there was a part a point of the movie where it came

Starting point is 00:19:44 them reacting to what was going on and then it brought it back to the character focus but for like a small portion of the film that wasn't what was going on it was mainly like focusing on action and focusing on yeah them trying to figure out what the circumstance was

Starting point is 00:20:00 but yeah i still think it's my second favorite still think it's great i think there's a bit of a mixed bag for me like this is not black and white when the transition happens from the big uh bathroom fight scene and then when they decide to proceed with the journey where it might have been a little too just a tad i was feeling a tad where i'm like i feel like you guys would be a lot more scared or a lot more tense about this situation and I thought like it wasn't I felt like it could have leaned more into the the tension and the fear and the what the fuck's going on with these characters a little bit more like the first thing Nick Frost says when the bathroom fights done is I can't believe you lied about your mom yeah and like that's funny it's funny but that was the first time I was like I don't believe this person would say that in this moment yeah it was more joke than realistic moment yeah because of uh like you guys just encounter some type of alien thing where you killed a bunch of teenagers you know yeah and he's sober in this moment too so um i like i get it

Starting point is 00:21:13 i i can understand the intellectualizing of that character in that particular scene but it was a moment that did slightly pull me out of seems like you're going for the joke here when i don't think that's what the character would have real i don't think any of these characters i think all you guys would just be solely focused on the alien shit. So, yeah, it was like a couple minutes there, but, you know, they're all, like, inebriated for the most part. So a lot becomes a little bit more forgiving. But, yeah, no, I mean, I like that's flawed.

Starting point is 00:21:43 I like, but I like the flaws of it. And I like, that's part of the theme of the movie. You know, I was hearing a talk about it, I think, like, just this morning. Yeah, it was just this morning about what one of the problems is with AI as we're learning our relationship with AI is we hear so much about it was Simon Sinek on Diary with the CEO and he was saying that um so much of the we hear so much about it's not about the destination it's about the journey but AI is all about the destination and as i was listening to get my brain thing about how it's on the journey that's where you that's who you're it's about who you're becoming on the journey

Starting point is 00:22:26 the skills you develop on the journey the mistakes that you make that make you who you are today the flaws are a part of the fact that you're not perfect and perfection is hollow a perfection is like imagine if everyone's just using chat ubt to text each other and email each other and every art design is being completely polished via through AI or done via through AI if everything is like missing that that that like part of the flaw is part of the beauty and the tangibility and the connectivity is having some of that mess in there and i like that this movie is saying like that's what humanity is all about is is having these things and you know you're watching andy gary accept himself through this process as he's defending humanity he's also

Starting point is 00:23:16 defending himself simultaneously because he is coming to terms with like it's okay to have these flaws it's okay to have these imperfections and i have to accept that about myself so i can move forward so there is a beauty i think to the messaging here yeah these characters you know yeah and it's done that very believable way and i appreciated the the film for doing that i think that's yeah it this was made in 2013 or came out in 2013 and then we're experiencing it from us being like the height of yeah the rise of ai and i think even i don't they never inherently or outright say i i in this movie but whenever i see these kind of plots i'm like well what's the point you're getting rid of you know a lot of humanity for the sake of peace and and you know

Starting point is 00:24:03 to be part of the galactic empire but if everything is fake and part of this this society where everything is it is so smooth i don't know like it speaks to that what is the point of anything if you know we're all just co-living for pleasantries i don't know it just seems odd to me you're just like a farm of docile beings that are just spread across the galaxy for the sake of just existing i don't it did i don't know i never understood if a i is all about the end game what is the purpose of the end game yeah well the journey is what makes up the end game no the journey exactly it's all about the journey it's all the growth well um i hope a i edited this video well thank you guys for joining us on this cornetto trilogy yeah thank you for being with a

Starting point is 00:24:56 us and of course we got some patron questions that came in we release our shooting schedule to our patrons and uh then we say submit a question and we got three here from them so first royal reject question b j king oh we did answer this um out of all three of the films which one is your standout i personally love this last one it flows so well i mean i guess to add on like we've already been saying it will probably rank for us to add on i would say like this is probably the one i'll i'll probably find myself thinking about more versus the uh the other two which are just like zeitgeist accepted as glorious masterpieces of cinema like this is the one that is the least talked about i i think for me though i'll go back to sean of the dead in this one the

Starting point is 00:25:45 most i think this is the most fun of the three or i think sean of the dead is the most inspiring and most impressive oh really i think shana dead is the most one um i think shonda dead hits all the heights for me like i think it hits every single thing it's fucking tight it's chris yeah no yeah i think i think it's a it's a excellent film it's it's classic and held in high regard for a reason but i feel like this movie also deserves more love thousand percent thousand percent and uh i can see how it's like harder to advertise movie and it's also very like we said it during it's it's the most like british one of them all where you can see how hot fuzz and Sean of the Dead could be popular in the

Starting point is 00:26:21 States. This feels more specifically British in a lot of its style, which is not really a hindrance. We watch plenty of things that are that, you know. But I don't know if I don't really, I don't really know why it didn't do well. Just throwing some guesses. Nicola O'Neill, thank you for

Starting point is 00:26:37 the question. Thank you, Nicola. Do you have a night out from your youth that you hold on a pedestal the way Gary does in the world's end? do you have one i have one i think i have one i think i do yeah it was i want to say 2015 2016 anime expo here in los angeles and you know me and my friends got into shenanigans you know alcohol and and vegetables and i went to a rave uh that was an anime expo and we were dance to uh the music but in like a fight style so we would like dance fight with each

Starting point is 00:27:12 other. And then if you guys have seen Dragon Ball Z, we were dance fighting. And then me and my other friend were like building up blast. And then the entire audience started turning towards us. And we were both like charging our blast to the beat of the music. And then the entire audience gave us their energy to like support the blast. And I didn't get mine on the beat so that my attack failed. Then my friend held up a spirit bomb. And then literally this crowd full of 100 plus people all just start putting their hands up towards my friend and she throws the bomb and destroys me and it was a beautiful glorious night that I will never forget. Is it exactly getting pissed drunk like this? No, but it was a night out and it will stay in my heart forever. Wow. Mine would be eighth grade

Starting point is 00:27:57 dance. I did not, I went to high school for like six months. I didn't really have a high school life obviously. Really? I don't know that. Yeah, I went to high school for like six months. I don't have a diploma um don't have a degree obviously and eighth grade dance went to the same like some left some new people but the first there was mainly like the same 25 kids it was a small small glass uh from first to eighth grade and i'm still super close friends with a small handful of them john being part of that camp and uh like i just solved like one of them another one of them works with us behind the scenes you know like i'm really close with uh like two more of them as well and eighth grade dance was like the first dance i ever went to i was really nervous

Starting point is 00:28:43 uh it is the time of the day where i'm like oh my god i'm gonna take this girl out i have a crush on her i was i'm hell and nervous and uh my friend and i who one of the ones i'm still super close with we choreographed a whole dance as strangers in the night by um frank sinatra um yeah first first i don't know i was my first kid technically yeah it's like a little peck on the lips and yeah but the the experience i remember that and a couple days later we graduated and and that i remember feeling like incredibly depressed after it ended in like i was nominated funniest kid in class it was like 30 of i suppose i was the funniest kid and i had a lot of stand out like all my school memories are from there

Starting point is 00:29:31 and i have i have so many fond memories of it and i i feel like there's after eighth grade and that then i'm an adult like there's such like a gap there like i'm missing to the progression that everyone has from like high school to maybe college and uh yeah so for me it is like there's this big gap in between but eighth grade yeah that's the second you ask i'm like a thousand percent eighth grade dance for sure um yeah but i haven't had yeah and i think for the question and the last one andrew laxton um from both of you what is your go-to beer and go-to liquor drink great way to end off these questions ah well i got two go-to beer is mango cart it's delicious love me a mangoy drink um second place will probably be uh what's it called um third place is going to be

Starting point is 00:30:20 uh presco not prececo what is it uh what's the the the beer that's from japan uh soccer soporo there it is and second place is modello uh favorite alcoholic drink either a roman cook or a long island iced tea yeah yeah yeah too man uh well i don't like beer honestly really don't and i haven't had a drink in almost six months good amount of time and but when i was it would be uh vodka cranberry a very simple girl i love a good vodka cranberry uh but yeah no i mean not having had a drink in six months it felt pretty good you do see like even if you you only do it on the weekends like you do see like a big difference in your mentality and physicality

Starting point is 00:31:11 and your energy when swinging back into monday you're like oh yeah actually quitting drinking no i don't i genuinely don't feel like i had a problem um but doing it for health reasons and dieting reasons i have noticed like a big difference come monday like oh i can function monday yeah um you feel like you'll have a drink again yeah sure i'll have a drink yeah okay but I'm not chomping at the bit, too. I'd like to see how long I can go for without having a dream. Oh, yeah. Maybe it was wait for, like, a truly special occasion.

Starting point is 00:31:42 I do fear that I will binge, though, if I do it. Like, I fear that, like, I'll have one. And because I'm a very extreme guy, which can be great and bad. And a part of me is worried that I'll have one drink and be like, well, well, that's because you keep going. Yeah. So, yeah, it is a, it is a, uh, very prospect to be so i'd rather steer clear of drinking uh for now but yeah anyway thank you guys so much where would you guys rank the cornetto trilogy please uh leave the comments down below thanks

Starting point is 00:32:18 to our royal rejects for submitting these cues and hey maybe we'll cover baby driver next yeah because uh i have covered scott pilgrim here first time watch here and i loved it and uh then there's baby driver then there's the other one though i can't i really can't that what it is guy can not pull the name for the life of me i'm like what is that called all the reason i know i just looked at it recently okay yeah uh so yeah those would be the next two eager right films and uh we'll let you know if we get them yeah see you

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