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Seeing Angel and Danny go full John Wick mode on a bunch of elderly villagers who are all suddenly armed to the teeth is the funniest thing I've ever watched in any form of media.
Also Nicholas Angel is probably Simon Pegg's best performance because it's so different compared to the other characters he plays. After Shaun of the Dead you'd never believe for 10 seconds Simon Pegg could play basically John Wick if he was a cop, but from scene one I believe it, from the slightly deeper tone of voice he speaks in, to that stern look he keeps on his face for most of the film, the guy oozes professionalism and skill. That takes serious acting range.
Simon Pegg has found out how difficult it is to make it in Hollywood without being typecast. He's done some movies where he isn't the comedy relief but they're rare.
Hot Fuzz is just so fantastic. Every time you watch it, something new comes out. Also, Nick Frost pulling out the baton when approaching the swan and Simon being like "no man" is so damn good.
@@sirenofthesea7802 Honestly, a full grown Canada Goose could probably break your arm (if it didn't bite your fingers off first), but swans are bigger and stronger, and possibly also meaner, though I've never bothered getting close enough to one to find out. I grew up near a Canadian National Park with a lot of wetlands, and learned at an early age to stay clear of the waterfowl, because they all want to kill you.
I liked how Pegg and Frost weren't just playing their characters from "Shaun of the Dead" or "Spaced", but they took care to give them different personalities.
One thing I like about The World's End is that they switch roles, Pegg plays the irresponsible/childish one while Frost plays the more sensible one with his head instead of vice versa in this one and in the first they were both somewhere in the middle?
@@gRinchY-op5vr Indeed. And I was very impressed that Frost could pull that off since I hadn’t seen him in that kind of role before. Say what you will about TWE, they pushed themselves to try something new an different, just as Hot Fuzz was.
This both really enjoy the chances to push themselves. I get sad sometimes that Frost is overlooked. He could have had Mark Addy's career but he gets stereotyped a bit too much.
Hot Fuzz is quite possibly the most efficiently written film I have ever seen. Nearly every bit of information has some kind of point and call back. And the constant barrage of jokes, even in the background, felt like the old Zucker Brothers films, e.g. Airplane and Naked Gun
What's crazy is how those kind of films always seem to portray culture more efficiently than deliberately "realistic" films. This film is so English it has free tea bags with it.
With his peace lily, the peace lily is a notoriously hearty plant that requires very little attention. Nicholas' lack of interpersonal connections are perfect for that plant, because he can neglect it for weeks and only water it once it starts to wilt. The peace lily is also a symbol of death, being a common mourning and funeral flower.
All of Stephen King's stories do take place in the same universe and it's quite funny that all the terrible things that happen get a grumble, a shake of the fist and a "well a least it won't happen here" in the first one-hundred pages.
@@aceundead4750 they can do but eventually the King effect will come into play. They can leave but eventually they end up back in Maine or their surroundings somehow become Maine. It's being looked into.
Ryan said "the greater good" and didn't immediately follow it up with the scene of all the villains saying "the greater good." Pretty sure theres laws against that.
I kind of like that Wright, Pegg and Frost managed to include all three major genres of whodunnits - the US action movie, the British sleepy town murder mystery and the classic brutally gory slasher genre. People forget that a lot of the early slasher films and giallo was originally a whodunnit genre, before it became supernatural invincible slashers with Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy. Heck, the first Friday the 13th is technically a whodunnit.
I feel like this never gets talked about, but the opening to this movie is one of the best openings I’ve ever seen. From Martin Freeman’s brilliantly delivered monologue, to the over the top visuals, to the unnecessarily long walk at the beginning. I love it, so much.
This was my favorite other Cornetto trilogy. It showed that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can change up their acting style. Timothy Dalton was fantastic at the villain.
"When's your birthday?" - "22nd of February" "What year?" - "*Every* year." Unironically one of my favourite movie exchanges, makes me laugh every time!
here in Mexico, we have a say: "small town, big Hell". the motivations of the neighbors cult is not that shocking if you know rural towns's social structures.
Very true - I grew up in a series of small Northern Ontario towns and HOO BOY there's some serious pettiness going on under that idyllic surface! I wouldn't have been shocked if a couple of my home towns had a cult like this one, tbh...
I go to the small towns in northern US where my parents are from and “Small town, big Hell” is right! People don’t have lives so they just gossip and talk about you behind your back but since there’s only 40 people it’s constant and you can’t stop it and it just wears you down.
@@sugarbaby1974 Hey, a fellow survivor of small town Ontario! It's truly amazing how so few people can manage to cause so much trouble for each other, just because they have nothing else to do.
@@sugarbaby1974Miss Marple was such a good detective precisely because she'd seen fifty-sixty years worth of small village hell barely hidden behind polite facades, to the point that almost any crime the police asked for help solving, no matter how intricate and elaborate, were all things that she'd already seen some version or another happen at least once before in her lifetime, and the little old knitting lady knows a pattern when she sees one.
I still quote lines from this film out loud from time to time, one of my favorites being "Come off it Frank, ya silly bastard!" Also that final brawl in the model village is enhanced further when you remember that that's a former James Bond that Simon Pegg is throwing down with. Epic.
The script is so amazingly tight! Every single line of dialogue is set-up for something later, making the second half just a spectacular array of dopamine hits. It’s just so good! I love this movie!
I love how Edgar Wright perfectly captured the look and feel of your average buddy cop film in the first half, which makes the more insane and unexpected twist in the second half all the more impactful and hilarious.
If you have the means, definitely get the DVD version of this movie. There's a bonus subtitle track called "Fuzz Facts" that gives Pop-Up Video style commentary on filming locations, how certain shots were created, easter eggs, and whatever else Edgar Wright felt like including. It's really cool and adds a lot of insight into just how meticulous this film is. The World's End has it as a bonus feature too.
I adore everything about Hot Fuzz. Funny note: on my last watch I finally wondered what the hell they meant when they said Blower and Draper were "decaffeinated" and not decapitated. Found that to be a clever English way of saying "to lose one's head". Just another witty bit to love about this movie. 😎
Never thought I'd see someone explain Midsommer Murders on youtube. Amazing. The person getting murdered with a giant block of cheese will always stick in my mind!
Gonna assume the clip of pre-fame Orlando Bloom getting pitchforked was a conscious choice and that either you or your editor is a huge MM fan =) I love how rooted Hot Fuzz is in the very British tradition of slightly flippant whodunnits. Having seen a US journalist get the vapours over a Dr Who episode (the one about Agatha Christie) that adopted the same tone, I think it's one area where the difference between US and UK culture is most prominent, and that's probably a big part of Hot Fuzz's transatlantic appeal - it's absurd to viewers in both cultures, for different but complementary reasons.
Im a North American who first discovered Hot Fuzz while living in the UK. It’s stayed my favourite film from that moment on. It’s simply a masterpiece without an equal ❤️
God I love this movie so much. I rewatched it again after the Sean of the Dead video. An entire video could be made about Hot Fuzz just picking apart all of the little Easter eggs, allusions, and homages to action and murder-mystery pop culture. For instance, the actor who played Tom Weaver (the guy watching all of the security cams for the Neighborhood Watch Alliance) is none other than Edward Woodward, who played police sergeant Neil Howie in the original The Wicker Man.
In American fiction, the tendency for a single small town in a long-running detective series to have an absurd body count higher than the population of the town, is known as Cabot Cove syndrome, after the small town in Murder She Wrote, A staggering long-running American detective series, set in a small town on the New England coast, that had a similar vibe to Midsomer Murders (which thanks to PBS is relatively popular in the US. What are a struck me as an American viewer wasn't so much the amount of murder going on in this small county, it was just how much of it involved weird cult stuff. You okay over there? lol.)
i saw this movie for the first time when i was probably about 12 years old. the violent scene at the church made me feel sick and stuck with me for a long time. now i’m a horror fanatic and have become desensitized to gore in media lol
I loved the scene with the "deactivated" sea mine. Just the off hand way he hit the thing like it was just a door or something and not something that would have liquefied his bones
Little known fact: the number one cause of death in the UK is murder mystery... Midsomer Murders rocks, and is considered part of the slasher film sub-genre in my own little mind. Also, three of my favourite British films of all-time are - I like to imagine - part of, “The Dark Britannia Trilogy” which consists of the gruesomely hilarious Trainspotting, Snatch, and Hot Fuzz. Thanks for making videos eh.
It was the twist ending that solidified this film as one of the best for me. The trading of the grand conspiracy for the benign truth. It was so perfectly absurd yet frighteningly real. Thanks for shedding light on the uk murder mystery shows for those of us across the pond who never got to connect those dots! 🇨🇦 😊 A new level of appreciation for this already perfect movie.
Hot Fuzz is comedic Breaking Bad. A masterclass in checkov's gun (every setup has a payoff both in character moments and in comedic dialogue) but is brutal and in your face about what it is and what it's doing. 10/10 movie. Ryan has good taste ✌️
Hot Fuzz is a masterclass on film-making and editing on almost every level. There isn't a moment of "waste" in the run-time or characterisation. The ultimate "de-romantisization" is exposing the banality of evil rather than elevating it and the evildoers as many slasher/serial killer films do.
Ah, the absolute best of the Cornetto Trilogy with so much insane rewatch value I can stop myself....Also Simon Pegg's face during the Romeo and Juliet Song scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seene.
Can't wait for you to cover World's End, arguably the least appreciated of the three but, for my money's worth, EASILY the most emotionally resonant. It kicked me in the ass then, and it's somehow even more painful 10 years on. Gotta love it!
I’m an American and love both Midsomer murders and Father Brown. We watched it so much my daughter told a teacher at her school, who happened to be English, that he sounded like Barnaby.
@@LWolf12 my mom read and watched Poirot for years, so that started me on English murder mysteries. On twitter I shared Ayo Edibiri’s interview where she shared her love for English murder mysteries, and listed Father Brown in my favorites, and the man who plays good fellow liked it!
@@kaitlynhall2112That's pretty awesome. I like those kind of mystery stories as well, reason I love the Detective Conan & Moriarty the Patriot animes. I know my mom likes Poirot as well. She's always telling me about stuff he says or does in one of the movies she's watching. I must say, I wasn't sure if I'd like Moriarty the Patriot or not, since I'm not the biggest fan or rewriting the villain as the good guy. However, they did it well enough, Holmes is still cast as the hero, but they made Moriarty a villain, but driven by what he sees as good intentions, ending the class-based society he lives in.
I've never seen the final one, but of the two I have seen I also think this is the strongest Cornetto movie. Constantly delivering fantastic quote-worthy dialogue, a twist that makes the real danger both funny and terrible (the sight of the killed statue-artist is really the perfect shot of absurdity to cushion the blow of the "oh shit these xenophobic old maniacs have been murdering the HELL out of people without any consequences"-realisation), and the action, the way they ACTUALLY get the "jump through the air while firing dual pistols"-shot and to top it all off... the humble swan tying it all together. If more film-makers who made action-comedies aimed for Hot Fuzz's height, the world would be a better place.
"Imagine if all of Stephen King's stories take place in the same universe" ...... They do. At least, the vast majority of them do. They even interact with each other on tons of occasions. Most of his books have crossover characters.
reading Misery and the newspaper's like "The overlook hotel just burned down!!!" will always stick with me 'cause it gave me such a "What the fuck!!!!!!" moment
I was thinking the same thing and was hoping someone else brought it up in the comments. Hell, the entire concept behind The Dark Tower series is that is about the “device” holding all of his worlds together being threatened.
The odd distinction between gruesome murders and gruesome accidents is one I can relate to. Every so often, and slightly more so since the pandemic I see an intersection with emergency stuff going on (occasionally even seeing the bodies as I decipher the path around them), and yet the only deaths the news ever reports on is "teenager found dead" or "cops shoot robber", despite the accidents being more useful things to know about, both as lessons for how to be careful in their own driving (LOL, as if) and as notice for where the traffic will suck.
I love the fact that your analogy of Midsomer Murders would be if all of Stephen King's stories took place in the same location and no commented on the body count. That's just Murder, She Wrote which was weekly murder in a small Maine town.
I saw my first episode of Midsomer Murders recently. It was playing on American PBS TV. I saw the first half of an episode, full of twists and turns, so I later looked it up to finish the story and watched one more episode after that. Wow. The plot twists and insane number of players makes Criminal Minds looks simple! I also noticed that I was watching Season 20 or something like that. How can this small, lovely town/county have this much crazy stuff going on for TWENTY YEARS of crime drama??? It was very amusing.
Hot Fuzz is my favorite Hallmark movie! A highly-successful career-person from the city is forcibly transferred to a small-town in the country. He/she is put-off by their quirky, rural-values but is eased into it with the help of a friend/love-interest. All while a takeover from the city goes on in the background.
Hot fuzz is my favourite movie, I can't even tell you how many times I've watched it. The way they wrote a near constant stream of jokes/ double entendres/ call backs is just top tier. Plus the acting and characters are all great, I really fucking love this movie
I love one minor tidbit. They asked real cops what always gets overlooked in cop movies, and the overwhelming answer was “the paperwork.” So they added “the paperwork” scene at the end.
All of Stephen King's stories do infact take place in the same universe/world with the books mentioning places, people and sometimes specific events that happen in the others, for example Pennywise the dancing Clown and the town of Derry both are mentioned and show up in way more of his books than just IT
I always loved how the trilogy was able to blend comedy and tragedy, and i feel that danny recreating point break as a response to having to point the gun at not just his chief, but his father and childhood hero is a perfect example.
It's already on my family's "endless rewatch" shelf. If someone in the house shouts "t*ts!" (as we do), another responds with "c*ck!" and then we all laugh. We have filthy mouths. "You're off the dial" and "I need an ice cream" (with a Dalton lisp) are also adopted catchphrases. Even squiffy has made its way into our vocabulary. Brain freeze and "for the greater good" are also part of daily life. Even Yarp has become a regular response. $0.02
Another great video!! The only thing I would add is the clear love story between Danny and Angel. This film is my all time favourite, I’ve watched it more times than i can count and quote it daily, and STILL I notice something new on each rewatch, and find new info whenever I look it up!
I'm irrationally proud that I could name every single episode of Midsomer Murders from the short clip show of 5:36 - 7:11. I haven't watched every season yet but I've apparently watched the same ones that you have! :P EDIT: Oh, and I really appreciate your looking at this trilogy! Wright is one of my favourite directors; I just love his style, quirkiness, and humour, and I'm glad people are recognizing his storytelling skills. His ability to foreshadow is fantastic and makes his movies infinitely re-watchable. My favourite thing about the Cornetto Trilogy is that every film is completely different, satirizes entirely different tropes and is told in completely different styles, but still has the same dark humour and brilliant storytelling running throughout. I love that the same actors come back for each film in different roles and are *truly* different characters, not just an easter egg or a "hey, it's that guy" callback. The trilogy is both extremely English and yet accessible to everyone, carries relatable themes throughout, and is fun as hell!! My favourite is still SotD but I have to agree with you that HF is the best film of the trilogy in terms of storytelling and pacing. I greatly enjoy AWE more and more as I get older, but the pacing can be a bit off - still a fab film, though. :) Looking forward to your take on it!!
Thank you for summing up the Midsomer Murders parody angle so well! As an American who has actually watched that show, I always found the connections in this film so hilarious, but was never sure whether it was in my head or not.
Another testament to Wright's absolutely absurd attention to detail, theres things mentioned in this video that i missed even on repeat watches of Hot Fuzz.
Took me like half a dozen watches to realize Sgt. Angel riding in on the pale horse with the big black guns sticking up from his shoulder blades like folded wings was some symbol of him being the Angel of Death... for some reason.
I hadn’t put it together til just now, but Danny’s trick with the ketchup packet is, in essence, a form of exposure therapy. Nic admits he doesn’t ever shut off, then Danny fakes a violent stabbing then reveals that nothing horrible actually happened, leading to the first time we see Angel smile and laugh the entire film. It’s a symbol of their friendship and that trick, that friendship, saves him before the climax. brilliant movie
Sight unseen: I think part of the reason Hot Fuzz is as violent as it is is because of the "cosy" murder mystery tradition. Actually showing the reality of violent death underlines how horrific all that pointless stupid cruelty is... and the other genre which often glosses over what could be quite horrific scenes of violence if played straight? Action movies!
I honestly think Hot Fuzz is one of, if not the, best written comedies of all time. There are comedies that make me laugh more, but I can't think of another so incredibly well written. It'll have a line that's amusing in and of itself ("This is the country, everyone and their mums have guns around here..." "Like who?" "Everyone.... And their mums."), but it'll be the set-up for a great gag over 50 minutes later! ("Mum, get him!" *cue elderly woman pulling shotgun from nowhere*) That's real confidence in your writing. Knowing each gag is fun on its own, and trusting most of the audience to be smart enough to pick up on the delayed pairing for a much funnier payoff. And there are so many gags like that, big and small.
For the longest time I thought Shaun of the Dead was my favorite, but after multiple rewatches of the trilogy, the BEST film in general and current personal favorite is Hot Fuzz, Not a single second wasted, everything is something, any single moment is excellent and perfectly executed. Satire and tribute, comedy and action, tongue-in-cheek and sincere, all at the same time.
i think hot fuzz comes the closest to the idea of a "perfect" movie. its so tightly written and executed, it makes the absolute most out of its run time
One thing I did notice about the neighbourhood watch people is that they were happy to turn a blind eye to certain people breaking the law (ie underage people in the pub) but were very aggressively against lawful activity that they didn't like (eg the mime). The difference between the NW and Angel is that Angel is concerned with the former (law breaking) while the NW is concerned with the latter (looking good).
This is my favorite one of the trilogy. Its definitely the funniest and the rampage against the town people is some of the most thrilling action on film.
I love the Trilogy as a whole, although my personal favorite is The World's End. This is indeed a masterpiece; every piece matters, everything is delivered flawlessly, everything leads to its conclusion... which borders on "folk horror" or at the least a genteel reminder of Hammer films, especially those starring Christoper Lee as something other than Dracula.
Hearing Ryan and other commentators discuss their love that matches mine makes me wonder. How much of our love is it’s unique but poignant deconstruction of us work obsessives and OCPD suffers
I love that Ryan chose to show one of the funny/interesting casting of Midsummer Murder! (the episode with Orlando Bloom, before he became famous :P there is a coincidental non-important to the plot reference to Tolkien in the episode that, to this day, still baffle me)
I was brought up on murder mystery shows and cop movies, so Hot Fuzz holds a special place in my nerdy heart. What I love about HF is the amount of times I've watched it and there's always something I've forgotten about or not noticed before. And now I wanna watch Midsomer Murderers 😂 my gran always joked that you'd move if someone was murdered every bloody week lol. Also happy birthday to Agatha Christie!
one of my favorite movies of all time, and i quote it probably more than any other movie. Pegg's acting is top notch. and i also love that they shot Nicholas and Danny's deep relationship scenes like a rom com
Hot Fuzz is my favorite of the trilogy ❤. It's how Nick & Simon play off one another and the British humor is top notch. The street performer later found amongst the bodies underground = 😅😅😅
Now you're making me want to rewatch the trilogy again. I loved the first two but didn't care much for World's End when it first came out. I think I might have a different perspective on it now that I'm older, though. Looking forward to your next video on it.
American here, but my parents are huge fans of British mystery shows. They always joked about midsummer murders, that the detectives don’t actually solve the cases, they just wait till all the other suspects are killed off and there’s only one left 😂 They also wondered if there were people in the UK who preferred American cop shows, and I found Hot Fuzz I knew I had to show them Great video!
Needed 2 different people to translate the farmer is for me one of the funniest things ever filmed. We have all met old boys like that were we just don’t have a clue what they said 😂 🤣
Absolutely. Funny thing is, the movies it specifically names and spoofs are among my least favorite mass-audience movies of all time. You'd need a gun to get me to sit through Bad Boys II but I watch Hot Fuzz every few months.
I loved Hot Fuzz. As an Aussie I grew up on British crime shows like Midsomer Murders and A Touch Of Frost, and i also saw the parallels between Midsomer and Hot Fuzz.
I loved your description of Midsommer Murders because the whole time I was thinking two things. How much of a hack Ari Aster is for naming “his” movie after a successful detective series and 2) your very description is the whole basis of Cabot Cove in Murder She Wrote the second most deadliest place in Maine never-the-less the US NorthEast. The ironic “For the greater good” reminded me of the WandaVision cringy “For The Children” which the later hypocrisy was later pointed out by Vision when he realized there weren’t any other children. This is a brilliant film and one of the reasons I wish the world would have been blessed with the pleasure of watching what EW would have done with Ant-Man instead of the milk toast garbage we ended up with. Thank you for doing this these films, Great Job.
props to Ryan for setting up the "Greater Good" joke but NOT play said clip to maintain the tone of the video. i genuinely expected once he said that line for the scene to play
Fair comparison, but I think the Midsummer place would be better off compared to Cabot Cove, the main town in Murder, She Wrote. That place may as well be the murder capital of the country, considering it went on for 12 seasons!
Agatha Christie started the tradition, (just how many murders could one clever, gossippy, spinster possibly run into by chance?), and Midsommer continues it with style. Never annoy your quiet, small town British neighbours!
I love how the first half leans so heavily into the comedy it makes that dark violent turn in the second half even more jarring. It almost entirely drops the comedy at points.
Great video Ryan, for those who don't know the movie was filmed in the county of 'Somerset' mainly in Wright's childhood city of Wells (which happens to be one of the smallest cities in the UK). The place is tiny and it's really cool walking around there and pointing out all the locations you see in the film.
Me (American) watching this with my (British) significant other was such a blast! A British setting and sense of humour combined with the very American subgenre of action films is just *chefs kiss*
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Easy, the house of 1000 corpses and its sequels, idk why we havent seen that, Ryan, surprises me
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Spooky season is upon us, Ryan! I’d love to see a video on Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass & Stephen King’s Storm of the Century.
Seeing a video on any Paul Thomas Anderson film would be a blessing
As Above, So Below (2014)
Mr. Jones (2013)
Underworld series (2003-2017)
Soulmate (2013)
Spike (2008)
Bernard Rose's Frankenstein (2015)
Dracula 2000
I love the detail that during the final fight, despite all the guns and bullets, they actually manage to not kill anyone.
and timmy d's mugshot. so good.
British police innit
Some pretty gruesome injuries, though…
@@joelnotsure2871the priest caught a slug to the side of the neck
Do Baby Driver. No reason I just love that movie.
Seeing Angel and Danny go full John Wick mode on a bunch of elderly villagers who are all suddenly armed to the teeth is the funniest thing I've ever watched in any form of media.
I lost my shit entirely when the priest drew his guns.
Well he isn't called "Reverend Shooter" for nothing.
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@@demizson576 I LEGIT FORGOT ABOUT THAT OMG
"I may not be a man of God, but I know right and wrong, and I have a talent at telling the 2 apart."
Suddenly? Didn't you hear, everyone and their mums is packing around here
Also Nicholas Angel is probably Simon Pegg's best performance because it's so different compared to the other characters he plays. After Shaun of the Dead you'd never believe for 10 seconds Simon Pegg could play basically John Wick if he was a cop, but from scene one I believe it, from the slightly deeper tone of voice he speaks in, to that stern look he keeps on his face for most of the film, the guy oozes professionalism and skill. That takes serious acting range.
Simon Pegg has found out how difficult it is to make it in Hollywood without being typecast. He's done some movies where he isn't the comedy relief but they're rare.
I think his best performance was on The World's End, probably because is my favorite of the Trilogy
Hot Fuzz is just so fantastic. Every time you watch it, something new comes out.
Also, Nick Frost pulling out the baton when approaching the swan and Simon being like "no man" is so damn good.
One if my top 3 fav scenes of the movie honestly.
Proof Angel has never been near a swan before. That’s a very valid precaution.
@@theloverlyladylo9158 Couldn't a swan break a grown man's arm? Or am I remembering wrong & it's a goose who's that strong?
@@sirenofthesea7802 Honestly, a full grown Canada Goose could probably break your arm (if it didn't bite your fingers off first), but swans are bigger and stronger, and possibly also meaner, though I've never bothered getting close enough to one to find out. I grew up near a Canadian National Park with a lot of wetlands, and learned at an early age to stay clear of the waterfowl, because they all want to kill you.
"He's a fridge magnate."
When people say it isn't a horror movie: "Leslie Tiller was fucking murdered!"
Still no luck catching them killers, then?
SO you're saying, this _wasn't an accident_
Like George Merchant?
Oooh murder, murder, murder! Change the fucking record!
@@AllG98 *(clink!)*
I liked how Pegg and Frost weren't just playing their characters from "Shaun of the Dead" or "Spaced", but they took care to give them different personalities.
One thing I like about The World's End is that they switch roles, Pegg plays the irresponsible/childish one while Frost plays the more sensible one with his head instead of vice versa in this one and in the first they were both somewhere in the middle?
@@gRinchY-op5vr Indeed. And I was very impressed that Frost could pull that off since I hadn’t seen him in that kind of role before. Say what you will about TWE, they pushed themselves to try something new an different, just as Hot Fuzz was.
This both really enjoy the chances to push themselves. I get sad sometimes that Frost is overlooked. He could have had Mark Addy's career but he gets stereotyped a bit too much.
@@gRinchY-op5vrjust goes to show their range as actors is pretty outstanding.
Yes and they take it a step further in world's end as Frost is arguably the more sensible and mature character of the two 🤔
Hot Fuzz is quite possibly the most efficiently written film I have ever seen.
Nearly every bit of information has some kind of point and call back.
And the constant barrage of jokes, even in the background, felt like the old Zucker Brothers films, e.g. Airplane and Naked Gun
What's crazy is how those kind of films always seem to portray culture more efficiently than deliberately "realistic" films. This film is so English it has free tea bags with it.
With his peace lily, the peace lily is a notoriously hearty plant that requires very little attention. Nicholas' lack of interpersonal connections are perfect for that plant, because he can neglect it for weeks and only water it once it starts to wilt.
The peace lily is also a symbol of death, being a common mourning and funeral flower.
All of Stephen King's stories do take place in the same universe and it's quite funny that all the terrible things that happen get a grumble, a shake of the fist and a "well a least it won't happen here" in the first one-hundred pages.
And somehow half of them are set in Derry Maine. Maybe the residents should just move.
@@aceundead4750 they can do but eventually the King effect will come into play. They can leave but eventually they end up back in Maine or their surroundings somehow become Maine. It's being looked into.
I have a checklist of every time somewhere or someone from a different book is mentioned. Derry has so many tally marks next to it lol
Ryan said "the greater good" and didn't immediately follow it up with the scene of all the villains saying "the greater good." Pretty sure theres laws against that.
The greater good.
The greater good.
"Crusty Jugglers."
Shut it!
Oh look at you tell him him how to do our uh his job
I kind of like that Wright, Pegg and Frost managed to include all three major genres of whodunnits - the US action movie, the British sleepy town murder mystery and the classic brutally gory slasher genre. People forget that a lot of the early slasher films and giallo was originally a whodunnit genre, before it became supernatural invincible slashers with Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy. Heck, the first Friday the 13th is technically a whodunnit.
My mom isn't a fan of gore and violence in films, but she forced herself through them in here because the film's wits are too hard to resist.
I feel like this never gets talked about, but the opening to this movie is one of the best openings I’ve ever seen. From Martin Freeman’s brilliantly delivered monologue, to the over the top visuals, to the unnecessarily long walk at the beginning. I love it, so much.
This was my favorite other Cornetto trilogy. It showed that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can change up their acting style. Timothy Dalton was fantastic at the villain.
Timothy Dalton a criminally underrated actor.
@@chadrageus He got some crap Bond scripts, and his career was never the same. So sadly underrated.
Yarp.
"When's your birthday?"
- "22nd of February"
"What year?"
- "*Every* year."
Unironically one of my favourite movie exchanges, makes me laugh every time!
What about ‘it’s a shame, I thought you would’ve been a great muppet’ (What Danny says to Angel)
here in Mexico, we have a say: "small town, big Hell". the motivations of the neighbors cult is not that shocking if you know rural towns's social structures.
Very true - I grew up in a series of small Northern Ontario towns and HOO BOY there's some serious pettiness going on under that idyllic surface! I wouldn't have been shocked if a couple of my home towns had a cult like this one, tbh...
I go to the small towns in northern US where my parents are from and “Small town, big Hell” is right! People don’t have lives so they just gossip and talk about you behind your back but since there’s only 40 people it’s constant and you can’t stop it and it just wears you down.
Pueblo pequeno, infierno grande. Vale!
@@sugarbaby1974 Hey, a fellow survivor of small town Ontario! It's truly amazing how so few people can manage to cause so much trouble for each other, just because they have nothing else to do.
@@sugarbaby1974Miss Marple was such a good detective precisely because she'd seen fifty-sixty years worth of small village hell barely hidden behind polite facades, to the point that almost any crime the police asked for help solving, no matter how intricate and elaborate, were all things that she'd already seen some version or another happen at least once before in her lifetime, and the little old knitting lady knows a pattern when she sees one.
I still quote lines from this film out loud from time to time, one of my favorites being "Come off it Frank, ya silly bastard!" Also that final brawl in the model village is enhanced further when you remember that that's a former James Bond that Simon Pegg is throwing down with. Epic.
The script is so amazingly tight! Every single line of dialogue is set-up for something later, making the second half just a spectacular array of dopamine hits. It’s just so good! I love this movie!
I love that the original script had a love interest who got scrapped. All their lines were given to Danny, and its so cute.
homoerotic subtext is vital to many american action movies, especially Point Break, it’s yet another layer of genre reference
It really surprised me when I watched it with my mom in my teens. It was FAR more graphic than we were expecting.
I love how Edgar Wright perfectly captured the look and feel of your average buddy cop film in the first half, which makes the more insane and unexpected twist in the second half all the more impactful and hilarious.
If you have the means, definitely get the DVD version of this movie. There's a bonus subtitle track called "Fuzz Facts" that gives Pop-Up Video style commentary on filming locations, how certain shots were created, easter eggs, and whatever else Edgar Wright felt like including. It's really cool and adds a lot of insight into just how meticulous this film is. The World's End has it as a bonus feature too.
I'm also fond of the peas and rice cut which is the censored version they included on the DVD as a bonus.
I adore everything about Hot Fuzz.
Funny note: on my last watch I finally wondered what the hell they meant when they said Blower and Draper were "decaffeinated" and not decapitated. Found that to be a clever English way of saying "to lose one's head".
Just another witty bit to love about this movie. 😎
Never thought I'd see someone explain Midsommer Murders on youtube. Amazing. The person getting murdered with a giant block of cheese will always stick in my mind!
I like the giant spoon personally. Nothing like a nice murder to wind down with.
The person getting murdered with a what now
Gonna assume the clip of pre-fame Orlando Bloom getting pitchforked was a conscious choice and that either you or your editor is a huge MM fan =)
I love how rooted Hot Fuzz is in the very British tradition of slightly flippant whodunnits. Having seen a US journalist get the vapours over a Dr Who episode (the one about Agatha Christie) that adopted the same tone, I think it's one area where the difference between US and UK culture is most prominent, and that's probably a big part of Hot Fuzz's transatlantic appeal - it's absurd to viewers in both cultures, for different but complementary reasons.
Of all the Doctor Who episodes... that one?! That particular episode is very tame iirc
Im a North American who first discovered Hot Fuzz while living in the UK. It’s stayed my favourite film from that moment on. It’s simply a masterpiece without an equal ❤️
Just say you're Canadian. You don't have to be ashamed of your home.
God I love this movie so much. I rewatched it again after the Sean of the Dead video. An entire video could be made about Hot Fuzz just picking apart all of the little Easter eggs, allusions, and homages to action and murder-mystery pop culture.
For instance, the actor who played Tom Weaver (the guy watching all of the security cams for the Neighborhood Watch Alliance) is none other than Edward Woodward, who played police sergeant Neil Howie in the original The Wicker Man.
In American fiction, the tendency for a single small town in a long-running detective series to have an absurd body count higher than the population of the town, is known as Cabot Cove syndrome, after the small town in Murder She Wrote, A staggering long-running American detective series, set in a small town on the New England coast, that had a similar vibe to Midsomer Murders (which thanks to PBS is relatively popular in the US. What are a struck me as an American viewer wasn't so much the amount of murder going on in this small county, it was just how much of it involved weird cult stuff. You okay over there? lol.)
i saw this movie for the first time when i was probably about 12 years old. the violent scene at the church made me feel sick and stuck with me for a long time. now i’m a horror fanatic and have become desensitized to gore in media lol
I loved the scene with the "deactivated" sea mine. Just the off hand way he hit the thing like it was just a door or something and not something that would have liquefied his bones
Little known fact: the number one cause of death in the UK is murder mystery...
Midsomer Murders rocks, and is considered part of the slasher film sub-genre in my own little mind.
Also, three of my favourite British films of all-time are - I like to imagine - part of, “The Dark Britannia Trilogy” which consists of the gruesomely hilarious Trainspotting, Snatch, and Hot Fuzz.
Thanks for making videos eh.
It was the twist ending that solidified this film as one of the best for me. The trading of the grand conspiracy for the benign truth. It was so perfectly absurd yet frighteningly real.
Thanks for shedding light on the uk murder mystery shows for those of us across the pond who never got to connect those dots! 🇨🇦 😊 A new level of appreciation for this already perfect movie.
Love how the dialogue between Angel and Frost has romantic subtext
We can never forget this movie. It's for the Greater Good.
The greater good.
@@TheDeviantPro SHUT IT!
Hot Fuzz is comedic Breaking Bad. A masterclass in checkov's gun (every setup has a payoff both in character moments and in comedic dialogue) but is brutal and in your face about what it is and what it's doing.
10/10 movie. Ryan has good taste ✌️
I love this movie so much. We always say "Yaaarp" when asked a yes/no question.
Hot Fuzz is a masterclass on film-making and editing on almost every level. There isn't a moment of "waste" in the run-time or characterisation.
The ultimate "de-romantisization" is exposing the banality of evil rather than elevating it and the evildoers as many slasher/serial killer films do.
6:58 technically, King's works do share a universe, the question of which novels share the same dimension however is a bit more complicated.
Ah, the absolute best of the Cornetto Trilogy with so much insane rewatch value I can stop myself....Also Simon Pegg's face during the Romeo and Juliet Song scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seene.
Can't wait for you to cover World's End, arguably the least appreciated of the three but, for my money's worth, EASILY the most emotionally resonant. It kicked me in the ass then, and it's somehow even more painful 10 years on. Gotta love it!
I’m an American and love both Midsomer murders and Father Brown. We watched it so much my daughter told a teacher at her school, who happened to be English, that he sounded like Barnaby.
My mom loves Father Brown, Miss Marple, and shows like that. I think she even watches Midsomer Murders, but I'm not sure.
@@LWolf12 my mom read and watched Poirot for years, so that started me on English murder mysteries. On twitter I shared Ayo Edibiri’s interview where she shared her love for English murder mysteries, and listed Father Brown in my favorites, and the man who plays good fellow liked it!
@@kaitlynhall2112That's pretty awesome. I like those kind of mystery stories as well, reason I love the Detective Conan & Moriarty the Patriot animes. I know my mom likes Poirot as well. She's always telling me about stuff he says or does in one of the movies she's watching.
I must say, I wasn't sure if I'd like Moriarty the Patriot or not, since I'm not the biggest fan or rewriting the villain as the good guy. However, they did it well enough, Holmes is still cast as the hero, but they made Moriarty a villain, but driven by what he sees as good intentions, ending the class-based society he lives in.
I've never seen the final one, but of the two I have seen I also think this is the strongest Cornetto movie. Constantly delivering fantastic quote-worthy dialogue, a twist that makes the real danger both funny and terrible (the sight of the killed statue-artist is really the perfect shot of absurdity to cushion the blow of the "oh shit these xenophobic old maniacs have been murdering the HELL out of people without any consequences"-realisation), and the action, the way they ACTUALLY get the "jump through the air while firing dual pistols"-shot and to top it all off... the humble swan tying it all together. If more film-makers who made action-comedies aimed for Hot Fuzz's height, the world would be a better place.
"Imagine if all of Stephen King's stories take place in the same universe" ...... They do. At least, the vast majority of them do. They even interact with each other on tons of occasions. Most of his books have crossover characters.
Yeah but between King and Murder She Wrote we really should be giving Maine a harry eyeball
reading Misery and the newspaper's like "The overlook hotel just burned down!!!" will always stick with me 'cause it gave me such a "What the fuck!!!!!!" moment
I was thinking the same thing and was hoping someone else brought it up in the comments. Hell, the entire concept behind The Dark Tower series is that is about the “device” holding all of his worlds together being threatened.
I mean the king cannon is actually a multiverse so its not all in the same universe.
@@coocoo3336 you're either confused or you're not paying enough attention.
The odd distinction between gruesome murders and gruesome accidents is one I can relate to. Every so often, and slightly more so since the pandemic I see an intersection with emergency stuff going on (occasionally even seeing the bodies as I decipher the path around them), and yet the only deaths the news ever reports on is "teenager found dead" or "cops shoot robber", despite the accidents being more useful things to know about, both as lessons for how to be careful in their own driving (LOL, as if) and as notice for where the traffic will suck.
I love the fact that your analogy of Midsomer Murders would be if all of Stephen King's stories took place in the same location and no commented on the body count. That's just Murder, She Wrote which was weekly murder in a small Maine town.
I saw my first episode of Midsomer Murders recently. It was playing on American PBS TV. I saw the first half of an episode, full of twists and turns, so I later looked it up to finish the story and watched one more episode after that. Wow. The plot twists and insane number of players makes Criminal Minds looks simple! I also noticed that I was watching Season 20 or something like that. How can this small, lovely town/county have this much crazy stuff going on for TWENTY YEARS of crime drama??? It was very amusing.
Hot Fuzz is my favorite Hallmark movie!
A highly-successful career-person from the city is forcibly transferred to a small-town in the country. He/she is put-off by their quirky, rural-values but is eased into it with the help of a friend/love-interest. All while a takeover from the city goes on in the background.
Hot fuzz is my favourite movie, I can't even tell you how many times I've watched it. The way they wrote a near constant stream of jokes/ double entendres/ call backs is just top tier. Plus the acting and characters are all great, I really fucking love this movie
If I could take a pill to forget one movie it would be Hot Fuzz so I could watch it again because that change up goes so hard.
I love one minor tidbit. They asked real cops what always gets overlooked in cop movies, and the overwhelming answer was “the paperwork.” So they added “the paperwork” scene at the end.
All of Stephen King's stories do infact take place in the same universe/world with the books mentioning places, people
and sometimes specific events that happen in the others,
for example Pennywise the dancing Clown and the town of Derry both are mentioned and show up in way more of his books than just IT
I always loved how the trilogy was able to blend comedy and tragedy, and i feel that danny recreating point break as a response to having to point the gun at not just his chief, but his father and childhood hero is a perfect example.
It's already on my family's "endless rewatch" shelf. If someone in the house shouts "t*ts!" (as we do), another responds with "c*ck!" and then we all laugh. We have filthy mouths. "You're off the dial" and "I need an ice cream" (with a Dalton lisp) are also adopted catchphrases. Even squiffy has made its way into our vocabulary. Brain freeze and "for the greater good" are also part of daily life. Even Yarp has become a regular response. $0.02
to this day my dad and I will frequently answer questions with "narp"😂
He kept on mentioning Wickerman. I was surprised, he didn't mentioned Edward Woodward played one of the Town's council in Hot Fuzz.
Another great video!! The only thing I would add is the clear love story between Danny and Angel. This film is my all time favourite, I’ve watched it more times than i can count and quote it daily, and STILL I notice something new on each rewatch, and find new info whenever I look it up!
I'm irrationally proud that I could name every single episode of Midsomer Murders from the short clip show of 5:36 - 7:11. I haven't watched every season yet but I've apparently watched the same ones that you have! :P
EDIT: Oh, and I really appreciate your looking at this trilogy! Wright is one of my favourite directors; I just love his style, quirkiness, and humour, and I'm glad people are recognizing his storytelling skills. His ability to foreshadow is fantastic and makes his movies infinitely re-watchable. My favourite thing about the Cornetto Trilogy is that every film is completely different, satirizes entirely different tropes and is told in completely different styles, but still has the same dark humour and brilliant storytelling running throughout. I love that the same actors come back for each film in different roles and are *truly* different characters, not just an easter egg or a "hey, it's that guy" callback. The trilogy is both extremely English and yet accessible to everyone, carries relatable themes throughout, and is fun as hell!! My favourite is still SotD but I have to agree with you that HF is the best film of the trilogy in terms of storytelling and pacing. I greatly enjoy AWE more and more as I get older, but the pacing can be a bit off - still a fab film, though. :) Looking forward to your take on it!!
Forgot Lucy Punch was in this. One of my favorite character actresses.
The fucking gargoyle kill alone fucked me up. That was the most grisly thing I’ve seen in 2007. Eat your heart out, Saw.
Thank you for summing up the Midsomer Murders parody angle so well! As an American who has actually watched that show, I always found the connections in this film so hilarious, but was never sure whether it was in my head or not.
This film is a masterpiece. The story, the shot compositions, the editing, the acting is so spot on. Edgar Wright's best film by far.
Loving the Cornetto trilogy videos. Hot Fuzz is a modern classic and perfectly cast.
‘The greater good.’
the greater good
Another testament to Wright's absolutely absurd attention to detail, theres things mentioned in this video that i missed even on repeat watches of Hot Fuzz.
Took me like half a dozen watches to realize Sgt. Angel riding in on the pale horse with the big black guns sticking up from his shoulder blades like folded wings was some symbol of him being the Angel of Death... for some reason.
I hadn’t put it together til just now, but Danny’s trick with the ketchup packet is, in essence, a form of exposure therapy. Nic admits he doesn’t ever shut off, then Danny fakes a violent stabbing then reveals that nothing horrible actually happened, leading to the first time we see Angel smile and laugh the entire film. It’s a symbol of their friendship and that trick, that friendship, saves him before the climax. brilliant movie
Sight unseen: I think part of the reason Hot Fuzz is as violent as it is is because of the "cosy" murder mystery tradition. Actually showing the reality of violent death underlines how horrific all that pointless stupid cruelty is... and the other genre which often glosses over what could be quite horrific scenes of violence if played straight? Action movies!
I honestly think Hot Fuzz is one of, if not the, best written comedies of all time. There are comedies that make me laugh more, but I can't think of another so incredibly well written.
It'll have a line that's amusing in and of itself ("This is the country, everyone and their mums have guns around here..." "Like who?" "Everyone.... And their mums."), but it'll be the set-up for a great gag over 50 minutes later! ("Mum, get him!" *cue elderly woman pulling shotgun from nowhere*)
That's real confidence in your writing. Knowing each gag is fun on its own, and trusting most of the audience to be smart enough to pick up on the delayed pairing for a much funnier payoff. And there are so many gags like that, big and small.
Apparently, this movie scared me as a kid and my parents felt bad, and later when I grew up and watched it on my own they were worried lol
For the longest time I thought Shaun of the Dead was my favorite, but after multiple rewatches of the trilogy, the BEST film in general and current personal favorite is Hot Fuzz, Not a single second wasted, everything is something, any single moment is excellent and perfectly executed. Satire and tribute, comedy and action, tongue-in-cheek and sincere, all at the same time.
I usually hate comedy films, but this is one of the very few that I'll watch over and over because it's just that good
i think hot fuzz comes the closest to the idea of a "perfect" movie. its so tightly written and executed, it makes the absolute most out of its run time
Hot fuzz is the tightest script ever written, nothing is wasted and everything has a payoff and it is more confident than edgars previous entries
My favorite part of this movie was Timothy Dalton. That dude clearly had a lot of fun with that dialogue.
One thing I did notice about the neighbourhood watch people is that they were happy to turn a blind eye to certain people breaking the law (ie underage people in the pub) but were very aggressively against lawful activity that they didn't like (eg the mime). The difference between the NW and Angel is that Angel is concerned with the former (law breaking) while the NW is concerned with the latter (looking good).
Ryan Hollinger is doing a detailed look at the cultural impact of Hot Fuzz for the greater HOYEVER.
"FOR THE GREATER HOYEVER!"
*SLOW CLAP*
This is my favorite one of the trilogy. Its definitely the funniest and the rampage against the town people is some of the most thrilling action on film.
I love the Trilogy as a whole, although my personal favorite is The World's End. This is indeed a masterpiece; every piece matters, everything is delivered flawlessly, everything leads to its conclusion... which borders on "folk horror" or at the least a genteel reminder of Hammer films, especially those starring Christoper Lee as something other than Dracula.
"If all of Stephen King's stories took place in the same Universe." Who's gonna tell him?
Hearing Ryan and other commentators discuss their love that matches mine makes me wonder. How much of our love is it’s unique but poignant deconstruction of us work obsessives and OCPD suffers
I love that Ryan chose to show one of the funny/interesting casting of Midsummer Murder! (the episode with Orlando Bloom, before he became famous :P there is a coincidental non-important to the plot reference to Tolkien in the episode that, to this day, still baffle me)
I was brought up on murder mystery shows and cop movies, so Hot Fuzz holds a special place in my nerdy heart. What I love about HF is the amount of times I've watched it and there's always something I've forgotten about or not noticed before. And now I wanna watch Midsomer Murderers 😂 my gran always joked that you'd move if someone was murdered every bloody week lol. Also happy birthday to Agatha Christie!
one of my favorite movies of all time, and i quote it probably more than any other movie. Pegg's acting is top notch. and i also love that they shot Nicholas and Danny's deep relationship scenes like a rom com
Thank you for making this video for The Greater Good.
Thanks Ryan!
The Greater Good!
The Greater Good!
@@The_Joestar The Greater Good
The Greater Good.
Hot Fuzz is my favorite of the trilogy ❤. It's how Nick & Simon play off one another and the British humor is top notch. The street performer later found amongst the bodies underground = 😅😅😅
The steeple falling on that guy's head had me pausing the movie and walking around for a bit the first time I watched it. 😂
Now you're making me want to rewatch the trilogy again. I loved the first two but didn't care much for World's End when it first came out. I think I might have a different perspective on it now that I'm older, though. Looking forward to your next video on it.
Speaking of Midsomer murders i have my zombie wargaming set in it. It's so much fun.
This was my favorite series of videos Ryan has done; his appreciation of the trilogy shows through his thoughtfulness
American here, but my parents are huge fans of British mystery shows. They always joked about midsummer murders, that the detectives don’t actually solve the cases, they just wait till all the other suspects are killed off and there’s only one left 😂
They also wondered if there were people in the UK who preferred American cop shows, and I found Hot Fuzz I knew I had to show them
Great video!
Needed 2 different people to translate the farmer is for me one of the funniest things ever filmed. We have all met old boys like that were we just don’t have a clue what they said 😂 🤣
Its easily my favorite cop movie for a lotta reasons.
Absolutely. Funny thing is, the movies it specifically names and spoofs are among my least favorite mass-audience movies of all time. You'd need a gun to get me to sit through Bad Boys II but I watch Hot Fuzz every few months.
I loved Hot Fuzz. As an Aussie I grew up on British crime shows like Midsomer Murders and A Touch Of Frost, and i also saw the parallels between Midsomer and Hot Fuzz.
I loved your description of Midsommer Murders because the whole time I was thinking two things. How much of a hack Ari Aster is for naming “his” movie after a successful detective series and 2) your very description is the whole basis of Cabot Cove in Murder She Wrote the second most deadliest place in Maine never-the-less the US NorthEast. The ironic “For the greater good” reminded me of the WandaVision cringy “For The Children” which the later hypocrisy was later pointed out by Vision when he realized there weren’t any other children. This is a brilliant film and one of the reasons I wish the world would have been blessed with the pleasure of watching what EW would have done with Ant-Man instead of the milk toast garbage we ended up with. Thank you for doing this these films, Great Job.
props to Ryan for setting up the "Greater Good" joke but NOT play said clip to maintain the tone of the video. i genuinely expected once he said that line for the scene to play
Thanks for another great video Ryan! I'd love to see you cover the miniseries 'Over The Garden Wall', always gets me into the Halloween Spirit
Fair comparison, but I think the Midsummer place would be better off compared to Cabot Cove, the main town in Murder, She Wrote. That place may as well be the murder capital of the country, considering it went on for 12 seasons!
My mom got SUPER into Midsommer Murders over Covid, and we make many, MANY jokes about the surprisingly high murder rate in rural England.
Agatha Christie started the tradition, (just how many murders could one clever, gossippy, spinster possibly run into by chance?), and Midsommer continues it with style. Never annoy your quiet, small town British neighbours!
I love how the first half leans so heavily into the comedy it makes that dark violent turn in the second half even more jarring. It almost entirely drops the comedy at points.
Great video Ryan, for those who don't know the movie was filmed in the county of 'Somerset' mainly in Wright's childhood city of Wells (which happens to be one of the smallest cities in the UK).
The place is tiny and it's really cool walking around there and pointing out all the locations you see in the film.
Me (American) watching this with my (British) significant other was such a blast! A British setting and sense of humour combined with the very American subgenre of action films is just *chefs kiss*