Cornetto Trilogy - The Worlds End first trailer
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Hugely underwhelmed by that trailer I'm afraid. I worry that Simon Pegg has lost whatever slightly skewy thing he had that made him interesting, and now he's just a comedy actor who's lost at being an actor actor. It's been horribly diminishing returns since SOTD, even the lauded Hot Fuzz was a poor effort I thought. The "hilarious" Paul was anything but, an awkward juvenile pandering mess. I harbour huge fears for this new film too/now.
hapless said:
Hugely underwhelmed by that trailer I'm afraid. I worry that Simon Pegg has lost whatever slightly skewy thing he had that made him interesting, and now he's just a comedy actor who's lost at being an actor actor. It's been horribly diminishing returns since SOTD, even the lauded Hot Fuzz was a poor effort I thought. The "hilarious" Paul was anything but, an awkward juvenile pandering mess. I harbour huge fears for this new film too/now.
Did you see that last thing he did? A fear of Everything or whatever it was called. I turned it off about 30mins in. Painful.Oakey said:
hapless said:
Hugely underwhelmed by that trailer I'm afraid. I worry that Simon Pegg has lost whatever slightly skewy thing he had that made him interesting, and now he's just a comedy actor who's lost at being an actor actor. It's been horribly diminishing returns since SOTD, even the lauded Hot Fuzz was a poor effort I thought. The "hilarious" Paul was anything but, an awkward juvenile pandering mess. I harbour huge fears for this new film too/now.
Did you see that last thing he did? A fear of Everything or whatever it was called. I turned it off about 30mins in. Painful.MarshPhantom said:
Agree about Pegg, I used to be a huge fan of Spaced then SOTD, but I thought Hot Fuzz was pants and haven't got around to watching Paul yet.
I almost mentioned Spaced in my previous post, but deleted it because it doesn't seem fair to lambast someone for not living up to one thing ages ago that I loved. I just don't feel any fun from the new trailer, and even that two minutes worth seems laboured.MiniMan64 said:
Just me that likes Hot Fuzz then?
No, I think lots of people like it. I might like it more if it was anywhere near as funny or enjoyable as it thinks it is. I might be judging it harshly because I loved SOTD so much: SOTD seemed to spring so naturally from the makers' love of that sort of material - every element of it was so cleverly and joyously crafted, even technically, Edgar Wright's direction aped signature camerawork from Fulci or pastiched gore gags from Romero. Hot Fuzz just feels like then they said "ok, what genre can we do now?"hapless said:
MiniMan64 said:
Just me that likes Hot Fuzz then?
No, I think lots of people like it. I might like it more if it was anywhere near as funny or enjoyable as it thinks it is. I might be judging it harshly because I loved SOTD so much: SOTD seemed to spring so naturally from the makers' love of that sort of material - every element of it was so cleverly and joyously crafted, even technically, Edgar Wright's direction aped signature camerawork from Fulci or pastiched gore gags from Romero. Hot Fuzz just feels like then they said "ok, what genre can we do now?"I loved both films and can't wait for the final installment.
Saying that, I haven't liked pretty much anything else Pegg has been in since, so maybe Wright is the secret ingredient.
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