It opened a couple weeks ago at theaters around here. I didn't go see
it and being distributed by Focus Features it might make it to video
soon. The trailer did look fun though.
Have you seen "Cockney's vs Zombies" which is also a British comedy? I
am getting tired of trying to watch a movie on Netflix, getting about 10
minutes into it just to have it stop and rebuffer then play 30 seconds
then stop and rebuffer. That's one thing that probably doesn't happen
in Fairfield because they do have better broadband than much of the US.
So to avoid that I went through the list on VUDU which is far better
organized than Amazon's streaming service and decided to watch this
comedy as it would fair better than some of the Fangoria horror films
which should be priced at about $2 but all films are priced about the
same unless before theatrical or in theaters. No rebuffering on VUDU
(nor Amazon for that matter).
This is another film you can probably take or leave but it had it's
moments and professionally produced compared to many of the z-movies I
usually wait for either on Netflix streaming or for a $1.20 or 79 cents
at Redbox.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1362058/
On 09/08/2013 07:56 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> No, this is not one of bhairitu's conspiracy theories or one of Nabby's
> raps about the Space Brothers; it's a movie review. Then again, it's
> getting harder to tell the difference these days, so it is what it is.
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> For example, this movie (made by the same demented team of Edgar Wright
> (writer) and Simon Pegg (star) who made "Shaun Of The Dead" and "Hot
> Fuzz," starts as far from conspiracy theories and aliens as can be. It's
> one of those British "buddy pictures," in which Gary King (Pegg) has a
> turning-40 epiphany and realizes that his life won't really be complete
> until he re-enacts the grail quest of his youth, and actually succeeds
> at it this time.
>
> The quest in question had to do with he and his four mates making the
> rounds of 12 pubs in their home town of Newton Haven in one night --
> pubs with names like The Old Familiar, The Two-Headed Dog, The Famous
> Cock, and The Trusty Servant -- drinking and carousing in each one, and
> ending up at The World's End. Gary and his mates tried this in their
> youth, but only made it to nine pubs. Now Gary has decided that life
> won't really be fulfilled unless they do it again, and complete the
> quest this time. He somehow (through wheedling, begging, and lying)
> convinces his four now middle-aged and above all assimilated and
> domesticated into the mediocrity of middle age mates to accompany him on
> Grail Quest, version 2.
>
> So far, this is Just Another British Movie About Mates Who Drink Too
> Much. Then again, "Shaun Of The Dead" was that kinda movie until the
> zombies showed up outside the pub. "The World's End" follows in that
> noble tradition, with Gary and his mates slowly coming to realize that
> Newton Haven has changed in ways that they don't quite understand at
> first. When they do, they begin to realize that the fate of the entire
> world rests upon their shoulders and that if they don't make it
> successfully to The World's End, it really *is* the world's end.
>
> This realization takes place in pub 4. There are 6 more to go, and much
> beer and much alien blood (it's blue, so even Buck might be able to see
> this) are yet to be spilled before they get to The World's End, and save
> the world from...uh...ending.
>
> I thought it was a very funny and well-done movie, and I'm far from
> alone in this; it's been getting consistently great reviews. There are
> many homages and tributes to classic horror movies of the past, and some
> fight scenes that are choreographed so well they'd do justice to a
> Jackie Chan movie. The sight of overweight Andy (Nick Frost) kicking
> butt is nothing short of awesome. Compared to The Avengers, this group
> of five middle-aged but never-grown-up Brits may be a man short, but
> they kick some righteous alien ass anyway between pints, sometimes
> downing pints *while* kicking alien ass.
>
> In terms of the more cosmic themes of the movie, it's about the nature
> of quests, and how they're important even if they don't make any sense.
> Also, both the "home town buddies" story and the "aliens among us" story
> are metaphors for the angst of our times, with its ubiquitous fears of
> assimilation and domestication. But if all of this sounds too silly for
> you, you can probably skip the movie, because you've already been
> assimilated and domesticated. Just sayin'...
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