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[AKAGAWA Sagan] Hate no Kouya de Bakansu o
[AKAGAWA Sagan] Hate no Kouya de Bakansu o
Let me start off by saying that this will indeed be the most biased review I end up writing this year. I have more history tied up with Edgar, Simon, and Nick than most of their biggest fans in the world, and make no mistake, I am one of their biggest fans you will ever meet (check out the link at the end of this review). This is in fact my favorite film of 2013 so far, but make no mistake, it has earned that distinction in every way possible. It’s funny, exciting, and heart breaking all at the same time, and just like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the stakes always feel high, and the characters and the situations they find themselves in should never be taken for granted. While this film may not be for everyone, I would still urge everyone to give it a chance, and these three talents have crafted one of the sharpest and well-made trilogies that I have ever been fortunate enough to see.
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The World’s End (2013)
- Commentary 1 with Writers Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg
- Commentary 2 with Writer Edgar Wright & Photography Director Bill Pope
- Commentary 3 with Writer Simon Pegg, Nick Frost & Paddy Considine
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The World’s End
Directed by Edgar Wright
Screenplay by Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg
UK, 2013Watched on 30th March 2014
First viewing
This is the third film in Wright & Pegg’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, following zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004) and action comedy Hot Fuzz (2007). I thoroughly enjoyed both of those films when they first came out, so it’s with some disappointment that I say I didn’t enjoy the sci-fi comedy The World’s End at all. Whether that’s down to my changing tastes or a genuine drop in quality I can’t be sure, but I did not laugh once during The World’s End.
Simon Pegg stars as Gary King, a middle-aged manchild who ‘reforms’ his group of school friends (Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman) to have another go at The Golden Mile, a pub crawl they tried to complete 20 years previous. While his friends have matured in the intervening years, Gary still clings to his adolescence. He wears the same clothes, listens to the same music, drives the same car and still struggles with alcholism and other addictive substances. He is also intensely dislikeable.
–SPOILERS AHEAD–
The twist comes with the realisation that, in John Wyndham fashion, the gang’s serene suburban home town has been overtaken by aliens who replace unwilling residents with compliant doppelgangers. When the aliens’ secret is discovered, the previously friendly robotic residents become intent on 'upgrading’ the boys. The only way to stop them is to smash their hollow heads, spilling copious amounts of blue blood.
The film itself mirrors Gary’s reluctance to mature. The World’s End is essentially a retread of Shaun of the Dead, getting the old gang back together for one last film, this time with alien robot things instead of zombies. All the same tricks from Shaun are pulled here – a planned pub crawl that foreshadows the entire plot beat for beat, the revelation that a central character has been converted by the invading forces, a semi-apocalyptic ending in which some central characters live on as zombie / robot versions of themselves…
I wouldn’t mind, but there were precious few laughs along the way.
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