“Here come the fuzz!” 
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Me and some of N’s family went to the cinema on Thursday night to watch Hot Fuzz.
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel’s superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing — the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. Once there, he is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a huge action movie fan. As a series of grisly accidents rocks the village, Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and as the intrigue deepens, Danny’s dreams of explosive, high-octane, car-chasing, gunfighting, all-out action seem more and more like a reality.
I’d wanted to see it as soon as I saw the first trailer months ago and was not disappointed: it’s a gloriously funny film which boasts brilliant characters, an excellent cast (including a favourite of mine: Timothy Dalton) and outrageous action scenes. About half way through I got a stitch from laughing so hard but it didn’t stop me from enjoying the rest of the film. Head on over to The Shiznit for a decent review.
On Friday night me and Tugger went out for some food at Frankie & Benny’s (where Tugger fell in love with a French waitress and we were both transfixed by the, er, assets of the girl on the next table) and then zipped across the car park to watch Blood Diamond — this was also an excellent film but for wholly different reasons.
Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - a South African mercenary - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond.
It’s quite a brutal film that can shock but at the same it’s not gratuitous: while you can see people being gunned down and killed callously, the actual gore is just off-screen and there are only fleeting glimpses of amputations and the like — it would’ve been very easy to show the full horror. The lead actors are excellent and, having not been in the past, I am now a DiCaprio fan — Hounsou I already liked from his role in Gladiator.
I highly recommend both films.
not so much ‘love’… more of an appreciation of aesthetic features.. - tugger
not so much ‘love’… more of an appreciation of aesthetic features.. - tugger
d’oh! - tugger
f’taaang! - tugger
Yeah, I went on a date to see Hot Fuzz and we both really enjoyed the film.
Why people try to compare it the Shaun of the Dead, I’m not quite sure.
If you go for straight laugh-for-laugh comparisons, then there’s the chance of forgetting the action scenes and the quite impressive plot developments.
What I love is the fact that we now have a comedy double act who have the weight behind them to hold their own at the top.
Anyone who saw Spaced as I did (and have both series on DVD, by the way) will feel somewhat vindicated, as most people don’t know what hell I’m talking about when I mention Tim Beasely and Daisy Steiner living in student digs… - Wayne Smallman
Tugger: yeah, yeah, whatever … :^P
Wayne: ooh, a date? Lucky you! And I think I enjoyed Hot Fuzz more than Shaun Of The Dead although I’d need to see it again to know for sure. - Timmargh
I’m waiting til Hot Fuzz comes to the US. I stumbled across the previews online, and it looks good. Can’t wait to see it. - Stretch
“Wayne: ooh, a date? Lucky you!”
Not so lucky now. Didn’t last, so…
“I’m waiting til Hot Fuzz comes to the US.”
I’m guessing some of the accents might be a bit of a barrier. - Wayne Smallman
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