So I watched Hot Fuzz

And I think my friends are going to lynch me now, but I didn’t get what all the fuss was about.  Maybe I was expecting too much due to hype, or maybe it’s because the copy I was watching had sub-par audio, but it’s a comedy; that shouldn’t matter yeah?

I just…didn’t think it was that funny.  There were a few good one-liners, but I was somehow anticipating more, I dunno, volume.

It did have an interesting style to it, but there wasn’t enough movie underneath that for me I guess.

Now one useful thing I can say is: those old incomprehensible British guys?  That is *sort of* what old people from where I grew up sound like, except in a different way (since I didn’t grow up in England).

4 comments ↓

#1 DrObviousSo on 12.09.07 at 9:48 pm

How man shitty cop movies from the 80’s have you seen?

#2 Seth on 12.09.07 at 10:26 pm

None that bore any resemblance to the first hour or so of Hot Fuzz.

#3 DrObviousSo on 12.10.07 at 9:05 am

Well, right. The comedy is in the transition from a modern looking and feeling movie into shitty cop movie tropes, demonstrating just how absurd the shitty cop movies are.

#4 Brent on 12.10.07 at 4:18 pm

I agreed with you, Seth. I thought it would be funnier than it actually was. I remember the promo being so funny but was disappointed in the movie overall.

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