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Looking forward to this a lot

Wright really lost it on the frenetic, jump cut, zoomy camera style. It's amusing seeing someone buy a pint in a POW! POW! POW! style sequence once, but sort of gets tiring when it's every fucking scene.

is a bit rubbs. I don't know what I would call it though.

can see the a level film studies students preordering tickets and wetting their pants already

Nothing will beat first hour of Shaun of the Dead though. Tails off a bit towards the end but first hour = solid gold.

don't know if it'll be as great as Shaun Of The Dead but it looks way better then anything else Pegg has been in since Hot Fuzz

hopefully harks back to spaced, shaun and hot fuzz (which has tons of charm despite wright's mismanagement of his action scenes)and not a revisit to the broad, lowest common denominator-com of paul...the cast is delicious, the one-liners in the trailer...are ok. it's a day one, first performance film for me.

but Danger! 50,000 volts! was good.

there's not more love for the wright/pegg/frost films here...is it because i'm old and used to run video shops? have i stopped understanding THINGS?

Hope if the rumours are true about it tying the first two films together that it's done in an intelligent way and not just as if someone nailed the scripts from the first two movies together and decided a "magic dragon did it all" or something equally as stupid.

Not massively or anything, but it holds up better to repeated viewings.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to this.

I think the meh reaction is purely down to this (seemingly) being more of the same. They've done a film based around a pub and a TV show around a bunch of mates before. I know this is also a foray into sci-fi but you could also argue Paul attempted that as well.

Humour is often of it's time I think. Spaced was great because no-one back then broke the fourth wall or referenced things that actually were happening to 20 somethings. Now, everything does and this could be in danger of being a Naked Gun 33 1/3, Goldmember or Peep Show series 8 where it's perfectly passable and ok if you're a fan, but you know what you're getting before you sit down.

With SOTD it was great to see someone do an intelligent, non-shit British comedy. With Hot Fuzz, I initially didn't like it much but now prefer watching it over the former. SOTD is cleverer and more interesting a movie, but HF is funnier and the laughs accelerate whereas SOTD (due to it's theme) gets bleaker and darker.

I'll definitely go watch this, reckon it'll provide a great closure to their tenure together and will defend their output until the day I die as it shaped my 20s but I think they're almost better off moving on now and doing their own thing.

but I don't find them, their films, or stuff like Spaced, that funny really. I'd describe them all as "light romps".