We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
Hot Fuzz
Ever wondered how misunderstanding satire could eventually lead to a newfound appreciation? On this lively episode of the "We Recommend Podcast," we, Jesse, Dakota, and Natalie, unravel our thoughts on Edgar Wright's cult classic "Hot Fuzz." Dakota shares his hilarious journey from initially missing the film's satirical brilliance to becoming one of its biggest advocates. We also throw "Hot Fuzz" into the ring with other gems from the Cornetto Trilogy, debating our favorite Edgar Wright movies and dissecting his signature directorial style, particularly his genius use of music. Plus, we imagine how Wright could’ve flipped Marvel’s "Ant-Man" on its head with his unique touch.
Our chat then leads us into the quaint yet sinister village of Sanford, where we follow Nicholas Angel's adjustment from being London's top cop to dealing with quirky villagers and comedic mishaps. We share our favorite scenes, from Nicholas’s hotel check-in to his hilarious interactions with Danny, played by Nick Frost. The episode is packed with laughs as we recount their adventures, including investigating a farmer’s illegal weapon stash and navigating the village’s bizarre happenings. And don't miss our character deep dives and the chemistry between the stellar cast members, including Simon Pegg, Olivia Colman, and Timothy Dalton.
As the plot thickens, our discussion takes a thrilling turn into the murder mystery that shakes the seemingly peaceful village. We highlight the eccentric townsfolk, the darkly comedic accidents, and the epic showdown with the NWA members. The episode culminates in a spirited review of "Hot Fuzz," where we praise the impeccable blend of humor and action, the dynamic duo of Pegg and Frost, and Edgar Wright's standout direction. To top it off, we reminisce about the golden age of buddy cop movies and suggest perfect double features for your next movie night. Tune in for an episode that is as action-packed and hilarious as "Hot Fuzz" itself!
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
Ever wondered how misunderstanding satire could eventually lead to a newfound appreciation? On this lively episode of the "We Recommend Podcast," we, Jesse, Dakota, and Natalie, unravel our thoughts on Edgar Wright's cult classic "Hot Fuzz." Dakota shares his hilarious journey from initially missing the film's satirical brilliance to becoming one of its biggest advocates. We also throw "Hot Fuzz" into the ring with other gems from the Cornetto Trilogy, debating our favorite Edgar Wright movies and dissecting his signature directorial style, particularly his genius use of music. Plus, we imagine how Wright could’ve flipped Marvel’s "Ant-Man" on its head with his unique touch.
Our chat then leads us into the quaint yet sinister village of Sanford, where we follow Nicholas Angel's adjustment from being London's top cop to dealing with quirky villagers and comedic mishaps. We share our favorite scenes, from Nicholas’s hotel check-in to his hilarious interactions with Danny, played by Nick Frost. The episode is packed with laughs as we recount their adventures, including investigating a farmer’s illegal weapon stash and navigating the village’s bizarre happenings. And don't miss our character deep dives and the chemistry between the stellar cast members, including Simon Pegg, Olivia Colman, and Timothy Dalton.
As the plot thickens, our discussion takes a thrilling turn into the murder mystery that shakes the seemingly peaceful village. We highlight the eccentric townsfolk, the darkly comedic accidents, and the epic showdown with the NWA members. The episode culminates in a spirited review of "Hot Fuzz," where we praise the impeccable blend of humor and action, the dynamic duo of Pegg and Frost, and Edgar Wright's standout direction. To top it off, we reminisce about the golden age of buddy cop movies and suggest perfect double features for your next movie night. Tune in for an episode that is as action-packed and hilarious as "Hot Fuzz" itself!
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
Hey everyone. So I have a link in the description that you can click on that will allow you to send a text message to us through our Buzzsprout account, where I can read your fan mail. So click on the description, then click on the link and then send us some fan mail. Tell us what you think about the podcast or any questions, and maybe we'll respond through the podcast. Hello and welcome to the we Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Dakota.
Speaker 3:And I'm Natalie.
Speaker 2:What's the matter? Got brain freeze?
Speaker 1:No, brain waves, because this week we recommend Hot Fuzz. Alright. So Jason can't join us this week because he's on vacation and we weren't able to get the episode out. So I have two of the best people in the entire world in the podcast studio, aka our spare room, our junk room my lovely wife Natalie and my other lovely wife, Dakota.
Speaker 2:Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1:So I want to start off. What's your experience with this movie, Natalie? When's the first time you watched it? What do you think about it?
Speaker 3:I don't remember the first time I watched it, but I think it's great.
Speaker 2:What about you, dakota? It was one of those ones again where I didn't realize it was like meant to be satire. So when I watched it I was like this movie sucks and I watched it like pirated. And then I got older and had better tastes and realized things could be good movies and I love this movie out of the trilogy that they have, yeah, so did you watch this before or after Shaun of the?
Speaker 2:Dead. Shaun of the Dead was on like didn't it used to come on like Comedy Central and stuff like that? I think it just had Shaun of the Dead background. And then Hot Fuzz came out whenever it did and I pirated it just to watch it. I don't know why I wanted to, but Wait, hold on.
Speaker 1:Do y'all hear that? You're about to break down our door.
Speaker 2:I didn't download it, I just streamed it.
Speaker 3:You can say Hot Fuzz is gonna be here any minute.
Speaker 1:Wow, bro, oh wow, You're about to get fuzzed. So I'm pretty sure I definitely saw this after Shaun of the Dead and I watched it because of Shaun of the Dead and I knew it was part of the Cornetto series of movies. I had no part of the Cornetto series of movies. I had no idea what a Cornetto was.
Speaker 3:No, I still don't.
Speaker 1:Because we American as hell and, I guess, don't have Cornettos right.
Speaker 3:We do, we just don't call them Cornettos.
Speaker 1:Okay, oh, okay, yeah, because it's just a waffle cone thing, what we literally have in the house.
Speaker 3:Isn't it like a drumstick, or whatever they're called?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, essentially any other names, for it seems to be a billion actually well, the best part of it is at the bottom with the chocolate okay so I want everybody to give me their top three Edgar Wright movies you're gonna tell me Edgar Wright movies, so you have. Shaun of the Dead, hot Fuzz World, baby Driver Scott Pilgrim and Last Night in Soho. I'll start with my top three. It's Scott Pilgrim, it's Sean of the Dead, it's in this movie.
Speaker 2:Okay, I thought I was going to say the same as yours. I will say it's top one is going to be Scott Pilgrim, after that Baby Driver and then Hot Fuzz. But that could change between if I watch Sean of the Dead, I think I like this more but Hot Fuzz. But that could change between if I watch Shaun of the Dead and it I'm like I think I like this more but Hot Fuzz. Just something about Simon Pegg's role in this I really like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think mine is Scott Pilgrim. Shaun of the Dead, then Baby Driver.
Speaker 1:Nice, they're all a little different. I just like Baby.
Speaker 2:Driver because of the music. It's so good with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 2:Loved watching it in the theaters, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a banger. Turns out he's a uh, uh uh. Edgar Wright's good with music. Who saw that one coming?
Speaker 2:Um, wasn't Edgar Wright attached to do Ant-Man at one point originally, or am I thinking of someone else?
Speaker 1:No, it was him. He was the one that he had the test footage and they were like you have to do it the way we want you to do it, and Edgar Wright's like no dog.
Speaker 2:And then after that he went and did Baby Driver. I'm like man, if we got Baby Driver Ant-Man style, that would have probably been one of my favorite Marvel movies, because I think you could have had a really good cast with Paul Rudd being the lead. I think that's like a porn parody Ant-Man, baby Driver no just meant like if you did like what he can do with Baby Driver and did it as Ant-Man, yeah no, I get it get your mind out of the Thanos butthole okay, any thoughts about the Thanos buttholes babe no okay, I'll cut this alright.
Speaker 1:so the film is directed by Edgar Wright, which everybody knows, written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, starring Simon Pegg as Nicholas Angel and Nick Frost as Danny. Butterman Also has Martin Freeman in it. At the beginning you have Bill Nye, joe Cornish, jim Broadbent you know he's Frank. He also plays Slughorn in Harry Potter.
Speaker 2:And another one who was in Harry Potter, the guy who had all the weapons. That was a caretaker of Harry Potter, yeah.
Speaker 1:Filch. Filch Also has Olivia Colman, who probably steals the whole movie from everybody, and there's just so many people Stephen Merchant, who plays Skinner, skinner, skinner, skinner, skinner. And then Timothy Dalton Actually, he steals the movie, I completely got it wrong. He plays Skinner, the guy that owns the place. He's so good.
Speaker 3:No, Olivia Colman's got it.
Speaker 1:Who's Olivia Colman? She's the the police woman. Police officer. Police officer I've seen a brawl.
Speaker 2:She does Her jokes that she was saying I was like man, these are my jokes I give my woman. That should have been your favorite part of the whole movie.
Speaker 3:I've been around the station a time or two. Well, did you see the scene?
Speaker 2:with the pig roast. She's like that's how I get after a couple of drinks. It's like mm. Okay, oh God.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah like the spit roast. So good Screenwriters Ryan Pegg interviewed real police professionals to get their parody pitch perfect. I don't really see it as a parody though.
Speaker 3:Say parody pitch perfect five times fast.
Speaker 1:Parody pitch perfect parody, pitch perfect parody, pitch perfect parody, pitch perfect parody, pitch perfect parody, pitch perfect. Just so y'all know he knows how to say words. How the hell did I do that? But I'm probably about to butcher this entire podcast.
Speaker 3:And you didn't even say, probably correctly, you just still got the jitters.
Speaker 1:Why did y'all hear that we just had a divorce?
Speaker 2:He says that, but we know.
Speaker 1:I know so from the interviews they conducted that they conducted with real police officers. The filmmakers heard repeatedly that one thing was missing from cop films. Every single one of them said that paperwork is 50 percent of the job. And Wright and Pegg flipped this when writing the screenplay by making the paperwork the most exciting bit in the film, to really amp it up, because that's when it gets insane and that's when the music really kicks in, when they go through it and it's all those edits and does all the cutaway flashing and everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah the cuts. It's like the Saul movie all of a sudden.
Speaker 2:Oh good, I was sitting here watching like man.
Speaker 1:this is throwing me off what they're all, just two of, like some of the most, I don't know famous directors that we have now Edgar Wright and James Wan, which is pretty crazy that they both had this style and now they don't really do it anymore. Well, I mean, edgar Wright does, but it's just his style and he does it so well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the film is shot in Edgar Wright's hometown.
Speaker 1:Huh, so the film is shot in Edgar Wright's hometown. For the rustic village of Sanford, wright turned to his own hometown of Wells, a Somerset metropolis that titles itself the smallest city in England. Wright, however, had to digitally remove one of the city's most famous landmarks the city's 5,500-year-old medieval cathedral. So I guess in England if you have a cathedral, that means you're a city, not a village. So any place in england that has a cathedral that's a city, and he did not want this. He wanted this to be a village, a super small village. So he had to digitally get rid of the cathedral in every single shot, and it's almost every time they're outside. It's constantly in the shots that he had to always, you know, digitally cut it out I feel like he did well.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess he could have just gotten away. It's like, oh, who cares, it's a movie. But I think that's a nice little touch to go through that extra effort to be like I want it to be, a village right he's like I can't let the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's edgar, right, the wow y'all just got a divorce now what the heck's going on? All right, so the runaway swan that's a real thing that happens in England. I guess the lead actors and director got firsthand knowledge of procedure by hanging out with the actual police officers. The stories they told us were stranger than anything we could have written. Peg told Indie London the escaped sw Swan is a true story that we were told in Wells apparently. So there's out there Kissing it everybody.
Speaker 1:Honk, honk, and the film has over 5,500 edits, which is a lot, by the way.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 1:Well, it's all the editing of like when they're doing the paperwork and stuff like edit edit, edit. Oh yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, so in real life, saxon the police dog yeah, he was too nice to be a police dog, so he failed to become a police dog because he was he wasn't hard enough I love hearing stories about that.
Speaker 3:It's like all community, but it happens a lot apparently, really yeah.
Speaker 1:So a few small ones there was. So Timothy Dalton's mustache. That was all his idea. He was like I'm going to have a mustache if I'm doing this role. He said I won't be in it unless I get to have my mustache, because he wanted to be like a mustache twirling villain.
Speaker 3:Oh Okay.
Speaker 1:In the first draft Dakota, because I know he doesn't know this. Did you know that Simon Pegg's character, nicholas, had a love interest through the whole film? No, they decided not to do it, and so all they did was just, instead of having like a girl's name, they put Danny's name there instead. So that's why there's so much like lovey-dovey stuff between Danny and Nicholas.
Speaker 2:That's great because I was like I just saw it.
Speaker 1:It's like, oh, they just seem like they're becoming good friends, Like when they're sitting on the couch talking to each other before watching Point Break and they're like, I'm like.
Speaker 3:They're gonna kiss. They're falling in love. They're gonna kiss and I'm gonna like it.
Speaker 2:Just reminds me of me and you when we were watching you move too much.
Speaker 1:So, uh, the Santa Claus in this movie at the beginning yeah, that stabs his hand, peter Jackson what, what wow.
Speaker 2:Is that how Martin Frieden got his job? What? Oh oh snap, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know. This is British.
Speaker 2:I think all British people know each other right every time some new person was coming in in that scene I was like oh hey, oh, hey, oh okay, I guess we just got every person ever I always forget how many people are in it it's wild every, every boom, boom, boom but like every time they cut away, it's like oh, so we're just gonna have a new guy that we know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the girl that he goes to talk to in the hazmat suit no, she is. No, she's covered up. Kate blanchett what, what? Yeah, hello from thor ragnarok.
Speaker 3:I didn't know, either. But then, like he told me and I, I heard her voice and I was like, oh yeah, I would have never put it together.
Speaker 2:I don't know her voice that well to be like that yeah, now you put what other movies is she in? That's gonna bother me because I know she's been in other stuff lots of. One big other movie.
Speaker 3:Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1:She's in the movie Carol that you haven't seen. That's the only movie I can think of right now. Cate Blanchett. Let's see what's the movies she's in. She's in Tar. Haven't seen that. Carol already said that she's in the Lord of the Rings movies, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:She's Galadriel.
Speaker 1:No movies. Oh yeah, she's galadriel. No yeah, some talented mr ripley, I guess I don't remember her in that. Um, don't look up the. The indiana jones and the kingdom of crystal scroll skulls, skulls, just a bunch, bro, I'm not a lot, she's just like a super famous popular actor, you know, just like one of them. Actress, actress, whatever all rightress, whatever All right guys, are y'all ready to get into the film?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, queen, lfg, y'all All right. So the film starts. We have Nicholas Angel. There's like this super long walk up to the desk and it's really great. We get a super deep voice in it, or his like tough guy voice during a whole narrative or uh narration, and so he's like london's finest officer. His arrest record is like 400 more than the rest of them he's a goody two-shoes he's a goody two shoes.
Speaker 2:He does something that you know, I thought it was funny when he talks about yeah, I went to school here and did that.
Speaker 1:It's like going to school and, before being a cop, proper training what it's england, it's england, so um because he's so good at the job, this makes his fellow constables look, before being a cop, proper training what it's England, it's England. So because he's so good at the job, this makes his fellow constables look bad. So they are having him forcibly promoted and transferred to Sanford, a country village with the lowest crime rate in the country. We get Steve Coogan, martin Freeman, bill Nye they're all great in this. You got Martin Freeman doing his like little whisper, bit it bit. Every time he asks someone a question he's like blah, blah, blah. Just say it out loud.
Speaker 3:He can hear you.
Speaker 1:It's really great. You got the hand bit. Every time someone comes in they ask about his hand and he says it hurts and it's getting better. Essentially, he can't get out of this situation. He has to transfer, no matter what.
Speaker 2:No, I loved this scene was like you want me to call the steve, uh, the chief now, yeah, and he just kept doing that like threatening thing of, like slowly doing it, and then he goes to do it, just calls him right over there, like this.
Speaker 1:It's just a funny scene to me, so funny. And then he's like let's see what the gang thinks about this. He walks in and it's like a uh going away.
Speaker 2:Good luck, yeah, it's awesome. I felt bad because I was like he must really suck to work with.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean, it's like dude, take it easy, okay, brother he's a cop to be fair, 200% better not 400%.
Speaker 2:I mean to me, I was like to me. I feel like you should be excelling in the position as a police officer, so I can't knock him for it.
Speaker 1:But I understand, nobody can be like Unless you pull me over for speeding, don't accelerate, you're done. So Nicholas goes to visit his ex to tell her he has to move away. It's Cate Blanchett, or you, already said that earlier. They broke up because he doesn't know how to turn it off.
Speaker 2:Maybe he didn't know how to turn her on.
Speaker 1:Because even while he's there, they're having this whole personal conversation and at the very end of the scene he's like oh, by the way, the window is broken from the inside and everybody's like I don't know why you could play Like oh, wow, Thank you so much, Right, Well, so I guess it's different when you're around it all the time.
Speaker 2:Me I'm just like he does such a good job. He's going to be so good to be a police chief or something. I'd be like, oh, just so proud to have someone who's this meticulous, at least in their job. But I'm sure in everyday life he's that person who, like you see in movies, who's like folding everything, putting it up and it's just too neat and clean.
Speaker 3:Well, and then he's got to be the best at everything. Chess biking, yeah, what else did they show?
Speaker 1:And like the whole point, I guess really of the scene is. There's this whole conversation going on, but he's not paying attention. He's just literally focusing on a crime scene. That he's around, Right.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I feel like his attention was good to be divided. Maybe crime, maybe crime scene first, but he still talked to her and responded. Could have just been like ignoring her and looking off to her side like, oh, did you notice that? Did you notice that?
Speaker 3:but he's not getting it yeah, getting what he's great at his job he's proving her point right there.
Speaker 2:That's like going up to someone who's like a cancer researcher. You're just too good at researching. You know you need to take it back down a a lot.
Speaker 1:Well, there's no one too good at it, because there's still cancer. I'm just kidding. That's just what it's like, just showing us thematically. That's all I'm trying to say Get off my back so we get great transitions getting him to Sanford. It's just a bunch of really fast transitions while he's on the bus or not bus.
Speaker 2:Public transportation.
Speaker 1:What's that? He's staying at the Swan Hotel. He goes up to the counter and it's the whole shining thing where you've always been here. And then we get the crossroad puzzle where it's fascist and then hag.
Speaker 1:I love that, because it's just like hag excuse me and it comes back to play later because everything that you see in this movie comes back to play in the final action scene. Essentially so we learn Sanford is as quiet as it is advertised, which depresses Nick. So he decides he gets there. He immediately gets in his apartment and this is a very classic action thing where they have to move to a new town. They get there and they're like, oh, I just want to do the job. So he just goes out immediately and on his first night in the village he goes to a pub. He meets the two bartenders and pretty much they seem very fun, loving, happy people. So I get here in every single true crime documentary Nothing bad's going to happen to them or they're not going to be bad people being in like as all three of us have grown up in small towns, it feels so familiar because everyone's just like oh, hi, yeah.
Speaker 2:And part of me is just like.
Speaker 3:But way prettier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, and a lot more teeth, surprisingly.
Speaker 1:Less mosquitoes probably over there.
Speaker 2:Maybe I don't know. I'm that person who's like if everyone's saying hi to me, I'm not happy. I don't like that. I don't want to know all you people. Yeah, because how many times have we gotten stopped for small talk?
Speaker 1:It's like oh so and with the bartenders we learned that they don't like the paper because it got her age wrong, said she was 55 when she's 53. So now they never read the paper, they hate it, which is very funny like the paper that the paper that tim messengers messenger.
Speaker 1:okay, yeah, okay, um. And so the first night in the village he so kicks a bunch of underage underage drinkers out of the local pub. He's going around asking their birthdays and it's always funny. The first guy it's like when's your birthday? It's like February something, what year? Every year that was hilarious.
Speaker 2:I don't know how y'all feel about that, but in my opinion I was like, yeah, you're not supposed to be drinking, get out.
Speaker 1:What? And I was like, yeah, you're not supposed to be drinking Get out what?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's the law.
Speaker 2:That's true, it's the law, so I couldn't ask. I understand your moment here and they're all upset that he kicked him out Like they're teenagers. Get him out of here. It's like you know what happens to teenagers when they drink.
Speaker 1:They get even stupider.
Speaker 3:Plus, they let them drink at 18 in England, so they're not that far off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, except for maybe that last guy who just goes he might be 12.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Oh, that reminds me. That makes me think it would be Tyler to do that.
Speaker 1:And so one of the other arrestees that he arrests it turns out to be his new partner, danny. He's kind of like a lovable dunce and he gets arrested because he's super drunk. He tells him don't get into the car because he's about to get in it while drunk and he walks off and the next thing you know he's backing into him and almost kills him. Valid reason to be upset, yeah. And something we learn about Danny a little later is that he is the son of Frank, the police chief of the village.
Speaker 2:Yeah when he takes all of them to the police station. And the guy who's behind the counter at night is a different person, right? Because?
Speaker 3:in the morning. Yeah, he's a twin.
Speaker 1:Okay, because I was like this guy is like super cranky yeah, he's the morning person. There's one that's kind of a dummy and the other one is kind of like he doesn't like to talk to people that kind of guy yeah, yeah, yeah I thought it was the same person the whole time.
Speaker 3:Really, yeah, I mean I don't know if he actually I mean, it could have been.
Speaker 1:I don't know if the actor has a twin at all.
Speaker 3:But in that they're trying to make it-.
Speaker 1:I probably should have looked it up.
Speaker 3:I missed that part.
Speaker 2:Do you podcast bro yeah.
Speaker 1:So in the morning Nicholas goes out for a run and everybody knows him already, meet Skinner who like, runs up to him and says like have you heard of me? Lock me up. I've killed people, I slashed them. And he's like, cause he slashes bars.
Speaker 2:I love that. I was just like this is so cheesy, but he does it so well that it cracks me up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love that guy. He's hilarious. What else is?
Speaker 2:he in.
Speaker 1:Cause I don't know I should is, which I know, but I can't think of a single thing that he's done right now.
Speaker 2:Some things never change, no matter how many times you do an episode.
Speaker 1:Timothy Dalton. Oh, timothy Dalton was a Bond. He did the Living Daylight's License to Kill. It's in Penny, Dreadful.
Speaker 2:I just really like his voice. That's what I know him from. I watch Penny Dreadful.
Speaker 1:So Nick meets Frank who seems like a goofball. He Frank, who seems like a goofball. He shows Frank the police chief, because this is the next scene he shows him around. We get to see the riot room it's super dusty. We get the evidence room is completely empty. And then, nick, he ends up meeting his fellow constables who, with the exception of the smug Andes, are affable but neither adept nor much interested in investigative police work. Tony Fisher knows nothing about policing. That's the guy that whenever you see him he has got all the bubbles around his head, like behind him. The paper that's like late, oh, that guy, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you have Bob, who is unintelligible. You have Doris Thatcher makes a lot of dirty jerks. I've been around the station a few times. Do you want me to show you around?
Speaker 2:So happy about it too. That smile, yeah, so funny, she's so good.
Speaker 1:To be fair, I mean Simon Pegg showed up and probably one of the more attractive ones there in the station. And then he Simon Pegg'd her. I high five myself. The only other people who seem interested in law and order are the Neighborhood Watch Alliance, nwa, a group of longtime residents who care deeply about maintaining sansford's reputation as the nation's best village and are concerned about the arrival of street performers and other riffraff because the first guy we meet he's so like we have to do something about this, about like he doesn't talk like this at all human statue, oh my god, that guy then, like the, the hoodlums and the all that, well you know oh well, you know I agree about the human statue.
Speaker 1:Don't get it and get it out of here.
Speaker 2:I don't either. I saw it. I was like, yeah, you don't match here, you need to go on somewhere else.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I have such a strong opinion about it, but after watching this a couple of times I'm like I don't like that guy If you stood there with him, because you know he moves about like would he just stand there if he had spectators the whole time. I mean, even when he's dead, he's still like that.
Speaker 3:That's true.
Speaker 1:I do. I just don't trust anybody that's standing that still. That's where I'm at in life.
Speaker 2:You mean like how we are supposed to do at our jobs. All day Stand in your one spot, all day Stand perfectly.
Speaker 1:still, I don't do that, I walk around, alright. So the whole time people have been eating cake during this scene and we learned that Danny had to bring it in because he lost his helmet once. Nick thinks that it's because he was like drunk Drinking and driving yeah drunk driving and because of driving drunk he will have to bring in Chunky Monkey for a month and then, after the tour, they all go to lunch. One thing I want to say Jim Broadbent, love the guy. He's the best. He's Frank the police chief.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, slughorn.
Speaker 1:And he's so good. I love his voice. He's so friendly, he's so happy. I wish he was like an uncle or a grandpa of mine.
Speaker 3:He's jovial.
Speaker 1:Yes, perfect Can you say that, you big scruffy beard.
Speaker 1:God, I feel like I nailed that. I can't wait to re-listen to that. So everybody's kind of at the pub, everybody's kind of making fun of Nick for being so serious. You have like a couple of lines Nick says to one of the Andes that has a mustache. He like takes a drink and then he gets like foam all in his mustache. He's like you have a mustache, I know.
Speaker 1:So we learn Danny is obsessed with Nick and wants details of his career in London, which Danny is certain was filled with the kind of blazing action he has seen in American action films like Point Break and Bad Boys 2. Because he starts talking about the knife stab in his hand and he's just like all he wants to do is just know. And he's like it's like how did it feel? It's like it was the worst pain and it was like the worst thing that's ever happened to me. And then he immediately asked what's the second worst pain you've ever felt? He's so interested. And then after that, uh, nick goes to the local nwa for their meeting. We get to meet everybody that I'm sure they're all innocent and nothing bad is going to happen with any of these people.
Speaker 2:Definitely not. It's a happy town.
Speaker 1:But they're all like super charming but also maybe suspect Boom, boom, boom and they hate the living statue. All of them Yep. So we see Nick going to schools giving speeches and we meet local journalist Tim Messenger. He's bad at his job and makes a ton of spelling errors.
Speaker 3:Question yes, do you think his name is tim messenger, because he delivers the news?
Speaker 1:I think. I think that was the idea. Yeah, because when I was putting the last name messenger in my notes and I was like who's the messenger?
Speaker 3:why? Why do I?
Speaker 1:keep putting this like, especially as I got to the very end, when I started writing just last names a lot, I was like, oh yeah, I was just shortening Tim Messenger. I just felt like an idiot, I'm just an idiot. But yeah, this is where we get the angel angle bit.
Speaker 2:Angle.
Speaker 1:Everybody keeps calling him angle.
Speaker 2:That was hilarious.
Speaker 1:So for a few days, nick's most exciting moments are chasing runaway swan that they can't catch. This is where we get to. We see Steve Merchant for the first time Piss taker.
Speaker 1:Piss taker. Yeah, so, and because there's really nothing to do, they're just kind of sitting chatting in their police car. They've already gone to the market. And then Danny's like you want to go to the market. It's like we just went and nothing's going on. It's like all right, let's just go back. So they go to Skin, a giant market, and Skinner makes suspicious remarks about decapitation. Hmm, wonder if that happens. Later Nick sees somebody shoplifting and chases after them. And this is like. The guy in the purple suit is like running and it's got one of the best bits, because they do it in all three Cornetto trilogies the first one from Shaun of the Dead you just have it like Simon Pegg's character goes to jump over and just falls because he's not very good at it, and then in this one he's really good at it, and then Danny just bumbles over.
Speaker 2:I thought it was funny. It's so funny. I really enjoyed watching Simon Pegg because it doesn't transition away. It's like Simon Pegg over here just jumping fences, like nothing.
Speaker 1:So after the shoplifter is caught we're back at the police station. Skinner doesn't want to press charges, but Inspector Frank says he will get his just desserts. I don't know what that would mean. I guess we might find out later. I'm not sure. And then later Nick and Danny are watching for speeders. Danny says he feels like he's missing out because of his town is so boring. It's where we get a lot of discussions about like point break, and he's like have you ever, like pointed your gun up in the air and yelled ah. It's like no, I've never pointed my gun up in the air and yelled ah.
Speaker 2:Didn't he say it was a waste of ammunition or something? Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:And I bet that doesn't happen later. I guess I'm just going to do that always, do he also? And then so someone drives, has some super fast for speeding, he pulls them over and it's like the local thespians and and his much younger girlfriend. Two of them are on their way to perform in their homage to Shakespeare. A really bad update of Romeo and Juliet. Nick tells Danny that the most important tool an officer has is their notebook. Has anybody ever seen the Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet? Yes, are they doing that? Hmm, she pulls out a gun and shoots her head and yells bang.
Speaker 3:No, I think it's just more of a modern day.
Speaker 1:And then they do the song afterwards.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I mean, maybe it's been a while. His face Baz.
Speaker 1:Luhrmann always does that in his movies Because Baz Luhrmann always does that in his movies.
Speaker 3:That movie is trash, except for Leo.
Speaker 1:Give me your long sword.
Speaker 3:It's that movie, the modern day one.
Speaker 2:I've seen some scenes from that and I haven't fully seen it, so I can't remember it all Because they still use Shakespearean language but then it's in a more modern setting.
Speaker 1:And I just love it, because Leo says give me my long sword, ho. And then it's just a gun. So Nick and Danny have to represent the department at the Shakespeare's performance. We see it, it's really bad. And you have it. She pulls out a gun, shoots herself.
Speaker 2:And then it's like love me, love me. His face already is just like man, this is bad. Then they started doing it. His eyes got wide. I was like that's my exact reaction too. Yeah, I was like that's my exact reaction too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is awful, it got worse. They were really good at kissing each other.
Speaker 3:Wonder why.
Speaker 1:I don't know. So Skinner pops up after the performance dissing the performances. He also brings up that there are better actors in town, like one of them was an extra on Straw Dogs. We get a lot more Skinner vague threats about chopping heads off, squishing heads, stuff with heads, you know. Nick tells Danny that the two actors are boinking because he has the line. Nick, we just sat through three hours of so-called acting constable and their kiss was the only convincing moment of it.
Speaker 2:Three hours, oh, my God.
Speaker 1:And then also Nick brings up. It's like well, she's a lesbian, the one woman is much younger, the girlfriend is, and he's like she must be into older men. It's like what, why? That's where the whole you know kiss comment that I just did, Jesus, I'm doing this so out of order. And then Danny says, oh, you know what, actually that might be true, because when we were younger she let this older guy finger in by the dove point.
Speaker 2:I missed that part. It's so good. Well, it's so quick yeah, he just there's a lot that just like rattle off. And it's so good, because as I was re-watching it even though I re-watched it just a few months ago I was like there's still stuff I missed in this well, it's because it's so quick, like all this, and you're right, she's very fast at everything he does, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So after the party, the two would-be thespians are brutally murdered by a dark-cloaked figure with a hatchet. Their bodies are strewn about in the road where Nick and Danny had pulled them over for speeding and their car wrecked to make their deaths appear to be a gory traffic accident or collision. They were decaffeinated.
Speaker 3:Decaffeinated. Yeah, that's in one of the lethal weapon movies like 4 or something, they were decaffeinated.
Speaker 2:Decaffeinated, yeah, because he says it all the time. That's in one of the lethal weapon movies, like four or something. Yeah, we do got to say, oh yeah, it's obviously an accident. You do realize a forensic expert like, hey, this is not a decapitation. There's several markings you could tell from an axe strike, but they know that nobody's going to look into except the potentially Nick medical examiner.
Speaker 1:Even the CS guys are probably going to come in and be like oh, it's just a traffic accident or collision they just hire, like anybody, to be a part of that police force. You have to conform or you die.
Speaker 3:do you think any of them actually went to like police?
Speaker 1:training? I definitely don't think so.
Speaker 2:Because they're all just maybe the andes silly I think nick frost's character mentions about how little he did and became a police officer he just did it because his dad asked.
Speaker 1:That was pretty much it. It's like go do it. I'm sure they had their initial training, but I doubt they ever do any other training outside, they don't do continuing performance yeah, I actually just don't know how any of that works actually I do here.
Speaker 2:It's like three months of training here and then go be an officer. Yep.
Speaker 1:So the other police officers are content with the explanation, despite Nick's concerns about the lack of skid marks at the scene. The Andes are very combative to the idea and they also giggle every time he says skid marks, they do.
Speaker 2:Everybody's constantly giggling when he says skid marks, I know, but every time he says something I'm like no, these are valid points. What are you what? No, don't ignore him.
Speaker 1:Well, it's because nothing bad ever happens, I know, but still, or everything's always an accident.
Speaker 3:And I don't think they want anything bad to happen, because then they'd have to do work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'd have to do work.
Speaker 1:They can't just eat cake and ice cream all day and throw trash cans at people's heads party, and then you get okay with it, and I mean and also in this part you have the you know where they're saying accident and like there is no, like they don't like to call things accidents, because usually something's not an accident, it's better to say that it's. You know it could be a potentially crime first, and then later on in the movie he talks about. Don't you wonder, don't you wonder why there is no crimes ever committed here, just a bunch of accidents. So that comes into play little later too, cause I just remember I didn't put that in my notes. I'm saying it now.
Speaker 1:The next day, nicholas and Danny are heading to a farmer's house because he is cutting down a neighbor's hedges. They go to the farmhouse with Saxon, but it's not the dog that they need, it seems, it's Saxon's trainer, who no one can understand. But that guy can understand this farmer guy, who we also can't understand. So when the farmer guy talks, the Saxon's trainer's gonna talk, and then Nick has to tell that, or Danny has to tell Nick what the other two are saying. Right, it's very confusing, totally butchered.
Speaker 2:Obviously I love that. He's like where'd you get all these guns? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the guy, yeah, and there's the whole. It's like do you have papers for that? He's like, yeah, I got some for this one, but not the other ones. And then we see it's an impressive collection of weapons that he's managed to stash. Nick is like he can't believe it that there's so many dangerous and highly illegal weapons there. You have a sea mine.
Speaker 2:Right, that's hilarious. Never would want that, unless I knew for a fact. They cut everything out of it.
Speaker 1:I love that, because the farmer kicks it and it doesn't work. And then it starts clicking and ticking and they're all just like running out. And then afterwards, after it doesn't work, they roll it outside and you just have the farmer guy just kicking it, constantly, hitting it with his gun. It's so good. And then Nick and Danny haul in the entire collection to the police force and it won't come back in later. So to celebrate, danny invites Nicholas out to an evening at the local pub, where he encouraged Nicholas to order more than just his usual cranberry juice, and he agrees to have a beer. They did something. Nick finally got to do something.
Speaker 2:So he's like hell, hell, yeah, let's go, baby, I like when he starts cutting loose a little bit with him, I was like this is a nice moment they just work so well together on screen.
Speaker 1:I mean they're probably like two of the best, like they have like the best chemistry, those two. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg they're.
Speaker 2:That's why the three movies of the Dead. They're both kind of like losers a little bit. Not really losers, just like kind of coasting through life. Simon Pegg got to be the serious character.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Nick Frost was the goofy and then at World's End he's the deadbeat and Nick Frost is all put together and everything. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I actually had like a whole thing I was going to say about it. I thought about today, while I was at work explaining like the whole Coronado trilogy, and I can't think of a single thing I was going to say man only, if you like, took notes or something While I was at work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no paper anywhere or anything. I thought you could write that out.
Speaker 1:Could you step out? So Danny brings up the fact that Nick never turns off being a cop. Nick tells him his childhood we learned that he got a. He used to, when he was really young. He wanted to be a Muppet, but then he got a pedal car from his uncle and from that moment he wanted to be a police officer. And then, after he tells him this whole story and that, like his uncle I guess, ended up being like a drug dealer or something, danny looks at him and says you know, you're right, you would have been a great Muppet. It's really funny, hilarious. And then Danny says he is an officer because of his father, frank, and his mother died in a traffic collision. It like takes a turn and it's like a downbeat moment. And then Danny just goes hey, watch this. Pretends to stab himself in the eye and then like blood's coming out everywhere and then it ends up just being ketchup. And then it ends up just being ketchup and then they're.
Speaker 2:Even. That is a very a man who is not bothered by that, because I don't know about y'all. When you leave ketchup out and that smell starts to get out, I could not stand that being on my skin, or anything.
Speaker 1:Literally hours ago I was having some chicken strips from Zaxby's and they didn't give us Zaxby's sauce. God, can you just hear everybody in their cars is turning it up the podcast even louder because how interesting this is about to be. Well, so they didn't give me zaxby sauce, so I had to use ketchup and you know we had it turned upside down so I went to go put it and it's just oozing out because I did not think about turning it right side up. And then I'm like, oh crap, and I go to close it and got all over my pants, ruined day right there. Yeah, I'm still wearing those pants.
Speaker 2:I know, of course you are. I can't stand it because anytime that smell starts like vinegar smell, ugh, it was at my feet, so I'd smell my feet before. Did somebody lick it up? No, I wiped it up. I mean, I'm sure, snakes probably would lick it. That's who I was talking about. I don't know if got something else going on or whatever it's weird.
Speaker 1:Up in here, dude, and after several pints of lager they escort local businessman george merchant, who's had several beers, back to his estate. Um we also. During the scene, skinner comes in and says, uh, he's like you need, um, I don't know. He starts doing his usual cryptic like sounds like he's killing someone talk, because skinner says he will be in bits by tomorrow and so they they ended up taking him back to his estate. We see that it's a very big mansion that sticks out in this village because it's like a mansion and it's not rustic at all.
Speaker 2:I love the little jokes. It's like, oh, you did get a little drunk and like, oh, we picked up a little drunk. I didn't notice that the first time I watched it.
Speaker 1:Then they head back to Danny's pad, where Danny invites Nicholas inside. There he shows Nicholas how to switch off and unveils his incredibly impressive DVD collection. I'm jealous. I want a whole collection like that.
Speaker 1:I wish I had an entire room that I could just put that in. I guess we could do that to this room. But so like they have this whole conversation on the couch at first and it's a combo that starts off as two buddies but comes off as kind of romantic, because there's a point where I'm like they're going to, because he kind of touches his face and he touches his face a little bit, it's really cute.
Speaker 2:It's really cute. They should kiss. I don't know, I was just like man. Can you not love your friends?
Speaker 1:You know me and Tyler always got our little seeing, it's just keep saying what's wrong with that?
Speaker 2:friends got a bond somehow that's true.
Speaker 1:You just never guess me. So while they're watching point break and bad boys 2, another accident no accident is being set up, involving george merchant and his gaudy estate, which the nwa doesn't find keeping in with the village rustic aesthetic. The next day they're called to the scene of yet another accident. This time it appears that george merchant is dead and the accident was covered with an application of beans and bacon um, that's a normal british breakfast thing yeah, beans, toast and bacon.
Speaker 2:I think there's a couple other things, but yeah, you want to start the day off.
Speaker 1:Uh, farting, I don't know, I don't know how you start off the day with a thing of beans so, um, this is we, we also, when it cuts to the scene, we have the doctor of the NWA, like the guy that we met at the very beginning. He's like super upset about the statue. He's there and he has a great line, because George Merchant, I guess, was dedicated to refrigerators.
Speaker 3:He sold refrigerators most of his life, yeah.
Speaker 1:So the doctor has this line lived his whole life dedicated to refrigerators and gets killed by an oven.
Speaker 1:I was like man, too bad you didn't have some sunglasses and take him off, because then be like from this, that would be hilarious, yeah maybe that's where they get the character from and so then skinner drives up, because earlier in the scene where there's a decapitated head I don't remember if I said it Skinner pulls up and the song is playing perfectly for the accident in that one and in this one Skinner pulls up and he's talking to Nicholas and of course it's playing a song that relates to the death, about like explosions and stuff.
Speaker 2:I noticed that with the second one. I wonder if that was in the first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Nicholas knows that George explosion. He once again believes this is a murder. The whole time the Andes are giving him shit. Not everything's a murder. There's this great part where they're kind of telling him off and then they walk off and they're kind of making a face and they're sliding outside of the frame. One of the guys comes back to do it a little bit more and it's so funny.
Speaker 2:This comedy in this is so good that he just needs more movies. But of course they don't do any comedy movies anymore because they don't want to spend the money well, I mean, all his movies have always had elements of comedies in them.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're usually. I mean, his first movie is a zombie comedy, his second movie is a cop comedy, his third movie is a midlife crisis comedy slash, alien invasion flick, and then Scott Pilgrim's comedy it's just the way the comedy is.
Speaker 2:It's not overly blatant Like in a lot of movies. They say a joke and they focus in on it. It's very witty. Yes, I want more of that.
Speaker 1:It's all written. It's not like Will Ferrell, where most of it's always improv, which I feel like a lot of American comedy is mostly improv now.
Speaker 3:Well and. I think it's kind of like you guys keep saying like every time you go back you find something new.
Speaker 2:That kind of pertains to it that I like that, whether it's a line or something in the background, yeah, it's not one-liners, like it's going to sound like I just, you know, hate non-Marvelers. They kind of have the one-liners and then that's it. This one is just full of like they're one to a joke. Here it is, here's the ha-ha-ha.
Speaker 1:And in most Will Ferrell comedies the bit's explained or no. That's more Seth Rogen. I feel like Seth Rogen. A lot of their movies they'll say a joke and he's like ugh and it kind of explains the joke a little bit. That happens a lot in American comedies but I also think that's just due to improv.
Speaker 3:And most of our like best comedic directors.
Speaker 1:Now were all they came up through improv and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and most american actors just come through like ucb, which is yeah, because it adds that, because I mean you want to be on the spot. That's how you get funny like look at robert williams, well also.
Speaker 1:Uh, british people are just funnier than american people I would go that far I would.
Speaker 2:I usually find more british things funny well, you do, like you know, monty Python, and then like the best like comedy TV show that's ever been done came from a British version of it. The Office.
Speaker 1:Yeah, though I love the Office Don't get me wrong and I like it better than the British version.
Speaker 2:I guess American comedy, because if you think of American office, it's more of like someone who's unaware. Yeah, american office, it's more of like someone who's unaware. It's unaware people. That's how Stepbrothers is. They're just unaware of how not adults they are and stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the next day at the station he and Danny are putting together the pieces of the accident, but so far no one believes Nicholas's theory that George was murdered. The following Saturday it's time for the town fair. Nicholas has to work security for it. We get the scene where Danny wants to see if Nick's sharpshooting skills and he immediately shoots everything perfectly and he wins Danny a giant monkey.
Speaker 2:I'm sure that will come into play later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think it will Like three times, and while there's also going to be a local lottery where you can win prizes. Apparently Nick is supposed to be the guy who reads off the names, but before that happens, we see Tim Messenger. He's talking to Leslie Tiller Funny that her name's Tiller because she works in a plant shop and you see Leslie's telling. They're like talking to each other and it seems to be like an important conversation and Leslie's being like oh, but also at the same time, just a little across the lawn, you see Skinner, who's just talking about. He has this game and it's called Splat the Rat. So he's just sitting there like with a club saying Splat the Rat, looking straight at them and it's like man, I wonder who's going to be one of the killers the whole time. I'm just like it's gonna be a red herring, though right, there's no way. This is too obvious. If he's the right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what's so funny about it. When you go back, it's like man, it was so obviously yeah, it's obviously him.
Speaker 1:But because this is kind of a whodunit, you like a agatha christie novel or something, you're just like there's no way, it's this obvious, but it is, but there's a little extra to it also, his last name is skinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know exactly everybody's got a name that goes perfectly with almost fucking love this movie, um. And then tim messenger tells nicholas to meet him behind the church at three. So while drawing the next name for the lottery, which happens to well. So the first name that they draw for the lottery is skinner. He's not there, he's in the loo. And then the next name that they draw for the lottery is Skinner he's not there, he's in the loo. And then the next name that's being mentioned is Tim Messenger, but he can't come because he's waiting to meet Nick behind the church. So when the church clock strikes three, nicholas stops what he's doing and quickly runs behind the church, but he's too late and a giant part of the church roof has fallen on Messenger and decapitated him.
Speaker 3:A steeple.
Speaker 1:That is such a dark like gruesome scene.
Speaker 2:When I first was watching this movie, you know, the act scene happened kind of a little bit off screen on screen, and then that happens like oh my God, what am I watching?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't expect that Cause the first death, which is a very which at now. After watching last night in soho and then seeing the first death with, like the two actors and the way, the way that it's filmed, I'm like, oh my gosh, he was doing last night in soho all the way back into this. Just the way that it's kind of filmed and like the blood splatters at the screen, it's very what he did for last night in soho. That has nothing to do with this, I just wanted to bring that up but but yeah, when I first watched it I was like Jesus Christ and also I thought there's no way his body's still standing.
Speaker 2:No, that thing would have crushed it completely, that thing where his head exploded.
Speaker 1:Nice little touch of effects, but it's like your body just be. Also, we should mention CGI blood. No good, very bad. Never use it Every director ever, please, for the love of god, it's always. Unless you can make it look good, just use real blood originally and then edit it out if you don't like the way it looks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but how do you make a death like that look real? Because I mean that wouldn't really happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it would just it'd probably be way more expensive if they did it more practically it would just squished it he might have like would have had to be a lot much.
Speaker 2:I think they're just like let's see this cool scene right here and imagine if it's because you know like people talk. It's like imagine that because you know realistically. It's like let's just make him stand around with it in his head and fall over.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess, as long as you just get like a stand in and you put, and then you can just like rotoscope that out and then just place this steeple thing, in CGI part of that maybe, and then maybe add the blood, I don't know. This is why I can't do this job the director job.
Speaker 2:I would feel like this is too overwhelming. You would have a fake person standing there and then it would be more expensive because you'd have to time the real thing falling on them and then time it for the fake head to explode. Yeah, I can see why they went like this. It's quicker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a shocking scene. You're a fake person. God is ass. It appears that a large part of the church roof has fallen on Messenger and decapitated him or decaffeinated him. Frankly, frank quickly rolls in an accident, but Nicholas suspects otherwise. How do you I?
Speaker 2:think I just love how it's like yeah, definitely Like. How do you? I just love how it's like yeah, definitely you guys cannot say this is an accident.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, they're just so oblivious, everything's an accident.
Speaker 2:You listen to, like the constables or whatever, and they're like, yeah, I mean they know better than me. I'd be looking like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Who came around the corner? They're like, oh, everyone, stay back, it is an accident. And I'm like this is a small town, everyone should be like about to throw up.
Speaker 1:Well, they're all killers. We find out. That's true, and you know.
Speaker 3:And they're all used to accidents.
Speaker 1:And what's the saying? You know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can. George W, george W, yeah, so Nicholas and Danny are left guarding the crime scene while the rest of the department does the investigation, and everybody's super pissed because they don't want to do the investigation because everybody just wants it to be an accident, like all the Andes are doing their shit, less paperwork, and they don't want to do their job.
Speaker 2:I did like when he was standing in I think it was the part where he's standing in the scene. He's like you're detectives, detect. I think it was the part where he's standing in the scene.
Speaker 1:He's like you, detectives detect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just about to bring that up. You're right, because they come out in their suit, they're leaving because they're like there's nothing to do here, it's past our work time and we're going to the pub. And then I love this because you get the thing.
Speaker 1:It's like you and your to me, or this it's so funny though, and then also love it, because Nick is furious and takes it out on Danny, who tells him he can't switch it off. It's like you know what your problem is you never switch off and then like, runs away, like with the monkey there's nothing funnier than someone running away crying in a comedy, like in Tommy Boy when I brought up, when we were watching it, and they make the girl like Tommy, makes the girl mad and she like runs.
Speaker 2:When I went back and watched the movie I was like what is this scene with her? And you brought it up and I was like very good point.
Speaker 1:Why, why did they do that? I'm just like was that supposed to?
Speaker 2:be this scene. I think it's. They didn't want the scene to feel too serious, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So when Nick gets home, danny left the monkey form. Nick reads the paper and begins researching, like the whatever the local paper. And begins researching because he's starting to find clues about, like real estate and all this, all the things that are happening, and so he's finding clues to why everyone is being murdered. So Nick apologizes to Danny and they are on the case. The next day, nicholas is furious at the rest of his department who are still believing that the deaths are accidents. But Frank reassures him otherwise. And while Nicholas is busy putting the pieces together of these horrific crimes, the rest of the department informs him that it's Danny's birthday. He's like you didn't tell me it was your birthday.
Speaker 2:Danny, I love that moment right there because it feels like he just I don't know just Simon Pegg just did a good job of conveying like oh, you see it on his face he's like you, just felt bad.
Speaker 1:You know what he did for a second he turned it off, he turned it off.
Speaker 3:And sometimes you gotta turn it off to get new perspective and he finally, yeah, nick Frost's character is and it's like maybe I shouldn't be like this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he cares and I could see it in that moment and I love when they like, when they had that moment and they were drinking and just bonding moments. So beautiful.
Speaker 1:Well, and also because he turns it off and decides that he's gonna do something nice for his friend. He finds the killer in the next scene, because Nick goes to the local flower shop to buy a peace lily for Danny as a birthday present. He is surprised to see the shop's owner, renowned for her horticultural skills, leaving town. She tells him that the land she owns was to be bought by a George merchant with the assistance of the thespians that we saw earlier that are dead. Then, when they were both killed, the messenger informed her that her land was much more valuable than what the merchant offered her, so she has sold her shop to a land developer from the city. She does this whole scene. She's explaining everything, and every time that she says George Merchant or one of the thespians, she constantly says God rest them. And she says it like a billion times. And it's just so funny and great and this movie's perfect.
Speaker 3:And it's like it also lists all the people that have died.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that have been murdered. I couldn't keep up.
Speaker 3:I was like huh, huh and it's like why do these people think these are just a bunch of accidents happening?
Speaker 1:I know it's wild.
Speaker 2:It all connects together when she tells them that when I was watching I was like, oh, I was getting in that moment where he's piecing together that he was reading. I was like I see now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's validating everything that he just researched and stuff. I was just thinking of the nice guys because I said, and stuff, he's like they're sluts and stuff here.
Speaker 3:Just say sluts.
Speaker 1:Don, there's sluts and stuff here. Just say sluts, don't add stuff. Anywho, go listen to the Nice Guys episode. So she also reveals her connections to Skinner because he's against the new market. When Nick briefly goes outside to his car, the dark cloaked figure stabs the woman to death with her own garden shears. And then Nick gives chase but cannot catch up to the villain who was wounded in the escape, Because every time he turns a corner they're like way further out and when they do the reveal it's so great, so smart and also seems impossible to you know, coordinate that when I first saw the scene I was like, okay, they can't explain this away and they're still trying to say it's an accident, like, oh my God, guys, come on.
Speaker 1:I will say during this part there is this was kind of one of the really the only parts where I'm like, well, this doesn't make sense. I mean, were they expecting Nick to go to this flower shop? I don't think so, because all the police people were at his thing. Why were there going to be like six people there? So every time he turns a corner, they're like they're just going to run forward.
Speaker 2:Well, they probably expect, because, don't we find out later it's the tall guy that has a cut on his leg? Yeah, but why would they think they'd have to even do that? Well, probably just to make sure everything gets cleaned up. Well, they probably also check to make sure there's no other like people who aren't a part of their thing.
Speaker 1:Because I mean, it's good to know that nick's there. So why are we? They didn't know nick was there? Well, I mean, he was right outside, he was no, because nick was inside the building. He walks outside and the cloak guy's right there. So I mean, like, are they specifically doing it to mess with his head?
Speaker 2:like I think it's just coincidence, it's just one, it's an accident.
Speaker 1:It's one of the only parts where I'm like, ah, this was strictly because they needed this type of thing for the movie, even though it doesn't 100% light up.
Speaker 2:The guy who did it was the guy who's mentally slower. So I bet you, if it was someone else, he's like I should back off this second. But him, he just does the mission. He wouldn't think like I don't care, I'll just run away. If it was that one, well, true, but most likely it's been him most of the time, because he's the muscle and he's super tall right there was just like five, five other cloak people and it's just like why would you think you have to do?
Speaker 1:that if you could have been one if your plan was just to kill her while she was alone. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3:This is a cat and mouse they're like I'm gonna do it right in front of you and you're not gonna catch me it's just a nitpick, that's all it is so, so that can be your ugly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did. I was actually kind of saving it just in case one of y'all wanted to do it, so convinced that Skinner's connection to the property deal and attitude towards those murdered is sufficient as evidence against Skinner, nick takes the police force to confront him, but Skinner has no wound and his store's surveillance tapes establish that he was on the premise all day.
Speaker 2:Was this also after he was back at the police office and they were all cussing and putting money into the thing?
Speaker 1:Thank, you Andy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, danny, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's like starting to lose his shit. Yeah, yeah, dang, I should have put that in my notes. Yeah, because that was so funny. So Nick is prepared to give up when it occurs to him that, instead of a single murderer, several dark cloak murderers might be working together. Because at the, at the shop, at one of the shops, uh, she says, do you have any luck catching those killers?
Speaker 2:it's like, actually, it's just one killer actually, and like doesn't does like a flashback type of thing, right?
Speaker 3:for us and it's just kind of plays it on loop, isn't it?
Speaker 2:like uh, maybe I'm mis'm misremembering, because to me it's like kind of isn't it edited really fast a lot, or is it just like yeah, I think so, yeah, it's like I just love it, it comes up it's like intense moment.
Speaker 1:here it comes and then we get the what's the matter got. So he goes to Frank to tell him his theory. But Frank says that this is the same thing that happened to the last transfer there. Like, you just kind of go crazy because it's such a small town and you're in a big city. This calms Nick, who is completely depressed. He's just kind of walking around sad now. But his theory is confirmed when he is attacked in his hotel room by one of Skinner's employees, michael Yarp Yarp His last name's not.
Speaker 1:Yarp, I just love the conversations that they have too later yeah, and when we see him he's also wearing the dark cloak. So we're just like ah, skinner has to be a part of this now, because it works for him. Nick defeats him and then impersonates him when Skinner radios to see if Nick has been killed. Yarp, yarp.
Speaker 2:Narp, narp that cracked me up. I was like, oh, what are you going to say here? And he went.
Speaker 1:So Nick traces Skinner to a castle outside the village. There he finds the Neighborhood Watch Alliance, clad in the dark cloaks, chanting ritualistically. The NWA reveals that they have been behind the murders, with their motive simply being civic pride and had nothing to do with the property deal between those who were murdered. Love that all the evidence that he collected?
Speaker 2:all it was is just a bunch of stuck up older people, just wanting a nice city, because it's that big moment of the reveal and it's like this is so petty and it's hilarious, right.
Speaker 1:And they're so nonchalant about saying it's like of course we couldn't have it. Yeah, because you had the thespians. And his girlfriend were murdered because they're terrible. Acting brought ill repute to Sanford's theater company. The businessman was murdered for owning a tacky home, the journalist for poor spelling and Leslie for even thinking about moving away. It's like damn.
Speaker 2:Damn. The other ones I could kind of understand, but moving away, come on now Murder?
Speaker 3:Yeah, slash or murder.
Speaker 1:Well, those two Babe. They had background actors from Straw Dogs.
Speaker 2:The Thespians were annoying and you have a musical number at the end of your crappy three-hour show. You can't you can't.
Speaker 1:Also, here's the thing about this part. It shouldn't work. This should be like are you serious?
Speaker 1:this is what it is, but it's so funny it works and because of the rest of film was so like this that it I don't know just crushes it at this point. It'd be weirder if it wasn't like this thing, all right. So Nick tries to arrest them, but Frank and Danny appear in support of NWA. They chase Nick through the grounds of the castle where he finds the remains of other people NWA has killed. Um, it's great cause. You see the statue guy. You pretty much see everybody that was talked about, or that he just fell through some woods, cause he also has the the um, uh, shoplifter, oh yeah, statue guy.
Speaker 1:The um a shoplifter, statue guy. The last, the last guy that Nick took over because he had the bushy beard and stuff. All those people, the NWA surrounds Nick and Danny steps forward and stabs him. Then Danny takes Nick's body away in the trunk of his car, but at a safe distance. He lets the very much alive Nick go. They had fake Nick's death using ketchup packets for blood and Nick's notebook to avoid actual skin penetration. So Danny refuses to believe his father and the NWA are responsible for murder and persuade Nick to take his car and return to London. So in London Nick sees a collection of action films and inspired returns to Sanford to put an end to the NWA. So in London Nick sees a collection of action films and inspired returns to Sanford to put an end to the NWA. So I guess every shop just has.
Speaker 1:Point Break right next to Bad Boys 2. I don't know. I do like how, if anybody's from you know England, and if that's just a normal thing where you always have really good Blu-rays and DVDs in your like little shops, send me some fan mail. Just go to our description and click the fan mail link, and then I just want to hear from you.
Speaker 3:Shameless plug.
Speaker 1:Wow, well, they're listening. It's for my own podcast.
Speaker 2:I like that, nick, because in that moment you're finding out everyone is a part of this. And then Nick comes up and because it's like, oh no, he's a part of it and he's like I didn't know they were doing all of that Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause he was just like. The only reason he faked the death was like I don't understand why everybody's chasing you and they just think that I don't know.
Speaker 2:He's so blissfully unaware yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So after he decides to come back, he takes the arsenal from the police evidence room and confronts many of the nwa members in the town square. Uh, they are equally as well armed as he is and he wounds them only through the timely assistance of danny um. But there's also a few other things. He has kids spray paint, the nwa cameras. Um, it's great because he's walking in on a horse like a Clint Eastwood Western, and I love when Danny he opens the door, he knocks the one lady out.
Speaker 2:He's shooting from the bicycle, from her little basket.
Speaker 1:And then whenever he tosses Danny the gun and he cocks and it's like that's what I'm talking about. And then we have the doctor comes out after they think they killed everybody, and so they know. We have the doctor comes out after they think they killed everybody and so they think they have the other hand. So Danny's gonna throw the cause. He's like drop your gun. So he throws the gun and the gun fires and it shoots his foot and he got the line you're a doctor deal with it.
Speaker 2:And then Danny, yeah, motherfucker and when's the scene with the priest? And then we also.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's also during all this. Yeah, and this is where we're getting a lot of like the lower angle shot, like 360 shots of them, like rising and stuff, and it's the Bay shot, the Michael Bay shot. Cause he has that every single movie, like in Bad Boys. Bad Boys Literally every single Michael Bay movie. I just got the scene in Shia LaBeouf.
Speaker 1:We're going to have to go onto YouTube, because there's like a super funny video of where it starts off with bad boys Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, and they're like starting to raise, and then it's showing a bunch of scenes from Michael Bay movies that are very cliche, yeah, and then like it starts getting a little overwhelming so they're like, okay, we're sitting back now. This is bad. Anyways. So in the local pub whose owners are also NWA members, frank and the other constables in full right gear surround Nick and Danny, but Nick is able to persuade the constables that he is in the right.
Speaker 2:Was this? Oh, so like, because I just want to go back to the pre-scene he's like stop this mindless violence, yeah. And pulls out the hidden guns, Like this is so good. How do you just think of this in a movie? Oh, that's a cliche, I still love it.
Speaker 1:It is so funny because that's literally in another movie and I cannot remember which one it is.
Speaker 2:It was in Alien Resurrection. He has like the hidden gun on his arm. And then he had that hidden gun, ron Perlman's character.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I think there's. There's another one, I can't. I know there's another one too, and I don't remember. This happens a lot in Western movies, where it ends up being like oh the preacher is fully armed and then, well, like when?
Speaker 2:so when they go in there and they convince them, it wasn't until that scene, because that's when someone accidentally gets a on their head and she screams like cops, and they show up and you're like, oh, are they with them? It's like, oh, they're not a part of it either, because in reality they're cops. If they did know this, they wouldn't sit idly by and let it happen yeah, they might if you talked them into it enough give them enough chunky monkey.
Speaker 1:So, frustrated, frank runs away, nick and the otherey boy. It's great, the whole team works together expertly. You have one of the Andes, he like. So one Andy gets like some, what is it? Bolognese sauce on him and the other Andy's like no. And he's like no, it's just Bolognese sauce. You got the part where Olivia, doris Thatcher, there's like a girls running at Nick about to kill him and she like takes a wet floor sign and hits it and it's like nothing like a bit on girl on girl action. It's like their laughs are what kills me. And then you have the trolley boy. He falls into the freezer and Danny's like did you say cool off, nick? No, earlier I gave him a monkey and said playtime's over, danny, you're off the chain. So good, so good. But Skinner is able to escape with Frank. Danny and Nick get for a suit in their police car and in the process find the runaway swan and pick it up.
Speaker 2:I love that, like because it's so intense and they stop. It is such a good scene.
Speaker 1:He doesn't turn off, skinner and Frank are forced to abandon the car and Nick and Danny give chase on foot. I love it, though, because you got the huge car jump and it's like where are they jumping to? Because you see all the buildings, but then you see it's just because it's a replica of the town. There's also, uh, the driving in this scene is great and it's just like shades of what Edgar got. Edgar Wright is learning before he does baby driver, because this is really good, and then he takes it to the next level with baby driver. So Nick and Skinner fight in a scale replica of the village.
Speaker 2:It looks like a kaiju fight so awesome and Nick wins when Skinner falls and impales his chin on a model of the village church that was so like ouch, when I back, when I was sitting there watching this is not what happened and he's like still alive. I was like he'd be dead doesn't it, doesn't it like?
Speaker 3:it goes under your mouth hurt. I don't think he would be dead.
Speaker 2:No, but it was long enough that if that happened he would have slid and it would have went into his brain.
Speaker 1:He just got lucky.
Speaker 2:It's really hard.
Speaker 1:That sucks. And then later, when they take his mugshot, he still has it in when he does it, but he doesn't die because of it. Frank acts like he is going to shoot Danny, but they struggle and Danny has the shot on his dad, but does the point break thing instead and he gets to live his dream.
Speaker 2:But that makes sense. This scene makes more sense than the point break one because it's his dad.
Speaker 1:I actually think it makes less sense, because bro Brody yeah bro, he like changes his life man.
Speaker 2:I just need to rewatch that movie again.
Speaker 1:Like he changes, not messed up like Utah was just like a working stiff, an acting stiff. I mean it's, and then he taught him to live that free life. They became brothers, they were bros and they also might have been lovers.
Speaker 3:Where was the dog being thrown in this movie?
Speaker 1:hmm, they got point break free life. They became brothers.
Speaker 2:They were bros, and they also might have been lovers. Where was the dog being thrown in this movie? Hmm?
Speaker 1:They got point break. You're not going to throw a dog. Well, saxon's a good boy, so we're not throwing him, and that other dog is also probably a good boy. From point break Dang.
Speaker 3:They're all the good boys Again.
Speaker 1:Jason, if you, you bro, because you would also probably brought up throwing a dog. That's why I did it, just so he's here in spirit. Um, I can't remember we got. So, yeah, frank tries to flee and nick and danny's car but crashes into a tree when the swan attacks him as all swans would do.
Speaker 2:He finally does what the swan thing would do and tries to eat them.
Speaker 1:And then I love it because you think you're getting like the happy ending, because you even get like the happy, like romantic line. I feel I feel like I should say something Nick says. I feel like I should say something smart, danny, you don't have to say anything at all.
Speaker 2:Well, this is also like when they get back.
Speaker 1:That was the runner up to the opening.
Speaker 2:They do like all the paperwork, right, they're doing all the paperwork for everyone right In this moment and we're seeing them do the police shots and, like you said, said it's almost over. Then we get the next scene.
Speaker 1:that's hilarious so Nick's former London superiors arrive in Sanford to congratulate him and ask him to return, as London has become crime ridden. In his absence, nick's refuses because he has made such good friends and finally learned to enjoy life in Sanford. However, at the station the last remaining member of the NWA tries to kill him. It's the doctor. Danny takes the full brunt of the gun, blast RIP Maybe. And in the soon chase the sea mine is detonated, destroying the station house.
Speaker 2:We think that Danny may have been killed To be fair when you look at that scene when it goes off, and then the scene later the whole station's gone. It's like yo, so you're all dead. Yeah, I was surviving that it's meant to be that dramatic, like I know what they're going for, but it's funny.
Speaker 3:It's cinema.
Speaker 1:This is true cinema right here. God her saying cinema is rock hard right now, but no, one is killed, you're going to cut that right? Nope.
Speaker 2:He's bricked up.
Speaker 1:I'm actually going to add it and then I'm going to double it, make it louder too, but no one is killed. You get a fake, fake out, uh, with nick, because he's taking flowers to tombstone. And you just see butterman, which is danny's last name, but ends up being because he's like uh, what does he say with the flowers? Um, I hope these are okay. And he's like. And danny pops like, yeah, they're fine. And we learn, danny is promoted to sergeant and nick becomes the inspector. Danny and nick continue to patrol the streets of Sanford together with together, like Marcus and Mike from Bad Boys as their role models.
Speaker 3:And Riggs and Murtaugh, yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's the end of the film. Good movie, right? Yes, yeah, I love this movie, okay.
Speaker 2:Any last thoughts about the movie. I love the scene when they're like all the violence is happening and drifting in the cars and then you have the people there who are inspecting the village and they're just like blank face, like what is happening, yeah All right, we're going to move to our first category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine.
Speaker 1:This is where we describe the good of the film, something that we like. The bad, something we didn't. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. Natalie, what do you think the good of the film is for you?
Speaker 3:The comedy.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:I think a lot of the action sequences are really good. Mm-hmm. Nick Frost, Simon. Pegg. They're just great. All the actors are really great.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like the main players.
Speaker 1:They're all just funny people, even all the side actors. Yeah, every little cameo in this movie is amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like even just at the beginning, like with Martin Freeman and Bill Nye and all of them, they're just great.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You got anything different? No, I like just the chemistry Nick Frost and Simon Pegg have together. Yeah, it's all good. And it's funny to think about the other categories of this movie, because when you look at the movie it's like what?
Speaker 1:could be the bad. Oh, I got stuff, but before we get there, y'all didn't say it. But Edgar Wright and his directing style is amazing and just like even Last Night in Soho is considered to be his worst film and like it didn't even get, like some people are very mixed on it. But I'm like even a bad Edgar Wright movie which I don't think Last Night in Soho is a bad movie, I think people are just up their butts a lot like. It's just, it's so flashy, it's so quick, it's so witty and I love it and I wish every director was like this well, that's just like that.
Speaker 2:Alien 3, David Fincher did that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I could see his parts in it and I was like if he had full control of this, this would have been an amazing movie. Even a bad David Fincher movie, with that one it was still good. I still like it. It's not great, but it could have been way worse.
Speaker 1:I have to rewatch that All right, so I'm going to go with the bad.
Speaker 3:And I guess I'll start.
Speaker 1:Know that either it should be. It should be an hour 40.
Speaker 2:But to be fair, they did a good job with everything. I don't think if you took anything out is something that I would say to take out.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just the beginning is better. The first half is better than the second half. Well, it gets all action.
Speaker 2:They leaned into that hard, like what they were setting up before. With all the action movies that we've seen him, it's like this is what he went for and it worked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's just like you know, there's only so many times you can see him cock a gun and shoot somebody before it's like okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You're going to cock the gun some more and shoot some more people. Yeah, I mean, I still like it there. When I rewatched it the first time for this, I was like what are we doing? Yeah, they needed a big explosion yeah, I mean it's a good joke, but at the same time it's like didn't need. It could have cut 10 minutes out of the movie if we didn't have it. But if you do love it, I understand. I actually don't dislike it either. I just need it a bad just let them know, you know on the bus, yeah just go to the description mailbag mailbag.
Speaker 1:We're gonna. No one's doing that, so we're just gonna try the just go into our description and click the link. It's at the very beginning, can't miss it all right. So we're gonna go to the ugly, where it's something that didn't age. Well, anybody rogue police officers.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, police officer walking with a fort, mean, I don't know what he said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it works for the movie, obviously, but just for like a split second. I was like man, that'd be terrifying if a cop just walked into the middle of a street with all those guns and be like, what are we going to? We can't stop him before he starts shooting.
Speaker 2:Are you going to call the police so?
Speaker 1:we'll go to the fine, something that aged well.
Speaker 2:Just the movie still holds up Like it's a lot of even with the CGI blood for a comedy movie, like it's still like nothing wrong with it because it's all shot. Really, really, really.
Speaker 3:Really, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, this is where I get really on set.
Speaker 2:You know what is shot on location, so everything still holds up. Well, that's what happens when you do those type of movies.
Speaker 1:When you shoot on location, they can hold up for a long time yeah, it's not like the gray man, where it's like, hey, let's get an establishing shot and then just go into like a CGI scene right mine was a Sega Riot action movie. It's like you know this was the most action we got in his movie at this point. And then he just keeps doing it and it just gets better and better.
Speaker 3:Buddy Cop movies. Yeah, Buddy Cop movies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't get those anymore. We don't have that the Nice Guys was the last one Was the Nice.
Speaker 2:Guys after the other guys, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I was gonna say that one nice guys was like 2017 other guys like ride along which it's funny, okay, but it's still, they're still fun, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I give me like the idea of a buddy cop movie I got, I just realized what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:Okay, um all right, we're gonna move on to our next category, which is double feature, and this is where we recommend a movie that pairs well with this movie. It's like a nice brie with a cabernet. I've lost the last word. Cabernet's Can never get away without an. Uh, yes, that totally. I'm sorry, guys. I'm a bad boy. Everybody's turning it off. They're driving their cars into trees because I'm so bad. So what do y'all got for your double features, guys? I'm just going to stop doing that. 21 Jump Street.
Speaker 1:God damn it. Mine is 22 Jump Street then, or Wargles Superbad for mine then.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, that works, that's a nice like really good chemistry.
Speaker 1:Chemistry in that was Michael Cera. There's cops in it, yeah, that's true. Or Lethal Weapon. I just didn't want to do any of the movies that they're homaging in it.
Speaker 3:Anybody cop movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really I was going to say the other guys. There you go I was going to say that Perfect double feature. You got the hardened cop that can't turn it off, and then you got the at his job.
Speaker 2:But he's like a I just realized that they come back together for that movie, Daddy's Home. Not a bad movie I haven't watched it in a while.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing Most comedies just put funny people in it. I'm gonna laugh. Put Will Ferrell in something. He'll make me laugh at some point.
Speaker 2:Even the Sherlock Holmes movies that he did.
Speaker 1:There's four good bits in it.
Speaker 2:I have not seen it. There's four good bits.
Speaker 1:I have not seen it. It's a 40 minute movie but there's four good bits and the rest of the movie is straight trash. But it was watchable when you're tired Because, like oh, you laugh a little bit, you nod in and out if you need to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:What did you pick?
Speaker 3:I just said Shaun of the Dead just because Nick Frost, Simon Peg.
Speaker 1:Yeah, perfect, I mean that's.
Speaker 3:Just because they go well together.
Speaker 1:That's the best of the Cornetto trilogy, for sure. All right, and that's the episode. Guys, thanks for joining us. Thank you for filling in for Jason.
Speaker 3:You're welcome.
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Speaker 3:You gave me a lot to work with for this.
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