Just thought I'd post today to say that Tallulah and myself managed to catch 'Hot Fuzz' at the weekend and can heartily recommend it at the funniest film either of us have seen for a long time.
Sure, as the son of an Oxfordshire policeman the prospect of an action movie set in the Cotswolds was always going to inspire some sort of a reaction (good or bad) but the jokes came thick and fast and the comic detail was spot on - good to hear some proper Gloucestershire accents too!
Before seeing the film I had been rather worried by a mediocre review I'd read in a certain conservative tabloid (left behind, I might add, by a recent visitor to our household). Suffice to say, the newspaper in question probably reacted badly to the unsympathetic portrayal of Middle England reactionaries - which would seem to be this paper's target audience.
Now that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have brought us a Zombie movie in London (Shaun of the Dead) and an Action flick in Gloucestershire (Hot Fuzz) has anyone got any ideas what they should do next?
Anyone for a teenage High School musical coming-of-age romp set on Orkney?
Part II of the Geeks progress coming soon.
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Titanic-style maritime disaster movie in Leicestershire. On a small lake perhaps. Or just a pond.
You write very well.
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