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The best of the Cornetto Trilogy!

posted 9 years ago by fishdog1424
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"The Worlds End" is in my opinion the best movie of the three. YES..."Shaun of the Dead" is a classic and started it all. It is funny, quotable, and an all around fun movie. SOTD has a good blend of funny, and drama, but it is a little amateurish and I believe this is what makes it great!
"Hot Fuzz" is a fun, fast paced, action movie. HF takes all of the action movie clichés, and rolls them into one perfect, action packed, funny and exciting movie from start to finish.
"The World's End" completes the trilogy with a fantastic sci-if story, ripe with quick humor and heart felt sentiments. Anyone who has graduated high school 10+ years ago knows that there is a large part of them that wants to go back to the "Glory Days" of high school when rules and responsibilities didn't apply. The character development and the acting are top notch in this film, and no matter how many times I see it, it gets better every time! TWE is a movie that didn't do well in theaters, but I guarantee will become a cult classic. By the way;
SOFT = Shaun of the Dead
HF = Hot Fuzz
TWE = The World's End

[–] HarveyManfredSinJohn 9 years ago

They're all excellent.

Hot Fuzz is my favourite. It's the funniest, the most technically impressive and the most evenly paced and consistent in tone, but I think The World's End is the richest and most emotionally affecting and substantial of the three films.

Anyway, even though the trilogy has ended I do hope Wright, Pegg and Frost will make more films in the same vein, featuring their semi-regular repertory company of Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Mark Heap, Julia Deakin, and the cream of British comedy talent.

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[–] DeceptiveFox 8 years ago

Well, I guess I'll round out this thread by saying that Shaun of the Dead was my favorite. Followed by Hot Fuzz. I can't put my finger on it, but there was something about The World's End that I either missed or didn't fully appreciate.

"Well...I've seen enough. Come on Charlie, we're going home."

[–] dylank381 8 years ago

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2013/10/03/film-crit-hulk-smash-alcohol-withnail-and-gary-king

Quite a long read but very worth it in my opinion.

[–] Drooch (5333) 3 years ago

Agreed, it’s easily the best of the three.

SOTD and HF felt like a geeky kid having his first go playing with the adult’s toys, finally able to make a movie. It’s fun but all a bit ‘overcooked’, and I hate the MTV editing of HF, the whole film is on coke.

Everyone was better by TWE. The actors were more credible, especially Nick Frost, and Wright finally calmed the fuck down and let scenes breathe and characters develop. Best of all, his action choreography went from godawful in HF to world-class. Those fight scenes were all long takes with great details and a camera dancing around every punch, duck and body-slam in a perfect symphony of awesome.

I also liked the more serious tone, thematic richness and social commentary. The comedy was still gold but it sat on a foundation of real substance. The film felt built from the ground up rather than an indulgent mess-about.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

It's the most adult of the three, the one where the story takes on adult themes and doesn't just riff on pop culture and everyday comedy.

But I can't pick a favorite among the three films, because while they're all hilarious and I'm very fond of them, they ALL fall apart at the finale. Okay, maybe "Hot Fuzz" is my favorite, because I can never hear "The greater good" without repeating it back solemnly, but after the amazing "greater good" scene they had to go and ruin it all.

[–] orangeflava (1877) 2 years ago

I didn't know this trilogy was named after an ice cream brand. Do they explain why?

[–] capuchin (3212) 2 years ago

From Wikipedia:

The name originates from a "silly joke" during the promotion of Hot Fuzz. Wright had written in Cornetto ice cream as a hangover cure for Frost's character in Shaun of the Dead, based on his own experiences. At the after party for the film, they received free Cornetto ice creams so Wright and Pegg decided to include another reference to Cornetto in their next film in a failed attempt to get more free ice cream. In Hot Fuzz, Wright included a couple of brief throwaway scenes that referred to the Cornetto joke in Shaun. On the promotional tour of Hot Fuzz during production of The World's End, one interviewer pointed out the use of Cornetto in the first two films, and Wright jokingly said that they represent a trilogy comparable to Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours film trilogy.

Wright seriously considered the three films as a trilogy, and wrote The World's End to complete themes set out in the earlier films, adding a Cornetto reference to the film. Each film in the trilogy is connected to a specific Cornetto flavour appearing in each film. Shaun of the Dead features a strawberry-flavoured Cornetto, which signifies the film's bloody and gory elements,[16] Hot Fuzz includes the blue original Cornetto, to signify the police element to the film, and The World's End features the green mint chocolate chip flavour (though shown only by a wrapper caught in the wind) representing "little green men" and science fiction.

[–] orangeflava (1877) 2 years ago

interesting. blue could also work for the worlds end since there is that bright blue light that comes out of all the alien faces.

[–] capuchin (3212) 2 years ago

Yeah. It could. I think from the way the idea evolved, the colour-coding is more or less post hoc. And kind of arbitrary. I mean: green could work for Hot Fuzz. They could have said it represented the rural nature of an English village. Or for Shaun. They could have said it was rotting flesh colour....

It was probably a happy accident that they used two different flavours of ice cream in the first two films and they just seized upon that for the third.

[–] orangeflava (1877) 2 years ago

By golly i think you are right.
Weird I've never said "by golly" in real life but i left it in here, lol

[–] Lucia2016 (617) 5 months ago

I have always preferred this one i like the hang out tone of the first half of just old mates on a pub crawl with great banter.

I wouldn't argue to those who say Hot Fuzz is the best it's kind of perfect and i love them both but theres always been something about this one i think as well because it's the overlooked one of the three. This one has a lot of heart as well Simon Pegg gives his best performance of the trilogy.

I agree Shaun of Dead while funny is a bit amateurish compared to the other two

[–] Seperatrix (1241) 4 months ago

It's not Cornetto.

But Paul is my favorite.

Ok ok . . . I think The World's End is my favorite of the three mentioned.

But Paul.

[–] TheArgentinian (7111) 2 months ago

It's the weakest. It falls apart in the third act.