I hope all those saying how much they liked these films have also watched both series of Spaced. That’s where the whole shebang with these 3 started and has been an all time favourite from the moment I watched it broadcast late on C4.
A genuinely British, stylistic, geeky, cultural gem, not mainstream garbage. Get it watched, mate
“OH MY GOD. 
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“What?”
“…wha?”
“I’ve got some fucking JAFFA CAKES IN MY COAT POCKET!”
See also Park Chan-wook’s “Vengeance Trilogy.”
I just remembered the neat breakdown of what a great visual story teller Wright is that @Purplecat posted a while back.
Good find
It’s arguable that Edgar Wright is a better visual storyteller than he is a narrative storyteller; none of his plots are particularly amazing but he is very good at telling them in visually interesting ways. As your link shows, he uses every filmic trick he can.
Compare that to, say, Ridley Scott, whose frames always look amazing but whose narratives are usually tedious and ridiculous and really by the numbers.
Probably fair, but i’ve only seen Baby Driver. Didn’t he co-write Last Night in Soho? It’s still on my list!
I have not seen the Soho one yet. I remember Baby Driver had a great opening scene tightly set to music, I bet Edgar Wright music videos would be awesome.
Isn’t the film based on one of his music videos? I think i remember him saying he wanted to do an entire film like that.
The scene in Spaced that influenced Shaun of the Dead is interesting to watch as well.
To your first point, I don’t know, but Spaced is most definitely fabulous and has more accurate pop-culture references than (possibly) any other TV show ever, and it’s funny! It riffs on, and blatantly steals from, everything.
If we’re playing “5 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” here, I know the man who did the titles for Spaced, so I’m still one step away from Edgar Wright 
Great footage of downtown ATL… including the GSU campus!
Nice!!
I promise that most times, people aren’t driving through the streets like that… especially out on the highway… mainly cause you can’t… Too many commuters!
I don’t think that’s true, actually.
Soho is quite intense and Matt Smith makes for quite a creep in it.
Thanks, I like him, I’ll give it a look.
I assumed that because Wall’s has the same logo as Good Humor. According to Wikipedia, both are part of something called “Heartbrand”, but Cornetti are no longer a Wall’s brand. Anyway it’s all Unilever.
Kinda why the movie is a bit underrated, yeah? Lulls you in thinking “this is a dumb ‘follow idiots getting shit faced’ movie” then it goes orthogonal.
@euansmith: Here I hadn’t thought Pegg taller than 5’7"!
@MrMRDub: done!
I wish Tony Zhou would create more of those videos. The ones on Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton are good as well.
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