Sunday, September 29, 2013

World's End (2013)

Starring Simon Pegg & Nick Frost; Directed by Edgar Wright. Written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright.

So, what is The World's End? It's a buddy reunion film about five childhood best friends who are roped into reliving one of their childhood goals: their hometown's Golden Mile. A bar crawl of 12 pubs in one night. They didn't make it all the way when they were younger and now, their ring leader, Gary Knight (Simon Pegg) is determined to finish it this time. Why? Because that was the best night of his life and his life has not turned out the way he wanted. But it's never as easy as that when you're in a Cornetto Trilogy. There were zombies in Shaun of the Dead, murderous townspeople who wanted to keep the peace in Hot Fuzz and now, there are Stepford-like robots in World's End.


*BTW Cornetto: are those ice cream cones.
In Shaun of the Dead, Nick Frost's character eats a red (strawberry) one
In Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost's character eats a blue (Original) one
And a green (mint chocolate chip) one flies and hits a chain-link fence in World's End.

It's said that the red symbolizes the impending blood and gore.
The blue represents police.
While green is representative of aliens. All of which symbolize each film.
It really is quite clever.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

TYLER PERRY

So, I intended to write a review on The Jungle Book. But this weekend, it seems like Tyler Perry's films are airing on constant rotation. So, that got me thinking... I love Tyler Perry's films. Madea Goes To Jail, Madea's Family Reunion, Diary of Mad Black Woman, I Can Do Bad All By Myself...and all of the others that I currently am drawing a blank to. The funny thing is, I don't think I fit his intended audience. Of course, I'm not a racist white guy, but all of these films are about African American women in Georgia who have to turn themselves around. Tyler Perry can write some amazing, heartfelt, inspiring, dark, funny and deep films/plays.