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"David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town." Worth noting that in Hot Fuzz (also featuring Olivia

"David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town." Worth noting that in Hot Fuzz (also featuring Olivia Coleman!) the main character is exiled to a rural location for being too good at his job.

jacquesm 9mo ago
That movie is a long series of spoofs nicely spliced together to form a story. To the point that it even works in the reverse, you've seen Hot Fuzz and then years later you watch some other movie and suddenly you realize that's where they got it.
- WalterBright 9mo ago
  Should watch "Zero Hour" (1957). "Airplane" is nearly a shot-for-shot remake, except it's done for laughs rather than a thriller. "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!"
  - jacquesm 9mo ago
    Thank you, I will do that. Never heard of it before!
  - rapind 9mo ago
    Airplane! also features tons of other TV and movie references doesn’t it? Basically what would have happened in these well known shows and movies when you add absurd scenarios while still playing it straight (the joke is never acknowledged of course!).
    - samplatt 9mo ago
      Not just jokes and scenarios - it's full of many actors that for years (and decades) played very serious "leading man" type roles. Seeing all these all-american heroes just being utter idiots helped make it so impactful.
      - fhdkweig 9mo ago
        I was very confused when I recognized Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet. I had never seen him in a non-farcical comedy role.
    - seanc 9mo ago
      We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me who Ethel Merman was.
Insanity 9mo ago
She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series. It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
- HPsquared 9mo ago
  And that's a show about people who are bad at relationships.
  - Insanity 9mo ago
    True! Two “losers” as protagonists
- timthorn 9mo ago
  And the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience. Thants.
  - vizzier 9mo ago
    For season 1 it very much satirises the early morning open university tv educational media format from the 70s through the early 2000s [1]. I'm not sure it'd land quite the same way for other countries or even for gen-z onwards. [1] https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/open-university https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/op...
    - timthorn 9mo ago
      I wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.
    - techterrier 9mo ago
      i think the skibidi toilet crew would love spiders on drugs
    - Aeolun 9mo ago
      That’s actually pretty cool. I can think of worse things to watch in the mornings.
nebula8804 9mo ago
Warms my heart to see fellow Edgar Wright fans here. Felt bad about his recent film results. I waited years for that. :/
- tialaramex 9mo ago
  I saw Baby Driver, which I really liked but I haven't seen any of the three movies since that. The Cornetto trilogy are excellent. I'm a big fan of Three Colours (my favourite is White) and I think that actually in the same way that Kieślowski clearly doesn't care about the supposed theme, he just wants money to make movies, we can say the same for the Cornetto movies. We're bringing the commonalities to it in our interpretation, Wright didn't pour great effort into ensuring that these movies "work" as a trilogy, but they do if you squint, in the same way that Kieślowski didn't put great effort into relating his three films to the French flag but if you squint you can make it work fine.
  - nebula8804 9mo ago
    At the end of the day, Hollywood is a business unfortunately and his last two films did poorly Last Night In Soho was a absolute cinematic treat but had mixed reviews. I was fortunate to see it a week before release in 35mm in NYC and it was truly a special moment. But lets be real, even with films being graded on a curve due to the pandemic, the movie still did poorly. Ok fresh start a few years later with The Running Man. This time he got big money, three time more than Baby Driver. (34mil vs 110mil) and the result? Baby Driver brought in ~227 mil and Running Man? Just ~69 mil. Maybe he is better off producing smaller budget films and while I want nothing but success for him since he's my all time favorite director: Hollywood is a business. They will not look kindly on someone that keeps losing money.
    - chilmers 9mo ago
      To be fair to Wright, there were a bunch of big budget movies in 2025 that flopped: Thunderbolts, Tron Ares, Snow White, etc. There’s definitely a wider phenomenon at work of cinema struggling in general. But I agree, Wright’s big-budget career is likely over.
eli_gottlieb 9mo ago
The older I get, the more I suspect the Neighborhood Watch Alliance of being behind all society's problems.
hbarka 9mo ago
In the 12th century a Welsh writer named Walter Map wrote the line "no good deed unpunished, no bad one unrewarded". Not quite English but maybe he was already expressing the whimsy of the English kingdom.
Cthulhu_ 9mo ago
A lot of people cite Hot Fuzz as one of the best examples in filmmaking. Almost everything is a setup for a joke or scene that resolves later on in the film.

jacquesm 9mo ago

That movie is a long series of spoofs nicely spliced together to form a story. To the point that it even works in the reverse, you've seen Hot Fuzz and then years later you watch some other movie and suddenly you realize that's where they got it.

WalterBright 9mo ago
Should watch "Zero Hour" (1957). "Airplane" is nearly a shot-for-shot remake, except it's done for laughs rather than a thriller. "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!"
- jacquesm 9mo ago
  Thank you, I will do that. Never heard of it before!
- rapind 9mo ago
  Airplane! also features tons of other TV and movie references doesn’t it? Basically what would have happened in these well known shows and movies when you add absurd scenarios while still playing it straight (the joke is never acknowledged of course!).
  - samplatt 9mo ago
    Not just jokes and scenarios - it's full of many actors that for years (and decades) played very serious "leading man" type roles. Seeing all these all-american heroes just being utter idiots helped make it so impactful.
    - fhdkweig 9mo ago
      I was very confused when I recognized Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet. I had never seen him in a non-farcical comedy role.
  - seanc 9mo ago
    We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me who Ethel Merman was.

Insanity 9mo ago

She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series. It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.

HPsquared 9mo ago
And that's a show about people who are bad at relationships.
- Insanity 9mo ago
  True! Two “losers” as protagonists
timthorn 9mo ago
And the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience. Thants.
- vizzier 9mo ago
  For season 1 it very much satirises the early morning open university tv educational media format from the 70s through the early 2000s [1]. I'm not sure it'd land quite the same way for other countries or even for gen-z onwards. [1] https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/open-university https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/op...
  - timthorn 9mo ago
    I wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.
  - techterrier 9mo ago
    i think the skibidi toilet crew would love spiders on drugs
  - Aeolun 9mo ago
    That’s actually pretty cool. I can think of worse things to watch in the mornings.

nebula8804 9mo ago

Warms my heart to see fellow Edgar Wright fans here. Felt bad about his recent film results. I waited years for that. :/

tialaramex 9mo ago
I saw Baby Driver, which I really liked but I haven't seen any of the three movies since that. The Cornetto trilogy are excellent. I'm a big fan of Three Colours (my favourite is White) and I think that actually in the same way that Kieślowski clearly doesn't care about the supposed theme, he just wants money to make movies, we can say the same for the Cornetto movies. We're bringing the commonalities to it in our interpretation, Wright didn't pour great effort into ensuring that these movies "work" as a trilogy, but they do if you squint, in the same way that Kieślowski didn't put great effort into relating his three films to the French flag but if you squint you can make it work fine.
- nebula8804 9mo ago
  At the end of the day, Hollywood is a business unfortunately and his last two films did poorly Last Night In Soho was a absolute cinematic treat but had mixed reviews. I was fortunate to see it a week before release in 35mm in NYC and it was truly a special moment. But lets be real, even with films being graded on a curve due to the pandemic, the movie still did poorly. Ok fresh start a few years later with The Running Man. This time he got big money, three time more than Baby Driver. (34mil vs 110mil) and the result? Baby Driver brought in ~227 mil and Running Man? Just ~69 mil. Maybe he is better off producing smaller budget films and while I want nothing but success for him since he's my all time favorite director: Hollywood is a business. They will not look kindly on someone that keeps losing money.
  - chilmers 9mo ago
    To be fair to Wright, there were a bunch of big budget movies in 2025 that flopped: Thunderbolts, Tron Ares, Snow White, etc. There’s definitely a wider phenomenon at work of cinema struggling in general. But I agree, Wright’s big-budget career is likely over.

eli_gottlieb 9mo ago

The older I get, the more I suspect the Neighborhood Watch Alliance of being behind all society's problems.

hbarka 9mo ago

In the 12th century a Welsh writer named Walter Map wrote the line "no good deed unpunished, no bad one unrewarded". Not quite English but maybe he was already expressing the whimsy of the English kingdom.

Cthulhu_ 9mo ago

A lot of people cite Hot Fuzz as one of the best examples in filmmaking. Almost everything is a setup for a joke or scene that resolves later on in the film.