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This actually looks like a British comedy film that might actually be good!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm really looking forward to it, even though horror movies aren't really my thing

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 20 March 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't see it being so much a zombie movie so much as a movie-length episode of Spaced. With added zombies.

Evidently this is going to be the best film this year, and I will be very sorely disappointed if it isn't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 21 March 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I am just scared that the trailer has all the best bits in it.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 21 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Note to self. When clicking on www.movieguide.co.nz to see potential trailer, dont bother. Fskcing popups tried to run scripts and install a trojan on my work pc! Bastard.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 March 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Useless Shaun of the Dead trivia: both former members of Orlando are in it! (Tim Chipping as one of the main zombies, Dickon as butchered extra).

It is going to rule so hard.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 22 March 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My flatmate saw it the other week, and said it is actually, genuinely one of the best films ever.

www.romzom.com

Nice article about it in the Independent on Sunday yesterday too, complete with Tim Chipping's "My Life as a Zombie" anecdotage.

Can't wait can't wait can't wait.

― Marianna L, Monday, 22 March 2004 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really hoping this will be as good as people are saying. If only so I no longer get the awful sinking feeling when I read/hear the words 'British comedy film'.

I wuv Spaced and I hope the same style doesn't spread too thinly when stretched over 90 minutes.

― robster (robster), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently this blog has something to do with 'roots level' 'guerilla' 'marketing' for SOTD.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not building up my hopes as i fear it may be rub (but secretly i hope it is marvy)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Moi aussi; have deliberately paid no attention to the pre-publicity. I want to just turn up. I think I might see it on the day it comes out, but I will have a stonker of a hangover as it is the day after me birfday innit.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I also foolishly excited and hoping not to be disappointed. Release day?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

April 9th.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam and Joe were doing fast Zombies v Fast Zombies on the weekend radio show (as Jo is in Shaun) which I'm sure we did in the 28 days later thread. Also Lucy Davis is in it, making her Dawn of the Dead

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Revive!

I expect many of us have now seen this - over Zombeaster weekend.

I thought it was pretty great. More, much more than a triple-length episode of Spaced.

Without lurching too far into spoiler territory, scenes that will live long in the memory - the second trip to the convenience store, the cinder path encounter with the other (doppel)gang(er), the entire speeding Jag sequence.

Watching Morons From Outer Space last night in bed (and having worked on Drop Dead Fred at work recently) it struck me that SOTD so spectacularly bucks the trend for bright Brit TV comedy falling flat on the big screen that I... I don't really know what to think. Perhaps Edgar Wright is the new Terry Gilliam, exchanging the epic for the specific.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Edgar Wright is Luke "Sleepy Jackson" Steele in disguise.

Haven't seen this yet but only because I have incredible self-control and have agreed to wait til Tuesday so as to accompany a busy friend.

Played some of the soundtrack & dialogue (specifically, I-Monster's "The Blue Wrath" and "Can I get...any of you cunts...a cup of tea?") at the ICA the other week, much fun to hear it LOUD. Oh it's gonna be good. And Dylan Moran! And Lucy Carrott! Woohoo!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I watched morons from outer space, last night, too. cookie went to bed but I could not help myself. it made me think that I do not want this film, more. the not wanting began because I do not like simon pegg.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon Pegg is the poet of the crap. The gag with the cornetto was perfectly timed and quintessential Pegg.

I was pleased and surprised to find out from Mr. The Internet that Pete had not previously been both in Spaced (as Daisy's Ex) and Black Books (as the Shipping Forecast guy) but also the voice of Darth Maul.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete = one half of the Look Around You team and, less illustriously, part on the ongoing Hardware debacle.

One of those scousers who, somehow, sounds less than entirely convincing as a scouser when called upon to drop the elocuted sheen.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What part did Tim from Orlando play? I don't remember any particularly prominent zombies. Not that I'm suggesting playing up minor roles should be second nature for someone who is still "from Orlando" :)

Will they even release this movie in the states?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

andrew, now it is your turn to text me to finish my zine.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim is very prominently featured on the poster(s); didn't spot Dickon though. Apparently everyone who was ever gonged off at the Comedy Store by Alexei Sayle is in the crowd scene outside the pub*.

As for a US release - maybe not unless aintitcool.com (they're Spaced-bonkers) has some great wedge of influence in these matters. Every DCer and NYCite I know is clamouring for a US Spaced release but music clearance issues will probably always thwart this.

(* - I can't prove this)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The music is excellent, and provides a laugh before the film even starts.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 April 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

it is great, me and meg and ptee saw it on saturday, i completely agree with your points jonesy/YMOF

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed and I went to see it last night and enjoyed its utter Crouch End-edness. To reveal spoilers would only EXACERBATE problems, though.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i was impressed! i was worried about studentyness stretched out too long too but they balanced it nicely.

― prima fassy (mwah), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete S was not Daisy's ex in spaced, but the guy (Dwayne) who "nicked" Tim's previous girlfriend.

Dawn of Dead better than I expected to be, Shaun about what I expected. I laffed, but didn't bust a gut, like. a good movie, not heat's ('sleb induced) 5 stars, but good allthesame

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It was so Crouch End it hurt. Much fun in location spotting. But agreed, Wright always had a very cinematic way of directing Spaced (put it like this, you actually noticed the direction unlike most sitcoms). Homeless man was Horton jupiter out of I Came From the Stars...I Saw Them. I shall start getting Cornetto's for breakfast.

The most interesting thing I though was actually how touching the whole thing was. Very, very entertaining - obv not best film ever but rather fun. Acres better than 28 Days Later. Pity they didn't use the real Winchester though.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, not knowing N8 like you foax, I was revelling in its specific nonspecificity - that shop, pub, flat conversion, near-Deco block could've been any Londonburb. OK, maybe a very white one.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yes i did like the 28 days later crack at the end

― prima fassy (mwah), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC.

I was pleased to note that The Shepherds in Highgate is briefly mentioned. Me and another ILXor once scored full marks in the pub quiz there.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete, I noticed that particular extra too but DIDN'T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING (and you might want to googleproof the name BTW). Actually, he may have hit the height of his fame with this!

Cast had that north London realness aspect down pat - you could imagine all of them cooling their heels in a market research call centre whilst waiting for their lives to happen. Also the refrain 'yeah mate, nothing right now' rang true - it was all terribly well-observed inna microcosm-as-macrocosm way. Any sign of Sean Whooooo? in the zombie nation, because if not he's the only c-list CrouchEnder not invited to partake of the dodgy contact lenses.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Strange as it hasn't been The Shepherds for a while though...

http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub2071.htm

(xpost)

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Which might be why the line mentioning it went something like "What about The Shepherds? They do [something I can't remember] now."

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

it will always be the shepherds to me...

...also at the end, do they say they're going to The Village for sunday lunch?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Going to the shop bit reminded me of that Kylie video.

I don't know any of the people in it, or any of the places.

I thought it was very good, top entertainment, ideal for an Easter weekend at your mum and dad's.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

also penelope wilton = CLASSIC mum behaviour

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

apart from the being shot in the head by offspring?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, sorry mum...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

[also might we want a "some spoilers likely" in the thread title?]

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Slightly flaky mum: Classic Penelope Wilton role :-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

MAN! What a great film! AND they were listening to DO YOU SUFFER FROM MENTAL which was and is now my new favourite song, hurrah for Eighties B-Line!!! I didn't have a Cornetto but I had a 99 from the ice cream van...

Ahem is anyone up for seeing this again?

Also I am willing to bet that between us we know every single person in that film. ONE OF THOSE ZOMBIES COULD HAVE BEEN ME you know!!! Hem hem I was so tired when I came out of the cinema I was doing a pretty good zombie impression myself. I want the soundtrack. I am, possibly, a little too pleased by this cinematic offering.

PS - we stayed throughout the end credits to see if there were any extras/bloopers but nowt, but someone else has reported back that there are - is this just a Filmworks thing that cut some extras off or are I's rumours wrong0?

― sarah not at work, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps I should actually see Dawn of the Dead at some point too.

― cricket bat, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The specifics of Crouch End were overidden by the universalities of The Pub/The Flat.

Though the direction in Spaced was regularly like a film, I think a lot of people ignored that because it was often like a particular film that the director wanted to imitate.

I couldn't believe Ed was Mike Watt.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

SOUNDTRACK SPOILER

Worth staying for the credits cos you do three minutes of prime Shelley/Diggle at huge cinematic volume; several people gasped "YES!" in the Ritzy as that barrelled in. I was two of them.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen it yet, but this would appear to be the most ILEcentric film of all time. Apparently Tim gets his head blown off at one point in the film, but that could happen to any number of zombies.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(pissing myself at the channel surfing bits STILL)

(late-career Buzzcocks better than no 'Cocks at all)

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

several people gasped "YES!" in the Ritzy as that barrelled in. I was two of them.

I was the other one, except in a different theatre at a different time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem that was the Ash cover version, innit - it was greeeeebt!

Ha yes lots of zombies get blown up but some people have more of a vested interest in particular zombie deaths than others, not that I am one of them though eh?

― sarah not at work, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the difference between Crouch End and Highgate? Is this like a Hoxton-Shoreditch thing where they are in reality the same place?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Highgate N6
Crouch End N8
Highgate (on a fucking hill) is sufficiently distinct from Crouch End (in a valley of sorts).

Hoxton = everything north of Old Street and in N1
Shoreditch = EC2
but people shouldn't have a snit if you use these interchangeably, esp. wrt things on Old Street, or else they are tossers.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, bugger me - not only is it Ash, it's Ash featuring Chris Martin. It's a Xerox, not a cover. I could pretend, but no - I was fooled.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

me too. i had no idea.

TOooooOOTAL sidetrack on a Ash-covering reckids tip... but Heat mag recently (like a month ago now) did it's MOST INDIE album review ever when it reviewed the recent Panda Records retrospective (last 10 years of panda??), and AAannyway, they said they liked the "early Ash song" Punk Boy. HA HA HA HA HA HA, heat likes Helen Love, ho ho ho.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chris Martin gag is fantastic. As is the grinning manchild that works for Shaun.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That was a total Xerox cover and I too was fooled.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen it yet, but this would appear to be the most ILEcentric film of all time

Because the people of ILE are nothing, nothing, no nothing at all like the characters in Spaced.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the heads up, Pete. HSA and I were considering seeing it, and now we won't bother. ;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(I think he dies. Is homeless and zombie not good enuff?)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

I like to think I am more of a character from 'Black Books'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You must keep to a reasonable range of breakfast wines, JtN.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Homeless, zombie, and dies? OK, that's good enough, then. But only if he dies. Horribly. ;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently he gets castrated as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the only way this could possibly get better is if he was poked with sharp sticks!

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think I am more of a character from 'Black Books'.

Come on now, we can't all be Fran.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(Tamsin Grieg cameo, oh yeah. I love TG, she was at a house party held by playwright friend as had just done a readthrough of her play in workshop, talked to her for ages, so cool)

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Suzy's parentheses = theatrical whisper behind hand.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Poking with sharp sticks v. chopping head off, hmmm, can't decide.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

vs of course being clouted with a cricket bat

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

DON'T SPOIL IT FOR ME!!! DON'T LET ME KNOW HOW HE WAS KILLED!!! I WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY FOR MYSELF!!!!!!

(Though quite possibly HSA will be disappointed that it wasn't "crushed to death by an HSA artwork".)

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ash/Martin/Buzzcocks has extra swooshy synth noises, I think.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(Heh heh, speaking of cover versions, last night at the end of the C4 Battle of the Boyband special, HSA got all excited going "hey, after an hour and a half of boybands, they're playing THE UNDERTONES - a band who were utterly ugly as dogs!!!" and I felt very amused having to point out to him that it was the Busted version...)

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(or killed by fatal soundart by HSA designed to mulch his inner ear)

Believe, Kate, if ever HSA and I are in a room with H. Stupider, we will demolish him and make the popcorn for you to eat while we act on your behalf.

Did you happen to see the Take That spesh when they showed the cheesecake butt-view video from the early days?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

To be honest, I did think the guitars sounded fleshed out a bit (in the block-of-boxy-thrash stylee so popular with today's young people) but the vocals... The vocals were so Pete Shelley (as opposed to Tim and Dickon from Shelley).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember sitting all the way through The Hitman and Her to see "the new extra-rude Take That video" and then being disappointed when it was just blokes. This was when rudeness on the telly was quite rare (Ah, Channel 4, land of mystery and intrigue).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

HSA has already been in a room with me and Stupider. Generally HSA just growls at him. Audibly. And Stupider just goes running away.

I was hoping that someone would start a thread on the Battle of the Boybands/Take That bonanza on C4 but no one did. :-(

Now every time they show Simon Pop Idol (Cowell, I think? Have trouble telling him and Fuller apart) I like shouting YOU TURNED DOWN TAKE THAT!!! YOU CALL YOURSELF AN A&R MAN??!?!? YOU SHOULD BE OUT ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT KICKING YOURSELF TO DEATH WITH DICK ROWE!!!!!!

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, any sane man would have turned down Take that at that point, the songs were abysmal, and they looked terrible!!

That proramme was hilarios though, especially that Jason never sang on any of the rekkids (or was it Howard? - who seems by far the most normal of the lot)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Jason was the one with the "thing" for vastly older women. Ha-HEM, now why would I remember a thing like that?

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that was it, and "controlling"

Robbie's manager bloke was so frikkin scary

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost as scary as Jordan Knight's outfit at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (I was there btw)

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

So Jason would have shagged nasty old Lulu then? She really is Bitchy McBitch, at some fashion party she looked right down her nose at a colleague of mine, B3n, and asked 'over his head' to the host of the party what B3n was doing there (in that 'eew, a civilian' way) when she's just a sad old Atomic Muttton.

It does show how naive Robbie may have been at the time that he could entertain the idea of being managed by such a bloody mouth-breather paedo type. What they didn't explore is how RW was managed first by the biggest caner from the Creation Records/Oasis team who was happy to give him whatever drugs he wanted. Which is one form of management.

Actually I can find this out about JO for sure, as my pal Jen is friends w/both J and his brother Sam (who is very spoilt and obnoxious; they met doing youth theatre, she knows the whole famille Orange).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I know the whole chocolate Orange.

― robot crusoe, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, did this thread ever get derailed. I'm sorry, I knew I should have started a separate thread about all this but I didn't have enough Busted Penalty Outbursts left to start a thread about boybands even if there *was* a C4 docu.

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no, that take that doc was fantastic, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

dylan moran's death is disgusting. and disturbing.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There is that, I was gonna say but am not that much of a spoiler. Have to say though, the actress playing the resting actress was so annoying she was perfect in the whiny resting actress role.

On the way to Sainsbury's, Ed and I pulled up next to a phone box featuring the SOTD poster where one can quite clearly see a certain acid DDB in the lower right-hand corner.
Since there is one of these buggers v. near chez Kate/HSA I can only conclude that as she hasn't noticed, she must be well over him ;-).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hell, has everyone on that phonebox been in a D-List indie band?

Next up, a remake of American Werewolf In London starring Simon Price, Taylor Parkes and the lead singer of Baxendale.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1.... 2.... 3....

ARFARFARFARFARF!!!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it says something about something that I laughed the most at the "Kill the Queen" line.

ILE in pun-love shokah!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw it last night, mostly brilliant except for the fact that it ended too quickly and the ending itself was k-rub.

Best bit in the film = the sudden feeling of anticipation when you hear the opening bars of Don't Stop Me Now. I turned to my friend and we both gave each other that "there's gonna be some ass-whupping here" look.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 17 April 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Terrific, and poignant (though my, it took a while to get going). Who doesn't long for some semi-apocalypse as a chance to prove themselves, or at least start over again? I think I'm in love with Liz.

I was very impressed with Dylan Moran managing to turn himself into someone so unattractive. I kind of missed what happened to Dawn out of The Office - the last I saw she was waving his leg around. They didn't seem to mourn her demise much.

The dog looking up thing was perfect, though they maybe spun it out one too many times.

A few things on this thread have made me think I wasn't watching properly, though. I should watch it again. I only just clicked what a cinder path is - so that's one thing settled.

haha yes i did like the 28 days later crack at the end

I managed to avoid 28 Days Later - what was the crack at the end? I thought the whole 'don't use the z-word' thing was a dig at it - I seem to remember the publicity machine for 28DL pulling this line.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Some bits were very funny. Though there was something about it I didn't like, which I can't quite put my finger on, perhaps I couldn't identify with the characters...

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 24 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel, you're a round hole for a square pegg.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It annoyed me hwne they did about 20 mins of no-laugh. It jarred me a bit. It was funny when they were trying to be funny (the drama class is v. funny as well) but they should have tried to be funny a bit more. I think they were going for the BAFTA in the last half hour.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread and film are so London it hurts.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the crack is at the end where they're watching the tv aftermath and a report goes something like "theories that the epidemic was provoked by rage have been proven as bol-" [changes channel]. maybe i imagined it.

this flick relates to most ppl probly, electro comps and infesticons posters for... some people ahem

somehow the weird viciousness of d moran's demise made it into more of erm a proper film than a pally irony muckabout i thought, it was still a bit jokey but also something intense and purely cinematic about it

i love how in black books fran's surname was revealed as KATZENJAMMER!!

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

saw it this morning. was less of a reference-fest than spaced. or maybe i just missed them all. i was the only person who laughed at the 'we're coming to get you barbara' joke though and the whole satellite thing going on in the background. and if you stay long enough the 'undertones' during the credits gives way to the music from 'dawn...'.

i read somewhere that katzenjammer is german for 'hangover'.
( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=katzenjammer )

andy

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you for that titbit, Andy.

I thought SotD was very funny. Plus I even got some of the in(n) jokes - good to see The Shepherds landlady and popquizstress, Bernie, getting her rightful place on the large screen.

However - I thought the bits between the gags were a bit strained, like they felt obliged to drop the screwball and deal with... you know, relationships and stuff.

Pegg's stepdad dying in the back of the jag, especially, felt weak, bunged in. I did think they were aiming for a Whedon-Buffy level of sophistication - even if they swapped Cali HiSkoolers for Crouch End layabouts - but, it seems to me, the humour in Buffy seems to arise naturally out of the relationships (and perhaps this only means its easier to draw character over 8 seasons of 20+ episode telly than in a 90 minute film), whereas in SotD it felt like the gags came first and then the grownup stuff was kind of shoehorned in later. Maybe it's just me.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan Moran's death was, I believe, an 'hommage' to a scene in 'Dawn of the Dead', the original one. I know because I saw it on a documentary called 'The American Nightmare' or something the other week. I think it was the scene that finaly made me accept that I am a coward after all and that it was time for bed.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit with the stepdad felt shoehorned, but the other relationship stuff seemed fine to me.

Sorry to be dim, but was it a real pub (not the name, the actual set)? It felt familiar but then I suppose it would even it weren't.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Not perfect by any means, but seems like one of those films where so much is good, it's humbug to complain about the faults

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just seen this, and it is just like a giant version of Spaced. Like the tv series there are minor faults, but I thought the whole thing worked really well. The only problem was that I was distracted trying to see if i recognised any of the zombies.

and the music worked so well in the film, the bit where they play Queen and are bashing at the landlord zombie in time to the music

My favourite bit though has to be seeing Tyres among all the zombies outside the pub. ah the crossovers to Spaced...

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it seemed to work well, somehow, as a riposte to the rather annoying prevalence of the dawn-of-the-dead-as-social-satire cliché (which i might conceivably have imagined but nevermind)

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It reminded me of Futurama a bit in that it's a kind of consistently pleasant, charming kind of funny without making you piss yourself laughing especially often.

'Ok, but dogs CAN look up' = applause

― ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem and other spaced fans will be glad to know that I fucking loved this film.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! I think the film's extra special if you're a spaced fan. The Tyres thing, the otherwise pointless cameo by Jessica Stevenson...

But I went with friends who weren't that familiar with Spaced, and they loved it too.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

was Tyres in it? It took me a very long time to even begin to appreciate spaced, and i'm still not THAT sure about it, but I've expressed my feelings about it on other threads.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. I don't know if it's actually the actor who played Tyres. but there was a tall zombie in a cycling top and yellow baseball cap outside the pub. It was a very subtle reference.

That was the first thing I noticed in that scene, and I couldn't stop grinning..

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think the Jessica Simpson cameo was pointless. She's that person who used to be on the fringes of your social group and when you see them you always feel uncomfortable and hopeless. I think it served two purposes

1) Making Shaun look even more hopeless at the begining: "I bought a house actually, um, yeah, bit grown up isn't it?"

2) Showing the absurd lengths you'll go to in order to keep up that veneer of tense politeness: "Yvonne! Hi. Yeah. This is Liz and Di and ...etc"

It is very Sapced in that it's not central to the plot, but just says 'this is how life is for these people.' It's a scene setting role.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessica Simpson?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. Weird typo. I was thinking Stevenson.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

True, Anna - which is why I didn't understand the humour behind Spaced to begin with. It was so real, so lacking in absurdity that I didn't quite realise the acute observations being made by the writers. I think most British comedy tends to rely on crazy situations or extraordinary characters (Father Ted, League of Gents comes to mind). But the characterd in Spaced are just very normal - actually quite dull - but this is what makes it funny.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Also she was a great choice for "the other Shaun" in the second meeting (which a very spaced moment in its unacknowledged strangeness)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Favourite moment right now: when the 18-year-old colleague says "When?" to Shaun.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole scene in Shaun's shop is agonising in its OTMness.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"You've got red on you."

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(Can we moderate the thread title to contain the word SPOILERS now? We're quoting like mad things.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The "I liked it" bit in the record-flinging scene was spoiled a little for me by reading it on this thread, but it was probably a good thing as I think I was annoying the girl next to me in the cinema by laughing too much as it was.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If north London ever spawns an equivalent of Shoreditch Twat they will run pieces on

How to tell you've been in north London too long...

12/ You know someone who played a zombie in Shaun Of The Dead.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I think it's 'like it' not 'liked it'. Carry on.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Electro and old school tunes never sounded so good. Delighted to hear "Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)" on there. It's not HipHop - It's Electro. Twat!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Who was that fat man who used to put out those Electro compilations? Have I dreamt him?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Morgan Khan? The Streetsounds comps?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night I dreamt my mum was having another baby. She's 60! Then I wondered if I was dreaming and that made me wake up. It was so disappointing. I'd love a little brother.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You have Ronan.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Err... sorry. Morgan Khan. Maybe! My friend had lots of them on tape. I thought they were just called like 'Electro 12' etc., but 'Streetsounds' sounds familiar too. Was Morgan on the cover somewhere?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan's too old to mould.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In the film they certainly have a Streetsounds comp.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you finished moulding RJG yet?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That's more grooming.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway... this disgusts me. We should take this to private underground network.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The second meeting with Jessica Stevenson was perfect because given the band of Brit comedy people she had with her it was as though there was a completely parallel film going on in the cinema next door but it was the film that Jessica had written with Edgar Wright. I want to see that film too.

― mms (mms), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, who was with her?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt Lucas was playing her brother I think.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Matey from the Office, Fella from League of Gentlemen, Matt Lucas, Fran from Black Books (i think?).. who else?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the other group had daisy spaced, reece league of gentlemen, the only gay in the village, marsha, ms katzenjammer(?) and, er, martin from the office.

xpost

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The more I think about Liz, the more convinced I am that she is the redeeming love of my life. Is she real?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I have believed in the concept of redemptive love since 1994. What has come over me?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the zombies looked like Kevin Rowland.

Bill Nighy's character and whole storyline looked like it was tacked on to take advantage of Nighy's current role as darling of the public and approaching-national-treasure. It added nothing to the film, in fact it detracted a bit from it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear Julia Davis is writing a spin-off show called Nighy Nigh to capitalise on this.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

nighy being in it in the scene after the loud dance music turns out to be overheard on someone's walkman made me think his casting was a joke about british cinema. i'm not convinced of this though.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

not much to add new here. thought it was great fun, visceral and so powerful and intelligent, thoughtful and well conceived in many places. but where the hell were Mark Heap, Bill Bailey and any of the Smack The Pony ladies?? i didn't notice Tyres and probably missed quite a few refs. also what happened to DAWN (as in The Office)? she just disappeared didn't she?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Shaun's Mum reminded me a bit of my Mum :(

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

DFTO (Dawn From The Office) rather stupidly jumped through the broken pub window to try and fight off the zombies eating her boyfriend's intestines. I assume she was torn to pieces.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The consensus on Lucy Davis was that she was ultimately lost to the same zombies that dismembered Dylan Moran. I've got an MPEG of the movie here at work (disappointingly, it not a full multi-language subtitling job, just some reformatting thing) so I might have a quick second look at that scene. We don't seem to have any DVD extras in.

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― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought the Spaced DVDs after seeing it, a series I have really fond memories of... and I reckon this continues the upwards trajectory (ie early Spaced=not as good as late Spaced). Brilliant.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucy Davis is Jasper Carrot's daughter isn't she?
I stopped fancying her after I heard that.

― ..., Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

new trivia please anon dude ;)

funniest British movie since, er, 24 Hour Party People

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm assuming The Actors was terrible)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

and ha ha, after all those ILXors saying how they cried at the end of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - weird how I didn't there but damn nearly filled up when Shaun was about to shoot his zombiefied Mum, sniff

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

RIGHT ON, PARTNER!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and the Nighy stuff isn't that tacked on: it's ripped from 'Spaced'.

'The Actors' was terrible.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucy Davis opens the bolts on the main doors and wades into the mass of zombies screaming "...David!" (good job I'm not subtitling this, eh? The sound on the clip is awful) while whacking her assailants with Dylan Moran's right leg.

Or maybe the villagers blow up the dam and sweep her, the monster and the wolf man into the caves. I've been clip-hopping and I'm a bit confused.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I just saw this when I was home and I really, really enjoyed it. It looks to be getting released in the US as well.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny - I'm an American who saw it in London when I was over there in April for work. It rules. It has an interesting soundtrack CD, too - there are snippets of Goblin, plus the Ash Buzzcocks cover, plus some Grandmaster Flash -- and it's sort of mixed like a DJ set in some chunks.
Anyways, yes, it rules and I can't wait to see it again when it's out here...

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw this - director in attendence - loved the Public Enemy references.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

saw this tonight in a filled multiplex theatre by the mall on the east side of Portland.

fuckin' loved it, and, as the IMDB entry points out, even zombie flicks can have multiple Star Wars references.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 26 September 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see this badly after watching the first series of Spaced.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 26 September 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Jessica Stevenson are signing copies of the new Spaced box set at Forbidden Planet on Monday - tomorrow! - lunch time.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

just saw this the other day,its fairly good,though i reckon i missed out on a lot of the references
ive never seen spaced,which i must sort out...
i thought dylan moran was brilliant,and shaun's mate was good too...

pj miller otm about the kylie video similarites as well,as i was watching it i was trying to figure out what it reminded me of...

― robin (robin), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

even zombie flicks can have multiple Star Wars references.

Wha?

Please don't make me dislike this film now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

just saw it, it's great. i didn't think it had many references, not the way spaced does anyway.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not hip-hop, it's electro!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That was a nice touch. I think I was the only one in the theater who laffed at it, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So was I. And it was just because those words have come from my mouth.

The most embarrasing bit of watching it in the cinema was working out where Shaun's electrical shop was and going 'ooh we bought our hoover there!'. Loudly.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 27 September 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it was weird having my own personal commentary track ('see, that bit there is just behind the clocktower')(n.b. i do not remember the precise details of the crouch end geography before someone points out it was nowhere near the clock tower - i'm sure whatever anna said was correct.)

there was something that i laughed hysterically at but no-one else did. i think it was a very weak joke about a monkey, but i can't remember it. i guess i should watch it again to relive the embarassment.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 September 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

what, the bit about the virus being spread by rage-infected monkies?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Zomb-aid! Because you know that's exactly what Chris Martin would do.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it was something about monkey impersonations? god, i don't know what's happened to my memory.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I laughed like a twat at 'kill the queen!' on second viewing, but other than that I liked it less than I did the first time. I don't think his mum should have died, it kind of ruined the comedy for me from that point on.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It was zombie move 1st and that's what I liked about it, it stuck to it and didn't wimp out.

The Pegg/Rice commentary on the DVD is illuminatng.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Wright, Edgar Wright.... JESUS I HATE MONDAYS.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This wasn't as funny as Harold and Kumar. The end kind of sucked. (I was hoping they'd all get turned into zombies and the end would be Zombie World where the three of them are sitting in the pub staring at each other as normal)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the melodrama at the end does suck, but im willing to forgive them for it

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Either Simon Pegg or Edgar Wright did an interview a couple of months back where whichever one of them it was discussed the possibility of making a sequel. He mentioned a title which was a similar tribute to a horror movie, by replacing one word of the title with the word 'Shaun', but I can't remember what it was. It could have been something not-particularly-clever like 'The Day After The Shaun Of The Dead', but I don't think so.

Anyone know what on earth I'm going on about and can remember what my silly little brain has forgotten?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost lived in Crouch End.

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's opening this Friday here in Toronto, and the promos look fantastic. I'm definitely going.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

whee!

― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's already playing in Toronto! Go today!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i just saw it! in vancouver! movie of the year! blah blah blah!

― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

From Dusk Til Shaun.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Voyage of the Shaun Treader.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Edgar W and Simon P might very well be the people to finally make the film that captures the joke I've seen in a hundred email subject headings: Shaun Of The Dead 2: Electric Boogaloo.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Bizarrely Alba is lying and Pete isn't.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

From Dusk Til Shaun

That's the one. Cheers.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Porn of the Dead is in the pipeline too according to Pegg.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawn of the Dead too.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they going to do a vegan version: Quorn Of The Dead

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Every Rose Has A Thorn of the Dead

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

As a commentary on his career after Johhny and Denise:
Vaughn Of The Dead.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it was retitled Bjorn Of The Dead for Svenska

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear Simon Pegg's getting a haircut before filming the sequel...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this must've been the record:

Streetsounds: Crucial Electro

http://www.discogs.com/release/33203

Streetsounds put out a series of Electro comps simply titled Electro 1, Electro 2 etc untill no. 11 when it became Hip Hop Electro. But Man Parrish isn't on any of the early volumes, while there were a few releases called "Crucial Electro" perhaps filling in holes of big classics missing from the early releases.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Great flick! Loved it!

― redfez, Monday, 4 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved the first half! but then the ending was a letdown.

― big chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw this about a week ago, thot it was mildly amusing but not that much more. mebbe need more immersion in this Spaced ppl are speaking of to get it. I did really like the doppel-gang moment. Its utter oddness and the casual way it was dropped in was very endearing.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked it, probably more than most movies I've seen this year. Otoh, I've hated most of the movies I've seen this year.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved it, for the record. Have never seen, or heard of, Spaced, but was a HUGE fan of the Living dead trilogy when growing up.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Should get around to seeing this...but oddly enough, I have a situation where I literally might not have the time for a while. Which is gratifying!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Spaced I saw once by accident on Trio or BBC America just recently. The show sucked, but I immediately recognized the guy when the Shaun of the Dead previews started coming on. Based on the fact that I like British comedy and it got great reviews, I figured SOTD must be pretty good... and it was! But, seeing Spaced isn't going to do anything for you. The two are nothing alike.

― redfez, Monday, 4 October 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned...did you get my package?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I did! I've been meaning to write, it's quite wonderful, and in fact I've sent in a request to review the Prefects CD for the AMG. :-) Thanks very much!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally disagree, the first season of spaced is a lot like shaun of the dead. there is even an episode with zombies in it.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no rush, just glad it arrived. I have little trust for the post office, and even less for the mailboxes etc turned UPS store I frequent instead. email me offlist when you get the time...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

watched this last night, loved it! You can't say this is nothing like Spaced, it's practically Spaced-the movie.

It's not such a bad zombie flick as well and I was surprised at how good some of the effects were.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

seeing Spaced isn't going to do anything for you. The two are nothing alike.

????

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of fun.

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that didn't work.

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmmm....hot links gone?

my little rant here: http://entertainmentcomplex.blognation.us/blog/_archives/2004/10/14/160616.html

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

This movie has the best ending ever! It's...sweet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that Queen song during that one sequence at the Winchester? That shit KILLED me; mostly Di and Shaun's mom ROCKING OUT to the zombie smackdown.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I rented the DVD of this to watch last night. It's so great.

― C J (C J), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't Stop Me Now"

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

This film is better than other films.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Not much to add other than I loved it. The DVD has a plot hole section where they explain what happened to Dawn (from The Office) etc. My favorite reference was of course when they decide not to use Shaun's "Blue Monday" 12" as a zombie frisbee because it's a "first edition."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Really need to get this, I have been lax.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

And any movie with a joke about The Stone Roses' 'Second Coming' is great by me. One of the few movies I've bought.

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

wait, where was that joke?

― kingfish, Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

"This one?"

"Well, I liked it."

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

har!

― kingfish, Saturday, 7 May 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I really liked the extra where Dianne explains her fate after she left the Winchester. She needs to do V.O. work somewhere!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 8 May 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

She was at the last LA FAP (sitting right next to us at The Cat & Fiddle obviously!).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 8 May 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, that's right. Shoulda bought the DVD earlier and then just casually asked her to sign it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

I got this recently too (missed it at the cinema) and yeah it rocks! Glad I got the dvd first actually, cos it meant we got to see the plot holes extras right after the film, instead of sitting there going "hang on, what happened to so and so?".

I was rather upset when Dylan got torn to bits! :(

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/epic-fail-photos-win-shaun-of-the-dead-legos-win1.png

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

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