Movie Night @ Chez Wynne, Week 2
Sep. 27th, 2007 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunMany thanks once again to autographedcat and kitanzi for opening their home to me and several others for pizza, snacks and a DVD movie. As last week's film was the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost starrer Hot Fuzz (see previous entry here), ACat and Kit decided to show us its 2004 predecessor starring these same two, Shaun of the Dead. They have thus saved me the trouble of looking up the disc myself and renting it, which I had planned. Present were joyeuse13, her husband, Alice T. and a lady whose name I can't recall but had come by a couple weeks previous.
autographedcat and kitanzi for opening their home to me and several others for pizza, snacks and a DVD movie. As last week's film was the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost starrer Hot Fuzz (see previous entry here), ACat and Kit decided to show us its 2004 predecessor starring these same two, Shaun of the Dead. They have thus saved me the trouble of looking up the disc myself and renting it, which I had planned. Present were joyeuse13, her husband, Alice T. and a lady whose name I can't recall but had come by a couple weeks previous.The film is even funnier if you've seen the second one (and vice versa) due to certain lines and bits from one being carried over to the other. (Here's an example, gratis: in both films, Simon's character asks Nick's if he wants anything from the shop, and Nick's character responds, "Cornetto" [Britain's equivalent of our King Cone ice cream snack]. Don't worry, I won't spoil the rest for you.) And thanks for the tip, shelleybear—you were abso-frakkin'-lutely right about the extras! Included is a section called "Plot Holes" featuring comic-book-style vignettes explaining how certain characters survived (or didn't), each narrated by the actor who played the character. There's also a section showing how the movie's gory special effects were composited, a video diary by Simon, outtakes that are even funnier than the film (watch for Nick's various vulgar ways of describing the old lady in the pub) and a sample of the "clean" version the filmmakers had to dub for airline and broadcast use. (How many times can you use the word "funk" instead of "fuck" in one scene? You'll find out...)
Warning: this film is emphatically NOT for the squeamish, especially if you've just had dinner; the aforementioned SFX are quite graphic, quite realistic and quite messy, as one would expect from a zombie movie (or, as ACat reminded us, "a romantic comedy that just happens to have zombies").
shelleybear—you were abso-frakkin'-lutely right about the extras! Included is a section called "Plot Holes" featuring comic-book-style vignettes explaining how certain characters survived (or didn't), each narrated by the actor who played the character. There's also a section showing how the movie's gory special effects were composited, a video diary by Simon, outtakes that are even funnier than the film (watch for Nick's various vulgar ways of describing the old lady in the pub) and a sample of the "clean" version the filmmakers had to dub for airline and broadcast use. (How many times can you use the word "funk" instead of "fuck" in one scene? You'll find out...)Warning: this film is emphatically NOT for the squeamish, especially if you've just had dinner; the aforementioned SFX are quite graphic, quite realistic and quite messy, as one would expect from a zombie movie (or, as ACat reminded us, "a romantic comedy that just happens to have zombies").
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Date: 2007-09-27 09:44 pm (UTC)