HOT FUZZ: The Post Mortem, Let's pick some nits Options

[monkeyman]

NOTE FROM CHAPMAN BAXTER: Following a suggestion made by Dax Trajero, we have decided to create a central thread for detailed critical discussion of Hot Fuzz - tell us what in particular you thought worked about it and what you thought didn't. I've started off the thread with posts taken from a couple of other threads.

I found the humour and plot (holes aside) to be brilliant. A lot of Self referencing, a lot of blatant comedy and some casual asides (the SPit roast reference had me laughing very loud all on my own in the cinema).

However, the editing of many of the action scenes annoyed the hell out of me, the cuts were too quite and/or too zoomed in and there was far too much shakey cam. It made (for me at least) a lot of the scenes lose their punch and awesomeness as it became such a mess trying to see what was going on.

Was still great though.

This post has been edited by Chapman Baxter: Feb 22 2007, 08:09 PM

[canadave]

Count another vote against the editing. It's not unique to Hot Fuzz, either--why is it that so many action sequences in movies are shown with such shaking camerawork and fast-paced cuts, that you can't even follow what's happening? I mean, why not just make the screen go completely dark and just let us listen to the audio if you don't want us to see what's going on? So frustrating!!

One other minor gripe that's already been mentioned is that the shots that showed about 15 different points of view in three seconds (like the mugshot scenes) got repetitive and disorientating after a while. Once, twice, three times--fine. Fifteen times--not so fine. We could've done with less of that I think.

Other than that, I thought it was a fairly good movie, and definitely great fun to see the Spaced gang in action again. I don't think it was an amazing movie or a great movie, but definitely one I wouldn't feel bad about seeing again.

Interesting that Jessica Stevenson and Mark Heap were nowhere to be found. Are they both otherwise engaged? I haven't kept track....I thought it would've been awesome to have Jessica play the female cop part.