Ep. 062: Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy

[Chris]

Chaos Theater Ep. 062 - "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy"
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Segment Breakdown for this Episode:

01. Intro: "What We've Been Up To" and "Slaying the Sacred Cow"
Runtime: 0:00:01 - 0:45:01

02. Discussion: "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy"
Runtime: 0:45:40 - 1:32:14

03. Outro: "Audible recommendations"
Runtime: 1:32:51 - 1:37:31

Chaos Theater returns to provide you that extra Christmas gift that your family wouldn't give you! After catching up on what we've been up to, it's time to serve up the final sacred cow of the year. We then jump into the main topic: Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy, including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End. We then wrap up quickly with some Audible recommendations. Next time, we'll have our year end special ready, and it's something you haven't heard before.

Music Featured in this Episode:
"Boing Zoom DAKOTA!" from Rock Candy 1 by Shadow
"Mines A" from Spelunky by Eirik Suhrke
"Mines Egg" from Spelunky by Eirik Suhrke

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[YokozunaBulldozer]

YES! THANK YOU! FINALLY!

[kayone73]

Great discussion of the films.

@Chris, I think you mentioned you're tackling Stargate SG-1. Good for you. SG is one of my favorite TV sci-fi franchises. I am currently in the process of rewatching SG-1 on Amazon Prime and I will say, many of the eps in the first couple seasons are a bit rough, episodic, and clunky, and it's tempting to skip thru the bunch of them, but the small group of writers have done a fantastic job giving the series...and sequel series a strong sense of continuity and unfortunately most of the eps should be watched even to catch the little tidbits that are introduced and build to the ever-steadily building mythology of the SG fictional universe even if the story of a particular episode stinks. An episode in season 7 will build upon plot elements that may have appeared in seasons 2, 5,6 randomly, but the recaps at the start of each ep do a good job and reminding the viewer of those, at the time, seemingly inconsequential plot points of seasons past.

I also love the franchise because they establish ground rules for the fictional science of their world and for the most part, acknowledge and follow those rules pretty closely.

[The Fowl Sorcerous]

I love everything Edgar Wright has done. No qualifications, no complaints. The man has a sharp eye for cuts, great comedic chops and enough straight-up filmaking chops to sell the genres he's riffing on.

I met Shawn of the Dead when it made it to dvd, whereupon we watched it to death with every friend I had. Somewhere around the thirtieth viewing I thought I got sick of it. Then I watched it again it was still awesome.

I didn't have the same reservations Pedro and Chris had about Hot Fuzz, having gone back to his TV series Spaced, which features one of the most magnificently choreographed TV-grade gunfights to feature adults pointing fingers and yelling 'bang' en lieu of actual guns.

The reason I haven't watched The World's end 12 times already is because I got the bluray last week. I appreciate the casting switch with Pegg and Frost and the quasi-revival of Thatcher-era Gothpunk attitudes and its commentary on the commercialism of rural Britain.

PS: Scott Pilgrim is equally awesome and you should do a whole episode about it.

PPS: I heartily anticipate Walking Dead game club.

[yazi88]

I haven't seen the 3rd movie yet but I own Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz on dvd.

Did you guys see the comedy alien movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost? I think it was Paul or something.