Over at Cookie ‘N’ Screen, I am having an Edgar Wright week and paying tribute to a fine film maker whose new release, The Worlds End hits cinemas on Friday. Yesterday on our Edgar Wright film crawl, we stopped off at the legendary Shaun of the Dead, the first scoop of the Cornetto Trilogy. Now we’ve done Shaun of the Dead, can I introduce you to its younger, slicker and better little brother Hot Fuzz? And yes, I’ll stop with the metaphors.
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Over at Cookie ‘N’ Screen, I am having an Edgar Wright week and paying tribute to a fine film maker whose new release, The Worlds End hits cinemas on Friday. Yesterday on our Edgar Wright film crawl, we stopped off at the legendary Shaun of the Dead, the first scoop of the Cornetto Trilogy. Now we’ve done Shaun of the Dead, can I introduce you to its younger, slicker and better little brother Hot Fuzz? And yes, I’ll stop with the metaphors. By Cookie 'N' Screen I feel dirty. When it comes to my guilty pleasure movies, I have always felt justified in some manner in liking them. After all, that is the point of this feature. But today, I feel dirty. I am writing this in a haze of shame as I constantly, critically ask myself why on earth do I like Freddy Got Fingered? For a start, I have never liked Tom Green or his ‘outrageous’ comedy that seemed more nonsensical drivel than wit. And I loathe, to an extent, gross out comedies relying too heavily on bodily functions. Yet, somewhere in my mind, going against every instinct in my body, Freddy Got Fingered has stuck with me as a movie I love and will still giggle at now. Freddy Got Fingered is a wild, ridiculous movie. It revolves around Gord (Tom Green,) a 28 year old unemployed cartoonist who still lives with his family. Gord is a slacker, much to the disdain of his father Jim (played by Rip Torn). From there, film pretty much loses a plot and becomes a film about the raging hate between father and son. There are many pranks, a loose love interest and a sort of script about struggling artists and stifling creativity. It is beyond anything ever made, ever. |
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