The slo-mo shot of the police car jumping into the model village is recreated from the parking valets joyriding in Cameron's dad's Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
In the beginning of the movie you can see Nicholas Angle answering every multiple choice question with "C". This is a mini easter egg for the common unprepared student tactic of choosing to answer all C's on a multiple choice test because they think a good amount of correct answers will be C.
I just remembered this remake, the scene where Rebel Wilson plays the blind prsn and Hathaway plays the doctor. Not funny to begin with and even less so when compared to Micheal Cain whipping Steve Martin's legs. I saw a couple more scenes and decided it wasn't for me. DRS has been a favorite of mine since i was 4 and i don't want to waste my time
I love this movie. They have two hidden cameos. Father Christmas (on screen for 1/2 a 12:25 second) was actually Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The ex-girlfriend was Kate Blanchett. She is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, and the director, Edgar Wright, has her hidden in a CSI suit. I also thought the Neighborhood Watch Alliance was a cheeky reference to the NWA. This movie is so full of Easter eggs that it is impossible to count them all. Luckily, there is a RU-vid video that gives you everything. Just do a search of Hot Fuzz Easter eggs and you will see how much was crammed into this movie.
The references i know in this movie are Point Break (1991) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Face/Off (1997) the scene where Angel and Danny fire their guns while jumping through the air is similar to the scene in Face/Off where the villain Castor Troy fires his golden guns while jumping through the air. The NWA members in hooded Cloaks is a reference to those Horror films Angel riding his horse into the town is a reference to the classic Westerns
6:20 (from Shaun of the Dead) Shaun: What's the matter, David? Never taken a shortcut before? 6:01 (from Hot Fuzz) Nicholas Angel: What's the matter, Danny? You never taken a shortcut before? 6:31 (from The World's End) Gary King: Oh, no! (Me: (Laughs) What's the matter, Gary? You never taken a shortcut before?)
In the beginning montage, some of Sargent Angel's abilities include martial arts and fencing. He employs both against Mr Cooper during the climax in the same order.
I haven't finished A Dance With Dragons yet, but I could tell before I even reached the halfway mark that the story in the show was long dead by season 8. Why they chose to cut Aegon/Young Griff and Griff/Jon Connington I do not know. It was such a big mistake
This one might be a bit of a stretch but whatever in the scene where nicholas is talking about how there is always something going on (where he talks about mr treacher,lurch and the “fuck ugly guy”) for me it kind of mirrors the scene where ed is talking about how all the patrons at the winchester have interesting pasts
there was the irl foreshadowing too, it was filmed in wells, Tim's head was crushed by the church roof, and in Storm Eunice, Wells Cathedral's roof fell off
All I did was look up "the Hussle is just dirty rotten scoundrels" (as in a copy) and the first thing that came up was about how saying Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is better is sexist....like, I never even watched it, but now I can safely say it's probably shit and they are just saying that because you dare not like it.
The original film was a favorite for my brother and I growing up, saw the remake this weekend and watched out of hate loll, did not do any justice for the original and just kinda picked and plucked the scenes they wanted to copy
Terrible sequel to 2001! In the novel Floyd was good friends with the Russian crew, but Hollywood screwed it up and made it adversarial in a Cold War setting. And the Chinese landing on Europa was completely omitted. That was an important part of the story. But if it can be screwed up it will be!
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how the end shoot out of hot fuzz when angel walks in on horse back to the town centre is a massive copy/ nod to the end of a fist full of dollars. They are a 1:1 copy pretty much. And hot fuzz is in the corneto trilogy and a fist full of dollars is in the spaghetti western trilogy. That’s not a coincidence.
Absolutely agree with pretty much everything you say! I especially liked the scene with Chandra at the lab talking with SAL9000. Interestingly Hyams must have decided that a bit of artistic license could be taken for this sequel regarding an essential plot element - who was responsible for driving HAL9000 into a corner: in 2001 on HAL’s disconnection a video is started of Heywood reading a statement “Good day, gentlemen. This is a pre-recorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer.” This of course contradicts the plot line in 2010: “I didn’t authorize anyone to tell HAL about the Monolith.”
