The World's End (2013) - Movies with Mikey 

I think the group he's in at the beginning isn't actually AA, but rather a suicide prevention support group. You're meant to think it's AA initially given Gary's personality, but the bandages on his wrists revealed later show that he had a hospital stay, which is how he ended up in the group.

One of my favourite lines in this entire film is the part when Gary says that the next pub is The Trusty Servant, but then checks his map and says “it’s The Good Companions next, I always mix those two up”, showing how he sees his friends merely as his servants. It’s exactly as Andy was saying earlier on in that scene, “we’re just your enablers”.

o.O No, you fool!! Gary doesn't doom humanity! He's the only thing that

My only qualm is that you didn't touch on the character names. Gary KING, Andy KNIGHTLEY, Peter PAGE, Stephen PRINCE, and Oliver CHAMBERLAIN.

My favourite movie of all time.

On the Nerdist Podcast Edgar Wright said that this movie IS a send-up, but not a send up of any particular genre or movie, it's a send-up of Nostalgia, which he equates to an actual disease as most words that end in "-algia" are diseases and medical problems.

I love the symbolism in their names. Gary is the King, of course (and a mad king, arguably), but Andy Knightly is his knight, the king's champion and protector. Steve Prince is almost Gary's equal, but is always somehow subordinate or junior to him, the prince to his king. Oliver Chamberlain is the organised one with a good head for business (well, for a while), just as the chamberlain runs the king's household and maintains his businesses (but, let's not forget, Neville Chamberlain was the British PM who advocated appeasement of the Nazis rather than opposition, just as Oliver was the first to be turned to the side of the Network). Finally, poor Peter Page, the one who never really belonged, who was never at the same level as his friends, just as the humble page in the king's court is only a servant to nobility, never noble himself. Staggeringly clever. There is so much to unpack in this film.

Watching this randomly through RU-vid's algorithm, I actually heeded the spoiler warning at

I think Gary had one perfect night as a teenager and he's been trying to relive it ever since, but the night was never as good as he remembered it, time and alcohol smoothed away the rough edges. His entire life has been the mental hang over from that one night. He has the same car, the same clothes, he even dyes his hair to try and fight the nosedive that his life has become, but some time not long before the start of the film he decides to stop fighting it.

I'm very late the party here, but the thing that blew my mind after the pub-name thing, is the confrontation with the Network at the end. There's a

Edgar Wright needs to make more films

I also liked Simon Pegg's characters throughout the trilogy. Shaun of the Dead, he has to grow up and he winds up maturing. Hot Fuzz, he needs to relax and learns how to have fun. But in The World's End, it's that the world around him changes to fit his needs rather than him conforming to society's expectations. He doesn't really change at all, except he's stopped drinking. But he doesn't stop drinking because it will make him a healthy, better person. He stops drinking because he doesn't really need to, since everything around him has changed in a way that fits him, and he's happy. The alcohol was essentially a crutch for him to deal with a society around him that has ultimately made him miserable. But he seems totally at home with the new world after.

There's also the characters surnames dictate their place within the group.

I watched it again last night an this time I noticed that literally EVERYTHING ever mentioned or shown comes back full circle to fulfill some other purpose or for comedic effect or just as a name-drop. The most obvious are the characters and events from 1990, showing up again and being recreated in 2013 in the same places etc etc, like Mikey pointed out in the video. But even the smallest things do this: In The Old Familiar, Sam gives Gary the "Out of Order" sign (as a joke), but two pubs later they use it to potentially keep people from entering the bathroom with all the robots in it. Sam mentions that she doesn't quite remember where she parked her car, and later they happen to find it and it becomes pretty damn important. They meet the police officer who stopped them on their way to Newton Haven (I'd give some more examples but I didn't write anything down and those three were the first that came to mind). Everything in the film is foreshadowed, or repeated for comedy's sake (like the running gag with Gary's Mum), or reused in some way. No character, no element ever introduced to the story is ever wasted. It's incredible to see and makes the narrative feel even tighter.

The BBC show "Spaced."

The World's End holds quite a special place in my heart, not least because it was filmed in my home town of Welwyn Garden City specifically because the production thought it was the most boring, quintessential suburban English town they could find. In fact Gary's old school that they walk out of in the early scenes was my high school 10 years ago (Monk's Walk Comprehensive). The chair he gets told off by Pierce Brosnan in was the same chair I'd get told off in by Mr Kelly, the deputy head teacher. So, naturally, the nostalgia for me comes easy when I watch this, and it so happens that it's also, in part, about nostalgia.

"dooming the human race to a second dark age, where the third flavour of cornetto ice cream is just a memory" oh my god this film IS genius

You're supposed to watch it 12 times. The 12th time, you understand the entire nature of human kind and transcend reality.

I love this movie so much. I often show it to friends who haven’t seen it without giving them any context. It‘s sight to behold as they tend to think that it’s a slice of life comedy and not an insane story about friendship, growing older and an alien invasion

"Someone working on the picture has clearly seen addiction for themselves up close" Unfortunately as revealed in an interview it was Pegg himself, but he's come through the other side, love the bloke <3