Blood & Ice Cream: The Cornetto Trilogy

January 10, 2015 5:33 AM

Now that The World's End is out and (I guess?) relatively available, I was thinking that a series of posts on Edgar Wright's magnificent three might be fun.
posted by Gin and Broadband (14 comments total)

I'd watch Shaun again. The second one wasn't as great IMO and the third I found entirely disappointing.
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 11:51 AM on January 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

You need to watch the third one again, then, because it was amazing.
posted by MoonOrb at 12:23 PM on January 10, 2015 [3 favorites]

I've watched it twice already; precisely because I thought I must have been missing something; nope. I had a long response written out and went to review the plot to get my facts straight and just seeing it all laid bare again just underscored the negative feeling I had toward that film. I fully concede I'm an outlier; I also positively loathe Wright's Scott Pilgrim.
posted by Ik ben afgesneden at 1:15 PM on January 10, 2015

Well, at least we agree on Scott Pilgrim.
posted by MoonOrb at 1:20 PM on January 10, 2015 [3 favorites]

FWIW, The World's End already has a FanFare post. I'm not sure if there's any official policy on double posts in FanFare yet -- other FanFare movie clubs have managed overlap by sharing a single post.

(1-3-2 for me I think; Shaun is obviously a timeless classic, TWE captures new-town boredom quite well, and being a town boy not a country lad I never found Fuzz very relatable.)
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:03 PM on January 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

We had a deal, Kyle - aarh, I done goofed, had searched for all three and managed to miss TWE. Nuts.
posted by Gin and Broadband at 2:40 AM on January 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

I think there is something to be said for a post which involves all three as there multiple connections (including subtle things like soundtrack choices) between the movies that wouldn't work in a stand alone any one of the movies.
posted by miss-lapin at 9:27 PM on January 11, 2015

I'm not overly fond of that post - I must've been phoning it in that day.

I'm sure there's more interesting stuff out there on the web about this movie, and a better FanFare post can be created.

If you want to delete and create a more comprehensive post, with links to relevant reviews, interviews, and such, you're more than welcome to do it.

PAGING METAFILTER AUTHORITIES TO COMMENT! :D ;)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:38 PM on January 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

(I just don't know what the policy is with regards to deleting movie posts in order to create a better post, with the original poster's blessings...)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:40 PM on January 11, 2015

As someone who commented in that post: HELL NO, NO DELETING OLD POSTS. Not that that's the Metafilter way anyway.

But maybe more interesting to consider: does FanFare have a policy on doubling posts? This has already sort-of happened for TV shows where the "special spoiler conditions" apply -- Game of Thrones and Outlander had both show-only and books-included posts, and I think maybe also we have some shows that have both first-watch and re-watch posts.

But for movies: is the first post on a movie the one-and-only-ever? Or is there scope for "we're revisiting this movie as part of this series/club, let's have a new post for that discussion"?
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:08 PM on January 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

Okay I was just tossing out ideas. It's a bit silly anyways, upon reflection.

I would post your last question as a FanFare Talk post if I were you. Which I'm not.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 10:10 PM on January 11, 2015

As I said, I think it's legitimate if you "repost" the movie in the context as part of a trilogy as opposed to standing on its own.

Basically I own the Cornetto Trilogy on Dvd and I would love to talk about all the little connections between the movies.
posted by miss-lapin at 12:24 PM on January 12, 2015 [1 favorite]

(I would also appreciate it if we could do this soon as this is my last week of vacation before I have to go back to teaching college students and ruining my back correcting papers.)
posted by miss-lapin at 12:25 PM on January 12, 2015

I just got the trilogy too, and it would give me an excuse to watch it again. The Hot Fuzz commentary with Tarantino is not included, but I think it's on Youtube anyways.
posted by FJT at 9:15 PM on January 13, 2015 [2 favorites]