For me, personally, It would be Snatch. It’s such a great movie that I could watch again and again. So many interesting characters and a unique style that sets it apart from so many other movies. There’s just that extra something in that movie
What about you, fellow Lemmites? What is your favourite movie?
Snatch is outstanding. The scene with a replica gun vs deagle, the robbery by noob thugs… I laugh even at my memories of them.
But I’ll take Shawn of the Dead. Cool direction and awesome cast making a great apocalyptic comedy movie. It’s humor may be too dry for some, but if you are into this kind of jokes (is it brittish humor?), it’d blow you away. Watching it with my buddy back then made some of it’s gags into our convos.
I’m more of a Hot Fuzz type of person, but I still greatly appreciate Shawn of the Dead. So many funny gags and foreshadowing/callbacks.
The bit in the beginning of Shawn of the Dead where he sleepily walks to the store to buy something, and then does it again the next day after the zombies start showing up is classic.
No argument there, friend. Watching them back-to-back on a movie night is a wonder. Reiteration of a fence-jumping gag, connecting these two movies, is so sweet of a detail.
Of Hot Fuzz, I loved the actor who played the supermarket’s boss. His delivery of another chilling comment… Gosh, I can’t see how it’d work without him for he kills it. Some people I showed it for the first time only got into it because of him setting the tone and promising some big reveal.
And the starting sequence, as well, is a classic. I’ve seen people having it in their 101 on filmmaking, and it’s not wrong.
"Simon Skinner: Lock me up.
Nicholas Angel: I’m sorry?
Simon Skinner: I’m a slasher, and I must be stopped.
Nicholas Angel: You’re a what?
Simon Skinner: A slasher… of prices! Ha ha ha, just kidding! I’m Simon Skinner, and I run the local Supermarket. Stop in and see me some time. My discounts are criminal! [runs off] Catch me later!"
This bit always cracks me up, sets the tone and also foreshadows the ending. He seems obviously the bad guy, and then misdirections all over the place, and the ending pay off. Just love it. Timothy Dalton is a rather good actor also, I only knew him from Hot Fuzz but he’s had a long career.
Haven’t checked on him, but I guess now I have a reason to. Thank you.
His face in this movie has an uncanny resemblance of a mask from V for Vendetta for me. It does help his role for sure.
He didn’t fare well as Bond because the 80’s was a very blow 'em up and shoot 'em down era. With better writing he could have been great, imho anyways
That actor is none other than James Bond Timothy Dalton.
As a Brit I’ve always preferred Lock Stock to Snatch. Both great films.