The World's End

Personally, I'd like to see an anthology movie which has several different Pegg/Frost characters in several different episodes, that all unwittingly or deliberately come across each other at one or several points.

Just got back from seeing this.

Definitely a worthy conclusion to the Three Colours trilogy. The jokes are a little more structured and build off each other more than the other two films, meaning there are fewer laugh-out-loud moments but a broader feeling of appreciation.

Did anyone else who saw it like all the hints dropped that Oliver had been blanked? I also found it nice that not all of them were called out on, leaving viewers to notice them themselves.

Saw it. Enjoyed it. To sum it up, I'd say "least funny but most interesting story". I loved the cast though. It's great to see Eddie Marsan in a role where he's not angry and Nick Frost's character is finally the intelligent one rather than the buffoon.

I did not like the ending. It seemed like they were going for bittersweet but it was just too much of a downer for me. The shift in tone was too severe and it's almost like it was meant to be a Sequel Hook but without a sequel to hook. The rest was great though.

Edit: Actually, what I wanted to see happen was Gary finally being able to grow up, having achieved something far better than finishing The Golden Mile. As it happens, he never really did that. He just kept on living a juvenile life. They could've still had the Blanks re-integrating themselves into society but without all the post-apocalyptic stuff. That was just depressing.

edited 30th Jul '13 1:27:15 PM by Guest1001

Paddy Considane was Peter, wasn't he?

Paddy Considine played Steven. Eddie Marsan was Peter.

Ah, right. I didn't know either before the film.

Saw it a couple nights ago. Completely loved it. Don't wanna rank it amongst the other two films in the trilogy, personally. They're all amazing, fun, and brilliant in their own ways. On the surface level though, I'm pretty partial to the sci-fi stuff this one had going on.

I really didn't expect the ending, to say the least. And yeah, your summary is basically what I thought we'd get. Having given it some thought, I think the overall point wasn't that Gary had to move on from the things he genuinely enjoyed about his youth (the Beast, the music, just hanging with a group of friends), but that he only drank to get away from all his emotional pain. That he'd wronged Andy so badly, that life didn't turn out to be as wonderful as he thought it'd be, and so on. The non-comformist, free-spirited, flawed, high energy guy he is underneath was never the problem; it was his self-destructive method of coping with reality that made him into the man he was at the beginning of the film.

A point that I think gets brilliantly made just by the simple act of him walking into a pub like the badass he felt he was in high school and asking for water.

I really liked the movie, but yeah, I agree. It was a really shit ending, and the Reality Ensues of that ending horrifies me.

Loved it. I actually liked the ending because I'm tired of these happily ever after endings that don't make sense in context but I do agree that tonally it doesn't work entirely well.

Only problem is that this not very happy ending didn't make sense in context either. In fact it's a tragic ending masquerading as a happy one, and oddly we are supposed to appreciate this outcome as the best (or a good) outcome for everyone involved. Billions of human beings die to war, starvation and disease. Humanity is reduced to scratching out an existence from barren harvest to harvest. And more to the pint, Gary ends up learning fuckall. He spends the movie coming to the realizations that he has nothing in his life but a stupid pub crawl from when he was 18 and he's been clinging to his teenaged existence all his life. He ends the film not having finally grown up and joining society (as it exists post apocalypse), but having gone "fuck it" and... continuing to cling to his teenaged years.

But everyone was more-or-less miserable. Gary was miserable, Andy was miserable, Steven was in a somewhat mid-life crisis, Peter had years of abuse, and Oliver was about the only somewhat happy person in the whole group.

edited 26th Aug '13 5:12:37 PM by GethKnight

I want to make sure I understood this correctly: Gary wanted to finish the crawl even though it was painfully obvious they were in deep shit because he was that depressed.

Like he said at the beginning: "We're here to get annihilated!" Not to mention that he was already suicidal at some other point in his life.

Not-robots, alcohol, didn't matter how; I don't think he cared about the possibility of dying that evening.

Seriously, I don't see a problem with the ending at all. The first two films were all about idealism and a flawed protagonist overcoming his flaws. This one is the antithesis; it's a deeply nihilist film about the inherent purposelessness of life and the protagonist rather than growing up went the opposite way and fully embraced his life as the worthless shell of a human being, which is why he eventually chose to team up with a bunch of blanks who were just as hollow as him. Not exactly a very life-affirming or in any way positive message, but it nicely - if maybe somewhat pretentiously - sets against the usual talk of redemption.

edited 22nd Sep '13 6:42:58 AM by TAPETRVE