so its the exact plot of the movie hot fuzz... only made a year
later... not as funny ...and subtitled ... so if you liked hot fuzz but
wished it boring and Duch id totally recommend this to you... if not
don't bother
I know yer favorite hobby is smelling yer own arse and/or going to church.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
it's not a rip off of hot fuzz. It may very well be "inspired by" Hot Fuzz, but it takes it in a different, much narkier, darker direction. Hot Fuzz is my favourite movie of all time, and i was able to enjoy this on its own, and also squeeing at all the little refernces and similarities. And, it's still funny. Not ridiculous, laugh out loud funny like HF, but quietly, snarkily funny. Maybe that's my Australian sense of humour though. Anyway, I thought this movie was awesome. Made my day.
shareAnother dumbass who can't differentiate "Dutch" from "Danish". And then spells it wrong, too, of course. And WTF is up with the American fear of subtitles? Grow up!
share[deleted]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? This movie was fantastic, as was Hot Fuzz - but they are definitely completely different entities altogether.
Provehito in Altum
I loved this film. But let's not pretend it wasn't heavily influenced by Hot Fuzz. City cop gets punished and transfered to the country, away from his cheating girlfriend. He arrives at an eery town full of shifty eyed farmers. He makes daily visits to the grocery store to fight shoplifters. Townsfolk have a dark secret.
But that was clearly based on The Wicker Man. So who knows what it all means?
The plot about cop coming to a small town full of dark secrets is not new at all. It has been used in a lot of british television films, and Hot Fuzz was a spoof on that particular genre. So was Terribly Happy, but it had a much darker approach. Also Terribly Happy was based on a book publsihed in 2004... three years before Hot Fuzz was released.
share>> Also Terribly Happy was based on a book publsihed in 2004... three years before Hot Fuzz was released. <<
Exactly what I was about to point out. Not to mention the fact that the films have totally different moods and different outcomes.
This movie sounds somewhat like Insomnia which came out in Norway in 1997/ Later remade in the US and set in Alaska.
Hot Fuzz was a dark comedy. Its just a coincidence in plot.
Much closer is a made for tv movie called "In Broad Daylight" with Brian Dennehy based on a true case. There was a book written about it and it was in the news for a long time. A man with a long criminal record in a small town in Missouri slipped out of every attempt to convict him of a long list of crimes including, rape, theft, assault, etc. Witnesses were intimidated so charges would be dropped.
He finally went too far in terrorizing peole until he was shot to death on main street in front of 47 witnesses who refused to say who shot him.
The authorities finally got their head out of the ground and went after everyone in sight. And I do mean all levels of law enforcement including state and federal.
They were determined to break the code of silence after being embarrassed.
This was in a small town in Missouri and resembles the more recent "Winter's Bone" which is also set in the Missouri ozarks where there is a code of silence.
That is so weird--I actually remember that case now, and coincidentally was living in Missouri at or near the time it happened. In fact, over several years I lived at various times exactly where Winter's Bone was set, too--literally along the same roads down around Forsyth and Branson. (Also in Springfield, Bolivar, Boonville, etc.) I even remember the Dennehy film on the tube. Hadn't even thought about that as an apt analogue.
shareIsn't "Hot Fuzz" based on "Wicker Man"?
shareI thought it had elements of a dark Hot Fuzz as well. Which is one of my all time faves too. BUT I loved this too. And there was no copying going on here. Just odd coincidence. They came out ONE YEAR apart. Anyone that knows anything about screenwriting and film making knows it would be nearly impossible to see a movie, copy it, write the screenplay, cast it, film it, edit it and get it in the theatres within a year. 100% sure both movies were in development at the same time and neither knew anything about the other. And Terribly Happy is DARK humor, it's not even in the same genre as Hot Fuzz. This movie was not boring by any means... it was disturbing, great characters, great film noir. If you don't like film noir like Cohen brothers you won't like this.
shareI thought more of films like U-Turn and Blood Simple.
share