Shaun Of The Dead

Shaun of the Dead is the rare zombie movie that makes us laugh hard and still sneaks up with real grief, and we wanted to figure out how it pulls off that trick. We talk through why Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are such a perfect pairing, how Pegg lands the emotional beats with Shaun’s mom and stepdad, and why Edgar Wright’s direction makes the comedy feel sharp instead of random. If you love horror comedy, British humor, or the Cornetto trilogy, this conversation is basically a love letter with a few arguments baked in.

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Welcome And Why Shaun Endures

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch, and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. As Bertrand Russell once said, the only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. I think we can all appreciate the reverence of that now. Cause this week we recommend Sean of the Dead. Yeah, you've got red on you. I know. That's what I wanted to do is a quote, but I was just like, it's gotta be a little longer. And then I was like, oh, that's a nice little quote in this funny movie.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Man, I fucking love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Dude. Bill Nyhe.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Simon Pegg. Every time I, you know, I go in, I'm like, hell yeah, I love this movie. And then I always just think it's like, it's because of Edgar Wright, I like his filmmaking, his like crazy edits, and like how funny his movies are, but this movie is all on the back of Simon Pegg.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

I know. I think he's my maybe my favorite British actor slash writer.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

He's so good in this movie. God, his he like of course he's funny. He's funny and everything. But man, he really hits the emotional beats in this movie. Yeah, they really do. Like with his mom and then with his stepdad. Yeah, and then his friend at the end, Ed. It's I there was I was watching it yesterday and I was like, I might cry. It's wild how good he is. Um, well, I guess my first question, what what makes this movie good for you? Like what makes it what makes it so good?

SPEAKER_01 1:39

I I I don't know. I I love the silliness. I love British comedy just because they have embraced silliness more than any other culture, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah, and they're they're they're okay with it being a little too silly, which is something that we've learned that we love because when things get extremely silly.

SPEAKER_03 1:57

Cheeky.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Yeah. I know, and this is supposed to be our third movie in the British invasion, where uh one of the first movie we did was Robin Hood, where the lead actor is an American that can't do a British accent. The second movie is a Canadian making fun of British things. And then this is our actually most British film that we've done in three-movie British invasion. I was gonna do four, but I was literally like, I can't think of another British movie off the top of my head.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Man, there's there's so many. There's three in this pocket. Yeah. There's this, there's uh Sean of the Dead, The Hot Puzz, and The World's End, which I have at World's End.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Yeah, it's great. I'll let you borrow it. I have it on Blu-ray.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

It's uh oh, it's so good. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Yeah, I couldn't believe when I heard about it, I was like, man, I can't believe I never heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Yeah. It well, it kind of came out and just didn't get the same reception as the other two for some reason.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Because they're fighting alien robots. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

It's so funny though. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I'd love to see it.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

I mean, it is probably my least favorite out of the three, but I mean That's probably why we never heard of it. It's like if I gave Sean and Hot Fuzz a 10, I give at World's End a nine. I mean, it's not like it's bad at all. Um, and there's a lot of wrestling in it. Yeah the action is so good in uh um at World's End. So uh do you prefer con comedic zombie movies or like more serious? I don't know. Like there's not like a whole bunch of comedic ones. There are really aren't the ones that are pretty. I like the there's the one that's like a musical during Christmas. Um Anna and the versus the apocalypse or something. That sounds awesome. Yeah, it's uh it's weird, but I kind of really enjoyed it. I remember putting it on, I think when I was it was Natalie was on the couch from the I I feel like she checked out pretty early, but I was like, this is I kind of fucking like the music and everything. But I'm also a sucker for a musical. Oh I love musicals. I kind of do too. Yeah. It's like every time I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Have you seen Hamilton? Holy shit. I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

It's on Disney Plus, but I it's really long.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah, it is really long, but it fucking it kills.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I know. Every every time I hear uh I keep saying I feel like I'm saying every time a lot. But when I hear a song from it, I'm like, yeah, this song, this rips. Yeah, man. I just need to do it. Maybe while I like play something, I'll just have it look up every once in a while.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

And not watch it.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

I've actually kind of gotten a little bit addicted again with watching like scariest videos on the internet. Yeah. And then I'm just like playing a game. I look up, I'm like, ooh, scary.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

You just like every when it gets brutal, you should look up uh go back to your cozy game.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

It's like okay. Um, I guess with mine, I like this is probably the best comedic zombie movie ever made. I think so. I do think I prefer the more serious just because usually the comedy doesn't always hit in zombie movies. Right.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

And I think that's what makes this movie really special. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah. And it's just, I guess being American and seeing like all the British stuff, it's just kind of makes it a little more charming too.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

I think so.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

And especially does him walk. Oh man, God, the fucking filmmaking in this. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Like the scenes where he's just walking down the sidewalk and there's two, there's two of them.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

And they're so different and funny.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Yeah, it's it uh it just makes me want to scream. And it's like, no wonder Egggar Wright had a whole career. Have you ever seen the um so before Egarite did this, he had a show called Space. Yes. Have you seen any of it? Yes, I've seen the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

I love it. I fucking love it.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

I want to so bad. I I think I've watched one episode and it was the one where they pretend to have guns, like their hands on each other.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Oh, when they're on the subway? Yes, and the kids attack them with finger guns.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

And they're like running around. It's like that's the only I think I've seen most of that episode. That's about it. Because I always heard that was a good one. Uh but apparently they did a zombie, a zombie one.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

He's always playing Resident Evil 2 in that one. Whenever he gets sad in the show, he turns he plays Resident Evil 2 and just gets killed by zombies all the time. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

There's a lot of there's a lot of some notes about how he came up with the idea of this movie.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

And there is one scene in this movie where a lot of the extras from Space did the scene for just a pound.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Which is like a dollar, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Now it's probably like two dollars.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Like $30.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Yeah.

Favorite Edgar Wright And British Humor

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Um, so uh, do you have a favorite um Edgar Wright film? So let me just lay them out. There's obviously the Cornetto trilogy, which is the movies we talked about. Sean they call them Cornetto trilogy because of the ice cream. They they eat the ice cream in every every everyone. I love that. Um then you of course you have Scott Pilgrim. Um, and then last night in Soho, I've Baby Driver. I've seen that. You haven't seen the Baby Driver? That one's really good. It's um and then there's there's his new one, Running Man, which I haven't seen yet. But uh Wait, the one from the newest one. No, I haven't seen the phone.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

It's got Glenn Powell in it. Um so I guess this one's my favorite since I haven't seen any of the other ones.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Mine's still Scott Pilgrim. We we did Scott Pilgrim. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We did that one's probably my favorite just because that one gets me so riled up.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

It's so you're so mad at vegans.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Well, no, it's just like the music. Like I l I listen to um Garbage Truck, the song from that album, like at least once a week. That's awesome. Just because I love it and always think, like, man, if I was in this band, people would think I'm so cool.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Yeah, dude. Like the the ones We are sex by bomb. The one sex babom. The one um the show that gets me the most with the music is Westworld. Uh it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

I think I watch one or two episodes from that.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

That's about it. Well, the first season kicks major ass.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Yeah, and then I heard it constantly goes down in terms of quality. Yeah, but there are like a little, there's a few scenes here or there that are really awesome. I've noticed that sci-fi modern sci-fi movies really struggle or shows really struggle on keeping uh quality.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

They kept trying to drag it out for a hundred years. Like, quit. Just make one good thing. And I'm pretty sure that's the creators of Lost did that.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Yes, yeah. And from because it's pissing me off right now. I want that's why I'm like, I'm just waiting till from is over with because I know it's a cliffhanger heavy show, I'm sure. That's all it is. Yeah. Every moment. It's so frustrating. That's how Lost was, which was why I was so glad that I waited till they're all out. I remember that. Um, so like after I bought season five of Lost, it I finished it like midnight, and I was like, damn it, I have to go buy the box set immediately. I woke up as soon as Hastings was open and went and bought it. Oh, Hastings were open.

Our Zombie Apocalypse Game Plan

SPEAKER_00 8:56

Um so if a zombie apocalypse happens, what's your plan? I don't think I've asked this question yet, but we haven't done another zombie movie, so I'm assuming I probably have, but who cares?

SPEAKER_01 9:06

So what we constantly tell the kids is like whenever any kind of zombie apocalypse or world-ending event happens, we go to the farm. Would you been there?

unknown 9:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

That's where we're gonna go. We're just gonna go there. I mean, it is in the middle of fucking nowhere.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

And it's on a hill. No service. Well, um yeah, the only thing I worry about is woods. Like they could just come out of the woods, you wouldn't know. Yeah, but they're not gonna come from the the top, right? Maybe maybe. Yeah, I've yeah, that's a good idea. Definitely stay out of the cities. And it's got a pool.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

And a hot tub and a grill.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Okay. I'm actually going there now, even without hip hop, kicking them out. Mark, you two. Um so I guess my you know, well, I guess last time we kind of had this question, which I'm now realizing we definitely did this question, but I don't think that was your answer last time. Mine was always we played the game at Home Depot when I worked there forever. Um, you know, we had a whole plan of like shutting off the doors. Home Depot's a badass place to be. And like there's so much propane there. Like our forklift would be we just like build up the forklift, we'll just go over to Walmart, break in, get a bunch of snacks and stuff, and then come back. And we had a whole plan for that. But let's say zombie apocalypse happened right now. Meteor hits, boom, zombies everywhere. You go to Home Depot, you take it over. Yeah. I would I mean, yeah, it would just be like just kind of drive around, hope hope they're slow zombies, find a mansion that looks abandoned, and just live there. It's kind of like what was that movie um where it's kind of like an apocalypse, but like all someone like does a uh what do you call it when um they take out like all your electricity and internet and stuff, type of terrorists. Uh yeah, or essentially a cyber attack. Okay. Right? Because you what's a movie? Um it's like it's got Julia Roberts, Hershaw Ali, um, you know, the kids' teeth start coming out randomly. Oh Netflix. The one Obama made? Yeah. All the cars go, clog up the interstate. You know, it kind of ends. Well, the spoilers for this movie, I can't remember the title of um, but you know, like one of the girls goes to this rich house and they have like a whole bunker underneath, and they're like, hey, we're safe, and they play friends. Um that that's essentially my dream. That would be my dream. I go into a bunker and someone has the box set of friends.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

I'm safe. Oh man, if Friends is the only show you had to watch during an apocalypse.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

I would say, I mean, I got my six boxes. I got the box out of the office. I mean, I'll bring some movies. Oh, you do it. I just blow my brains out. Just like throwing my PS5 in my card.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Nellie's like, we that's what you gotta say.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Nellie's like, we need more stuff than this. We're going for the long haul, honey. The worst thing about the apocalypse is the fact that we won't have anything to do. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Romero Homage And Behind-The-Scenes Facts

SPEAKER_00 12:12

So uh to get into some uh facts here, George A. Romero, creator of the movies to which this movie plays homage to and lampoons, was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's work that he asked them to cameo in Land of the Dead as zombies. Nice. They appear as two chain zombies used in a photo stand. You still haven't watched Land of the Dead? No. Oh, I love it. It's all about class. Like uh, you know, uh billionaire class and metal or glass. Yeah, it's just it's used. It's really great. Um it's probably George A. Romero's last good zombie movie, even though we made like two afterwards, which don't really work, but uh I watched them all and enjoyed them all. Nice because there was a point, which the movie I'm gonna uh do as my double feature. It was like in high school, you know, Hastings was around, so I just went and just rented all of the George A. Romero movies and then did anything that said of the dead, I essentially got because I got pretty obsessed with it.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Uh you didn't rent Zombie Stripper Nightmare.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

No.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

That's too bad. No, that would have been uh awkward to rent. I rented this and I did not enjoy it. I want a refund.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

I want a refund. I only made it 15 minutes in.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

No, that's never that's not even possible.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Because of masturbation.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Because it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

No, gotcha. So when asked by an interviewer why they chose to have slow moving zombies instead of running zombies, Simon Pegg simply replied, because death is not an energy drink. Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, there we go. Because it really doesn't make sense for them to be fast. With 28 days later, it does, because it's an infection, not really death. Um yeah, fast moving dead zombies.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

I mean I mean, why wouldn't they have I mean, what are they working on there?

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Well, it's because they have no life in them.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Maybe if they ate a dude, then they'd be fast for like a little while. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Well, we saw it with the slow zombies, it it's kind of like they just they there's no part of them that are human, so they're just kind of figuring it all out. So I could see if like maybe making a zombie movie where they walk slow and then ask the beginning. Yeah, and then they get faster as they're like.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Kind of like they figure out their motor skills. They start doing math problems. It's almost kind of like Goodwill hunting.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Similar to Warm Bodies, actually. How do you like them apples? Uh so Sean and Ed's friendship is based on Simon Peggs and Nick Frost when they shared a flat together. In fact, Sean telling Pete that he likes having Ed around because Ed always makes him laugh was Pegg's argument to director Edgar Wright to cast Frost in Spaced. Even though Frost had no prior acting experience, Sean and Ed also play games on the PlayStation 2, something Pegg and Frost characters often did on Spaced. So like Resident Evil 2 and stuff like that. So when Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg began pitching this movie, Film 4 Productions showed interest in it. They then significantly cut back its budget, leaving the movie with a without a production company for a while. Because Wright was still hoping to get this movie made. He held off on taking other directing jobs for TV while searching for new financing and ended up having to borrow money from his friend, including Peg. Um, for me to take on a television job meant I was pushing back the film back. So I was going rapidly broke. I was like majorly in the red. After 18 months, Working Title Films picked the project up, which Wright felt was ironic as the film mocks the classic British rom-coms that Working Title produces. Wright also said that Peg still hasn't allowed him to pay him back the money he owes him from those lean times. What a sweetie pie. Yeah, I mean, they're just seem like great friends. What a little pickle. And I think the only thing that most Edgar Wright movies are missing now is Simon Pegg. Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

He's just a gym.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Yeah, he really is. And it's like when they started putting him in the Mission Impossible movies, it was like, all right, now we have Tom Cruise, Ving Rames, and Simon Pegg. I'm set.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, Ving Rames and Simon Pegg. I mean, they're both just they can't not be funny.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

We are gonna have to do baby boy soon. I don't see that. Oh, Ving Rames is so good in that movie, man. Ugh. Ugh. It's a John Singleton movie. It's so good. Um, it's probably my favorite of his, honestly. Man, I re we're just gonna have to do it soon. Baby boy. We're gonna have to do it soon. Maybe that'll be coming up soon. Hell yeah, let's do it. Um, so the title began as what Edgar Wright describes as a one-page word document that sketched out the general idea of the movie back then called Tea Time of the Dead. It's so good. He started to develop a concept after playing Resident Evil until uh playing Resident Evil until late, and uh while going out half awake the next morning, wondering how a British person would react to a zombie apocalypse without the firearms that are common in American zombie movies. This inspired uh Sean's hungover walk to the shop and back.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

He's just ignoring all the dead people.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Not seeing any of it. Um Wright has also influenced by an experience where he didn't watch the news for two weeks, missed the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic, and was then puzzled by news reports of cattle being burnt. He thought it would be funny that the world uh could be ending and two guys would be the last to know because they skipped the news. Yeah. Something that would not happen today because we're all on our phones constantly.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I love that scene where he's flipping through the channels. It's just like news reports are coming out that people are and then switches it to people like the lion eating the gazelle.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Yeah. That's and that's just I mean, it's it's wild how good Edgar Wright is as a director, and just how clever you can be to think this stuff up. When I think of a baby driver, I remember when I heard that he was doing kind of a car or um a movie about a driver, essentially. Like he works on a team, they rob stuff, and then he drives. And remember turning to Natalie, it's like, man, I really hope that we get a quick zoom in of him grabbing like the stick shift, moving it back, then doing a quick zoom to him pushing his foot on the pedal, and then we just drive really fast. And he did it like five times in that movie. I'm like, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

Yeah, those quick takes are so good.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Yeah, it's like, yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Ah, and those are so great for comedy, too. Like when they do the scene where they're talking, like making a plan for what they're gonna do, and he's like, Oh yeah, oh man, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

And then back to the Winchester.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Is that just like, man, so many British movies have done that? Maybe two, just two, but like I know Snatch did that a lot. Yeah, yeah, very much so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Um, so according to the DVD commentary, when Ed attempts to cheer Sean up at the Winchester with plans of binge drinking, he's actually summarizing the events of the next day, Z-Day, entirely in drinking references. Bloody Mary, check out girl in the back garden, bite at the king's head, Philip, couple, David and die, Little Princess, Liz, Stagger Back, Impersonate Zombies, Bar for Shots, firing the rifle at the Winchester. Hell yeah. I just was like, oh. I do I do remember whenever, you know, first kind of getting the internet and stuff and just looking up a blot about movies. This is obviously one that I looked up because I love this movie growing up. Um that was one of the things that one of the first things I saw about this movie, and I was like, oh my god. Immediately rewatched it. And then I was like, oh, snap, that's so cool. Um but yeah, I guess we're kind of ready to get into the film.

Listener Comments And How To Reach Us

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Um but we do have some YouTube comments. You'll never guess from who. Um yeah, so meant to have this pulled up already. Let's see, someone called uh Salisbury Mistake um said on the awesome powers, you guys wrong. Um, and then on so uh our our dog Mark with the C. Um he said, finish the episode coming back from Chattanooga with the family. Uh another good episode, fellas. Let's see if I can get my teenagers to sit through it. Oh no. Good luck. It is a long movie, and uh I don't know. It's so funny in Rad though. I think I think teenagers, I would have loved this as a teenager, really upset that I never saw it.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Constantly trying to get my teenagers, my two teenagers to listen to my podcast, and they hate they'll be like, oh yeah, it's great as they put in their headphones.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Oh, this is so good. Um, I gotta go somewhere else all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

I have to escape.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Yeah. I I actually had a I was just kind of bored during break, and uh I asked Chat GPT if our podcast is any good. Oh. Um they can't listen, so you know it doesn't fucking know, but he says we're doing everything right. Hell yeah, thank you. The only thing it says is I don't know why you don't have more listeners in Austin.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

It didn't tell you to like get a gun or anything. No. Okay. No.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

It's done that before. I just kept asking it questions that it did eventually, but uh and then um Mark said on the Austin Powers episode, this was definitely one of the VHS tapes that stayed on loop for me in college. Uh really good pick boys. What do y'all think about the talented Mr. Ripley, LA Confidential, and School Ties? Um, two of those movies have Matt Damon in it. Talented Mr. Ripley.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

That talented Mr. Ripley is the only one of those I've seen.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Me too. And I loved it. Oh, that movie's so good. That's definitely it's actually been on the list, and I've had it like in my text messages to do. It's just I think it's a little over two hours. That's why I haven't picked it. But uh we might have to do it soon because and actually we should have done it whenever the TV series came out that has the hot priest from uh Fleaback. That's the only way I know his name is that he was known as the hot priest.

SPEAKER_01 21:59

You know, I'll Uh fun fact, I lost my copy, my VHS copy of Talented Mr. Ripley in a pool game. Really? Not a bit. Damn.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

That's a should have picked a movie you didn't like. But yeah, what Mark, we'll definitely do talented Mr. Ripley soon. I'll have to see if it's on anything so we don't have to rent it because I feel like I've been asking you to rent movies constantly.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Isn't there a like a Mad Damon like subscription service that we can?

SPEAKER_00 22:25

I mean there should be. Maybe that's what Howdy is. Um LA Confidential, I really do want to watch. That's um Russell Crowe's in that, I believe. Uh it's a noir movie. Um School Ties, I hear that's a bad boy Mad Damon.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

So LA Confidential, I think that's taking that takes place back in like the 50s, right? Yeah, it it's uh uh with an actress that gets murdered. Yeah, Devil in Devil in a blue dress, but uh Russell Russell Crowe. Yeah, maybe I have seen it and I just don't remember it.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Yeah, I think they even made a video game about it. Like it came out. L.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Noir?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Yeah. Oh, maybe I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

It's called LA Noir. Okay, never mind. It's a super famous video game.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

I don't think it has anything to do with LA confidentiality. Wait. No, LA Noir. Yeah, it is called an LA Noir. Yeah, okay. I'm getting two things. Except like that. I mean, unless it's kind of based on it. I don't know. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Is that in the 30s?

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Never played it.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

I mean, no, the game is in the 30s. Like 20s, 30s, but I don't know about the movie. I seem to remember the movie being a little bit later. Maybe late 40s, 50s.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Oh man, it has Kim Basinger. Guy Pierce, Kevin Space, James Cromwell, Danny DeVit, Trash Man himself.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Who pooped the bed?

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Oh man. Actually. It was a wolf. We we we maybe did. Why is there wolf hair? It's always sunny, baby.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

God damn, I love that show.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Hey, everybody out there, did you enjoy the fact that we read some comments on YouTube? By the way, Soundsbury Mistake is definitely Jason. It's me. We're like, yeah. Um, and if you enjoyed that, you can send us some comments or some fan mail. And let's say you have an idea of what the point of Sean of the Dead is, which is something that we do at the end of the podcast, you can say it yourself by clicking the link in the description, leaving YouTube comments, or going to the bottom of the description and going to werecommend mailbag at gmail.com where you can leave us some emails.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Fucking do it. Let's go. The comments really help the algorithm.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

Yeah, algorithm. At least on I don't know, it's tough on YouTube because I don't really have it where we're monetized, so like YouTube doesn't care. Do we need to make an LLC? No, because we make no money from this. So we would just be essentially wasting our own money.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Oh no, but then we could just like report our losses as tax exemptions. Oh dude. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

I mean, then I guess I could put all this like money that uh spend on like the editing and all that, which I'm actually about to get rid of some of the or just go down to a lower tier. Um, nobody cares. So think about what the point of the movie is. All right.

Shaun’s Life Before Z-Day

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Shauna the Dead. I can't believe this is a 2004, maybe. It feels like it was made yesterday. With how little we know about the British other than cell phones, it feels like it's just made the other day.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Oh, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

So, movie starts with Sean and his girlfriend Liz at the bar. She tried, she's tired of sharing him with Ed all the time. Uh sorry, Ed. Oh, it's okay. Ed, and they can't spend time together just themselves. Sean doesn't like her friends, David and die. Sorry, guys. Yeah, that sucks. I just love that everybody's right there and does like the very comical span. So good. Um there. Um so Liz wants to do more than just go out to the local pub, the Winchester. Liz hasn't hasn't even met his mom. He promises he will make reservations at a nice restaurant for just the two of them. Sean.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Yeah, Barbara is the most pleasant person I could ever think of. Like, who wouldn't?

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Like if I mean Barbara just seems so lovely that I'd be like, actually, we can't go on a date until you meet my mom.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

So you have to realize how great mom is.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

She got bit.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

She's like, it's been a funny day. It's been a funny day, isn't it? Oh god. Because she's so pleasant and great, it makes the ending so much so much more heartbreaking. And why I want David to fucking die. Which he does, which is great. So we get clips of people doing their everyday things, uh, like zombies. Guy with carts, grocery checkout, walking in the street, kid kicking soccer ball. But I love like everybody's kind of doing stuff with the music, which is something that Egarite is so good at, as we've seen, well, uh, like in um uh Scott Pilgrim. And then even if you watch, uh you need to watch Baby Driver because it's so good. Like there'll be like whatever's happening in the song you kind of see in the streets. Oh, cool. So in like even the windshield wipers go with a beat and everything, it's so fucking fantastic. Um he's just I don't know, like energy.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Did he have everyone wear earbuds to listen to music while they did the show? I don't know. They did in the Winchester scene when they're beating the old man. They wore earbuds to listen to make sure they're on time.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Like everybody's just kind of nodding their head. Yes. Um, yeah, I'm sure they had to, or they're just playing it really loudly.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

Wherever I guess you could play the you could put like a a metronome with the time of the song, and they act to Nick edit it in later.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Yeah, that's actually that's actually a really smart idea. Um so then we see a shadow of someone who might be a zombie, but it's just Sean yawning. Sean tries to play a game, but he immediately has to work. He sits down to play with Ed, and it's like, don't you have to? It's like player one or player two has entered the game. Don't you have to work? Player two has exited the game. So good. Ed is a good job. I know. Ed's a little Ed, I'd be kicking Ed out. Even if he was my friend, I'd be like, this is enough. This place is a big one.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Unless he like saved your life from like in the past. Yeah. And you owed everything. Well, I mean, there's a there's a lot of still a line.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

There's a lot to say about, you know, just kind of needing somebody around.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

You know, just someone that just brings you joy.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

He's got his lovable flat mate there with uh Yeah.

unknown 28:34

Pete.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Speaking of, we meet Pete who doesn't like Ed. He wants him out. Oh, by the way, this is uh uh this is the guy that voiced Darth Maul in Star Wars. Yeah dies. Yeah, he's great.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Um He's like, oh, I'm cutting half.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

I put I am a prick. I don't remember what that's in a reference to a little self-loathing there.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Yeah, we gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Uh um, oh yeah, it's because yeah, yeah, never mind. Um, and like, you know, Sean wants to be like, man, you gotta do more. And it's like, I'm sorry, Sean. And it kind of um, and then he's like, Oh, it's okay. It's like, no, I'm sorry, Sean. And then it's because Ed farted. Bet that won't come back later.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

I'll stop doing it when you stop laughing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

So as Sean exit the house, Livs leaves a message about dinner that night. I hope Sean doesn't forget. He forgot.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

She should have called him earlier.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Sean is off to work. We see the kid with the soccer ball, guy asking for change, guy washing car, guy running, a guy listening to a radio talking about a space probe randomly entering the atmosphere. He then goes in the shop, takes uh pays for, I'm assuming a cornetto or something. Um, takes a bus where he sees someone faint, and like everybody in the bus looks already looks like zombies. Um at work, Sean is disrespected by his very young employees that even take a phone call in the middle of a meeting.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Um the kid, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's the guy that is in uh the ritual.

unknown 30:03

Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

He's also in Jurassic Park 2.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Well, that kid? You mean like Jurassic World 2?

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Jurassic World 2, yeah, yeah. He's definitely not in Jurassic Park Lost. He's not he's not in the spillboard. He's like the bad guy in one of the Jurassic Parks. And boy, did that guy have a glow-up. Yeah. Such an ass. Um, so yeah, uh, yeah, they take a phone call in the middle of the meeting. Um, when the kid's like, I know you don't want to be here forever. I got things I want to do. And the kid, when? Because he's like 29, you know. Some of this part's over. Some of this part, some of this stuff in the movie really hits, though. Like in terms of being like, huh. Am I a little too much like Sean in my own life?

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah, but I think it's a really great example of uh what they do in movies where you have someone who just never kind of took off.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

And then when something extreme happens, they kind of become the head honcho.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Yeah, and it's like it's a classic uh coming of age in your middle age.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Yeah. When you are middle-aged. That's not middle-aged. Unless the life expectancy has dropped considerably.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

It just depends on your family genetics. Um, and then we get the classic, you got red on you. Because his pen breaks. So while showing some TVs, we see a lot of breaking news on the tell. Uh then Sean's stepdad, Philip, pays him a visit, reminding him of his bi-monthly visit to his mom. Uh, they don't really seem to like each other that much. As Philip leaves, we see a bunch of army trucks also driving by. Uh, Philip also says, You got red on you. And then uh Liz calls him asking if he got her message earlier. What I like is that I think the kid's name is Noel or something like that, comes up to him after Philip leaves. Like, I thought we weren't allowed to talk on our personal or on have personal conversations during uh the work day. He had a phone call during a meeting. Yeah, I know. Well, it's because he's like mad, it's like, oh, so I can't do that, but you can talk to whoever you want. And then immediately Liz calls and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, oh, that was Liz from corporate. Just good bits, good bits, good bits all around. So Sean stops to get flowers and we see someone running, a homeless man eating a pigeon. Uh normal, normal stuff. And then, of course, the bus drives by and the guy's gone. So on the way back in the bus, everybody is coughing and sick. Traffic is terrible. That's horrible. Sean runs into his neighbor, Yvonne, um, while a man is being put in an ambulance. Sean then remembers he didn't make an appointment. He's unable to make an appointment, and they go to the Winchester. Um, so yeah, she calls and he's like, ooh, so there's been an issue with the table. Uh, yeah, we're we're gonna have to do something else. It's like, you didn't make the appointment, did you? No, I did not. It's like, well, where are we gonna eat? The Winchester Slam. Good idea. Yeah, and then she runs. Um, so the little earlier he got some flowers. That's where he saw like the pigeons being eaten, and those are for his mom. Uh, but so he runs, uh he runs to Liz's house with the flowers. Her friends won't let him up, so he climbs up the building. Uh, well, tries, wasn't able to make it this time. Uh Liz is pissed. Liz breaks up with him. Uh, David makes a con comment. Um, Sean's like, get fuck four eyes. It's like you should date her if you love her so much. And then David's like, oh, what are you talking about with this girlfriend? Right next to him. I kind of sped through that. Also, I absolutely love uh the actress that plays Liz in this. I think she's great in this movie. Oh, yeah, she's amazing. You need to be in more stuff lady. Actually, let me let me make sure I get her name because um um Lucy Davis. No, that's Diane.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Maybe we're related.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

Oh, Kate Ashfield.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Um so so after the breakup, Sean, Sean drowns his sorrows uh at the Winchester with his house mates and best friend Ed. Ed encourages Sean to look at life beyond Liz. They talk about the locals at the bar. The owner, you got like this guy in like some cowboy boots, and they're like, man, he's always surrounded by girls. And then there's like a girl by an older woman behind him. It's like, yeah, she used to be a porn star. And then he talks about um the owner of the pub, which is potentially in the mob, and he thinks that the gun above the bar is real, and they're like, No, it's not. He wasn't in the he was in the mob. It's just called the Winchester. So of course he has a Winchester up there.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Gotta have it.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Um, so they leave happier than when they came in. A couple who was previously making out are now eating each other.

SPEAKER_03 34:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Um, and then they're singing a song, and then while singing the song, they think that a zombie is singing with them, it's like such a good bit. Um, they go home and party even more. Peter gets pissed because it's four in the fucking morning, and then he also has been bit.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Oh, yeah. But a little more rest will help.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Yeah. Uh Peter says that if Ed wants to live like an animal, then he can live in the shed. Peter says Sean only keeps Ed around because he is more of a loser than himself. Oh yeah, I mean, that's true. Getting some harsh realities here. Harsh, harsh realities. I mean, it's true. Ed's got to get his life together. I mean, it is kind of one of those things where Ed is kind of holding Sean back.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

He's like I feel like this is a classic thing for Simon Pegg. He does like a maybe a running theme for his movies.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

It's kind of like Paul. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

Did you like Paul? The Alien movie? The alien one? I don't know. Seth Rogan's an alien.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Uh I hated Seth Rogan and Saxon. Or I I hated that he's the one that voiced the alien. It just didn't fit. Well, I think you're wrong.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Leave a message if you think Seth Rogan as an alien was.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Well, there's another there's another.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

I just love his laugh. I mean, it gets me every time. Yeah, he's got a good laugh.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

There's another movie with Simon Pegg where he's um his girlfriend is running a marathon and he wants to run a marathon. I can't remember the name of it. Yeah. But like it's basically the same theme.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

All of us. Well, he's just kind of except without Nick Frost.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

I mean, he kind of really is typecast, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

I love anything with aliens, so I love Paul.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

I haven't actually haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

I've only seen clips. I remember watching it and being like, whoa, this movie was so funny. And then I realized I'm the only one with that opinion.

Realizing The Outbreak And Making Rules

SPEAKER_00 36:42

So next day, waking up in the kitchen, he goes, he goes in the shop too.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

We wake up in the kitchen.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

Like you wake up on the stove and you're like, and I love it because it's like he's as it's like after him and Ed are done parting, he walks to the kitchen, he's like, remember to see your mom and make up and get your life together, and then falls asleep right in front of it and wakes up and sees what he wrote. It's like such a good bit. Um, but he's gonna go to the shop, he's gonna get Ed a Cornetto. Uh this time the streets are barren and destroyed. The only people around are zombos. Uh he doesn't notice bloody handprints in the shop. Uh when leaving, there are zombies following him, but he doesn't notice. He doesn't even notice dead people.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

Yeah, like just in the the driveway and in the street. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:25

And then he goes and sits down, and this is where we get the TV bit where it's like there are uh zom like clicks off zombies in the streets, clicks again. They're eating people's clicks, heads right off. It's just like always something different. Man, it's it's just so creative and just so far. It really is. It really is. It's just it's how you know it's it's one of the fun things of seeing something, and then you're immediately like, everybody that was involved with this knows what they're doing and they're really talented and really funny, and they're gonna have a great career. And turns out they did.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

Yeah, they really did. It's so good. Like the idea of being so jaded, you don't realize what the fuck is happening right in front of your eyes.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

Also, just being so complacent and like just a boring time of your life that like nothing seems like it matters. So it's like, why would you even watch any of this? So it's like, let's put on something I like and not pay attention to what's happening outside of me. Because you know, a lot of times it does feel like everything everything globally that happens around you doesn't matter because it's like, what can I do, right? Yeah. Sucks. We're living in it right now. So Edis Ed notices a girl is in their garden. Uh takes them a minute, but they realize she's actually a zombie after Sean pushed the girl on a pole and she gets right back up. And I love that it starts attacking Ed takes pictures of it. Just stop taking pictures.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Yeah, I love that like they have the like the see-through hole in her abdomen. Yes. So good. Because as she gets up, you just see them too looking at it through her.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Always a good bit.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

That was like one of the only uh parts where they use CGI.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Everything else, or mostly everything else was practical effect.

SPEAKER_00 39:07

Yeah, as far as I can know, like I don't remember anything that wouldn't be. I don't fire look good, so it must have not been CGI because that's the hardest thing to CGI, I feel like. I guess. So then another guy walks into the yard. Um, they go inside, they try to dial on 911, but no luck. Um, and then I love it. It's like after he dials on a woman, it's like, are they still out there? Ed just casually walks, opens the door, sees them both there, just closes the curtain again, turns around. Yep. Always funny. One of my favorite parts of the entire movie. Just it's that just dry. Yeah. Just fucking humor. Love it. So they watch the news, and a zombie walks into the house because they never close the fucking front door, which Peter always warned them about. Uh, they kill it by hitting it in the head.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

With an ashtray. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

They see on the news that they have to remove the head or destroy the brain. They go outside and start throwing things at the zombies outside to no avail. They then start throwing records at them. It's like, oh, don't throw that.

SPEAKER_01 40:06

Some of them.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

No, no. Go ahead. Like, boat made by prince. So, and then they're like, oh man, the shed's locked. And then they eventually just break into the shed. They get a shovel and a cricket bat, and it works really well. Well, yeah. Um, then they eat some ice cream. You have red on you. I love it. Uh something that the theme of our this movie and our next movie is bashing people in the head with blunt objects. Yeah, but like, didn't realize how much I love seeing that. I know. Oh gosh, I love it. Especially in our next movie. Makes me want to just like run through a wall so far.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

But like that line um where he's the on the news where it says you gotta hit him in the head, that was a line from uh Night of the Living Dead.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:00

And we do that a couple of times. I think it was Dawn of the Day.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Not of Living Dead, you don't really get a lot of TV or radio.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

Well, there was it was black and white.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

Oh, well, yeah, then it probably wasn't Night of the Living Dead, and probably just don't remember as much. I've only seen that like twice.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

It's really good, but you know I just love Dawn.

SPEAKER_01 41:18

There's another uh really famous line from the movie uh later. We'll get to that.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

I'm coming to get you, Barbara. I wonder why the mother's name is Barbara. Apparently, um when Edgar Wright showed the film to George A. Romero, there is a line where he says they're they're coming to get you. We're coming to get you, Barbara. And I guess Edgar Wright like looked at George Romero and being like, but he never noticed it. It was like a week later, whenever he was talking to him on the phone, it's like, yeah, that was a line for your from Night of Living Dead. He's like, Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

He was completely checked out as well.

SPEAKER_00 41:59

Well, he he absolutely loved the film though, which is why he was in Land of the Dead. So they then remember Peter has been bit, but he doesn't seem to be home,

Rescue Mission And Getting The Crew

SPEAKER_00 42:08

thank God. Um they're still really disappointed in so they uh form a plan to rescue Sean's mother, Barbara, uh, who had called and informed Sean that while she is not bitten, but Philip has been, oh good. Because it's like, we've been bitten, huh? Philip has Sean, oh good. And then it's like, what happened? Talking to Ed. It's like, Phil, uh has she's been bitten? It's like, no, Philip, oh good. They both love Barbara so much, not Philip at all. Um, and Liz or yeah, so they're gonna get Sean's mother, Barbara, um, and then Liz then wait out the crisis in the Winchester. Uh Sean wanted to wait it out at Liz, but Ed wanted to be somewhere familiar where he is allowed to smoke. He's like, yeah, boy.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

And there's beer on tap. Come on. Best place to wait out a zombie apocalypse.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Uh when Sean goes to pee, he finds Pete is in the shower, turned into a zombie already. Uh Sean lets him know he's gonna be borrowing his car. It's like, we're gonna go out, we're gonna borrow your car. God, I love Pete. So they escape in Pete's car where they see chaos in the streets. They hit someone with their car and stop to make sure it was just a zombie. They're just like, oh, thank God. Such a good piece. It's like, come on, just go. He's not he's not alive. Wakes up. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine. So they go pick up Barbara and Philip, who doesn't know about the zombies yet. He tries to convince him to leave, but his mom says they won't leave till the doctors look at Philip's bite. Eventually he gets them to leave, though. And it's like, well, you get a lot of like backstory between um like the Philip the relationship between Philip and Sean, where he's like, He's like, let's just go. We can leave him here. The doctor will come get him. She's like, I'm not leaving without Philip. And then And he's like, I don't like him. He's always mean to me. He used to chase me with a stick. And then eventually it's like, he touched me. She turns and looks at him. He's like, all right, that's not true. It's like, but we really need to go. But he's eventually able to get him to come with him.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Anything you can do to get out of there. So I'll do the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Um, and then they have to take Barbara's Jag because Ed purposely wrecked Peter's car. It's like, you were parked. And then, of course, as as they're all kind of arguing about who's gonna drive and getting in the car, because you know they just can't easily get in the car without it being a big deal. I don't know where a bunch of zombies attack and bite Phillip even more. And they escape with all of them in the car. Oh, then you have that really sweet moment between Well, not quite yet. It's coming up, though. Oh, okay. So Sean goes to get Liz. Uh, they don't answer the door quick enough, so he's able to climb up the building this time. Uh Sean tells them they have to get to a safe place, even though they are already safe. And David's absolutely right about the situation on how they should not have left at all, and that Sean only made the situation worse. Should have, David.

SPEAKER_01 45:07

Yeah. Harry Potter motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

I'm just I'm just saying that he is the prick and an asshole, and I was super happy that he dies. But the entire time, I'm like, he's kind of right. He was right. He's like, right the entire time. Block the stairs, they can't get you. He also, we wouldn't have a good movie if it was. Yeah, yeah. He's like, come on, David, we're trying to do a movie. Um, but they all agree to go, even though David's not wanting to. So they run out and bash some zombies. They all pile up in a car and Bob, Barb, and Liz finally meet. Oh, it's like I'm Barb Liz Barb Barb Liz. It's like, oh, finally nice to meet you. I know. So Ed purposely starts running over zombies because he's just he's living in a video game in his head. Um, Philip confesses to Sean that it's hard to be a father and that he was hard on him so that he would grow up strong since he lost his dad, thinking that it's just gonna be hard on him and he would kind of have be a little weak because, you know, the trauma of losing emotions. Yeah, the trauma of emotions. But you know, he went through it a very uh British and older man way, which is just make your life shitty so that you're strong. Right. Uh there you go. Some reason that's the only way to sue. It's the only way that people, you know, back in the day, used like older people think, oh, the only way to make someone strong is by fucking them up in their childhood.

SPEAKER_01 46:25

These kids need trauma. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

Let's give them something to realize what caused them to be the way they are 20 years later. Let's show them what pain really is. It's like it's like I'm pretty sure like all the all like getting like spanked and yelled at really is the whole reason I'm very anti-confrontational. Yeah. And I'm like, hmm, for sure. Just really made me realize that later in life.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

I was like that too, Jesse, until I started spanking myself.

SPEAKER_00 46:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

It's my new self-help program.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

What if to get me out of this we spank each other?

SPEAKER_01 46:58

Yes, I think it'll work. OBA.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

We're gonna pause the episode just for a quick second for nothing that has anything to do with what we just talked about.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

And we're back.

SPEAKER_00 47:10

Yeah, we are standing up because it hurts the city. All right. That was a good bit. Uh but yeah, and wow, we really just we're in this emotional moment between Philip and Sean. Um, but Philip just Philip just wanted Sean to look up to him. And of course, as always, it usually, if you're just a little rough with a kid, it kind of makes him not look up to you and hate you. So um, and then Philip passes, and then you just have Ed playing just loud music, and then he starts, he's like, Can you turn the music off? It's like, whoa, boy. He's like, turn the music off. Stop telling me everything's gonna be fucking okay. And it it's the very first time in the movie where you're like, Whoa, Simon Pegg's got fucking range and chops here.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

Yeah, he's got a set.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

It immediately like made me just like sit back, like, yes, sir. Um, and he tells Barbara uh Phillips dead, but um nah he's a zombie because Barb's like, no, he's not. And he's like, he's right there.

SPEAKER_01 48:15

Yeah, he just needs a doctor.

SPEAKER_00 48:17

Yeah. So they all get out. There's child lock on the car though, because Philip never turned the child look off. And then Ed gets out and he just sitting there staring at them in the backseat, and Liz is like, What are you doing? Get out. It's a very running joke that Ed is completely useless during a zombie apocalypse. Yes, completely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

So um and remains useless even as a zombie.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

Yeah. Exactly. Um, so now they get them all out of the car, and Philip is locked in there by himself, and then uh Barbara's like, we gotta get him out, we gotta get him out. It's like, mom. Or it's like, he's not my father, or they're like, we gotta get your father out. He's like, no, he's not. And it's like, it's like, no, he is your father. It's like, no, I'm not saying he's not my father. I'm just saying that's not Philip. He's nothing like he used to be. Turns off the loud music. It's like, well, there's something in there. Which is a great little setup for like the end of the movie with their yeah. But that's gonna come back and play a little later um when everybody's kind of doing their

Fence Hops And The Winchester Arrival

SPEAKER_00 49:16

thing. It's very day of the dead of uh the movie. So um, yeah, they run into a smaller group led by Sean's neighbor Yvonne, who is surprised to see Sean is heading to the pub. She has a friend group that looks exactly like them. Yes, like her boyfriend is Martin Freeman. She was in space too. Yeah. And then I'm assuming the guy on the back uh like the super pale guy who's bald. He's been in like uh great British break off and all anything British he ends up showing up. He's also in community a couple episodes. Um, think he's also in Doctor Who think I haven't seen any other mean either. I just know that they put that the actor in a um community episode where they're kinda there's a show in community within the show that's kind of like Doctor Space Time. And it's essentially making fun of Doctor Who, and they go to a convention, and then it's like I think a couple of the actors from Doctor Who are in that episode as a good bit because Community is one of the greatest shows ever fucking made on the planet. Um, so uh it's also where I first uh learned about Donald Glover and became obsessed with him ever since.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

So um not Danny Glover? No. Was obsessed with him for a while too. Between the Little Lethal Weapons, man, Lethal Weapons and the Fersall.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

Um, so yeah. Uh so to get to the pub, they have to jump fences. Uh I love that. I love it. And they're like, it's because he's like, yeah, just across the street over there is where the pub is. All we gotta do is just go straight over these fences. And he's like, that's like 20 fences. He's like, it's like, oh, is that gonna be a problem for you? And he's acting all badass, and he does a jump, he immediately falls and messes up. Good running bit throughout the Cornetto trilogy is that he does it in this one, he messes up in the hot fuss and then he gets it right at world's end. Hell yeah, baby. He finally got it. He finally got it. Um, yeah, but I love when he messes up because he was so cool for a second. He was so cocky about it.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

I love that is one of my favorite things. Yeah. People with confidence slip and fall or something. So good. It's the best. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:29

Um, so Barbara gets uh so the group gets split up uh from Barbara because Barbara walked next to a door and second, oh, is this where this and this person lives?

SPEAKER_01 51:38

Um and then Sean goes back to She's always thinking of other people.

SPEAKER_00 51:42

Yeah, she's just what killed her. It's like, Barbara, you're in a fucking zombie apocalypse. Please grasp the sister situation. You've seen zombies by now.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

You cannot presume that anyone lives anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 51:55

Yeah, everybody zombo. Um, and then Sean goes to her, he finds her on the ground, but she seems fine. Then he is attacked by a zombie and Liz saves him. Um, neither Ed nor David helped him at all. They're just sitting there. Um, but I love it because I know, step at any time, voice. Yeah, I love it because they're just hitting him with essentially playground to plastic chairs, and then finally they give him a uh a pole with a tennis ball on it, and then he starts to hit some with a tennis ball first. He's like, no, stab him, then stabs him against a tree.

SPEAKER_01 52:30

Great. Do they do this a bit again? Because like they did it before with the records and stuff and the household.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

It's essentially, I think, the um the pool. The pool. Oh, yeah. That's essentially probably the next one.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

So with the means, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:47

So Sean checks to see if the route is clear, and one of my other favorite bits, the ladder bit, where he goes and he's like, All right, let me check. Walks up a little tiny little ladder slide and then looks up. Okay, there's so many zombies. It's just, you know, he has some faith, and then he comes down, he's like, We're fucked. And it always works because there's a ton of zombies outside the pub. So um, they decide they're gonna act like zombies to trick them. Luckily, Diane is an actress and helps them act. Um, I love it. They're going through, and it's like, all right, everybody give you your best zombie one. Liz does pretty good. She goes to Barbara and she's like, Barbara, great job. She's like, What? I wasn't paying attention. And then um David does a terrible one because he doesn't believe in anything. Ed's is pretty bad, and then like Sean's is pretty good, though.

SPEAKER_01 53:37

Yeah, and this is the scene from all the the people from space, the extras from space. Yeah, they did this scene for a dollar. So good.

SPEAKER_00 53:45

Man, I just love when people to come together for a good cost.

SPEAKER_01 53:48

I know, just for art.

SPEAKER_00 53:50

Yeah. So they are off and doing a pretty good job until um they get to the doors of the Winchester and it's locked, and they're kind of like, oh shit, what's going on? And then fucking David. He like, what? And then like all the zombies are kind of starting to notice. So they're not really acting like zombies that much. And then, of course, fucking Ed's phone starts ringing, and he just sits down and starts texting, and then Sean goes off on Ed. Just holding me back. You're lazy, you're worthless, and then Liz is like, uh, Sean, and then pan over every zombie's just staring at him. Um, so yeah, David, uh so David's like, we gotta get in there, and then Sean's like, Well, we can go around back, and then fucking David just throws a trash can through the window, causing huge noise, and then Sean has to be like, I'm gonna give him the slip. So he goes around, runs right, and then disappears, and we have no idea if he's alive, but the rest of the group make it into the pub. And so um, yeah, David starts flipping his shit shit, rightly so, because they're in a bar with a bunch of windows and not a lot of protection there. Um, about being stuck in the pub with no other plan, he starts dissing Sean and his plans, and Lich shuts him up, telling him we have to make the best of the situation. And then Sean shows up like a fucking badass. And then I love it because um like he comes up and then like Ed's like giving him a drink and he's like, Hey, here you go. And David's like, Oh, you're why don't you uh it's like yeah, you're here with your boyfriend. It's like Ed's not my boyfriend. He's like, Here you go, babe. Thanks, babe.

SPEAKER_01 55:26

Yes, that was really good.

SPEAKER_00 55:28

It's not my boyfriend. Thanks, babe.

SPEAKER_01 55:29

I know so perfect.

SPEAKER_00 55:31

I explained that in a weird way.

SPEAKER_01 55:33

That was that was a really funny part. Yeah, but I love how David was all of a sudden like and you meet people like this, they'll be like, okay, I'm the leader now. Yeah, it's like I have to take it. And then everyone else is like rolling their eyes.

SPEAKER_00 55:46

You're the most negative person on the planet. You should not be the leader.

SPEAKER_01 55:50

Holy shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

Ugh, God, I know. I've known a few Davids, and it's just like, please stop. I know. Especially at work, like people like that. It's like, dude, let us fucking live our lives. Please stop being a wet blanket. So they just hang around in the pub drinking.

Holding The Pub Under Siege

SPEAKER_00 56:12

They're all kind of a good time. Uh, Sean wants Ed to do his little like monkey routine that he did earlier where he acts like a monkey.

SPEAKER_01 56:18

He's like, oh, the orangutan. Yeah, the orangutan, yeah. Such a good pit.

SPEAKER_00 56:23

Nick Frost does look like orangutan. He does do a good orangutan. He does a really good job. So they decide to turn the power on to the pub. Sean sees a shit tons of zombies waiting outside of a door and the owner's office handle shaking, the door handle shaking. Uh, Diane sees that all the TV channels aren't playing anything. Sean tells Liz that the zombies followed him and they're all at the back door waiting for him. She says that they have to be extra quiet. Q Ed screwing up.

SPEAKER_01 56:49

He starts playing a slot machine. Well no, he's playing the like pinball or something. Yeah, pinball, slot machine, something like that. It's really loud. Because when he comes, he's like, hey, can I get five quid? Yeah. It's like he just gives it to him.

SPEAKER_00 57:03

Yeah, it's like, what? That is really good. But those machines are so loud. That's something I remember. Um, like my dad had a friend that had like essentially it wasn't like an actual, I think it was probably illegal. I don't know. It's like a thing that had a bunch of slot machines, pinball machines, twin table, and you're just like at this guy's fucking backyard. I think I was related to him actually. So I think they were my cousins or something. Not sure. But and I just remember going in there, I'm like, these machines are so loud. And I was a child, and I I didn't know things were loud yet.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

No, I was a full-grown adult. This guy uh takes me up to his the whole top floor of his he had a two-story house and everybody living on the bottom floor. Yeah. Because the top floor was filled, filled with every inch of space that wasn't like that you couldn't walk through with those uh slot machines, arcade machines, mostly slot machines, like antique ones. And he's like, let me turn them on for you. He plugs them in. Holy fuck, dude. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:15

Like I was like, get me out of it. It's wild. And I I don't really understand it because like now as an adult, I would not want to play something that loud. Yeah. Unless it was playing a dope ass song.

SPEAKER_01 58:25

But it's always like cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling.

SPEAKER_00 58:31

You know, honestly, pretty good, pretty good.

unknown 58:33

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 58:33

See, Snake even hates it. Snake doesn't even like it. Damn. Get him all the starts a loud ass slot machine, and now zombies circle the building, and the pub owner comes out. Then Queen. Oh, what's the song?

SPEAKER_01 58:48

Can't oh don't stop me now because I'm having such a good time. This game is. This movie is like credited with bringing this song back. Really? Because this song wasn't very popular until this movie came out.

SPEAKER_00 59:03

That's insane. Like the only I never bought like any of the Queen albums, but I did have like their like massive greatest hits, and this was one of my favorite songs too. Oh yeah, man. I love Queen rules. Queen was one of my favorite bands growing up. Hell yeah. Uh so yeah, uh, Queen plays and they try to kill the owner to the beat of the song, and it rules.

SPEAKER_01 59:22

The actor that played the guy getting beat. Yeah. It was like 70. And he said he told everyone to beat him up.

SPEAKER_00 59:28

Really?

SPEAKER_01 59:28

They didn't have that was his idea.

SPEAKER_00 59:30

I was just like, the way I was looking at it, I was like, hopefully he has like he looks like he doesn't have any padding on, but I really hope he does.

SPEAKER_01 59:37

I mean, they weren't really hitting him, you can tell. Yeah, like and they were also all wearing earbuds so they could be on beat.

SPEAKER_00 59:44

And like Diane and Barbara are just kind of like nodding their head back and forth. Yeah, it's so good. And then Diane has the idea to throw darts. Um and she hits one, and Sean's like, no, that's good, keep doing that. And then hits him right in the side of the head.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Have you ever had a dart thrown into you? No. I've had one thrown into my hand. Why? Because I went up to grab the dart. We were drunk. Oh. And I was pulling my darts out before the next guy. Classic dart. And he threw it anyway. Went right in between the thumb and forefinger in that little space, went right through it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:21

Man.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:23

That's so wild. I was like, bullseye, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

I'm so glad I'm drunk that I don't feel this yet.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:31

Oh, that's lucky.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:33

Hell yeah. Um so Ed throws Sean the gun and knocks him into the jukebox, killing the zombie and the song. Yeah. Then he accidentally fires the gun and uh it turns out it works. I love the shop to everyone. Yeah. He knew it wasn't gonna fire. And it's so wild. It's just like the difference between America and London. It's like, oh shit, they're not used to guns. Yeah, they don't have it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:57

Nobody has guns, I guess. Like, not many.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

And it's funny because if this was an American movie and it was somebody who got it, they'd be like, you know, like professional gun shooters.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:08

Yeah, you you'd take it up, you take it off the wall, check it to make sure it's not loaded. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:12

And then like they'd hit every single zombie in a headshot if it was an American movie. No, he gets one. He got one. Everything else. There was one time when he starts shooting it, he hit like the same area twice. I'm like, move it to the left. Stop shooting to the right of all these guys. So they are getting ready to make their escape. Liz talks to Barbara, where she reveals that she has been bitten.

Losing Barbara And Breaking Point

SPEAKER_00 1:01:33

Damn. Literally the saddest. It's been a funny dog turning into a zombie right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:37

I know we miss Barbara too.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

Uh zombies start to enter, and Sean shoots a bunch. They block the windows again. Sean then sees Barbara has been bitten. As she is dying, Barbara thanks Sean for her flowers that she found in the trash, and then somehow knew that it was her. Hers, and then uh she passes. And it's really sad. God damn. And Sean does uh uh Simon Peg does a great job. He's great. It's just wild how he can go from comedic to extremely sad immediately.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:05

Yeah. But in real life, that's how it's like. You know? Like, oh, you want to go there? No, I'll just kind of shut my mind.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:14

Don't worry, this I don't think this pub will be around much longer. Um, so uh David immediately points the gun at her, ready to shoot her. He's right, but he could be less of a twat. Yeah, he is a twat.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:26

It's like, dude, could you just be like, hey, Liz, Diane, hey, how do how do you I'd just be like, let Sean, let Sean have a moment with his mother. Can you guys come here? We are gonna have to shoot her in the head, right? Like, how do we make Sean want to do this?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:40

Walk behind her so she can't see. Yeah. I mean, hold it up to her head.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:44

Yeah, exactly. Um, but yeah, so like he's got the gun pointed at Sean, like, breaks a bottle, puts it up to his neck, Ed does the exact same thing. And then Diane's like, this isn't fair. Ed gives her the bottle, and then he gets a corkscrew. It's so good. Um, Sean realizes that it's just about the fact that David likes Liz after a 10th um, and he's just like, it's like, no, I don't. And then even Diane's like, yes, you do. I know you do. It's like I've known forever, and I've just kind of lived with it. And it's like, Diane, come on. You can do better than that, yeah. Boyfriend, dude. Um, after the 10th situation, Liz claims, uh, calms everybody down, and then Barbara rises up as a zombie. Sean then has to shoot his mom in the head. It's rough. Uh David says that they did the right thing, and then Sean punches the shit out of him. And then David points the gun at uh Sean, and he's like embarrassed, and then he's like, All right, uh, I'm leaving. Good. I'm just no one's gonna like me after this ever again, so I'm out of here. Um, he then gets grabbed out of the window by a bunch of zombies, classic, right before he apologizes to Sean. He is ripped open. Uh so sick. I love it because like the outside lights just seem to almost get brighter just to like make the scene like just so clear as day, them opening. You want to see it and ripping everything out. And it's like, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:07

I saw how they did the practical effects for this scene. It was really interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:11

I assumed it's just his head and a fake body. Head and arms. Head and arms, okay. Yeah, that makes sense because his arms are moving away.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:17

They they didn't they couldn't hire anyone, so they used all the special effects crew that as the zombies.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:23

Oh, so that makes sense because they'll know how to rip it up. They know like exactly what's the best way to go about it. Yeah, that's really smart. Oh, and it's sick and it goes on a little bit longer than you think it's gonna go, which is amazing. I love that. Some things you can just drag on, and it's so good. And something I also love about it is because you know, like there's not a lot of color correcting in this, and like it's so nicely lit that it uh the blood and guts all look red and good. Unlike if you go to the Walking Dead where everything looks CGI blood and super dark. Well, yeah, they're but they're already dead. Are you talking about the live people? Yeah, like when they rip the live people open. Oh, yeah. It doesn't happen as much as you'd want a zombie show to do, but I was just it just made me think, I was like, man, now when you see most zombie movies and they rip them open, it's just like, well, this looks like garbage and this looked amazing.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:15

There is a lot more oxygen in uh England, I think. Oh, okay, that makes sense. That's why their blood is rubber.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:21

Is that why it always rains? It's so wild though. Always overcast over there. Um yeah, so uh, and then Diane uh kind of gets a little crazy, I guess, and he says, I'm coming after you, David. Uh apparently they wrote something, uh a little like prologue? Is that epilogue? Where it is Diane and apparently she does escape and she makes it.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:53

She apparently it was uh it was a comic book. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:58

She gets in a tree, she waits there for a couple days. Because she has no idea that people have come. Smart. And then she just goes and uh I think she like starts eat she eats somebody or something like that. I don't know. I just I just I think she waited it out. And then she just like goes and lives with her cousin or whatever. But they stay in touch with Liz and they write uh cards to each other. Like who delivers the mail? I don't know. Probably a zombie.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:21

Perfect job.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:22

So now all the zombies

Final Escape And Six Months Later

SPEAKER_00 1:06:24

come inside. Liz and Sean try to fight them off. Ed makes a Molotov cocktail but gets bit by Peter. Oh, damn it, Peter. Uh Sean shoots Peter. Uh Liz, Sean, and Ed get into the bar area uh and light the bar on fire. They find a way to the cellar where they can escape to the street. But when they get down there, they see that they aren't able to open the doors to the street. They are stuck, and Liz and Sean talk about shooting each other. This is a fucking fantastic scene. Oh, yeah. Just in just pure acting wise. Uh Liz wants Sean to shoot her, but he says he doesn't think he can shoot more people that he loves. He's like, I've already shot my stepdad, my mom, my flat mate. It's like, I really don't think I can do my girlfriend. She's like, so you're saying we're getting back together? It's like, we're about to die. Or is it a die single, right? It's true. Yeah, let's bone. Um die. Yeah. Why not? And then they decide to have a smoke together, and something that Liz wanted Sean to do was quit smoking. So he like threw his cigarettes earlier in the movie into a trash bin. She picked them up anyway. She's like, Well, they're in my flat. Well, I'm gonna smoke. Yeah. Um, then they see a remote to lift that will lead to the street. He tries to get Ed to go with him, but he refuses. He says he will slow him down. They have an emotional goodbye until Ed farts. He's like, Oh, why do you keep doing that? I'll keep doing it if you stop laughing. And then it's really, really sad, and they kiss him on the forehead. Or they kind of like nod foreheads. Oh, like kitty cats. So then uh, and he leaves them the gun, and then uh Sean and Liz go up the street surrounded by zombies, and uh they die.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:01

Yep. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:02

Until Deus Ex Mochina, the military all show up and just share. There's just like more military mose them down. It's fantastic. Yeah. Um, and then uh to save the day, uh, Yvonne is even with the army. Yeah, she's like, Yeah, we're all should have just followed her. Yeah. Not really. I think David and them would have Ed would have gotten them killed too. Yeah, he would have. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

It's better that they stayed away from the good group. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:30

And then we cut to six months after the outbreak, civilization has returned to normal.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:34

Love how they've re repurposed. Exactly. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:38

They're all like chained up and doing carts. I mean, they're doing everything just about as good as they did when they were alive. Yeah, it's like free. They move the same speed. What do you call labor that's free? I guess. Dude, really? What do you think? Uh I guess to put it in terms that aren't problematic, uh internships.

unknown 1:08:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:00

A way to force uh post-college kids to, you know, work for free and make no money and then never make it in life. It's a fun thing that we decided is a cool thing for people to do. Um, so yeah, six months after the outbreak, civilization has returned to normal, and surviving zombies are used as cheap labor and entertainment. Um, because there's like they show like the channel, the guy pushing a cart. There's also like a game show where it's like people are on these the zombies are on the slides and they have meat at the end, and they're like the zombies are trying to run to get it. Yeah. It's okay. And then there's one, it's almost like I guess it's uh, you know, a talk daytime English talk show where it's just like he's my husband, and I still love him, and I always will. And then we like have some interviews with the newscasters, and apparently those newscasters are real newscasters in England, and uh they just did they film stuff for this movie. That's cool. Um and Liz has moved in with Sean while Sean keeps the zombie Ed tethered in his shed where they play video games together like the animal Ed is. That rules in Lov because he's like he's playing the game, Ed just responded, he's like, uh, stop it. Pick up your controller. Player two has entered the game. And that's Sean of the Dead.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:17

He couldn't be any good at video games anymore, though, right? He probably never was. Yeah. I don't know. He probably was. I'm sure he'll get better. Probably spent a lot of time doing that.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:26

It's just the idea, right? To have your best bud right next to you.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:28

I know. It's always great. Forever.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:30

You don't have to feed him or anything. Or do you have to feed him? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:33

Did the lose weight? Do they have like really high metabolism? And that's why they need to constantly eat?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:44

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:45

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:46

Well, my favorite version is that the brains make zombies feel better.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:52

Like in Return to the Living Dead, the greatest zombie movie. Make them feel really good. Next I don't like it.

What The Movie Is Really Saying

SPEAKER_00 1:10:57

So, Jason, what do you think the point of the movie is?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:03

Um I think the point of the movie is that you gotta have friends.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:13

Yeah. Or no, indeed, Jason. Maybe just find it takes a while to find what you're good at.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:23

I guess.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:23

I put uh fuck bitches, kill zombies. I mean just kidding. Yeah, just thought of that this second. Make money. I think like the point of the film is like kind of uh satire's sat satirizing the monotony of modern life. Oh yeah, that's most and like it's about sleepwalking through your 20s. Oh man. Kind of because they're all in their 20s and it's all about Sean just I mean, he's essentially a zombie until after the zombies come out, and then he finally takes initiative and you know it's a coming of age story, essentially. That's really interesting. But yeah, that's what I would assume because you know, like all the video playing the video games, the just texting, and just like the monotony of modern life now. Which now it's even worse. I would welcome it.

unknown 1:12:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:06

Because somebody out there is just mindlessly driving to their job, listening to us, and just being like, Jesus, hit me over the head with a cricket bat.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:15

Is today the day?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:16

Throw a dart in my temple. Built my car into a bulldozer. Yeah. It's fully armored and bulldozer.

unknown 1:12:25

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:25

So we're gonna hit up our next category: the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine.

Good Bad Ugly Fine And Double Features

SPEAKER_00 1:12:29

So we're to discuss the good of the film, something we liked, the bad, something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well. Um for me, the good, just the filmmaking in general, and plus Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Edgar Wright are just like a dynamite trio.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:45

Yeah, they kick ass. Yeah. I think what I thought was good is what I think about when I when I think about British comedy, it's always like the big kind of events that kind of like that happen in life, they happen to everybody and they don't really matter. It's just like the small moments that matter.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:07

And I think they're really something that they really do well on with this and I guess maybe all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:15

Even like with like all the like the little small jokes, like Ed handing him some things, him saying thanks, babe, or just walking to the window and walking back saying, Yeah, they're still out there. It's like all that shit, it's so small, but like something I feel like the Brits do better than anybody else. Especially like watching all these things, like the trip, um, Taskmaster, and just all these little British things that I've been watching, and I'm like, they just crush it. They they're they're so good at like the minute the minute jokes. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:51

Everybody's funny all over the world, but it's just the pinpointing. I feel like they're funnier in a in the way that they take those small moments and take it a step further. Yeah. Like they take regular, like everyday language and they change it, like they shorten it. Yeah. They it to like in it. Yeah. Or like you're acting completely Barney right now. It's Barney. Like, and everyone knows what that fucking mean. And like, I don't know what they fucking mean.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:17

I know the amount of times they say twat in this movie, I'm like, man, we don't use twat enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:21

I wish we could use twat.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:23

It's like sometimes like when they said it, I was like, I don't even think I fully remember what twat is.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:29

We well, we are married.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:32

I don't even know what you mean by that.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:35

Uh for the bad when a man really likes a girl.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:39

Um for the bad, I really don't have anything. I think it's kind of a perfect movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

No, yeah, it was incredible. Yeah, I loved it so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:46

There is something I do have for the ugly, though. It's uh Ed says the N-word. For real? Yeah. He says it like whenever he tells them to get in the car. Oh man, I just completely come. That's the charm of the British. Every single time I watch it, that happens. I'm like, damn, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:08

It's like yikes. Well, you know, we we live in two different, very different societies. So and I think that's part of the British charm is that you can be just a piece of shit. Then you say something funny and witty and it like completely forgotten, like right away.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:25

What I've learned is you are smitten with British accents.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:28

I am I am even like near British, like South American.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:36

Or not South American, South African accents. There's they're British. Yeah. Because British kind of did their thing over the whole like Eastern Hemisphere. Yeah. I love I love like Scottish and Irish accents. Oh, they're so I just love an accent.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:50

I think watching uh Taskmaster, it's like I'm always it's just fun to hear like the British or the Scottish come out or the Irish and Scottish coming out, like when they're talking, because it'll sound kind of you can tell that they're one of those, and then all of a sudden they'll just hit something, and I'm like, whoa, that was hella Scottish or Irish, and it's like hell yeah, yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:08

It's like it's like from um Goodwill hunting when he meets that girl.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:12

Yeah like Boston or the Irish Boston comes out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:18

Yeah. Like she's she's got the Irish accent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:21

Like really Irish.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:21

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:22

How do you like them apples? So for the is it, I don't think it's possible for me to hear Goodwill Hunting and me not to just, even if I'm by myself, say, How do you like them apples? That's a good scene. It's just always good. That's a great scene. I just love saying it. It's funny that like I actually never knew where that came from for like a lot of my life, and then would say it, but had no idea it was from Goodwill Hunting. And then I've got to be.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:47

Well, to be fair, it was that saying was around before the movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:51

So think that I also think that movie kind of has a terrible title, but that's fine. So The Fine. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yeah. Uh so for the find, um, just the Cornetto trilogy. I think it's three uh fantastic films. Hot Fuzz is probably my favorite out of them. Oh, it's so good. But I don't know. After re-watching Sean of the Dead, I'm like, maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:16

I know. Shauna the Dead has always been my favorite. Yeah. Um, although I haven't seen at World's End, so we'll see.

unknown 1:17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:23

God, you're gonna love it. But I love everything, pretty much everything that Simon Pegg is in. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:30

So, should we hit up our next category, double feature? Sure. So, this is where we recommend recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. Jason, what is your I guess?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:41

I'm gonna choose at World's End because I haven't seen it. Okay. And I I would recommend other people seeing it. And Hot Fuzz, do the whole damn trilogy.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:49

Boy, boy, recommend movies. Never seen before.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:51

Do do what just watch everything. Scientist is everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:54

Yeah, Simon Pack every right. Just watch all their movies. Um, well, so I chose a movie that I watched when I was in high school and went through a phase where I watched anything that had of the dead in it. No. And one of them was it's a random movie I rented from Hastings. Have not watched since high school, so so sorry if it sucks. But I really enjoyed a movie called Dance of the Dead. Nice. And it's uh on the night of the high school prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:28

That sucks for them.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:29

Yeah. Um, I am seeing that it has average reviews. Um the zombies look great though. Uh honestly, it does look like it might not be good.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:39

So do they do they know that zombies are here before they go to the prom and they just decided to go anyway?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:44

It it kind of happens in the process. Uh I would say because of the hormones. Yeah. It's probably an allegory for Kberty.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:58

And yeah. Really difficult zombies.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:02

It's not too much of a difference between teenagers and zombies. No. So that is the point of the Sean of the Dead. Um, that is our conclusion of Sean of the

Next Week Ready Or Not Plus Reviews

SPEAKER_00 1:19:14

Dead. Um, make sure to join us next week for a movie that Jason had never watched until now. And he, you get to feel, you get to learn whether he liked it or not. And that's we are doing the radio silence film Ready or Not Baby. Baby's not in the title, it's called Ready or Not.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:34

Oh, it is. It is actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:35

It's a great little, like uh the greatest game movie. Six Wise. The greatest game, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:40

Is that the Where they hunt a human?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:43

Yeah. Is that the greatest game? Is that what it's called?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:46

Ah, whatever. John Luguzamo? Well, the book. It's like a book originally.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:50

But yeah. Um, but yeah, so join us next week for Ready or Not. It is just such a fucking dope ass movie, baby. It's got everything I love in movies in it, and I love it, and I can't wait to talk about it, which we're gonna do in like five minutes. So, Jason, let's get to it. Join us next week for that. Hey guys, I know I already said this, but we'd love to hear from you. Our dog, our boy Mark, talks to us, so you guys should talk to us too. We have proven to you that we talk back. Um, but yeah, just leave us some fan mail. Um, and just like tell us what you thought of the movie, something we might have missed, uh, something that you enjoyed about our conversation. You can leave it in the YouTube comments. We have a link in the description if you're on like our social on like you know, the Spotify apps, Apple, all those things. You can click the link there. Um, can't do that on YouTube. Um, and at the bottom we have a Gmail. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com where you can send us some emails. Mostly I get people trying to make us promote stuff. Um but I'm like, I don't like any of this stuff. Tit for tat. Tit for motherfuckers. And also it's always like something like, hey, this guy has a book. You want to talk about it? And I'm like, I don't read.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:04

We did they obviously don't know what we're doing here.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:07

Well, I think I think it's I always look it up, and I'm like, I kind of get I'm like, uh maybe, but I think they always also want us to do like an interview, and I don't really have we don't really have a way to do that yet, so I don't know how to do that. I need to look it up so next time we get asked, we can do it. Anyways, um, yeah. Uh like, subscribe, follow, review. Please review. It's the most important thing you could do today is review us. Um, I would like to thank Joey Prosser for our intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Prosser. This has been the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast. I've been Jesse. I've been Jason. And Jason, you have red on you.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:49

Bye!