Hot Fuzz

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul pursue the greater good and watch Edgar Wright’s 2007 cop action homage Hot Fuzz! They marvel at the stacked cast of British character actors, learn how Simon Pegg & Nick Frost became friends, and realize the film’s real hero is the editor. Plus: When the real cops have to catch a swan. Next week, our Listener's Choice anniversary month continues with There Will Be Blood! Send us your vote for our bracket at tinyurl.com/unspooledvote, or leave us a voicemail making your case at 424-419-5745. You can join the conversation for this series on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2007 and when a big city cop goes to a tiny world town swung!
0:07.0	The movie Hot Fuzz.
0:11.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Unscrewd!
0:33.0	I am Paul Sheerr. I am joined as always by Amy Nicholson as we look at the best films of all time.
0:39.0	Are they good? Or do we just remember them that way? This month is a little bit different because you have picked our films.
0:46.0	That's right we opened it up to you for our fifth year anniversary to pick films to tell us what movies you want us to cover and you picked four bangers.
0:55.0	The movies that you think should be on the list of the 100 best movies of all time that will be sent into outer space.
1:02.0	This was a film that was picked in a landslide at Gerrights 2007 Hot Fuzz.
1:12.0	A movie that was going to originally be titled Hot with two teas fuzz because they liked that kind of look and that was the amount of letters that most action movies had in their titles.
1:25.0	Some of the things that we can't put two teas in hot because the only question I will be asked is why are they two teas in hot and I don't want to do it.
1:35.0	What does Hot Fuzz mean because I have to feel like I still don't know.
1:42.0	I don't know either but it's a perfect title. It is hard to kill Mark for death.
1:48.0	It feels like Hot Fuzz.
1:50.0	The fuzz is definitely a cop but the hot maybe hot headed.
1:56.0	I don't know. We're going to break down this and more. We will have more answers than what does Hot Fuzz actually mean besides just sounding good.
2:04.0	We will and I want to say it up at the top when I found out that we were doing hot fuzz and we were talking about the end of our last episode on my drab it.
2:10.0	I was like I think I didn't like hot fuzz. I think I gave hot fuzz a bad review.
2:15.0	I went up and I looked at my review and it turns out I did like it actually. I was relieved.
2:19.0	I called it ridiculously dumb and ridiculously good. Then I went on and I called Peg a quote small angry lima bean with a badge.
2:26.0	Wow.
2:27.0	Then also because I was like T.A.ing in classics at the time I said that his quote quasi romantic relationship with his buddy is a sidekick role as old as Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
2:35.0	Wow.
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