Example #15,467 of how effed up my brain is: the thought occured to me yesterday, as I went to check on showtimes for Hot Fuzz this weekend, that opening a guns-ablaze comedy on the weekend after the horrendous tragedy in Virginia might suddenly not be that wise a move.I mean, I wasn't totally expecting Hot Fuzz to tear the box office a new one - it's British, and as much as I may lionize the Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost Shaun of the Dead gang, I'm not convinced the rest of the country (whom I'm on bad terms with this week anyway, the bunch of Grindhouse-dodging, Veronica-cancelling tools) is as enamored as I.
I don't really want to say much about the VA-tragedy because, honestly, who the fuck am I to? I write about Jake Gyllenhaal's underpants. Yes, the whole thing's horrendous. But flipping through the channels the other night I caught the first somber moments of American Idol paying their respects and I just wanted to vomit at their hubris - oh thank god, American effin' Idol stepped off their pedastal to tell me how to feel about this! Ryan Seacrest expressed his feelings! We can all cry now!
So I'm, being me, just gonna go about this in the most horrifically insensitive way possible - wondering what the current zeitgeist will do to a comedy about shooting people in the face. We gotta keep it on the level.
And anyway, long ramble over, my point: here's a fun interview with director Edgar Wright over at Cinematical; an interview that thankfully took place before the VA-massacre so I don't have to listen to Wright and the interviewer express horribly misguided woes similar to the ones I've just shared..
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I felt the same way you did about the American Idol comment...it was just a bit akward and strange.
I don't really feel that 'Hot Fuzz' will be all that affected...but if it doesn't do well I can guarantee you the media will say that's why.
In Australia (where movies are released on Thursdays) just two days after the VT shootings, they decided to release, of all things, Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg.
His movies never do business unless they're stuff like The Departed so I doubted it would make much money anyway, but still. Maybe hold off a week? It pretty much got universal one or no star reviews here, too. I mean, the movie's big final shootout happens in Virginia!
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