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The worlds end (spoilers)

Paul does not count as part of this series, even though it has the same two main stars.

The trilogy is Shaun of the dead, Hot Fuzz, and the Worlds end.
 
You were thinking of the INSPECTOR DENTIST series of films about the dentist who solves crimes, weren't you?
 
More in depth.

The characters werent very likeable, especially Pegg who goes through the whole experience and comes out on the other end with zero growth, if anything, its a massive step backwards for him, while his friends who he abandoned when he was young grew up, he stayed a manboy, with the same clothes, the same car, the same music, and he ends the film with the young robot clones of his friends, reliving his youth forever more.

The film ends with all technology destroyed and earth back to the dark ages, yet despite no commincations whatsover, and only one small villiage in england being taken over by the blanks, everyone everywhere seems to know about them, purely by word of mouth from the handful of survivors.

Not only that, but in a world with no money, electricty, or running water, people are still buying houses?
 
Well, it's more a message about human nature. The Network wanted to remove our selfish, greedy nature (albeit via very sinister means) so that we would be ready to join the intergalactic community, and Gary basically tells them to piss on it, let us be fuck-ups because it's our right to be.

Which is why the apocalypse shown at the end still features the worst part of human nature - there are obviously large amounts of homelessness but humanity stays stuck in it's capitalist rut, so there is still a house market for the rich to buy houses, and there's still racism and bigotry.

It's an ending where Gary basically dooms humanity to it's own terrible behavior, which is obviously a much darker ending than Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz (even if the ending of Hot Fuzz basically implies that Angel has turned the town into a fascist state).

Gary starts the film in a very dark place, he's tried to kill himself, and it's very likely that had the pub crawl finished normally he would have done it after having completed his only real life goal. He's an asshole, yes, but that's the point.

What differs it from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz is that instead of him changing himself to fit better in the world around him, he changes the world around him to fit himself. It's not exactly a nice thing to do, but it fits the theme of humanity basically being fuck ups, but at least it's our freedom to be fuck ups.
 
I liked how it felt like a large-scale Twilight Zone episode and how also it used metaphors in a Buffyesque way.
 
I loved "Hot Fuzz," so much so that I bought the DVD and have watched it at least five times. I'll wait until "The World's End" is shown on Satellite.
 
I watched this today. I liked it a lot more than Man Of Steel. I enjoyed the fight scenes much more, for example. Like Nick Frost Hulking-up. I can understand people not liking Simon Pegg's character but he is a pretty horrible person so not liking him should be the natural response. I thought him and Frost did good acting here. It was probably the least funny of the three movies (it wasn't trying to be as "funny" as the other two) and I'd probably say Hot Fuzz is my favourite of them, but it was still very good and interesting.
 
That odd bit at the end was weird though. The whole dark ages thing. Didn't really "fit" the rest of the film.
 
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