#(context for those who dont get it. this is a parody of a popular tumblr blog called justgirlythings from like a decade ago now

[skyburger]

this came to me in a vision

#fin fin on tei the magic planet #finfin on teo the magic planet #fin fin #finfin #okay so. #i was just gonna make a dumb image of finfin with a burger #cause i just ate a bitchin burger and im thinking about finfin #but then i had like the dumbest fucking idea. justfinfinthings so awesome #(context for those who dont get it. this is a parody of a popular tumblr blog called justgirlythings from like a decade ago now #there were like a million just____things blogs it was like the ''your fave is ___'' or the heritage posts of today #just ____ things & ''fuck yeah ____'' #were like. idk theyre iconic to me because even i knew about them vaguely cause they got reposed offsite aaaallll the time like they were #Everywhere. at least if memory serves #ok i told myself i wouldnt ramble so i could go to sleep but well. oops #directly after i said oh ill make this burger image rq and spent like half an hour on it #SO GOODNIGHT OOMFS... PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET TEO

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Definitely agree with you on the worlds end being better than hot fuzz and shaun of the dead. I think people find it disappointing because its the third of a trilogy and the first two set a tone - parodies of popular hollywood genres with some genuine emotion but mostly a focus on comedy. The worlds end places more weight on the emotion, so it loses some of the humour but imo it's definitely worth it because i dont think the film would've worked any other way.

Cool, genuinely glad to get this message and see I'm not the only person in the world with that unpopular opinion! I agree with you completely - it has a little more drama in with the comedy than the first two, but it still has a lot of funny moments in it. It's still firmly a comedy, and the comedic type of comedy, not one of those movies that's branded part of the "comedy" genre because that's the box where they put movies that aren't really anything else if they ever feature people having any fun. It is cool to me how all three of the Cornetto movies accomplish the goals of multiple genres - I once watched Hot Fuzz in the middle of the night while home alone, and the joke horror bits start to just feel like horror in that context. I had to put on an episode of 30 Rock after before I could sleep, same as I would with an actual horror movie.

I think all three movies are very good, obviously, but I know in general The World's End is considered the weak one and I just really like it, partly for reasons you described. I find the characters a little better drawn and more impactful, I get more invested in them than I do in the ones from the first two movies. The ending's weird, maybe goes a little over the top, but I still like it.

I do have a soft spot for that movie because I first saw it was in theatres with two good friends who now both live far away. In 2013 (sorry for responding to your message about a movie with a person story, I wasn't planning to until right now but it seems to be happening) me and my longtime best friend and two other guys had a nice sitcom-like friendship going for a few years. We had a regular pub where we met up two or three times a week and talk shit all night, and do stupid things together. I was moving a few hours away to do my last 2 years of university, and the night before I left my best friend was traveling for work so I didn't get to see him, but me and the two other guys in our group went to see The World's End in theatres. The three of us were all varying degrees of socially awkward and kind of relied on my best friend to facilitate normal social interactions, and without him, we struggled a bit with communication. But the least emotionally expressive member of our group was the one who suggested a cinema trip and picked the movie, and afterward I realized he knew what it would be about and taking us to see that was his way of saying he'd miss me.

Since then I've come back to my hometown but those guys are both gone - one followed his girlfriend across the country, one came with us to a wedding of our other friends in NZ, met an Australian woman at that wedding, and is now married to her and living in Australia. So I may connect with some of the themes of that movie (see I can talk about feelings on this anonymous Tumblr blog, but it's more difficult in real life), and therefore not be bothered by the layering of emotion.

Having said that, I think it's an objectively good movie that I'd rate highly even without a personal soft spot for it. If it loses humour compared to the first two, it's only a little bit, at the expense of better characters and a much stronger plot. I don't mean to denigrate the first two - they're all great. But the third's my favourite.