Everyone But Me Is Wrong About The Cornetto Trilogy

NOTE: calling Gary "narcissistic" was, in retrospect, poor word choice. while I did not mean to imply Gary has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, there is enough ableist discourse that presumes a) any selfish person is a clinical narcissist, and b) people with NPD cannot help being abusers and must be avoided at all costs, that I think it wise to retire colloquial use of "narcissistic" and stick to synonyms like "egotistical" and "selfish." like any disorder, NPD is something that can be managed and compensated for, and people living with it deserve the same respect as anyone. (and I have beef with the psych world for naming a disorder with a word that literally means "hopelessly selfish" in common language.)

this video was so good it made me shed a tear 🥲🥲

my nuts stink I reckon

The Gary King arc feels all the more relevant now with Elon Musk at the helm of the US government.

The Brexit analogy explains why i never liked The World's End. And hated Gary.

I think a key point that you sort of ignored is that Nicholas is literally the only good cop in the entire film. The force he came from got rid of him because he was actually doing some good and solving crimes, and they were pissed because his effectiveness as an officer highlighted their poor work. they wanted him gone so they could continue to be lazy cops. When he got to the country, they all wanted to eat cake and drink and ignore the problems they had been ignoring literally right under their noses. He solved the crime without resorting to dirty tactics or abusing his authority, while embracing the mundane parts of the job, because that's what's really required for him to do his job well. He did the job in the face of pressure from all around to give up the idea of what he knew was right, and didn't sacrifice his morals despite being put in a situation where he would have been justified in doing so. He was originally upset at the idea of leaving the "more exciting" city force, but then realized that being a good cop can also mean just being a part of the community, even if it doesn't mean seeing proper action and shit. And Gary didn't kill everyone, the aliens did all that. He correctly knew that living in rubble is better than being dead. They weren't just making things nice for everyone, they were actually killing everyone and replacing them. If he had just given in, everyone would have been dead anyway. But yeah, he's a selfish drunk up until that point. That moment was basically the first time he made a good decision in the entire film.

Man this is a gem

I appreciate the libertarian dig

Wait this isn't about ice-cream?

My god, Young John Mullaney.

Forgetting the scene at the end of hot fuzz where danny cites official vocab guidelines and Nicholas makes a joke about manpower

I like the idea here!! One minor correction though, Shaun of the Dead is a romcom as a zombie appcalypse happens. Perfect ending!!

This video was really interesting. Gary’s character only works because he is a white male. He is allowed to live out his fantasy and the world just has to accept it. He is what many men or a certain type wants to become, to have everyone at their whim, and successfully manipulate everyone and get away with it. He is living his best life while everyone else suffers. Those around him enable him so why would he change? There is no incentive.

I genuinely thought he ordered water in the epilogue of World's End because that's all there is to drink in the apocalypse...

Isnt Hot Fuzz about changing to become more immature??

So... This ENTIRE video boils down to... "I hate 'The World's End' because I'm a Canadian ReMOANer"...

No... WONDER... You simply don't GET why people think "The World's End" is the best of the 3...

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Excellent video, completely agree. One thing I would say - I don't think the end of TWE is essentially Space Brexit. The aliens are less like the EU in my opinion and more like the soviet union. They're operating covertly, without anyone's consent, and they're literally disappearing people. What Gary does, while selfish, is more akin to resisting a fascist state than leaving the EU. The fact that the aliens get rid of anyone who doesn't fit in their "perfect" society makes them read as a eugenicist tech oligarchy more than anything (nervous laugh). Not saying I think he did it for noble reasons, or that the EU is perfect.

Shaun of the dead is about overcoming your demons and living a life that makes you happy. Which Shaun does where everyone who dies couldn't. They become a zombie controlled by their struggles and living out the rest of their lives unable to change. The whole point of the movie is that he comes to understand the things that were holding him back and accepts they aren't his fault, he's not responsible for other people and their decisions, but most importantly how they choose to treat him. But somehow that's a manchild refusing to grow? Come on.

I don’t necessarily disagree with your assessment, but I would like to add that the movies each touch on different aspects of life and maturity. Shaun of the Dead is about your personal, social and home life. Hot fuzz centres around your work and purpose in life, and the balancing act between purpose and fun. The world’s end encompasses the self. It it’s the most outlandish and ridiculous of the films, there are more main characters and the ending isn’t particularly satisfying, but that’s quite fitting when talking about self improvement and coming to terms with who you are. Sure, Gary’s environment changes but he also learns to live with himself and clearly changes somewhat. The ending isn’t satisfying in that all is well and he finally grows up, but Gary is now in an environment more fitting of himself AND he has made some changes. To me, that’s pretty reflective of learning to live with yourself. You put yourself somewhere away from all the shit that drags you down and meet yourself half way, change yourself and your scenery and you might not see yourself be perfect, or even a good person for that matter, but you can be happy without destroying the lives of those you care about.

The title is absolutely wild😂I love these movies so much, part of what I love is that the themes are nuanced and reward exploring with new perspective every few years. I love this video. I do think these movies have a little more to them than your thesis leads on, but, You've got some pretty solid takes. Subbed!

great points, excellently made. However, american and therefore wrong.

You're right, I apologize.

Huh... So the movies are about something?

What a bunch of pseudo intellectual nonsense.

that it sucks? yeah i got that too

The whole point that the character never grows up make movies 20% more hilarious

This was amazingly inciteful and certainly helped me look back on this movies.

i dunno that it's space brexit. like i get your point, but i think it's stretching the metaphor. the point is that the aliens are killing people constantly because none of them will conform. they're trying this project all over the world and it's constantly failing every time. Gary, despite being a drunken asshole who is fucking everything up, does make a point that the aliens are not succeeding and are ruining the planet. their rules are killing people

Your entire analysis, while interesting WAS wrong.

I think you've really misunderstood the character development in these movies.

This video rocks and ur great! :) definitely subscribing :)

my favorite part of hot fuzz is how all the other cops overcome their flaws but the main duo don't

Im just 3 adam Sandler in a trenchcoat 😪

Liking the video. But you're saying it wrong. It's not "Corneddo" it's "Corne'o" the t's are silent!

Apologies for any misinterpretations of this video I may make, only gone through my first watch just now, but I think it's important to note if world's end's finale SHOULD make you happy or not, no matter how you interpret the ending implying change in Gary or not, the thing is I feel Gary's designed to really make you conflicted with how you should think about him by the end of it all, and if that should make you like or dislike the film.

If you don't like Gary because of how he acts, no matter the reason or outcome, that's fine but I don't think that should denote that the movie is bad to you, bad main characters exist in good media, rather than "bad" I'd say negative but I'm using bad for simplicity's sake.

I think Gary King is both deserving of sympathy and help from friends, while also being pulled up for his fuck ups especially considering blasting away decades of progress, neither Gary or the alien collective at the end are correct when you really lay out what each side did/has done/will do, stealing people away and mulching them and placing robo-clones in their stead is obviously bad, but so is letting people ruin their lives because "they choose to"

we exist as people, as a community, to help pull ourselves together to become better as a whole and make the world around us better with it, there's always going to be those who undo and/or reject this in one way or another, and it's a matter of dealing with these kinds of people correctly, according to the context.

Dictator slave owner that has carried out genocide? such a person should be done away with at the soonest possible moment. Drunkard who's failed to change since highschool and drags others down with them? (barring ending the world ofc) they deserve to have therapy but also compassionate friends who have the ability to assist him as well.

sorry I'm ranting by now but the general thought here is that Gary King fucks up for several reasons, he just happens to get placed in the wrong part of the world at the worst single moment of his life and that ruins it for everyone, in this fantasy setting, and that with sufficient community he could have had made a proper recovery without feeling like he's wasting his life away being told what to do with little to no say, his freedom was bad, but his 'imprisonment' was worse for him, and he needed more than just a system to adjust him into a "proper man" as some might say.

if you're reading this thanks for skimming this impromptu mini essay

The world's end is my favourite because at this point in time I AM like Gary. Not because I want to, but I am a fuck up, a recovering addict with some fucked up sense of self defined by a singular point in time. I'm trying to grow, and in the future I'll rewatch this film and realise to my core how selfish and tragic I am right now. I'm glad I'm intelligent enough to have self awareness of how much I am like Gary, because if I didn't recognise that, I'd be doomed to become more and more like him in decades to come.

I'd like to grow up a bit, not entirely and not enough to lose myself, but I don't want to do a Gary. It's good to recognise where Gary went wrong and understand that actually, I can do so much better

Wait, what? Who has ever said
The World's End is the best of the trilogy? It's easily the worst and the least re-watchable of the three

I never liked the movies and I never realized why. So thank you for making me "like" them... I guess... Because now that I understand what it is about them that I didn't like, (the absolute lack of any character growth or ability to mature or act mature on any level...), I can appreciate them for the message they are trying to express.

I'm a severe alcoholic and the world's end is the only one in the trilogy I've never watched all the way through. I think I've only made it through about ten minutes and I just found Gary too unlikable. Your point about how our actions affect everyone in our community is valid. Great video essay about a great bunch of movies. Instant subscribe

You're clueless about Brexit. 🤡

McSweeney’s just published a satire article with the title “One Upside Of The Total Collapse Of Civilization Is We Don’t Have To Be Woke Anymore” and it reminded me of this video

Blud doesn't realize that growing up isn't about radically reinventing yourself, but rather learning how to reconcile who you are with the reality of the world around you.

I was so excited to see a new vid.. but it was on nebula. So while I save up for nebula, I got to enjoy this. Thank you for still putting out content here for the poors

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Yeah, but have you considered that Gary has actually rejected colonialism? And colonists always claim they are civilising the people they colonise, bringing new technology. Even if they are is that a fair exchange for being controlled without even knowing it? Think about all that is lost. Even though Gary made that decision for all humanity at least people know who to blame.

When I was younger I prefered Hot Fuzz, the older I get the more I see the genius of The Worlds End