{"id":1169,"date":"2013-08-28T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:57:02","slug":"the-worlds-end-movie-reivew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/the-worlds-end-movie-reivew\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORLD\u2019S END:  Beer  + Robots + political statements = FAIL?  (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n__1Y-N5tQk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The World\u2019s End<\/span> is a cross between your run-of-the-mill independent flick and summer blockbuster apocalyptic movie.\u00a0 Five friends return to their hometown to find out that most of its residents have been replaced by robots.\u00a0 The movie in my opinion is not worth the $10 asking price tag.\u00a0 And honestly, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that great of a movie. \u00a0\u00a0I literally walked out of the theater saying, \u201cWhat the hell was that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This movie though, is the perfect \u201cbro-mate\u201d movie. \u00a0It\u2019s one of those movies guys can enjoy at a bbq, share a cold one, while shouting at each other over whose fantasy football player kicked some ass.<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s End is the last movie to the Three Flovours Cornetto Trilogy, where Sean of the Dead was the first installment; Hott Fuzz, the second.\u00a0 Each installment, even though they star the same characters, does not have anything to do with each other.\u00a0 They are three different movies, same characters, in three entirely different storylines.\u00a0\u00a0 The only other true connection to each other has to do for the fact that \u201cCornetto Ice Cream\u201d had inspired them and was featured in each storyline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Strawberry Cornetto Ice Cream<\/strong> represented the blood gore in the Zombie movie, Sean of the Dead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The original blue Cornetto Ice Cream<\/strong> represented the cops in Hot Fuzz<\/li>\n<li><strong>The green mint Cornetto Ice Cream<\/strong> represented alien life forms in The World\u2019s End.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1171\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1.jpg\"><img  title=\"THE WORLD\u2019S END:  Beer  + Robots + political statements = FAIL?  (spoilers) Dream Weddings Hawaii\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1171\"  alt=\"world-ending1-300x184 THE WORLD\u2019S END:  Beer  + Robots + political statements = FAIL?  (spoilers)\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1-300x184.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1-89x55.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1-310x191.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/world-ending1.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The movie started off strong, then suddenly went off the deep end in the 3rd act<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Now here come the spoilers.\u00a0 Don\u2019t read past this paragraph unless you want to know what happens in the movie. \u00a0\u00a0I will try to keep my spoilers to a minimum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the World\u2019s End, a loser reunites with his four friends to retrace their idiotic adolescent journey of hitting twelve bars in one night.\u00a0 We\u2019ll call the loser, Scotty, as it\u2019s the same actor who played Scotty in Star Trek!<\/p>\n<p>From the first bar that they hit, there is already a mounting tension between the five friends.\u00a0 The four mature men do not know why they are tagging along with Scotty, who is an obvious alcoholic.\u00a0 Still, reluctantly they follow Scotty from bar to bar.\u00a0 Eventually the growing conflict between Scotty and his mature friends come to an ugly fork road.\u00a0 His friends want to go home, he wants to continue.\u00a0 It\u2019s at that time they find out that they are being watched and hunted by advanced robots that have taken over their hometown. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now in order to survive, the five friends must stick together.<\/p>\n<p>The movie then turns into a series of rather entertaining and comedic chase scenes, with a lot of \u201cwhat to do now?\u201d conflicts.\u00a0 The movie is actually great until this point.<\/p>\n<p>Then, things start getting strange, real strange.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;When I watch movies, I wanna check my brain out, and I wanna be entertained, not taught; especially when it comes to slapstick comedies.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to watch European Vacation to learn the meaning of life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of the movie (big spoiler) the friends are cornered and the super-being confronts Scotty and explains his motivations.\u00a0 To sum it up, the super-being wants Earth to be a better place, but it has lagged behind other universes tremendously because we are just plain losers.\u00a0 Even with the advances of technology that this super being has bequeathed unto us: the cell phone, computer, television, yada yada yada; humans are still a bunch of screwed ups.\u00a0 Enter exhibit A, Scotty.\u00a0 Frustrated with the massive volume of idiots on earth, and failed attempts to teach humans how to be better, the super-being decides to replace the flawed humans with carbon copy robots that are more peaceful.\u00a0 But the problem is that he\u2019s replaced almost the entire town with robots.<\/p>\n<p>Scotty starts to debate with the super-being on freedom versus slavery (capitalism).\u00a0 At one point the debate between the well intentioned mature super-being and the idiotic immature Scotty turns very juvenile.\u00a0 The super-being then casually gives up, because he just doesn\u2019t want to reason with idiots anymore and leaves earth.\u00a0 Scotty was the last straw.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1173\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty.jpg\"><img  title=\"THE WORLD\u2019S END:  Beer  + Robots + political statements = FAIL?  (spoilers) Dream Weddings Hawaii\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1173\"  alt=\"scotty-300x200 THE WORLD\u2019S END:  Beer  + Robots + political statements = FAIL?  (spoilers)\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-82x55.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-210x140.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty-310x206.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scotty.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I really wanted to like this movie.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When he leaves, he destroys all of the technology that he had given to us, and all humans are forced to live back in the caveman days. \u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s how the movie ends\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The ending of the movie felt very forced.\u00a0 It really felt as though the director wanted to pour in his two cents about capitalism.\u00a0 That you\u2019re either going to be a slave to capitalism and be nothing more than a robot, or you are going to live like an unhappy caveman, without luxury, junk food, and technology.\u00a0 In the end, the director pretty much implies that society is better off being slaves to capitalism, because the caveman alternative is actually much worse.<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s End could have ended in a much better way.\u00a0\u00a0 A nice simple shootout would have been nice.\u00a0 If Scotty\u2019s character evolved and he found an ingenious way to defeat the robots, that would have been great.\u00a0\u00a0 But no\u2026.he defeated the super-being, by well\u2026.just by being an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>When I watch movies, I wanna check my brain out, and I wanna be entertained, not taught; especially when it comes to slapstick comedies.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to watch European Vacation to learn the meaning of life.\u00a0 While it\u2019s way too common for directors to push their political agenda in movies, when they go overboard, they can turn a great movie into a 90-minute piece of crap; and that\u2019s exactly what happened here. \u00a0\u00a0Not only was it a piece of crap theory, that slavery is capitalism, but that it\u2019s entirely wrong theory altogether.\u00a0\u00a0 Isn\u2019t capitalism about the freedom to create and purchase what you want, at\u00a0 a price that is dictated by market forces?\u00a0 Ugh\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The World\u2019s End is a cross between your run-of-the-mill independent flick and summer blockbuster apocalyptic movie.\u00a0 Five friends return to their hometown to find out that most of its residents have been replaced by robots.\u00a0 The movie in my opinion is not worth the $10 asking price tag.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}