The Worlds End

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This weekend my wife and I saw Kick Ass 2 and the Worlds End.
Kick Ass 2 was OK, but should have been called “The Hit Girl Movie”.

I didn’t like The Worlds End.
The previous movies from the same folks I did like. (Shawn of the Dead,
Hot Fuzz, Paul) Of them, Hot Fuzz is still my favorite.

The biggest problem I have with it is that the main character reminds me
far too much of my old roommate, Ed.
I’ve talked about Ed a few other times.
How he once broke into my bedroom in the middle of the night to piss on me:
http://www.fbhjr.livejournal.com/169247.html
Or, the time he broke into my apartment looking for booze and prompted me
to go for revenge: http://www.fbhjr.livejournal.com/593948.html

For years after I gave up drinking, he would try to get me to start again
so I’d be “fun again”. To the point where if we were at parties together
he’d try to spike my drink so I’d get drunk without knowing it. (It was
good for me that he was as bad at that as other things.)
Of course since I had given up drinking this was often at things where I
was the designated driver. So, it would have been doubly bad if he was
succeeded.

Always his excuse was “I’m just trying to have fun!”
There was often the “Don’t you remember the old days when we used to do
this all the time?”
By sophomore year he was already nostalgic for the good old days of
freshman year.
One time freshman year he got lost a block away from campus. So, he found
a phone booth, called the operator and asked her to trace the call and tell
him how to get to his dorm. Then, he was sick in the phone booth.
He considered that one of his best nights ever.

He got away with this, and things like throwing peanut butter out of the
4th floor windows at pedestrians, because he was rich and was always the
one buying. As long as he was buying, at least one of our roommates (Greg)
would stand up for him.

So, a movie about a guy like that doesn’t do it for me.
It might for folks who think it is just a caricature that is
unrealistically over the top.
But, the movie didn’t do it for me because it reminded me too much of what
I really encountered.