Often the Field and I disagree on what movie to go see. She wants either something in costumes or something where some oppressed person is being saved by someone who is really good. I usually want something either with a lot of Fart jokes, something that will mess with mind, or something where a lot of stuff blows up. Yesterday in a moment of weekness she agreed to go see Hot Fuzz. The new policey movie from the guys that made Shaun of the Dead. Fantastic movie and even better she enjoyed it too.

As a kid I remember loving the Naked Gun, Hot Shots types of movies. The nice development in the world of Parody is that we have been able to move beyong those kind of gag a minute type of things into creating "real-ish" movies that spoof the genre they are playing to while still creating an enjoyable movie. One could argue that Scream did this first, but when you get to stuff like Grindhouse and Hot Fuzz it takes that to the next level and makes it so enjoyable. Plus in the case of Hot Fuzz, the British are just so much funnier than us...