thank god edgar wright got funnier

Despite the amateurish and student film vibe, it’s obvious that Wright’s forgotten about debut feature is dripping with passion. 

The most noteworthy thing to me whilst watching was that this guy just really loves filmmaking. The biggest compliment I can give is it just makes me want to get off the couch and make a stupid movie with my mates for fun.

The costume and set design is pretty decent and is probably the most ‘professional’ looking part. It’s pace is a bit sluggish and makes the short runtime feel like a longer stretch. The Python/parody humour is actually pretty funny and you can definitely see a couple seeds of what his style will become.

The lead guy reminded me a lot of The Sherminator lol.

It’s not all that great but for what it is, it worked for me. 

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“Hey! Milky bars are on me!”

Edgar Wright’s directorial debut that no one talks about; A Fistful of Fingers is a charming low budget comedy that paved the way for the rest of Wright’s career, but it’s pretty far from being good. It has some jokes and gags that are kind of funny, but the amateur execution really doesn’t do them service, and before long it starts to overstay its welcome. It was clearly an important learning experience for Wright, and it’s interesting to see his style start to develop, but beyond that it hardly feels worth seeing.

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This movie is embarrassing. Edgar Wright’s “first” movie in Fistful of Fingers is even a movie that he doesn’t like, and I don’t blame him. This feels more like a high school or college project. This had a $15,000 budget and it felt like it was way way way less. The acting was bad, the story was bad, there were incredibly bad fake horses. I know his filmography gets better so I’ll let it slide.

Overall Rating: D

intermittently clever, with lots of AIRPLANE!/Looney Tunes/Python gags delivered enthusiastically but, critically, with an amateurish slowness (forgivable, i suppose, since it's Wright's first real try) that makes 77 minutes feel like two hours. English accents in your spaghetti western homage make everything seem that much more tin-eared.

“Time for a little game of kill or be killed.”

of poor quality due to low budget but this marks Edgar Wright’s first official feature. his comedy shines, although he doesn’t have the means and refinery yet to express it as stylishly in visuals as he went to do in his later works. has some surprisingly nice practical effects though. for a spoof western it hits a couple marks so well and i almost choked with laughter when they first showed a full shot of Easy (the horse) *cries* EASY NOOOOOOOO

highkey makes me want to shoot a movie with my friends right now cause this is simple fun, even if it looks substandard in every way. gotta start somewhere, (w)right

I guess Edgar Wright had to start somewhere lol. His debut is very unpolished and amateur-ish for obvious reasons and filled with campy gags that almost never hit, after all he was just a 20 year old lad who's career was barely getting started. Still glad I watched it just to see how far he's come.

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Look. I understand that Edgar Wright had zero money to make this. $8,000 is not even close to enough money to make a movie, and I get that he was extremely limited with this film because of it. But this was straight up embarrassing. The acting makes local high school thespians look like A-list talent, the props look like they came from Toys R Us, and the script itself was sloppy. If you didn’t tell me this was an Edgar Wright movie, I’d think it was a college film project made by students. I’m serious. Yes, I understand you are severely limited when you have no budget. But at the same time, this movie was an absolute embarrassment for Wright and everyone involved. I have to take it for what it’s worth, and that’s an absolute waste.

Rating: C-

This films just Chris Stuckmanns bad Indians jones fan films

Has the feel of a student film, though nonetheless made by someone with a clear sense of how to make jokes visual. The latter quality and the film's edit bolster what is otherwise a pretty tepid affair that feels about twice as long as it actually is.

Not as funny as your standard Wright film but you can see Edgar wear some Monty Python and Zucker Brothers influences on his sleeve. Honestly, It's just a dumb, more dorky version of a Zucker Brothers movie, basically. A honestly impressive debut by one of the best directors today!

Score: 8/10

I forgot this film had black face... oh fuck

They very much want this to be their Holy Grail, and it's very much not, but there are some good jokes here!

It's his worst feature, but even at 20, Edgar has some chops.

very steamin and still didnt have much fun with this

A film that I feel by all accounts should be a film I love, it’s goofy, it’s meta, and it’s pretty funny at times. However the reason why I think this film didn’t land with me is there’s just nothing to get attached too, I don’t really care about the story because it’s pretty basic, the execution does make up for this but I just never felt fully invested. Now maybe I’m not suppose to be invested maybe I was looking at the film wrong but yeah it just didn’t do enough for me. Although the joke at the end where it just says this s a true story was probably the best joke in the film.

Edgar Wright’s first film, and um, well I’m glad he got better. It started out kinda fun, but it got stale real quick. The jokes seem to be inspired by people like Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and the Zucker Brothers, as the humor is very over the top and slapstick-y, and while some jokes were genuinely really funny, specifically the ones around the beginning and towards the end, others came of as kinda amateurish, and I’m guessing that’s because of the low budget, so I do feel a little mean bashing it, but it still wasn’t all that funny. The only reason why I would recommend it is if you wanted to see where Edgar Wright started. Well that and it is (sometimes) charming since it did remind me of teenagers making a low budget film, but that’s technically also a flaw with the film itself.

Has the feel of a student film, though nonetheless made by someone with a clear sense of how to make jokes visual. The latter quality and the film's edit bolster what is otherwise a pretty tepid affair that feels about twice as long as it actually is.

40/100
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Joey (40/100)
Nun shall pass. 
Fifteen seconds in you realize you are not watching a studio film and instead something that more closely resembles an expensive home movie. Even with the reset expectations it drags and has too much filler. It’s not a movie I would watch if it wasn’t Edgar Wright’s debut. BUT when it hits it hits. We laughed out loud several times (ironically the biggest laugh was the film’s end, as the characters are hopping away on their fake horses... “This Film Is A True Story”. It hit us just right).

Bekah (40/100)
This is the type of humor where I roll my eyes, say “this is so stupid”, and laugh. But I do laugh.

It is what it is, a 75 minute hilarious genre parody that feels closer to two hours than one. While Wright uses his editing and visuals to elevate the comedy, it always feels like he’s pacing out each gag individually instead of the actual story, something that’s clearly improved in his later work. It’s still funny as fuck, but when I have five other Wright films that feel like adrenaline rushes, as well as the much better Monty Python that inspired this film, I don’t think I’d ever rewatch this outside of an Edgar Wright retrospective.

Fun but roughnaround the edges. As isnexpected for a first, super low budget film Wright made with his friends.

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Look. I understand that Edgar Wright had zero money to make this. $8,000 is not even close to enough money to make a movie, and I get that he was extremely limited with this film because of it. But this was straight up embarrassing. The acting makes local high school thespians look like A-list talent, the props look like they came from Toys R Us, and the script itself was sloppy. If you didn’t tell me this was an Edgar Wright movie, I’d think it was a college film project made by students. I’m serious. Yes, I understand you are severely limited when you have no budget. But at the same time, this movie was an absolute embarrassment for Wright and everyone involved. I have to take it for what it’s worth, and that’s an absolute waste.

Rating: C-

Deeply innocent, feels like watching a load of friends just having fun which kinda makes me feel weird seeing as me and my friends have fun when we make stuff. God I can’t wait til post-covid so we can get together and make movies again

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This movie is embarrassing. Edgar Wright’s “first” movie in Fistful of Fingers is even a movie that he doesn’t like, and I don’t blame him. This feels more like a high school or college project. This had a $15,000 budget and it felt like it was way way way less. The acting was bad, the story was bad, there were incredibly bad fake horses. I know his filmography gets better so I’ll let it slide.

Overall Rating: D