Monday, September 16, 2013

The Golden Mile

I recently watched The World's End. As advised by a friend of mine at a recent pub quiz, it is indeed a bit of a mess. It's good but by far the least of the three "Cornetto" films.

Probably the key misstep is that it goes too quickly from the Body Snatchers paranoia period to the running-away-from-aliens bit. Staying there a little longer would have helped the pacing and made the continuation of the pub crawl more believable.

Speaking of pacing, that speech-making at the end felt like it went on forever.

Still, as I say it was fairly good. I might have enjoyed it more, too, if it hadn't been filmed in Letchworth, which made me see the real geography instead of the fictional town you're supposed to see.

In the spirit of the film, I've created a Golden Mile pub crawl for Hitchin, where I went to school: http://goo.gl/maps/VP5VM


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On reflection, it might be better to do it in the reverse of the order there, going from H to A instead. Partly because you'll want your wits about you on Nightingale Road, and partly because there's just not so far to walk between pubs in the town centre.