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Simon Pegg: 'comic book films are dumbing us down'
telegraph.co ^ | Anita Singh,

Posted on 05/19/2015 1:47:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin

“Now we’re essentially all consuming very childish things – comic books, superheroes. Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!

“It is a kind of dumbing down in a way, because it’s taking our focus away from real-world issues.”

“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we’re walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Westerns were dumbing us down.

Oops, wrong decade. New bugbear now.

I would say sleazy films focused on sex and nudity are far more problematic than action films of any stripe.


41 posted on 05/19/2015 2:25:00 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Sirius Lee

I just saw Foxchaser last week too.

That WAS really, really creepy. Interesting, and good, but...creepy. I see a pattern here!


42 posted on 05/19/2015 2:25:55 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

“Idiocracy” IS a thinly disguised documentary.


43 posted on 05/19/2015 2:27:00 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The trouble with movies and TV shows that deal with serious issues is they almost never get it right. Whether filling the movie or show with leftist propaganda or poetic license they leave the viewers with wrong impressions and bad ideas. I prefer to get serious information by reading and leave movies and TV for entertainment.


44 posted on 05/19/2015 2:27:06 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Sir Napsalot

He isn’t telling you what to do. He’s rendering an opinion, which you can accept or reject.


45 posted on 05/19/2015 2:28:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: BenLurkin
What is this bloke talking about? If I want to pay to watch the Hulk fight a robot that's my business. Pegg is a sanctimonious A$$!
46 posted on 05/19/2015 2:30:05 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: BenLurkin

Cart before the horse.

Confusing cause with effect.

Etc.


47 posted on 05/19/2015 2:31:05 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: BenLurkin

No object external to the mind can dumb anyone down. Is it that dumb people read comic books?


48 posted on 05/19/2015 2:31:31 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: BenLurkin

Says the guy whose career is based off stupid buddy comedies.


49 posted on 05/19/2015 2:32:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: liberalism is suicide

Bingo. Hollywood can’t touch a serious subject without taking the wrong side of the issue nowadays. So people just generally avoid movies about any serious subjects.


50 posted on 05/19/2015 2:33:49 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: clintonh8r

He’s saying people indulge in ‘childish pursuit’ are wasting their own time.

And which I soundly rejected his opinion.


51 posted on 05/19/2015 2:36:58 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: AlmaKing

Shaun has a lot of stuff about consumer culture and delayed adulthood in it. It’s not just a silly zombie comedy.


52 posted on 05/19/2015 2:37:03 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: 1010RD
Exactly. Captain America can always be counted on to do the right and just thing. Ironman is a superior hero that is deeply flawed and knows it. The Hulk is the evil that lives inside of us that sometimes would just like to tear the whole place down. Thor is a god with a huge burden to bear. To bad there aren't very many real super heroes in life. Mine are my kids that serve or have served. The rest have all passed or not stood the test of time.
53 posted on 05/19/2015 2:40:30 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: BenLurkin; All
Who is Simon Pegg and how could he not like the best film of 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy!
54 posted on 05/19/2015 2:41:08 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rlmorel

I was recently on a flight and tried watching a movie Hollywood and critics were gushing about - Birdman. Un. Freaking. Watchable.


55 posted on 05/19/2015 2:42:59 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: rlmorel
...but it was actually comic book made into a movie

Graphic Novel!

Just kidding. :)

56 posted on 05/19/2015 2:48:15 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: BenLurkin

Kind of like the Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and the B Westerns, Rocketman serials, etc.


57 posted on 05/19/2015 2:48:44 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: cld51860
I've seen Birdman.

Here's the problem: the movie requires the mindset of someone actually living in New York City for many years to really get the gist of the film, which means most Americans don't understand it. It's like the TV series 30 Rock--unless you know something about how NBC works in New York City, the gist of the series is lost to most viewers.

58 posted on 05/19/2015 2:49:13 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: BenLurkin
Simon Pegg: 'comic book films are dumbing us down'

This from the guy whose films in which he is a primary character include such deep intellectual fare as:
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The World's End

He was excellent in the supporting role of Scotty in the recently reworked Star Trek franchise, but he is the epitome of dumbed down when he is a leading character.

59 posted on 05/19/2015 2:50:05 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Bratch
Remember the first Toby McGuire Spider-Man movie from 2002 and the scene at the very end of the movie? A scene that--given what happened nine months earlier in real life--annoyed the Left to no end?
60 posted on 05/19/2015 2:53:33 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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