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 ...
Nonsense.
Watch for me in Batman v. Superman; The Dawn of Justice March, 2016
My love scene with Tao Okamoto will change your life.
I have a feeling that even Liberal Hollywood understands that making $$$ is a higher priority than appeasing critics. Therefore they shall make movies that sell tickets, merchandise and bring in $$$. Right now comic-book based entertainment is a hot commodity and they’re gonna go with it until it isn’t.
Oh, good gosh. What a damn snoot, both the actor and the person writing the article. These people would have us watching “The Piano” or “The Hours”, which are, in their view, rich and meaningful movies, but will annihilate the consciousness of any normal people who try to watch them.
But I will say, I see how she comes to the incorrect conclusion, because she simply isn’t paying attention.
I went to watch the 3D Avengers the other night. I found myself enjoying it, and feeling guilty for doing so, since it was the stupidest, most stereotypical, cartoonish movie I had seen in a while. I probably forgot to mention it was highly entertaining, if not dizzying.
When I thought about it afterwards, I wanted to slap my forehead...of COURSE it is stereotypical...of COURSE it is stupid...and most of all, of COURSE it is cartoonish...it was a comic book presenting to us as a movie!
I made the mistake of watching it and thinking I was watching a movie...but it was actually comic book made into a movie. That mindset explained a lot...all the camera angles, the inconsistent moral lessons (as if they would throw a moral lesson into the mix, without full context or interconnection into anything else...as if they threw it in to fill a frame on a comic book page...which is what they did!)
Well, there are plenty of movies out there that will want to go hang yourself. I can’t watch a steady diet of those like these elitist tools would like us to. There is enough of that crap in real life, why watch a movie?
And this guy thinks these things are “dumbing us down”? I guess he gets to make his living by being in stupid movies that dumb us all down, but when he rises high enough, well, that is childish stuff at that point.
Right. God forbid anyone would have watched “Dumbo” back in the early Forties...
The fact that a great many of the super-hero movies skew toward the conservative end of the spectrum doesn’t factor into your opinion, does it Simon?
Simon Pegg isn’t exactly known for his high-brow fare.
Adult drama, I guess, and adult comedy ("adult" not meaning what it's come to mean in phrases like "adult films").
He has a point, but it's strange coming from Simon Pegg who always seems to work some kind of zombie or alien connection into his comedies. Just when you thought a movie of his was about human emotions or aging or something which could be a little heavy or deep or depressing, out come the undead or the little green men, so he's not really the best representative of an alternative.
Of course, the comic book companies were only responding to a demand. Spielberg and Lucas created the summer blockbuster industry that film snobs have been complaining about for 30 years -- the big action movies that we're told, killed off the innovative adult dramas of the 1970s. Marvel and DC were just the folks who had a lot of stories that could be repackaged as big movie experiences.
Then again, those iconic or iconoclastic 70s film dramas weren't going to last. Sooner or later, with or without Spielberg and Lucas, that kind of serious cinema would have run its course. Probably, the action hero vogue would also have passed by now, if the comic book companies weren't always supplying Hollywood with material.
This from the star of “Paul”, “Hot Fuzz”, “Shaun of the Dead”, the two new Star Trek movies (Scotty), and “Run, Fat Boy, Run”. Those intellectually stimulating movies that weren’t made from comic books? Don’t get me wrong, I liked most of them, I just find it ironic that this person is slamming the movies told from these stories.
Ex Machina was two hours of my life I want back. Really. And I like sci-fi, a lot. They tried, they did, but it was too long, and too full of itself to succeed.
The only good thing was the hot chicks as robots thing, which is, I suspect, why the young nerdsters when to see it.
When I went, my wife and I were the youngest in the theater, and we're mid-40s. We were also two of about 16 people there.
I simply don’t think it has to be, or should be, all of one, or all of the other.
My favorite movie of all time is “The Best Years of Our Lives”, not exactly a low-brow movie.
But does that mean I can’t watch a movie like “Dumb and Dumber” or “American Pie” and get a laugh out of it?
I haven’t watched a television show (or television in general) since 1996 or thereabouts, because the stuff on there really WILL rot your brain, no doubt about that.
Unconscious victim of government education brain drain or conscious decider of your fate?
Hot Chicks as robots?
Cool!
Except, they always do something like impale your brain on their extendable robotic finger or something like that when you least expect it. I always try to shut it off before it gets to that point...:)
Whatever. I enjoy a good unrealists action flick, which is what these movies are.
Pure entertainment.
Tell Simon to go watch “Whipflash” or “St. Vincent” or “Foxchaser” and stop whining.
That’s because there aren’t movies out there that make you think anymore. Those types of movies are leftist talking points. I’d rather not put myself or my kids through that.
Yes, there are very few exceptions, But I can’t think of one besides “Gods Not Dead” right now.
Pegg misses:gritty, amoral art movies
The new Star Treks were spot on and terrific.
Hey Simon,
Pi55 off ye w4nker!
Make me laugh with a running fence jumping gag, chugging a pint of lager (or 10), hanging out with an alien, eating a cornetto, or channeling our favorite starship engineer!
There’s plenty of artistic dreck coming out of the movie industry. The comic book movie appeals to nerds and wannabe nerds.
Deal with it
KYPD
I just saw “Whiplash” the other night...enjoyed it, as creepy as the guy was.
But, hey. I enjoy watching animated features too. And documentaries. And drama. And so on...
Why the heck do I have to watch what THEY want me to watch?
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