He’s right, we shouldn’t take 2 hours 3 times a year to relax and be entertained...
LEAVE MY ENTERTAINMENT ALONE! What I choose to do is my own d@mn business.
When I WANT to worry about real world issues, I will. Myself.
Don’t need some other guy telling me what to think and do.
It is definitely a “Thinker” near Future Sci Fi
Big issue is the lack of major studio films for adults. ‘The Godfather’, ‘Patton’, ‘Chinatown’, those type films are MIA. For the most part you have either summer blockbuster films full of CGI action, or you have the ‘small’ indie films for grownups. I don’t get to the movies much, but ‘Rush’ (Ron Howard) was the last really good film for grownups I saw (meaning good drama, good screenplay and good acting along with some action scenes).
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.”
There certainly should be room for both in TV and movies, room for serious movies and TV shows which deal with important issues, as well as robot fights and special effects. And let us viewers decide what we are in the mood for.
I would just take issue that those movies and TV shows which do attempt to deal with issues, invariably end up pushing homosexuality or liberal views of whatever issue is discussed.
Well probably not.
American adults for a large part are pretty dumb already.
After all they elected Barak Obama President of the United States and then having seen what the man is capable of, elected him again.
That abortion known as “Faux Trek” that Pegg was in was about as bad as they come with “dumbed down.”
I started a rant on superhero movies being popular because they were the only game in town that didn’t have some leftist scum ideology attached. But then I read the article and the movies he misses are ones like “The Godfather” and “The French Connection.” He is dancing around an idea that I and others on FR put forth that we are heading towards Mike Judge’s dystopian “Idiocracy” where Michael Bay’s 3 hour explosion-fest is the height of cinema and movies like “Twelve Angry Men” go unwatched.
Obola voters cannot understand or have the attention span for anything else.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever. I enjoy a good unrealists action flick, which is what these movies are.
Pure entertainment.