Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

I always preferred the smaller Atari-ST walkers anyway

I read this interview last year from Pegg.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/25/simon-pegg-actor-on-comedy-action-heroes-tom-cruise-staying-at-home

Just seems to come across as a big of an arse now. Shame really.

Interesting read. Doesn't come across quite like that to me. He sounds jaded and can't reconcile the fame he has attained with what sounds more like a creative and reclusive personality.

Have you ever seen a Brontosaurus and an AT-AT together??

Just a heads up - Boy Kills World has been 2.99/1.99 on Apple all week. I haven't grabbed it myself, but seems like a hell of a low price for a newish movie.

It's not terrible. Worth a watch at that price, anyway.

Quite a bit worse imo. There are some funny bits though, mostly to do with the Archer voiceover.

He's personally attacking the forum! Getting 'im!

He might actually have a point, but he's the worst person to make it. It's not like the MI films are gritty social commentary on the harsh political realities of the world around us. It's mindless action packed entertainment where people pay money to watch a man drive a bike off a cliff.

It's all escapism at the end of the day. He's in no place to be a cultural snob about this.

I think this interview probably helps explain some of the changes people think he’s gone through

www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/09/simon-pegg-alcoholic-addiction-rehab-fatherhood-tom-cruise

Although I would recommend this book if you’re interested in the history and making of Shaun. Its extremely comprehensive and has contributions from everyone involved. The cover makes it look like a cheap cash-in but Edgar Wright was recommending it as well and I figure he’d be in a decent position to know how reliable it is

www.waterstones.com/book/youve-got-red-on-you/clark-collis/9781948221191

And I suppose he’s not a million miles away from the very wise and correct things Alan Moore says about geek culture these days

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump

(fwiw I think he's kind of right about the arrested development of much of fandom)

Alan Moore has looked a 100 years old for 30 years.

"And throughout the UK, we’re now familiar with what a Stephen Yaxley-Lennon fan convention looks like."

Ooof.

He has a point, too. But it is a bit different from Pegg's. You can like something without being a fanatic, but the latter has become normalised. There's an economic push to enable that. ComicCon is nothing more than a massive nerdy garage sale in fancy dress with some press interviews being done on the side. It's a celebration of the consumption of overpriced tat as much as it is a celebration of comic/nerd culture.

I think there's also an element of "old man shouting at clouds" for both of them. Yes, Pegg is old now. The kind of rabid fandom the two allude to is still the minority. Magnified by the interconnectedness of the internet. Most people who go along and watch the latest MCU movie are *that* deeply emotionally invested in it and forgotten most of it by the time their next trip out comes around.

There have always been fridge lunatics, and crowds that will devote themselves to them. Alastair Crowley became an Occultist rather than a Social Media Celebrity because of the century he was born in. Andrew Tate would have joined the Golden Dawn if was alive then. Nerd culture has been embraced by fanatics, but the fanatics would have/will have/did embrace something else in the absence of that available substrate.

Anyway, what about those films, eh?

Yeah but you're an arse too. YOU WALKED INTO THAT ONE.

I think we all know who the forum arse really is

Simon Pegg invited me round his house for dinner once. Said he’d make his speciality… SpaPeggy and Meatballs. The meatballs were from a packet, the sauce was Dolmio, he ate with his mouth open and only talked about himself.

Then at the end of the evening I couldn’t find my shoes. He said he’d let me know if he found them. I walked home in my socks.