People will often cry gross over-intellectualisation when popular culture is critically addressed, as if it is somehow exempt from serious consideration because it is itself ‘non-serious’, just a bit of fun that doesn’t require or deserve dissection. I disagree; every expression of art is a product of its environment and as such will reflect the concerns, preoccupations and neuroses of the time. Mainstream entertainment particularly, by its very nature, has to reflect the dominant modes of thinking in order to qualify as mainstream, and in that respect, mass entertainment is even more fun to pick apart.
| — | Simon Pegg, ‘Nerd Do Well’ (via ninestories) |
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for John Landis’s Burke and Hare — a black comedy based on the infamous Burke and Hare murders.
The film, which stars Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Jessica Hynes, Tom Wilkinson, Christopher Lee, and Tim Curry, is due to be released in the UK on October 29th. A North America release date is forthcoming.
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LMAO HOW IS THIS STORY A COMEDY?! Whatever, I’ll see it.
Simon and Nathan are awesome, fact.
JFC I can’t handle the idea of their combined awesomeness.
rofl I love them so much.
bitcaw / bymagic / laviebelem:
It’s like Simon Pegg and I are the same person…
Sometimes I wait until the most WTF worthy part of an episode and then jokingly go “L O S T” and do a thing with my hands, thinking it would be really frustrating if they ended it there AND THEN THEY DO AND I FLIP OUT. Goddamn you, Lost.
