Simon Pegg

Col_Decker

I like him. 'Paul' is film that deserves all of our love.

57Deluxe

Colin for the name of a Pedigree Schnauzer was pure genius...

http://www.holidogtimes.com/fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/12/Schnauzer-9.jpg

holnrew

I had a guinea pig called colin

JezWynd

Heartfeltdawn said:

Fact 2: the same woman ended up on TV not so long ago hosting a sex chat show. An admirable effort for a person with comfortably the shallowest vagina I've ever encountered. It was like stuffing your little finger into a thimble in terms of coverage.

Imperforate hymen?

Heartfeltdawn

JezWynd said:

Imperforate hymen?

No, Church of England. 

jonnyburgo

Don't get the hate, he's a guy who is living the dream, has pulled his finger out and worked hard from nerd with dreams to unimaginable wealth and starring in franchises that he used to geek out over etc. He probably wakes up every morning wondering where it all went wrong. You bitter lot.

RandallFlagg

jonnyburgo said:

Don't get the hate, he's a guy who is living the dream, has pulled his finger out and worked hard from nerd with dreams to unimaginable wealth and starring in franchises that he used to geek out over etc. He probably wakes up every morning wondering where it all went wrong. You bitter lot.

I'm happy for him, just wish he would stop appearing on my TV. Can't he go and buy a farm or something.

Winny_Pooh

RandallFlagg said:

jonnyburgo said:

Don't get the hate, he's a guy who is living the dream, has pulled his finger out and worked hard from nerd with dreams to unimaginable wealth and starring in franchises that he used to geek out over etc. He probably wakes up every morning wondering where it all went wrong. You bitter lot.

I'm happy for him, just wish he would stop appearing on my TV. Can't he go and buy a farm or something.

So he can come back to flog his shitty cheese in newspaper columns?

ChuckManual

Gassage said:

Sean Connery's greatest moment was substituting a Scots accent fro a bad Irish one half way through a film....

How can this possibly be true when, in one film (Highlander) he decided that a Scottish accent was perfect for his character who was an Egyptian who had lived - for centuries - in Spain?!

grungebob

ChuckManual said:

Gassage said:

Sean Connery's greatest moment was substituting a Scots accent fro a bad Irish one half way through a film....

How can this possibly be true when, in one film (Highlander) he decided that a Scottish accent was perfect for his character who was an Egyptian who had lived - for centuries - in Spain


oops didn't mean to post ignore 

Plukky

ChuckManual said:

Gassage said:

Sean Connery's greatest moment was substituting a Scots accent fro a bad Irish one half way through a film....

How can this possibly be true when, in one film (Highlander) he decided that a Scottish accent was perfect for his character who was an Egyptian who had lived - for centuries - in Spain?!

Maybe his character was an expert at accents who was trying to blend in... With a Frenchman trying to talk with a Scots accent...

failed_astronaut

grungebob said:

The one role that was literally written for him and he hasn't played it yet. 
Wee hughie from Garth Ennis'  the boys 

Wis'd. Although he's already shown that his Scottish accent is a bit ropey.

DrJazzTap

He deserves a pass for shaun of the dead.

p90fool

I don't get why turning unfunny "ordinary blokes" like Corden and Pegg into superstars means that their detractors are bitter or jealous. 

I'd just prefer it if our movie stars were glamorous and talented, our singers could sing, our foreign secretaries were insightful and intelligent and our leaders of the free world weren't morons (or worse, orange). 

I'm fed up with people who think they have "a connection" with dozy fucking plebs being held in the highest esteem. 

Why can't we celebrate talent anymore, why do we have to pour fame and riches onto "people like us"? 

Pegg and Fucking Cordon are symptoms of a greater malaise, the fact that there is far more fame available than there are people who warrant it. 

Philly_Q

^  I'm a little surprised to see James Corden and Simon Pegg lumped together there.  To my mind, Pegg is considerably higher up the talent ladder than Corden.  Corden's more like the equivalent of Pegg's sometime sidekick Nick Frost.

Pegg made Shaun of the Dead.  Corden made Lesbian Vampire Killers....

Then again, some people may think James Corden is a comic genius, as opposed to a fairly likeable chubby bloke who got lucky.  It's all just opinions.

Col_Decker

^^^ you didn't like Gavin & Stacey then there's no hope for you I'm afraid.

Philly_Q

I'm not a massive fan of Gavin & Stacey, I must admit, although it's alright.  To be fair to Corden, I'd forgotten he wrote that, so credit where it's due.

p90fool

Col_Decker said:

^^^ you didn't like Gavin & Stacey then there's no hope for you I'm afraid.

I did, especially as a south Glamorgan boy, but lifting characters out of it and sending them to Hollywood feels a little like remaking The Godfather with the cast of Emmerdale. 

It is all a matter of opinion though, one man's Likeable is another 's Stabbable I guess. 

RandallFlagg

Winny_Pooh said:

RandallFlagg said:

jonnyburgo said:

Don't get the hate, he's a guy who is living the dream, has pulled his finger out and worked hard from nerd with dreams to unimaginable wealth and starring in franchises that he used to geek out over etc. He probably wakes up every morning wondering where it all went wrong. You bitter lot.

I'm happy for him, just wish he would stop appearing on my TV. Can't he go and buy a farm or something.

So he can come back to flog his shitty cheese in newspaper columns?

Parklife!

Winny_Pooh

James Corden, piffle