>“Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.”
Is he right?
>>62632389
Nerd culture is the product of people liking movies about space princesses and supermen
I used to like him, but he keeps opening his yap.
Without question.
>>62632389
there is no such thing as nerd culture
>>62632389
Nah he's a dumb english cunt. The only reason he has a career is because he pandered to nerd culture. Now he thinks he's above it. Smart career move you sad english cunt.
>>62632389
>designed to infantalize the consumer
You mean just like movies such as Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, World's End, Star Trek and the upcoming Star Wars movie.
>>62632500
>Muh reddit meme!
McFucking kill yourself cunt.
>>62632500
what's point of this post?
>>62632497
>Le hypocrite!!! ;_;
>>62632516
He is a hypocrite though. Why does that make you upset?
>>62632513
>McFucking
i give u reddit gold my good man
>>62632543
now you're just being pedantic
is simon pegg your favorite actor or something?
>>62632500
Good morning
>>62632497
Pegg fags BTFO.
>>62632389
in a big sense yes
but not everything is absolutely about tinfoil hats
This topic is a great example of the shit community on /tv/, and on all of 4chan.
1. Idiot makes topic designed to antagonize and create strife.
2. People respond to topic with strife.
3. OP who mad the topic starts to get mad.
4. Everyone gets mad. Everyone argues.
What a completely shit community. Everyone here is pure fucking human garbage. Thank god for all the BLACKED, BIG GUY and CUNNY shit posters. At least they're doing the right thing by helping to further ruin this board.
>>62632596
wow mate, it's like someone forces you to be here
>>62632596
bye
>>62632629
Gee you sound wounded. Upset even.
>>62632596
is-... is that...
boys i think i got a live one over here. looks like a reddit.
>>62632629
>>62632637
Triggered.
Your lives are worthless and you spend all your time on an image chan you can never leave because you have nowhere else to go.
>>62632662
That is some rad projecting you got going there, bro
Don't beat yourself up too hard
>>62632662
>all this projecting
>>62632596
>>62632661
>muh reddit meme!
>maybe if I just keep saying reddit something will happen?
>>62632687
>>62632689
>B-b-but y-you're projecting.
This was all he could muster through a river of bitter tears.
> Taking anything an actor says seriously outside of acting.
>>62632716
not gonna lose time playing your retarded game
have a good day anon
>>62632716
>>62632716
Why are you being so antagonistic? You should follow your own advice.
You seem to have some inner strife that's making you lash out inappropriately.
>>62632733
>>62632740
>>62632744
Triggered.
>>62632758
>hey I will spout buzzwords. that sure will make them mad xD
just stop
>>62632389
>Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy
I would say the current iteration of it is. But as with most movements currently being exploited by marketing departments the world over for gain it originally started decades prior as genuine counter-culture. Think the 50s beat hipsters and the "hipster" of today.
But none of this would really matter if you were beyond all of this Reddit pleb fare and reserved time in your private life to seriously explore high culture through literature etc. Then watching the odd "pleb" film would mean little to you because you know how much time you also invest into art that makes serious demands of you.
It's the ones who only ever peddle in lower "entertainment" culture exclusively who resent this statement so much - because it reminds them of their ultimate disinterest in art as a whole.
>>62632758
No I'm genuinely curious. I have a strong suspicion this is just bait but on the off chance it isn't, you're being antagonistic as fuck.
>>62632783
>>62632780
So triggered.
>>62632801
you got me f a m
I wouldn't exactly call it a "conspiracy", but yeah, he's pretty much on the money.
>>62632562
you had your chance, back to reddit you go mate.
>>62632530
>le I really turned it around there h-heh ;_;
>>62632389
isn't he a massive Star Wars fag?
>>62632782
You, I like your opinions and you write well.
>>62632389
i hate animu fans, cosplayers, girls who wear invader zim backpacks and black and purple striped stockings, the faggots who dress the same to get into the aforementioned girls pussies, guys who play vidyas every day, especially if they dont have any other goal in life but to buy and talk about that stuff, so yeah i agree with simon pegg. inb4 anal butthurt replies.
>>62632905
He thinks the JJ Star Trek movies are good, he wouldn't know a good thing if it hit him in his cunt face.
>>62632662
do you not see the hypocrisy of being just another retard lurking 4chan at the same time? please get a clue and stop doing this goofy denial mode shit.
noone cares
This faggot was never a nerd. I can take one look at this fuck and know he never played Dnd 2nd edition as a freshman, and suffered for it, gladly. Piece of shit faggots, go take you especial horseshit some where else.
He's been around Chris Hardwick and the whole Nerdist exploitation machine, so I'm pretty sure that's a very educated opinion.
Ugh, I hate neo-4channers. You guys cant into even the simpliest form of critical-thought.
> Obviously I’m very much a self-confessed fan of science-fiction and genre cinema. But part of me looks at society as it is now and just thinks we’ve been infantilized by our own taste. 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 just had a fight with a robot.
If even a guy who makes his living off of the geek-industrial complex and whose autobiography is titled Nerd Do Well thinks the whole nerd-culture thing has gone too far, perhaps it’s time to do some soul searching. But nerds, particularly when ensconced in the warm, anonymous embrace of the internet, are not good at soul searching. They’re good at being defensive. Thus, Pegg has already been forced to clarify his comments, saying that the idea of arrested development has fascinated him since he wrote Spaced 18 years ago and encouraging fanboys and -girls to think more critically about their role in what has become a massive money-making enterprise
>>62633030
>Recent developments in popular culture were arguably predicted by the French philosopher and cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard in his book, ‘America’, in which he talks about the infantilzation of society. Put simply, this is the idea that as a society, we are kept in a state of arrested development by dominant forces in order to keep us more pliant. We are made passionate about the things that occupied us as children as a means of drawing our attentions away from the things we really should be invested in, inequality, corruption, economic injustice etc. It makes sense that when faced with the awfulness of the world, the harsh realities that surround us, our instinct is to seek comfort, and where else were the majority of us most comfortable than our youth? A time when we were shielded from painful truths by our recreational passions, the toys we played with, the games we played, the comics we read. There was probably more discussion on Twitter about the The Force Awakens and the Batman vs Superman trailers than there was about the Nepalese earthquake or the British general election[...]
>The point of all this is just to get my position clear. I’m not out of the fold, my passions and preoccupations remain. Sometimes it’s good to look at the state of the union and make sure we’re getting the best we can get. On one hand it’s a wonderful thing, having what used to be fringe concerns, suddenly ruling the mainstream but at the same time, these concerns have also been monetised and marketed and the things that made them precious to us, aren’t always the primary concern
>Also, it’s good to ask why we like this stuff, what makes it so alluring, so discussed, so sacred. Do we channel our passion and indignation into ephemera, rather than reality? Not just science fiction and fantasy but gossip and talent shows and nostalgia and people’s arses.
>>62633030
>>62633040
Any real nerd loves his shit because he had to suffer for it. This is a poser faggot, thus I donlt give a shit. Why do you think there is an uproar anytime some shitty network/normies tries to take some geek shit, because the geeks earned it, with blood and sweat. They got picked on and made fun of for thier loves, that's why they love it even more. Normie's are shit head's who latch onto to it later, suck it dry pretending they were there all along. They never suffered for it, they don't have that love for it and never will.
>>62633125
massive victim complex over trivial manchild shit
pegg was right
>Reddit!
>Meme!
>Buzzword!
>Neo!
>Reaction_shot.jpg
>>62633169
Sure, Pegg was never a nerd. Any nerd would know that in a heartbeat. That's what you shit heads will never get. You are the cancer of this world, this damn site was killed by people like you. Fucking scum.
>>62633230
Triggered.
>>62632596
>>62633230
>Pegg was never a nerd
He has literally said that he always dreamed of being in a Star Wars film.
He's co-writing the next Star Trek film.
Your anal pain amuses me. The modern world spits in your irrelevant face every single day.
>>62633030
You're right. They've gone on the attack against Pegg with so much vitriol because they've invested themselves into a populist narrative. They want to defend this investment of theirs. The idea of being a nerd is now conflated with notions of identity and following that general esteem.
All of this modern "nerd culture" has a bizarrely political tinge to it these days because different ideological groups are using it as a proxy to push forward their own respective agendas. It's a billion dollar industry now so it's become a new political stamping ground.
Especially when you consider the overlap of stories covered in mass media between nerd culture and the forefront of the "ethics" battle in the equally navel-gazing SJW set. Both groups are very much led along by capitalist defense of narrative because when you boil down the respective positions that both nerds and SJW are fighting for it amounts to nothing more than a want to better streamline the consumer experience. There's little real human pathos in any of it.
Any former nerd icon advocating an end to this is a political adversary now.
>>62633230
>You are the cancer of this world, this damn site was killed by people like you. Fucking scum.
it's dumb tabletop miniatures and space battles. pegg was right in the sense that you take this shit so seriously it makes you the perfect cash cow for these companies trying to sell you some figurines of leia in a slave's outfit.
Is there a name we can give pop culture "nerds" so they stop sullying the ideal of what nerds are?
Like instead of Nerdist what would you call it?
>>62633266
Triggered.
>>62633278
tl:dr
>>62633246
Yes. You know the truth, so I don't care. Shit heads like you killed this great world. You don't even know it probably. I hate you more then anything.
>>62632389
>BUT STAR WARS IS FUCKING AWESOME ROFL XD
>>62633289
Triggered.
>>62632389
He's friend was fired from a Marvel movie. No wonder he has an axe to grind now.
>>62633298
>more then
>then and not than
Triggered and illiterate.
>>62633298
>Shit heads like you killed this great world. You don't even know it probably. I hate you more then anything.
Manchild twat getting upset over people insulting his nostalgia hobbies. Embarrassing
>>62633269
Oh wow what a fucking nerd, stfu please, you don;t even know what you;re talking about. Can you go back to something you understand please? Know of course not, let's try and pretend I know this suddenly cool shit. Fucking die jack ass, you sound fucking stupid too. Of course 4chan is full of teenage jackasses, you dumb faggots gave away anything. Go to tumblr or some shit, you really don;t belong here despite what you think, you will never know.
why the fuck are comedians cited like they're fucking intellectuals nowadays
>>62633349
Reddit.
>>62633326
Don;t care you're cancer. And deep down you know it. You don;t belong here. Nothing we have done is right for you. You'll burn it down like you always do and move on to something else. Scum.
>>62633349
Lol you're literally the embodiment of it. You people Jesus Christ.
>>62633349
No way you were born before 1990. This petulant faggotry is characteristic of a hormonal adolescent who takes pop culture too seriously.
>>62633373
Triggered.
>>62633355
They are able to speak in short entertaining quips that are easily palatable to the public. Inviting real no-bullshit intellectuals makes for lame TV.
But they also perform a very important function with their social commentary. Though their free speech cachet is fading by the year under the growing momentum of hyper-political SJWs who are waging a classist war against the lower classes through a war on gallows humor.
>>62633405
>3
1984, >>62633405
you were a dumb fag born much later, thats why you don;t get it. Like 90 percent of these fags, literally clueless to most of what they say. They are the yolo swag faggots without even knowing it. What a bunch of fucks, the net should have died before you fucks got on it.
>>62633457
Triggered and autistic.
>>62633464
>that's why you don't get it
If you're unable to articulate what it is we don't exactly get then it's nothing more than touchy muh nostalgia feels bullshit. In that case you should really try being less of an emotional faggot hung up on society 'appropriating' your geekshit
>>62633469
Nigga I've BEEN chill.
But meme iyw I still love you.
>>62633464
Triggered.
>>62633507
>>62633515
Triggered.
>>62633457
>Though their free speech cachet is fading by the year under the growing momentum of hyper-political SJWs who are waging a classist war against the lower classes through a war on gallows humor.
All intellectuals are hyper-normies who want to take away out toys and distractions and lead us back into a world of 'authentic living', that is, the normie world of competing for goods and renown, where success is based on your inborn predispositions. Anyone who talks about freedom and a truly democratic society is no friend of mine.
>>62633550
I am triggered, you and your people killed a place that won't ever come back, ever. Now it's just you and yolo faggins forever. Thanks shit head.
>>62633557
There are some serious mental gymnastics going on here. Wow.
>>62632389
It's communist, not capitalist. Nerd culture includes pirating software, NEETing and other things a capitalist would dislike,
>>62632389
Just act when the camera is turned on, and stop being such a faggot. Fucking actors.
>>62632389
Of course he is.
>there are anon who literally can't cope with the fact that he is right
i love these pegg threads. 200+ replies of pain.
If even a guy who makes his living off of the geek-industrial complex and whose autobiography is titled Nerd Do Well thinks the whole nerd-culture thing has gone too far, perhaps it’s time to do some soul searching. But nerds, particularly when ensconced in the warm, anonymous embrace of the internet, are not good at soul searching. They’re good at being defensive. Thus, Pegg has already been forced to clarify his comments, saying that the idea of arrested development has fascinated him since he wrote Spaced 18 years ago and encouraging fanboys and -girls to think more critically about their role in what has become a massive money-making enterprise
>>62634024
he's not right about the capitalist conspiracy part, unless attempting to make as much money as possible is worthy of the phrase "conspiracy".
WHY IS EVERYONE YELLING AT EACH OTHER?
>>62634546
build that wall reddit
>>62634024
I know right? people aren't perpetuating this 'nerd culture' by themselves, it's a conspiracy by the evil rich white man trying to keep us down
>But nerds, particularly when ensconced in the warm, anonymous embrace of the internet, are not good at soul searching. They’re good at being defensive. Thus, Pegg has already been forced to clarify his comments,
>>62632782
This guy got it all summed up.
>>62632389
most nerds eat that shit up nigger, there's a reason everyone made fun of them in high school
>>62632500
in every thread there is a mention of the "r" website.
how often do you think they mention us? and they are supposed to be the pathetic ones?
stop mentioning other websites.
MAKE 4CHAN GREAT AGAIN
>>62634721
>>62632782
>I don't know what the word conspiracy means
>>62632389
>nerds
>needing anything to infantilize them
>>62632500
Hello :-)
//McReddit
>>62634789
not going to stop them from invading and yes, they do mention 4chan all the time apparently. they even have their own board dedicated to 4chan.
>>62632389
wow I bet he had to think really hard for that one
>>62634682
It's not a conspiracy at all. It's widely known manchildren are better consumers because of their low critical thinking
>>62634851
Are you referring to your own post? Meta!
>>62634870
get his tiny red dick out of your mouth faglord
>>62634841
We need to built a wall then
>>62632596
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_tkxZZMkk
>>62632389
Funny how that doesn't apply to his good friend's new Star Wars movie
Hypocritical cunt.
Before Star Wars, the big Hollywood studios were making art movies, with morally ambiguous characters, that were thematically troubling and often dark (Travis Bickle dark, as opposed to Bruce Wayne dark)*. This was probably due in large part to the Vietnam War and the fact that a large portion of America’s young men were being forced to grow up very quickly. Images beamed back home from the conflict, were troubling and a growing protest movement forced the nation to question the action abroad. Elsewhere, feminism was still dismissed as a lunatic fringe by the patriarchal old guard, as mainstream culture actively perpetuated traditional gender roles. Star Wars was very much an antidote to the moral confusion of the war, solving the conundrum of who was good and who was evil. At the heart of the story was an ass kicking princess who must surely have empowered an entire generation of girls. It was a balm for a nation in crisis in a number of ways and such was that nation’s influence, the film became a global phenomenon.
>>62634851
>>62635103
see
>>62633030
and then do some soul searching and ask yourself if blindly believing out of context-one liners really is the best you can do.
>>62632389
I'd say its rooted in cultural marxism, but it certainly has made male culture infantile and removed masculinity among the betas.
>>62632497
Exactly like that. Who would know better than a man who wasted his life devoted to nerd culture to such a degree that he made flicks about it?
>>62632530
He is a hypocrite but that doesn't mean he is wrong.
>>62635261
I fully agree! Everyone knows that Adorno and Marcuse advocated the mass production of plastic toys and cheap Japanese cartoons!
>>62632596
Feel free to create a "community" elsewhere you buttblasted queer
>>62633016
>played Dnd 2nd edition as a freshman
wow anon thats pathetic, you know being a nerd will never be a good thing right?
>>62635162
tl;dr
>nerd culture
If by "nerd culture" he means shit like picture related I sort of agree. I hate this shit. It's the perfect cashcow to milk stupid little shits by convincing that they're part of some special group because they like billion dollar capeshit movies.
I'm old enough to remember when nerd was a derogatory term used against weirdos, creeps, loners, and just outsiders in general who happened to spend more time on their hobbies than in socializing. Nowadays it's just another word for someone who likes billion dollar mainstream video games and movies and other stuff you're safe to openly enjoy without being bullied.
>>62633040
kek he is just as pissed of about SJ Wars as we are
I wish Nick Frost would leave
>blaming "capitalist conspiracies"
And thats when you discover you should ignore anything this commie says, forever.
Hey guys, what's going on this thread? Us nerds amirite?
Is Pegg conservative now?
>>62635359
>but we the real nerds are really cool guise
jesus christ you're a faggot, I bet you're one of those "gamers" too
>>62632500
LOL
>>62635406
>quoting things nobody said
>>62632389
Didn't nerd culture glom onto Shawn of the dead? Wasn't that his target demographic?
Does that mean he isn't an artist but a tool of capitalism?
>>62635359
Nerd is still a derogatory word and always will be so don't try to tell yourself otherwise. What man would ever want to be called a nerd? Its a way for other people to dominate you by the insinuation you are filled with the weakness that comes with perpetual immaturity. As much as I look down on real nerds I suppose I prefer them to the poseurs. I'm glad nerd culture has gone mainstream because its easier to spot the loser who back in the day was wearing the dunce cap, today they are wearing batman and BBT merch.
READ BAUDRILLARD
>>62635480
cool
>>62635485
Well the modern equivalent of nerd is neckbeard so it all checks out.
>>62632596
You know, you're right. How about we look for another website with a perfect community for users like you.
Oh, look, I found one! It's called
R E D D I T
If he's right, why hasn't the Jews have him killed?
>>62635261
>I'd say
You would.
>>62633457
I predict Jim Norton will be dead within the year, that aids ridden faggot looks terrible these days. Well, actually he always looked terrible but recently he has look ready to drop.
>>62635588
>not wearing your fedora to the beach
kek what are you, some kind of normie?
>>62635395
Yeah, conservative is the next cool fad, apparently.
>>62635446
I doubt that even Simon Pegg would refer to Simon Pegg as an artist.
>>62635588
>cool story babe
>now make me a sandwich
kek, your alright anon.
>>62632389
Shut up Pegg ;)
>>62632389
I still can't bring myself to believe that any facet of nerd culture is meant unironically.
>>62632782
>>62632921
>>62634721
>I'm an artist, and an expert on the subject
right on boyo, kick those 4chaners right in the feels!
>>62633278
you actually think you know what you are talking about.
>>62633288
>figurines of leia in a slave's outfit.
that's not allowed in the New World Order
>>62632389
I love this "capitalism is bad" meme!
>>62633373
>we
>>62633457
you write like an extreme autist.>>62634867
I should make a few movies and then take a dump on the fanbase and see the reaction.
It's what Pegg is doing to a T. I wonder how much british tail he pulls.
"Nerd culture" is a product of manchildren not wanting to grow up and everything exploiting that whilst everyone laps it up like the good little idiotic consumers they are.
>>62636772
Why would anyone want to grow up in 2015?
>>62632389
Yes.
I was out buying clothes yesterday and then you should have seen the abundance of Star Wars garbage. Tons of hats, shirts, leggings, socks, all with Star Wars shit printed all over. What made me realize that this kind of stuff is made for manchildren is the fact that it's right next to the capeshit and cat meme t shirts.
Simon Pegg is 100% correct. If they can get children and adults to enjoy the same movies, they can sell them the same merchandise without any real effort.
>>62636809
>If they can get children and adults to enjoy the same movies, they can sell them the same merchandise without any real effort.
What is Disney?
>>62636783
Because not everyone is a manchild failure that quits.
>>62632562
>pedantic
lawl. Upboated ;^)
>>62636819
lol look at this dna-slave
>>62632389
Of course, though he's biting the hand that feeds him.
Unless Pegg gives back all the money he earned from this late capitalist conspiracy he is one of the biggest hypocrites to have ever lived.
>>62636819
>>62636837
>manchild
argument invalid, sorry friend.
>non-aggressive control
Does Pegg think that those people who he considers nerds would ever revolt against their masters? They're fat neckbeards or scrawny little shits. They were never going to turn against them.
>>62637035
who are the masters they should revolt against?
Do you even know what you are saying?
>>62637062
Capitalists you dolt. Businessmen like Donald Trump or the executives of Disney.
>>62637079
>Donald Trump
>owning "manchildren"
christ
>>62632389
I was going to attend an Occupy rally but was too busy playing with my Shaun Of The Dead action figures and reading Scott Pilgrim comics
>>62632500
if anything it's the opposite. reddit embraces nerd culture while people here desperately try not to fit in
>>62637143
>desperately try not to fit in
projection thy name is anon
>>62637101
> The Trump Organization is primarily involved in real estate, construction, hospitality, and entertainment but has maintained a presence in a wide variety of industries including book and magazine publishing, media, model management, retail, financial services, board game development and video game publishing, food and beverages, business education, online travel, airlines, and beauty pageants.
Video games, board games, media in general. Trump's fingers are in every pie, including nerd culture.
Is anyone else here only into nerd culture because they don't like to move?
>>62632389
the whole concept of entertainment is infantile
Someone post the Jodo quote.
>>62637210
He owns so called "manchildren" because of his investments, but not you, right anon?
The only people that tend to use manchildren as a term are themselves manchildren, it's a form of strong subconscious projection.
>>62635340
THATS THE FUCKING POINT.
No one wants to be a nerd to make you cool, you get labelled a nerd by others because of your interests.
yes, he's right
>>62637522
He's mad because no one watched his other movies.
>>62632455
Pretty much this. He's a cunt that needs to tighten his lip and stop biting the hand that feeds him.
"Nerd culture" isn't a culture.
Its a marketing strategy. Most people who define themselves via nerd culture aren't that intelligent to begin with. A nerd is someone easily influenced by someone else's fictional works.
>But nerds, particularly when ensconced in the warm, anonymous embrace of the internet, are not good at soul searching. They’re good at being defensive.
Does your bloodflow in your brain just redirect whenever you read this line or something? It's like you're completely oblivious to your own actions.
>>62635316
Perfect reply
If you mean by nerd culture those faglords that go to vidya comics anime conventions and buy tons of merchandise related to their favorite franchises and argue on the net about which flavors of shit are better then yeah, definitely.
>>62638433
>A nerd is someone easily influenced by someone else's fictional works.
or just anyone who enjoys a particular fictional work
so pretty much literally anyone
>>62636809
>>62636816
Pretty much this.
"people infantilized by their own tastes" and "non-aggressive means of control" are laughable statements though. Demand creates supply. People have always liked pleb garbage, whether it's PG-rated, sci-fi or fantasy themed, doesn't seem to matter much to them. All big studios are doing is crank out a different flavor of the year product to pander to the unwashed masses and their fickle taste. Complaining about this is literally complaining about capitalism.
Pegg himself hasn't been involved in anything remotely approaching serious art (despite writing/producing a lot of his own stuff) so he really looks like a giant muppet here.
>>62636739
>wiriting anything other than a one line shitpost is autism
This entire thread is garbage, and also consclusive proof that pegg is right.
This board needs to be nuked for a month so all the shitters can leave.
>>62632389
Obviously yes. This is nothing new
>>62632596
U mad?
He mad.
>>62632389
EXCEPT FOR THE STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY THE PREQUELS SUCK AMIRITE?
>Simon Pegg says The Force Awakens is specially constructed to "redeem" Star Wars and wipe away the memories of the prequels.
>"I don't really have any respect for anyone who thinks those films (the prequels) are good. They’re not,” he told the News. “(They’re) a monumental misunderstanding of what the (original) three films are about,” he said. "It's an exercise in utter infanticide ... (like) George Lucas killing his kid."
>"To knock out ideas with (director) J.J. (Abrams), and every single day, whether you were on the set of something you recognized or a set that was brand new, it just felt like 'Star Wars' in a way that I hadn't felt in 32 years," the British actor says, referring to time since the release of the 1983 installment, "Return of the Jedi." "It was genuinely magical.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/new-star-wars-film-wipe-bad-prequel-memories-article-1.2427964
Nerd culture is simply cynical marketing. You'll notice that most people who consider themselves part of nerd culture are not actually nerds, they're just normies. People who were called nerds before nerd culture are still ostracized.
He's right. . Americans are scared and generally too stupid to follow something that goes against conventionality. They need glitz and glamour and hope. They need the American dream neatly wrapped into 90 minutes.
This is not what European cinema is about. European cinema deals with real issues and real people. Americans don't want this, they want to dream, like children. American 'cinema' is a corrosion of the worst kind, it dumbs down the whole world with infantile culture, where grown men are celebrating comic book films and Star Wars late into their 20's. I shit on American cinema. Grow up.
>>62639911
He didn't say anything about nerds or nerd culture, you mong. Liking things that marketers call nerd culture doesn't mean you like nerd culture.
>>62632497
The World's End and Shaun of the Dead are all about growing up though. Shaun is a manchild, and that's why his life is pathetic, while Pegg's character in the World's End is so unable to move on in life that he'd be willing to kill himself over the loss of his youthfulness.
I'd say that Wright's movies are rather critical of the infantilised nerd.
>>62639911
>into darkness was great!
what an ape
>>62633557
>AKA I'm a talent-less shit who wants everything handed to me here so that I don't have to think about how better my life would be if I bothered to do anything except masturbate.
So did you come here from Reddit or Tumblr?
>>62635446
I don't think they had a target demographic back then, I think they did it for fun.
>>62632389
Unless there's a paycheck involved, then the chord will keep his mouth shut.
>>62632389
as a society becomes harder to live in, more means of coping will develop to stabilize the population.
why do you think video-games and psychiatry are booming, while the suicide rate has also climbed?
weed culture, new age meditations/yoga and big pharma meds are also seeing increases.
its not a conspiracy, its just how societies develop.. look at rome with the bread and circuses.
>>62632389
late capitalist conspiracy?
Hasn't he been a purveyor of said "nerd culture" for decades?
Isn't he just admitting he is a hack doing nerd blackface for iphone users?
Why do goofy pratfall comedians go against type and try to be intelligent?
Why is he so english?
Personally I'll never understand why pleb nerds exist. I mean shit, if you're disregarding being a functioning member of society at least delve into really obscure shit, don't just be a fan of the same trash everyone else likes.
It's like comic book fans that only read DC and Marvel capeshit. Why not live a little and read something actually good? You're a loser anyway.
>>62640051
critical, yes, but the final result is something equally as infantile
>shaun wins back the girl by fighting off a horde of zombies
>end scene is him playing video games with his zombie best friend
wow, much growth
It's not a particularly clever or funny movie. It fails to rise above. Simply pointing a finger at something doesn't mean much if you can't up the ante.
"Nerd" and "geek" culture, specifically comic book superhero crap and capeshit, overwhelmingly attracts impotent beta males because it allows them to vicariously act out narcissistic fantasies that they are incapable of acting out in real life. It's like Walter Mitty syndrome on a mass scale.
>>62632596
take a pill
>>62632389
>Making fun of people for being nerds
I was born in 1997, what is this?
>>62641404
>being a loser means you're patrician
>everyone has to be good at something, r-right?
>>62632389
He's right.
