I have been following the Paul video blogs all summer. I am looking forward to this film. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are my favorite comedy team.

Is it just me, or do these guys sound like blithering idiots? Champions for the dumbing-down of America..."a lot of the lines have been changed and stuff." My fifth-grader is more articulate than these geniuses. Taking the day off to celebrate a bit of juvenile wordplay? Sci-fi used to be the realm of the educated, the intellectually curious, a place where new and unique ideas could be explored...and now, this is what we get? Forget the aliens, don't worry about the zombies...run for your lives! The Morons are coming! ...And they want your brains!

And while I'm at it, Sci-fi Wire...your recent attempts to make yourselves appear HIP and EDGY, have simply made you appear puerile, peakish and pecksniffian (for those of you who don't own a dictionary, that's "infantile, ignorant and hypocritical). i.e.: Using "F*ck up Optimus Prime" as your headline isn't cool, it's just childish and low-minded. Grow up!

Aw, man, c'mon! I love Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz, but does he have to work with Seth Rogen?!?

@KobyMaru

Actually it's douchebags like you that make these guys hilarious. The genres they poke fun at always have fans that take themselves far too seriously, just like your douchey doucheness. Fortunately the rest of us fans enjoy seeing their humorous take on our less comically inclined brothers and sisters.

re: DaveNacca

Thank you, sir! You've just proven my point! Love the middle school vocabulary!

@KobyMaru

"Is it just me, or do these guys sound like blithering idiots? Champions for the dumbing-down of America..."

No, that still remains the title of Jim Varney and his successor Larry The Cable Guy. THEY are responsible in part for the dumbing down of America. The people that follow(ed) their every move are the other responsible parties...

"Sci-fi used to be the realm of the educated, the intellectually curious, a place where new and unique ideas could be explored..."

True - but the 1970's are gone and so is the imagination and wonder that came with it.

We are now relegated to giving creative control to kids who didn't play outdoors growing up. They stayed inside so mario could collect his damn coins...

@DaveNacca

Don't throw that douchebag stone too far just yet. The fans that expect less, deserve less. Fairly soon that's all you will want, and all you will get, or be able to get.

Don't worry though - the low brow humor you are thoroughly enjoying now will be remade within 10 years to something even worse.

Mr Judge was right - Idiocracy is upon us.

Always some Pegg/Frost haters around. Jealous fanboys! LOL!

I thought their old compatriot Edgar Wright would be directing this - kinda disappointed on that note, but still looking forward to it. Sounds like it'll have that 'Spaced' feel to it for sure.

KobyMaru, are you the fun police? Wow. Might just want to take the serious mobile back to the garage for a tune-up?

"Mr Judge was right - Idiocracy is upon us."

Awesome, I can be President some day!

Every genre has its moment of pinnacles and its moments of low-brow. Koby has a point where everything is incredibly dumbed down nowadays (i.e Transformers movie and all the fanboys who defend their right not-to-think and not have high expectations for a "toy" movie). But you've got to remember sci-fi back in its prime was considered itself lowbrow by the general populace. Still is to some aspect: relegated to the ghetto of geekdom. Sci-fi has its potential for illumination. But if "Scy-Fy" keeps doling out cr@p movies with Marc Dacascos, old brat pack has-beens, and ingenues willing to strip off a tank-top in serial-killer infested woods then you can forget illumination. Incidentally @DaveNacca, "douchy doucheness" was actually funny. Nice alliteration there.

Wow...quite the firestorm we have here. I've always enjoyed Frost and Pegg's work together, especially when Wright was at the helm. SHAUN OF THE DEAD effectively mocked and revered simultaneously the conventions of the zombie film. Then they struck again with HOT FUZZ, a comedic love song to 80's action films. I always felt there was a rather brilliant balance there that very few teams could have crafted as well as those three.

After reading the interview, however, I do see KobyMaru's point. The British could be intentionally trying to dumb us down after successive ass kickings in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Ever since the Beatles and Monty Python, they've been wearing down our intellectual capacity so that they may one day have their vengeance ... so they can say once again that the sun never sets on the British Empire...Thanks for the heads up, KobyMaru.

Virgil's Diner:

"...they've been wearing down our intellectual capacity so that they may one day have their vengeance..."

That was the plan until you unleashed Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazard upon us.

We know when we're licked :)

To be honest, no one writing comments on Sci Fi Wire has the right to call anyone else childish and low-minded.

Besides, if you all hate the new SyFy and their movie of the week and hate the way they write articles, why are you still coming to and reading their website? Really, just think about it: All of your "grow up SyFy" comments are completely pointless to them if your just going to keep coming back and help push up the site's hit counter anyway.

Also new rule: people on here that constantly bash current scifi and fantasy for being trash or unoriginal, but then say something like "the 1970's are gone and so is the imagination and wonder that came with it", need to use that imagination and wonder to remember that for every good 70's scifi movie like Star Wars, there are probably a thousand of bad scifi books and movies from that era too. Face it, the only difference between 1979 and 2009 is that you guys are adults now and the same stupid alien and robot crap that you loved as kids just doesn't cut it anymore. But instead of accepting you're too old for the goofy SciFi anymore, you just claim the new stuff is trash and remember a few great movies like Star Wars or Indiana Jones and suddenly try to remember that everything from that time period was just as good. Seriously, I dare you to find one real scifi or fantasy classic from the 70's...that doesn't have the name Spielberg, Lucas, or Kubrick attached to it anywhere. Good luck with that.

I didn't even read the article, I came here for the comments. I just love how people get so worked up over essentially nothing here. Very entertaining. Thanks.

Bladerunner Ridley Scott though it was the 80s still a good recent classic still how about the 70s The Omega Man leave aside the camp bad 70s dialog or heading down that route the first Planet of the Apes or how about Westworld if you don,t want to punish yourself by watching Charlton Heston ps I don,t like him either ! just unfortunetly he has made 1 or 2 not bad scfi movies

@KobyMaru:

How pretentious of you. Seriously. I've never read anyone so taken with themselves. Your initial comment was more an exercise in showing all of the readers here just how intelligent and word-conscious you are, and really did little to prove your point. You simply babbled on and threw in some words, I'm sure you quickly looked up in Thesaurus.com, so that you'd appear an intellectual.

Thing is, it's comedians like Pegg, Frost, Rogen, and Bateman for that matter, that are the new crew of comedy intellectuals. Their films are clearly earnest and thoughtful satires of well-loved and over-replicated genres from decades past. That's not stupid and dumbing down of America, which is by far your weakest comment to count, as the top two names in the film are Brits. This is a deconstructionist look at an entire genre of film, and I for one am looking forward to it, if it's even a glimmer of the genius (and i don't throw that out there lightly) of Hot Fuzz, which was just to-the-last-detail, filled with loving jabs at the American action flick. I feel silly for being the first person to even note this in defense.

@KobyMaru:

How pretentious of you. Seriously. I've never read anyone so taken with themselves. Your initial comment was more an exercise in showing all of the readers here just how intelligent and word-conscious you are, and really did little to prove your point. You simply babbled on and threw in some words, I'm sure you quickly looked up in Thesaurus.com, so that you'd appear an intellectual.

Thing is, it's comedians like Pegg, Frost, Rogen, and Bateman for that matter, that are the new crew of comedy intellectuals. Their films are clearly earnest and thoughtful satires of well-loved and over-replicated genres from decades past. That's not stupid and dumbing down of America, which is by far your weakest comment to count, as the top two names in the film are Brits. This is a deconstructionist look at an entire genre of film, and I for one am looking forward to it, if it's even a glimmer of the genius (and i don't throw that out there lightly) of Hot Fuzz, which was just to-the-last-detail, filled with loving jabs at the American action flick. I feel silly for being the first person to even note this in defense.

Amen lindyxmjh and Virgil's Diner!

These guys are funny when they act together so I'm glad they got another movie coming out.

KobyMaru
"Using "F*ck up Optimus Prime" as your headline isn't cool, it's just childish and low-minded. Grow up!"

Although I agree that's a pretty big step scifi has taken using unprofessional words and all, but considering 90% of their articles and titles are BS anyway this actually didn't surprise me.

Scifi used professionalism in the past and always kept to the point with the news, but it seems as if they have hired freshly college grads who think they can impress a few people by trying to act like badasses when writing their stories (basically amatures).

But considering their name conversion noone liked it, yet they went through with it anyway only proves more they don't care, listen to what their audience thinks even if they claim they do. So even when I see crude words in a title attached to a completely useless article that has absolutely nothing to do with anything I usually ignore it and go on cause voicing your opinion does only one of two things. 1. Your comment gets deleted. or 2. You get attacked by nerdy "syfy" fans who don't even understand what science fiction even means and also don't understand that scifi is slipping away from science fiction.

And I know I'll get attacked or deleted by saying this, but it only goes to further prove my point.... This site has became opinionated you are only protected though as long as you agree with everything that is positive for scifi, even if something negative is your opinion you can't share it.

So I'll just say it

You're all Ganados. If you don't know what that means, then play Resident Evil 4 it explains the term clearly.

"...Also new rule: people on here that constantly bash current scifi and fantasy for being trash or unoriginal, but then say something like "the 1970's are gone and so is the imagination and wonder that came with it", need to use that imagination and wonder to remember that for every good 70's scifi movie like Star Wars..."

Star Wars is just a B movie with a Budget...

"Seriously, I dare you to find one real scifi or fantasy classic from the 70's...that doesn't have the name Spielberg, Lucas, or Kubrick attached to it anywhere."

Space: 1999 (FIRST Season)

lindyxmjh: "Seriously, I dare you to find one real scifi or fantasy classic from the 70's...that doesn't have the name Spielberg, Lucas, or Kubrick attached to it anywhere."

Battle Beyond the Stars?

Wait, crap, IMDB says that was 1980. And it sucked. :)

As usual, if someone likes something you don't then they're idiots. Perhaps you should wake up and realize people are allowed to like different things? It's this crazy thing called being an adult...

Oh, and I have a thesaurus too. I could look up obscure words to try and say what I really mean... but I'm secure enough in my intelligence I really don't feel a need to.

Feel free to stew in your own ignorance though, that's really cool too.

"Battle Beyond the Stars?

Wait, crap, IMDB says that was 1980. And it sucked. :)"

LOL John Boy kicked butt in that movie!

C'mon folks! Surely everyone realizes that there's a difference between science fiction and space opera? They're like twins separated at birth. They tell the same story with just different mechanics and props. I love reading Larry Niven and Asimov, but David Drake and Herbert are fun. Not all sci-fi has to be Solaris, it can be Logan's Run and Starship Troopers too. It doesn't mean that you're high or low "browed" just what you choose for entertainment. Believe it or not, you can play chess, have a degree in physics and still enjoy a Eoger Corman film. Likewise, you can love The Andromeda Strain (1971) and kick back with Rascal Flatts and a cold PBR. By the way, not throwing stones but, using words that are not commonly used in order to appear superior is a poor substitute for a substantive argument. Sorry brother.

Well said Stregor. Right on the money.

I'm a fan of the previous Pegg/Frost movies and tv series, but truthfully, isn't Simon getting a little old to be playing the hapless slacker who runs into misadventures?

It's clear kobymaru just reads the Wire for the Clute articles.