Pegg vs Freeman

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Freeman is certainly the better actor and has a wider range. Pegg doesn't get much past "funney character in sketch show".

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oh wait, sorry, now it does display. #firefoxSNAFUs

If by wider range you mean "wide range of cuddly Cadbury's hot chocolate fat-faced losers" then I concur.

Freeman is certainly the better actor and has a wider range.

ehh no

I thought Freeman was good in Sherlock - his acting had to work in the opposite direction to his face.

I agree that he does have a fallback acting stance, which is "soppy jumper face", and he uses it way to much. But on the other hand is that really no different to Sean Connery's default stance? "I am a Scottish Russian sub commander" / "I am a Scottish Sci-Fi Dude" / "I am a Scottish Scottish highlander" / etc..

a sound defence!

Sean Connery was in good films tho.

pretty sure pegg had a funnie line in 'star trek'

'hot fuzz' and 'shaun of the dead' are funnie, fuiud (but also fu if you agree, you're probably a gamer/lamer of some kind)

xxp There's much about Freeman that I find slappable as well, mind. Suck as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6FAtf4z3Q
(with added Simon Amstell for your viewing pleasure)

Gotta be Freeman for his tragically pompous middle-aged mod-ness.

"Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style. It's hard explaining something that on the surface is rather silly and inexplicable.

"It's not curing cancer and it's not being Gandhi, but it is important to me, because it's another way of thinking about the world."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-563570/Martin-Freeman-life-shouldnt-just-day-office.html

"I am a scottish spanish highlander" btw

did not know freeman was a mod, but fallen ilx soldier acrobat says he dresses funny

Ooh, tough call! I like both of them a lot. But I have seen the trailer for Burke & Hare, and I have seen How To Lose Friends And Alienate People so - despite Hot Fuzz and Shaun being great - Tim Canterbury beats Tim Bisley for being in less crap and for not doing terrible accents in stuff.

Also Martin Freeman's face makes me laugh more.

I'm voting before I read that mod stuff, because it might put me off.

"There is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, they'd really notice and might not love it? We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldn't come. Very simple."

k I've got my winner

BTW in case it's not clear this is a vote for which of these twats is the biggest twat.

"We've reached a state now where it's, 'You shouldn't notice. Why are you noticing he's got a bomb and has a beard and is Muslim and wants to kill your family?"

didn't know about this

"These days, kids avoid stuff because it's old, but why?" he asks. "When I speak to people about music and they say, 'I don't know about that; it was a bit before my time", it really angers me.

"Mozart was before my time, but does that make him irrelevant? I wasn't hanging around with Hitler, but I've heard of him."

Urge y'all to read the Daily Mail interview, it's fucking tremendous.

tragically pompous middle-aged mod-ness with a twist

BTW in case it's not clear this is a vote for which of these twats is the biggest twat.

Oh, I voted wrong. OR DID I? I've read that Mail interview now.

Um, why the Pegg hate? I can't think of anything he's done that actually offensive, even if some of his work's a little iffy. Certainly nothing to put him in the "twat" column. Or maybe I'm forgetting something...

"Talking of which... 'The funny thing about the acting business is that there are more poofs in it than you can have hot dinners thrown at you,'" he says. "But no one is out. It's not so bad here, but in Hollywood ? Jesus Christ. Why don't they just admit it? No one cares if they're gay or not. I certainly don't.In this so-called liberal industry, no one has the guts to come out because of "the box office", but someone has to be the first in the firing line."

xp

He represents a bunch of stuff I despise. I wd defend to the death your right to feel differently.

So happy that Freeman felt the urge to justify my hate in print.

What does he represent that you despise? Stoner/ student cheap laffs?

Stoner/student absence of cheap laffs amongst other things. He's starting to look like Bertrand fucking Russell tbh since I read Martin Freeman's interview.

I heartily dislike most expressions of inclusivity or chuminess in comedians/actors/whatever which is as much about my own misanthropy as anything, I confess. But fuck it, it's my poll, start your own "I Am On Twatbag Pegg's Dick" poll if you wanna.

I was going on their work, btw, if I didn't make that clear. I don't think I know anything about Pegg except that his wife's from East Kilbride but somehow he still thinks his terrible Scottish accent is passable.

absence of cheap laffs

dunno if this is even true

i saw pegg and freeman in a film together. it was called 'the good night', i think, w/ gwyneth paltrow and penelope cruz. it was shite.

Isn't Pegg besty mates with Paltrow & Chris Martin or something?

yeah

Might do a "I Hate Andy Serkis From the Heart" thread next.

To have that sort of access to Coldplay and not at least try and do a Stauffenberg is basically a crime against humanity. xp

idk mane being a 'i hate coldplay' guy is kind of a played look imo

Yeah Coldplay as a sound are frequently okay, couldn't give a shite about the sleb politics.

idk mane being a 'i hate coldplay' guy is kind of a played look imo

This on a thread ragging on shite comic actors.

Yeah but if it wasn't for this thread I mightn't have come across

"I really liked hip-hop until the gangsta rap took over. I come from a time when not every rap record was 'nigga' this and 'nigga' that; an earlier socially and morally conscious hip-hop sensibility, when it was, 'Don't call people nigga'."

"But now it's nigga, nigga, nigga, and it's not funny or interesting politically, artistically or socially. I really don't like it."

NV, It's interesting, cos you're clearly not the only one who dislikes chumminess and inclusiveness in an actor or comedian, since lots of people seem to agree with you ITT. If that's the ONLY thing going for a comedian then it's a problem, and taken to extremes it's really fucking annoying (cf Corden) but surely there's more going on here than JUST that. Pegg always seems to play likeable characters unless he's geeking out in Dr Who, or maybe he just MAKES them likeable? I dunno. Freeman's a blank canvas that either works (Sherlock) or just acts as a charisma vacuum (everything else). I can guarantee right now he's gonna fuck up The Hobbit.

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I dunno, I think he's got an appropriately fat fucking Hobbit face.

can't believe someone complained about modern hip hop

I'm saving the Freeman interview so every time somebody claims one of his arguments is strawman I can pull it up and say "no here is the last human being in captivity who has thunk these thoughts".

In need of animating I think:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/01/article-1017918-00FFDF6300000578-556_306x423.jpg

I can't see him reacting to a CGI dragon too well. xp

He will give a wry smirk and a shrug.

On UK comedy:

"I come from a time when not every routine was 'pirate' this and 'ninja' that; an earlier socially and morally conscious comedy sensibility, when it was, 'Don't call people ginger'.

"But now it's ninja, ninja, ninja, and it's not funny or interesting politically, artistically or socially. I really don't like it."

"Freeman, a pescatarian"

^ enormous arsehole signifier imo

enormous arsehole signifier

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Only other pescetarian celebs that I can think of are Steve Jobs and Bill Clinton iirc.

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* Tracy Chapman[14]
* Bill Clinton[15][nb 1]
* Common[16]
* Ted Danson[17]
* Alan Davies[18][19]
* Wendy van Dijk[20]
* David Duchovny[21]
* Susie Essman[22]
* Johnny Galecki[23][24]
* Ben Gibbard[25]
* Steve Jobs[26]
* Lousewies van der Laan[27]
* Harvey Levin[28]
* Dannii Minogue[29]
* Mary Tyler Moore[30]
* Conor Oberst[31]
* Andy Serkis[32][33]
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Flipper the dolphin too - TFA

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1401/5148525230_1dfd81a9ee_o.gif

"I am a scottish spanish highlander" btw

― conrad, Friday, 5 November 2010 10:33 (1 hour ago)

I was going to make this very quip. :'(

before reading this thread I knew and thought pretty much nothing about Martin Freeman, and now that I've read it I see that he is a giant twat who I should hate a lot. It pleases me that I can trust ILX to be edifying like this.

also needs 'deal with it' xp

no option for throwing both in a furnace :(

Freeman was just about passable as B.S. Johnson in the radio 3 adaptation of The Unfortunates. This is higher praise than it might seem as I am VERY precious about that book.

Not actually bothered enough by either actor to cast a vote, however.

Freeman was good in the Greenaway flick. Pegg's alien movie looks dire as hell. I like 'em both, kind of a tough call.

I thought this was Pegg vs Morgan Freeman :(

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nice harrington

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Closer than I thought.

shaun of the dead gets you four votes tbf, and rightly so

Gasp!

http://zapt0.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/11/hobbit-100014565-large.jpg

'The funny thing about the acting business is that there are more poofs in it than you can have hot dinners thrown at you'

Manly men, manly dwarves.

Pegg based on that picture

Bob Marley

(xposts)

i was kind of making myself sit thru a fucking terrible new BBC documentary about Shakespeare the other night and then Freeman joined in the bullshit pile-on and that's when i baled