Just got back from the film. I loved it and thought it was very faithful to the books. I am 37 and was able to grasp all the concepts. This film brought back a lot of memories for this old genexer.
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Discussion Thread
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As someone who bought the very first book in an actual comic book store, I guess I couldn't help but be a little disappointed with the film itself. I think the film should have tried to play the non-battle scenes a little more straight so that the battle scenes might have had a little more punch. As it stands, I feel like the film was trying to replicate some of the manic nature of the book and it didn't really work. It's not that there were any scenes that were "bad", it's just that they were funnier in comic book form.
I finally saw the Adult Swim animation clip and my goodness was it epic...they should have done this animated I thought it was fantastic. I hope it is included on the DVD as it could essential be a deleted scene from the film.
I do tend to agree with this. But the movie was still great, IMO.
Edgar Wright tweeted this, today:
And that gives me a happy. Looking forward to seeing it!
If he really means that (not just hiding his true heartbreak), I'm glad Wright is such a positive guy that he wouldn't get too discouraged by the movie's disappointing box office performance. I didn't like the movie as much as I hoped I would, but I'm glad I saw it, and I think it deserved to do better. There were an unfortunate number of dead spots where the humour and love story felt a little off, but the movie was delightfully inventive visually, it made me smile often, and I appreciate how much creativity and wit went into it.
The whole thing felt very experimental to me with the way it mixed a simple story with the insanely over-the-top video game spectacles and while it didn't always work, I had a lot of fun. It saddens me that a movie with so much imagination and cleverness got massacred at the box office by a lot of cliche Hollywood junk.
Well I loved every minute of it. Sure it was disappointing some of the things were changed or missed out altogether but that's to be expected in any adaptation. Still my favourite film of the year.
Just got back from seing this. Not going to do any formal "review" but, in short, I'll give it a C+. It was decent but the flashiness and "style" of it wasn't for me. Maybe I'm too old, maybe I wasn't in the mood or something but they style of the movie just didn't work for me. I felt like I was having a seizure for the last 2 hours.
Decent performances from the major players but I'm so over Cera's schtick. Mary Elizabeth Windstead was good, and I'm really starting to love Anna Kendrick.
So, meh. Good, I was entertained, but I could've done with a "straigher played" material or maybe a bit less nonsense. Was this a comic book, a video game? What was it? Do kids these days "get" the imagery of video games made 10 to 20 years before they were born? Bah.
Get off my lawn, er, the door mat in my apartment complex's breezeway.
Decent performances from the major players but I'm so over Cera's schtick. Mary Elizabeth Windstead was good, and I'm really starting to love Anna Kendrick.
So, meh. Good, I was entertained, but I could've done with a "straigher played" material or maybe a bit less nonsense. Was this a comic book, a video game? What was it? Do kids these days "get" the imagery of video games made 10 to 20 years before they were born? Bah.
Get off my lawn, er, the door mat in my apartment complex's breezeway.
To get the movie I would think that, yeah, they need to "get" some of the imagery in it. I dunno, it was just rambling on my part and I admit to not being in a spectacular mood this evening so I may have just not been "in the mood" for what this movie was putting out there. It was just a bit too much nonsense for my tastes and I began wondering things like that if teenagers these days "understand" some of the stuff in it that's more a part of my generation than theirs. But I've no idea what platfromer games are like these days. It was kind of funny though when I was talking to the younger brother of one of my best friends during the commercials and one for a new Metroid movie came up and he was asking me about the newest Metroid games and what I thought of them and I was all, "Dude, I've not played a Metroid game since it was on the NES." 
Oh, I also wonder if younger audience members would've gotten then Seinfeld scene-intro sound. That probably got the biggest laugh out of me that and when Scott dove out the window to avoide his ex.
But, again, the movie for me was just loud nonsense. I've never been into indie-rock bands so that thread didn't appeal to me and I'm just sick of Michael Cera's character. (He plays the same one in every movie.) I just wanted to smack the shit out of him.
Oh, I also wonder if younger audience members would've gotten then Seinfeld scene-intro sound. That probably got the biggest laugh out of me that and when Scott dove out the window to avoide his ex.
But, again, the movie for me was just loud nonsense. I've never been into indie-rock bands so that thread didn't appeal to me and I'm just sick of Michael Cera's character. (He plays the same one in every movie.) I just wanted to smack the shit out of him.
It was fun, I'll certainly give it that. But it also felt like I was having a seizure during the whole movie. But, again, yeah I was tired and not in a great mood.
Patheticly I've STILL yet to see the film and most likely given my stye condition at the moment it could be too late if the small theater by the place I'm house sitting removes it...the box office has just been dismal for the film. I feel really bad for it because I was super excited to see it (still am) but was hoping it would do at least "Kick-Ass" numbers but it failed epically despite having mostly rave reviews from people who have seen it.
I saw it for the third time yesterday. I still love it, I don't get what people's problem with Michael Cera is in this film, he's different enough from other characters he's played that he's not just playing the same one again. The entire point of the film and comics too is the references to old games and to music so why would anyone be confused as to whether it's a comic or a game? It's a film based on a comic that heavily references games.
I want to re-read the comics now and I've only just finished them a couple of days before the film came out.
I want to re-read the comics now and I've only just finished them a couple of days before the film came out.
Yeah, I mean he's never played a socially awkward, stuttering nerd with kwirky friends and he also happens to be in a garage band!
Wait, that's not right.
Yeah, yeah, there's a bit of variation in there like he's not always in band. And he's not always completely incapable around girls. But he always plays a stuttering, rambling, goof.
I know that I've read some complaints about Cera as Scott but really who else was there to play a character the is basically similar to those he's played in the past? The difference here is that this time the role wasn't tailor made...not really sure there are a whole lot of other actors that could have done this role better than Cera, if so then I'd be open to a discussion of whom, no one has been able to provide me with an alternative option though.
Oh and just a follow up with my earlier post...as I feared...the theater has removed "Scott Pilgrim Vs The World" so I've lost my chance to see it thanks to my bastard friends and the poor box office showing.
Oh and just a follow up with my earlier post...as I feared...the theater has removed "Scott Pilgrim Vs The World" so I've lost my chance to see it thanks to my bastard friends and the poor box office showing.
He seemed pretty spot on as Scott Pilgrim and not once did I think of him as George Michael, or any of the characters from the other films I've seen him in. Yes he has been typecast as that guy but he got Scott Pilgrim right and he was different enough that he wasn't the other people, in my opinion.
Just seems to me the people who think he was playing the same character again aren't looking for the subtle difference there and just seeing the broad strokes of the character.
I object to that. Nerds are smart. Scott Pilgrim is pretty stupid.
"I love garlic bread. I'd eat it for every meal. I'd eat it all the time, without stopping."
"You'd get fat."
"Why would I get fat?"
"Bread makes you fat."
"Bread makes you fat?!"
Also, he nailed a rockstar, so I think that counts against socially awkward, too.
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