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Scott Pilgrim and the Movie That Makes Me Nervous

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KvP:

--- Quote from: Allybee on 15 Aug 2010, 14:15 ---the new yorker review in particular was the epitome of snob.

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Shock! They did the same thing with Kick Ass. Granted Kick Ass really was shit but, you know, whatever.

David_Dovey:
Oh Edgar Wright, why did I ever doubt that you would make a less-than-incredible film.

I do appreciate that I probably would not have dug it as much had I read the books beforehand and overhearing some people coming out of the theatre there seemed to actually be a fair amount of bitching, but as a standalone piece of cinema, it was so fucking excellent. Also, Wallace was definitely the best character in the film. Good on you, Kieran Culkin! Really! Also shhh I have a huge crush on Anna Kendrick (and basically every other girl in the flick but mostly Anna Kendrick oh my gosh).

The only thing that bothered me was it was a bit overboard on the whole "8-BIT VIDEO GAMES! NOSTALGIA! BRIGHT COLOURS!", and I knew that would bother me from the start because, well, I'm just over it! Maybe the comics were the first to do that sort of thing before everybody else hopped on the bandwagon but it is hella played now.

Anyways, I had the pleasure of actually seeing this film in Toronto in a very hipster-filled part of town. It was An Experience! It felt cool to be able to pick a lot of the locations from the film. I wonder if they just couldn't get permission to shoot in Honest Ed's, because it features in the background in about three or four scenes, but only, like, the "H" of the sign. Weird.

Also, one more to scenes of epic hilarity in the preview for that M. Night movie

KvP:
Cinemablend has a rather long treatise on why the film bombed. It seems like half cogent commentary and half bullshit. For one, the whole "musical with no music" thing, even if it's true, should have no real impact on potential receipts because the vast majority of people don't actually think about movies that way. Also the "geeks don't get it" section seems like a complete non-sequitir.

Not that it isn't obvious, but I think the biggest factors are A. $60 million is a shit ton of money to throw at an obvious cult film and B. Michael Cera. I've never read Scott Pilgrim stuff but as soon as Cera got cast I knew the extent of the character's personality, or rather, the extent of the character's personality that would be shown, and that was a big killer of my curiosity. I'd have the same reaction if, say, Keanu Reeves was cast as the lead in a straight Shakespeare adaptation. Cera is not an interesting or particularly skilled actor, especially not as a leading man.

Allybee:
I asked my friends to go see it with me tonight and they were like "no, we want to play video games." soooo. yea. I think it will have a better week... my parents are seeing it cause I told them I liked it and they want to "stay current."

Alex C:

--- Quote from: KvP on 16 Aug 2010, 20:16 --- Also the "geeks don't get it" section seems like a complete non-sequitir.

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I don't really think it's a non-sequitar. There's a bit of a generation gap between geeks. Guys around my age (28 and up) were either graduating college or just hitting the work force when this weird era of 19-23 year old kids wearing pixel skull t-shirts and reminiscing about 8-bit video games really, REALLY took hold rather than just skated around the margins. The strangest thing is that frankly -I- was barely old enough to really play the hell out of most 8 bit games, much less these kids in my li'l brother's age range. I mean, I was only 4 years old when Legend of Zelda came out. My brother's friend has an 8 bit zelda heart shirt, but the dude was in diapers wasn't born yet when the 2nd one was released. A lot of that product and imagery is popular because some young people who like games in general appreciate the history and like the aesthetic rather than really gamed much in that era. That's 100% perfectly fine, but it does mean that while I recognize all these design elements in Scott Pilgrim, I don't really relate to them-- being a quirky gamer or comic book fan just doesn't have the same peer acceptance in my age bracket, and you sure as hell weren't buying gaming themed shit from anywhere but the internet when I was 17. In a very weird way, this imagery I grew up with now belongs to a younger set and a different breed of geek, despite the fact that -I- am the one old enough to have played the stuff that inspired it without calling it "retro-gaming."

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