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Scott Pilgrim and the Movie That Makes Me Nervous

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KvP:
I don't know. I grew up around the age of 16-bit gaming (my first console was a Genesis, natch) and I knew a lot of people who still played Nintendo at that point.

Alex C:
That's true, but I still think the article was right to point out that geeks and gamers are hardly a monoculture and that being a "geek film" doesn't necessarily mean that Scott Pilgrim will be everyone's particular flavor of geekiness. In my case their particular brand of early 20 something angsty hipster culture sends off a very strong signal to me that I'm dealing with something aimed at a group I don't really consider myself a part of. It's rather intimately tied into the "People over 30 won't get it" issue. A few video game references here and there doesn't do much to offset the "It's like an illustrated Relationship Thread" problem for me despite all my geekyness.

Christ, sorry about all those edits. It's just that when I read the paragraph that the "non-sequitar" was attached to, I related to it strongly, even if I apparently can't put the reason why it resonated into words.

Dimmukane:
I'll just throw in that my first console was an SNES, and I didn't get it until PS2s had already been released.  I went from there to ROMs before venturing to newer ground. 

ALoveSupreme:
When I was purchasing Mario 2 for nintendo my gramma still had her Pong video game machine.  OG

ackblom12:
I do have to say that I kinda have to agree with Alex on the brand of geek argument for Scott Pilgrim. I still find it weird that a large chunk of the folks on these forums are young enough not to have been harassed at great length for being one of the various forms of geek. Keep in mind this might be colored somewhat by where I grew up, but it wasn't until right after I graduated HS that being a geek became something resembling acceptable and not deserving of some serious harassment by the rest of the school population.

With everyone raving about Scott Pilgrim I looked into it and it just sounded like I would despise all of the starring characters. I plan to watch this movie and I fully expect to enjoy it, but the characters and their "problems" are exactly why I've got no interest whatsoever in ever reading the graphic novels and I can't really blame folks for not caring or understanding the appeal.

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