Scott Pilgrim - The Movie

think this is gonna suck hard

h8 the trailer so much, especially the bit where the sign in dude's head goes from 'no clue' to 'gets it'

this isn't an anti-michael cera thing coz i liked 'youth in revolt'

comic bk is ghastly indie toss, so yeah, movie will prob suck too

trailer always seems to go down REALLY badly w/ 'yoof' audiences whenevs i see it before another flick - like, zero laughs and utter indiff

but i am not an edgar wright stan, so ymmv

some talk already here: Scott Pilgrim!

yeah but it's on i love comics

we're living in a SNA era

yeah this looks pretty great and am psyched for it.

sincerely, thank you

yeah this looks pretty great and am psyched for it.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:14 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

no worries man, i start threads all the time

uh8everything.com imo

i liked 'youth in revolt'

― sites.younglife.org:8080 (history mayne), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

well shut my mouth

tell us again what a genius terry pratchett is

I've high hopes for this, Edgar Wright seems like a perfect choice for this type of material. Respectful to the material but confident enough to put his own twist on it. As for teens, my 15 year old geek nerd son is well stoked for this

xp real talk, he's gone off the boil probably since Feet of Clay

i see SPEED RACER afoot which excites me

the bit where the sign in dude's head goes from 'no clue' to 'gets it'

^ bit i liked best in the trailer, even if it is heavy-handed "i'm so clever' gimmickery for ADD eye-candy boys...wait replace 'even if' with 'because'

idk anything about scott pilgrim so just quickly Whyyyyy does he have to kill all her exes?

cos they're all evil opponents a la streetfighter or something

one thing that makes me think this movie is going to bomb is that aspie internet nerds who aren't already into comics melt down when confronted with the fantastical video game shit in SP. like the guy who was first in line with a custom-made t-shirt when i went to see snakes on a plane is prob asking a savvy friend to explain the 1UP and not accepting his response as i type

also,

michael cera

he doesn't have to kill her exes

i think this could be fun. edgar wright makes pretty fun movies.

looks stylish and it has michael cera in

This looks fun. I want the game, too, which is straight River City Ransom / Metal Slug / side-scrolling beat-em-up. Only it's available just for next-gen consoles. Bleah.

Good cast (Schwartzmann as villain, Alison Pill, Anna Kendrick, her?), Edgar Wright, fun-looking effects - looks better than basically every other summer flick that isn't called Inception.

It can't be worse than the comic.

I really dug this. Edgar Wright is the man.

Yeah, saw this tonight. Very funny. Kieran Culkin and Allison Pill steal the film.

ya it's pretty fun eh

Also, this must be most Canadian movie of all time that is not actually a Canadian production.

huh, is this out already?

also:

one thing that makes me think this movie is going to bomb is that aspie internet nerds who aren't already into comics melt down when confronted with the fantastical video game shit in SP. like the guy who was first in line with a custom-made t-shirt when i went to see snakes on a plane is prob asking a savvy friend to explain the 1UP and not accepting his response as i type

seriously, who are the 'aspie internet nerds' for whom this is an unfamiliar trope?? insanity

the canadian-ness is pretty great.

more i think about it tho the more i think the lead lady is this movie's biggest problem, she was kind of a drip, knives stole every scene from under her

Yeah, but I think she needed an every-lady quality. Plus it results in Kinves' excellent last line.

The real question is if all the "established" crit reviews are going to read like this.

i just thought she was kinda unlikeable and they had no chemistry

3. P.U. comments:
July 29, 2010
Honeycutt? More like HoneyBUTT, cause you stink as a critic!

that's fair. actually I thought Kim Pine was almost as awesome as Knives, wish she'd gotten more screentime. xp

she just seemed a little joyless for a Girl of His Dreams

I think they were going for "troubled but ultimately pleasant" and she/they overplayed it a bit much.

Mind you they redeemed her a little with the sequence where she pulls a large object out of her purse. (keeping it spoiler-free for the kidz.)

that was pretty excellent

as was the "bi-curious" line

the energy of all those scenes was really great

Scott Pilgrim -- O'Malley flatters himself by borrowing the last name of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" hero

haha, oops?

lol

did u fidn it weird that anna kendrick was his YOUNGER sister? she didnt look 18 and she played a much more older-sister role. felt there were a few things like that where wright might have done better to not be 100% faithful to the comic

also what'sherface's bellbottom jeans

1. Kirk Honeycutt comments:
July 29, 2010
I suck at my job and life in general. I apologize. I'm going to do the world a favor take a handful of sleeping pills slug it down with some Jamesons and read Kurt Vonnegut until the darkness comes.

much more older-sister

Totally. (Though it speaks to Scott's immaturity that at 22 he is going to his 19-year-old sister for advice.) In retrospect I have a few nitpicky problems like that but I can't remember the last time I walked out of a comedy thinking I needed to see it again just to catch all the jokes (aural, visual, and otherwise), so mostly I'm just happy that Wright is getting to make the kind of movies he obviously enjoys making.

Also you could totally tell he'd been reunited w/ one of his editors from Spaced; love that style, zippy and efficient but never confusing or disorienting.

wow, I did not realize that review had 55 comments. yikes.

I just cant see any non-fanboy/girl seeing this movie. The ad campaign makes it seem way too goofy for hipster types and way to hipster-ish for the squares. Also dont think Michael Cera has alot of mainstream appeal and his schtick is getting old..

I think that's probably wrong on all counts but whatever.

also who cares

One of the aspects that highlighted the transition from book to movie form for me was that _sound effects_ got laughs, especially one in particular(you know the one) from about 10 of us in the audience.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was fine for me as the it girl, but Michael Cera was the wrong choice. Scott Pilgrim is far more of a loudmouth braggart than a bog standard Cera-type nebbish.

kind of amazed that scott pilgrim reads to anyone as a 'loudmouth braggart'

also, i feel like people are really underestimating/unaware the extent to which video game tropes are pretty much standard order reference points for an entire generation now? i mean, go see the thread where people bitch about chillwave band names.

lol

i'm sorry to hear that abbbott, or anyone, is 'intimidated' by ILC (princess tamtam i think can look after himself). as an ILC 'know-it-all', i guess i do believe that 'the facts' are important, especially when it's to do w/ something as culturally marginalised as comics, but i also really believe that, frequently, the best insights abt comics come from ppl who aren't steeped in decades and decades of comic bk history and trivia. so erm... don't be shy!

Well... it's like..

I like film, but I don't spend 90% of my time thinking about film and pondering the comparitive qualities of one film against the next.

I like music, but I don't spend 90% of my time thinking about music and pondering the comparitive qualities of one album against the next. I could, though.

ile is ur natural habitat imo so

so here I am.

feels good dunnit

Abbott, come nerd out about comics with us at ILC! We're harmless! Compared to ILM, we hand out free hot towels to each other before every post!

lol I so have not read every superhero comic book

... just almost every X-Man book. Except for all the Wolverine-related ones.

why dont you tell us again how great terry pratchett is tho

:)

hush you

Small Gods and Feet of Clay pwn

dont tell me tell ward

ILC is awesome; one of my favorite boards...

once ilc stands for i love crap i'm sure the hand of welcome will be extended to mr t pratchett

don't get me started, I will blind you with my Pratchett love (and my shiv)

you must be delighted he's working on a zohan prequel treatment

Love Abbott's point about the nontraditional sexiness of the girls in the comics. Reminds me: Scott and Ramona's first real romantic speedbump comes around when she realizes he can't articulate his attraction beyond the fact that she's got cool style etc...and, being as he's super immature about everything, his way of dealing with this is to go get a cheat-crush going on Lisa Miller, based initially on her leg-revealing hem. Things getting too real with your GF? Just go find a new angle on superficiality!

I can't recall *how* BLOM draws Lisa's legs tho. Are they sausagey?

I was comparing the chick legs in the comic to chick legs in other comics. I know you can't put not hot legs in a movie. But it was nice to see a comic that wasn't so fetishistic about women's bodies!

peter bagge kinda does this too -- one of the things i enjoy most about his comics is that the women are all as grotesquely stylized as the men, even the ones who are supposed to be 'hot' in terms of the story.

I was thinking about that actually! At the very end (of Buddy Does Jersey) I do think he makes post-chub Lisa Leavenworth kinda bangin' but it is still in this context where everyone looks like a curlicue insaniac.

Lisa Miller is as ankle & knee-free as anyone!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/2037172001_2575d7bf6f.jpg

Envy Adams is as movie-chick hot as it gets in the comic & still 95% of the character design attention feels like it is being paid to coming up with really elaborate costumes + giant red hair:

http://www.monoxious.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/style-inspiration-envy-adams-scott-pilgrim.jpg

I do think he makes post-chub Lisa Leavenworth kinda bangin'

word dat, chubby Lisa is totes' bangin

oh man, her tugging at her skirt hems, so cute

I dunno if it's just a sign of how well BLOM draws you into his characters' world, or if I just played too much MegaMan as a kid, but I am totally into all the giant-footed, jointless Pilgrim women.

Well. Not Envy or Knives. Mainly Kim and Ramona. Flipping back through book 4 now, forgot how brilliant it was. The entire long crappy summer of discontent is really convincingly conveyed. There's some things that don't work as well (the Roxane plot, although it's better here than in the movie) but overall really great stuff.

Hmmm, wait, maybe some of that stuff is in volume 5. I'm thinking maybe it is, definitely Kim's "I used to play drums three times a week! My life had STRUCTURE! Now...we're 'recording.'"

Interesting post from O'Malley:

http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/post/53857149606/q-this-isnt-meant-to-be-an-insult-or-a-rant-or

I admire his honesty there

i watched this a few months ago and liked it a lot

it was cool that her first ex was south asian

i kind of love this movie and often watch through to the end when it shows up on tv. it's like adventure time with people.

that makes sense - this is a major watch, rewatch, rewatch again film for my girlfriend's 11-yr-old son, who's also Adventure Time obsessive.

It made me feel a touch embarrassed, it generally felt like my beautiful 23-year old self's boho fantasy

The large number of gays and Asians in it felt Toronto-accurate

skimming the thread now and

but the movie doesn't distance itself from his viewpoint?

I get what you're saying but in terms of exoticism or stereotyping, I'm just not convinced that the movie itself was that much better than the characters themselves, considering the presentation of e.g. Patel or the Katayanagi twins and their dragons. Knives didn't really seem to break away from the stereotype -- it wasn't just the way the dorky indie guys saw her.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:39 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

yeah i was talking to someone else who found the race representation in this movie to be problematic and it definitely is, but i think it comes closer to getting it right than a lot of other movies out right now, which is good i guess? didn't realize that patel's segment was supposed to be a parody of bollywood (have never seen a bollywood movie), and def did feel a bit uncomfortable that the azn girl ends up being a martial arts expert. but she also gets to dye her hair

wait, knives was a martial arts expert?

hmm she shows up at the end in a body suit and kicks ass doesn't she? idk

it could be i'm just totally blanking on that... i don't remember her fighting anyone

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100626182929/scottpilgrim/images/5/50/Knives-film-01.png

served

Everyone in the movie is unexplainedly a martial arts expert ffs

To be entirely fair, aren't most of the cast experts of some "fighting skill"? Granted, it might have been good to mix them up a bit - make Knives the skater while the California bro takes up roller derby or w/e - but it's not like it's this movie full of totally normal people and then the ONE martial artist is the Asian girl.

xpost

I hated hated hated the books (although I only got through 1.5 of them) for many reasons going into this -- the bored pretentious hipster attitiude of the protagonist, the forced and floppy references to Toronto (i sort of know the city, enough to get his strained attempts to big up it), the repulsive misogyny on display alllll the time, the extreme othering of (a) women (b) queers (c) "non-white" people (literally the term used to describe someone at one point... non-white... and that someone dated this non-white guy to be cool or something)... I found it all so shitty and sickening and the exact opposite kind of pollution i wanted in my head (i prefer other pollution obv) -- but I went and saw the movie anyway (my roommates are in <3 with this so they brought me for my bday).

the extreme othering of (a) women (b) queers (c) "non-white" people

This. I found e.g. the constant emphasis on Knives being "Chinese" to be really grating.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:50 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

heh just a few months ago a friend (who runs around in all the same circles mentioned itt, indie alt w/e) told me w/ a straight face that it was 'cool' to date black girls now and that i should 'get one'

:/

but anyway i'm getting away from my larger point which was that i found knives to be one of the more rounded out characters in the movie and i liked that

v v relieved that i loved this movie after reading all the comments from ppl upthread who i think are not that much older than me going 'oh, i think i was just too old for this movie -- too noisy!'

Was amazed when I realized Matthew Patel from the movie was Cece's hapless fiancé on "New Girl."

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whaaaat whoa i didn't catch that

https://ew.com/events/comic-con/scott-pilgrim-cast-reunion-table-read/

Scott Pilgrim - The Anime

This is not a drill! This is happening!

After much musing over the years about there being potential for an anime adaptation of ‘Scott Pilgrim’, I’m thrilled to say one is IMMINENT, with the whole cast back together and… you are going to lose your minds. pic.twitter.com/LyB7EIlcUD

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) March 30, 2023