Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (and everything else!)

So it's good? Yesssss. I've been looking forward t this for a while. Never read the comics, unfortunately.

My only concern is that the movie will rely on too many pop culture references to be funny and not actual wit. Please calm or confirm my worries.

I'm looking forward to it, but it seems a bit silly. I'm glad it's good though, now I'll definitely go see it.
And there's no way it's gonna blow Inception out of the water.

I saw the trailer, looks good Then I read the books (saw them in the library) and now I can't wait.

Except all the movies come out late in Australia. So that sucks.

Can't really compare Inception and SP. SP is a comedy that relies on video game references and pretty funny dialogue. Inception is a visual masterpiece with a heavily intricate plot... It's difficult to compare.

anywho, yeah, can't wait.

A friend of mine's sister works for some indie/smalltime/hip media group and so she gets advance passes to see some movies or shows. In this case, they were being given away at a party/club opening thing and he had extras from it.


I'll edit the comments I made to a friend of mine about being intrigued but turned off by Michael Cera's presence in the film here:
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No, see, if [Cera is the] only thing stopping you, just go. I swear by all that is good that he really works well in this movie. This is one, like Inception, that should be seen in theaters (though that was more for the effects and this one for the sheer excellence of spectacle.
No one should let the near-memetic Cera-hate be the reason they avoid this film. Possible reasons for not seeing the movie include a dislike of fun quirky coming of age stories, video games, comic books, dance dance revolution, Canada, thorough deconstruction and demolition of the relationship-drama story archetype, video games, fight scenes, true love, rock bands, The Legend of Zelda, the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, or video games. Casting is not an issue here.
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I feel like there is some definite adaptation distillation going on here between the comics and the film. The story is compressed in such a way that less time is passing in the movie, but the plot is worked such that, coming from the books, it felt a little whirlwind but that was really the only nit for me to pick there. The comic book elements--the black description boxes, narrative asides, etc.-- all serve as reminders of the source material while still not feeling forced. Though for me it sometimes got swept to the side by the content of the film itself, this is still very much an Edgar Wright movie, and a lot of his brand of humor works really well within the story and characters.

The casting is great. Cera really does work well leading as Scott, with other noteworthy performances in the characters of Knives, Stephen, Stacy, Julie, Young Neil, Envy, the Evil-Exes (particularly 1, 2, 4, and 7), and especially the near show-stealing Wallace. The characters of Ramona and Kim were probably the weakest, though in the case of the latter I feel it was just my feeling that they changed her to be much more moody from the books, though she still was a fun character. Ramona's character still felt a little too mysterious and she didn't really do much in the film so it was hard sometimes to remember why all this effort was being taken. Thinking on this now however, I feel like one of the changes (from the novels) near the end actually works well to address this complaint, so I guess my point is kind of moot.

Fans of the books (especially those who have read Finest Hour) might take issue with how some of the ending plot points were handled, though they make sense within the adapted universe of the movie. Some story bits were shuffled around or applied in different places but I don't want to reveal too much. Without overthinking things, I feel like the changes I can remember were either done for the sake of it being a shorter movie (and thus relatively excusable in that right) or are addressed as I said before by some of the plot/character bending (not changing, just bending--it all works together).

To finish, I feel like it's important to say that I don't compare the film and the graphic novels. I feel like what the film lacked was a greater exploration of Scott's world, the characters, and some of the plot points. These are all covered by the books, and the movie made me want to go back and read and experience them more. As for the film, it expanded upon the video game, fighting, and fantasy elements of the books and give them a ton of flair and polish in a way that complements the universe without restricting one's imagination too much. In short, they work well together, dare I say to the point of synergy.

I can't really think of an ending for this at the moment, but if I do I'll edit it in for sure.

ahaha u so funny.

Well, at least it seems to be getting people to notice the topic, and therefore maybe more likely to see the movie. I suppose that was kind of an ulterior motive for stirring this pot of discussion. (But I still refuse to admit Inception being anything better than "sitting happily in between okay and good." and The Mentalist "only slightly better than Baywatch" and the only reason for that is because it gives Psych some amazing joke material, case in point: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf8M57we1I)

I dunno, I could never really pick out one single episode of a drama as "impressionable." They always run together for me.

But, take a non serious show like Psych and I could probably tell you everything about every episode.

Plus, a few other issues that I have with The Mentalist, is that they never really tell you the clues until after things happen. In the promos it looked like Jane would have had some kind of Jane vision to tell you what he was looking at. Most episodes that I've watched always seem to hinge on the one thing that Jane has--

You know what, this is getting really ridiculous. We could argue semantics until we're blue in the face but it's getting really old really fast. I may have started this whole can of worms, and I'm truthfully starting to regret it. There's (truthfully) absolutely nothing you can do that can make me think that The Mentalist is a good show. Quite honestly, I think it's a cheap, unfunny, and utterly ridiculous rip-off. Because of course it's not believable for one to try to save one's own hide from going to jail, and making money off the process. Complete with the fact that there has not been a single even kinda close to retread over these 5 seasons. But once the motive changes from saving hide to revenge against someone who killed your family then OK YOU'RE OUR NEW TOP CONSULTANT I CAN'T SEE HOW THIS COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG AT ALL! Not to mention the proximity in episodes between Psych's "Death is in the Air" (aired Febuary 17th, 2010) about a deadly virus, and The Mentalist's "Code Red" (aired less than a month later on March 11th, 2010) about, oh hey look at that a deadly virus. But then again, I'm still arguing semantics. I can't convince you, you can't convince me, let's call the whole thing lunch, agree to disagree, etc.

Also I understand good drama just fine. 2007's Next did everything Inception tried to do, IMO, but with a better concept, a better story, and less horrendous screaming from atop hotels. But, truth be told, I do prefer things that are more light-hearted, and anything that tries to shove "meaning" down throats is stuff that I've never really cared for. Things like Braid (but luckily I could at least overlook it for the fact that the gameplay mechanics were actually quite solid), The Catcher in the Rye (which is a great book, but truthfully I think the "symbolism" is Salinger thinking "You know, I bet I could really mess with literature people with this book"), and Inception (which like I keep forgetting to mention, I ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT, I just don't think it's some modern masterpiece of prose and I will change my way about thinking about everything.)

I'm tired, I've been working on this post for about 2 hours, and good night. 6 days until this movie comes out.

EDIT TRES OH MY GOD THEATER WEBSITE LIES SCOTT PILGRIM COMING FRIDAY AAAAAAAA

EDIT: Scott Pilgrim 1 point higher than Inception on Rotten Tomatoes 8)

EDIT again: and then I refresh and it drops six points. wtf.

Sometimes critics just dont understand us younger kids. They suck at reviewing action movies, horrors, and ADD type movies. You just have to roll with it and listen to general consensus.

If the reviewer's name is Arnold White then you can just put his review in the joke section. He's a joker. None of his reviews are serious. Whatever the majority consensus is he'll give the opposite "opinion".

Yeah, this movie has a specific target audience, teenage gamers, so it's not going to get all raving reviews. But it's 7.5 on IMDB and that's decent at least, good enough to go see and enjoy.

Somebody needs to give metacritic a swift kick in the pants. Currently Scott Pilgrim is rated the same as MacGruber, which was the worst movie I've ever seen in my life... Granted SP isn't even out in theaters yet so I'll cool down for a while.

Also, Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game comes out today on PlayStation Network!

Crap. Is the game available for computers? I dont have any of those fancy-smancy gaming consoles.

And I'm still really interested in MacGruber. I dont know much about it, but it seems to be aiming for the ridiculous/intentionally 70's cliche bad style. I can see people "not getting" it, or maybe it really is a bad movie. I dunno.

I'll hopefully see Scott Pilgrim soon and sneak into about four other movies while I'm at the theater.

As far as I can tell, no on PSP, and it will be coming out on 360 later. I think sometime next month or the month after.

Truthfully/IMO, Ubisoft missed a huge opportunity by not putting it on Wiiware. I dunno if it was the matter of size, or just they didn't want to port it over, or what. I know that there were going to be like special moves that required 4 face buttons, but both the GCN controller AND the Classic Controller have both.

I'll never understand marketing.

So, tomorrow's the day! Well, 2 more hours if you're going to a midnight showing.

Nothing against you guys, but I'm staying as far away from the internet as I can tomorrow, I don't really want to be ruined on too many details, even though I've already seen every video that's been put out and read all the books.