Walker
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I keep thinking to myself that the Michael Cera awkward teenager shtick is wearing thin, but for some reason I keep wanting to watch his movies.
This one is no exception. Looks REALLY REALLY fun.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/scottpilgrimvstheworld/
Plus, it's directed by Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). Trailer:
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Talcott
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I'm really looking forward to it. I love the comic series (mostly for the slice-of-life bits, but I love the way video game tropes are worked in without a second thought), and I'd be excited for a new Edgar Wright movie regardless.
I was skeptical of Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim. He was great as George Michael Bluth, but I'm yet to see him play anything else. However, the trailer gives me hope. Even if he doesn't quite work, the rest of the cast looks spot-on.
What I find most interesting is something Bryan Lee O'Malley mentioned on Twitter. Apparently the movie is going to follow the books through the third one, and then go off in its own direction. While it's easy to blame a bad movie for not following the book, my favorite adaptations are those that function alongside the source material, not in its place (Willy Wonka, Wonderboys, Adaptation, the third Harry Potter movie, each incarnation of HHGTTG).
Walker
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Talcott wrote >>
I was skeptical of Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim. He was great as George Michael Bluth, but I'm yet to see him play anything else.
If you have time, watch the whole Clark & Michael web series (each of the 10 episodes are around 10 minutes each):
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Easily some of my favorite Michael Cera material. ;)
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I started reading the comics. It was really good but then I got distracted. This is a good reminder that I need to pick it back up soon!
Talcott
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I think I like the German trailer even better. I hope the dubbing is an option on the DVD release.
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I think it's interesting that some of the English was preserved in the dubbed script.
osulew
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Most importantly, Columbus bands are in the running to be used for the soundtrack to this film...check out more info and a link to vote for them here...Karate Coyote is winning their bracket right now!
http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/support-columbus-bands-in-a-national-competition
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DavidF wrote >>
The girlfriend on the other hand, hated the video game fights.
Two things about the video game fights, both from my memory of the director's interview with the Onion AV Club.
First, he decided to ignore the question of why everybody's able to fight because he figured musicals get away with the same sort of thing--Gene Kelly's character suddenly busts out into this huge song and dance routine, but when it's over everybody goes back to whatever they were doing rather than commenting on the ridiculous thing they just saw. Explanations would just bog the movie down without actually adding anything.
Second, the entire story is being told from Scott Pilgrim's perspective. So those fights, and sound effects, and his interactions with people are how he sees the events going on in his world, tinted by the pop culture that's soaked into his personality.
I don't know if that makes the video game fight sequences any easier for your girlfriend to swallow, (or maybe she just hated the entire concept) but it certainly helped me accept that the movie is ridiculous, and knows that it's ridiculous, but that's what makes it fresh.
mrsgeedeck
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The boy and I broke our month long streak of not going to the movies for this one. We'd read all of the graphic novels and loved them.
We really liked the treatment Edgar Wright gave the film, and thought it stayed true enough to the original material, but was also strong enough to stand on its own.
I thought Kieran Culkin's performance as Wallace Wells was one of the best casting moves made.
Talcott
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mrsgeedeck wrote >>
The boy and I broke our month long streak of not going to the movies for this one. We'd read all of the graphic novels and loved them.
We really liked the treatment Edgar Wright gave the film, and thought it stayed true enough to the original material, but was also strong enough to stand on its own.
I thought Kieran Culkin's performance as Wallace Wells was one of the best casting moves made.
Kieran Culkin was amazing in that role, easily my favorite in the movie. Really, all of the casting was great (even Michael Cera, who I was skeptical about).
I really loved the movie, and thought it was one of the best book-to-filem adaptations I've seen (right up there with Wonderboys).
My only quibble with the movie is I think that the book's ending gives Ramona more credit than the movie's does. That and I wish the Envy/Scott relationship was explored a little more. However, taking the movie as a stand-alone work, I don't think that either of those elements feel missing.
I've heard the "it's all in Scott's head" theory, but I don't buy it at all. Obviously the fights function as metaphors in the story, but I'm yet to see anything that makes me feel that they aren't literal to the characters involved. It's a reality with subspace highways, regular fights to the death, random power-ups, and elastic gravity, all of which are part of everyday life to the characters. I guess I see that stuff the same way I see the monsters in the high school episodes of Buffy. Just because it's a metaphor to the writer, doesn't mean it's a metaphor to the characters.
Mercury
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I loved everything about this movie.
I was lucky enough to see it at a Sneak Preview at Easton near the end of July and have been back to see it twice more on my own. With Studio 35 getting it this weekend, I may just have to go one more time.
Edgar Wright is easily one of the top 5 directors working today.
lisathewaitress
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loved it, loved it, loved it. Best movie I've seen in I don't know how long.
Maybe it's just because I am a total geek and my brain works in a very similar way, but I thought it was brilliant, and everyone has been looking at me like I'm nuts when i've told them that. for some reason, almost everyone I know think it looks really stupid.
And yeah, Keiran Culkin was awesome; the text/passing out scene was one of the funniest moments in recent film.
We were like the only people laughing in the theatre. not sure if some of the humor was too subtle? The theatre was filled with nerds, so I was surprised no one else was cracking up. And yes, I was completely sober.
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lisathewaitress wrote >>
loved it, loved it, loved it. Best movie I've seen in I don't know how long.
Maybe it's just because I am a total geek and my brain works in a very similar way, but I thought it was brilliant, and everyone has been looking at me like I'm nuts when i've told them that. for some reason, almost everyone I know think it looks really stupid.
And yeah, Keiran Culkin was awesome; the text/passing out scene was one of the funniest moments in recent film.
We were like the only people laughing in the theatre. not sure if some of the humor was too subtle? The theatre was filled with nerds, so I was surprised no one else was cracking up. And yes, I was completely sober.
"Guess who's drunk?"
"I guess Wallace."
"You guess RIGHT"
*smacks him in the head with keys*
So awesome.
Walker
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Just saw it today and enjoyed it quite a bit. I've never read the graphic novels, so I'm fresh eyes to the material other than what little bits I've gathering in passing from the internet.
My inner video game nerd loved the fight sequences, some of the jokes sprinkled in and some of the music selection. The 8-bit "Universal" logo opener was a great way to get started.
My only beef with the movie, and it's not really a huge one (although I'm about to make sort of a deal out of it for the sake of conversation) is the fact that large portion of this movie made me feel like I was watching something that I was slightly too old for. Not an uncomfortable feeling... just something noticeable in a way that I've not experienced before. But now that I'm thinking about it I imagine that perhaps I might have felt this way watching Napoleon Dynamite as a 30 year old today instead of as a 24 year old 6 years ago.
I've read a few articles recently about "Generation Y / The Millennials" and one thing that I've found interesting as a common characteristic about this generation is the delayed transition to adulthood. With previous generations, the rites-of-passage into adulthood took place between 18 and 22 as many people were expected to graduate highschool, move out, get jobs, go to college, get married and start quickly moving toward buying a home or having children. With the Millenials, these "goals" are often pushed back, and either as a precursor or as a result, adolescence (or at least adolescent tendencies) is almost unnaturally lengthened.
Of course, speaking in generalities is all you can really do when talking about trying to define a group as large as an entire generation, but if these generalities have any truth to them, then I sort of see Scott Pilgrim as a character that embodies these notions. He is a 22 year old boy with the mindset of a 16 year old. He's only moved across the street from his parents' house, he's dating a high school girl because he like the simplicity of the relationship, he has no motivation beyond living in the moment, and the biggest rollercoaster in his life revolves around dating drama. Of course, there's a bit of character development that takes place right around the end of the film, but up until that point I couldn't help but wonder to myself... should Scott Pilgrim REALLY be doing the things he's doing as a 22 year old? And I don't mean that in a "darn kids get off my lawn" kind of way, but more in a "someone needs to put that baby bird back in the nest" kind of way.
Anyway, again... not a dealbreaker for me as I still enjoyed the movie quite a bit... just something that stood out to me as feeling a little strange.
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honavery
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Saw it yesterday too, and I did enjoy it.
However, I sort of agree with Walker in the fact that I did find myself feeling a bit "old" watching it. Another thing was that while I was watching it, I was sort of questioning how this movie ever got bank rolled? The audience for this seems like such a niche market. I can't imagine dollar signs lighting up in any producers eyes when he/she read the screen play for this.
I actually thought the fight choreography was really well done. Some of the best I've seen in awhile. Interesting special effects in parts too, and Keiran Culkin basically steals the movie (had about enough of Cera at this point). Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers didn't hurt anything either....
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