The movie was great. The main character and supporting actors were all played to perfection. I didn't like the Asian girl, but I think that was the point, really.
I just finished watching Scott Pilgrim
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Initial thought:solidstatemind said:
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Alright lets break it down.
When I said...
You interpreted it as...
When I really meant was, "While my opinion is on the opposite end of the spectrum, I respect your opinion in that the movie was not up to par. Quite frankly I am not up for any sort of debate, and would simply like to extend an olive branch and simply express that my feelings towards the movie are strongly positive. I do not wish to enter any debate because I really see no point in it. Furthermore I grow tired from a long day of pimping my wenches working."
Let's see what else... Oh!
I thought you already saw the movie, and I don't remember the topic being about people who have never seen it in the first place.
Next:
That was me going off your reply and onto the topic. Albeit that was short, but that was not part of my playing cards. Could I have written more? Sure. Sorry I offended thee.
Tsugi!
Go ahead...
Ah, but that's were you're wrong. Young Neil played Legend of Zelda twice on his DS. Furthermore Scott and Knives were playing a fictional game called "Ninja Ninja Revolution". I could also go into the video game, comic book, and anime paraphanelia... parapalegic... paraphernalia spotted throughout the movie, but I'll fold on that. In the end they don't give me much of a leg to stand on and it would really be a matter of opinion - which would mean we'd have to agree to disagree about that now won't we?
And finally...
So I guess this is where I'm going to have to show my cards then and say
"I disagree... From where I stand the facts in my point of view show otherwise."
I don't think you can call it a cash-in on account that it would need to be extremely successful in the theaters to get an immediate turn around in profit, it would have to be severely criticized without any real positive feed back from any review, and it would have to do extremely poor in video sales. From where I stand, it cost $60 million dollars and only made $10.5 million dollars in the first week. It was generally praised by critics and fans of the comics alike, and made bank many months later on DVD and Blu-ray, hell I own a Blu-ray and I don't even have a player!
I guess what I'm trying to say is, sorry my initial reply wasn't enough of an argument, but quite frankly I wasn't looking for a fight to begin with. Just simply wanted to say, "you don't like cake, I do - it's cool". Is it the greatest thing that has happened in any facet of geek culture? Probably not. Can we call it over-hyped? Is Little Kuriboh Brittish? Nevertheless it speaks to a lot of its target audience 18 - 35 year old video game playing, comic book collecting, anime watching geeks, and based on some of the other shorter replies there are a lot of people on the Escapist that agree. Maybe they don't have a lot to say why, but I'm sure some of the nicer ones will tell you "Well I think we're going to have to agree to disagree then."
I'm Bo-
(get's smacked in the back of the head and is pulled into a van.)
Great movie. Now go read the comics because they are much better, and that's saying something given how awesome the movie was.
frankly, i loved it, I thought it was one of the best movies I'd seen in ages
tho I was really surprised to find that my Film/TV teacher said he hated the movie, and was bored out of his mind the whole time. Tho he did make some valid points.. Ramona (atleast facially) shows almost zero emotion the entire movie, the whole dialog from the asian girl at the very end of the film seems pretty unrealistic, some of the acting wasn't the greatest, some issue with lack of character growth,(and a few other points I forget)...
and I still love it
I think the big thing that polarizes people on whether they LOVE or HATE Scott Pilgrim is the style it's done in. if you like the style, you will love the film, if you don't like the style, you will hate the film; there is no inbetween
tho I was really surprised to find that my Film/TV teacher said he hated the movie, and was bored out of his mind the whole time. Tho he did make some valid points.. Ramona (atleast facially) shows almost zero emotion the entire movie, the whole dialog from the asian girl at the very end of the film seems pretty unrealistic, some of the acting wasn't the greatest, some issue with lack of character growth,(and a few other points I forget)...
and I still love it
I think the big thing that polarizes people on whether they LOVE or HATE Scott Pilgrim is the style it's done in. if you like the style, you will love the film, if you don't like the style, you will hate the film; there is no inbetween
i couldn't watch it i thought the Scott guy was too much of a whinny ***** i saw a bit of the start and a bit of the middle and the ending and fast forwarded through the rest
dont get me wrong some of the concepts were interesting but i just couldn't handle characters actors and the whinging it gets a 4/10 from me if i had to score it
dont get me wrong some of the concepts were interesting but i just couldn't handle characters actors and the whinging it gets a 4/10 from me if i had to score it
Nah, man. I like the idea behind it, but I just found it too silly to even consider a lot of it funny or even entertaining. Just like Scrubs and Big Bang Theory, a lot of humour is just really stupid. It's kinda aiming to get shock laughs like for swearing or showing up naked at an inappropriate time, it's nothing clever at all.tthor said:
Some parts I did like though, especially the fight scenes, that's why I gave it an average rating.
100/10. I left the theater... changed. I was shaking, and way more excited than I've ever been in my life. It was the best.
I blame it on being able to draw stupidly real (minus the epic fights) parallels to my drama with one particular girl. Also the sweet music and sound effects.
PS: Read the books. I think the movie is actually better at what it covers, but it leaves out SO much character development.
Edit: In fact... seeing all these SP avatars makes me realize... WHY THE HELL DON'T I HAVE ONE!
*Changing avatar so that anyone who sees this longer than 5 mins from now won't understand that I never had one*
I blame it on being able to draw stupidly real (minus the epic fights) parallels to my drama with one particular girl. Also the sweet music and sound effects.
PS: Read the books. I think the movie is actually better at what it covers, but it leaves out SO much character development.
Edit: In fact... seeing all these SP avatars makes me realize... WHY THE HELL DON'T I HAVE ONE!
*Changing avatar so that anyone who sees this longer than 5 mins from now won't understand that I never had one*
High Recommended. I got them all for less than $10 each through Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=scott+pilgrim&x=0&y=0
They are nice and colorful for display too. I know I've read them twice now, and probably will 2-4 more times after awhile.
It's also great fun (If your nerdgasming over SP as much as I have been) to read a book, then watch the movie up to the end of that point. Its anywhere from 50 mins to like, 15 of the movie, lol. But you notice where they worked in good lines in new areas that make sense for the film only.
It's interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=scott+pilgrim&x=0&y=0
They are nice and colorful for display too. I know I've read them twice now, and probably will 2-4 more times after awhile.
It's also great fun (If your nerdgasming over SP as much as I have been) to read a book, then watch the movie up to the end of that point. Its anywhere from 50 mins to like, 15 of the movie, lol. But you notice where they worked in good lines in new areas that make sense for the film only.
It's interesting.
You have no idea how much I was hyped up for this film. And I got what I wanted. Twice. It had so many good one liners and...in jokes, behind the scene jokes, game reference jokes, some of the best innuendos ever. I mean, remember this line:
'Ask him how it feels to always get his sloppy seconds'. Hah! Even the stunt doubles weren't safe in this movie!
I was at an 8 out of 10 but then I got more and more of the references and jokes and it moved up to a 9/10. All was fine and well, until...my cousin brought me a blu-ray, dvd and digital copy ummm...copy (this is a big deal, I am in Romania). And then I saw it 20 more times. The only drawback is that some chars like the twins were not developed enough.
But again, then I played the game. Bottom line, best video game movie ever, some of the best OST out there, good dialogue and actions scenes, it pretty much scores in every area it counts.
'Ask him how it feels to always get his sloppy seconds'. Hah! Even the stunt doubles weren't safe in this movie!
I was at an 8 out of 10 but then I got more and more of the references and jokes and it moved up to a 9/10. All was fine and well, until...my cousin brought me a blu-ray, dvd and digital copy ummm...copy (this is a big deal, I am in Romania). And then I saw it 20 more times. The only drawback is that some chars like the twins were not developed enough.
But again, then I played the game. Bottom line, best video game movie ever, some of the best OST out there, good dialogue and actions scenes, it pretty much scores in every area it counts.
