I thought the movie was a great adaptation. I'd heard about the movie being filmed while O'Malley was finishing up volume 6, so I knew the ending would be different, and it still got the gist of the book's plot while doing something unique. The game did much of the same, though it took many more liberties with the story than the movie did.
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Now you've got my hopes up for an animated series. Maybe I'll just go read all of the books again while blaring the game's soundtrack.Dense_Electric said:
the novels weren't finished when the movie was shooting, and if you you watch the commentary with Edgar write and Brian lee O'mally, i believe Brian said he actually a few lines he like from the movie t used in the later volumes. any way i saw the love loved it and got into the graphics and loved them even more. just a very well done series.itsausernamewhatofit said:I read the Scott Pilgrim books a while ago and I love them. It is one of my favorite series. However I only just saw the movie and was kind of bothered by how much it cut or changed. Now let me say something right now--I understand the changes were necessary to allow it to work as a regular length movie and that, when judged by its own merits, is very good. Having to compare it to the books though it felt like they sort of missed some of the most important things and didn't really give the closure of the books. It's a good movie but because I had read the books I just couldn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked to. So Escapists what did you think of it? Have you read the books? If you haven't why aren't you reading them right now? Am I just being too much of one of those fanboys who can't appreciate something if it's not exactly to the established canon? Were you you also bothered by the lack ofDo you want me to shut up now and let you post your thoughts?
really? I thought he did a good job playing scott they needed someone who could play a guy who is socially awkward and cera is good at that role but to each his ownBanicRhys said:
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I havent read the comic, but i really didnt like the movie, people kept touting it as the "ultimate nerd movie" and that it was so great and perfect for me as a nerd, but what i found was a fairly bland and stupid hipster movie, it felt as though the nerdy references were put into it just so they could market it towards nerds, there was no thought or reason for any of them, and it annoyed the crap out of me for that reason, same reason i hate "Big Bang Theory", it feels as though its written by someone who isnt actually a nerd, but by some random schmuck who thinks he knows how nerds think and operate, thereby working mostly on stereotypes.
Although i doubt i will ever read the comic, i dont doubt that it is much better than the movie, cause the movie wasnt good at all, atleast not to me.
Although i doubt i will ever read the comic, i dont doubt that it is much better than the movie, cause the movie wasnt good at all, atleast not to me.
Well I wasn't really bothered either way but what's really bothering me about the series is that I read somewhere that Scott ends up with knives. Now if I remember correctly from the movie, he ends up with Romona and the same with the books. Where is this supposedly canon ending that I heard about meant to be?
I only have 4 problems with the movie.itsausernamewhatofit said:I read the Scott Pilgrim books a while ago and I love them. It is one of my favorite series. However I only just saw the movie and was kind of bothered by how much it cut or changed. Now let me say something right now--I understand the changes were necessary to allow it to work as a regular length movie and that, when judged by its own merits, is very good. Having to compare it to the books though it felt like they sort of missed some of the most important things and didn't really give the closure of the books. It's a good movie but because I had read the books I just couldn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked to. So Escapists what did you think of it? Have you read the books? If you haven't why aren't you reading them right now? Am I just being too much of one of those fanboys who can't appreciate something if it's not exactly to the established canon? Were you you also bothered by the lack ofDo you want me to shut up now and let you post your thoughts?
1: Knives' dad wasn't in it
2: Envy and Scott never got closure
3: Scott didn't realise he was a massive jerk to all his exes
4: they didn't include this
I loved the books AND the movie. What you have to consider though, is again, for 90 minutes, they did have to cut out a lot of the over the top stuff that the books had. Otherwise, the movie was actually a pretty good parallel of the books. For me, it was THE movie of 2010 and the books are among the top ten of my Western comics list, and top 20 of my overall comics list (east and west).
That kind of bugged me, actually, because while I haven't read the books, Michael Cera's portrayal of the character really doesn't fit with the movie. He comes across as a complete and total wimp, when I think "asshole geek" is more what they were aiming for.BanicRhys said:
OT: Personally, I thought it was a great example of a good-bad movie. I haven't seen the beginning (it came on one of the movie channels we get at my university, and I tuned in right at the first evil ex fight), but it was not a good movie; it was, however, so bad it was good. After seeing that first fight, I immediately started drinking, because I knew I was in for a laughter filled evening, and alcohol tends to make that particular brand of funny movie even funnier.
There's one thing that makes me think an actual nerd was somewhere on the staff, though: most of the sound effects in the fight scenes came from The King of Fighters. If it was some clueless marketer trying to pander to nerds, I'm sure they would have gone for Street Fighter sound effects instead; they still connect it to fighting games, but a much broader audience would get it. It's why The Big Bang Theory pretty much sticks to Star Trek, Star Wars, and comic books for its references to nerdy series; I mean, have you ever seen Sheldon Cooper talking about 40K? And even 40K is just on the surface of nerd culture.Fronken said:
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OK, I'll start by saying that I haven't watch or read any of this clasic, JET!! BUT I know how you feel. I read The Watchmen comic and later I watch the movie (guess I was WATCHING THE WATCHMEN? YEEEAAAHH.... sorry) and also felt that some good points in the history were missed, but THEN lets remember that this is a very, very deep story and in order to keep it at a movie length, sacrifices had to be done; not that it made a bad movie, nooo, I watched that movie 3 times back then and 4 times every time it's shown on the tv.
It's hard to make something good, and even harder to change it to another format. I like to think that it's like the ''wave theory''; in phisics, a certain wave (light, sound, etc) moves faster if the material that its traveling through is less dense(gas > liquid > solid) and if it passes from one state of matter to another(specially if it's more dense) it will lose some speed. So think about this, gas would be literature(books, comics, etc) where it has all the time develop itself, and later on are the adaptations, where solid is movies and liquid would be tv series or even video games.
So, there you go. I hope that this reply was both helpfull and enlightning. Have a good day/night.
It's hard to make something good, and even harder to change it to another format. I like to think that it's like the ''wave theory''; in phisics, a certain wave (light, sound, etc) moves faster if the material that its traveling through is less dense(gas > liquid > solid) and if it passes from one state of matter to another(specially if it's more dense) it will lose some speed. So think about this, gas would be literature(books, comics, etc) where it has all the time develop itself, and later on are the adaptations, where solid is movies and liquid would be tv series or even video games.
So, there you go. I hope that this reply was both helpfull and enlightning. Have a good day/night.
I saw the movie first. In fact, I have yet to read the comics. Didn't even know there had been at first. Comics, I mean.
Anyway, I enjoyed it more for the comedy than the action. My brother and I both thought the meet with the 2nd and 3rd evil ex was lacking as far as how it ended.
But yeah, one of my fave scenes is the way Scott dives out of his window to avoid Knives. It was effing hilarious. We had to rewind to watch it again.
Anyway, I enjoyed it more for the comedy than the action. My brother and I both thought the meet with the 2nd and 3rd evil ex was lacking as far as how it ended.
But yeah, one of my fave scenes is the way Scott dives out of his window to avoid Knives. It was effing hilarious. We had to rewind to watch it again.
I was not bothered by the lack of casual sex lines- Scott made enough of an ass of himself in the movie- the cheating alone turned a portion the audience against him. I think that the movie should have gone a bit more into Scott's issues, because people who just saw the movie thought he was just a jerkass. They should have made more of a point with the character's emotional psyches, especially Ramona's, who wasn't really elaborated on all that much. Why was Scott dying for this chick? We who read the comics know, but the ones who only saw the movie probably didn't.
I've said before that in the comic, it's put into better detail that Scott represses any memories of negative actions he's done to make himself feel better, but it all comes back to haunt him as his "nega" self. It all shows how messy relationships can be, and that a person needs to have self respect to get their life straight. The psychological complexity is sacrificed in the movie- NegaScott in the film was a funny joke, but nowhere near as meaningful- but it's still there if you're willing to look beneath the nerd culture goofiness (which a lot of people weren't).
I've said before that in the comic, it's put into better detail that Scott represses any memories of negative actions he's done to make himself feel better, but it all comes back to haunt him as his "nega" self. It all shows how messy relationships can be, and that a person needs to have self respect to get their life straight. The psychological complexity is sacrificed in the movie- NegaScott in the film was a funny joke, but nowhere near as meaningful- but it's still there if you're willing to look beneath the nerd culture goofiness (which a lot of people weren't).
Yeah Scott never realizing he was a dick and understanding what Gideon felt was one of the things that really bothered me, there was none ofYoshemo said:I only have 4 problems with the movie.itsausernamewhatofit said:I read the Scott Pilgrim books a while ago and I love them. It is one of my favorite series. However I only just saw the movie and was kind of bothered by how much it cut or changed. Now let me say something right now--I understand the changes were necessary to allow it to work as a regular length movie and that, when judged by its own merits, is very good. Having to compare it to the books though it felt like they sort of missed some of the most important things and didn't really give the closure of the books. It's a good movie but because I had read the books I just couldn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked to. So Escapists what did you think of it? Have you read the books? If you haven't why aren't you reading them right now? Am I just being too much of one of those fanboys who can't appreciate something if it's not exactly to the established canon? Were you you also bothered by the lack ofDo you want me to shut up now and let you post your thoughts?
1: Knives' dad wasn't in it
2: Envy and Scott never got closure
3: Scott didn't realise he was a massive jerk to all his exes
4: they didn't include this
I loved the movie and I'm making a big effort to read the comics.
I suppose you'd need a TV series to include every single line from the books; it also wouldn't surprise me (given they worked closely with Bryan Lee O'Malley) if some of the lines were left out on purpose.
I suppose you'd need a TV series to include every single line from the books; it also wouldn't surprise me (given they worked closely with Bryan Lee O'Malley) if some of the lines were left out on purpose.