Haven't seen the movie but volumes 1-5 of the comic are great.

The last volume lacks the charm of the others, but it's hard to end any kind of series. Regardless, read the comics (graphic novels?). They are good.


Also, this is my current wallpaper. A little bigger though...



[Edited on August 20, 2010 at 10:02 PM. Reason : ...]

8/20/2010 9:55:28 PM

WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB AND WE'RE HERE TO MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT DEATH AND GET SAD AND STUFF.

8/20/2010 10:24:32 PM

SO AWESOME!! It is in my top three favorite movies.

[Edited on August 21, 2010 at 12:54 AM. Reason : I am finding a t-shirt.]

8/21/2010 12:51:53 AM

Loved it. One of the funniest and fun movies I've seen in a long, long time.

8/22/2010 4:27:46 PM

It was great, I was pleased. My girlfriend, who had no idea what I was taking her too, squealed a little too loudly at the many Zelda music clips.

And Professor Tom Wallis said he was going to go see it this week, maybe it was even tonight.

8/24/2010 3:11:29 AM

Wallis is a cool dude.

8/24/2010 3:12:37 AM

ha, would be interested in hearing wallis' take on the movie.

8/24/2010 1:04:56 PM

So is this movie really nerdy or is it just nerdy enough.

I can do nerdy, but from the previews some if it looked downright cheesy nerdy.

I'm asking 'cause, so far, I've only really heard good things.

8/24/2010 9:01:45 PM

It really depends on you. It has plenty of nerdy stuff (8-bit sound effects and graphics images, the comic sound effect text, occasional obscure nerd references, and the like) and the premise is arguably nerdy, but most of the humor comes from interactions between characters and good comedic acting and timing. I think anyone could find a lot to laugh at in the movie unless they're the sort of person who turns their nose up at anything the slightest bit nerdy.

8/25/2010 11:01:09 AM

Fucking loved it. My wife loved it, too, even though she didn't really get all of the video game/comic book/anime references.

8/25/2010 11:16:55 AM

5 Reasons 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' Tanked

Quote :

"Selling the film proved to be an impossible task, film marketing executives and analysts told TheWrap. Coupled with a mashup concept that defied easy characterization, the film was crippled by its lead actor Michael Cera, who is rapidly earning a label as box office poison. 'This was a case where there was a narrow demographic and where that group of people responded to the movie very enthusiastically and were loud in praise, and the internet lent it more weight than it may have deserved,' said Jeff Hartke, a former box office analyst with the Hollywood Stock Exchange."

http://tinyurl.com/2uctk4l

8/29/2010 4:37:29 AM

I'm not sure anyone really likes Michael Cera. I think they love George Michael Bluth and therefore give Michael Cera chances to be just as lovable as GMB.

8/29/2010 5:27:29 AM

Saw it last night, this movie was lots of fun. I want the midi Universal theme for a ringtone.

But yeah, I'm tired of seeing Michael Cera.

8/29/2010 8:53:05 AM

Gonna see it again tonight!

8/29/2010 9:10:26 AM

this role is fundamentally different from every other role he has ever played, and it is his best work.

8/29/2010 9:52:56 AM

The role is inherently different.

However, he portrays it exactly the same as every other character I've seen him portray.

The problem is not the role, it's the actor.

8/29/2010 10:53:25 AM

Saw it again on Thursday and took a friend with me. Both of us loved it.

I'll agree that Michael Cera isn't leading man material. They did a shitty job of marketing the movie too though.

8/29/2010 10:54:59 AM

I'd say they should have marketed it as Hipster Brutal Legend, but Brutal Legend was also marketed poorly.

The video game is kinda fun, just got done with the demo. It gives me nice Double Dragon and River City Ransom flashbacks.

8/29/2010 11:59:27 AM

hooksaw

who the fuck cares if it made no money?

it's about time you realized that popularity and movie sales =/= quality of the film

8/29/2010 1:40:26 PM

^

Quote :

"who the fuck cares if it made no money?"

The investors? The studio? The actors in the movie? Objective observers? Others?

Quote :

"Worldwide: $32,328,000"

Quote :

"Production Budget: $60 million"

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=scottpilgrim.htm

And commercial success and creative success are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Your defensiveness suggests that you obviously identify with this movie, which some have described as "nerdy." I'm honestly glad you found a film that you like.

This may be a great movie--I never said it wasn't--I haven't seen it. I was just passing along some related info. And, in any event, there's really no need to get testy about it.

8/29/2010 2:30:24 PM

I like Michael Cera. Based on Youth in Revolt, I'd say he's got some genuine acting chops.

However, say he really is limited. Say he can only play soft, confused, doormats. Is that a terrible thing?

Charlie Chaplin was always Charlie Chaplin and that was cool. The Marx Bros. were always the Marx Bros. and they fuckin' ruled.

What I'm sayin' is--

Jon Heder should be Napoleon Dynamite in every movie he's in.

8/29/2010 2:36:05 PM

Quote :

"who the fuck cares if it made no money? "

I do. Edgar Wright will likely have significantly less creative control on his next film as a result of this horrible box office performance.

8/29/2010 2:39:10 PM

^he could make a much smaller movie and have all the creative control he wants.

8/29/2010 2:40:48 PM

Not necessarily.

If anyone outside of himself funds his next film, they will be much less inclined to give him final cut.

This is how things work.

8/29/2010 2:46:42 PM

if he can't find a single source for funding that will give him final cut, and final cut is important to him, then he should fund it himself.

this is how things should and can and sometimes do work.

8/29/2010 2:51:31 PM

LOOK BRO

the point is, fans of his work should somewhat care about it's financial performance

I was answering a question.

8/29/2010 3:15:07 PM

you bristle easily, el capitan.

I thought we were nearing a potentially interesting dialogue on the relationship between art and commerce, but whatever.

see you at the top of the charts.

8/29/2010 4:02:04 PM

We were, what are you talking about

8/29/2010 4:20:20 PM

Quote :

"Your defensiveness suggests that you obviously identify with this movie, which some have described as "nerdy." I'm honestly glad you found a film that you like."

I haven't seen it.

But your repetitive posting of box office gross (to make some kind of point about how "bad" the film must be) in these film threads is completely unnecessary.

8/29/2010 5:53:50 PM

^ But your repetitive posting that box office gross is irrelevant in these film threads is also completely unnecessary--and just plain wrong. And let's be honest here, your focus on my post has a lot more to do with hooksaw derangement syndrome than the box office results for this movie or my posting style.

8/29/2010 7:20:16 PM

I'm not the one with the repeated pattern of these very specific and unnecessary posts in film threads.

Get over yourself: I haven't attacked you every time you've posted this way (otherwise I wouldn't have time to post about anything else!).

8/29/2010 8:33:55 PM

Not sure why either of your are posting in this thread if neither of you have seen the movie...

8/30/2010 8:25:27 AM

My friend IM'd me yesterday:

"Vampires Suck was actually pretty good."

I was about to end our friendship before he informed me that he was joking and had accidentally walked into the wrong theater. He quickly figured out that the little girls sitting there weren't waiting for Scott Pilgrim. I think we're both going to go see SP a second time this coming weekend.

It might not make the $60mil budget back, but this movie will have a great cult following. I know I'm planning on buying the bluray on release day. Hopefully the hollywood execs will see that Edgar Wright made a great film that was horribly marketed.

8/30/2010 1:27:36 PM

everybody shit on The Cable Guy when it came out and i think that's pretty universally respected now

8/30/2010 2:10:10 PM

Scott Pilgrim will make the money back in DVD sales (well, it probably will, except that their target audience is probably the most likely to pirate it or just rely on Netflix to see it on-demand).

I wonder if the studio gets money for the video game or the other side bits that are coming out around now (shirts, figures that are likely to show up, just sundry crap) or if that all goes to the original owners of the IP.

8/30/2010 8:56:34 PM

^of course it will make the money back in dvd sales, this is true for every underperforming film.

8/30/2010 10:21:40 PM

Finished the game tonight. It's fun, but repetitive. It stutters like hell on the 360 so get the PS3 version if you have the option.

8/30/2010 10:35:30 PM

I went to see this with pretty high hopes based on all the positive things I'd heard, and it surpassed my expectations. Can't recommend this film enough.

If there's a silver lining to the poor showing at the box office, hopefully it just makes for a shorter wait for the dvd release

[Edited on August 30, 2010 at 10:48 PM. Reason : ]

8/30/2010 10:44:48 PM

Quote :

"It might not make the $60mil budget back, but this movie will have a great cult following. I know I'm planning on buying the bluray on release day. Hopefully the hollywood execs will see that Edgar Wright made a great film that was horribly marketed."

Regardless of marketing, there are some great films that just have a pretty niche target audience who will appreciate it. Unfortunately, cult classic status doesn't necessarily get you another gig.


That said, I haven't seen the movie yet since I had originally read some mixed reviews about it. But given the overwhelmingly positive response from you people who are usually quick to shit on anything, I just might do so. I mean, I align myself more closely with TWW as being this movie's niche than any hoity-toity movie critic.

8/30/2010 11:23:28 PM

Quote :

"mixed reviews [...] hoity-toity movie critic"

Uh, on rottentomatoes.com:
81% T-Meter Critics
79% Top Critics
88% RT Community

I don't think it's just the TWW people or the hoity-toity critics that like this movie...

Sure, this movie is better for a certain nerd niche audience, but I think the public in general would have liked this movie.
They just didn't have a clue that they would enjoy it because the marketing struggled (understandably) to present a film that falls under the genre of action-comedy-romance-musical-videogame-comicbook adaptation.

Go watch it, and then come post that you're not disappointed that The Expendables and Eat, Pray, Love did better at the box office.
Hell, even The Other Guys and Inception did better that weekend, and those movies were in their second and fifth weekends respectively.

8/31/2010 12:11:32 AM

Loved it. LOVED IT.

First movie since Fantastic Mr. Fox that I have not a single qualm with.

8/31/2010 5:52:33 AM

Saw it and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Awesome film.

9/6/2010 11:12:28 PM

^^I'm actually pretty shocked that you liked it that much.

And pleased yes.

9/7/2010 1:46:55 PM

why would you be shocked that someone likes the best film of the year

9/7/2010 2:26:58 PM

I forgot to add that I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was great.

9/7/2010 7:25:03 PM

i MAY have seen 1 preview of this, but i went entirely on tdub reviews. i was not disappointed.

9/7/2010 7:52:43 PM

Quote :

"I'm actually pretty shocked that you liked it that much"

Why?

9/7/2010 9:39:39 PM

that dude has some weird posts

9/7/2010 10:29:52 PM

^^Just that I've never pegged your internet persona as the kind to not have a qualm about something.

I'm more surprised that you said you had zero qualms with it than that you actually loved it. I guess.

9/7/2010 11:46:32 PM

okay, i have one qualm

moar aubrey plaza plzz

9/8/2010 12:03:02 AM