I just finished watching Scott Pilgrim

[gphjr14]

Despite Michael Cera's annoying voice the movie made up for it with good acting and jokes usually at Cera's expense. I say 4 out of 5.

 

[rapidoud]

Did not like it.

Epitomised everything of pop culture and so I was very surprised that I loathed it, and everyone I know loathed it.

 

[Arashiofordo3]

Loved it, went to read the manga it was based off.

Love the manga even more.

Its not a manga its a comic book. There is a difference. Sorry to get snobby but calling the comic books 'manga' is like calling Skooby-Do an anime.

It's spelt Scooby Doo. And I'll have you know it's an animated artpiece.

[/sarcasm]
;D

Ah thanks for the spelling, the phonetic hard 'k' always throws me off, and the spell checker doesn't help. Nah, I wouldn't go with animated artpiece. It comes across as being too pretentious for a show concerning a talking dog and halloween costumes. I would define it as an 'Animated Western Cartoon'. Or perhaps an 'episodic motion drawing series'.

I am now going to spend half an hour trying to define Scooby Doo, god damnit. X3

 

[Koroviev]

I wasn't particularly impressed by it, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

Awesome movie, awesome-er book. I do see how some people wouldn't like it but I personally think it's FUCKIN' AMAZING. It's also nice to see a bunch of other people with avatars from it here.

 

[Tucker154]

best movie ever enough said

This,it made me a happy geek

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So yeah I finally got round to watching it, I thought it was really quite good, good music, good actors and an amusing script, I'd rate it 4.5 out of 5. So did anybody else like it as much as I did?

Best romantic comedy Ever. ^^

Also, I loved the Revolutionary Girl Utena reference. ^^

 

[Arashiofordo3]

Loved it, went to read the manga it was based off.

Love the manga even more.

Its not a manga its a comic book. There is a difference. Sorry to get snobby but calling the comic books 'manga' is like calling Skooby-Do an anime.

Ah yes, just looked up the wiki page. I stand corrected. May have to get onto the local Waterstones for putting it in the Manga section.

Secondaly, I forbid you to ever making that reference ever again. Not only because it's horribly wrong, but because it's just a horrible show, even for a kids show.

I agree, I wholeheartedly agree. But when you are looking for a show which is the poler opposite to an anime Scooby Doo is the best answer. Even if it is terrible.

 

[Innegativeion]

Very funny, quality film. Never read the comic myself, but I saw it around prior to watching the movie, and I was kind of off-put by the actor for scott, he just didn't seem anything like how I'd imagined him to look or sound... but that's just me being weird. Loved it otherwise.

 

[Peteron]

Eh...it was alright, liked the game more. Movie felt a bit rushed, which is understandable, but still. Never read the comics.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

awesome film, i would have prefered it to be split into maybe another film or 2 so more of the comics could have been explored, but apart from that i think it was pretty good

 

[major28]

that movie was a bacon cheeseburger with awesome sause

 

[punksnotdead]

Yeah it was pretty good. Although I think Scott's band should of been a Nintendocore band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2xcEPooVw

 

[Baralak]

I loved this movie. I love it more than Star Wars.


Also, Scooby-Doo's not bad at all. My favorite shows being The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, and the recent Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated. Most of the movies in the past few years (save Zombie Island) and "What's New Scooby Doo?" were all trash, though.

 

[drisky]

Funny, when the movie first came out half the escapist said they hated it, now 90% loved it. Oh how opinions change when they actually watch the movie rather then saying they hate it because Michael Cera is in it.

I saw it on release day, I get extra nerd points.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

Saw it in theaters because I couldn't see Machete. I am very happy my friend's mom is so overprotective. Best movie of that year and one of my top ten. Plus, it was the only time I have ever heard a full theater laugh until they cried all at once.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

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.

 

[Chris646]

It is the only movie that I have rewatched in a place outside of school, on the DVD, with no childhood nostalgia about it. I also purchased the game, the comics and the memorabilia because the movie was good. Probably a 9.8/10 in my opinion.

 

[BrownGaijin]

Snip.

Initial thought:

http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/stoned.jpg

Alright lets break it down.

When I said...

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree then.

You interpreted it as...

"YOU'RE WRONG BECAUSE I SAID SO"

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!

and that really... wouldn't carry much weight with someone who hasn't seen the movie and was soliciting opinions.

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:

"I'd like to see a real band put together to do a cover of 'Sex Bob-Omb'.

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!

Aside from that, I have only one question to level at you:

Go ahead...

while you mention that it only defines a small part of geek culture, which part would that be? In the movie, they didn't play video games at all,

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...

don't make 'Scott Pilgrim' out to be some anthemic movie of geek culture when it would be more honest to say that it was a cash-in on the rising popularity of geek culture.

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.)

 

[mikespoff]

It was fun. It wasn't the greatest movie that I've seen, but I had fun with it.