Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. I thought it was hilarious in high school and honestly I was sort of scared to watch it again for fear of the Adam Sandler effect where you realize it was only funny because you were a dumb kid.
I watched it again and yeah, it's dumb as shit and some of the jokes fell flat, but it's still fun to watch because you can tell the people making it were having fun with it. It pulls you into the mentality that everyone's fucking around and you can just enjoy it for the stupid mess that it is.
Also there's this really bizarre almost autistic fascination with certain trivial petty details. For example I remember they kept bringing up scott wearing sweatbands on his arms for no reason. It didn't go anywhere and it didn't build character or anything, they were just regular ass conversations, like "why do you wear those," "I dont know I kinda like em" type shit. And then they'd have another conversation later on like "I thought you were gonna stop wearing those" "oh, I guess I forgot."
They definitely gutted it but I think it sort of needed to be gutted. Though I guess with source material it doesn't matter. If people are drawn to it and you go a different direction with it, the same crowd might not have the same reaction.
I watched it again and yeah, it's dumb as shit and some of the jokes fell flat, but it's still fun to watch because you can tell the people making it were having fun with it. It pulls you into the mentality that everyone's fucking around and you can just enjoy it for the stupid mess that it is.
I had the complete opposite experience. Loved the movie, checked out the books, and they seriously seem like they were written by a fucking middle schooler. In the movie you get the vibe that you aren't really supposed to like scott, and nobody else really seems to like him all that much either, so even though the character is naive and obnoxious it feels like it's playing into a joke. In the books all the girls want to ride Scott's bologna pony and everyone but scott is gay, probably for scott. There's even a plotline where scott wrestles personal guilt over the fact that he's a muffin-level stud there's not enough of him to go around. The level of irony that made the character likable in the movie isn't there.BloatedGuppy said:Yup. It's fucking awful.tippy2k2 said:...did people hate Scott Pilgrim Versus the World? It doesn't have a great imdb/metacritic score so I'll include it because it's one of my favorite movies ever. Hilarious and incredibly entertaining.
Mind you I'm biased from having read the (wildly superior) books it was based on first, so I spent 90% of the time outraged at the shitty translation of the material from book to screen.
Edgar Wright hasn't done much to get excited about since Hot Fuzz, frankly. Pilgrim is by far his worst movie. I find its mild cult popularity incredibly aggravating.
Also there's this really bizarre almost autistic fascination with certain trivial petty details. For example I remember they kept bringing up scott wearing sweatbands on his arms for no reason. It didn't go anywhere and it didn't build character or anything, they were just regular ass conversations, like "why do you wear those," "I dont know I kinda like em" type shit. And then they'd have another conversation later on like "I thought you were gonna stop wearing those" "oh, I guess I forgot."
They definitely gutted it but I think it sort of needed to be gutted. Though I guess with source material it doesn't matter. If people are drawn to it and you go a different direction with it, the same crowd might not have the same reaction.