Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

If you don't like it, you're a motherf---er.

Guillermo del Toro agrees:
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If you don't know where this came from, I invite you to take a peek.

Intro:
Guillermo Del Toro Q&A with Filmmakers and Cast of SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Introduction - Edgar Wright Here - blip.tv

Part 1:
Guillermo Del Toro Q&A with Filmmakers and Cast of SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Q&A Part 1 - Edgar Wright Here - blip.tv

Part 2:
Guillermo Del Toro Q&A with Filmmakers and Cast of SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Q&A Part 2 - Edgar Wright Here - blip.tv
 
Guillermo Del Toro is awesome.

Edgar Wright is awesome.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is awesome.

As mentioned on one of the websites, Universal should put that quote on the DVD/Blu-ray cover.
 
I'm in lesbians with this movie. I really, really mean it. Can't wait until after Christmas to buy it (as I'm not sure if my parents are going to get it for me or not)
 
The Soundtrack has some great bands like Metric and Blood Red Shoes. I was really surprised about how much I enjoyed this movie.
 
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CB2001 said:
I'm in lesbians with this movie. I really, really mean it. Can't wait until after Christmas to buy it
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Something about this post just doesn't seem right. You have obvious :love:love:love towards the movie, but not enough to actually want to own it on your own? That's like saying you can't wait to be a father, but you'd rather be watching the football game than be around at the actual birth.

But what do I know. Even though Scott Pilgrim pays homage to everything I love in life from Zelda, arcades, music and even romantic fun times, I cannot get passed the fact that this movie wants me to root for a character played by Michael Cera who kills people. KO means knock out, NOT fatality.
 
I loved (and still love) Edgar Wright's first two movies. (Shaun and Fuzz)
Hard as I tried, I did not love this one.

It's odd, because I felt like I was primed to love it.
Edgar Wright fan. No grudge against Cera. Found the visual style extraordinarily appealing. (I'm one of the four guys who loves the Speed Racer movie, for crying out loud.) I took in the midnight showing with my wife and a room full of excited fans ... and I just didn't get it.

I enjoy the concept of the overall visual metaphor, but don't feel the film's ultimate narrative delivered on any of that thematic potential. Don't get me wrong, I dug some of the visuals, and I "got" most of the video game references ... I just felt the story, and the way the characters interacted with it left me with a big deficiency. I felt that I knew what the story was trying to be about, but also that it never quite got their for me.

Also, Wright and others involved with the productions often said that it would be structured like a musical, except when the characters would break out in song, they would start fighting. This is either offensive to musicals, or offensive to action films, because the movie certainly does not deliver on that structural promise. The fights were not revealing of character, they did not elaborate or externalize the immediate conflict. In fact, as an action movie fan, I found myself "checking out" during the deluge of similarly staged and motivated action pieces.

A huge bummer for me, as I found myself intrigued and desperately wanting to see these characters develop and be expounded upon.

Don't know if that makes me a "muther***ker", but by Del Toro's definition ... I did SEE the movie ...
 
Jeyl said:
Something about this post just doesn't seem right. You have obvious :love:love:love towards the movie, but not enough to actually want to own it on your own? That's like saying you can't wait to be a father, but you'd rather be watching the football game than be around at the actual birth.
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Again, I don't know if my parents are going to be getting me this movie for Christmas or not. I rather wait until after Christmas to see if they get it for me, so not to be rude or disrespectful. How is that wrong?
 
Jeyl said:
Even though Scott Pilgrim pays homage to everything I love in life from Zelda, arcades, music and even romantic fun times, I cannot get passed the fact that this movie wants me to root for a character played by Michael Cera who kills people. KO means knock out, NOT fatality.
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I actually make mentioned of this on the IMDB.

Since the video game aspect is heavily played upon, it's safe to say that the Exes aren't really dead, and that they've just respawned somewhere else.

Ramona said that Scott had to "defeat" her seven evil exes, not kill them. And in the context of video games of the early 1990s, the bosses are never really killed, but just defeated and often end up coming back for a sequel. One such example is Mr. X from "Streets of Rage." Another is Dr. Robotnic from "Sonic The Hedgehog" he's been defeated multiple times and kept coming up as the main boss in the other Sonic games (he's even been defeated each level of the first Sonic game, only to keep coming back).

Now, we've seen all seven Exes burst into coins, but it doesn't mean they're dead, just defeated. I mean, Gideon even spoke to Scott after he was defeated through his glasses (before Nega-Scott turns up). And every time Scott has one taken out, they've been listed as "knocked out." Even in the comics, there's no evidence suggesting that they've been killed, just defeated. One person at the IMDb stated that they had to be killed, as Clash at the Demonhead broke up after Todd was defeated in the comic. But this was quickly shot down by others (including myself), because A. Todd got pwned by Scott, who was weaker than he was (and that was part of the reason why Envy left Scott) and B. he had been having an affair with the drummer, so naturally Envy would have broken up with him even after respawning.

"But how do we know for certain they respawned?" Simple: Scott did. He earned a 1-Up that lead to a second replay of "Level 7: Chaos Theatre." If Scott can respawn, its safe to say the Exes did too (even more evidence of this is the fact that Ramona says at the end, "The past keeps catching up with me", indicating that the Exes would more than likely show up again).

The point is, the film is a video game, so the Exes aren't dead, just pwned in several different ways by Scott Pilgrim.
 
 
Well, since Vivek brought it up...

I believe I watched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in 2011. I remember enjoying it, and thinking it was an interesting departure for director Edgar Wright, but not really loving it. (I'd never read the comic.) A few weeks ago I happened on this review, and it inspired me to watch the movie again.

Video: Why ?Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? Is One of the Deepest Comic Book Films Ever | /Film

This time, I was surprised at how much more I enjoyed—dare I say loved?—it. It’s the best “comic book come to life” movie I’ve ever seen. The video game-esque fight scenes were dynamic and exciting, and not overlong. The casting was perfect, and the actors were perfect in their roles. I want to single out Brandon Routh and Kieran Culkin, but I can’t, because Chris Evans and Jason Schwartzman are equally excellent. If I have one complaint, it’s Michael Cera Fatigue. I just got caught up on Arrested Development, and there’s only so much of that guy I can take in one decade.

Anyway, I’m upgrading my rating from “It was pretty good” to “SEE IT!”

Also, totally in love.

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She's 29, so shut it.
 
Scott Pilgrim has definitely withstood the test of time. It was fun re-reading this thread - Cera is Scott Pilgrim, even if it is a different Scott Pilgrim.
 
I love the whole movie from the story to the cast & cameos. I even have the twins battle song as my ring tone.


The girl who played Knives is hot. I got your back on that.
 
When the film came out there was little about it I thought I'd like..flash forward a couple of years and I gave it a watch on cable. I love this movie! It's smart, funny, charming and very well cast.
 
Monkey67 said:
I love the whole movie from the story to the cast & cameos. I even have the twins battle song as my ring tone.
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Feraud said:
When the film came out there was little about it I thought I'd like..flash forward a couple of years and I gave it a watch on cable. I love this movie! It's smart, funny, charming and very well cast.
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I agree. The movie is really excellent. It's a shame they put it up against The Expendables. I knew that it wasn't going to do well at the box office because of the fact that The Expendables was going to appeal to the fans of the past action movies. It's like what happened with E.T., and how it ruined the box office for many sci-fi movies that came out that same summer, including John Carpenter's The Thing and Blade Runner.
 
Vivek said:
15 Little-Known Facts About Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – IFC
Thankfully they didn't go with that alternate ending. Though it tried to end on a cheerful note, it still felt pretty sad. I am glad they went with the better revised ending, as it was also more closer to the ending in the comics.
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The alternate ending is on the DVD and Blu-Ray. I agree, I'm glad they didn't go with it either. The fact is that by Scott going back with Knives is a bad idea. The fact is, he even says this himself, Knives was the "safe" choice. Basically, he would just be reverting back to how he was at the start of the film and all the changes he went through in the film would have been completely for nothing.

And a lot of people don't realize is that the ending of the film came to be long before the ending of the comic, in fact the last three volumes of the comics borrowed elements from the film. I've heard people say, "The film sucks, it's nothing like the comic", yet people don't realize that if it wasn't for the film, they wouldn't have those final three volumes the way it is, and not only that, O'Malley also agreed to the changes made for the film. In fact, originally, O'Malley considered having Scott end up being alone at the end of the comics (in one variation, he was actually considering on having Scott being arrested and labeled a serial killer because of the demise of the Evil Exes), and it was the ending where Ramona and Scott got together that made O'Malley go with the ending in the comic.
 
Yeah I saw that alternate ending only once when I got the DVD and pretty much forgot about it.

You're right, volume 6 was still being written after the movie had wrapped up shooting. And while the movie's script was still in development, elements from it made into volume 4 and 5 as well. The book reaches the ending through different circumstances, but the status of their relationship is akin to the movie's ending.

After reading volume 6 in July 2010, I was looking forward to the movie in the theatre the following month. But Universal never released it here theatrically. I was furious and pretty much had to avoid all things Scott Pilgrim online until the DVD got released.
 
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