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blanktoe · « **Reply #1170 on:** Aug 15, 2010, 10:06:12 PM »

Speaking of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, why did Edgar Wright have to go and say the movie takes place in Scott's imagination? That one statement kinda ruins the whole movie for me.

Fiero · « **Reply #1171 on:** Aug 15, 2010, 10:26:57 PM »

I am not interested in his statement.

blanktoe · « **Reply #1172 on:** Aug 15, 2010, 11:23:47 PM »

cool.

Derrick · « **Reply #1173 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 05:19:39 AM »

Quote from: blanktoe on Aug 15, 2010, 10:06:12 PM

Speaking of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, why did Edgar Wright have to go and say the movie takes place in Scott's imagination? That one statement kinda ruins the whole movie for me.

Because it's hipster bullshit?

Derrick · « **Reply #1174 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 10:05:27 AM »

Wow, it cost 90 million and only took in 10? Thank you, Michael Cera.

I demand Spider-girl be made with Selena Gomez be made now.

B E C K · « **Reply #1175 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 11:33:32 AM »

Box Office Bob-omb: 5 Reasons Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Failed To Find An Audience

Summarizing the points of the article using actual quotes:

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1. People over 30 don't get it. "Seriously, you're out there working for a living, you've got two screaming kids, do you really want to go spend your hard-earned money watching a kid whine about how he has to be in bands and stuff and hang out a lot? ...for the most part it's happy to be about lazy, narcissistic, 20-year-old hipsters. And if you're over 30, that just ain't cool.

2. People under 30 don't get it. "The film is steeped in video game culture which, while that might seem like something the kids can latch on to, in this case isn't. ... 20-year-old hipsters weren't even born back when me and my now thirty-something friends first dragged out all the cables to hook our first ever Nintendo up to the television for a round or two of Duck Hunt."

3. Geeks don't get it. "And maybe geeks do read the comic its based on, but Scott Pilgrim is not exactly a geek film. This is a movie about a slacker musician who's biggest problem is choosing which of the two hot girls he's dating he most wants to sleep with. "

4. People hate Michael Cera. "The box office performance of his films has grown progressively worse since Superbad, almost in concert with the number of angry “I hate hipsters” comments sure to be left on any internet story invoking his name. Scott Pilgrim just had the misfortune to be there at the place where the whole Michael Cera thing all bottomed out."

5. It's a musical w/o music. "Even if you didn't realize that's what Wright was doing with the movie" [using fights instead of musical numbers for the same purpose], "the same things which people hate about musicals are present in the trailers and, whether they knew it or not, probably had a hand in keeping them away. ... Normally that's ok since there's a dedicated crowd of moviegoers who do get it, and show up for a musical anyway, but the musical moviegoer isn't showing up for a fight movie and neither did anyone else."

Anyone agree? I know #4 is true. I just don't like him. Even looking at him makes me feel like an abused stepchild with special needs. Superficial reason or not, I would've been one of the first in line if they have casted someone hot and adorable in the lead role. We ladies need some fine guize to look at, too. And where did those ladies go btw to look at mens? To see the Expendables--it reportedly had a 40% female audience--and even beat out chick-schlock Eat, Pray, Love.

Also telling, imo, Merla just asked me "Who the heck's Scott Pilgrim". I imagine a lot of people had a similar reaction.

Derrick · « **Reply #1176 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 12:08:57 PM »

I was so happy when this movie flopped. In related news the next X-Men movie will suck horrible, horrible ass.

Fiero · « **Reply #1177 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 03:14:39 PM »

I actually have found that I like that one guy that was first said to be Michael Cera wannabe to be a much better actor, so far. I am interested to see how he does in the Facebook movie, but I am not sure I am interested in actually watching it.

blanktoe · « **Reply #1178 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 04:40:37 PM »

jesse eisenberg comes off as more of an asshole than cera. go listen to the zombieland commentary.

Derrick · « **Reply #1179 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 05:35:23 PM »

I hated him in that. I wish they would've had someone else play his role. The other three mains were perfect, though.

Fiero · « **Reply #1180 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 05:43:24 PM »

Perhaps he has an asshole, but I still say he is a better actor. Oh, how I love me some Emma Stone.

Derrick · « **Reply #1181 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 06:15:19 PM »

Gimme some delicious Abigail Breslin.

Fiero · « **Reply #1182 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 06:41:13 PM »

She is 14 and you are a cliche. And so am I.

Derrick · « **Reply #1183 on:** Aug 16, 2010, 07:58:46 PM »

Booooo.

Fiero · « **Reply #1184 on:** Aug 17, 2010, 12:38:54 PM »

http://www.newser.com/story/98280/meet-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-rooney-mara.html

For the people who were talking about it before.

B E C K · « **Reply #1185 on:** Aug 17, 2010, 04:09:14 PM »

Thank you for the link. I was curious who they were gonna cast but I see it's just another rich, connected chick buying herself some credentials. For anyone confused, the above doesn't concern the film Bernie was raving about or the one I'm dying to see. It concerns the useless Hollywood remake. What is with Hollywood raping Sweden? First Let the Right One In and now this one. LTROI came out in 2008. The original Dragon Tattoo came out last year. AND THEY. ARE. REMAKING. IT. Boooooo.

Rama · « **Reply #1186 on:** Aug 17, 2010, 04:27:54 PM »

Maybe they are still trying to launch a counterstrike for ABBA.

Fiero · « **Reply #1187 on:** Aug 17, 2010, 05:38:53 PM »

Beck, it is pretty damn simple. Hollywood can no longer think for itself.

blanktoe · « **Reply #1188 on:** Aug 18, 2010, 04:28:54 AM »

That's not true. It's just that all the movies with halfway original ideas flop.

B E C K · « **Reply #1189 on:** Aug 18, 2010, 11:27:46 AM »

I don't know, I consider a lot of these movies to have just that: "halfway original ideas".

Sad that few seem to want to accept that some of this shit flops because its shit, not because they're original or not.

My objection isn't really with how original an idea is when it makes it to the cinema but it galls me to take from such recent, GOOD films when there's plenty of older films, books, comics, etc dying to be made or remade or even given a sequel or prequel. Stuff from this century should still be off-limits unless it sucked somehow. Both Swedish films were critically acclaimed. Their only crime was not being in English.

It would also be a different thing to take The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and make it completely American. Let Me In, equally needless remake of Let The Right One In, at least changed to an American locale. However, Girl's still being filmed in Sweden. HUH? We already had this just last year in authentic Swedish.

It would also be different to remake both films with major stars. The Girl remake has Daniel "saddlebag face" Craig--not really among the Clooneys, Jolies, and such as a major box office draw. The eponymous girl and the two kids in Let Me In are nobodys. In fact, the major stars in Let Me In are... Richard Jenkins and Elias Koteas.

Fiero · « **Reply #1190 on:** Aug 18, 2010, 12:12:55 PM »

You know what I would kind of like to see? Tank Girl. Yeah I know they did that one film, but after reading the comics I think it is shit. I want the Tank Girl will the gore and the tits flashing everywhere. I do not remember thta being the Tank Girl we got. Plus apparently Martin and Hewlitt totally fucked it up anyway, they have admitted it. Shit script and they animated major scenes that they simply, "forgot to film." Rant over.

I am slightly curious to see Let Me In ... but no fuck that.

gwynn · « **Reply #1191 on:** Aug 19, 2010, 08:23:37 PM »

Haters gonna hate.

B E C K · « **Reply #1192 on:** Aug 19, 2010, 10:05:52 PM »

Tank Girl was enjoyable enough for me but, I never read the comic. Yeah, I'd like to see someone take that on and do it closer to what it should be.

And, yes, Let Me In can go fuck itself.

Rama · « **Reply #1193 on:** Aug 20, 2010, 12:30:24 AM »

I hated Tank Girl...and I never read the comics.

Fiero · « **Reply #1194 on:** Aug 20, 2010, 03:39:32 PM »

The comics are ten times what the movie is. If you like that weird anime where people were having sex for no reason then you should enjoy a comic where they shoot people and run around the outback with their tops off for no reason.

Rama · « **Reply #1195 on:** Aug 21, 2010, 01:40:29 AM »

I didn't say I liked that Anime. I said I watched it.

Fiero · « **Reply #1196 on:** Aug 21, 2010, 07:27:05 AM »

Well read this.

Derrick · « **Reply #1197 on:** Aug 21, 2010, 10:04:49 AM »

I did, now what?

B E C K · « **Reply #1198 on:** Aug 21, 2010, 04:46:21 PM »

Weird anime huh huh?

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1199 on:** Aug 25, 2010, 09:01:09 PM »

I watched Eclipse and I'm ashamed of myself