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Michael Cera was the most uncanny valley casting possible for an already weak main character, who author Brian Lee O'Malley even called his roleplay fantasy of being a cute hipster white Canadian every supporting character is more interesting and redeemable than Scott, which saves the movie because Edgar Wright couldn't afford to linger on Cera *all the time* so you get great realizations of Stephen Stills and Kim Pine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI0xsw3x7EY
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I thought that was the whole fuckin' purpose of the thing?
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Jul 25, 2022 09:38
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Edgar Wright knows that he's supposed to be a poo poo. In the commentary stuff he points out all the different ways that he points out that he's a "zero" Edit: Ohwait I'm just drunk and you're saying the exact thing that I'm thinking.
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Jul 25, 2022 09:40
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Yeah, he's supposed to be a nasty little poo poo. There's a reason they focus so much on him being a grown man dating a teenager. Unfortunately being a movie, it's too short to give justice to his character arc from the comic, where he realizes how bad he is and tries to change for the better
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Jul 25, 2022 09:42
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Every time Michael Cera is cast, he has to rely on the support cast to make the movie not suck OP.
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Jul 25, 2022 09:45
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God that movie's pretty fuckin' rad, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69gQtAdHKc
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Jul 25, 2022 09:46
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Watch the Hot Ones with Michael Cera and its pretty hard not to come out liking the guy. He seems really funny and nice.
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Jul 25, 2022 10:05
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I've never seen the movie. I don't even know who Scott Pilgrim is. 
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Jul 25, 2022 10:06
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Yars revenge getting the remake. Bzzzt.
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This movie is actually very good and has an absurd amount of talent in it. There's a shitload of craft that went into the movie. Edgar Wright clearly loved the art of the book and it really shows but yeah Scott Pilgrim is an rear end in a top hat and maybe the movie didn't perfectly spell that out but thats fine because the comic took like a thousand pages of punching the reader in the face
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Caesar Saladin posted:Watch the Hot Ones with Michael Cera and its pretty hard not to come out liking the guy. He seems really funny and nice. Yeah, I liked Cera in Arrested Development and This is the End. He seems like a decent actor and was well-cast for the poorly-adapted part of Scott. Wright is awesome at making nerd-friendly movies and considers himself a geek, and he has way too much empathy/sympathy for nerd guys represented by movie Scott. I was aghast in the theater because I know from experience that nobody likes that kind of indulgent person, loving *nobody*. That dork would be run off SA to start 4chan, unlike book Scott who's obviously a secret stoner who'd totally make music for my game projects while we hang out as BFFs
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Analytic Engine posted:Yeah, I liked Cera in Arrested Development and This is the End. He seems like a decent actor and was well-cast for the poorly-adapted part of Scott. Wright is awesome at making nerd-friendly movies and considers himself a geek, and he has way too much empathy/sympathy for nerd guys represented by movie Scott. I was aghast in the theater because I know from experience that nobody likes that kind of indulgent person, loving *nobody*. That dork would be run off SA to start 4chan, unlike book Scott who's obviously a secret stoner who'd totally make music for my game projects while we hang out as BFFs 
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Jul 25, 2022 10:20
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It's just a hipster version of the classic character arch about an insecure young man who grows to have respect for himself and stop being so insecure and depending on others. It's a trope that's as old as it gets. As was mentioned above: The movie isn't as good as, say, the actual manga, either. Which you should read if you have not because it's a much better way to digest the story than a movie where a lot of corners had to be cut and liberties were taken by the directors, etc etc.
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Jul 25, 2022 10:26
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Ironically Cera was already too good at bass to portray Scott correctly, so he un-practiced while the rest of the cast learned music for the first time
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OP next time consider making a thread about actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead instead of actor Michael "tri" Cera "tops".
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Mooey Cow posted:OP next time consider making a thread about actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead instead of actor Michael "tri" Cera "tops". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNO8x_XvyTA
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that movie sucks poo poo op
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I saw that movie and theaters and it seemed like the obvious point of the ending at the time
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It stars gross jerk Spacey but I loved Wright and Cera's Baby Driver Scott Pilgrim movie is too compressed.
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I don't like Scott Pilgrim for what he did to Scott Indian.
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Some rag called Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi Hollywood's least attractive and least influential couple. I lol'd.
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i remember watching the movie on netflix 5 or so years ago and nothing else about it. it wasn't that interesting or memorable. but i do believe you op.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:22
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i had a roommate in college for 1 semester before he flunked out that rewatched this movie on an almost daily basis on his laptop in our living room, and constantly asked if we wanted to watch it with him
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Jul 25, 2022 20:23
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it's all bad op
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AARD VARKMAN posted:i had a roommate in college for 1 semester before he flunked out that rewatched this movie on an almost daily basis on his laptop in our living room, and constantly asked if we wanted to watch it with him lol you ignored a cry for help
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MassiveSky posted:Some rag called Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi Hollywood's least attractive and least influential couple. that poo poo was a prank
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AARD VARKMAN posted:i had a roommate in college for 1 semester before he flunked out that rewatched this movie on an almost daily basis on his laptop in our living room, and constantly asked if we wanted to watch it with him Did he also try to make you play cards against humanity?
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kntfkr posted:Did he also try to make you play cards against humanity? didn't come out until the next semester. but i see him host cards against humanity streams on twitch all the time, thanks Facebook
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Miserable Maid posted:Yeah, he's supposed to be a nasty little poo poo. There's a reason they focus so much on him being a grown man dating a teenager. The movie wouldn't have done that even if they had enough time to do it because action movies have to be 100% power fantasy where the hero is never wrong and is allowed to act as awful as the target demographic.
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The editing in that movie was loving masterclass. Wright's films have such a wonderful beat to them and his editors make them sing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SxL85wHkA The original ending was so much better than the theatrical ending. It is thematically better than the tacked on bullshit they had. Except Knives should have dumped his rear end too.
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I thought this entire movie was annoying as gently caress. I respect the craft put into the editing to make it specifically catered to irritate the hell out of me though
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As an editor I want to say Edgar Wright movies aren't what I'd call particularly good editing really. But they are strong examples of detailed previsualization and deliberate shot choice. Baby Driver for example had one way to cut every action scene that had been planned before anything was shot. The editor just had to paint by numbers for the parts where everyone noticed the editing. I dunno, I don't like his movies so maybe that's a part of it, but I feel annoyed when people say they advance the art of editing or whatever. Good editing just means you come out of a movie saying it was a good story. I don't want to be too prescriptive but I don't like noticing editing, I like enjoying the movie without thinking about cuts and angles. And cutting to the beat of a music track is not the only way to interface your visuals with music. To me, the most impressive editing is like, a documentary that worked with a thousand plus hours of footage, and it effortlessly tells a difficult story that carries you along with it. Or in fiction editing really it's just "was the story good". Maybe "was the movie good despite (bunch of bad problems in the script/shoot/direction/logistics)".
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AARD VARKMAN posted:didn't come out until the next semester. but i see him host cards against humanity streams on twitch all the time, thanks Facebook the organism you encountered is what is know as a "reddit user"
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Edgar Winter > Edgar Wright
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scott pilgrim was the kind of thing that only worked in that time and place - you enjoyed it if you were a shiftless young 20-something in the 00s coming into adulthood they don't even have smartphones in the first few volumes
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The beat em up game based on the manga was thoroughly disappointing as well. It's like dude, just copy Castle Crashers but they couldn't even hack that out. It's a shame because it's got great animation.
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