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Just saw the movie at the midnight screening.

It was so flipping awesome, it's beyond words.

Anyone seen it? Thoughts?

Not coming out here in Holland until FUCKING JANUARY WHAT THE FUCK! By the time it's in cinemas here, the European DVD/BluRay WITH DUTCH SUBTITLES will be available everywhere. God damn it. Pirating the shit out of it. I'm going to jail!

Same here in Germany which makes me very very sad.  :(

We don't even have a release date here. Bloody hell.

Same here. I'll be going with Pietepiet to jail.  :P

Just saw it. Flipping awesome does describe it. Although the later parts drag a little - the evil ex fights are good just as eye candy, but after the first few they tend to stop the plot dead since the main conflict of the series is an internal one - thus the fighting just grows less and less meaningful. It wasn't as much of a problem in the comic because there was more room to play with and keep the ex fights as punctuation to each volume; I would have liked to see a Scott Pilgrim that was split into two or three movies and could explore all of the characters more.

But the movie we have doesn't disappoint. And the soundtrack is eminently listenable. All I can say is "Bollywood + chiptunes." (http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/2) (track 4)

Saw it last night. Loved it.

many disturbing comic book nerds in attendance though.

I liked the ending in the movie more than the comic's.
I like how the things that were cut out were the things I didn't really like about the movie.

If you skip this movie because you don't like Michael Cera, you're an asswipe.

In all, probably my favorite movie this year.

i went to kickass once and somebody read the whole time. READ! you pay money for a ticket and you read?! :wtf:

So why is Scott Pilgrim popular? I still don't get it, but I know almost everyone here loves it so maybe you can enlighten me.

It's awesome because it's innovative, funny, and action packed. The soundtrack is pretty cool too, they used one of the songs from Zelda in one of the dream sequences.

Isn't it just romance and drama with video game references over it? So like, nerds forget how much drama there is because of the video game references?

It's pretty funny I guess, their band is called Sex Bob-omb.

Like that song? Sex Bomb? But see, Bob-ombs, from Mario.

Well haha but if it was just drama with video game references it wouldnt be all that good, it's more the action that appeals to a lotta people. And the action in the movie is sooo pretty and intense. The comics have more romance, the movie wasn't all too heavy on that.

Saw it today I think it's really awesome for a movie adaptation. call me superficial but if only michael cera's hair was longer.

like anime .o.

In the books it's 190 pages of drama and about 10 to 15 of fighting.

i like scott pilgrim 'cause it's goofy. the movie is like watching a live-action cartoon

I find the whole movie to be a quirky reflection on dealing with baggage in relationships, and recognizing the relationships that truly make us grow.

Sure it's a nerdy movie, but that's just the awesome coating- the core is just as delicious, and more mature than one would think.

Instead of using the normal to show us the fantastic, (see: romance movies or comedies)

It uses the fantastic to show us the normal.

I liked Scott Pilgrim because of the Mithril Skateboard. Shame he didn't have the required proficiency for it.

Last book was a bummer, though.

So it wasn't really as painful as I figured it would be.  I kind of expected the whole thing to be an hour and a half reference-fest to things that you haven't heard of because they're pretty obscure.  But, to my surprise, the movie actually managed to take everything that made the comics suck and either improve on them or omit them, and everything that made the comic's awesome (Wallace) was even better!

They actually made Scott seem in the right for dumping Knives.  In the first book, she seemed like a very nice girl that Scott dropped like a hot rock because OH MAN GOTTA STICK TO MY MORALS and oh maybe because of this new bitch or whatever, sorry Knives, lol, and also Knives, you're wrong for hating Scott pretty much.  In the movie, she comes off as a lot more clingy and a lot more obsessive, not just some naive girl who Scott took for a ride.  The fights were actually entertaining to watch this time around, instead of the parts I ended up flipping through as quickly as I could.  If you're not going to make these fights do anything but stall the plot and spit out references, at least make them cool.  O'Malley can't draw fighting, everything is so goddamn stiff.  It's like someone is posing a bunch of Gumbi's in the air and taking pictures.  I swear man, somewhere John K is weeping.  They kind of fixed some of the stupider fights in the book, meaning Todd and Gideon.  Basically, just trimming all the fat that was on those fights. 

Also, the acting was actually top notch.  This was make or fucking break here, and I though every line was delivered fantastically, where there was a lot of potential for 'hurr i wish i was a morphball' shit.

I was kind of upset that they cut out Lynette Guycott, the bionic arm girl, even though you actually saw her in a scene or two.  I was actually pretty pumped to see how they were gonna do that, ah, whatever, maybe it's a deleted scene.

Still, I just wish we had a little more explanation for this.  Everything just seems so unfounded that I have to keep reminding myself to push it into the back of my mind and try to ignore.  Just ignore the fact that Ramona's love is just a MacGuffin, that Scott and Ramona have the same sort of romantic complexity that falls between Bella and Edward and Ponyo and Sosuke.  Don't think about why the League exists, why Gideon is doing all this, why Scott manages to have everything handed to him on a silver platter and just continue to be the Mariest Sue despite being an insufferable, unlikeable douche. 

But, I can't hate the movie as a whole.  Because it was fun to watch, and it made me laugh.  And if I was to judge a movie by just picking on the faults, and not on the overall entertainment it provided me, I'd be a massive tool.  It was great, definitely beats anything else that's in theaters right now.

But, I'm sure it will be ruined when someone like the Game Overthinker or Leigh Alexander opens their mouths to talk about how important this movie is to the video game community.  So, no stars, thanks hypothetical games journalism for ruining another movie.

The movie felt rushed at times, unexplained several times, and somewhat of a disappointment for anyone who read the books (not to mention confusing for anyone who didn't), but what would you expect? It's six books being stuffed into one movie. It's acceptable to leave out Lisa Miller, in my opinion, since she only had an important role in book 4, and the dropping of Lynette is also understandable, if not a little disappointing. However, this cut-and-trim method managed to make the movie a little less fun. I preferred Todd when he was more of a dick, Negascott felt a bit cheapened in the film version, and I really wanted to see Knives fight Ramona in the mall. And as awesome as the amp battle with the Katayanagi twins was, it would have been more fun if they fought with robots like in the original. Not to mention how they f'ed up the continuity by not going into subspace more often; they didn't even use it to explain how Ramona got her hammer.

This movie could have benefited the most if it were in two parts (Just call part 2 Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe), although it then might have suffered from running out of jokes too soon.

Everyone laughed a lot at the screening I saw, though, and overall, it was good.

I loved the movie, but of course the books are better. They did a phenomenal job of making their on take on the story, even though some parts were left out. It felt rushed at times, but it stands as my favorite edited film of all time.

So, Scott Pilgrim failed to make over 11M the opening weekend, and many people are labeling it a failure.  Shit kind of sucks.  This article tries to shed some light on it.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Box-Office-Bob-omb-5-Reasons-Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Failed-To-Find-An-Audience-20168.html (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Box-Office-Bob-omb-5-Reasons-Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Failed-To-Find-An-Audience-20168.html)

Now, I can't figure out if I want to agree with this article.  It seems true, but the author says some very stupid shit throughout.  But even the very stupid shit is probably true... 


You uncultured swine.

I think it'll be a word of mouth sort of thing.

I liked it a lot. I want more films to treat being in a band that well.


I definitely need to read the comics now.

Ahahahaha, what? Yeah, I've never played an NES before in my life, guys! Didn't grow up with one, nuh-uh!

For god's sake.....

Oh yeah, the NES?  It's a pretty obscure system, you've probably never heard of it.


I get the feeling that everyone who wanted to see the movie already has.  There was a massive advertising presence of Facebook, making people join the group to release new trailers, so I don't see how more they can't get the word out there about this movie.

I never understood the hatred of hipsters.

Also Scott Pilgrim was a pretty great movie. I think it will be a cult classic when it shows up on DVD.

Is this a confirmation of being a 20 year old hipster?

Haha, no. I just found it funny that apparently you have to be 30 to know what an NES is, which is a ridiculous statement.

Also, why is everything labeled hipster these days?

I have no fucking idea, what the hell is a hipster?

I'm probably a hipster when I shave and dress well and go watch scott pilgrim and have friends

(when I don't shave I'm just a nerd)

Also, "hipster shit" is what people who enjoy mainstream things call obscure things they don't like.

One of the characters wears a shirt that says hipster, so they are labeling themselves.

right, that's exactly it  :facepalm:

DECISIVE EVIDENCE! THE COURT GOES WILD

Don't pretend it isn't.

I don't think the sort of hipsters that get a lot of flak exist in large enough numbers to do any harm.

I just saw it yesterday, easily the best movie i have seen this year. i had a few big issues, most of which could have been resolved had it been split into 2 movies. i really didn't like how it seemed only to take place over like a week, it made the relationship a lot less believable and made it seem like they spent their entire time together either fighting exes or having sex. it also should've had more subspace, it was barely in the movie. also, if it had been in 2 movies, they could've added development to kim and other side characters instead of just knives. SPEAKING OF KNIVES, her degree of involvement in the climax was sort of weird considering she has nothing to do with gideon. at all.

toy story 3

okay, not that easily, but i think i liked it even a bit more than toy story 3.

Or what people who enjoy obscure things call obscure things they don't like, for that matter.

There are not enough t-shirts with ironic messages and images in this thread for it to be a discussion about hipsters.

so guys...


i'm in lesbians with this movie


i love michael cera<333

why do so many people dislike him

i like him

I've only ever seen him in Arrested Development, Juno, and Scott Pilgrim though. But i liked em.

As simple as it sounds, I think these two statements summarize the situation quite clearly. It seems that anyone can call anybody else a hipster these says as long as the second party is: a) trying to make an artistic statement of some sort, b) doing something eccentric that the first party isn't interested in or doesn't want to understand, c) is part of an otherwise unlabelled group of behavioural/dress patterns that isn't already well-established (eg. "goths" are never called hipsters, but "punks", which has become a much looser term, sometimes are).

The most common usage I see is for young people who wear classic or dressware clothing (eg. suits, dresses, or wearing certain types of hats like berets). I live in Canada, of course, so I'm not entirely sure how far out of context this is for other countries. How this applies to Scott Pilgrim in any way is far beyond me, and I don't really know what people are trying to prove or accomplish by name-dropping, or what associations they make to begin with.

My first thought is usually that it's just a jealousy thing, but I try not to think that because it's probably just a reactionary feeling to make myself feel bigger than those name-dropping in the first place, which really is just as bad (if not worse). So yeah.

I'm not really helping to bring this already forsaken topic back on track, though :/ but the whole "hipster" thing is something I've seen pop up quite often, so I've been interested in the psychology behind it lately.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did read the comics. I enjoyed them, not too much though in respect to many of the good comics I've read, but they definitely had some memorable moments. I really liked the art style in the 4th and 5th books a lot.

I just kinda went with a excavator up in this here thread and some of your posts may have been caught in the madness.

I apologize for any inconvenience. Please carry on.

I love Melly. He is hipster. And hipsters are cool.

AGRRED

Can somebody actually give a straight answer of what the crap a hipster even is?

It's not that clear to me, or anyone really. To me I guess the thought behind it seems to be that that's what you call people who like stuff because they like to appear weird, quirky or esoteric. Although ironically enough, if you're calling other people that, you're the one who is overly concerned with appearances. Or that is how it seems to me.

A hipster is someone who always throws themselves into the latest trend. It's that simple.

But only certain trends. Some hipster trends would be tiny beards and those cheap plastic sunglasses they give out at concerts.

But if they don't follow the latest trend they wouldn't be hip anymore.

Yeah but today's trends are sort of anti-trends and about individuality, so now they are on their own--and not very creative. Or, too creative and just impractical or self-defeating. But yeah, it will pass on to something else.

Scott Pilgrim is kind of an example of retro-hipster, like that awful ROOTS Nintendo shirt, where whatever respect I had for you knowing about those games is gone for you labeling yourself "Old School".

Hipter shit... Modern Warfare 2...

But Scott Pilgrim was my third favorite movie this year.

4. Toy Story 3
3. Scott Pilgrim
2. Kick-Ass
1. Inception

or those shirts where the show a cartridge and it says blow me. ugh.  :-X

Ah, so a hipster is whatever the person wants it to be at the moment.

Anyway, hope they put this on DVD soon. I'm not really looking into going to the theater. I prefer to watch it from the confort of my home, without having problems with pausing the movie so I can take a goddamn piss.

Saw it this weekend and really enjoyed it. I think they made a lot of good choices for what to cut and change about it. My favorite change was how they handled the extra life in Gideon's battle. I was also really laughing at the laugh-track scene with the Seinfeild theme.

I have some nitpicks, though. I don't really care about these other then it being fun to complain. Kim Pine's hair looked like a radio-active wig. Her acting seemed stiff too. I liked the character in the comics, and she seems like the most likely character to get a spin-off (she did have her own short comic at one point), so it wouldn've been nice to see more care given to her. I also agree it would've been better spaced out in two movies. Mostly because Scott and Ramona's relationship definitely seemed rushed. I didn't like the CG monster battle with the twins- it just felt like the cheesiest scene.

That aside, I thought it was a great movie. I kind of wish I could see it from the perspective of someone who didn't read the books, just to see how much sense it all made to a fresh mind. I think it would still be good for that kind of viewer, maybe even better.

"Hipster" is a derogatory slur you use against someone who you think is just as disingenuous as you secretly are.

I didn't have a clue about this Scott whatsit before this thread, but if his band's name is "Clash at the Demonhead" I approve. "Scott Pilgrim and the Mr. Gimmicks" would have been way sexier, though.

A single Mr. Gimmick reference, no matter how little, in the movie would prove that it is not disingenuous at all.

No, The Clash at Demonhead is his ex's band, his is The Sex Bob-Ombs.

I think I need to see this movie now. Shame it's apparently not out over here.  :(

Ah, alright. THe only information about the movie was relayed to me by a pal with the entire comic collection on his shelf. I'll have to ask him about borrowing it.

The greatest reference in the movie went right over my head for a surprisingly long time.

...'Chaos Theatre'. Can't believe it took me so long

Since I won't be able to see the movie for some months I want to know if one scene from the books is in the movie. It's from book one, when Kim says about Knives Chau that she's Sex Bob-omb biggest fan and Young Neil cries and runs away, so is it in the movie?

I found that scene hilarious, don't know why, but I would love to see that scene in motion.

Yeah, it is iirc.

I went to see it and I think this movie is amazing. That is all.

I saw it opening weekend and I liked it but having not read the books some of the stuff didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I did like the shots of Toronto as I live there and sat in the Pizza Pizza across from Honest Ed's where on of the shots was. Also the part with the vegan guy was hilarious.

Got to see this the other day (now its finally out in the UK) - and its pretty good fun.
I love the books, and first half was surprising close to volume one. Most of the casting was spot on too (weakest being kim/scott/ramona).

But overall it felt like it would have benefited from a few slower sections. The pace was a constant gogogo throughout.

Would be cool if they could use the books to make a tv series (like SPACED), there is a lot of great stuff in the books they couldn't pack into the film.

You know, I feel rather ashamed to admit that I seem to be the only person among my friends who had honestly never heard of this before I saw the preview for it - did I miss out on a huge amount of comic culture?

I was very impressed, though, to see that it appeared to be presented as very game-like - and not, as is usually the case, presented like what somebody who's never played any of them thinks games are like.

saw it on saturday, loved every bit of it. the matthew patel fight was hilarious, same with the VEGAN POLICE.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona just didn't cut it for me. Personal ideal would have been Ellen Page, but then again Ellen Page is my personal ideal for everything.

^ This

Ellen Page is perfect for every role and don't any of you say otherwise.

I was gonna see this a few days ago, but the theater (singular) that was playing it here has ALREADY DROPPED IT! What the hell!? I guess Scott Pilgrim isn't really the most popular sort of movie in Alabama. I think people here are allergic to fun.

So I went to see The Expendables instead. It was ok.

just came across this from adultswim - animated pilgrim!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BitByGeWGxU&feature=related

These two fine men have perfectly expressed the Truth.