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[Guillaume]

Just saw the movie at the midnight screening.

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

Anyone seen it? Thoughts?

[Pietepiet]

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!

[PGGB]

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. 

[Renton]

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

[Nikica]

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

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

[Triplefox]

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." (track 4)

[Movius]

Saw it last night. Loved it.

many disturbing comic book nerds in attendance though.

[Tanner]

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.

[BoxedLunch]

Saw it last night. Loved it.

many disturbing comic book nerds in attendance though.

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

[Delmore]

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.

[Demon Lizardman]

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.

[Delmore]

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.

[Atnas]

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.

[Delmore]

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.

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

[Tanner]

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

[Guillaume]

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.

[Hangedman]

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

It uses the fantastic to show us the normal.

[Renton]

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.

[AshfordPride]

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.

[Sir Raptor]

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.