Scott Pilgrim Versus The World

Mockney said:
I gave it a lot of leeway to being with cos I thought it was interesting, and I liked the way they went about making pretty much it's own unique little format, but it didn't go anywhere at all, just round and round and by the end, I really didn't give a flying shit. I'd have probably liked it more if I'd walked out half way.
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Yeah, which is why I walked out, I think. At one point, I thought.....yes, this has potential.
 
Twisted_Woody said:
However if you don't like comic books then you probably shouldn't have wasted your time.
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100% this.

It's not aimed to a specific age group, it's aimed to comic book fans, nerds, geeks, whatever, like Kevin Smith absolutely loves it, he fits the bill of who you'd expect to love it, just like I could of predicted Empire giving it 5, yet a more technical magazine like Sight & Sound were mixed on it.

It's also the only time I've remotely liked Cera in a film role. Dudes fecking awful, but he worked very well here.
 
Zen said:
100% this.

It's not aimed to a specific age group, it's aimed to comic book fans, nerds, geeks, whatever, like Kevin Smith absolutely loves it, he fits the bill of who you'd expect to love it, just like I could of predicted Empire giving it 5, yet a more technical magazine like Sight & Sound were mixed on it.

It's also the only time I've remotely liked Cera in a film role. Dudes fecking awful, but he worked very well here.
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it's not the first comic book to big screen adaptation is it though?
 
and?

you think it's a coincidence that like 99% of the people who like this are people who love comics and stuff who are usually some of the strictest critics on film adaptations, whereas that only accounts for maybe 10% of the fanbase of any other comic adaptation?
 
Basically, I've liked other comic book adaptations. So, not liking it wasn't because it was a comic book movie.
 
Spoony Youngblood said:
Basically, I've liked other comic book adaptations. So, not liking it wasn't because it was a comic book movie.
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What I quoted didn't say you wouldn't like it because it's a comic adaptation, it said people who don't like comics probably wouldn't get much from it...which from the few posts I have read here is as true as I've seen anywhere else, people who don't read comics don't seem to like it, people who do, seem to love it, obviously there are some exceptions to both, but it's not many.
 
I just finished watching this and really enjoyed it.

Haven't read the comic but it certainly owes more than a little to the style and humour of 'Spaced'. It has one too many fights but just as I thought it was running out of steam I thought the final showdown saved it.

I liked that it played by it's own rules and wasn't afraid to be corny (I laughed at the be-gone/ve-gone gag). Cera was good and Caulkin is an excellent actor.
 
D/L'd it yesterday and resent the .00002 cent the DVD I burned it to cost.

Pile of steaming shite...
 
Eyepopper said:
D/L'd it yesterday and resent the .00002 cent the DVD I burned it to cost.

Pile of steaming shite...
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Either you're a fan of the comicbook / graphic noval genre or you're not.

I absolutely loved the film. Was a bloody geekgasm. From the moment the 8bit intro started I knew i'd love the film.

SPvtW is a film you'll enjoy if you're one of the following:
A) Geek (my category)
B) Comic Book / Graphic Noval fan.

While stuff like 300, Sin City can be enjoyed even if you're not (more so if you are).
 
My son watched it at the weekend and said that it was odd. Not sure if that was good odd or bad odd. I think I might give it a miss.
 
It was a decent movie. I am not a comic book fan at all but I thought it was very much watchable. Although the storyline ultimately became fairly redundant and the graphic action lettering became gimmicky and annoying, it was a fairy decent movie. As previously stated, it started off very well and looked full of potential but then it just turned really crap halfway in.
 
was looking forward to seeing this as seemed right up my street and i thought the first 15 mins or so were excellent

but then nothing else really happened, just the same things over and over and it became really boring to the point of it dragging

if it stayed true to the comic books fair enough (i've not read them so can't comment) but it could've brought so much more pop/video game culture into it. it lacked variety imo
 
IrishLegend said:
Either you're a fan of the comicbook / graphic noval genre or you're not.

I absolutely loved the film. Was a bloody geekgasm. From the moment the 8bit intro started I knew i'd love the film.

SPvtW is a film you'll enjoy if you're one of the following:
A) Geek (my category)
B) Comic Book / Graphic Noval fan.

While stuff like 300, Sin City can be enjoyed even if you're not (more so if you are).
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Nah... I just think it was an awful film, one dimensional plot, terrible acting, too long, one dimensional characters.

As far as comicbook adaptations go I'd say they either work or they dont, in this case there wasn't enough to work with to turn it into a film, but hey its a guaranteed payday for the film company so it doesn't really matter what its like.

As for Michael Cera... give it two years and it will be a case of 'oh yeah, remember him, Juno and Superbad were good whatever happened to him?'
 
I just couldn't get passed the idea of a socially akward sexless androgenous mouse thing who runs like a girl and has a beak being lusted after by loads of quite sexy girls...
 
Eyepopper said:
Nah... I just think it was an awful film, one dimensional plot, terrible acting, too long, one dimensional characters.

As far as comicbook adaptations go I'd say they either work or they dont, in this case there wasn't enough to work with to turn it into a film, but hey its a guaranteed payday for the film company so it doesn't really matter what its like.

As for Michael Cera... give it two years and it will be a case of 'oh yeah, remember him, Juno and Superbad were good whatever happened to him?'
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Hopefully in 2 years he'll be in the Arrested Development movie. Sooner would be better.
 
Eyepopper said:
As for Michael Cera... give it two years and it will be a case of 'oh yeah, remember him, Juno and Superbad were good whatever happened to him?'
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Or for Arrested Development which was genuinely his best work...

Mockney said:
I just couldn't get passed the idea of a socially akward sexless androgenous mouse thing who runs like a girl and has a beak being lusted after by loads of quite sexy girls...
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Young Neil should have been Scott Pilgrim, imo.
 
I_live_cement said:
Young Neil should have been Scott Pilgrim, imo.
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Would've made a lot more sense. Providing he had Cera's comic timing, which I did think was quite good. I actually thought his actual performance was great. It was just unfortunately the essence of everything that was and is everything about him that was wrong...Other than that he was good.
 
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