2010-08-13, 06:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 2010-08-14, 06:40 PM by madanthony.)
If you haven't read the graphic novels yet. Do so. But I'm here to talk movie. And oh, what a movie.
The styling was unique and superb. You have not seen a movie like this. In comparison to the comics, most of the characters were perfect. I particularly loved Kim and Young Neil. Wallace (probably my favorite character in the comics) was excellent, I just can't have a hetero-man-crush on someone from the Culkin family. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is definite nerd crush material. Tasty, awesome-hair nerd crush. I think the only person I didn't care for was Stephen.
Quite a few liberties had to be taken with the plot, and I accepted that. Time constraints and all. They really started twisting things to fit once they hit Envy and Todd. Scott's relations with Kim and Envy were explained as far as "they dated". At no point did Scott get his job or did the band do an album (and therefore no Joseph :< and therefore no awesome reveal right at the end ;_; ). And the awesome fight between Knives and Ramona in the library wasn't there, and I was all "God damn. Why would they skip a perfectly good action scene?" and then they sort of turned the fight with Gideon into a battle royale where Knives and Ramona did fight during Scott's first life. It was a little odd. Gideon had the coolest pineappleing sword though.
And on the subject of action, the fights were beautiful. I also saw the Expendables today (Good if you want to see Sly's self-indulgent half-tarded 80s action baby. Which I sort of did. Oh, and Terry Crews blowing up things that would not normally blow up with an automatic shotgun. pineapple yeah.) and Scott Pilgrim's fights were vastly superior. Good, long shots with great choreography and panache. No stilted, jumpy fistfights like the Expendables.
Sometimes the world-as-video-game aesthetic started feeling a little cheesy, but then they'd slip in stuff like snippets of Zelda and Mario audio and I realized the guys who made this movie really do know and love us. And there was one great, meta, sort of self-referential line in the Scott Pilgrim style from Comeau toward the end. "Sure, I saw it. But the comics were way better than the movie." My one friend I got to read all the comics yesterday and I laughed hard. It only elicited chuckles from the rest of the small audience. I hope more people read the source material.
Tl;dr. I highly recommend Scott Pilgrim. Even more than the movie, I recommend the comics. But the movie was excellent. You really haven't seen anything quite like it. At least I haven't. Right down to scene transitions and giving a sense of passing time, Scott Pilgrim does it different and with style.
The styling was unique and superb. You have not seen a movie like this. In comparison to the comics, most of the characters were perfect. I particularly loved Kim and Young Neil. Wallace (probably my favorite character in the comics) was excellent, I just can't have a hetero-man-crush on someone from the Culkin family. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is definite nerd crush material. Tasty, awesome-hair nerd crush. I think the only person I didn't care for was Stephen.
Quite a few liberties had to be taken with the plot, and I accepted that. Time constraints and all. They really started twisting things to fit once they hit Envy and Todd. Scott's relations with Kim and Envy were explained as far as "they dated". At no point did Scott get his job or did the band do an album (and therefore no Joseph :< and therefore no awesome reveal right at the end ;_; ). And the awesome fight between Knives and Ramona in the library wasn't there, and I was all "God damn. Why would they skip a perfectly good action scene?" and then they sort of turned the fight with Gideon into a battle royale where Knives and Ramona did fight during Scott's first life. It was a little odd. Gideon had the coolest pineappleing sword though.
And on the subject of action, the fights were beautiful. I also saw the Expendables today (Good if you want to see Sly's self-indulgent half-tarded 80s action baby. Which I sort of did. Oh, and Terry Crews blowing up things that would not normally blow up with an automatic shotgun. pineapple yeah.) and Scott Pilgrim's fights were vastly superior. Good, long shots with great choreography and panache. No stilted, jumpy fistfights like the Expendables.
Sometimes the world-as-video-game aesthetic started feeling a little cheesy, but then they'd slip in stuff like snippets of Zelda and Mario audio and I realized the guys who made this movie really do know and love us. And there was one great, meta, sort of self-referential line in the Scott Pilgrim style from Comeau toward the end. "Sure, I saw it. But the comics were way better than the movie." My one friend I got to read all the comics yesterday and I laughed hard. It only elicited chuckles from the rest of the small audience. I hope more people read the source material.
Tl;dr. I highly recommend Scott Pilgrim. Even more than the movie, I recommend the comics. But the movie was excellent. You really haven't seen anything quite like it. At least I haven't. Right down to scene transitions and giving a sense of passing time, Scott Pilgrim does it different and with style.