[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Recently, this giant craze about Scott Pilgrim has surfaced. The first I heard about it, was with the movie, "Scott Pilgrim VS. The World", then I see on almost EVERY site that there was a game in development that was at E3. THEN I hear about these comics. Then I hear that it's based in Canada, and is written and drawn by a Canadian author/artist, THEN I find out there are oodles of Manga, Video Game, and Anime References in there.

So, after all that, the only thing I could think of, was: "Scott Pilgrim sounds kinda lame..."

Then I get the Comics (thanks to TwilightSword) and my opinion changes. Really fucking fast.

Then I get the game. It is awesome and a fun as hell beat 'em up. (For it to be perfect... Online play and a bigger world would be needed.)

But the Movie... I haven't seen, I heard it's faithful to the comics, and unfaithful at the same time. Now thanks to TS, I'm hooked on the series.

Now what about the rest of Mega Man X9.com?

[Silver_Stryker]

Well, I only saw the movie....













3 times. 'nuff said.

[JOHNY BOMB!]

The movie is pretty good...it's wacky, fun and never took itself seriously which is a good thing. And the several retro video game references will make any retro fans happy (almost every fan). It was like watching a anime and video games come to life.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

... This is the comics section *cough* Ah, who gives a shit...

[Rogue Vile MkII]

Scott Pilgrim is the best comic book series Ive ever read X3 Im in lesbians with the comics, the movie and the game

[Silver_Stryker]

Dynamo8, on 25 August 2010 - 08:49 PM, said:

The movie is pretty good...it's wacky, fun and never took itself seriously which is a good thing. And the several retro video game references will make any retro fans happy (almost every fan). It was like watching a anime and video games come to life.

Well you brought up the game and movie*cough* mmkay.

After you've posted the thread earlier today, I checked out the comics. A tad bit less attention-capturing than the movie, but it's really good. Dunno if I'll ever check out the game though.

[Reploid-Man]

I've heard of the movie and one of my co-workers saw it and told me a little about it and the only thing I gathered was that the whole seemed to be very similiar to a certain video game about a certain otakian male living in Santa Destroy... You know who I'm talking about. The crownless king himself.

[Silver_Stryker]

Reploid-Man, on 26 August 2010 - 06:45 PM, said:

I've heard of the movie and one of my co-workers saw it and told me a little about it and the only thing I gathered was that the whole seemed to be very similiar to a certain video game about a certain otakian male living in Santa Destroy... You know who I'm talking about. The crownless king himself.

To be honest, I thought I was the only one that made that connection. To me the move kinda gave me a "NMH kiddie style" vibe to it. At least, kiddie-style compared to NMH itself....

[Zhon]

I LOVE SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD~!

Anyway, yea, I beleive that the comics were hilarious. I've seen the short cartoon clip, read some of the manga/comic, saw the movie, and beat the crap out of the game. So I'd have to say, the movie did pretty good justice to the series, even though it wasn't 100% like the comic. But that's good right? You wouldn't wanna see the same stuff you've already seen, would you? At least it wasn't a Dragonball Evolution failure.

[Jeff]

Saw the movie with my girlfriend, that saw it before and loved it enough to see it a second time. I loved it as well. Link to the Past galore! XD

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Jeff, on 27 August 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Saw the movie with my girlfriend, that saw it before and loved it enough to see it a second time. I loved it as well. Link to the Past galore! XD

I fucking loved that chapter.

[Irgy]

Jeff, on 27 August 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:

Link to the Past galore! XD

This series has my interest now.

[Vile]

The game is awesome. It has an E-tank and a wanna-be wily!

[Rogue Vile MkII]

Reploid-Man, on 26 August 2010 - 06:45 PM, said:

I've heard of the movie and one of my co-workers saw it and told me a little about it and the only thing I gathered was that the whole seemed to be very similiar to a certain video game about a certain otakian male living in Santa Destroy... You know who I'm talking about. The crownless king himself.

I know exactly what you mean >D Now that you mention it they are similar those 2

[NuclearNerd]

I was aware Scott Pilgrim was a thing before the movie came out. Then the movie came out, and a very vocal (hopefully minority) group of people started raging about how poorly it did, and started complaining about how stupid everyone but Scott Pilgrim fans are and how Hollywood is broken and moviegoers have terrible taste. (Not that the movie had a crap marketing campaign and Scott Pilgrim is maybe as popular as the Blue Beetle to casual or non-comics fans. No, moviegoers are stupid.) So I was put off the franchise out of what I assume is some subliminal spite for that vocal group.

I'll catch the movie on Netflix and since everyone is going hog-wild over it, I'll use it to guage whether or not I want to read the comics. >_>

[Phoebe Nocturne]

Here's what I'll say on the subject: the movie did poorly at the box office because it had to contend with The Expendables and Eat Pray Love, and also because 60% of people who wanted to see Scott Pilgrim are willing to wait to download it for free.

I honestly have not heard this vocal group you speak of. Most of the people I hear talking about it pretty much say what I just said, and are disappointed that people who actually did want to see the movie didn't bother to support it.

It is a really good movie, though. I saw it twice, and had more fun both times than I did at the Expendables or Inception. (Though both of those are excellent as well.)

[NuclearNerd]

Eh, maybe it's just where I read about it. The comment sections of a TGWTG video going on about why the movie failed and a Cracked article noting a pattern in a lot of niche nerd movies bombing (Scott Pilgrim being the movie the whole article builds up to) is filled with people like I described. But if your comments are anything to go by, then perhaps my hope that that group was a minority is true. Actually, I feel a lot better now. Thanks.

[Phoebe Nocturne]

Glad I could help, lol. ^_^

I know how it feels when it seems like everyone's repeating the same stupid complaints over and over again. I mean, I'm a Sonic fan. I have an Olympic medal in dealing with stupid complaints...

[MegamanY]

To be honest, the entire fact that Michael Cera is in it is enough to turn me off the entire thing.
I hate him with a passion, he's horribly typecast. Superbad, Year One, etc. Always some lame little nerd who wants to get laid and under certain circumstances, is.
That entire portion of plot offends me. Its like no movie can be successful unless it involves someone getting laid unless its a kid movie. I'm unsure whether I should attempt to get my IASS stuff into Hollywood, as they'd corrupt it and end up shoving something like that in there and it'd totally destroy a good portion of the main character (Why I'm a Gary-stu).

[Phoebe Nocturne]

You know, I've never seen Michael Cera in anything else, unless you count the Year One trailer. (It took me months to figure out what I recognized him from when I saw the Scott Pilgrim trailers).

I've heard two equally vocal schools of thought on Scott Pilgrim, though. Some people think he's playing the exact same role again, and some people think he's finally breaking the typecast. Being completely unfamiliar with any of his other work, I can't tell you which is true.

Relating to the need for someone to "get laid", however... (very minor movie spoiler ahead)...

Spoiler

The Scott Pilgrim movie subverts that particular trope, which is rather impressive considering the whole point of the movie is him getting the girl.