Now just imagine Michael Cera starring in it
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Bruce Wayne Vs. The World (SLYT)
I was hoping it was going to be Batman cut into SPvTW. Batman diving out of the window to avoid Knives. Playing Dance Dance Revolution. Fighting a vegan.
posted by The River Ivel at 7:45 AM on August 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by The River Ivel at 7:45 AM on August 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
Michael Cera was terribly miscast as Scott Pilgrim. Scott's defining trait as a character is his utter obviousness and lack of self-awareness, and Cera's defining trait as an actor is that he plays painfully self-aware to the point of incapacity.
There were a lot of bad choices made in the making of SPvtW, not least of which were the total loss of self-confidence about thirty minutes in or the film completely missing the entire underlying point of the books, but Michael Cera as Scott is the one that keeps coming across throughout.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:05 AM on August 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
There were a lot of bad choices made in the making of SPvtW, not least of which were the total loss of self-confidence about thirty minutes in or the film completely missing the entire underlying point of the books, but Michael Cera as Scott is the one that keeps coming across throughout.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:05 AM on August 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
I admit to never reading the books. I liked the movie, though. I thought it was effective and fun.
posted by hippybear at 8:33 AM on August 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 8:33 AM on August 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Overheard recently in a checkout line at the Broadway Market QFC:
He makes a great Bruce Wayne but he ain't worth shit as Batman...
Well, now, that narrows it down, doesn't it ?
posted by y2karl at 12:14 PM on August 5, 2016
He makes a great Bruce Wayne but he ain't worth shit as Batman...
Well, now, that narrows it down, doesn't it ?
posted by y2karl at 12:14 PM on August 5, 2016
The utter box office failure of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World remains a mystery to me.
It opened the same weekend as The Expendables, a film which had been more sensibly promoted (i.e. people outside its core audience were told that it was coming out) and was literally built around making '80s action heroes team up and fight each other. SPvtW was based on a cult comic that only indie types and mangaphiles really knew about, and didn't have the same kind of instantly understandable one-line premise. I don't blame America in the least for choosing the former over the latter, even if SP is one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years.
posted by Strange Interlude at 1:41 PM on August 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
It opened the same weekend as The Expendables, a film which had been more sensibly promoted (i.e. people outside its core audience were told that it was coming out) and was literally built around making '80s action heroes team up and fight each other. SPvtW was based on a cult comic that only indie types and mangaphiles really knew about, and didn't have the same kind of instantly understandable one-line premise. I don't blame America in the least for choosing the former over the latter, even if SP is one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years.
posted by Strange Interlude at 1:41 PM on August 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
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I think that SPVTW will end up being to the 2010s what Labyrinth, Blade Runner, Brazil, and other movies were to the 1980s. A brilliant movie well made which simply didn't find an audience in the theater, but ends up being quite influential as the decades pass.
This mock-up trailer only helps with my thesis. Looked like fun!
posted by hippybear at 7:24 AM on August 5, 2016 [4 favorites]