Scott Pilgrim

Jaffacake_killer · **Joined:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:23 pm **Posts:** 6570

... who lives in the middle of nowhere.

Mechstra · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:25 pm

Peter · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:39 pm **Posts:** 228

Those are terrible.

Gap Gen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:20 am

Some website does a book club of every volume. Obviously contains massive spoilers:
http://techland.com/tag/bryan-lee-omalley/

Also this is quite a good commentary on Young Neil (also obvious spoilers): http://www.savagecritic.com/abhay/abhay ... -volume-5/

I really need to read this more carefully sometime.

Mechstra · **Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:16 pm

Music video for Black Sheep by The Clash At Demonhead (actually Metric but hey)

Really loving this.

Gap Gen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:50 pm

Got tickets to a preview showing of this on Thursday. Will report back, although it's getting pretty positive reviews:
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/rev ... FID=135519
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema ... -the-world

FinalSin · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:17 pm

Even though I have my reservations about SP, this really shocked me:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010 ... e-audience

Mechstra · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:24 pm

On the same note, http://scottpilgrimvsthecritics.tumblr.com/

Quote:

Director Edgar Wright will have only himself to blame if excited kids are so razzled and dazzled that they power on their pocket gadgets and start Prattering or Twixting, or whatever it is youth does these days.

FinalSin · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:25 pm

Jesus god kill that man.

Gap Gen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:31 pm

This is why print media is dying. I mean, I can read that sort of shit on the internet. Actually, I just did read exactly that shit on the internet. Which is technically probably why print is dying (although I do subscribe to the Economist because its analysis is worth a damn in a world where raw news is free).

Going by the response and the trailers, I suspect my dad would get the film. He was in a band and played old videogames and was a 20-something guy, so I suspect that at least some of it would resonate. Maybe the aging arts graduates that probably make up the body of film critics were just rubbed up the wrong way. But like he says, that's no excuse to lose your critical faculties.

EDIT: Although the rebuttal in the New York Post article comments is also written by a fucking tool.

Jaffacake_killer · **Joined:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:23 pm **Posts:** 6570

Gap Gen wrote:

This is why print media is dying. I mean, I can read that sort of shit on the internet. Actually, I just did read exactly that shit on the internet. Which is technically probably why print is dying (although I do subscribe to the Economist because its analysis is worth a damn in a world where raw news is free).

I'm going to start counting how many times you say this.

The critics in question are presumably over 40 and slightly up themselves. What can you do? And to be fair I really wouldn't want this film to be representative of Generation Y or whatever it is now.

Gap Gen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:19 am

Jaffacake_killer wrote:

Gap Gen wrote:

This is why print media is dying. I mean, I can read that sort of shit on the internet. Actually, I just did read exactly that shit on the internet. Which is technically probably why print is dying (although I do subscribe to the Economist because its analysis is worth a damn in a world where raw news is free).

I'm going to start counting how many times you say this.

It's in the big list of things I have to say repeatedly otherwise my brain dies. But yeah, sorry.

Gap Gen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:21 am

Jaffacake_killer wrote:

The critics in question are presumably over 40 and slightly up themselves. What can you do? And to be fair I really wouldn't want this film to be representative of Generation Y or whatever it is now.

Out of interest, what would be? Something like American Pie? Not that I'm disagreeing, I'm just curious if we have a "defining" film.

Skippy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:03 am

I dunno, does any generation? It'd all depend on who you ask really.

Chernobyl Kinsman · **Joined:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:55 pm **Posts:** 6306

Quote:

It's in the big list of things I have to say repeatedly otherwise my brain dies

Pop quiz, hotshot?

As for the defining film of the generation, well, clearly it is Outlaw.

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