Thoughts on the Scott Pilgrim movie

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-Was Scott Pilgrim this whiny in the comics? I seem to recall him grinning a lot more, and whining a lot less.
-Did they have to make Matthew Patel's attack power all Bollywood-ized? And the Japanese twins had dragons?* Oh yes, let's play up how exotic the Asian guys were.
-What's up with all the "Ramona you're such a slut" stuff when he's drunk and, well, whiny. Again, maybe it was also in the comics, but seriously? She's dated seven people, and that's counting boys she held hands with for two weeks in middle school. Was that in the comic? I don't remember it. In the comic, Scott's main problems are that he's flaky and clueless and has trouble reading other people's feelings, and he messes things up because of that. In the movie, he spends a lot of time being whiny and bitter, which makes him a lot less sympathetic.
-Did he seriously kill the (bi/lesbian) ninja chick by poking her in the back of the knee and giving her an orgasm? Seriously?

So yeah. It was fun and all, but I was disappointed.

*It's possible that both of these were in the comic and I've just forgotten, since it's been two or three years since I read the first few volumes. But it's still annoying.

Comments

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd forgotten it was Envy's weakness! I remembered how the Roxy fight played out, but I didn't remember where the knee thing came from. I didn't actually mind the fast pace or much of the redone storyline stuff, I just thought the redone Roxy battle was really lame, and I didn't like the orientalizing. Or Michael Cera.

I did think that basically all the other casting was pretty much perfect, though.

[vaeran.livejournal.com]

You thought the entirety of the Roxy fight was lame? I really dug Ramona grabbing Scott's wrists and basically using him as a puppet to fight her, which I suspect was done to get around people's distaste at seeing the hero of the story willingly punch a girl, but also made for some neat stunts.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

It did have some neat stunts, but I was hoping for the ninja gaiden-style battle, so I ended up feeling kinda meh about the whole thing overall.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

After thinking about it, I've decided that my problem with the rest of the Roxy fight is just that I couldn't buy Michael Cera as the action hero, and I liked the thing in the comics with Scott's "I can't hit a girl!" "We'll, you're going to have to." The stunts were neat.

(the end of that fight was still lame)