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Finally! The next SCOTT PILGRIM trailer is here!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here.
It's here, it's here, it's here, it's here, it's here!
Click right now, do it, come on! Glorious Quicktime!
Obviously, I loveses it. Totally presses all the right geek buttons for me. Can't wait!
-Quint
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...but it still has this evil smell of a lame Facebook marketing ploy. *sigh*
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Worth the keystrokes.
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I'm used to him playing Jesse eisnberg.
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If there's one thing all of Michael Cera's movies needed, it's more punching. And Edgar Wright. This probably can't fail I hope.
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I like turtles!
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I mean we had a choice between Shrek 4 and Sex and the City 2 for chrissakes! Not fair!
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"Getting a life."
I thought I knew what Love meant... but now I have seen this trailer and my world has been turned upside-down.
Perhaps objectum marriage is the only path for me.
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May 31, 2010 4:38:32 AM CDT
IT'S EVERYTHING I FEARED ABOUT AN SP ADAPTATION.....
by tehcreepythinman
The trailer FAILS because it tries to sell the movie as an action flick with video game references which is NOT what Scott Pilgrim is about. As I've said it before, what makes SP great is NOT the fight scene's or game references but the characterization which was completely absent from this fucking terrible trailer!!! The trailer lacked subtlety nor did it convey anything beyond the fact that SP has to fight Ramona's evil ex's. And that's it! Michael Cera looks and sounds fucking awful in the part, not to mention a slimey fucking cadaverous creep, while everyone else's line readings felt flat as fuck. I'm hoping this will end up like Speed Racer and Land of the Lost, two movies with shitty trailers that ended up being really good movies (yes they are so FUCK YOU), but right now I'm predicting that this will fucking bomb. I guess they cut the trailer to emphasize the action because Cera is such an unlikeable fucking troll that Universal knows that they have a lemon on their hands. He's not leading man material and the success of Juno was a fluke while he hasn't had a hit since. I'm soo dissapointed that I'm going to hate fuck my girlfriend right now!!!
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick, and Audrey Plaza (also, Mae Whitman) in a movie together? Hotness overload (also, Mae Whitman).
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I loved the trailer... so can I hate-fuck your girlfriend?
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What if I just laugh in your fucking face? That's a lot easier.
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Sorry, I don't see this movie having broad appeal to average Joes. Hardcore internet geeks will eat it up though.
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May 31, 2010 4:51:31 AM CDT
AICN AND CHUD WILL GIVE IT RAVE REVIEWS OF COURSE......
by tehcreepythinman
Because they'll get advanced tickets to a sneak preview with Wright and a few of the actors at the screening. Just like how Paramount bought them all off with G.I. Joe by doing the exact same thing to which, surprise surprise, we got glowing reviews from the drones at AICN, CHUD and NukeTheFridge amongst others.
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Got the keyboard on her ass while I'm tearing her up!!!
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and again...yaaaaaaaaaawwwwnnnnnn
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AWESOME KILL SELF NOW!
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There's Something about Mary 2.His gay roommate jizzed all over it.
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Look for this to bomb at the box office. Like Kick-Ass before it, the internet and comic book reading communities and die hard fanboys will love it, but the general public will just not give a shit. Usually when a movie looks campy, people shit all over it. Now, because it's Edgar Wright, fanboys adore it for some reason. It looks childish to me. I guess I'm just a grumpy old man. : (
Oh, and Harry will probably love it.
BEST MOVIE EVAAAAAAA
I JIZZED EVERY TIME MICHAEL CERA WAS ON SCREEN!
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Sorry what? I'm a bit distracted by the awesome Scott Pilgrim trailer that just got released.
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That's all the convincing I need right there. Still, I agree with Bruce of all Trades: this will appeal to most of the people who saw & liked "Kick Ass", and not many others. I expect it's box office will be comparable to "Hot Fuzz".Whoever's running the great Hollywood popsicle stand needs to WAKE THE FUCK UP and realize that Michael Cera in a lead role is a hindrance, not a help.
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First the appeal of Kick Ass escaped me, now this - but the geek community seems to have hard-ons for both movies.
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I have no idea who Scott Pilgrim is and I don't want to find out because his name is Scott fucking Pilgrim. Terrible.
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May 31, 2010 5:38:06 AM CDT
Looks like a hipster vomited on celluloid and called it a movie.
by mr. moe
Looks like shit.
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if he were engulfed in much deserved napalm death flame.That is why this movie is so unrealistic.
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You haters are so out of touch with today's movies and their audiences that it's shocking. Hell, I know old folks who know more about this shit than you lot. Stay away from this movie. Nobody cares if you hate the trailer ha
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I don't want to be wrong.
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if kick ass box office is anything to go by. what people seem to forget is that if a good movie is a good movie it doesn't matter. That of course doesn't mean you will like it. I mean, who likes everything? I'd match rather watch this than 2012 and all that rubbish.
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I don't hate the movie. I don't care about it, to be honest. It just doesn't appeal to me for whatever reason and I can see a lot of the non-geek audience feeling the same (despite the fact that I am, admittedly, a geek).
I also didn't expect Kick-Ass to be a hit with general public and how did that turn out? So maybe I do know my anus from my elbow. -
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1. Hit barber shop. Have him shave one side of my head down, dye the rest blue, and paste the remaining mess over my left eye.2. Hit up Hot Topic and buy female size 2 skinny jeans to squeeze my barely maturing Frankenberries into.3. Attend Scott Pilgrim screening where I struggle to force my hand down the size 2 pants in an effort to jack off.I may have to re-think the the pants size. That is a wardrobe malfunction that I just can't have.
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the source material is great, the cast is great, the director is great, fuck it, i'm in.
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May 31, 2010 5:58:17 AM CDT
Bruce of all Trades, if you don't hate the movie...
by talkbacker with no name
then my post wasn't aimed at you. Maybe you should have learnt something with Kick Ass then? Your predicting of movies that will bomb is not all that, friend.
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this looks like it will be a great time. This trailer solidifies my love for Plaza and Winstead...haha
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fuck your commercial
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Also, I guess I'm in the minority that was underwhelmed by HOT FUZZ.
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not theirs.mine.
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Wasn't a bad movie by any stretch, but I was expecting something really cool.
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I'd watch her read the phone book. :)
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I've no clue... really. It looks silly as as hell but interesting. And Edger Wright is always worth my time so the jury is out for me at the moment.
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Geez - I like Cera more than most of you, and the movie looks clever and fun, but it doesn't take a genius to see this is too out of the mainstream to be successful. It's gonna bomb, I'm afraid.
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Kick-Ass Production Budget: $30 Million. Worldwide Box Office: $90 Million. They know the appeal is limited but yet they trippled their money. Now thats a bomb. I rest my case. By he way that Scott Pilgrim trailer looks kick ass!
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Its an emo comic love story fantasy. Ever wanna beat the shit out of your girfriends ex-boyfriend? Scott meets this broad and kicks the shit out of her ex's with swords and super-powers and shit.
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Yet all the fanboys who complained about that are raving about this.
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From the trailer it looks like everyone involved had fun (especially Captain America), with the exception of Michael Cera. I fucking hate him. He has this default mode that he never breaks out of that looks like he is always ready to fucking break down and cry in fetal position. What a pussy. Is that "emo?" Is acting like you have no fucking sack "in?" He isn't funny, he isn't charming, he has no personality, so my question is... who is his family and who do they know that keeps getting this little weasel work?
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Funny trailer and i defenetly look forward to seeing this, best joke of the trailer was "Does anyone know a girl with hair like this?"
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Wasn't it around 30 million?
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blaming the fact that your a total pussy on your dad while painting your pants on so all the homos can get a good look at "what your working with". Usually it isn't much.
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But Cera has been doing the same act in everything since. I'm sure they could have found a better lead. I never heard of "Scott Pilgrim", but I did like "Shaun of the Dead" (and disliked "Hot Fuzz"). But "Don't" was easily the best thing about "Grindhouse" and I love me some Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Anna Kendrick was great in "Up In The Air". Dunno how I feel about this though. Looks cheesy. But it has the potential to be a movie many people won't see in theaters and later discover it on DVD.
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nice name.You couldn't work in Gay Perry in some way?I kid. I kid because I love Val Kilmer.
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Pretty much summed up all I need to know. Still looks interesting. I've never wanted to beat the crap out of a girlfriends ex, so its appeal to me might be limited. I've always endeavoured to treat a girlfriend better than her ex and more importantly fuck her better than he did. Having him find out she's having better sex with you is FAR more satisfying than punching the creep I've always found.
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everyone is drooling over? I seriously dont get fandom anymore....It looks very similar in style to Speed Racer, except everyone hated that, so whats with the geekasms over this (and actually kind of enjoyed SR, so Im not hating, I just dont get it). But there s no question this will be like Kick-ass, Watchmen, WTWTA etc....geeks will come in their pants about it, and everyone else (90% of the movie watching audiance) will probably giver a collective meh. And its a Universal film for fucks sake, when do they ever have huge hits?....
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who knows what they do in Canada, which is where the comic takes place.
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about the concept. Guy beats up his GF's ex-bfs as if they were super heroes....seriously? Thats it? Yup, no two ways about it, this is a dork/geek film through and through..... Again, I just dont get fandom anymore....
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are hoping. I sincerely hope its the film that Scott Pilgrim fans are getting excited about. Should be in good hands with Edgar Wright....
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Looks like its got stinker written all over it.
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at the theater or per comic.
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I didn't even crack a smile....the action sequences have a nice look, though. Real perty. I don't pay movie ticket prices for perty, though...
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"I'm hoping this will end up like Speed Racer and Land of the Lost, two movies with shitty trailers that ended up being really good movies (yes they are so FUCK YOU)"
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....I will take joy in its failure like I did with Kick Ass's failure. I want Hollywood to stop catering to geeks. The slew of comic book movies each year is bad enough....the geek fantasy comic book movies are worse.
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Hot Fuzz...total shit.
This looks like everything the comic isn't. Plus, part of the apppeal of the comic was the style, the content, the charactisation and the fact that is was NOT in BURN YOUR FUCKING EYES OUT COLOURS!
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Wow. Looks insane.
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Comics are flailing around in desperation.
Every few years they kill their top-seller to try and make readers care and buy more of their rehashed shit.
Or they re-invent the whole fucking thing and try desperately to make them hardcore, or adult, or just more fucking interesting. Yeah like we really need Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. What the fuck was wrong with the old Nick Fury for god's sake?
Who gives a shit about comics anymore anyhow?
Virtually every character has died at least once or had their souls replaced with eveil alien clone versions of something Doom or Dormammu or whatever villain is flavour of the week has cooked up.
Death holds no terrors in comicdom, or at least it shouldn't because they know by experience that they're going to get reincarnated or reborn, or removed from their current reality into some sideways dimension where one day they'll find their way home or come back as an evil version of their original selves.
So why Hollywood is so desperate to wade even deeper into this morass of tangled storylines and backstories where everyone thinks the whole fucking world is hot for comics is beyond me.
Have they not realised that they have already done the only comics that anyone knew or even vaguely cared about?
FF, Batman, Superman, X-Men and Spidey.
Iron Man they got lucky with because it's got gadgets. But the one thing is ain't got is villains...so they're fucked now.
Daredevil, Elektra...say no more.
Thor???
Oh COME ON!!!
If they don't do him right with all the thees and thous then he isn't Thor.
Any comic movie should have all the origin, exposition and backstory done during the opening credits then just hit us with Stan Lee and Jack Kirky style heros and villains slugging it out for the next 90 minutes.
This touchy feely bleeding heart superhero for the 21st century puts my teeth on edge.
The very thought of The Avengers is worrying beyond belief.
Superheros are defined by their suits... The Xmen just looked like the local sadomasochists on their annual general outing.
But as we all know from the JLA TV movie, actors in gay looking hero suits look just that...gay.
give it up hollywood. Give us some decent movies for a change. Do you not have any confidence in your writers?
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It's made quite a nice profit for the producers and it will continue to do so, especially when the 30 dollar bluray becomes a big seller. Theres already plans for a sequel...so how does that equal a "bomb"?Fanboys just love to hate
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AND THIS LOOKS GREATTHERE ARE A LOT OF BITTER, MIS-INFORMED PEOPLE ON THIS SITE
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Wow.
Just, wow.
'Speed Racer' and 'Land of the Lost' were really good movies?
You just lost all credibility...
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But I still kind of hate these trailers. Looks so fucking stupid. I'll still see it though, no choice.
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comic icon Jack Kirky.
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Even though I bitched about facebook campaigns. On the internet, no one can hear your hypocrisy. It did look cool.
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IT'S. A. FUCKING. TRAILER. Two and a half out of 100 or so minutes of movie designed to grab an audience's attention and get them excited for the movie. If you're trying to sell mass audiences on a movie based on a semi-obscure comic that has action, cool-looking visuals and a fun, unique premise, sorry man, two and a half minutes of pure characterization ain't gonna cut it.
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Looks fucking sweet. officially one of only 3 upcoming movies I'm excited to see (the others being Inception and TS3.)
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Now I'll go back to playing Red Dead Redemption.
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But I'm not 13, so, I don't think I'm the demographic.
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I think there might be a problem with lumping all comic books & their writers/creators together. Whilst some clearly write for the medium (Geoff Johns, take some applause) there are others (Mark Millar, I'm looking at you here) who clearly write with one eye on the Hollywood payoff. 'Wanted' & 'Kick Ass' were basically storyboards for film producers, though I am pleased that John Romita Jnr & J.G.Jones might have creamed something off the top for their contributions.Comics aren't flailing around in desperation, movie producers are - there does appear to be a dearth of original material out there and superheroes are the 'go to' characters 'du jour'. They neatly blur the line between mundanity and escapism - in fact, most film tropes can be worked through a superhero medium: good vs evil, developing sense of self-awareness, love & relationships all played out against the most diverse of backgrounds: cities above and below the water, Earth and other planets, the past, the future...and the list goes on.I do agree that people will get 'costume fatigue' in the end, but while some of the most creative ideas are emerging from the medium of comic books, Hollywood will keep mining and mining the seam, especially if people are willing to cough up their dollars - and the numbers do tell a story. Billions, upon billions of dollars."Who gives a shit about comics anymore anyhow?" The actual comics? Only its creators and readers. the heroes within? An awful lot more people. How many people have gone to see Iron Man without ever reading an Iron Man comic? I'm guesing many hundreds of thousands. So the books themselves aren't so important here.Who knows, maybe producers will turn to more adult-oriented material in the future, but for the present people are hoovering up Iron Man, Batman, Thor and all the rest.And death? Nobody gives a shit about death in movies anyway. Just ask James Bond - we all know he's not going to die, so there's no real threat and we happily sit through 20 iterations of the same ideas. In fiction, death is a plot device, just like any other.
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it grabbed my attention and told me that under no circumstances do I want to see this movie. it told me that it was a massive hipster fart of failure. im honestly shocked because Edgar Wright is usually one of the best because he is low key and subtle and simple and direct with his comedy movies and even his trailers would show off this. but this looks just like a massive hipster fart in my face. a big ugly beer fart too. fwip! ko! fwip fwip! yeah that gets me to go see it. ko! fwip! smack! remember how everybody loves the old batman tv series with the sound effects its more popular than that dark knight movie. fwip! bank! bank! bank! fwip! bang! boom! forget character all you need is fwip! forget telling me why anything is happening or the logic of the story all you need is fwip! call it fwip the movie! FWIP!
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make me happy, because SPEED RACER is awesome. This looks awesome. I am happy about it.
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May 31, 2010 8:27:29 AM CDT
brute101, CHOKE ON MY FUCKMEAT YOU RIMJOBBING FUCKWAD!!!
by tehcreepythinman
Yes they WERE good movies which is amazing since I had ZERO FUCKING INTEREST in either of them. Speed Racer looked like candy colored garbage but, you know what, the movie actually made me care about the Racer family and their plight. The acting was good, not great, and the Direction was slick as fuck. Land of the Lost was even more of a surprise as I FUCKING HATE Will Ferral and have never watched an episode of the TV show. But the movie had an irreverent style of humor that I found appealing while I enjoyed its trippy psychedelic look. Most importantly, I enjoyed both of them for what they are. Maybe I’ll feel the same way once I see Scott Pilgrim but, for now, I’m going to enjoy my hatred of what I have seen. SO SUCK MY COCK, SUCK IT DEEP AND SUCK IT HARD YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!
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....noticed that Cera has brought some subtle changes to the same old "Cera doing Cera" acting that he usually delivers.He seems like an even more soft spoken pussy than before.
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Smash! Kaboom! Looks like a movie made for comic book nerds with the intellect of a 10 year old. Will bomb. Hopefully.
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She has a face like a melted wellington boot, not to mention her pinched anus of a mouth.
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May 31, 2010 8:33:42 AM CDT
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Most people have no idea thats it's based off of a comic book, so they won't feel like they need to know about before they go and see it, and it looks "cute" enough to appeal to the small mind of women while still being cool enough to appeal to men, final box office estimate: 1.2 billion dollars
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or something
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Because that spiny catfish swam up its dick.
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"Loveses"? Seems Quint didn't wear a condom and caught a bad case of Harryphilis.
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Fuck you.
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Fuck you.
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Half the kids on there look like Micheal Cera
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Those are the only two films I really care about seeing this Summer.
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the "internet hype machine" might have been able to propel this to a break-even number once-upon-a-time. but those days are over. If a fun movie like Kick-Ass went belly-up, there is no chance for this one.
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May 31, 2010 8:59:34 AM CDT
Alice in Wonderland made the most money this year
by spifftacular squirrel girl
Are people really that worked up over who much money Scott Pilgrim will make? I just want a good movie/adaption instead of something watered down.
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you had me until the last 2 words. easy buddy, Moore is a talented writer.
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I don't quite get the Cera hate. He is a one note actor, but that note is pretty entertaining from time to time. I love the comics, and I think Edgar Wright is a great director with a pretty distinct visual style, so I'm on totally on board with this movie. If you guys aren't psyched for this, what are you psyched for?
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"Are you sweating yet SCOTT PILGRIM? You should be!"
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Emo was originally coined sometime in the late 80s / early 90s to describe "emotive" punk music such as Rights of Spring and Fugazi. Now it refers, loosely, to whiny tweens with colorful hair and the asstastic neo-glam wuss-rock they're too stupid to realize SUCKS ASS. In short: don't use the word "emo" as a descriptor if you have NO IDEA what it actually used to mean.
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first to call it
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Oh, I get it, you dress like Ron Burgandy "ironically"? BOOOOOORING! Hipster = Zeitgeist Fail.
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Really, really disappointing. At least the trailers for it had me excited, unlike this one.
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But it looks like a geeky fun twist on the worn out romantic-comedy genre. I am looking forward to this the trailer was great.
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I didn't expect much, but it was pretty funny.
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I guess I just absolved myself of having a valid opinion.
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i dont have to know what it was to know what it is now. My dinner WAS chicken and it is NOW shit.the same applies to the word emo. emo = shit.
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the toy story curse strikes again
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I'm a fan of his previous films & video games so this looks to be catered to me....I'm psyched but the rating irritates me but makes sense @ same time...& what the fuck was that CGI monster, looked dumb from the little glimpse
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link please
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I think when Sex Bob-Omb battles the Katayanagi twins (Not sure if that's spelt right) they fight with music and those cgi monster things are the manifestations of that. It's a video game reference I think from final fantasy but I could be way off with that.
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about the miscasting of Michael Cera. Whether it'll make money or not I can't say, but it's funny watching some of the sweaty geeks on this TB squirming because they're not part of the hot, asymmetrical hair crowd and declaiming this the lamest thing evAr.
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Sigh, oh well. Man, millennial youth culture SUCKS!
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That's looks awesome! Can't freakin' wait to drag a date to this one.
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It seems very tongue-in-cheek and playing off the teenage angst and reminiscing on high school days and the time when playing guitar and fantasizing about that girl that you thought was "the one" and the whole comic book & video game themes.I don't know, it looks fun, different, creates its own universe, and just looks like it'll be a blast to watch.-Cheers
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Still Alive? And because you're making stuff up? Until/unless something actually comes up from, like, ANY news source, I'm inclined to believe you're full of it (or predicting).And if you're looking for your "third" death (since these just have to come in threes, I guess), I suppose you could look to Paul Gray(?), maybe.-Cheers
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The only man to have the balls to ad-lib making a Kubrick movie!!!??? NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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The Howard Stern Vacation Death Curse is running amok!
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May 31, 2010 9:45:44 AM CDT
Anybody really believe such a hot chick would date such a shmuck
by royston lodge
Cuz I don't.
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Art Linkletter, Dennis hopper and the black hobbit
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The first trailer was pretty meh. But I am liking this one. But there is NO WAY I'll convince my wife to come with me
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In movies and comic books ANYTHING is possible!
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May 31, 2010 9:49:52 AM CDT
Dave I: Phew, for a second I thought you meant Joel Grey!
by royston lodge
Now THAT would have made me sad!
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...I have no problems with the flaming swords and the video game narration and the super-powered ex-boyfriends...
...but THAT chick dating THAT guy? Now THAT'S unrealistic!
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...he needs to say "I weigh less than a slice of bread" before it begins.
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this looks so bad
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I'm so out of it.
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look at "gay" as a rather obvious example. ☺
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May 31, 2010 10:00:30 AM CDT
Why is Michael Cera playing Glenn Beck?
by crispin_glovers_acid_flashback
So, Facebook friends or no Facebook friends, this trailer was dropping today.
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Yes, but he is in a band. Chicks dig musicians, even dorky ones.
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It just saddens me that something that started out kinda cool became something so profoundly uncool it actually hurts.
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This is a date movie for the dateless that makes them hope for dates. This is a date movie for awkward, nerdy adolescents to connect with other awkward, nerdy adolescents and have fun being geeks. This is a movie that girls will like too, maybe even more than the boys. ASS KICKED, on the other hand, was a big, dumb, violent fetish movie for pedophiles. I bet SCOTT PILGRIM will be a modest/indie-ish hit along the lines of SHAUN OF THE DEAD.
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May 31, 2010 10:14:40 AM CDT
the death of good action movies
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
once normal people became superheroes without actually having any powers or strength, especially women who are thinner than a rail, like angelina jolie, it loses all creditability and takes away from any belief in danger and becomes more of like 'ok whats gonna happen next that this character is going to get right out of with a few fast pace martial arts hand movements and slowing up and down hd-camera tricks.' it's pathetic. i started watching 'the losers', seems ok, but the first battle sequence was just shots of random firing, random things explding and random bad guys dying, there is no continuity or choreographing. these reasons are still why 'die hard' 't2' and 'lethal weapon' are considered the best action movies and 'bad boys' and probably 'killers' are considered the best comedies. and enough ripping off 'matrix' and 'bourne identity' styles and take their substance as well. i just can't see why 'scott pilgrim' can fight so well, but he probly has some hidden superhero background.
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May 31, 2010 10:19:43 AM CDT
From the perspective of someone who's never head of SP
by cossack_says_die
This movie looks fucking retarted. Michael Cera is worthless in everything he's in. He's an annoying little fuck that has horrible line delivery. The only reason I would consider this is because of Edgar Wright. All of my friends that have seen this trailer also say this movie looks stupid as shit. This movie only has appeal to people that know of the source material, to say that it has more appeal than kick ass is ridiculous. The trailers for that movie conveyed a potentially funny movie. The trailer for this movie conveys more of a WTF is this shit vibe. You comic book geeks need to get a hold of yourself and understand that people that do not read comics think this shit looks stupid as fuck, as it most likely will be.
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May 31, 2010 10:21:35 AM CDT
Highly stylized movies tend to fail with the mainstream.
by rev. slappy
I think this looks great. And I think it will bomb like Grindhouse.
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with the only different being I actually DO enjoy comics and this still looks retarded. I don't mind seeing *BAM KAPOW* in a comic book panel, but in a movie, it just takes me completely out of it. Edgar Wright is the only reason I'd have to check this out and even so, it probably won't be in theaters.
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May 31, 2010 10:29:46 AM CDT
Emo hipsters will love and defend this movie just like
by notauthorized02
that piece of overrated shit Kick Ass!
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Michael Cera kisses girls
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There are far too many pretty people and things for this to be hipster.Also, as much as I want to see this movie, and as fucking cool as I think it looks, the haters are right. It will probably bomb. This does not appeal much to the mainstream at all. The way they should end up marketing this is all over the Warped Tour or whatever festival kids go to, Facebook and Foursquare (which they already have), and video game websites and shops. Kick-Ass didn't do as well as expected (still not a bomb), because the marketing was at the mainstream Leno watching public. That's not the people who would enjoy this kind of stuff.
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May 31, 2010 10:35:08 AM CDT
Are people really excited for this?
by ihaveseeneveryepisodeofprisonbreak
Looks awful. I like Edgar Wright too, but looks really, really bad. And they somehow managed to make MEW look awful! Was that intentional?
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Edgar had me over for dinner the other night and surprised me with an advanced screening. The film works on so many levels and it work's brilliantly, you'll all be amazed at what Cera has to offer, don't judge him based on a 2 minute trailer. whene you finally see this movie, he will move you in ways that you never though possible
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would find a reason to complain if you were getting a blowjob.
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May 31, 2010 10:40:45 AM CDT
I really doubt young women and teen girls will like this
by prof. pop-cult
I just don't see the appeal here for them. The next Twilight, yes, but a movie about a nerdy dude fighting for the heart of a hot quirky pixie dream girl? Seriously, do any of you guys *know* real teenage girls? Kick Ass had more appeal for them, even Iron Man 2.
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and so far women are eating this film up, At the dinner i was at the other night, Edgar was showing me the PRIM charts (for those not in hollywood thats a demographic chart) and women seemed to like the film more then males. This thing is going to be huge
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The most recent, obvious example of a hipster movie would be Where The Wild Things Are -- a thinly veiled allegory on hippie communal living, written and directed by hipsters, for hipsters, and not actual children. No wonder WB was pissed at the end result.
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No suspense or tension in the action, so it fails as an action movie. Did not make me laugh or even break a grin, so it fails as a comedy. Could care less if the twerp Cera gets that girl trying to be hip with the purple hair like Thorn Birch in Ghost World ten years ago, so it fails as a romance. When will filmmakers get that you should not spend over 5 million in a movie about annoying hip suburban kids. Nobody cares.
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And they only "like" things they don't like (e.g. the ugly retro fashions and STUPID mustaches). You know, "ironically." Yes, "irony" -- at it's lamest and laziest. Seriously, millennial youth culture is THE WORST EVER. Boring, bland, baselessly arrogant (secretly an overcompensation for low self esteem) people lacking any kind of actual cultural identity or ideas, the Millennial Hipster instead champions early 80s movie culture for reasons that continue to baffle me, but which I suspect is linked directly to the lack of imagination noted earlier and an influx of cheap, crappy drugs that no self-respecting supernaut would bother taking.
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And that's basically what the movie will be. The only reason I have an interest is because I get the joke.
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Don't forget how self-pitying and awful it was. You fucking whiny children! As if you had anything real to worry about. Kill yourself now if the drugs your mommy bought you aren't working. Fucking pussies.
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It sounds similar to the pre-audience positive testing that young females gave Jennifer's Body. I have a colleague who works for one of the major audience testing companies in Santa Monica (they're the ones that get parodied the most) and he says teen girls are the toughest to nail down accurately. If they had more confidence in picking up this demographic, then the trailers would be cut more to emphasize a romantic angle, perhaps making it seem more like a "Eternal Sunshine..." quirk-romance.
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I just have a feeling it's going to be real popular amongst teenage chicks.
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Lionsgate paid 25 Million for the US rights and probably put at least 30 Million into Prints & Advertising; probably more considering the aggressive marketing campaign. So far it is hovering a bit below 50 Million. So as long as Lionsgate has the US rights for ancillary markets like DVD/Blue Ray, Cable, Pay Per View, etc. it should eek out a modest profit. The film just did not come anywhere near the expectations it had built since the bidding war began for it's distribution rights.
Now as far as a sequel, it is no surprise to me at all. a 50 Million gross isn't too shabby for a film that costs 30 Million to make. The powers just need to treat it like the modestly successful property that it actually is and not sink so much into marketing. -
Yeah, I actually teach teenage girls, and this is exactly the kind of stuff the "emo" ones will go totally nuts for -- a hipster geek / non-threatening funny guy on a quest to date them. On the flipflip, Iron Man had NO APPEAL to them AT ALL. Likewise with ASS KICKED. The *mainstream* girls (whatever that means, since EVERYTHING is mainstream now) are only interested in the next Twilight installment.
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so many of us really wanted to make that film, in later days when we decided to start up Pixar we got really bumed when warner brothers bought the rights. My original script was a lot more light hearted then the recent version
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i could be wrong but it always gave the impression to be something mostly girls loved and some guys just happen to like as well.
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i guess that whole "it was all part of a thesis or whatever but now i'm done so i'm outta here forever" speech was a lie...i am aghast. :P
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Its this jaunty, funny tale about a kid running around the bedroom in a self created fantasy land, not some morose, somber, self-obsessed whiner fest for whiners. Maybe Spike should up his anti-depressant dose next time? Aww, it's SO depressing being a wealthy trust-fund kid who grew up to make movies for other wealthy trust-fund kids. Wah! Fucking pussies!
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not only smashing box office records, but also being an oft mentioned film come awards season. Edgar has stumbled onto something magical here and Micheal Cera proves to the world why he's this generation's John Cazale
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Now I've seen it all!
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I seriously doubt that a "hollywood insider" would be posting at AICN *announcing* that they're a "hollywood insider." I have no doubt They check it from time to time, just to see how many people post on a particular story -- knowing that even "hate" posts mean nothing other than, "they'll see this too and generate even more press for us by 'hating' whatever it is we do."
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For crying out loud, it was a 40 page illustrated book with very few lines. Not exactly great source material for a feature film because of it's short length. A half hour TV special at best.
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And I don't care to see this movie.
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so many of my comrades in the Biz don't bother to see what the fans are up to, i like to post here to relate to my friends, and hey if i throw a little scoop your way i know you'll aprechiate it. Of course my time does get liminted only because i am hard at work on the batman 3 script with c-nol, d-Goy and J-Nol
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That SURELY means it will be good, because there are mentions of not very popular things that I may like! THAT is how comedy is written, ladies and gentlemen! /sarcasm
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May 31, 2010 11:27:15 AM CDT
If talkbackers REALLY wanna know what teenage girls like
by bruce of all trades
Nice to see you, why don't you have a seat over there.
But seriously, most teenage girls have cinematic tastes similar to those of most teenage boys (i.e. as far as summer popcorn movies go, they'd rather watch something more conventional like Iron Man 2).
Again, Cossack_says_die nailed it. To REGULAR people, unlike the nerds here, the trailers make people think "WTF is this?" instead of "this looks cool, we should go see it".
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its such a tease that they are hotter these days then back when i was their age.
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an entire movie about dealing with a taciturn punk chick's asshole ex boyfriends? sounds awful.
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Her? Really?
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aren't you hosting the Oscars next go round?
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I still think this looks gayer than 8 guys blowing 9 guys. I'm just not the audience for this.
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The amount of "I'm obviously too cool for this, and you are all girls! Waaaah!" hate in here is just overwhelming.
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Thats what I get for believing my dumbass friends text messages
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Never gives up. He honestly depresses me. The fact that someone is that dedicated to their pathetic fantasy world and just never lets real life sink in? I mean, that's a severe mental condition. I know the fat, lonely man at work behind the character thinks he is just doing it for fun, but he's fucking lost it. And Scott Pilgrim? Looks FUCKING AWESOME. Edgar Wright, people. Hasn't made anything less than near perfect yet.
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Only people who a) know what a hipster is - which makes them hip, or b) want to be a hipster, talk shit about hipsters. It's just totally odd to me. We're all here and probably at quite a few other internet sites on a regular basis because we want to know wants going on, what's new, what people are talking about. In other words, to be some kind of "hip".
Speed Racer has serious pacing flaws, but I will happily admit that it's a far better movie than I was expecting. However, I DON'T expect the Scott Pilgrim film to be as immersed in it's own origin world as Speed Racer was. The trailers alone show that clearly not exactly like the comic books. At least, not the way they read for me.Scott Pilgrim is nothing like Kick-Ass! Not the movie or the comic book, so the comparisons don't really add up. I like the geeky pop culture references. Not sure why people are hating on that aspect so much. It's been a part of film for as long as people have been making them. There is nothing wrong with the PHYSICAL comic book universe right now. Some of the best books I've read in my 27 years of collecting are being printed right now. Then you've got the previous ten years, which was also stellar. The problem, imo, is that Hollyweird is choosing really odd books to adapt to film. I understand there are a lot of things that have been optioned and continue to sit around on somebodies desk. But DAMN! There are so many good books that readers KNOW would make great films, and they're never the ones that are chosen. -
No, i won't be hosting the oscers next year, i've never been one for the spotlight, although the job would be mine if i asked. Likely i'll do some writing as well as some behiond the scenes stuff like in memoriam, but as far as i kniow by next february my life will be Batman 3, i'll have little time to do other things
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I know you're full of shit in every way possible, but the Michael Cera/John Cazale comparison cracked me up. Kudos for that.
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Children...
I am slightly south of 60. Which is fucked up to see in print, BTW.
Anyway, Scott Pilgrim PLAYS THE BASS. Ergo, the movie will be awesome.
As a bass playing Ninja Nerd, and having fought for the girl more than once, I am automatically in for this movie.
For the haters...go jerk off with a tambourine.
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Although from this trailer I don't know if this movie is either.
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Continue to hate ubercunts... My wife and I are fans of the books, and we'll be there opening weekend, she showed me the trailer and said "FUCK YEAH", my response was a knowing nod and a quiet "Oh yeah, we're gonna see this"..
LOVED Shaun and Hot Fuzz, LOVED "Dont" and no amount of hating from people I dont know, and whose opinions are worthless to me are gonna separate us and our SP tickets. IF it turns out to be shit, then so be it, ITS SCOTT FUCKING PILGRIM. I'd rather give it a shot than sit on a forum trolling on about how everyone else is stupid for liking it.... You've got red on you. -
Damn near coughed up my drink laughing at that.
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...kick ass. and am a huge edgar fan so i'm pretty gutted to be underwhelmed by this trailer. culkin was the best thing about it.
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I thought "hipster" meant you only like things ironically like "Saved by the Bell" and moustaches. "Hipsters" don't flout their enjoyment of things they actually appreciate on a genuine level out of fear they'll be judged by their sarcastic hipster friends who disagree. Scott Pilgrim seems to be the opposite- a shameless declaration of love and appreciation for things that the filmmaker genuinely enjoys.
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That alone should be enough epic awesomeness to shut the haters up.
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"well it's been fun but the the act is over
by JettL1993 Mar 7th, 2010
10:41:13 PM
Hello my friends, i wanted to wait untill the end of the show to post this as that has been my plan for over a year now, but to be honnest - I'm just too damn tired and this show is dragging
As most of you know i have been a hollywood "insider" for a while now, but as most of you probabaly have figured out by now (sarcasm intended) I am not a hollywood insider and i have not worked on every movie ever filmed. You see friends, The character of Jett was all an act, but it wasn't just an act for fun or as a form of trolling. I am not just some fanboy sitting in a starwars poster adorned room, I am infact in my late 30'sand have worked in the industy to some sucess for over a decade now. For obvios reason, i will NOT reveal my identity but odds are that if my name was mentioned a majorty of you would know who i am and have probabaly seen some of my work. About 3 years ago i came up with an idea for a film, a comedic tale of an internet message board poster who takes on the guise of an insider and fools the world into beliveing the things he post about movies i had a pay or play contract with a major studio so i knew the film was going to hopefully happen.
I joined as a talkbacker and kept quite for the most part then when indy 4 news broke, i created a fake title (Pharoah's crown)and the internet went razy, people started quaestioning who i was and if i indeed had a valid scoop, I'll admit i had a great amount of fun with this, and i got some good characters and dialogue for my script, months later i jumped on the batman 3 scoops and while the enthusiasm from talkbackers was less intense, i still had many beliving what i had was valid news, and it spread from AICN, even batman-on-film (a site that claims it doesn't post rumours) was posting my stories about the supposed batman 3 script in the work.
I had constated Harry about what i was doing and told him who i was (he was a fan of my work) and he encouraged me to go on, he even offered to make a post about me being fake to shake up the pot a little bit (also at my request to see if i could redeem myself after proven wrong, which is a big turning part in the film i am doing). My original banning (as JettL93) was all planned, i neever actually was banned, my posts where removed and i created a similar username, every post i created in both usernames are saved and i intend to publish them in either a blog or perhaps as a feature on the eventual dvd and bluray Frankly though, my script is all but finished right now and i should be casting within a month, so my time here is at an end, i'd love to continue it, but i said to myself 2months ago that i would call it quits on Oscar night (or is that Oscer night??) and by darnit i have to stick to that deadline or the movie will never get made, that said, I had alot of fun and i really hope that when the film gets made you all go an see it, perhaps even some of you will notice the characters you helped to inspire. When the film is done i have already promised harry an exclusive review and at that point my indenity will be out of the bag and we can all laugh. Harry has promised me to keep his lips sealed until then, so don't bother bugging him to spill the beans on who i am.
Well folks it has been fun, but i must go, and i'm a man of my word, so you won't be seeing me at all untill the film is wraped and ready to hit theatres (not sure the title but the working one is simply "Jett"). So farewell to all, sorry if i pissed any of you off but i hope you know it was all in jest and i do intend to use that feedback in the final film.
peace out!" Are we to assume the film is "wraped and ready to hit theatres"? Or, perhaps he requires more material for his Magnum Opus. Or was maybe just missing the attention. -
May 31, 2010 12:43:33 PM CDT
Will see despite the obnoxious hipsterness wafting off it oh and
by sithtastic
Cheers to Waving Flags in Space for setting the record straight regarding who cares about comic books as an art form. Though it has been years since I was hardcore into collecting, comic books (and moreover their creative teams) have thrown far too many a lifeline to an industry even more plagued by creative stagnation (Hollywood I'm looking at you.) so we should not knock it. That said, as I said in the post title, I'll see this, despite its over indulgent self-referencing hipster vibe. SC's translation looks pretty dead on and that's enough to make me want to see it.
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This looks AWESOME!
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hahahahaha, that has to be the funniest things i've read on the internet in quite sometimeJett's probabaly borderline psychotic but ocassionally he posts a gem out of left field like that that makes me glad he comes here to post, I know there's a lot of haters but to Jett, i say, Shine on you crazy diamond!
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And it is awesome. Funny, fast paced, goofy humor. You guys will love it!
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...it's all bullshit?!
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Does from time to time produce a gem.
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Such as that guy who used to claim that Greedo ALWAYS shot first. Now THAT was a shitstorm!
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Spot on. If people are getting a hipster vibe its soley due to the light pisstake of aspects of youth culture that is in the comic.
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a director tears down the usual conventions about keeping the editing invisible and unnoticeable to the audience, so this movie intrigues me. I won't mind the comic book stylings of this movie in the same way I didn't mind -- and actually really enjoyed -- the panel editing in Ang Lee's Hulk, the time-switching editing in Snatch, and Tony Scott's madness with Man on Fire's editing. Same for 500 Days of Summer, with the liberties Webb took with that.
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AFAIK, he's never engaged in quixotic flame-wars against other Talkbackers just because they enjoy a movie/tv show that he doesn't enjoy.
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we are all movie lovers who come her to talk and i love giving you guys scoops because you are my friends. Currently working on Transformers 3 so i should have some nice scoops coming up on that one
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Is JettL a schizophrenic of the grand delusional variety?
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are placing their fingers on the wrong part of the neck. Feel anything? That's right, because you don't have your finger on the pulse of the culture right now. Even if it doesn't do well at first, like Fight Club, eventually it will make all of its money back and way, way more. Its timing is just too perfect. And the execution looks just as perfect. Put on that bib now, because by the time this has been out for a week you will be dining on fonts. May I offer you a mint in advance?
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But Winstead just keeps getting hotter and hotter.I've no interest in this property and the film looks cheesy despite Wright's involvement. (I'm sure there will be a ton of his trademark SPACED-stylings...) Who knows...it could be goofy fun. It will probably make a nice double-DVD package with KICK ASS...
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Well, even a fucked clock tells the right time twice a day.
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I'm there.
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I mean I'm sure it's over my head or whatever, but I'm afraid these two films appear to be entirely different.
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all just words for things that make you wish you fit in somewhere. And that's fine. Hey, I don't fit into any of those molds either. But you won't see me going around narrowly boxing everything into comfortable little hate cubes so I can gain the approval and temporary respect of a small group of people just like me on some board somewhere suffering from the same petty little jealousies. Truth is, you actually really don't know what's what when it comes to any of this cultural stuff so you reach for the common words people use to lump it all together. Yeah, there are douchebags out there with their iPods in one hand, latte in the other, jumping up and down with a kind of gay glee because they've just been notified that they're the "mayor" of their favorite wi-fi hotspot on FourSquare. And wearing an ascot. I mean what exactly is the fuck about the ascot thing? If I had a dollar for every time I spotted an ascot in the wild in the last week I'd have enough to buy an app in the aPPstore to kill them with a combination swish on my Iphone. (actually, I'm an Android guy, really.. it's the babysitting thing.. bugs me, being an adult and all) But when I see something like that, the first thing that comes to mind is not how I'll run home and post to talkback about what a "hipster douche" it was that I just saw. The first thing that comes to mind is how I hope attractive women that *I* have a chance of coming in contact with don't really find any of that attractive and that they're just playing along with some of it because the dating pool is so narrow...and shallow.But here we see my delusion revealed. On to yours.I've actually heard people call music as different as Bright Eyes and Slipknot "EMO", people who should know better. And people listening to music newer than and sounding differently than music that came out 10 years ago are not "hipsters" unless they have the "ironic TEE" and collection of albums featuring things with antlers and leaves in the design (??really.. what was that?) to go with it. Culture is so spread out, diverse and practically impossible to pigeonhole now that it's making it harder and harder for "marketing gurus" to keep up. Yet you geniuses think you have it all figured out with two words. The fuck you do. You're just a clueless, hyper-critical, daddyless anger-case bunch of static, dull, clueless nostalgists "hating but waiting" for the next re-make or comeback tour. And when you get what you asked for, you'll claim the people who gave it to you raped your childhoods. This is where some would say "fuck you" or "go to hell". I'll just say..
Carry on. Because is can be very entertaining. Some men just want to watch the world burn, right? Not me. I just want to watch your half burn. Gotta run, I have a 90s rock station to listen to while I fire one off at old pictures of Tiffany Amber Thiessen. yeah-way. -
Plenty of shit films make money.
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Honestly, I think I will end up seeing this movie. and for ONE reason alone: the fights.This trailer is making it seem like there is a lot of one-on-one, hand-to-hand combat, stuff that I really love when it's done right.I also know the guys who did the stunts/fighting for this movie and I'm curious to see how well they pulled it off.Otherwise, this looks super stupid. And I'm hoping it isn't as terrible as Kick-Ass was. I'm not into "geek" films because they're just shit. Let's be real.A film should be good on its own merit, not because it's 'geeky', whatever that means.
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May 31, 2010 1:58:04 PM CDT
I mean it seems like the only people that have the illogical
by jaimefoxx
arguments are the trolls in regards to this film. And yes I realize how blatantly stupid and obvious that sounds, but really... no REAL criticism from the other side of the argument.
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or JONAH HEX?
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Who is the most badass martial artist?
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comes from the fact that both are over the top action comedies centered on teenagers/kids. And they're both based on obscure comic books. Happy now?
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So let's get really excited for no reason!
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Don't tell me it's "nothing" like Kick-Ass. It has SOME similarities in style and look.
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Entirely different? That would mean there are ZERO similarities. 1. They are both films. 2. They are both being released within 2 months of each other. 3. They both involve over-the-top fights with some slow motion at times. Must be nice to live in a fantasy world of absolutes.
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Yeah that part was great wasn't it?!?! I can't wait to see that part when I see the film so I can act like I've never seen that part before and laugh at it to feel accepted by the individuals sitting around me in the theater! YEAH!
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Like the prior film, SP seems to similarly challenge audience tolerance of anything beyond conventional narrative in a summer movie, and look what happened to Speed Racer when it tried that.
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Another movie that the geeks are being TOLD to like.
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Fuck him.
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and the main female lead are the
only reasons that I would see this. Cera sucks ass. He is the same monotone 2D actor in everything that
he's in. He has no range and I hate
to watch his films. *glares at Juno*
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For those doubting Cera in this role and saying that he'll bring the same character he always does. Watch the trailer again and notice that he does not stutter once, only looks down at the floor for a second and, oh yeah, is FIGHTING WITH A FLAMING NINJA SWORD! I mean other than that one scene in Superbad where he fought the guy at the party with a flaming ninja sword to get the detergent bottle full of beer back he has never done that!
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that black hobbit comment made me laugh.
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Two entirely different movies. Must be nice to live in a fantasy world where everything is a generalization.
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you clearly must hate this movie as well. I know the economy's bad, but all this hating can't pay THAT good.
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...this looks like cheesy shite.
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May 31, 2010 2:56:01 PM CDT
Ramona Flowers makes Alyssa Jones look like Mother Theresa
by royston lodge
So say we all.
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Doesn't look like my kind of movie I guess.
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But just because the public doesn't want this, doesn't make it a worthless effort. Why do talkbackers like to puff their chests that this will be a bomb? The movie was still finished...and we Scott Pilgrim fans still get to have it, so we still get what we wanted.
As for the general public, they never cease to disappoint me on a daily basis. Sex and the City 2 is going to be a hit because of them (women that love it, gay guys, and both of their boyfriends alike). SatC2...The Blind Side...She's Just Not that Into You...The Mummy abortions.
People are stupid. It doesn't mean that all geek properties are good and deserving of something more...but it does mean that Scott Pilgrim being a bomb means NOTHING to me in the way of how good IT is.
The worst thing about the general public is how ignorant they are. If you don't like SP, then fine, but most people won't even make an effort to understand it. They will be frightened and embarrassed by it. "How can he grab a giant flaming sword out of nowhere!?! This movie makes no sense!!!"
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May 31, 2010 3:08:22 PM CDT
Jason Swartzman=Most annoying douchebag in the history of film
by turd furgeson
Almost preventing me from wanting to see this.. But everyone else is great so I probably will..
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serves more to prove that everyone else is right and he is wrong! XD
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Cera has a soft-spoken voice. It's just who he is. If you think that's him playing the same character every time, then that's your hang-up.
But just like souleman96 said - he's not a stuttering little pussy here. He seems to have a bit of a motormouth and the same silly personality that Pilgrim had in the comics. He's just doing it all in Michael Cera's voice...which is funny, because he is, in fact, Michael Cera. -
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needs to be shot, knifed, poisoned, and killed
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Really, if you see this over The Expendables, you are the gayest person ever
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May 31, 2010 3:18:49 PM CDT
Turd Furgeson: Bigger douchebag than Fattie Arbuckle?!?!
by royston lodge
Methinks that's going a WEE bit too far! ;-)
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The only real similarities I see are that they are both about young people, and they are both stylistically over-the-top. Really, though, they aren't even over the same top. Kick-Ass was over the top of how comically exaggerated violence can be while still trying to ground the movie in at least a semblance of the real word. Scott Pilgrim is over the top of how many video game tropes can be worked into a film. The people comparing it to Speed Racer are much closer to the mark, and I am in the very small camp that thought Speed Racer was fantastic. Scott Pilgrim uses video game logic the way Speed Racer used anime logic. I suppose it could be argued that Kick-Ass used comic book logic the same way, except that doesn't count because it is actually based on a comic book, so comic book logic is a necessity. Personally, I think Wright is a genius, and I have loved everything he has done, so I am extremely excited for this movie. Even if it is terrible, it looks like nothing else I have ever seen in theaters, and that is something I almost always want to reward.
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If this is Edgar's worst movie, it still is probably better then most. I've never read Scott Pilgrim, Cera is fine with me (I can't help but love a Bluth), Winstead, and the fact that Edgar's name is attached anywhere meant I was already in.
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if you haven't seen The Expendables at least 5 times before you see Scott Pilgrim you're gay. Also in between each viewing of The Expendables, you need to sit in your car and blast at least 5 Dio songs in a row at meximum volume and eat a 20 ounce steak. Then it's OK to see Scott Pilgrim.
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I can understand where ur coming from in regards to Sera. Can't say I wish him bad or anything there's just something about him that I can't stand... so yea... could be my hangup.
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Swartzman ruins every single movie he's in. I can't stand to watch him for more than 30 seconds and I have to stop watching.. I need to support this movie because it's original and all the other talent involved is first rate but Swartzdouche will absolutely ruin every scene he's in..
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What if I see Scott Pilgrim at a midnight show Thursday and see The Expendables Friday evening? How gay does that make me? What if I see Scott Pilgrim opening night with a girl, and The Expendables on Tuesday with a bunch of dudes from work? What if I see them both Friday night? Does the order in which I see them affect my placement on the Kinsey Scale? Inquiring minds want to know!
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That definitely makes Fattie Arbuckle a bigger douchebag.
Bigger figuratively, and literally too since he crushed the poor girl to death.
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This looks absolutely terrible! Cera is the most boring actor ever. This movie looks stupid to say the least.
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One thing that pisses me off more than people taking a negative review of something they like as a personal attack on them is the idea that liking something precludes liking something else equally. Like those douchebags who can't imagine that somebody could like Farscape, Babylon 5, AND Firefly. No, you do not have to pick a favorite, and even if you do, it doesn't invalidate your love of the others. Your personality is not a god-damned sword from Final Fantasy VII. It doesn't have just three to five slots where you can equip your interests. YOU CAN FUCKING WELL LIKE AS MANY THINGS AS YOU WANT, AND TO HELL WITH ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE!
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Cena's hair in the movie is fucking ugly and distracting.
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That is all
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So there. Nyaaa!
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BOMBS AWAY!!! KAPLOW!!!!!!!
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All I know is that scientific testing has shown that seeing any other movie when The Expendables is out, without seeing The Expendables first, causes your penis to fall off. This is science and if you disagree you hate science.
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Where's Speed Racer and where are the cars?
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Goddamn right, dude. Cera may be something of a blank spot as an actor, but Schwartzman is consistently & actively irritating. He's the Judd Nelson of his generation.
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i swear, only borin dramas get love here... as a movie geek site, most of yous are a fail
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He said this movie will bomb.
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NO FUCKING WAY!
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Well, I am a fair hand at this Science myself, and I am pretty sure that seeing The Expendables will cause one's penis to grow back, possibly larger than it was before. So, scientifically speaking, the safest thing to do is see Scott Pilgrim first, then see The Expendables.
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...doesn't that make it the gayer movie?
I mean, after all, straight men shouldn't be getting boners from looking at Sylvester Stallone.
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its like sayin 500 days of summer is gayer than 300...
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Where else would commercials and trailers get their cool music from?
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I don't have feelings, cuz feelings are gay:
http://tinyurl.com/58vnr6
Love is for girls and gays:
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this shit looks terrible
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I'll pass. I'll let the other 42 year old "kids" waste their time on this turd.
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I'm just sayin'...
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Cause I'm kinda not seeing it here.
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"Speed Racer". Underrated? Who knew?
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May 31, 2010 5:06:00 PM CDT
WTF? this will entertain you, even if you talk shit about it
by legendaryspartanblood
even if you dog the movie to death you will still like it.. the geek inside of you compels you to like it.
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Facts to all Haters:
Fact 1: This looks AWESOME.
Fact 2: Kick Ass did not Bomb and is aentertaining film.
Fact 3: Yes Cera usually plays the same role but in this so far he is doing something slightly diferrent.
Fact 4: All the haters seem to be a bunch of self loathing inbred thundercunts who can do nothing but spit shit from their fecal encrusted whorish mouths because they want a bit of attention or having a tantrum because a film has been made that "they" don't want to see but feel the need to slag it off to the fans who DO wanna see it -
I don't buy the "geeks HAVE to like it" argument that AICN throws around a lot. The adult in me who works hard for the $12-14 it costs to see a movie, and that overshadows my inner 11 year old who still wants to see everything based on a comic book or game.
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I'll wait and judge it for real when/if I see the film, but the trailer feels very much like it's trying so, so hard. Which only impresses the simpletons. I don't know what it is about Michael Cera, but I have a very hard time liking movies with him as a lead. Maybe b/c I find him hard to believe as a lead or just hard to identify with. Maybe it's just the generation of millenials who don't have that issue and are helping to give him a career? I'm sure Cera is a nice guy, I just don't buy him as a leading man. In fact, I only buy him as George Michael from Arrested Development. And George Michael would never in a million years be in the same league as Winstead. Never.
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"Only people who a) know what a hipster is - which makes them hip, or b) want to be a hipster, talk shit about hipsters. It's just totally odd to me. We're all here and probably at quite a few other internet sites on a regular basis because we want to know wants going on, what's new, what people are talking about. In other words, to be some kind of "hip"."
Sorry, uh, no. You get a failing grade for trying to improvise. Badly.
FYI: Hipsters are an endless army of little corporate-directed drones, differing significantly from previous countercultural movements because they neither advocate nor rebel against anything. All they're doing, in fact, is just aping the look and attitude of past countercultural movements, who actually took chances with their appearance and conduct. These assclowns are, however, the very definition of "safe", because they actively embrace being a target demographic, and think emptying their wallet on a routine basis at an "alternative" emporium is an expression of some sort of rebellion or other, as is there phony boredom at the world around them.
In short, they're all appearance without any social significance or intellectual commitment to back it up...in the long run, as irrelevant as this movie and the comic it's based on... -
Fact #1: Your "Fact #1 is not "fact" at all, but subjective opinion.
Fact #2: (A) Not sure what Kick Ass's final box office gross is (is it even final yet?), but I'd have to see the gross vs budget to make a call about whether it "bombed". As for it being a "good', "Fun", or "entertaining" movie, well I have no opinion until I see it, but you saying it is "entertaining" is once again Subjective, not "Fact".
Fact #3: "Slightly different" is almost a stretch. Cera plays pretty much the same character in all his movies, particularly when playing a lead. Compare his character in Superbad, Nick & Nora, and now this. You could swap them all out for one another and the movie wouldn't change and the audience wouldn't know the difference. The "slight" difference you're referencing in you post must be that there are comic book fighting words that appear on screen in this film. B/c it sure can't be that Cera: 1) still looks the same, carries himself the same, and appears to have the same attitude and sheepish, mumbling voice; 2) plays in a band again; or 3) is gunning for a girl that's out of his league, but that will somehow fall for him. Fact #4: You may be right about this one, but remember- you ARE on an AICN talkback. What'd you expect? -
of SPY KIDS.
I feel like this movie is geared towards those who would enjoy movies like Spy kids.. -
My FACTS were actually a sly dig at the people who spouting their opinions about the film being shit/failing as Facts when they are just their own subjective opinions.
2nd regarding Kick Ass, it is worth checking out I loved it, it wasn't perfect (ending bit with "special' weapon was naff) but I was entertained, Film cost 30 Million to make and so far its total Box Office Worldwide is $90,371,299 which is not a bomb.
As for Cera I was worried about him being cast but from the Trailer I didn't spot any of his usual quirks and he played Scott exactly how I imagined him to be. -
Anna Kendrick or Sylvester Stallone?
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Great description. Youth "counterculture" these days is really paying hand over fist for anything a corporation tells you is independent or outsider. For $100 you can wear a t-shirt that looks like someone splattered paint on a hanes undershirt, you can buy pants that look like they come from the salvation army and glasses that look like you stole them from your grandpa. It's not so much about standing out anymore than fitting in. Sure, spend $30 on a Ramones T-shirt even though you think they're just a band hot topic invented for the design (yes, I met someone who really thinks this). What's really odd, though, is how it seems like teenagers these days are trying to hard to experience the 80s. 80s fashions are back, all the "new sounds" bands come up with are just 80s top 40 (or 80s commericalized punk). 16 year olds deseperetely wanna say they grew up with Transformers and GI Joe. I was at a movie this week where before previews, two 14-16 year old kids talked about playing Colecovision. Were the 90s-00s really that crappy that kids who grew up at that time have to cling to things from 10 years prior, and even things we didn't even like in the 80s?
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Dude, you're emotionally involved. I don't think your friends should let you anywhere near this film, until you've gone out on a few dates with other films to try and get over it a little first.
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...actually reading the talkback. Seems like there's been a bit of the jump to the end and pick a fight going on lately. However, OF COURSE I was improvising, and my point stands. I've been hearing the damn word for over 10 years now (and it's actually an old term) and I don't believe it has a real meaning. Hipsters don't call themselves hipsters. Haters call hipsters, hipsters.
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CBC Shirts Rule.
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Proof that trolls do actually read... sometimes.
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There are still self-centered opinionated douches on the internet... sometimes.
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It will probably bomb. Why? But it's going up against the hardcore must see action film of the year, The Expendables.
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Scott Pilgrim trailer Looks lame. As others have pointed out... theree is clearly no tension or suspense in any of the action sequences, which really to me, don't seem to be choreographed that well either... So some would say "but it's supposed to be tounge and cheek!". And the problem with that is that it didn't even manage to make me "chuckle". The attempt at "humor" here doesn't do ANYTHING for me... Terrible concept. Never read the comics, and this trailer doesn't make me want to go run out and read them, nor does it make me want to see the movie. Hell, at least the amazing trailer for the thoroughly dissapointing "Watchmen" made me want to do both of those things... (probably had more to do with the awesome song selection in the watchmen trailer more than anything else ;-) Kick-Ass The comparisons to Kick-Ass are very deserved. I had the same reaction to that trailer: UNIMPRESSED. But the "Geek culture" here, along with the incredible reviews, really made me think that i was missing something in the trailer... so i decided to see it. BAD MOVE. I actually had a headache by the end of the movie. And yes, i do sometimes get movie-induced headaches lol... I think the previous "bad movie-induced" headache i suffered was during The Punisher (Thomas Jane version). GOD i hate the movie... Anyway, I fear the same thing for Scott Pilgrim as i did with Kick-Ass. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... Speed Racer The comparisons to Speed Racer are, hopefully unjust. Now i have to admit that i had the same reaction to the initial Speed Racer trailer, that i had with this one. Thought it looked terribly silly. HOWEVER, that movie FAR exceeded my expectations. I don't even really know what made me drag myself to the theatre to see it, but i was glad that i did. Probably the most misunderstood/underrated film since Alien Fucking 3 lol. (But that's a whole other talkback... ;-) And for the record, i have defended Speed Racer and Alien 3, as far back as possible. So i'm not one of those recent "converts"... In other words, i loved and defended both films before it was "cool" or "hip" to do so... lol The chicks in the Scott Pilgrim trailer God, it might just be me... but does anyone HONESTLY think that ANY of the females in this trailer are even remotely "attractive"?!? I didn't think my standards were THAT high... lol. And i know my "hot, young actresses" too lol: Mila Kunis, Vanessa Hudgens, Jessica Lucas, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansen, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kelli Garner, Kristin Kreuk, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Diora Baird, etc... Some "older" ones to further clarify my taste: Jennifer Connelly, Monica Bellucci, Halle Berry, Paz Vega, Asia Argento, Penelope Cruz, Christina Hendricks, Julie Bowen, etc... But this fascination, this LOVE for "Mary Elizabeth Windstead" on this site is BAFFLING. She's plainer than Kirsten Frickin' Dunst! Sorry guys... didn't see a SINGLE chick in that trailer that would make me look twice lol Prodigy tracks used in trailers And FINALLY, what the FUCK happened to the PRODIGY?!? Man, the great Liam Howlett has pulled a "George Lucas", in terms of music... lol Why on FUCKIN EARTH, are they playing the vapid shit from their last album in EVERY FUCKING TRAILER these days?? If I hear "Stand Up" in a trailer one more goddamn time, i'm gonna CHOKE A BABY! I don't want to hear fucking "Invaders Must Die"... or fuckin "Omen". NO! The next time my ass is sitting in a theatre, and a new action trailer debuts... i want to hear some "Their Law" fuckin' people's eardrums. How 'bout some "Jericho" (going REAL old-school now ;-), "Out of Space", or the sweet-ass "Break and Enter"? THAT is the shit i'm talkin' about. I was the biggest Prodigy fan, that is, before Liam lost his mind... or sold out, or whatever. "Experience" and "Music for the Jilted Generation" are 2 of my favorite albums, and without a doubt, 2 of the best "Techno" or "Rave" albums of all time. Took that shit to a whole new level. "Fat of the Land", while the most "popular", was kinda wank really... Especially when compared to the previous 2 albums. And the last 2 have been UTTER SHITE. Well, except for "Spitfire". That track was pretty fuckin sick ;-)
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that bomb. Has everyone forgotten it? Evidently, and that may be part of the problem. A big part. Michael Cera is on of those actors who just doesn't click with audiences. It's unfortunate, but there you have it. And the fact that SP is heading for an August release is a strong clue that the studio sees no future in the thing either.
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This looks like a total stylistic rip-off the Wii game No More Heroes. The premises are even comparable.
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i worry what the hell he's gonna do when he doesn't look like a ambiguously nerdy 16-20 year old anymore. he should do a movie with that home alone kid.
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Only this time for tweeners.
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This has an Uwe Boll feel to it. The whole playing a video game in the movie thing, well, it doesn't play well.
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It's the dyed pink/purple hair, and the fact she plays the stereotypical Manic Pixie Dreamgirl in this movie. Young fellas, I'm going to give you guys a solid piece of advice about women: If she's in her 20s or older and still dyes her hair in wacky, unnatural colors, *avoid*. She is a nut-case (probably on massive amounts of psychotropics) and is an attentionwhore (her hair coloring draws in the weirdos at bars, clubs, coffeehouses). It's normal only for teen girls to dye their hair in wacky colors, and they should eventually grow out of it when they grow up. Back to Windstead's appeal in Scott Pilgrim: again, it's because she's playing the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, which is, frankly, quite a sexist and unattainable-in-reality female stereotype.
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I'm not a huge comic book movie fan, but I was grinning all through this trailer. I liked Shaun of the Dead, was very pleasantly surprised at how much fun Hot Fuzz was, and fucking love love love Spaced - just wanted one more vote of joy to help balance the haters.
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What kind of complete fucking Manga-obsessed Japanese pod-baby could possibly have enjoyed that cinematic shart? Yes, anything with John Goodman and Sigourney Weaver and a chimp in it has an automatic 10% awesomeness, but the other 90 percent was COMPLETELY FUCKING AWFUL!There were no characters; there was no bad guy; there was no ACTION; there were no visual effects worth speaking of! What the fuck is left?? Why the fuck did anybody like that awful, awful abortion of a movie? I would rather watch back-to-back Transformers movies than sit through that shit for a second time, and I absolutely abhor Transformers!
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Hot Fuzz was a bit of a disappointment after Shaun, but this looks cool. For those who've never heard of Scott Pilgrim: get acquainted with books.
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there is no way they covered what they spent on marketing the living shit out of that film.
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...$30 million and grossed $90 million (so far, it will go up with the next round of reported world wide numbers) be considered "not a hit"? And that's before the HUGE numbers it's going to do with DVD/Blu-Ray sales and rentals (which has been enough on it's own in the last decade to get sequels greenlit). I liked the movie, but didn't love it as much as I wanted to. As far as it being a success goes I'm going to say what I've been saying for a month; get ready for the sequel.
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And I challenge anybody to supply numbers and a business model that would prove me wrong. It's like we just discussed in another thread, RPLocke. It's the backlash against the hype. This movie was over-hyped to high heaven so some people expected it to make gazillions of dollars. Because there was a backlash to the hype before the movie was even released there's a group of people who now think they've been vindicated because the movie made ONLY ninety million dollars. In point of fact, a hard R rated movie about "real" super heroes that cost $30 million making three times it's budget is no kind of failure. And it's going to make far more than another ninety million through DVD/Blu-Ray sales and rentals. Again, if somebody can supply numbers that prove me wrong, I'll gladly admit it.
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If it barely made its money back, how is that a hit. Paranormal Activity was made for about 4 dollars, and that did huge business compared to Kick Ass which limped along in theaters for a few days.
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"What kind of complete fucking Manga-obsessed Japanese pod-baby could possibly have enjoyed that cinematic shart? Yes, anything with John Goodman and Sigourney Weaver and a chimp in it has an automatic 10% awesomeness, but the other 90 percent was COMPLETELY FUCKING AWFUL! There were no characters; there was no bad guy; there was no ACTION; there were no visual effects worth speaking of! What the fuck is left?? Why the fuck did anybody like that awful, awful abortion of a movie? I would rather watch back-to-back Transformers movies than sit through that shit for a second time, and I absolutely abhor Transformers!" Thanks for proving my point about people that disliked (or vehemently DESPISED, as in your case) Speed Racer. I don't really know where to start with that psychotic rant of yours, but i will simply say that I am not, as you so eloquently put it, a: "Manga-obsessed Japanese pod-baby" Whatever that even means... LOL I am in fact WHITE, and i also typically hate anime. I didn't even enjoy Akira, one of the most well respected examples of anime... So i was DEFINITELY NOT the target audience... lol And again, you must have missed the part where i said that, going in, i was expecting to HATE IT. I expected to probably walk out of it and sneak in to another movie... but alas, i thought it was great. Passionate, original, amazing attention to detail (effects and cinematography wise...), characters i actually DID care about (which is pretty rare for me these days), nicely paced and edited, and it featured a great score by the amazing Michael Giacchino... So i'm sorry, what were you saying you didn't like about it? I mean, any OBJECTIVE criticisms? Or do you just want to throw out juvenile, racist insults at the film, as if it raped your mother or something... lol
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Numbers and a business model to prove your point. How is three times it's budget barely making back it's money? Even if you take into account the fact that theaters make more money opening weekend, the cost to ship the reels and the cost of advertising, Kick-Ass! would still be profitable. If you want to throw out the "but Lion's Gate paid $45 million for it". Well first of all, by my math, that makes the people who independently produced the movie freakin' geniuses, because they made a profit before the movie was ever released. If Lions Gate has not seen a profit on their investment yet (and I'm sure they have) you can bet that they'll see a large one once the DVDs and Blu-Rays go to market. Also, Paranormal Activity is an EXTREME anomaly. You could toss that movie out when comparing every other film that's ever been made accept for possibly The Blair Witch Project. That just never happens and studios know it. Lastly, there is a LONG LIST of movies that never gross what they cost to make each year. There is a much shorter list of those that grossed three times their budget. So come on man, give me numbers. Explain to me in business terms, taking into account FUTURE profits as well as box office (which the studios do), how this movie is some sort of epic fail. Oh yeah, and one more thing. The movie is still in theaters world-wide. It faded quickly in regards to large weekly box office numbers, but it didn't "limp along for a few days".
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Hey bud, i responded to you in the latest Scott Pilgrim talkback, talkin' about Prodigy and whatnot... Just wanted to give you a head's up :)
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lol - That means it's time for bed. I HATE making that mistake.
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as he is an UNBIASED, UNOBJECTIVE, TASTELESS DOUCHE-NOZZLE... as he proved himself to be in the LOST FINALE talkback lol ;-)
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delete the stupid people who leave intentional stupids.
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Can't really be an argument when dude only replies with one line of sarcasm, anyway. And I get a perverse amount of joy out of replying to that sarcasm with a couple hundred words of logic. lol
RPLocke, I am actually a math whiz. Not even joking. So ya know, there is that. -
I think that's why he hasn't made another post on the subject... lol Good work ;-)
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That and FUCK Ramona Flowers is hot.
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But the rest of the movie looks cool... I like the Edgar Wright quick cutting of him signing for the package. Still don't think this will click, too many Kick-Ass vibes coming off this.
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At first it was kinda funny, but now it's just getting old... :-|
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This movie is going to do Iron Man money. You're all going to watch it so shut the fuck up.
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Visually awesome, at least in the trailer, with a neat concept. I would rather take a chance on this, than watch one second of whatever Avatard 2 recycles as a "plot". The haters moaning about "hipster this" and "Comic book movies" that can run and go suck a bag of cocks while a homeless person beats them with a bag of forks. If you can't get excited about something new, visually, from a story perspective, or even from a quirky angle, it's time to stop watching movies and fuck off. Or go beat it to Megan Fox in Transshitters 2 Bays Dead Whore Boogaloo.
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Jun 01, 2010 7:43:15 AM CDT
its bad enough to compete with her past boyfriends in bed
by dioxholsterreturns
now you actually have to battle them physically and for what? a dysfunctional marriage in the future. PASS
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whats the name of that music thing in the end where it gets all wild?
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I wouldn't consider Kick-Ass a hit at all, but it was a modest success. I guess it depends on what a person would consider what constitutes a hit. For the producers to be able to sell the US rights for 25 Million, it was a great deal. For Lionsgate, not so much. They spent at least 30 Million on marketing and prints and were at a minimum of a hole of 55 Million to start off with; probably more like 60 to 70 million. In today's film world, marketing has now become the majority of overall spending for most films. If a ten Million dollar film is to be released wide in 2,500 Theaters, you are looking at 20 Million at least in prints and advertising. But back to Kick Ass, analysts had the opening weekend to be somewhere between 30 to 35 Million and it only opened up to about 19.8 Million. It was only the number one film of that weekend because Lionsgate counted the ticket sales of Thursday night screenings, and those were not midnight shows, but the 8:00 PM shows. That was pretty seedy of them, but they were trying to do damage control from such a disappointing opening weekend. So right off the bat it did not live up to expectations to say the least. The following weekend was a very average fall off of about 50%, so it had no type of rebound where word of mouth caused a decent comeback the ensuing weekends.
From what I've read from people in Britain, the film was also hyped up and had an aggressive marketing campaign and had similar disappointing numbers when compared to projections as in the US.
But all in all, Lionsgate will make some money off the film in the ancillary markets, but they will not be rolling in the dough from the project. So for me, it was a very modest success, not a hit by any means.
And btw, I did see the film and thought it was okay, I wish it was more like the story arc instead of hollywooding it up(he gets the girl, Big Daddy actually was a Mob Boss' victim, etc.). -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jvl8rs95pU
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...sitting at the door waiting for his parcel. Ha ha. Isn't that kooky and indie and belle & sebastian and everything.
Big fan of Edgar Wright but not sure I'll be able to stomach such levels of kook. I doubt I'd make it past the 8 bit Universal logo...
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Jun 01, 2010 10:41:26 AM CDT
I'm a Michael Cera fan. That said, this is pretty funny:
by royston lodge
"How To Make a Michael Cera Movie"
http://tinyurl.com/25jl6bo -
Everyone knew it would get released regardless. Even if they didn't get the number of fans they wanted, they would lie about it and say they did.
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Jun 01, 2010 11:02:33 AM CDT
Mary Elizabeth Winstead doesn't really look all that great here
by d.vader
Not until she got into her underwear, I mean. Her look in the movie is just sorta... eh, to me. I can't put my finger on what it is exactly.
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Was when the first evil boyfriend dialed down the "evil" to ask "Didn't you get my email explaining the situation?"
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or something? And also what the frak does she see in Cera other than that he doesn't have superpowers? I'm not gettin' her motivation here. Why the frak do her super ex's even CARE if she's going out with loser Cera?
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Jun 01, 2010 1:46:50 PM CDT
ReportAbuse: LIke others have said, it's a pubescent fantasy.
by royston lodge
The whole idea is that it's a graphic representation of a pubescent hipster's romantic fantasy.
She falls for him = His fantasy
She has evil exes that he has to "save" her from = His fantasy
He is a kung-fu sword master = His fantasy
Video game iconography = His fantasy
Those fantasy elements don't REALLY bother me.
But unless it has a sad ending like Chasing Amy, the idea that this inexperienced geek has ZERO qualms about his girlfriend's, um, "spicy" past kinda does sorta bug me.
A little. Just a little. -
But unlike Kick-Ass I don't think they are trying to build a franchise, so it doesn't really matter.
Hell, Whedon proved you can have a movie bomb terribly (and be a terrible movie) and they'll still hand you the keys to the biggest Comic Book Superhero movie to date based solely on cred. -
It's less that it's all in him mind - although there are dream sequences shown in the graphic novel series- more that the version of reality Scott Pilgrim and his peeps inhabit is one where video game variations on the rules of quantum physics exist. Think of it as an alternate version of our reality, possible a magical realism version of Toronto. Where subspace highways run through empty spaces (like Scott's head), and people turn into coins when killed. No real superpowers to speak of, except for a few members of the League of Evil Exes. Scott himself isn't superpowered, he just happens to be an excellent brawler who has a proficiency in long swords that he picked up in middle school. Cool, no?
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