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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
So, Edgar Wright came into town this past weekend to break in the new Alamo Drafthouse theater on Slaughter Lane (I call it the Slaughterhouse) by showing every feature he’s directed save the rarely seen Fistful of Fingers. I got to revisit these films, save Shaun of the Dead which was alright because of his three films Shaun is the one I’ve seen the most.
A year or so distance from Scott Pilgrim I found my appreciation of the kinetic energy of the film has grown. Time will be kind to this one. I registered how great the supporting cast was the first time around, but a revisit proves just how important Ellen Wong’s Knives Chau and Johnny Simmons’ Young Neil and Kieran Culkin’s Wallace Wells is to keeping the film from floating out into unreachable ridiculousness. Especially Wong, the only real innocence of the film.
My decision was made pretty quickly that I’d flip through the folders and find a Scott Pilgrim shot for today and find one I did. This set, the Chaos Theater, was what I got to see with my own eyes when Universal did their press day way back when. It was a crazy build and I saw the lead up to what happens in this shot. I saw them launch the coins down the steps.
At the Q&A for Pilgrim Edgar said $20,000 in coins was used in this scene and that Mark Webber (I forgot to mention him earlier, but he is also super good in this film) unashamedly grabbed about $30 worth and left with it. But it’s Canadian money, so that’s like getting upset that he walked off the set with all the 100s from the Monopoly board.
This shot just proves to remind us that even with silly movies there’s someone that’s gotta clean up the damn mess. Enjoy and click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
The BTS pic of the day will return tomorrow.
-Eric Vespe
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Only movie to have truly quenched my need for postmodernism with a little John Hughes, television, movie and music homages all rolled into a delicious pop-culture sammich I devoured. -Namaste-
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March 25, 2012, 10:53 p.m. CST
One of the best graphic novels but the movie was only decent
by Jackson
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March 25, 2012, 11:03 p.m. CST
tommorrows btsp is the star trek tos episode 'return to tommorrow'
by wattos new hat
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March 25, 2012, 11:18 p.m. CST
Hey, Quint! Once again you're ignorant because Canadian dollar is actually worth more than the US dollar now
by Al
Stay classy, Quint. You are incredibly good at your job.
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March 25, 2012, 11:20 p.m. CST
Except the canadian dollar now reaches parity with the american currency on a regular basis.
by Brazo
So he probably still walked off with a little over 30 bucks if he kept that money.
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March 25, 2012, 11:43 p.m. CST
How dare you mock the Canadian dollar! Iceland is adopting it as their official currency! HA!
by ndally
Thats right. Iceland! Plus we name our 1 dollar coin a loonie and our 2 dollar coin a toonie how awesome is that? AND our multicoloured money makes for some amazing wall paper. Oh and if it happens to be dark wouldn't you rather have your paper bills different colours so can tell them apart or do you prefer mistaking a 1 dollar bill for a 20 because they are all the same god damn colour(that's right colour with a "u")
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March 26, 2012, 12:03 a.m. CST
American currency better than Canadian currency? That's impossible!
by Fico
ACTUALLY, NO
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March 26, 2012, 12:22 a.m. CST
I live close to the border; the strippers there can grab toonies with their labia. Freaking talented.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
A toonie in a labia is worth far more than a dollar in a g-string. Yeah, their Canadian money is superior, but we have cheaper gasoline and no GST. They're taxed to shit up north.
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March 26, 2012, 12:26 a.m. CST
While it was probably said in jest, the Canadian dollar is currently buying $1.01 of your worthless yankee spondulas says a Paddy in Aussieland.
by ThehandthatBites
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Who cares, guy was a douche. Polluted every talkback with his retardation. Seriously, fuck that guy, fuck him up his ass.
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Good one.
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March 26, 2012, 1:16 a.m. CST
The Canadian dollar is worth the same as the American dollars.
by Happyfat73
Besides which, when are you North Americans gonna get rid of pennies? What a fuckin' waste of space they are.
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Don't they still put the Queen of England on their money? What the hell?
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...because the Queen is still their head of State. Don't Americans know anything about the world outside their borders?
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March 26, 2012, 1:57 a.m. CST
I love that this has become a discussion about exchange rates.
by JuanSanchez
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March 26, 2012, 2:10 a.m. CST
More visual imagination and film-making craft than a dozen JJ Abrams movies.
by Fortunesfool
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Watched it. Meh. Looked up who his love interest was on imdb cause I recognised from somewhere (Die Hard 4), and that was basically it. Utterly forgettable movie.
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Is that what tomorrow's pic will be? Anyway, I fairly enjoyed Scott Pilgrim, but being a gamer I didn't think it was the ultimate gamers movie that it's often painted to be. That said, I'm not sure what is the ultimate gamer movie aside from The Wizard... :/
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Apparently Canadians are VERY sensitive about the value of their money. Sheesh. On the other hand, I thought it was pretty obvious that Quint was joking. Please take your extra pennies that you get at the exchange and buy a sense of humor. We're only keeping them around so we can give them to Canadians who are looking to make a few extra cents anyway.
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I despise Scott Pilgrim with every fiber of my being I usually dont hate on movies like this, but I hate Scott Pilgrim to a degree that isn't reasonable It has one, if the most unlikable main character in recent cinematic history which invalidates the entire movie. Scott is a whiny, self-aborsbed loser, which I understand is the point up to a degree. However, his character does not evolve at all, and is the still the same lame shit that he was in the first part of the movie. He isn't even entertaining, just lame. The CG is alright, but most of the pop culture references are trying waay too hard to be hip and relevant. Fuck Scott Pilgrim and fuck anyone who thinks it is some watershed moment in pop culture. Hipster piece of shit which was lucky to do half its terrible box office.
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March 26, 2012, 4:36 a.m. CST
The Twitter-verse predicted this was going to be box office gold...
by FlandersBum
...too bad that didn't pan out. Twitter did a better job predicting success for The Hunger Games, though.
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http://www.taschen.com/media/images/480/default_kubrick_archive_exc_01_0706251445_id_57576.jpg
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finally got around to seeing this when it was showing on like a free premium movie channel preview weekend thing on like Cinemax or something, and uh yeah just fucking garbage like straight up DOOK, I mean I really worked to have an open mind about this "movie" back when it came out and Harry went ga-ga for it while napping through Inception, so I didn't go in with any pre-conceived hate but yeah fuck I should have I mean it's just pure wierd ass deep longing hipster GARBAGE with unattractive actresses and terrible TERRIBLE hamming it up by every douche-stubbled wierdo super-unlikeable fucking "hey over-blown ego gotta eat right" hipster. But yeah hey man what do I know maybe it's a nostalgic look back at the old days of videogames by a generation that wasn't around for said generation of videogames but hey whatever thats Cool hey howd that attack of the block work out 4 u
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March 26, 2012, 5:01 a.m. CST
The Queen. Wilfrid Laurier. John A "Stop Me At Three" McDonald. Robert "Sure Those WWI Rifles Will Work" Borden.
by tangcameo
I miss the old $50 with the Mounties on the back. That was kickass.
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March 26, 2012, 5:20 a.m. CST
i will click any article that has lesbians in the header text
by rakesh patel
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the instant i saw that 8 bit intro i knew i was in for a treat. maybe because i grew up in the 90s and its right up my alley, but i found it funny, visually incredible, and filled with great performances. also this is probably the only time since arrested development michael cera playing michael cera worked. if you dont like it fine, but FUCK YOU, SUCK MY COCK, HARRY LIKED GODZILLA AND CHEETS ON HIS WIFE
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March 26, 2012, 5:55 a.m. CST
What happened to the Battleship Trailer that was posted yesterday?
by Ingeld
Why was it deleted? Was it not generating a positive buzz like it was supposed to?
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March 26, 2012, 7 a.m. CST
ingeld, I don't usually acuse them of this, but maybe the check didn't clear.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
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Every note the same size and colour, plus one dollar bills. Ha ha. Hilariously backward.
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March 26, 2012, 7:41 a.m. CST
And just to remind you all, Expendables kicked Scott Pilgrim's ass.
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Expendables was number one at the box office. Scott Pilgrim was number five.
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March 26, 2012, 8:01 a.m. CST
Scott Pilgrim was the definition of a movie with A.D.D
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
I'm normally a fan of Edgar Wright, I grew up with all those retro videogames this movie pays homage too, I don't even find Michael Cera annoying really... but FUCK this fucking fuck of a movie, fucking smug, egocentric, garbage.
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And both were excellent... great? No... But I have picked up the books every so often since and enjoyed them and just las t weekend I caught the movie on tv and it does hold up as a fun, enjoyable movie. Edgar rocks and I'm going to watch me some Spaced now...
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Scott Pilgrim is probably my least favourite, I actually hate that movie. It's really well shot, edited, written and acted - and I still hate the fucking thing, because I hate Scott and Ramona as characters. Dr Kermode compares it to Howard The Duck, which he shouldn't as that's a decent (if thoroughly weird) movie. At World's End soon as poss please Mr Wright.
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March 26, 2012, 8:32 a.m. CST
wow, is that Zeljko Ivanek lusting over the pool of coinage? (on the right)
by Tigger Tales
Methinks it is.
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You punched the highlights outta her hair!!!
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The world might as well collectively declare war on the USA. First get rid of all of the maps in that shithole; that way the stunned fucks wouldn't know which way to shoot. In their blissfully retarded ways of the world they would (as they always do) thin the US is the only country in the world. By doing so they'd be very upset that someone was shooting at them; but without maps they would come to the conclusion it was *gasp* other Americans!! Civil war part two (this time it's personal) and every other country in the world celebrates while the nazi power or the 21st century is destroyed by itself. Other countries with oil breath a sigh of relief, no invasions for them!
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March 26, 2012, 9:37 a.m. CST
But it’s Canadian money, so that’s like getting upset that he walked off the set with all the 100s from the Monopoly board.
by Arcadian Del Sol
While that comment hasn't been valid since the end of the Cold War Era, it still made me laugh pretty hard.
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March 26, 2012, 9:40 a.m. CST
every guy with a shovel in that picture goes to parties
by Arcadian Del Sol
and says, "yeah I work in movies. Worked on Scott Pilgrim, as a matter of fact." stay thirsty, my friends.
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My favorite part of this talkback is the Canadabucks bashing. Yeah, we have the Queen on all our currency, but you guys are still trusting God.. so, yeah. At least the Queen exists.
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Charming, funny, technically astounding (the lack of Oscar love for the film in the tech categories was shameful), and featuring a terrific cast. It's a film that will age well, like The Shawshank Redemption (another film that died at the box office but EVERYBODY loves now).
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March 26, 2012, 11:27 a.m. CST
Hey Canadians, come back when your Monopoly money acts as the world's reserve currency
by kidicarus
Until then, fuck off, and thanks for Shania Twain.
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I love it! Suess was right! And look at this last weekend..a movie clearly about VERSUS made fat coin at the theater! How awesome are humans? VERSUS! That's how! Meanwhile the dolphins are watching us with those creepy dolphin eyes and you know they're just thinking, "These guys are assholes...is it me?" and his dolphin buddies sadly shake their heads, "No, it isn't you. They're assholes alright."
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March 26, 2012, 12:47 p.m. CST
Love Edgar and his work, but I just could not get into Scott Pilgrim.
by Mr Nicholas
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March 26, 2012, 1:46 p.m. CST
No one will EVER put Pilgrim and Shawshank in the same sentence...
by ZodNotGod
after this let alone recalling it with fondness. One is already a classic, the other one is a esoteric oddball, stupid, gimmicky unfunny sack of crap that screams ADD- LIKE ME DAMN YOU!
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Hey aren't you guy's currently living as the United States Of China? World reserve my ass, you fuckers are so far in debt over an oil war you're all going to be speaking Mandrin soon enough.
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harry and his chinese fetish
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Feel free to read this article on your 'world reserve bank' before you think of your undoubtedly American response to something your own head is too far up your ass to talk about. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20027090-503544.html
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so where are the lesbians? it's why i'm here, so, it's only fair to ask?
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March 26, 2012, 5:44 p.m. CST
No one will EVER put Pilgrim and Shawshank in the same sentence...
by FoilMan
Um...you just put Pilgrim and Shawshank in the same sentence.
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Monopoly money huh... simply put, that was an asinine thing to say. As recently as January 2012 the Canadian dollar out performed the American dollar. In 2010 1 US dollar was worth .94 cents Canadian. The 2012 projected Canadian currency 6 month forecast (against the US dollar) is as follows: Month Date Forecast 1 Mar 2012 0.998 2 Apr 2012 1.003 3 May 2012 0.998 4 Jun 2012 0.993 5 Jul 2012 1.010 6 Aug 2012 1.028 There is nothing more annoying than people who make shit up that is not only false, but inaccurate and ignorant. Way to live up to a stereotype Quint... Google is your friend. Also Canadian money looks way cooler - FACT (Canada’s newest bank notes — $100 & $50 bills made from a plastic polymer).
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This was a fun movie. I had a dream recently where someone actually had the gauge in their head switch from "No Clue" to "Gets It." So of course...AICN talkbacks bash it. Cause that's what happens to about 75 percent of the good movies. Not the classics, which become revered, just the good stuff.
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is that you can't help but mention them in the same sentence, fondly.
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Take that, fuckers.
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