Scott Pilgrim Netflix Animated Series - Animated by Science SARU

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I think it's funny and kinda sad that out of all the comic books that Bryan O'Malley has made over the years Scott Pilgrim was the only successful thing that he ever made and that was mostly because of the movie. Hell most people that I knew who saw the movie had no idea that there even was a comic book...
 
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Boston Brand said:
Or that Edgar Wright threw his career away on an adaptation that banked on Michael Cera being a bigger box office draw than Sylvester Stallone.
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lol you just reminded me how my one Xbox addict friend threw an absolute shit fit that no one in the friend group wanted to see Scott Pilgrim cause we thought it looked lame, told him we learned our lesson when he bitched and whined until we went and saw Gamer with him (which I'm still sure was better than Scott Pilgrim but was still cringe), and then he said we were stupid because Scott Pilgrim would blow The Expendables out of the water when it came to the box office.
 
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The thin outlines and moving camera makes it look like a modern anime.
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Because it is, it is animated by Science Saru, a Japanese anime studio who also made Inu-Oh, Heike Story, Yurei Deco, and Star Wars: Visions, but I won't get into the internet autist spergout arguing if Japan-made anime of non-Japanese IPs really are truly Anime™ or not.

Edit: they also made Eizouken, Devilman Crybaby, Japan Sinks: 2020, and some episodes of Space Dandy.
 
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Kayfabe said:
Because it is, it is animated by Science Saru, a Japanese anime studio who also made Inu-Oh, Heike Story, Yurei Deco, and Star Wars: Visions, but I won't get into the internet autist spergout arguing if Japan-made anime of non-Japanese IPs really are truly Anime™ or not.

Edit: they also made Eizouken, Devilman Crybaby, Japan Sinks: 2020, and some episodes of Space Dandy.
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So basically, good animation that will get bogged down by the fact it's a Scott Pilgrim story.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
lol you just reminded me how my one Xbox addict friend threw an absolute shit fit that no one in the friend group wanted to see Scott Pilgrim cause we thought it looked lame, told him we learned our lesson when he bitched and whined until we went and saw Gamer with him (which I'm still sure was better than Scott Pilgrim but was still cringe), and then he said we were stupid because Scott Pilgrim would blow The Expendables out of the water when it came to the box office.
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If you ever needed proof of what a bubble Geeks and Geek Media if that era lived in, its all of them betting Scott Pilgrim will light up the box office... and then being shocked when not only did it bomb, The Expendables kicks the living shit out of it.

Meanwhile, I had that result pegged the moment I saw the trailer for The Expendables.

"Why are people seeing a hard-R action movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews and more? Don't they know there's the fifth movie in two years to have Michael Cera simping for some hipster chick to indie music?"

Meanwhile in the real world:

"Wanna see Scott Pilgrim?"
"The musical hipster movie? Call me crazy, I think I'd rather see Stallone blow a man in half with a shotgun for the third time."

It was the box office equivalent of a jock shoving a nerd into a locker, and fucking the prom queen the nerd faps to in front of them. And god do the few but vocal Scott Pilgrim nerds act like it. There are still a bunch of Moviebob level consoomers really pissed off about it.

ESPECIALLY when The Expendables not only launched a movie franchise, but sparked a revival of the hard-R action movie in the 2010s, and revived the career of Sylvester Stallone.

Meanwhile, Scott Pilgrim damn near killed the careers of anyone involved.
 
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Scott Pilgrim is the Rick and Morty of it's time. It's a story about a loser 23 year old Canadian guy who tries humping on a 17 year old asian girl to cope with his latest failed relationship, and then starts simping for a girl with numerous past relationships she all fucked over and has to duel her ex-boyfriends in order to finally get with her, filled with plenty of quirky early 2000's humor and three different characters who all come out as some flavor on non-heterosexual.
 
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Odd Opossum said:
Scott Pilgrim is the Rick and Morty of it's time. It's a story about a loser 23 year old Canadian guy who tries humping on a 17 year old asian girl to cope with his latest failed relationship, and then starts simping for a girl with numerous past relationships she all fucked over and has to duel her ex-boyfriends in order to finally get with her, filled with plenty of quirky early 2000's humor and three different characters who all come out as some flavor on non-heterosexual.
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Damn, sounds gay. I'm glad I saw the Expendables twice in the theater instead.
 
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Boston Brand said:
It will never not be funny a bunch of hipsters upheld a C-tier Canadian harem manga as a work of art because it occasionally referenced indie rock and video games.

Or that Edgar Wright threw his career away on an adaptation that banked on Michael Cera being a bigger box office draw than Sylvester Stallone.

Scott Pilgrim, ironically for a franchise that's basically an incel's fantasy, its main legacy is convincing terrible women that a die job counts as a personality.
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I really don't get what he was thinking. He's a director known for visual style, but didn't realize that mid 00s CGI wasn't up to the task of adapting the comic? And the commercials made it sound like it was Game of Death. So, it already sounded like a bare-bones story and characterization combined with meh CGI fight scenes.

And people still think he's a visionary director that was owed Antman?
 
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Broseph said:
They tried as hard as they did but there are just certain things about the books that just don't work in live action
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The biggest one being Michael Cera as Scott. Scott in the books is a good looking dude that gets a lot of female attention despite being a directionless loser. So obviously lets cast the guy best known for playing weird, awkward nerds.
 
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Fluoxetine Man said:
The biggest one being Michael Cera as Scott. Scott in the books is a good looking dude that gets a lot of female attention despite being a directionless loser. So obviously lets cast the guy best known for playing weird, awkward nerds.
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Shia LaBeouf?
 
Fluoxetine Man said:
The biggest one being Michael Cera as Scott. Scott in the books is a good looking dude that gets a lot of female attention despite being a directionless loser. So obviously lets cast the guy best known for playing weird, awkward nerds.
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Yup. Cera is a wet blamket in every scene, I don't think he had more than one facial expression the entire movie, and he looks like he's never even seen a boob, much less had the kind of pussy worth seven death battles over.
 
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Fluoxetine Man said:
The biggest one being Michael Cera as Scott. Scott in the books is a good looking dude that gets a lot of female attention despite being a directionless loser. So obviously lets cast the guy best known for playing weird, awkward nerds.
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Isn't this the general case of people in drawing looking prettier than they are intended to be? The guy is a 20 something year old slob in a dead end job, he wouldn't look well out of regular neglect.
 
PipTheAlchemist said:
Scott Pilgrim was very much a product of it's time, imo. Not sure how relatable Scott Pilgrim would be to modern-day zoomers.
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A LOT of things that get re-made for whatever media were products of their time.

These companies have been on this nostalgic train for like a decade with no brakes as it crashes everything and kills everyone by turning the shows into current year schlop.

This will be no different. If they stay really close to the source material, Twitter/Tumblr/Journos will bitch/moan/complain about it not being "progressive" enough. If they stray away and change things they risk pissing off the OG fans while the snowflakes will rejoice as the new thing that now belongs to them just like almost everything else.

These companies should just let past things sleep a long slumber and make new shit. All these "member berries" are getting fucking tiresome.
 
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