The Scott Pilgrim trailer has finally hit the Internet and I've been cleaning nerd off my window all week. It seems that as soon as certain gentlemen of a particular age, education and sneaker bracket see it, they combust and a shower of fanboy spooge results. Let's see if it works on any of you.
As you can tell from my prickly tone, I'm not all that excited. I tried to get on the Scott Pilgrim train, but hearing all about a douchebag who should know better about his love affair with a chick with more hair colour than personality, was too much for me. Too much like what I get in my daily life, for starters.
And the video game shoutouts were lost on me, because my Dad believed that consoles were the devil and refused to let them in the house. However, I've loved Edgar Wright since Spaced, so maybe he can help me overcome my indifference - and the Michael Cera creepy factor.
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Marty, I wanted to leave a hilarious and insightful comment on your Facebook the other day.
Can you imagine my shock when I realized I couldn't?
It best reappear post-Lent, post-haste.
p.s. let's hang out once this crazy semester is done for me!
The actual Facebook killing wasn't a Lent thing, so I don't know how long it will be before it goes back up. I don't think I'll keep it down forever, but I'm trying to train myself out of wasting so much time on it, so who knows.
Also, your birthday socks are finished!
omigod yes!!!
I wasn't hugely thrilled by the trailer either, mostly because I'm not convinced by either Cera or Mary Elizabeth Winstead yet. Also the cartoon fighting feels off and overstated, but that's probably just this trailer. I'm still hoping to be proven wrong given my love of the books.
That said, if you didn't grow up as a video game geek then neither the books nor the movie will likely do much for you. They speak pretty strongly to a specific type of adolescence/perspective, so if you're removed from that then the references are pretty distancing.
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