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fuck it, I’ve been bored and inside since March so I’m making a thread about why Scott Pilgrim is my favorite and I will never feel any other way
Scott is supposed to be unlikeable. The movie and graphic novel starts with how he is DATING a 17 year old that he later CHEATS ON. It sets up the subtext that Scott is flawed and lacks emotional intelligence right away. Like most guys in their early twenties you know.
The movie also explicitly shows that growth comes from empathy, not from Manic Pixie Dream Girls. It is the antithesis of “ if you find a cool hot girlfriend all problems will go away.” All fights in the movie only worsen Scott And Ramona’s relationship, not make it stronger.
The attention to detail that was put into this movie was insane. There is a clear love to the source material and the movie managed to create the perfect ending while the graphic novel wasn’t even FINISHED.
The casting of this movie is wild as well when you consider the time it was made. Not only is it full of everyone’s favorites, most of them were still relatively unknown at the time. Chris Evans was known for the fucking Fantastic Four when this came out.
Edgar Wright is hot shit and even if you don’t like this movie, I can assure you that you like something he’s made.
Despite all this, the graphic novel is unquestionably better. It adds more character development, has great subplots that wouldn’t work for just a two hour movie, and expands on all the things you like about it. My dream is somebody makes it an animated series for Adult Swim.
