Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World trailer!

[Kelly Tindall]

Yeah, he's a little out to lunch. Tasha gets it, though, or at least gets it enough that I don't want to fight her.

[drugmassacre]

Honestly, I didn't get as much of the Stephen Chow influence as I did the actual video games that it was trying to mimic. So much of the fight scenes really look exactly like some of the later Street Fighter fights.

I mean, Rick, I understand what you're saying about Chow, but I think this movie has a different visual language from his work still.

[HellboyOne]

Well, video games AND comics as far as the visual language of Scott Pilgrim. And the themes are different. But as far as the outlandish humor and people suddenly having insane superpowers in an otherwise normal-looking world, it's almost exactly the same. And Chow had to be influenced by similar stuff.

I'd be surprised if Edgar Wright wasn't at all influenced by Chow's movies, Wright being an obvious pop culture nerd.

[Lester Toil]

That was Superman as the evil bass-playing X?? I knew he looked familiar.

Damn good movie. From start to finish.

Did anyone else think there was just a tad too much emphasis on Knives' ethnicity? During the first half of the movie every time they mentioned her name they had to remind us she's Chinese. And Scott asking her if she plans on serving Chinese food at her house really wasn't necessary.

And Sex Bob Bomb's drummer was a tad too generic. If you're gonna be Ally Sheady from "Breakfast Club", try and put a spin on it. Only thing missing were black clothes and black nail polish.

Fuck it. Great, great movie. Dialog, visuals, concepts, etc...

[Kelly Tindall]

The score is awesome, too. Been listening to it all day. Really lengthens and deepens the experience.

[Lester Toil]

Yeah, I didn't realize the Black Lips were on the soundtrack. Any idea what scene their tune was played? And this movie turned me on to Metric (they did my favorite song in the movie).

[Moonman]

5th place box office is fucked up for such an awesome movie going against such completely useless bullshit like Eat Pray Love, but I'm not suprised and here's why:

When me 'n my friends went opening weekend to see this, we checked our local theaters to see which ones had the best times. There are three multiplexs in our area that have 12+ theaters in them. Expendables had the standard opening weekend two dozen showings per day.

ALL of them had five showings per day max for Scott Pilgrim.

What. The. Fuck.

Is there a story behind this, cause I've never seen this happen before.

[HellboyOne]

Here's a quote from Edgar Wright regarding the movie, Riki-O:

?A lot of Eastern films have this "try anything" aspect to them. Think about the films of Stephen Chao, Tsui Hark, even Bollywood. Mixtures of comedy, romance, action and horror. "Riki-Oh" is incredible, it's this futuristic super-violent prison movie. It was made in Hong Kong, but it's a manga comic-book adaptation. Perhaps it's actual quality is debatable, but it's just an awesome film. It's just astonishing, so ridiculously violent. If they made it today maybe they'd be able to pull off some of the visuals a bit better, but I just love it. I showed it to the cast and crew of "Scott Pilgrim", and I've screened it with audiences, and they always go for it. I've gone past the point of thinking it's a so-bad-its-good film, it's just so entertaining in its silliness and goriness. I have this theory that the only bad films are dull films. And "Riki-Oh" is not dull. It's highly, highly eventful! It's not one of the greatest comic-book adaptations, but it's definitely one of the most entertaining.'

With the Stephen Chow name-check, I'm not positive his movies were an influence on Pilgrim. The "try anything" aspect of his films is absolutely why I love them, although I call it "fearless filmmaking".