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Scott Pilgrim Thread 2: Now on DVD. TAG ALL BOOK 6 SPOILERS
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Edgar Wright is a cool dude but within 2 hours he isn't able to capture the nuance (nonsense) of the book.
Also I had trouble telling characters apart in the book, a lot of them, the girls in particular, looked very similar.
Plus, that editing
Scott's ex came across as being really, really lame in the movie and almost completely bereft of signifigance. Also: they tried too hard to make her a bitch.
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My only complaint is I want more behind the scenes stuff
Like the Alien Quadrilogy ridiculous level of behind the scenes stuff
Pacing.
Film as it is? Breakneck, and that's a very good thing.
Adding would slow it down.
Why I fear the ocean.
The pacing of the film is one of the main things i dont like about it.
Of course, I also thought that ending was rushed, so there's no perfect solution. Break it into two movies, drag it out longer (when I already thought it was borderline), cut some of the exes, nothing would have been perfect, and in the end I think I'm happiest with the way it turned out.
I thought she was great. As over-the-top as everything in the movie, she wasn't portrayed as a real person, but as the person Scott saw her as, so of course she's too much of a bitch, that's just the way Scott thinks of her. I don't know what you mean about bereft of significance, she gets introduced early, mentioned regularly, her boyfriend nearly kills Scott, and then there's a little closure at the end. Rushed, maybe, but that's just the pace of the movie.
Eh, even though she probably should have had a little more screentime, I liked movie Envy, if only because her band had what was, imo, the best song in the movie. Beck's rendition of "Ramona" is a close second though.
...You know, now that I think back to it, there was something with Envy in Vol. 6 that kinda bugged me a bit. Mainly, this line:
"You talk about me like I'm some kind of villianess."
Now, don't get me wrong. I know that Scott and Envy's breakup was nasty, that Scott had been kinda dickish towards her about the band, and that Scott really wasn't being all that mature when she called him or tried to talk with him after the fact.
But she makes it sound like she was entirely innocent in all this, when she wasn't.
I mean, Todd was trying to fucking murder Scott. She knew about this and the league, but she never tried to stop it. If she were innocent in this, you think she would have called the police, or at the very least pulled Todd aside and told him something like "Hey, uh, Todd? I don't like Scott any more than you do, but this 'league of evil exes' thing? This is fucking insane. Let's just walk away before things get out of hand."
But no, she supports Todd a hundred percent, and even goes as far as to help him out by playing her little mind games with Scott throughout the whole confrontation. She also tried to crack Ramona's head open with a comically huge mallet.
Again, I know Scott was kind of a dick towards her, and really hurt her feelings. Also, whether or not Envy really wanted to see Scott end up dead is probably up for debate.
Still though, if she doesn't want to be thought of as a villianess, maybe she shouldn't have acted like one. Just sayin'.
Let's face it.
Dat Everything.
Except the massive bitch thing.
She is a massive bitch. Wallace says so, and Wallace Wells is a perpetual source of sage advice.
Why I fear the ocean.
buuuuuuuuut
No, he was still working on book 5.
but I really don't feel like arguing, since it doesnt really matter