I have a confession to make first, I had been watching Satantango for most of the day because where I live you get scheduled black outs every two hours and if it wasn't the blackouts stopping me from watching it then it was me falling asleep from that tremendous piece of work and I was finally over 5 hours in when my friend gives me a call to come over...
And we saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World! I suggested it cuz I always wanted to, it was one of the movies that came on tv on an Arabic channel with Arabic subtitles and the scene that played was when Ramona and Scott are in the bus and she tells him about her evil exes and how he has to defeat them, they kiss and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is so fucking cute in the scene
Well, so yeah now that I have seen it I think I'm even more fond of this movie. It's so confident and realized and Edgar Wright has somehow made this silly, goofy comic-book story with it's ridiculous plot come out in all it's colors and beauty which is just fascinating to watch. I was in awe at most of the action sequences at how well choreographed they are.
The movie is also genuinely one of the most fun times I have had watching a comic-book movie ever, it's very funny in a not-annoying way that is beyond Marvel Studio's ability it seems. Which is what I wanted to talk about a bit.
How is it that we have so many comic-book movies and they all look the same thing, the reason I quit superhero movies once was because it was becoming more and more meh and then there is a property like Scott-Pilgrim vs. The World that brings it's own language to the movie genre with it's comic-book animation in 2010.
It's also a really well-made movie in terms of plot and characters, no side character takes up too much space, the plot has a lot of twists and turns that feel organic because they tease you about these things beforehand.
I want more comic-book stuff like this: original, weird and that accepts it's own ridiculousness without trying to fit into another genre because most comic-book movies are trying so hard to be just another action popcorn movie and it's tiring to look at them
The soundtrack is wild because it's my understanding that while Beck wrote/produced the music, the actors playing the members of Sex Bob-omb actually recorded it while playing their characters' respective instruments (or at least they were involved in some of the songs)
like that's actually Michael Cera playing bass on the soundtrack and that's cool as hell. I love when movies seem like everyone involved was having a super fun time.
Would be funny if it was Young Neil.
Even more wild, Beck or wright, convinced metric to loan them a song for the movie to turn into a clash at demon head song (clash at demon head was inspired by metric among other bands), and brie Larson sings it on the movie soundtrack. So black sheep was a song metric had unreleased because it it was too metric for them, but it lives now.
Michael Cera learned to play the bass just for this movie, too. He didn't know how before they started working on it.