Scott Pilgrim Memory; The 2010 movie was a disaster that lead to a wave of insufferable giga-hipsters who did not get the point in the worst way. True or false? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I barely remember 2010, but I remember Scott Pilgrim being to hipsters like Fight Club and American Psycho are to incels; They totally missed the point of the movie, thought it was aspirational, and the results in dive bars and shitty venues across America (maybe just the midwest?) were disastrous.

Was this real? Did I mandela effect it from the negative zone or something? Am I just getting old?

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[-] grey_wolf_whenever@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

eeeeeeeeeeehhhh I feel weird being the scott pilgrim defender in this thread but I think a lot of people here are reading a little too hard into a fairly dopy comic movie. I dont think youre supposed to watch it and think "oh yeah, obviously the movie endorses the fighting of everyones exes". I think its just a boilerplate to get some goofy characters on screen, through which you learn chunks of backstory about the main girl character.

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

In the comics I think I remember Ramona telling Scott in vol. 6 that he wasn't fighting her "evil-ex's" for her sake but his own and he has a big depression-funk after realizing this and talks to his friends and high school crush about it to get their views and their criticisms of him start to land. He ultimately grows as a person with some video game thematics interwoven into this.l with a happy ending. Maybe it's less obvious in the movie but the comics make it extremely clear.