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)

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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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[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

This is the problem with the movie. It cuts out all Ramona's complexity and Scott's rose-tinted view of everything.

Most important pages in the comics, IMO, are these - all from Vol 6 btw, which IIRC was still being done while the movie was in production.

INCLUDING YOU - and she's 18 here

The movie completely gutted Envy, which I'll never forgive it for. These pages of them talking are some of the best

Not having Lisa Miller (and also some of this stuff) was rough too.

Scott accepting the NegaScott as part of him

I always appreciated them admitting their flaws as well. It's always been "talking and fighting" which the new show gets right.

As someone who can never get out of their head, I really appreciate the role the glow plays.

Envy was a really important character