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GO SEE SCOTT PILGRIM!! Also, a short review of another flick
15 years ago
OH MY GOD! This is the greatest movie I ever seen in my life!
Well, second greatest. Inception was still better.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World is one of the most quotable, most hilarious movies I know. It's seriously a shame that it's doing badly in the box office. I blame the marketing. The previews and posters suck, and audiences are too afraid to risk parting with their ten dollars in order to see anything that's not about explosions. But anyway, Scott Pilgrim is definately worth the money! If you're timid about seeing it, see it anyway! On the off chance that you don't like it (you probably will), you'll at least have tried a different kind of movie. I mean really, if 'you gotta defeat my seven evil exes to date me' isn't a creative idea, then I'm the queen of England. And I'm not old enough to be her!
Also, I just saw 'Where the Wild Things Are'. (SPOILERS AHEAD) I have to say, for all the hype that I've been given about this movie, I'm quite disappointed. It wasn't inspirational, it was just a bunch of 'Hey, let's play and have fun!' Not something I'm opposed to, mind you, but it doesn't exactly make for a riveting movie. I mean, where's the conflict? Sure, there's a bunch of short conflicts thrown throughout the movie, but none that last from near the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie.
Also, Max is kind of a brat imo. I mean, he gets mad that his mom is paying attention to her boyfriend at the moment, and not him. So what does he do? Run around the house, jumping on furniture and screaming like the most uncontrollable little child in the neighborhood. Then when his mother dares to get mad at him for this, he bites her, runs away from home, and goes out to sea BY HIMSELF in a small, rickety, old boat. I can see him doing something a BIT outrageous to get attention, then throwing a tantrum when his mom gets mad... but that? Come on. I mean, I realize they were going for the misunderstood child, but they overdid his mood swings.
And then when they get there, the movie tries to make you feel sorry for the monster that's tearing down the homes of the other monsters in the village. Sure, they explain why he does it later on in the movie, but having this be the first thing we see him do causes us to think of him as just a bigger tantrum throwing whiner.
Also, one last thing. When I read the book as a kid, I liked it. It was a great kids book. But in the movie, they talk about stuff that would depress and horrify children. I mean, there's even a scene where the science teacher is lecturing the class of 8 or 9 year-olds about how the sun is going to die! He conveniently leaves out that this won't happen for several billion years, but he does talk about how it'll engulf our planet. Ya know, for kids!
Well, second greatest. Inception was still better.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World is one of the most quotable, most hilarious movies I know. It's seriously a shame that it's doing badly in the box office. I blame the marketing. The previews and posters suck, and audiences are too afraid to risk parting with their ten dollars in order to see anything that's not about explosions. But anyway, Scott Pilgrim is definately worth the money! If you're timid about seeing it, see it anyway! On the off chance that you don't like it (you probably will), you'll at least have tried a different kind of movie. I mean really, if 'you gotta defeat my seven evil exes to date me' isn't a creative idea, then I'm the queen of England. And I'm not old enough to be her!
Also, I just saw 'Where the Wild Things Are'. (SPOILERS AHEAD) I have to say, for all the hype that I've been given about this movie, I'm quite disappointed. It wasn't inspirational, it was just a bunch of 'Hey, let's play and have fun!' Not something I'm opposed to, mind you, but it doesn't exactly make for a riveting movie. I mean, where's the conflict? Sure, there's a bunch of short conflicts thrown throughout the movie, but none that last from near the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie.
Also, Max is kind of a brat imo. I mean, he gets mad that his mom is paying attention to her boyfriend at the moment, and not him. So what does he do? Run around the house, jumping on furniture and screaming like the most uncontrollable little child in the neighborhood. Then when his mother dares to get mad at him for this, he bites her, runs away from home, and goes out to sea BY HIMSELF in a small, rickety, old boat. I can see him doing something a BIT outrageous to get attention, then throwing a tantrum when his mom gets mad... but that? Come on. I mean, I realize they were going for the misunderstood child, but they overdid his mood swings.
And then when they get there, the movie tries to make you feel sorry for the monster that's tearing down the homes of the other monsters in the village. Sure, they explain why he does it later on in the movie, but having this be the first thing we see him do causes us to think of him as just a bigger tantrum throwing whiner.
Also, one last thing. When I read the book as a kid, I liked it. It was a great kids book. But in the movie, they talk about stuff that would depress and horrify children. I mean, there's even a scene where the science teacher is lecturing the class of 8 or 9 year-olds about how the sun is going to die! He conveniently leaves out that this won't happen for several billion years, but he does talk about how it'll engulf our planet. Ya know, for kids!
That 1/4 is the half well done video game references.
Great movie. Not a VGN movie.
The dentist's office in Finding Nemo had surgically accurate dentist equipment just for that reason.
They knew dentists would make fun of it if it was wrong.
And yeah, I heard about The Wizard sucking too. Xp