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MedeaLysistrata
10/16/19 8:26:20 AM
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Who greenlit that?
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Veggeta X
10/16/19 8:27:34 AM
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hipsters at the time who found him to be some how relatable.
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masterpug53
10/16/19 9:09:01 AM
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Reasons he was chosen to play Scott Pilgrim:

1) He's Canadian
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EffectAndCause
10/16/19 9:10:06 AM
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He was the perfect choice for Superbad.

Thats literally it though.
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SSJCAT
10/16/19 9:10:34 AM
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i hate him

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SSJCAT
10/16/19 9:10:49 AM
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jesse eisenberg too

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MedeaLysistrata
10/16/19 9:16:17 AM
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SSJCAT posted...
jesse eisenberg too

Yeah, that type of comedy was really popular from like 2007-20...12ish?
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Balrog0
10/16/19 9:33:55 AM
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What type of comedy is in now?

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SSJCAT
10/16/19 9:36:15 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
What type of comedy is in now?
shit like cock blockers

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MedeaLysistrata
10/16/19 9:37:10 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
What type of comedy is in now?

You'd have to ask someone like @WafflehouseJK or @Sunhawk
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Veggeta X
10/16/19 9:37:10 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
What type of comedy is in now?

Edgelord comedy.
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bluezero
10/16/19 9:40:10 AM
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Veggeta X
10/16/19 9:42:25 AM
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I'm just glad we passed hipster comedy. That was an awful time. "It's a hamburger phone".
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masterpug53
10/16/19 9:46:11 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
I'm just glad we passed hipster comedy. That was an awful time. "It's a hamburger phone".


Do you have a problem with every teenage girl in a movie conversing like an MCU Quipmaster on cocaine?
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MedeaLysistrata
10/16/19 9:46:45 AM
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masterpug53 posted...
Reasons he was chosen to play Scott Pilgrim:

1) He's Canadian

It should have been Jay Baruchel instead
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Kitt
10/16/19 9:47:43 AM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
It should have been Jay Baruchel instead
That's just as bad.

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Veggeta X
10/16/19 9:49:35 AM
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masterpug53 posted...
Do you have a problem with every teenage girl in a movie conversing like an MCU Quipmaster on cocaine?

I apologize but I have no clue what you mean.
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MedeaLysistrata
10/16/19 9:52:01 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
masterpug53 posted...
Do you have a problem with every teenage girl in a movie conversing like an MCU Quipmaster on cocaine?

I apologize but I have no clue what you mean.

Hipster comedies invented the trope of guys "loving witty banter"
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Veggeta X
10/16/19 9:53:38 AM
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Yeah I don't like witty and sarcastic banter like that then. They come off dead-pan almost and holier than thou. I think great comedy is when you know how to make fun of yourself.
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masterpug53
10/16/19 10:06:47 AM
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Veggeta X posted...
masterpug53 posted...
Do you have a problem with every teenage girl in a movie conversing like an MCU Quipmaster on cocaine?

I apologize but I have no clue what you mean.


I was being sarcastic in that teenagers generally aren't as witty in real life as they are in Diablo Cody movies.
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WafflehouseJK
10/16/19 12:16:18 PM
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Michael Cera fucking sucks.

As for what comedies are "in" right now, that's honestly kind of a difficult question to answer. Movies that are strictly comedies have been pretty consistently bombing in the box office the past few years.

If anything, I'd say a lot of hybrid films, like horror comedies, are really making a rise as of late. Get Out, Us, Ready Or Not; even the shitty B horror movies like Truth Or Dare and Escape Room have been incorporating more comedic elements and as a result, while not making them good movies, they're significantly more enjoyable as a result.

So if anything, I guess I'd say dark comedies are the ones that are really standing out on their own; more light heated comedy has more blended itself into more mainstream action films like the MCU films and such.

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darkphoenix181
10/16/19 12:22:07 PM
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Comedy films usually have a really dumb premise, lots of cringe bits and lots of filler raunchy parts that has 0 relevance to the rest of the film.
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EverDownward
10/16/19 12:23:18 PM
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I still believe he was the wrong person to play Scott Pilgrim, but whatever. What's done is done.
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EverDownward
10/16/19 12:24:03 PM
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I will say though, if they ever do a biopic on Daniel Johnston's life Michael Cera would be perfect as young Daniel. They looked incredibly similar.
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ledbowman
10/16/19 12:24:16 PM
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Scott Pilgrim and Superbad are legitimately good
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bobbysjoby2
10/16/19 12:27:43 PM
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Rofl you guys are beyond lame, Michael Cera is naturally hilarious, dude could make a pb and j sandwhich and it would be funny
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masterpug53
10/16/19 12:36:19 PM
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bobbysjoby2 posted...
Rofl you guys are beyond lame, Michael Cera is naturally hilarious, dude could make a pb and j sandwhich and it would be funny


I liked him in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt had its moments, I never particularly cared for Superbad, and he was very miscast as Scott Pilgrim. I think that about covers it.
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Kitt
10/16/19 12:53:30 PM
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EverDownward posted...
I still believe he was the wrong person to play Scott Pilgrim
Agreed 100%
The movie is great otherwise and the cast is damn near perfect. The only casting issue is the one that mattered the most... The lead.


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EverDownward
10/16/19 1:08:15 PM
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Kitt posted...
EverDownward posted...
I still believe he was the wrong person to play Scott Pilgrim
Agreed 100%
The movie is great otherwise and the cast is damn near perfect. The only casting issue is the one that mattered the most... The lead.


Yup, I concur. Pretty much everybody else was great, it's just Cera as Scott was definitely a miscast.

I will say that I had less of an issue with him voicing Scott in The Animation, but he shouldn't have been the live version of that character.
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yemmy
10/16/19 1:09:05 PM
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Juno was a good movie.

I guess he wasn't the star of that so much. More like supporting actor

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masterpug53
10/16/19 1:14:05 PM
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EverDownward posted...
Kitt posted...
EverDownward posted...
I still believe he was the wrong person to play Scott Pilgrim
Agreed 100%
The movie is great otherwise and the cast is damn near perfect. The only casting issue is the one that mattered the most... The lead.


Yup, I concur. Pretty much everybody else was great, it's just Cera as Scott was definitely a miscast.

I will say that I had less of an issue with him voicing Scott in The Animation, but he shouldn't have been the live version of that character.


Ramona was easily the second biggest offender. I don't want to say that the actress was miscast - and I know the internet has unnatural love for her - but good golly she was lifeless. I know that anime-ish expressions are an exaggeration of real life to put it mildly, but book-Ramona actually smiled, and laughed, and shouted in anger, and other various human emotions. Someone in production must have instructed her that hipster chicks are required by law to be dead inside.

Also the actress playing Knives was fine, but it undercuts the whole 'Scott Pilgrim's Dating a High Schooler' bit when she looks five years older than Michael Cera.
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Balrog0
10/16/19 1:14:19 PM
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I dont have any familiarity with the comics but he seemed to do fine in the movie, what is the complaint about his performance specifically?

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Prestoff
10/16/19 1:19:08 PM
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Michael Cera is just a one trick pony, literally plays the exact same role in every movie he's in. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if he's just being himself and not actually acting.
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EverDownward
10/16/19 1:30:54 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
I dont have any familiarity with the comics but he seemed to do fine in the movie, what is the complaint about his performance specifically?

It's more that Cera essentially plays the exact same person every role he's in. You saw him in Superbad? You also saw Scott Pilgrim, too, even if you hadn't.
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masterpug53
10/16/19 1:32:22 PM
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Balrog0 posted...
I dont have any familiarity with the comics but he seemed to do fine in the movie, what is the complaint about his performance specifically?


The book version of Scott Pilgrim is an outwardly likeable yet obliviously self-absorbed slacker who uses those closest to him, is slightly jockish, has a surprising knack at being a ladykiller, and is best hand-to-hand fighter in the entire province.

So naturally, when looking for an actor who checks all these boxes, you turn to George Michael Bluth.
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Kitt
10/16/19 1:43:15 PM
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masterpug53 posted...
Ramona was easily the second biggest offender. I don't want to say that the actress was miscast - and I know the internet has unnatural love for her - but good golly she was lifeless. I know that anime-ish expressions are an exaggeration of real life to put it mildly, but book-Ramona actually smiled, and laughed, and shouted in anger, and other various human emotions. Someone in production must have instructed her that hipster chicks are required by law to be dead inside.

Also the actress playing Knives was fine, but it undercuts the whole 'Scott Pilgrim's Dating a High Schooler' bit when she looks five years older than Michael Cera.
Yep. MEW herself was fine considering what she was given. The biggest issue with Ramona was they completely re-wrote her personality to fit the hipster girl stereotype, which I guess I see what they're trying to go for since SP goes out of its way to make fun of that stuff. But compared to her graphic novel counterpart who is full of life personality-wise, Ramona in the film just seemed like an odd approach to that character.

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SwayM
10/16/19 1:49:19 PM
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Michael Cera is a lot better than people give him credit for.

Dude doesnt get lead in an Edgar Wright movie by having zero redeemable qualities as some would have you believe
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ledbowman
10/16/19 2:01:58 PM
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He's not miscast in Scott Pilgrim. Who cares if he's not exactly like in the comic. If he works in the movie then what's the problem
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TheoryzC
10/16/19 2:03:26 PM
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Youth in Revolt and Nick&Nora were good
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BruceWayneJr
10/16/19 2:03:45 PM
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He's a genius.
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Kitt
10/16/19 2:05:23 PM
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ledbowman posted...
He's not miscast in Scott Pilgrim.
Nah, he totally is.


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spudger
10/16/19 2:05:33 PM
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i dont mind him its just that he plays the same person in nearly every role.
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BruceWayneJr
10/16/19 2:05:35 PM
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Fucking genius.
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ledbowman
10/16/19 2:15:26 PM
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Kitt posted...
ledbowman posted...
He's not miscast in Scott Pilgrim.
Nah, he totally is.

No he's not. What are you guys even complaining about
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Unknown831
10/16/19 2:26:11 PM
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No McLovin?
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Kitt
10/16/19 2:26:23 PM
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ledbowman posted...
No he's not.
Yeah he is. Easily the worst aspect of the movie.

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Balrog0
10/16/19 2:27:07 PM
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Kitt posted...
Yeah he is. Easily the worst aspect of the movie.


Just because he's different from the books or whatever? I can understand that being upsetting if you liked the books and wanted a faithful adaptation but I think he did fine in the role as it was portrayed in the movie. What was bad about it?

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cmiller4642
10/16/19 2:27:13 PM
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I like that movie where he plays the awkward teenager/young adult
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