Ok, so I know that I have not posted anything in a while, but there really hasn’t been anything going on that I really wanted to post on… Yeah, Football season is about to start and that means that I have to work on breaking down the divisions and deciding who is going to do what, but that is going to take more time than I want to spend on right now. And there was a big fight in baseball on Tuesday but that is now officially old news as the Cardinals swept that series. So, after spending some time thinking about what to break back into the blog-o-sphere on, I decided that it is time to do another Dowminating Movie Review. So without further a due (cue the drum roll please) here is A Dowminating Movie Review: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"
Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams...literally. Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that prove difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart's ass--and now is back in town--to the teenage distraction he's trying to shake when Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) rollerblades into his world, love hasn't been easy. He soon discovers, however, Ramona has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of 7 exes who control her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate Scott as a suitor. As he gets closer to Ramona, Scott must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past--from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsomely identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.
After what I would personally call a rather disappointing summer movie season, Scott Pilgrim was a truly epic breath of fresh epic air. Yeah, there were a few rare gems that I wasn’t expecting like “Inception,” but none of them could begin to compete with the epicness of this movie. This movie had me laughing from the epic moment the Universal logo came up.
Now, I will say this about the movie. If you are not a gamer, or do not know a lot about video games, or have not spent any time playing video games from the 90’s, you will probably be spending part of time scratching your head and going, “WTF? I don’t get it.” This game is riddled with subtle game references from the 8 bit music at the beginning to the flashing red people at the end. But don’t let that discourage you from going and watching this eipc (just checking to see if you’re paying attention) movie. It still has some very epic and epic moments in this movie. For instance, Wallace (Kieran Culkin,) Scott’s roommate, has some of the funniest moments in this movie, and they have very little gamer references in them.
Another truly epic thing about this movie is that for the most part it follows the comic pretty well. Yeah, there are some things in the comic they left out and change the time of when Scott got a few things, but for they did a really good job of NOT changing a whole lot. Really the biggest thing they change is they removed one of Ramona’s fights and really shortened the final “boss fight” and combined it with another fight, but that was done mainly due to time constraints, and done in such a way that it really works out. They also removed some not so important moments in the comic, also done due to time constraints.
Overall, this is an epic movie that could have only been made even more epic if it had been done in 3D, and would have very much been worth the extra movie for 3D. It is a movie that I think will be enjoyed by all, especially if you’re a gamer. It is that epic Oh, and if for some reason you didn’t know that I thought this movie is epic before that last sentence, then you need an epic shot of epicness and need to go see this epic movie immediately.
oh, and by the way
HOLY EPIC EPICNESS OF EPIC!
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