I don't see how the two can really compare when it comes to depth and quality — esp since WTWTA is pretty much a basic jumping around video game with max collecting stuff "concept" — but i suppose each to his own.

I don't mind that movies based on a comic/graphic-novel/book, with devoted fans get made, even when there is a too sincere effort to please this following.
The movies ultimately fail if they panders too much to the source's following (Watchmen) or if they don't care for making a good movie (Wolverine, many others) but there are obviously critical successes as well (Batman Begins, TDK).

And as for the merchandising, one person's video game or poster is another person's "making of" book or Criterion edition dvd. I know the scale of these comparisons is incomparable, but I'm just throwing it out there.

Hopefully Scott Pilgrim won't be solely for those who have followed the comic, but something that can be enjoyed by anyone happening to stroll into the theatre.
I'm just worried it'll turn into the "Little comic book movie that could" instead of standing alone as a movie.

I personally think the Wild Things video game is one of the biggest stretches and is rather lame, but that doesn't necessarily effect my opinion of the film or my potential enjoyment of it if it's good.

I thought that the Super Mario comparison was just as you said "layman's terms" but I might have read into it wrong, thinking:

"so to give the those whose minds have been flooded with comic book and video game movies an idea of what this comic/movie is like…"

My mistake.

I guess we'll see when the trailer comes out.

It's interesting to me for a couple reasons. 1)I liked the graphic novels a lot, much more than I expected to, 2) the music connections (though i'm not sure i personally love that type of music anymore 3)the script was strong and 4) even though I think Edgar Wright is generally very overrated, this might be the film that really hooks me. Who knows. I'm intrigued.

Ah, the media pushes. Yes, most are lame. I suppose I'm trying to say most of them are pretty dubious, but the video game tie-in does make perfect sense given the context of the graphic novel. And then I tried to explain it in layman's terms for those that might not have read it. There's a lot more specific tie-ins to videogames in the books, but i figured I'd re-mention that even the basic skeleton is sort of inspired from the basic classic narrative of most video games (beat a bunch of villains and save the girl).

I don't feel the need to defend this thing at all. It will be what it will be — good? bad? who knows — and since we do try and track music connections in films where we can (which seem to be less frequent and less interesting these days), we end up writing about this one a lot, that's all.

But it's that this movie is getting a lot of attention from you guys, but it doesn't seem that interesting (granted the music line-up is pretty fresh). It seems like it's getting a pass already.

You've been really wary of "mainstream" movies like Avatar and Inglorious Basterds (granted, the hype is too big and Basterds isn't an action picture) that have these extraordinary media pushes with toys and video games attached (Avatar) to attract an audience.

Yet, Pilgrim, as you noted is becoming a "cottage industry". And no complaints or concerns?
It just seemed like the Super Mario comparison was a last resort way of defending the Pilgrim video game tie-in and the movie (what we've seen/heard of it).

It's fun though to watch you unload your built up anger in the box-office reports.
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