• I did notice the cinema being more full the second time I saw it. A good sign or just coincidence?

• I went to see it the night it opened (on a Thursday in Australia) then again on the weekend with some other friends. Obviously I loved it and my friends were blown away by it (save one who's a little over the group's average age). I must be in a minority, because I like Michael Cera. The music was awesome and its soundtrack is doing high rotation in my car and on my stereo. The film was hilarious and well paced. I've read the comics and thought this was a great adaptation, changing what needed to be, within the framework of a film. I hope the word of mouth helps its business. I'm certainly telling my friend's who've not seen it that it's worthwhile. I may even go see it again before it leaves cinemas, but I will buy the DVD when it comes out. The Rickenbacker bass may take me longer...

• * Cheer *

• How does someone that young already have 7 exes...

• Second'

• The comics are just as-if not more stupid then the movie ( I have read them at a friend's house so the whole "Then don't buy them!" argument isn't going to work.) But the character of Scott was ( A gary sue in my opinon.) the polar opposite of Micheal Cera's usual casting. Though I found the character annoying....everyone in the story loved him- girls, guys, everyone. That bugged me.

• Michael Cera was awful. 'Nuff said.

• Completely agree with you. Arrested Development shows that he can act, and he really busts his ass keeping up with some comic heavyweights. I think its the casting around him thats the real problem. Give him funny costars and I think he works well.

• When I saw the trailers I was interested and wanted to by the comics(I couldn't find the first volume)when I had the money. The Comic-Con hype happened and it couldn't die fast enough. I was sick of hearing fans(although they mean well)saying 'It's so gooooooooooood!' and 'It's so unique and interesting.' Scott Pilgrim came across as the film that was too cool for the mainstream in an obnoxious way. Everytime I read a review from a critic who God forbid hated it, the pissed off fans would criticize the review. The common criticisms would come out, 'You just don't get it', 'You have to read the comics', or 'It's too smart for mainstream audiences'. The claims that this film will be a cult classic and will be make money off the dvds is also infuriating. It seems like fans are salvage the fact that despite the hype this film was a failure. Some of those pissed off fans would call anyone who wanted to watch The Expendables an idiot. I would never watch The Expendables, but questioning someone's intelligence for wanting to comes across as snobby and rude. I probably will buy the comics and even the dvd if my annoyance goes away and my cash flow increases. Watching the Adult Swim shorts made me wish this would become a 13, 26, or how many episodes it takes to finish the story animated series.

• *applause, cheers*

• I'm pretty sure the film will do gangbusters in the Asian market. If only because the original story more or less is manga-esque in it's original development. I find it very similar to Ranma 1/2 (A guy who knows Kung Fu has to take on a constant slew of people who want to marry him or his fiance, and use special attack martial arts to accomplish said goal), and that ran for 30 Graphic Novels, It's own Video Game, 2 Movies and 3 separate TV shows over in Japan. It has all the hallmarks of what people see constantly churned out in Manga/Anime, just kind of turned on its ear. Hopefully the Asian market will respond to this.

• That's part of my reason for not seeing it. I never read the comics, so the plot sounded stupid (and still does, honestly), and I'm not really interested in another Michael Cera movie. I didn't mind him at first, but he got tiring quickly. Maybe if he were cast in a different type of roll?

• Uhh no one else mentioned that because it's irrelevant. These are domestic numbers.

• Interesting perspective. Granted, the way I hear what you're saying here... proves that the movie would only relate to 12 year olds that are still yet to figure out how relationships work. Once you're 15 and/or in high school, you've learned the lessons that apparently these characters haven't yet.

• I gotta say, I read through all of the comments here and there is a common theme going on. Besides a few exceptions, its divided into "I hate the movie. ..Well no, I haven't seen it but.. What does that matter?!?!" and "I saw the movie, it rocked!" So I'd have to say don't judge until you've seen it. It's kind of disappointing that so many of you do so.

• Just because people don't agree with you they are sheep... bahh

• I saw it with four people, none of whom had read that books and we were all ready to see it again... given time, this movie is going to grow based on word of mouth... definitely going to recoup at DVD time.

• Once in a while some clever director or producer steps up and in spite (not because) of the system something good slips through. This is how I see it anyway. So it is pointless to think that even if a good and clever movie does good at the boxoffice that it will change the Hollywood system.

• @Scooter Atreides Excactly, spot on! Real nerds don't care about box office or popularity. Why just not accept that the vast amount of things that are backed by studios are shit. Once in a while some clever director or producer steps up and in spite (not because) of the system something good slips through. This is how I see it anyway. So it is pointless to think that even if a good and clever movie does good at the boxoffice that it will change the Hollywood system.

• ...says the douchebag.

• And the pop-up sound effects most strongly resemble 60s Batman without Batman

• Liked it so much I bought the music. It was a little cheap to release both a score and a soundtrack, especially since Sex Bob-Omb's songs are equally split between both. Still, they got my ticket money plus the price of two albums. I feel I've done my part. May see it again if time/money permits.

• Loved the movie....hated Michael Cera. I only saw this because I knew I was going to enjoy the movie, Edgar Wright has yet to direct something that I don't enjoy....and I knew this was going to be no different. The dude knows hows make a good looking movie. But...I was never looking forward to having to sit through what everyone was going to call a Michael Cera movie. The kid just grates on me.

• I second (or third) this. In some of the scenes that were lagging he managed to pull them back to being entertaining.

• Wait, what? Seriously, what? Nearly every movie has some aspect that allows the audience to relate. This then leads to us (the audience) to care about the characters. For example, in Star Wars, Luke is on his way to manhood, and confronts several dangers on the hero's journey. That's something young males can probably relate to. Anyways, as for this movie, I refused to see it simply because of Michael Cera. I'd much rather go watch the Expendables again, just to hear Sly's "He wants to be President" line to Arny. Oh, and the tv ads were everywhere. It got to the point where I would pause live shows and wait a few minutes, just so I could then skip the commercials.

• My wife and I went with friends to see it tonight and we loved it. I absolutely adored the classic arcade/videogame references. We actually had a girl come up to us after and thank us for being fellow fans of the series (we hadn't the heart to tell her we'd never read them). She told us that we were the only other group killing ourselves laughing through out the entire movie. I'm guessing it might be a little to targeting to a specific audience to do well in the theaters which is too bad. It proves that to be financially successful you have to change the source material to suit a wider audience (which is too bad for fans as we end up with a more generic movie). I will buy this movie when it comes out on Dvd/Blu Ray.

• I'm sure it must be sad to realize the rest of the world needs a worthwhile reason to see a movie instead of just a collection of River City Ransom references.

• So glad you figured that out from one paragraph. Meanwhile, you've managed to come off as a douchebag with only seven words. Congratulations!

• This news bodes well for me, as Wallace is my favourite character.

• Confound it! Rml, if you ever want to start a nerdy campaign against the cinemas of Brasil, I'll be happy to join you. Umm, after I get a plane ticket and stuff.

• Eh, What's that? You're going to have to speak up, Sonny. I can't hear you over the sound of this failure of a movie tanking hard.

• Eh, what's that? you have to speak up, sonny! I can't hear you over the sound of that failure of a movie tanking hard.

• You come off as very smug. Seriously.

• To be fair, I was at Otakuthon this weekend. I am sorely tempted to pay my friends to come with me so we can have another awesome movie to see before school starts, XD Hell, I half-think I could convince my mom, and definitely my bro. They're cool, and she IS a nerd (a solely old-school Donkey Kong Country/Mario-obsessed nerd. :D)

• My boyfriend and I generally only go to the theater to see geeky movies (sci-fi, comics, etc.), but (like so many others, apparently) neither of us can stand Michael Cera, so there you go. I also browsed the synopsis of the comic series on Wikipedia, and it came off as annoyingly smug about itself (OMG 80's video game references!), so I would probably not have been interested in it even if it didn't involve Cera.

• I can't believe I forgot my name!

• Nine times out of ten, I'm in the same boat. I just saw Avatar last week despite the fact my roommates bought it months ago, the endless hype had soured me so badly I might never had seen it. SP just appealed to me on a more personal level than the usual overhyped Hollywood disaster, and it turned out(for me)to be a remarkable experience.

• it's not that we want it to be popular but it's got to be profitable. otherwise they won't waste their time/money with these nerd properties.

• Umm... the reason it came in fifth is because four other movies sold more tickets than it did.

• And that horrible noise they call music!! I bet they throw footballs all the time onto your yard and that's very annoying to you. And the inexcusable way their eyes glaze over when you tell them how much stuff used to cost...

• no, you're right SA, I need to get my ass into the theater one of these days. still, I got to say as an ubber geek myself, I was totally turned off by the hype. I should have listed that as my number 4 previously.

• Dude, I've become familiar with your thoughts and your work--I have nothing but respect for you. But this is an outrageously unjust thing to say about a movie you have yet to see. I don't wish to be combative, I'd just rather read your opinions on a film you actually saw. It's only fair.

• We went and saw it this weekend, I loved the comic, I'm dressing as Roxy at Dragon*Con (the comic version) but I was kinda meh about the movie. I LIKED it, I was entertained for the 2 hours. I thought it was a good use of my time - rather than watching my husband play YET MORE Battlefield on Xbox *yawn*. But I didn't love it. I missed a lot of the comic but what movie is a good representation of a book? That being said, We will be taking our nearly 13 year old back to see it THIS weekend because he LOOOOVES the books. And he has no idea who Michael Cera is (I thought he was the weakest point of the movie). I LOVED Kieran Culkin. My brother has seen it twice and will see it again. I think it might have legs.

• Really? I saw ads all over the place. I even made a comment to my friend because the commercial seemed to be all over the place.

• On the plus side, all 6 books are in the Amazon top 20 today...

• Unless it does extremely well on the world market, I'm not sold that the film will turn a profit even with DVD sales any time soon. It's already been decreed a flop by the media though so it won't stay in theaters very long so repeat business won't help it all that much either. The film apparently cost at least $60 million to make. A major advertising campaign usually runs somewhere around $30 million (and make no mistake, they ran ads for the damn thing constantly on several cable networks) so figure about $90 million in production costs. Taking out what theaters would keep in ticket sales, a film that cost $90M would have to gross something like $150-180M dollars to make back costs. Since it made about $10M in its opening week, that translates into about a million tickets sold. So even if everybody who went and saw it on opening weekend goes out and buys the DVD, that's still only going to be about $20M in DVD sales.

• I was vaguely interested in the film when I first heard about it months ago. I'm an avid comic reader but I had never even heard of this. I went to see it yesterday afternoon (Friday night was for The Expendables, which was batshit insane, in a good way). I did enjoy it but the references were a little weird. I mean, what 18-23 year old is gonna have that much knowledge of Seinfeld, old school Mario and Zelda, and even those mid 90's fashions? It felt like a movie made for a very small and specific audience starring actors who probably got it, but marketed for too broad an audience, who obviously didn't show up. As for the Cera factor, I'm getting a little tired of him too. However, I thought he was a lot of fun once he gets good and pissed off during the Chaos Theater scenes. He should put a little more anger into it more often. When he was just nailing everyone in the place with those one-liners, that was killer. Should have been more of that Cera earlier in the film. But I totally get why it bombed. I mean, if you seriously thought this would make more money than big-time action, or Julia Roberts living out most women's fantasy, then you just don't know how the movie business works.

• A lot of cineplexes had it playing on only a single screen while several were devoted to 'The Expendables' and some theaters equipped with 3-D had to reserve their larger [or largest] screens for 'Step Up 3-D' LOL.

• Twilight for Men made 35 million, the film made to torture boyfriends pulled in 23 million. Let's not forget the Will Farrel movie is still around pulling in 18 mil. Scott Pilgrim was sandwiched between those two polar opposites and having to share that area with a pop star. Simple as that. They really should have pushed it two weeks down the line for release.

• Speaking as a Geek who grew up in the 80s, as a kid I was largely ambivalent to the likes of Sly, Ahnold, and Bruce. As an adult, I mostly find them entertaining in an ironic sense.

• You know the movie bombed when even the bootleggers didn't show up. I can't find a torrent anywhere.

• You know what killed this movie's hopes more than anything? The crowd. I'm a pretty geeky guy, but it seemed to me that the core audience for this movie were people who were SO geeky, they prided themselves on not actually having meaningful human interactions. As if this movie would somehow make people in general realize, that no, their refusal to leave the house and find relatable conversation topics wasn't an opposite sex repellent, but rather, they were quirky and seductive and cute Asian girls would be fighting for their attention. Nope.

• "People don't want to try some amazing sushi if they can have their regular KFC bucket." Quote-of-the-week! Marvelous!

• Plenty of people like Cera. YOU(and probably your friends) think he's a douch. A lot of internet nerd sheep think he's a douch. He usually played a nice pleasant, nerdy kid with anyone half of a brain doesn't mind.

• There is no simple explanation for Scott Pilgrim's failure. It's more like a perfect storm of factors. 1) It opened on a packed weekend. Most Americans aren't willing to spend their cash on more than one film in a single weekend so The Expendables took a huge bite out of Scott Pilgrim's projected audience. 2) Screenings. Looking at the numbers the amount of screenings just wasn't there for Scott Pilgrim. On average The Expendables and Eat Pray Love had twice the screenings Scott Pilgrim had. I live in a small town and mylocal cinema was screening Expendables and EPL ten times a day as opposed to Scott Pilgrim's five. Given more screenings per day may have resulted in higher numbers closer to Eat Pray Love. 3) It's a niche film, a specialty film, meaning it's aimed at a specific audience. Historically, they tend not to do so well in theaters. 4) They should have made a bigger push to draw kids in. Yes, kids, preferably the 10-17 demographic. I took my two little brothers ages 12 and 14 to watch the movie on opening day. They had never heard of Scott Pilgrim but they absolutely loved the movie, I thought it was just okay. My point being that the studio would have benefited from drawing a younger crowd. The movie wasn't particularly profane or offensive so it would make sense to try to draw kids to the movie. So there you have it, my two cents.

• The length is fine if you wanted ALL the ex battles intact.

• [QUOTE= Eponymous]How many people do you know, or have ever known, have gone through anything like that just to go out with someone? It's a really silly premise. I can see it appealing to a 12-year old that has zero experience with dating. They don't know any better. But anyone over the age of 15 knows that it doesn't work that way. Any person (girl or guy) that has ex's you have to "defeat" in some way isn't worth dating. It means there's some kind of hang-up getting in the way. It means there's baggage. I know that comes off as a possible over-analysis, but really, aside from whatever nerd action is happening that appeals to some of you jokers... would you really go see a movie advertised as "winning the object of your heart's desire when you prove yourself better than 7 others"? I didn't think so...[/QUOTE] Actually, the entire point of both the movie and the comics is that Scott (Michael Cera) has to learn relationships DON'T work that way. Scott is an immature and fickle guy who will dump a girl when the novelty wears-off and will beat up an ex's new boyfriend if they dump him. Both Scott and Ramona act this way, and in-between the fight scenes the couple learns that they need to change their attitudes towards relationships. Scott becomes possessive of Ramona near the end, caring more about his own happiness than Ramona's. Eventually, though, Scott learns the error of his ways.

• Praises for the orator.

• That's the entire reason I'm boycotting movie theaters altogether. But replace "teenagers" with "anybody who annoys me" ergo people laughing, talking, making sounds in -any- way, applauding or anything along those lines. I am a human being living in the year 20fucking10, I shouldn't be forced to pay an outrageous price to be herded like cattle into a room where I have to spend X number of hours with obnoxious strangers ruining the entire movie with their retardation. Check back with me when the movie is available to rent.

• Ok. I'll state in simpler language what I've already said before: Since when do Nerds complain that something isn't sufficiently popular with the mainstream? Have we come full-circle? Are we now the cool kids who judge merit solely on popularity? ISN'T THAT WHAT WE'VE FOUGHT AGAINST ALL OUR LIVES?! I'm fucking done... If you need me, I'll be in the corner being unpopular and uncool.

• I totally agree with casting Michael Angarano instead. He would have been perfect. You're also right about the length. No videogame/comic book movie needs to be more than 90-100 min.

• It will be but by fans, I can see it selling well on DVD/BRD but overall this is to be expected of this movie, it was made for the fans, it wasn't given a once over to make it twilight friendly, it was made following the books. So it was for the fans and they are the ones that saw it, a few people probably came in because of the ads sure, but mostly it was the fans that came in and watched it and well with there being 10 million made at 10 a ticket on average that means there was just 1 million fans.

• I liked the graphic novels and movie well enough, but I also had the misfortune of sitting next to a DIEHARD SCOTT PILGRIM FAN (who'd lent me the novels to begin with) who laughed at every. single. minor. joke. in the entire movie. It was maddening. >_<

• Except of couse people like those two being the same person time in and time out, mostly because neither one of them is a huge douche that can't hold the intrest of anyone for more then 30 seconds. He is that bad and he is that bad in everything, where as Morgan is the wise black man with the awsome voice in every movie, a charecter taht does not make people baby punching mad

• And here I thought I was one of the few people who took issue with their romance. Personally, I was a huge fan of movie-version Knives (so adorable!)

• Definitely. I had no idea Kieran Culkin was that good. If we lived in a world where movies like this were ever considered for anything but technical awards, he'd have a real shot at the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

• The most socially awkward guy I know was literally all over this stuff. It basically appeared to me like he felt like his entire life was leading up to the moment he could line up for this film. I was NOT going to get lumped in with that guy and the "crowd" that he hangs out with. I went to go see the Expendables instead. (It was ok, but Sly really needs to get someone in to work on the writing. This would have been so much more successful if it had some Commando-esque cheese in it.)

• WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?!? Great movie, I think it will be rediscovered in time.

• Um... how many movies do you know of (particularly block busters)where the plot remotely resembles what someone would go through in real life. The Expendables? Star Wars? Transformers?

• Exactly. Even the steamroller blackbuster of Inception was still going too strong. I still don't get how Ferrell is still so strong with The Other Guys, which I heard was just okay, but this is a world where the horribly bland Paul Blart Mall Cop made a killing at the box office. Then again even if a movie shoots its load and shows every good scene in the trailer, which I heard Other Guys did, people will still go see it. Scott Pilgrim was just too different and off beat for people to categorize, at least for a late summer weekend crowded with such more run of the mill yet surefire hits. People don't want to try some amazing sushi if they can have their regular KFC bucket.

• Expendables. The ability to control a medium for 20 years is incomparable to the power of a chick flick. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oERN-tvLtjA - I'm scared that I remembered that fan film.)

• SO MUCH TRUTH. I don't hear as many people pointing it out, but when the romantic tension between the two main characters is (part of) the selling point, it helps if there's actual romantic tension instead of 'guy-and-girl-are-both-jerks-and-get-together-and-then-he-fights-off-her-baggage." Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the movie and graphic novels, but the Scott/Ramona angle left me wanting more. I really didn't care if they got together at the end, mostly because I was wishing Wallace Wells had more lines. :P

• I can't help but wonder if a fall release for Scott Pilgrim would have been much better. Going against the big male summer blockbuster Expendables and ultimate chick flick of the year Eat Pray Love didn't help one bit. I don't understand how The Other Guys did so well, I heard it was kinda bland and I thought Ferrell was in a lull. Plus the Inception steamroller still dominates the box office even after all these weeks. Also, it doesn't help that Scott Pilgrim was so... different. I love it's off beat style, humor and genre bending. Sadly people would rather go see something they've already seen a dozen times. I caught Expendables at a free pre-screening and it was.. pretty standard stuff that's been done many times before. Of course people want their same old pre-processed McDonalds value meal entertainment instead of trying a new restaurant with well made food. A middle aged guy behind me while inline for my ticket for Scott Pilgrim Sunday was saying to his friend how the theater was full of garbage. He said they should go see Expendables because it should be "a hoot". Oh and I was pretty saddened to see Scott Pilgrim had very few show times. Inception had more theaters in its 5th week than Scott did in its first. I know it's continuing to get people, but that's kinda crazy. The Other Guys in its second week had double the screens Scott Pilgrim had. Eat Pray Love and Expendables both had double. Who the hell are the puppeteers pulling the string here? Who says what movies get more showings? It's pretty sad since the theater I saw it in had hosted a pre-screening I went to with the director himself along with four of the film's stars. Yet when the movie actually came out it was only on four screens a day. No wonder it took in money like it was in its second week. Movies from the week before had more screens.

• Yeah, but Blade had vampires, and Hellboy had large red gun toting demon. Scott Pilgrim has, well, Scott Pilgrim. Blade and Hellboy were very obvious action movies and action movies have a very large general fanbase of people that like to see things blow up real good. Unless you've read Scott Pilgrim the ads make very little sense and weren't really going to draw tons of people in.

• All I know is that I didn't go see it because I never see anything on opening weekend that I expect teenagers to see. Because the last place on Earth I want to be is in a theater full of f*cking teenagers. That is what my personal level of hell will be like.

• SP is less of a case of the movie and marketing but has more to do with the time of year it was released. This past weekend was the "last summer before school" weekend and most kids that you might have been targeting were out doing what they wanted outside for free instead of movie theaters where they usually retreat after the weather turns cold and there are no more fall sports. The "R" rated Expendables was perfect for the weekend as the audience was expected to be older plus if anyone wanted to be younger and sneak into Sly's pec pack, you had the PG-13 movie to use which I am sure helped factor into the decision to move Old Fish 3D to this upcoming weekend from its earlier date. If Universal would have released SP during November or early next year, your audience would have tripled easily but since this is the same company that released a Romero zombie movie prior to October, their marketing department just does not get the month thing.

• What, which do you think is more ominous? That "Expendables" beat Scott Pilgrim to #1...or that "Eat Pray Love" beat it to <i>#2</i>? Okay, I haven't seen that one, and it's <i>possible</i> that it's better than the Lifetime movie that the synopsis sounds like. But it's way too close to flaming letters written in the sky for my tastes. Mark my words, we'll be crazy if we DON'T start tossing people into the lava lake of Mt. Erebus in a blind panic, and soon!

• Good for you! Don't let the opinions of a few ignorant colonials dissuade you from a wonderful cinematic experience.

• Let me get this straight. If I didn't like or want to see this movie it's because I didn't "get" it? Oh.

• You're probably right. I was trying to be nice, but after reading the rest of the CB article, and realizing the twats I find annoying around the Vancouver art "scene" are in fact "hipsters". Having not seen it yet, thus so far trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, I asked my friends that'd been. My pal George summed this nicely, "(We) went to see it. I called it all things hipster cliche that got together and vomited in a bucket and called itself a movie. The first fight scene was cheesy, then it just kept pouring on the cheese. As an aside. Keiran Culkin's cha...r was hilarious. I've been hating the hipster crowd for ages, but I admit I loved all the nods to classic video games in the film. Your article hits it head on. It's aimed for a crowd who won't get half the references, and those of us who do, find those little fuckers annoying to no end."

• That's just not FAIR! I'm so sorry--but don't let this sour you to the movie. DVD's better than nothing :)

• actually, now that I think about it, Scott Pilgrim is more like Howard the Duck than the others films listed there. ouch. it even hurts to type such a thing....

• Yes, it was an obscure comic but, so were Blade and Hellboy and yet they did very well (at least the first movies). I'm in agreement with Tyler article it had too many incompatible niche elements to find a large audience.

• From what I'm reading so far on this board, if Sylvester Stallone was Scott Pilgrim and Julia Roberts was Ramona Flowers this movie would have made bank!! Seriously though, I called this movie the Tank Girl of the new millenium in an earlier thread here and I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there you go. I also compared it to Serenity because there were so many free pre-screenings of this movie, you didn't really have to go pay to see it. Also, it's about time the studios realize internet hype isn't all it's cracked up to be. For every Paranormal Activity out there are a hundred Snakes On A Plane. This does not bode well for Tron: Legacy.

• Blade Runner failed because it was just too ahead of its time. Big Trouble in Little China, in its own way, was also ahead of the game (really, at that time, except for Bruce Lee, you didn't see a lot of Hollywood movie with that many Asian characters and you still don't :cough: thelastairbender :caugh: what, exactly, is ahead of its time in Scott Pilgrim?

• I saw this movie Friday night, never read the books, but went purely for the experience that Wright was putting on screen. I liked the movie a lot, but, unlike some people I can see why people can't stand Cera. He 'acts' the same in all his movies, and I guess people are tired of it. Also, I know people around my age that can't stand hipsters and really were turned off to the movie because they thought that was all it was about. With movies being $10 a ticket I really don't blame people for not headed to the theatre if they aren't certain about a movie. If you want a drink, or bring a date, that's a lot of money to waste if you end up not liking it. It's easier to wait and throw it in your Netflix queue.

• Spot on.

• That's good enough for me.

• Can't say I agree, but I give you points for fairness.

• Except Scott Pilgrim probably won't be in company with those movies ever, except in this one person's mind.

• Whenever a movie is directed at a marginalized portion of society, suddenly it's no longer sufficient for that movie to be as good as everything else--it has to be BETTER! And by "better", I, of course, mean "make more money". Lose the Napoleon complex, folks. Judge the movie on its own merits, not based on how well it does or doesn't do compared to the mainstream.

• I thought the movie was bad. It had paper thin characters and an even thinner excuse for a plot, and if the style wasn't to your liking, the movie had nothing going for it. Add in the most blindly loving audience ever, laughing their ass off at every minor joke, and you have what was one of the worse theatre experiences I've had this year. Fanboys hyped it too much too - when a critic posted a negative review on Rotten Tomatoes BEFORE THE MOVIE EVEN OPENED fanboys were attacking, saying that the critic didn't "get it" (and yes, I know there were lots of advance showings, but I also know nerds and they'll blindly defend something if it's related to their favourite property). Why'd it fail? IDK, since in Canada you couldn't turn on the TV without tripping over a CM. However, I said to a few older people I'm going to see Scott Pilgirm, and they replied with "Who's that?" so I guess the CMs were only on stations geared to the right demographic. I think the linked article has the main reasons. Someone on the IMDB said that "When something you can't relate to fails, you can't help but feel happy". So while some may feel happy for SP's failure (me), try to remember all the times YOU were happy something you disliked failed, and you'll get over it.

• I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and was relieved to see Edgar Wright pull off another masterpiece... but I was one of about thirteen people in the movie theater. I don't purport to understand why the movie had a small turnout, but I do echo the laments of other comments here. It will be a tragedy if low ticket sales dissuade companies from making more movies like this. Also, I was pleasantly surprised by Cera in this movie. He wasn't how I imagined Scott Pilgrim at first, but I thought he nailed it pretty spot on.

• I agree with the no chemistry part. It was like the only reason she liked him was because he was willing to fight her evil ex's... not because she actually liked him.

• That's some damn good company to be in.

• Ah, sweet reason! Bless you!

• This comment in the article from CB is indicative of a move that might've bitten them in the ass. "They reached out to fans too, touching base with communities, holding free screenings to create awareness and really trying for a grass roots response to the film while at the same time marketing it through mass media." I know a slew of cats in Vancouver wanting to see this, albeit true all over 30 and working largely in games, film, or comics. All of them saw the film through free passes to the local screenings. If the free screening accommodated a large portion of the fan base that might rabidly otherwise get tickets to the film opening weekend, and the remaining folks of my demographic, perhaps embittered over not making it to the screening, won't go opening weekend and prefer a weeknight or whenever else is least likely to run into a school of teen / 20-somethings loudly trying to get into one anothers' gene swamps. I'm sad it didn't make bank, however, many of the films I like or have lasting impressions from had disappointing opening weekends, so this film is in proud company. Blade Runner, Outland, Night of the Creeps, Buckaroo Banzai, Trouble in Little China, the list goes on.

• TESTIFY BROTHER!

• That is the stupidest comment I have ever read here. Why should I pay to see an actor play the same 'character' for the 10th time? While he was awesome on AD & in Superbad, his schtick it isn't for other roles. Just like Jonah Hill. I liked Cera long after AD, but his act is tired.

• I'm not planning on seeing this movie because I just cannot stand Cera.

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