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Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are genuinely great films and I would say the same about Baby Driver. So three out of five, considering I haven't seen Fistful, is statistically impressive.If you add Scott Pilgrim, which I would, that's four out of five.

Also, speaking of his TV shows, people love Spaced which I hear about all the time. I thought it was pretty good.

 

sure, after i've seen scott pilgrim 50 times..maybe i dont laugh as much. but the first 40 times, easily one of my favorite movies ever. I think it's perfect.

 

All the band/music related stuff in Scott Pilgrim kills me.
"All our shows are secret shows."

 

I absolutely love both Scott Pilgrim and Baby Driver lol

 

That's because you have good taste

 

The books were better but Scott Pilgrim is really good. Not up to the Cornetto trilogy but lots of good stuff in it.

 

I can't stand Scott Pilgrim. I haven't read the book(s?), but the whole plot is really toxic. I've argued with others about this, but that movie is quite gross in several ways.

 

hot fuzz
sean of the dead
scott pilgrim
worlds end
baby driver

i am pretty excited for last night in soho though

 

It’s about how toxic and shitty he is. Sure there are people who misread it but it’s not an endorsement of Scott’s behavior

 

I feel like it's worth noting that being rewatchable isn't necessarily the only metric of quality.

A movie provoking a strong initial reaction is artistically valid, too. A lot of horror movies don't really work for me once you know where the scares are, but that doesn't mean they're not good. And some comedy gets by on surprising you and subverting your expectations, and obviously you lose some of that a second time.

So if you liked a movie the first time, it's fine to call it a good movie.

 

It's very easy to argue that he's portrayed positively by the end, at least in the movie. Scott Pilgrim is forgiven, given a second chance, and ultimately redeemed. He actually earns the "power of self-respect" lol.

Yet if Sex Bob-Omb were a real band, he'd be canceled by this very community for being a 22 year old in a position of power who dated a minor.

 

I watched it last night for the first time in forever and Wallace is kinda predatory and lecherous too and the stuff with Roxy isn't great

 

that's what that movie is about? jfc

 

Shitty people can't ever redeem themselves? That's a few thousand movies in the trash then.

He literally had no self-respect, in the movie's own estimation. That's not a hero.

 

All the video game imagery and references in Scott Pilgrim reminded me of how I felt when I first saw the trailer for Juno. It felt mechanically engineered to hit my pleasure centers; the star of my favorite show (at the time) was in it, the soundtrack used The Moldy Peaches (a band that influenced me when I played in a band), and I had liked Thank You For Smoking. I felt used when I saw the movie, my own subculture commercialized and used against me.

 

Gotta hear Tetra’s twee folk band

 

Yes that’s the arc of his character. I think the books do a bit better job of earning it to be fair but about the last thing worth considering when watching a movie is if we would “cancel” the character if they were real

 

I really wanted to like Raging Bull but Jake is fucking cancelled

 

when a movie features a person who is not good, it must explicitly say THIS PERSON IS NOT GOOD AND THEIR BEHAVIOR SHOULD NOT BE EMULATED across the screen, otherwise the movie is being irresponsible

 

The movie shows him failing and dying by trying the “wrong” kind of redemption attempt and then literally restarts and the first thing he does is own up to all his shitty behavior

 

y’all say you like the sopranos but have you considered that tony would be cancelled in a second in 2020? checkmate

 

We weren’t ready Patrick

 

I love Scott Pilgrim.

I did not, however, enjoy Baby Driver.

 

I can see how reading the books would improve the depth of his character and shine better light on his arc. I'm not saying Scott being a giant asshole is what made me hate the movie, I'm saying that's what made his redemption at the end feel out of place and turned me off from the film. Perhaps I should have clarified that better in my initial remarks.

I see that some people are running with taking my comments out of context, but that's not surprising.