Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

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He Who Posts Well said:
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Common was hitting that in that Nina flick
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:mindblown: still don't know how this movie didn't get more love when it dropped.
Guess this was before the quote unquote geeks decided to hop on the wave:aicmon:
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Rigby. said:
Comic books/manga hadnt caught on, like you alluded to. 2018-19, two top 6 movies financially all time are comic book based, Dragon Ball Broly is one of the best movies of the year. Crazy how things can change within a decade.

Hell even if this came after Kick Ass 2, it probably wouldve received more looks. That franchise did alot too
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Yeah, the only other superhero-related films to come out that year was Iron Man 2, Jonah Hex, and Super. And given that the only one that was a financial success was Iron Man 2, superhero films weren't the guaranteed financial successes as they are now.

Also, the film is actually incredibly offbeat for a superhero flick. In fact, it's not even really a superhero movie at all, but an indie romantic comedy with that employs the trappings of a superhero movie to movie the relationship narrative forward. It also works as an explicit satire of superhero movies, with the casting of Chris Evans and Brandon Routh being most indicative of this, as well as a send-up of the whole Michael Cera archetype that he played in every movie he appeared in (the nice, sheepish guy at the party with the shytty hair is also probably a resentful, selfish a$$hole to some extent...). It has the action and visual style to be a bigger hit today, but people might be so used to the Marvel method that a film which partially mocks superhero stereotypes might not actually catch on, and that's not even taking into consideration how much it's actually doing when you really examine it. Despite us understanding it as a superhero film, it's very much an Edgar Wright comedy through and through, and all of those (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) were offbeat cult classics through and through. I think this would always have been destined to be the same no matter when it came out (and some people might say that Guardians of the Galaxy disproves this theory, but that's dealing in much more broad based comedy and nostalgia than this deals in. The cultural and musical references in particular are much more niche than in Guardians).
 
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