{"id":4897,"date":"2010-10-03T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:39:43","slug":"scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-2010-edgar-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4897","title":{"rendered":"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Wright sets out to prove he can do good work without Pegg and Frost.  He and cowriter Michael Bacall adapt a video-game-obsessed comic book for the big screen, so many mediums combine &#8211; noisily and awkwardly according to Katy, or with a powerful awesomeness if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the Michael Cera thing hasn&#8217;t worn off on me yet.  Good to see Kieran Culkin as his sarcastic gay roommate, Anna Kendrick of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3792\">Up In The Air<\/a><\/em> as his sister, and Brandon Routh of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/63\">Superman Returns<\/a><\/em> as a baddie who gains his powers from eating vegan.  Jason Schwartzman as a corporate supervillain was an interesting choice.  Had no idea that the main hair-dyed love interest (Mary Winstead) was in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/257\">Death Proof<\/a><\/em>, that Cera&#8217;s band&#8217;s drummer played Milk&#8217;s campaign manager, that the action-movie-star ex-boyfriend was Human Torch from <em>Fantastic Four<\/em>, or that Thomas &#8220;<em>Dreamcatcher<\/em>\/<em>The Punisher<\/em>&#8221; Jane was a vegan policeman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Watched again in 2013, though it took me a couple tries to get past the beginning and title sequence, which I felt compelled to watch again and again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT 2016:<\/strong> I have seen this movie lots.  It it the best movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/scottpilgrim7.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Wright sets out to prove he can do good work without Pegg and Frost. He and cowriter Michael Bacall adapt a video-game-obsessed comic book for the big screen, so many mediums combine &#8211; noisily and awkwardly according to Katy, or with a powerful awesomeness if you ask me. Somehow the Michael Cera thing hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,139,157,92],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-comics","tag-edgar-wright","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}