{"id":861,"date":"2010-06-22T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=861"},"modified":"2010-06-22T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:59:04","slug":"advance-word-on-an-advance-screening-of-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Advance word on an Advance Screening of Scott Pilgrim vs The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Scott! Ah-ah! He saved every one of us!\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/images\/scottpilgrimteaser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My friend Melinda was somehow invited to a market test screening of something that was described to her as &#8220;indie\/slacker\/comic book&#8221;. Upon consultation with her brother, she theorised that it may be <em>Scott Pilgrim vs The World<\/em>. Turns out she was right. Attached are her brief impressions of the film:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yo it was Scott Pilgrim- no food stuffs provided, a thought that was a little stingy, considering they didn&#8217;t pay us and expected us to do a survey as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly a niche film, and not really being a Michael Cera fan meant that I didn&#8217;t laugh at all the jokes, actually I thought a lot were pretty lowbrow. (pee jokes enough said) not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that humour, but I am not charmed by Michael Cera. He needs to work harder than that to make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>There were parts that were weird for the sake of being weird, and it felt a little long, it was a solid two hour movie- but the fight scenes were good and the video game feel\/ style made it a little different from your usual action movie.<\/p>\n<p>I gave it a 7, good enough, even if it wasn&#8217;t something that i&#8217;d pay to see. My bro loved it and wants to see it again, so there you go.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it: the inside word on <em>Scott Pilgrim <\/em>from a woman who is interested in nerd type things, and a mention of her brother who I&#8217;ve never met &#8211; but I believe we&#8217;re not so very different, he and I (translation: nerdlinger <em>to the maxtreme<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>As for myself, I haven&#8217;t watched any of the trailers, and my exposure to <em>Scott Pilgrim<\/em> in general is very limited &#8211; but I have enjoyed Edgar Wright&#8217;s previous work and I was definitely going to see it anyway &#8230; even if &#8220;Sex Bob-omb&#8221; is a ridiculous idea and is the very reason that the terrorists hate us (even Canadians!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post script: <\/strong>Just watched the trailer, now my interest is piqued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Melinda was somehow invited to a market test screening of something that was described to her as &#8220;indie\/slacker\/comic book&#8221;. Upon consultation with her brother, she theorised that it may be Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Turns out she was right. Attached are her brief impressions of the film: &#8220;Yo it was Scott Pilgrim- no food stuffs provided, a thought that was a little stingy, considering they didn&#8217;t pay us and expected us to do a survey as well. It&#8217;s clearly a niche film, and not really being a Michael Cera fan meant that I didn&#8217;t laugh at all <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}