Greetings loyal followers,
Chris here. hope you all enjoyed this episode as much as I did (can you get much better than your friend admitting their wrongness on tape and then publishing it to the web?). Anyways, I feel like I went a bit easy on the Scott Pilgrim movie/my dislike for Michael Cera. So sit back and let's take this shit to the streets.
All the best parts of the movie
Michael Cera, you are obviously favored by God. You are rich, famous, and I'll bet that you're armpit-deep in hipster pussy. I salute you for all this(*brofist*). I still don't like you.
Every time I see a Michael Cera movie, I always feel the same at the end. "Well gee, that was well and dandy but wasn't George Michael from Arrested Devleopment pretty much the same character?? And wasn't A/D way funnier anyways?". I've seen basically your full acting catalog, and I've already seen it at it's best. Why do I want to watch you play increasingly less funny/interesting takes on the same character? Sure sure, Superbad was great, but you were still playing the same awkward, painfully shy, perpetual virgin that I had seen in... well, all your other work.
I can't help but shake the feeling that Michael Cera is but a tool of the movie industry, nefariously placed in film to ensure ticket sales amongst twenty-something, PBR drinking lowlifes who think Thundercat t-shirts are awesome (i.e. you and I). Based on Anthony's review, I suspect those exact words were spoken in a boardroom at Universal. We all know how much it sucks when some of the really cool elements of a book are changed in the transition to mainstream blockbuster (looking you at, Ozymandias). Any film that is going to appeal so strongly to my nostalgic love of all things 8-bit is going to be held to a higher standard of earnesty. Unfortunately, the casting of Cera in the lead role has seriously harmed this film's credibility in my eyes. Sure, I will still see it, and I may even grudgingly admit to liking it (doubtful). But still... Michael Cera? Really? Isn't this move Canadian enough as is?
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