There was also Ramona telling Scott “i forgot you guys didn’t have that in Canada” after telling him it wasn’t weird that he kept seeing her in his dreams because she was taking a short cut through his mind to deliver her packages. BTW Scott is 22 not 23, and i thought it was creepy he was dating Knives because of her obvious innocence, not her age.
You kids with your post-post-modernism. Listen, you little whippersnapper, I’m 49 years old and I was doing metahumor back before you were born. And other people were doing it back before I was born.
Oh, I’m sure you did. But I guarantee you didn’t do it nearly as often or with the rapidity of today’s twenty-somethings. How could you? You didn’t have the internet, or iMovie, or GarageBand, or Photoshop.
(Don’t get me wrong - I’m not trying to imply that today’s kids are “better” for this. Hell, nobody mocks us more about our post-post-modernism more than we do. But I think it’s undeniable that no period of American culture was quite so pastiche-happy as today’s, and that has a lot to do with the fact that you can make mashups in your bedroom with free software now.)
Said while discussing a movie filmed in Toronto set in Toronto. As someone said above; “Hey, Toonies!”
But I get your point.
We used twigs and coconuts.
Seriously, back in the 80’s my friends and I used to have entire conversations consisting entirely of movie and song quotes. And we laughed about the fact that we were doing it.
Kids back in the '60s were doing that too. What they weren’t doing was consuming an entire Internet’s worth of conversations consisting of repurposed pop culture miscellany. It’s the difference between a hilarious inside joke with four of your friends and making (or being part of the audience for) a viral video that’s been seen by 200 million people.
Actually, she’s referring to her own use of the word “miles.”
Madam, we’ve already established that it’s an inside joke, now we’re just haggling over the size of the group.
Are you sure about that? I don’t recall the precise exchange in the movie, but in the comic, it’s clear that she’s talking about subspace highways.
Yeah her exact words are “I’ve been using this subspace highway that goes through your brain, i forgot you guys don’t have that in Canada”.
This used to be @radiomaru (Bryan Lee O’Malley)'s most re-tweeted comment it seemed after the movie came out.
People who constantly seemed to asked Edgar Wright (more so) about when there would be a sequel to the movie, not realizing BLO’M was the creator/writer of the whole thing.
Why would you ask the guy who created the comic book about movie sequels, rather than the guy who actually made the movie?
It’s at least twenty minutes too long, and yet there are lots of deleted scenes that didn’t make the cut. Nothing in this all right film warranted more than a 90 minute running time.
Well, the movie already covered the entire run of the comic book. So if there’s going to be a sequel, either O’Malley is going to have to draw new comics, or Wright is going to have to start making shit up on his own.
I have to disagree with the general consensus here. Michael Cera was very good (as was the movie).
The only flaw in the movie is that Scott dating Knives comes across as extremely creepy (which is probably what biased the response to Cera). More creepy than I think was intended by the author. I ignored it as much as possible because the rest was great, and I don’t think it was Cera’s fault.
I haven’t read the comic, but I suspect it isn’t as creepy in comic form. It could also be cultural differences with that particular Canadian subculture, I don’t know.
I loved the movie. But then I tend to like Michael Cera characters even if they are all the same.
I just watched it the other night and absolutely loved it. I think it’s my second favorite movie of the year, after Inception.
What makes it creepy is the difference in age of consent between the US and Canada. Granted they went out of their way to point out that the relationship had been completely innocent up to that point, but Scott is a sexually active guy in his 20s so things would have obviously progressed eventually. Basically what he was doing might have landed him in jail as a sex offender here.
Eh. The age of consent in all but a couple states appears to be 16 or 17, and besides, they didn’t just point out that the relationship had been heretofore innocent – they make it clear (at least in the graphic novel) that he wasn’t interested in her at all. No kisses, nada. It was just a pure and conflict-free thing for Scott to hide out in while attempting to ignore the adult world. (And he throws her to the curb as soon as he sees someone he’s actually interested in.)
Exactly. It’s douchey, not creepy. And the story is, ultimately, the tale of how Scott Pilgrim learned how not to be a douche.