Went to see this last night (my wife went to see Eat Pray Love :rolleyes: at the same multiplex) and, although I’m also not in the target audience, I loved it. I thought it had a nice sense of whimsey, and it also did what too few movies do: It showed me something I’d never seen before.
If I don’t like Michael Cera, and I don’t like hipster movies (you know, Napolean Dynamite, Superbad, those kinds) will the video game references be enough to get me to see it? I was intrigued by the Zelda reference someone mentioned above.
Well, I never saw Superbad, I never thought of Dynamite as being hipster, but…not sure. I would think…maybe not.
The trailers give an accurate enough feel for you to tell if you’d hate it, I think.
I really liked the comment further upthread about it being a better action flick than Expendables. During the whole movie I was thinking ‘Ok, this is the first movie to show something DIFFERENT in a long time.’ It’s definitely original, though of course it’s from a comic. All in all I’m enjoying the comic trend, as, again, they’re somewhat original, which I appreciate. But if you don’t…then you won’t like it I don’t think.
Watch as many trailers as you can and see if it makes you want to see more, or fling shurikens at Cera.
That was incredible. Kieran Culkin knocked it out of the ball park. I would honestly pay full price to see a Wallace Wells spinoff movie.
Agreed. The movie was a lot funnier than I was expecting, mainly due to Wallace. He really stole the movie.
*“You punched the highlights out of her hair!” *
Man, we loved this movie. I’d actually never seen Kieran Culkin before, and I spent the beginning of the movie thinking “man, he kinda looks like Tobey Maguire…but that can’t be right.”
I was totally surprised at the end when the coins are really in focus. I knew that the movie was in Canada, but I thought “Hey! Toonies!”
My only problem was this:
My friend and I felt that the real climax of the movie was the fight against the twins. That was epic, and the rest of the movie was…not exactly a let down…but a different note.
To be honest, I figured the final battle would start with Scott fighting all of the previous Exes again before he could fight the last Ex, but mostly because of the video game motif. I’m pretty sure I’ve played at least one video game where that happened. Instead we have a curbstomp fight between him and a bunch of mooks we’ve never seen before and will never see again.
I thought that was going to happen too (but it would have taken way too long), but after it was over I realized they went with the other cliche:
The “Defeat the boss in a seemingly easy battle only to find out he’s much more powerful and have to use combined powers to beat him.”
Well, I took the advice of the Dope and dragged the wife to the show.
We both loved it! It took a bit to find its footing but we liked how funny and original it was.
Scott was a douche-bag at the beginning and I still can’t figure out why Ramona went out with him, but overall we greatly enjoyed the movie.
I’ve liked Kieran ever since he played Ralphie Parker in It Runs In The Family (aka A Summer Story). I mean, who doesn’t love Peter Billingsley as Ralphie, right? So Kieran got a lot of shit for trying to step into Peter’s shoes. But if you take the movie as its own entity and not as a direct sequel to A Christmas Story, which, ok, it is, but still, it’s really good. I think so anyway, I love it. And Kieran makes a wonderful Ralphie. And Igby. And Wallace Wells.
To be fair to Ramona, did you notice a trend with her exes? Ramona seems to almost exclusively date douche-bags.
Well, as for it taking too long, I figured that as strong and motivated as Scott had become by the end of the movie, he’d probably take about as long, we’d just get some cool quick shots of the various attacks playing into one quick action sequence.
Then again, I didn’t write the story, who knows what I would have messed up instead. 
Oh, speaking of the final battle, I had an epiphany this morning while driving my wife to work.
At the end, Scott has to face… Nega-Scott! And instead they just end up bonding and talking about having brunch. The reason the fight never happened wasn’t because it was funnier that way, it was because Scott had already dealt with his dark side like five minutes previously. That was the whole point of his gaining “The Power Of Self-Respect”.
(slaps forehead)
Heh. I I thought that at the very end,
Knives would go out and date Nega-Scott.
We saw it last night and enjoyed it. The first 45 minutes or so were pretty painful though in the style of Superbad-awkwardness, but it’s redeemed when the action starts.
To those who’ve read the book(s), what’s the deal with him living across the street from the house he grew up in? Anything more to that?
Saw it last night - loved it. You had me at Bob-omb…
He’s a loser who can’t grow up.
Of course, the best possible ending would be if at the very end:
Knives would go out and date Ramona
Just sayin.
They cut the Knives/Kim Pine make-out.
I thought that’d be a good resolution, too.