Scott Pilgrim: The Film of the Game of the Book (Spoilers, Once More People See It?)

[Toastburner B]

Originally Posted by Magus

Inception didn't do well?

Yeah, I was wondering about that myself.

According to this Inception has earned almost $500,000,000. If that info is correct, it has paid for itself 3 times over.

[Seil]

I was at the library, and misremembered. Must've had Inception on the brain. Now I can actually listen to the video, and the actual quote is:

Originally Posted by The Quote

In movie news, "The Last Exorcism," which of course cost $1.8 million to make, made $21 million dollars, Crushing the box office... Which isn't hard when the only other movie had Chris Brown in it. Yeah. And the dude that ruined Star Wars. And a lot of people are really just surprised that this movie did that well, and it'll be interesting to see what kind of movies come out of this, because obviously there's gonna be a sequel. When you make ten times the budget, they usually want you to do it again, please. But there have been more and more movies that didn't cost a ton of money to make that do very well.

"The Last Exorcsim" got, like, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, cost $1.8 million dollars, and it's bankin'. Then, of course, you have the other end: you have "Kick-Ass," you have "Scott Pilgrim." Movies made for the current generation that are amazing, and then do terrible at the box office - which might tell you that you're making movies for the wrong audience. Scott Pilgrim should almost be a defining moment in cinema. It's a movie that perfectly describes the audience it's meant for! The only problem is the audience it's meant for doesn't pay for shit, so you're kinda fucked.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Yup, sad but true. When you market to pirates this kind of thing happens. Which is sad because it's a great movie that deserves it.

I bet the sales on the DVDs will be terrible too.

[Magus]

'Cause all gamers/comic book/anime fans enjoy watching shitty pirated theater bootleg footage. Please. I can see pirating the DVD rip, but pretending that a movie's theater-showing does badly because of bootlegs is silly. It was more likely poor advertising that did it in, and opening the same week as The Expendables, which turned out to be pretty horrible but apparently everyone in the universe thought it was going to be a good idea, including me (to an extent).

Like, The American with George Clooney has actually come out on a Wednesday. I have no idea why but it must have something to do with whatever's coming out this Friday, like Machete and some other stuff. It's attempting to make money by coming out at a different time, though one would think Labor Day would make the most sense or something...

[Jagos]

Yeah, it really wasn't marketed as a romantic comedy. That may have helped it a lot more.

And let's face it, how many girls would see this movie over Eat Pray Love?

How many guys would watch this over Expendables? It's not piracy, just shitty timing.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Jagos

And let's face it, how many girls would see this movie over Eat Pray Love?
How many guys would watch this over Expendables?

*Raises hand as a female who saw Scott Pilgrim twice in the theaters and dragged Thadius along both times*

[BloodyMage]

To further that point, My girlfriend went to see both Scott Pilgrim and Expendables and hasn't seen Eat Pray Love.

[Nique]

Scott Pilgrim was utterly fantastic. The only thing that bothered me was the gay roommate who would have been fine otherwise if not portrayed as a boyfriend stealing man-whore which I'm sure is exactly[/sarsam] how the gay community wants to be seen.

[Jagos]

Uhm... Wallace damn near steals scenes dude...

Proof

[Nique]

No no! Like, most all of the writing for Wallace was golden! It was all the extra kinky stuff he did out of the blue that was somewhat undermining the otherwise awesome portrayal of a weird gay roommate.