Edgar Wright Will Never Watch Marvel’s Ant-Man

>>84363259

>the film in my mind is superior so I cannot deflate my ego and watch the version that was actually made

>>84363472

Only a cuck would watch another mans film you practically get made

>spend eternity trying to make the film because you're a hack
>get fired
>new director adds the objectively best part of the movie, get buttflustered he didn't follow your script to the letter
>h-h-h-haha, I'd just pick it apart, m-m-m-marvel b-blown the fuck o-out

>marvelfags trying to do damage control

it's like someone can spit in your face and you're gonna say it's raining

>>84363840
>spend eternity trying to make a masterpiece
>get fired because you dared to be creative instead of listening to hack execs
>your film gets turned into a generic Marvel flick
>Marvel fanboys blindly defend the flick and call you a hack
Poor Edgar.

>>84363259
> 2006
> approach pre-disney marvel and want to make ant-man movie
> marvel: wtf edgar wright wants to work with US?! fuck yes, we're just starting off, this is great
> we weren't even going to make an ant-man movie, but if edgar fucking wright wants to, we'll do it
> "btw i'm finishing my cornetto trilogy so i want to do hot fuzz and the world's end first"
> no problem edgar, take your time, we support you
> here's some test footage for the fans though at comic-con 2012
> "oh btw i'm also going to do scott pilgrim vs the world too"
> ok sure edgar, no problem, take your time
> EIGHT years later after first contacting marvel
> "ok guys i'm going to make my ant-man movie now"
> cool
> "btw i'm going to have it with scott lang instead of hank pym
> ok that's fine
> "and i want it to be completely independent of the universe you've created since then and not have any connections"
> umm
> "here's my script it's
> can we change these things, some of it contradicts the ELEVEN films we made before yours?
> "no i'm walking away, and i can't even watch the cut that is obviously made with love for the stuff i brought to the table and they still gave me a credit on it"

i love wright and am eager to see baby driver, but he was being completely unreasonable

>>84363259
>“’Please don’t just use my storyboards,’

Sounds like a reddit beta getting desperate

Marvel won

>>84364052
>marvelcucks are THIS salty
lmao

>>84363259
>“I have not spoken to him at all. I think the last communication I had with him is I said, “’Please don’t just use my storyboards,’ and then I’ve never spoken to him anymore ever since.”

They clearly used his storyboards and possibly script for any creative sequence in the movie. It's a shame he didn't get to direct it, it would make it a lot more rewatchable.

Also we would've got Patrick Wilson instead of the bald guy villain.

>>84363472
>>84363840
Fucking pathetic, you fags are as insufferable as Snydercucks. Wright's Ant-Man would've been one of the best capeshit movies of all time but instead we got some shit that was forgotten within a couple of months.

>>84363259

I really hope he directs The Flash.

>>84364023
>Edgar Wright
>not a hack
The Cornetto trilogy is shit.

Meanwhile Ant-Man made 2 billion dollars and Baby Driver will flop

>>84364114
>for any creative sequence in the movie
The quantum realm was all Reed.

>>84364052
>some of it contradicts the ELEVEN films we made before yours?
What did it contradict? I'm legitimately curious, I haven't read Wright's script.

>>84364159
actually it only made 500 million lmao

>>84364052
great contribution

>>84364191
> hope had smaller role
> lang's crew had more guys and less characterization/more generic heist archetypes (wheelman, tech guy, explosives guy, etc)
> cross is some donut steel "nano warrior" and not yellowjacket
> ex-wife and daughter have BIGGER roles along with cop boyfriend
> ex-wife is the main love interest
> all characters dicks and less sympathetic
> cop boyfriend was originally childhood rival of scott, who wanted to put him in jail. (this is anime tier writing by the way and i'm shocked that it'd come from wright)

reed & rudd saved the movie, more wasp stuff was probably their best contribution

>>84364157
The Cornetto trilogy blows away the entire Marvel cinematic universe. Better characters, better comedy, better action, better filmmaking, better EVERYTHING. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and some other middle aged people fighting robots in a bar was more thrilling than every Marvel action scene put together. Kevin Fiege doesn't deserve to lick Edgar Wright's feet.

>>84364428
>implying the movie was saved

if you didn't turn it off after the first few minutes of CGI Michael Douglas you're a pleb, even the first Avengers had a better intro

>>84364191
>>84364428
also his draft had no quantum realm/microverse stuff, no large/shrink discs, no falcon/hydra/shield connections minus the fact that at one point a throwaway mention pym worked for them back in the day

wright is great but slightly arrogant to ignore the other filmmakers that built stuff before him. doesn't mean has to reference every single thing of course, but you're joining a production studio that is in business to build a SHARED universe, you can't just stand along by yourself

>>84364159
>MUH BOX OFFICE
kek

>>84364466
at world's end was a little too schmaltzy i think

fuzz & shaun are stronger. scott pilgrim is great minus the failed lead casting of cera, so it makes the film poor. i don't know if that was studio or wright, because the rest of the cast was so strongly cast and perfect. MEW, based evans, culkin, schwartzman, routh, etc. but cera was terrible

>>84364283
the budget was only 120 million, the smallest of the MCU. ant-man/wasp will crush at the box office

>>84364548
It sounds like it didn't contradict anything though. It pretty much ignored the rest of the universe but it didn't fuck up the continuity so Marvel wouldn't have had much of a problem shoving Ant-Man into other movies.

Considering the last decent film he made was Hot Fuzz, Marvel did right by ditching him.

>>84364157
That's rich coming from an MCUck. Marvel wishes they could make something as fun and memorable as the Cornetto trilogy. Most Marvel movies are forgotten in a few months whereas everyone still remembers Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Ant man is one of the few marvel movies i actually enjoyed from beginning to end. Wright has always been pretentious twat.

>>84364780
You have to go back.

>>84364741
And the last decent film Reed made was? Fuck off with this shit, Marvel doesn't need directors, they want yes-man. Which is coincidentally an awful movie directed by Peyton Reed

>>84364780
>>84364466
>this thing is shit
>well at least it isn't as shit as this other shit!
Fucking every time on this god forsaken site.
Jesus fucking Christ.

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>>84364428
> hope had smaller role

Based Marvel and Reed.

>>84364862
You're the one who needs to go back. I'm sure the Marvel subr*ddit agrees with your shit opinions.

Glad he got fired, Ant-Man ended up being one of Marvel's best.

>>84364149
>Wright's Ant-Man would've been one of the best capeshit movies of all time

Why do you believe this? Have you not read what he wanted to do?

>>84364888
Still salty that Reed made a better Ant-Man movie, Edgar?

>>84364428
>>84364548
None of that contradicts anything in the other Marvel movies though.

>look up this literal who to see what literal who movies he made
>Hot Fuzz trilogy
>meme Pilgrim
>and now Baby Driver

why are you lot treating Wright as some sort of genius

or is it just the DCuck overtime

>>84364741
I'll never understand why so many people hate The World's End. Scott Pilgrim is different from the Cornetto trilogy and it's an adaptation of LOOK AT HOW FUCKING INDIE I AM: The Comic so I understand why SP gets shit but TWE has a lot in common with the rest of the Cornetto trilogy. Did Simon Pegg's character hit too close to home for some people?

>>84364428
>more wasp stuff was probably their best contribution
That alone makes wright potentially better

>>84364987
>this thing that exists is better than the one that was cancelled
No shit, anon. Michael Bay could make the best Ant-man movie too if his Ant-man was the only Ant-man movie.

>>84365004
>DCuck
I loathe Snyder and love Wright.

>>84363259
Never mind Edgar Wright, how is Joe Cornish feeling about all that? His career literally doesn't exist now after one good movie.

>>84365087
He's directing another movie soon.

>>84365004
every one of his films has better direction, writing and care than any mcu flick they've shat out

Tell me the truth /tv/

Is Ant Man actually a good movie?

>>84365004
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End are some of the best comedies of the 21st century.

>>84365166
get that brit comedy dick out of your mouth lmfao

Considering how far Wright was up in his own arse, it's admirable how patient Marvel had been with him.

Taika Waititi is a far better director anyway and is easier to work with.

>Wright still hasn't checked out Ant-Man or any of the previews that were released beforehand, and he doesn't plan to because it would be like hanging out with an ex at the most awkward of times. As Wright put it:

>I haven't seen it and I haven't even seen the trailer. It would kind of like be asking me, "Do you want to watch your ex-girlfriend have sex?" Like, 'No, I'm good.'

MARVEL KEKS BTFO

>>84365166
Go back to bed, Wright.

>>84365207
get that marveldick out of your mouth lmfao.

>>84365208
>Taika Waititi is a far better director anyway

Taika's movies are pure mediocrity compared to Edgar Wright's movies, they're funny and timeless not some wes anderson tribute crap

>>84365166
>Jon Favreau
>Kenneth Branagh
>Shane Black
>James Gunn
>Taika Watiti
All better directors than Wright.

>>84365184
Shaun and Hot Fuzz yes

TWE is trash.

marvel changed their ultron stuff too around wright

orignally ant-man was supposed to come out before avengers, then before avengers 2, instead he waited and did other stuff, so it ended up being stark that helped create ultron instead of pym, which was bad for other reasons

Didn't he want to make Hank Pym the a bad guy too or some shit?

>>84365175
Second best Marvel movie after Iron Man 3

>>84365258
>if I put a fullstop he'll see how btfo he is

LOL

>>84364958
>a generic plot full of tropes with a few cool action scenes is Marvel's best movie

Really fires up your neurons.

>>84365284
>Kenneth Branagh

fucking lol, might as well put Whedon there mate

>>84364719
MEW was also terrible, let's be honest. Just listen to her delivering any of her lines that aren't part of a moody conversation with Cera. Everyone else was hamming it up being cartoony and energetic and fun, and she was just boring and bland by comparison. Especially her lines in the girl fight, the other chick was cartoony and alive, and MEW was throwing her lines out like she just woke up 10 minutes ago.

>>84365279
>Edgar Wright's movies, they're funny and timeless

Top kek.

>>84365284
is this bait or have marvelcucks gone full retard?

>>84364428
>everyone was a dick
You know it's supposed to fucking be the IREDEEMABLE Ant Man right?
Hes a fucking ex con, and a dick seeking REDEMPTION.
Happy "I only committed a minor crime so I can be fun and relatable" Paul Rudd might as well have just been his fucking character from Celery Man.

>>84365175
mostly boring by-the-numbers story with a couple of choice scenes, which still feel like leftovers or pale imitations compared to how Wright would direct them

>>84365363
Of course it's bait. MCUcks can't be THAT retarded.

>comparing a draft of one filmmaker's movie script to another filmmaker's finished movie

thought you were smarter than this /tv/

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>mfw Marvel fanboys shit all over Wright and claim Reed's script is far better
Wright is one of the most VISUAL comedy directors currently working, harshly judging him because of a script is retarded. I'm sure his Ant-Man would've been far more visually striking than what we got.

>>84365363
you can't seriously rate Wright that highly

a dude that made a scott pilgrim movie and 3 comedies

pls say you aren't that deluded

>>84365363
I don't know, it's as bad as people acting as if Edgar Wright is a good director.

it's a shame wright didnt stay on we could have finally gotten a good mcu movie. oh well

>>84365403
They have a good reason though considering his last good movie was Hot Fuzz and that was like a decade ago or something?

>>84365142
He's been directing it soon for about a decade now

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>>84365004
>Hot Fuzz trilogy

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Wait, am I not supposed to like Hot Fuzz?

>>84365484
ok shaun of the dead trilogy

happy mr wright?

holy shit marvelcucks are getting real defensive as usual

>>84365284
>>Jon Favreau
KEK
E
K
>>Kenneth Branagh
Boring Oscar bait director who occasionally makes blockbuster trash. Next.
>>Shane Black
I really like him but the movies he directed aren't as good as the Cornetto trilogy.
>>James Gunn
Slither is great but that's his only film that has really impressed me. Wright is better.
>>Taika Watiti
I need to watch his films.

>>84365497
Ignore the MCUcks, Hot Fuzz is pure genius.

>>84365518
I just think it's cute DCucks are using this as firepower

as if Wright is DC or something lmfao

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>>84365593
>DCucks
How many times do I have to say I hate Snyder?

>>84365593
It's not just DCucks. It's anyone with a common sense.

>>84364428
But what was in there that went against the established Marvel canon?
Or was it more of a case of Marvel putting in-universe references in his script?

Either way, nothing in Wright's original script looks worse than what we got. It doesn't matter if Hope has a larger role and Lang's crew has "less generic heist archetypes" (even if they are generic in different way and the film isn't even a fucking heist film) if what we got was a pretty bland and forgettable film, something we can agree Wright's wouldn't be.

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>mfw /tv/ doesn't know whether to shit on Marvel or Wright since both are quirky quippers reddit likes and Americans have retarded black and white thinking who don't think it's possible to like both or hate both participants in a conflict

>>84364958
Rudd, Douglas and Lilly were good. Everything else was just dull. Lang's buddies were fucking terrible. Especially the retarded Mexican. The villain was Mr. Exposition-Man. Marvel's best isn't very good.

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DCucks being salty because Antman was more profitable than Man of Murder

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>>84365593
>>84365673
>MCUck is so desperate he has to resort to "EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A DKEK!"
Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad are fucking terrible. Now stop acting like a paranoid retard.

>>84365700
uh oh evansposter is back and getting upset again

>>84365700
kek samefaggin this hard

>>84365794
Are you okay marvelcuck? take a breathe and calm down.

>>84365743
like how dckeks try to insult anybody who criticizes the non-WW DC films as mcushills

those films ARE legit bad. suicide squad being one of the worst films of that year period. comic book or non-comic. it's just a flat out bad movie

evansposting transcends marve/dc wars, it's just a funny reaction image, i'm not the same guy, but i've seen it used on other boards all the time

dckeks can't even enjoy that WW is doing well, they have to try and retroactively go after marvel. but the facts speak for themselves, marvel has spent time and has a road map of where they want to go, DC saw avenger bux and wanted to copy as fast they could. this is fact.

now with whedon doing JL reshoots/editing in post, it'll be obvious to see how much of it is his/studio changed vs snyder because their styles are almost complete opposites. it'll definitely be interesting to see what direction they want to forth in the future

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>>84365794
>Scott Pilgrim and Hot Fuzz on the otherhand are pure /v/ autism manchild reddit fedora tip meme. If you enjoy them for one instant you instantly rescind your right to live. They are both autistic children gurning in your face while contorting their image to match all of their favorite meme images.

>>84365284
Even Jon Favreau got sick of Marvel's meddling to the point where his own movie perfectly highlights what's wrong with Marvel's execs weighing down on their directors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufj6CeqOTJo

>>84365962

Yeah so sick he came back to star in spiderman and produce infinity war

>>84365997
>he clearly didn't watch Chef

>>84364114
he did get credit

>>84365997
thats easy money for what? 4 hours of work at most? A trained monkey could act in marvel motion pictures

but he wont be directing anything for them, thats the real work

>>84365962
He's so pissed off at them that he's in Homecoming.

>>84365843
>marvelcuck getting this upset over company wars
jesus go outside and get some air

>>84364052
>obviously made with love
it's literally made to make money, like the ENTIRE mcu is. I'm not hating on ant-man even though I didn't think it was too special this is some pretty delusional fucking shit buddy.

>>84365221
>marvel keks btfo
>literally admitting he is getting cucked

>>84365794
>>84366088
If these aren't pastas, they should be.

>Edgar Wright is now considered a TOP TIER director

This fucking timeline man........

>>84366088
>when you take the memes too seriously
i know you want to be as contrarian as possible but being too "popular" or "memey" is not criticism.

>>84366080
> i have no argument so i'll just say marvelcuck over and over again

ant man was funny movie. im pretty happy with end result

This guy has never made a good movie.

>>84366144
When has he not? Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz has been classics for years. And despite flopping originally, Scott Pilgrim is very well liked.

>anyone that likes wright or disliked antman is a dcshill!!
You marvelcucks are insecure as fuck.

>>84366183
>>84366256

Because you're uneducated on film.

>>84365221
>>Wright still hasn't checked out Ant-Man or any of the previews that were released beforehand, and he doesn't plan to because it would be like hanging out with an ex at the most awkward of times. As Wright put it:
>>I haven't seen it and I haven't even seen the trailer. It would kind of like be asking me, "Do you want to watch your ex-girlfriend have sex?" Like, 'No, I'm good.'


Funny cause:

>>84364428
> ex-wife and daughter have BIGGER roles along with cop boyfriend
> ex-wife is the main love interest

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>>84366059
>>84366059
>a fucking cameo role

He's still getting money for laying the ground work for the entire MCU with Iron Man 1, but his vision got seriously fucked with on Iron Man 2.

Even Rourke spoke up about that.

“[W]hen I did Ivan Vanko in Iron Man, I fought… You know, I explained to Justin Theroux, to the writer, and to [Jon] Favreau, that I wanted to bring some other layers and colors [to the charater], not just make this Russian a complete murderous revenging bad guy. And they allowed me to do that. Unfortunately, the [people] at Marvel just wanted a one-dimensional bad guy, so most of the performance ended up the floor.”

“[It’s] ****ing too bad, but it’s their loss. If they want to make mindless comic book movies, then I don’t want to be a part of that. I don’t want to have to care so much and work so hard, and then fight them for intelligent reasoning, and just because they’re calling the shots they… You know, I didn’t work for three months on the accent and all the adjustments and go to Russia just so I could end up on the floor. Because that can make somebody say at the end of the day, oh **** ‘em, I’m just going to mail it in. But I’m not that kind of guy. I’m never going to mail it in.”

“If they let you play the bad guy with other dimensions other than one-dimensional. You have to fight for that though, to bring layers to the character. Otherwise, if you’re working for the wrong studio or let’s say a director that doesn’t have any balls, then they’re just gonna want it to be the evil bad guy. […] So, if you’re working with some good studio guys that got brains and you’re working with a director with a set of nuts that’ll let you incorporate that then it’s fun. Otherwise, you end up with what happened on ‘Iron Man.'”

>>84366293
>you don't appreciate trash so you know nothing

>>84365340
Isn't that just her character's personality? Along with Scott and Kim. You need some contrast even in a cartoony world like Scott Pilgrim.

>>84366291
and what are you?

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Get a hold of yourselves.

Kek

Just yesterday I was reading a thread about how great baby driver looked

What happened?

>>84366328
Is this pasta? if not very impressive.

>>84365831
>>84366143
Newfaggots

>>84363259
Ant-Man is a masterpiece and the movie was better without him.

>>84366358
>Just yesterday I was reading a marketing thread
Moron

>>84363259
Sound like he is a recurrent poster here.

>I'm right, the rest are wrong

>Film gets made
>OMG I FUCKEN HATE IT, ITS SHIT, DUMB SOURCE MATERIAL, NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS CHARACTER

>Hear there was another half-baked version that never got past first draft and concepts
>OMG WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST FILM EVER, FUCKEN BULLSHIT, RUINED THE MOST KINO CHARACTER EVAR

Every time

Hott Fuzz was legit great. But he hasn't made anything any good since. And baby, that's a long time. An eternity in hollywood.

People thinking he would have made some kind of Ant-Masterpiece shound probably accept he may have already peaked and to be honest, crashed, long ago.

>>84366332
I wish he had the physical potential to take more roles

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>>84365794
>pure /v/ autism manchild reddit fedora tip meme
>LOOK GUYS I'M SAYING THINGS

>>84365497
Haven't you heard? Everything is Reddit now. That includes Hot Fuzz, you and this comment.

Jesus Christ, this is exactly like that time when AVGN decided to not watch the new Ghostbusters and people got pissy about it.

Hott Fuzz was great, Shaun of the Dead was okay, The World's End sucks: the Cornetto trilogy is mediocre.

>>84366332
Yeah it's a shame marvel always want to make the same mindless safe comic book movie. they've made what 15 movies? basically the same sort of formula to almost every one and none of them have really stood out at all.

>>84366721
AVGN likes Alien: Resurrection

>>84366047
>thats easy money for what? 4 hours of work at most?
You really know nothing about film production, do you?

>>84366332
It's not a cameo role. He's in it about as much as Iron Man.

>>84364023
He wasn't trying to make a masterpiece, he continuously put off the movie to work on his own shit. Ant-Man and The Wasp were supposed to be in the first Avengers.

Edgar Wright has never made a masterpiece in his entire fucking life. I love his work, but c'mon.

>>84365380

Comic pleb please. Irredeemable refers to Eric O' Grady, the one Ant-Man not in this film.

Hank and Scott are the Astonishing Ant-Man.

>>84363911
Damage control would imply there was damage here. No one on this piss stained thread is influential enough to damage. Grow up.

>>84364888
Adam McKay had more to do with the final product than Peyton Reed did.

>>84365743
Are you retarded? The Evansposter would be shitting on Wright and defending Marvel.

>>84366885
>Edgar Wright has never made a masterpiece in his entire fucking life.
HOT FUZZ
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>>84365279
Taika Waititi is very obviously influenced by Edgar Wright, but his movies look way better.
The best looking Wright movie was The World's End and it's not a visual masterpiece.

>>84365777
>get BTFO
>"s-samefag!"
kek, pathetic MCUck.

>>84365313
>Didn't he want to make Hank Pym the a bad guy too or some shit?
Yup. He hated Hank for the hitting Janet shit and as a result wanted to make Pym the villain of the movie.

>>84364149

He had all the time in the world and every opportunity to make that happen, and he fucked up.

>>84367143
i have no argument: the post

>>84365497
Hot Fuzz is great fun, but Wright is far from a genius director.

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Well shit, I always thought most of the Marvel shilling on here was just shitposters fucking with DCucks but it looks like there are a lot of legitimate MCUcks on /tv/. How the hell can you unironically defend Marvel? They make the same fucking movie over and over again. Even if you're one of those "THIS IS VIDEO GAMES THIS IS REDDIT THIS IS MEMES" fags you have to admit that the Cornetto trilogy is better than the Marvel cinematic universe.

>>84365535
>I really like him but the movies he directed aren't as good as the Cornetto trilogy.
The Nice Guys is better than anything Edgar Wright has ever put out.

>>84367355
The Nice Guys is great but Hot Fuzz is the superior buddy cop comedy.

>>84363840
what best scene did the other director """"Add""""

>>84367126
Hot Fuzz is a great comedy, yes, but by no stretch of the imagination would I call it a masterpiece.

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>mfw people shit on Edgar Wright
Midway through grinning at Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I realized: This elation must be what Tarantino fans want to feel when watching one of his pop culture marathons. The difference is that Tarantino?s pop-referencing movies extract all social and political contexts, while Edgar Wright, who directed Scott Pilgrim and co-wrote its screenplay (based on graphic novels by Bryan Lee O?Malley), is also a social satirist. The humor in Scott Pilgrim feels so good because it is about something: The romantic pangs of adolescence as understood by Scott (Michael Cera), a 22-year-old who plays in a Toronto rec-room rock band and is beginning to discover that his desire for affection gives him inward and outward obligations?to the needs of others and to his own slowly-maturing self-respect. Sorry to put it so plainly, but Wright puts it exuberantly, in the vibrant tones and hyperbolic style of both comic books and video games.

When Scott, on the rebound, dates inexperienced high school girl Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), then falls for a vastly experienced cobalt-, magenta-, then green-haired American chick, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), the situations recall Margaret Yang in Rushmore and the rock nerds in High Fidelity?but without settling for the pop references as Tarantino would. Wright connects to real-life experience through the common lingo of movies (exaggerated romance and violence), music (hit songs plus grooves and riffs) and gaming culture (visible onomatopoeia and energy effects). Freely switching between pop idioms, Wright creates the effect once ascribed to Spielberg?s 1941 as ?having your head stuck inside a pinball machine.? But Scott Pilgrim takes advantage of video games? recently advanced technology, whereby the digital simulacra of actual experience becomes part of Wright?s joking commentary. This might make Scott Pilgrim too intense for casual filmgoers who can?t catch its amped-up pace and onrushing sarcasm.

1/3

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>>84367506
QT?s films always lead to ceremonial exploitation-movie brutality, but Scott Pilgrim is constructed as a series of ethical challenges: Scott must confront Ramona?s past lovers (?Seven Evil Exes?), submitting his immature love-life to Herculean physical and moral tests. Modeled after the classic, amateur-rock battle-of-the-bands, these contests are rites-of-passage, recognizable to all for their outsized representation of the jealousy, insecurity and anger that romance and sex can inspire. Because Wright is a visually gifted, kinetic filmmaker?unlike Tarantino?every clever gimmick is emotionally expressive, including the video-game-style logo and credits theme and the moment of Scott and Knives? break-up. The proverbial decree, ?It?s not gonna work out,? becomes a black void that envelops the heartsick youth. Wright makes visual correlatives of awkward feelings and hyperactive cultural experience.

Not emotionally alienated like Tarantino, Wright at his best shows some of the exuberance and elation of Stephen Chow?s great Kung Fu Hustle?where social anxiety was turned into pop mythology with the swiftness and lavishness of a movie musical. Wright even brings this exultant vision to the quick-changes of Scott?s gay roommate Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin), whose carefree, yet duplicitous, sex life makes a contrasting male adolescence sub-plot. Child-man Michael Cera helps Wright achieve his clear behavioral focus. Cera?s child-like mouth and soft chin that?to borrow an infamous John Simon quote??slips irretrievably into his neck? gives him a believable dweeb identity, whereas a more outwardly masculine lead might seem vain and narcissistic. I couldn?t relate to Cera?s previous screen zygotes, but Wright?s ingenuity consistently overcomes the smugness of Juno and the Judd Apatow material that I associate with Cera. This modern Sterling Holloway?s acting skill can now be newly appreciated up against the dynamic Seven Evil Exes.

2/3

>>84366119
>it's literally made to make money, like the ENTIRE modern film industry is

Ftfy

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>>84367548
Chris Evans stands out as movie star Lucas Lee, doing an Eastwood vocal impersonation with a Wolverine haircut and chinstrap beard. Brandon Routh plays Todd Ingram, a brawny rock star with glowing super-villain eyes. Routh?s recent Superman performance adds to Wright?s hunk satire (a subliminal theme), which is magnified when Scott combats the Japanese-chic Katayanagi twins and, displaying his videogame prowess, unleashes his id?straight out of the 1955 Forbidden Planet. Top that, QT. Wright knows how to use pop culture to better understand life. Scott Pilgrim is as full of pop references as Kill Bill but rendered by a wit, not a smart-ass sadist.

Most critics misjudged Wright?s 2006 Hot Fuzz as simply a cop movie parody; they completely ignored the sting in Wright?s spoofing how the English class system is repeated in its law enforcement bureaucracy and his bemused critique of its threatening arcane social traditions. In Scott Pilgrim, Wright brings a big-budget spotlight to the themes of pop culture?s identification/alienation?just as in Todd Graff?s little-seen Bandslam. Scott Pilgrim doesn?t quite have Bandslam?s depth to carry its audience to a new appreciation of human experience and pop paradox. Wright?s lesbian and Bollywood jokes come close but go too quickly, like gags on TV?s Corin Nemec or Scrubs. Still, it?s rare when a mainstream movie scrutinizes the seductions of mainstream pop. Wright?s speed and humor are authentic and irresistible. Let?s hope that?s not all his admirers see.

3/3

http://www.nypress.com/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world

>>84366328
>You're the epitome of a 20 something-year-old reddit "popnerd" who will never touch a physically attractive woman or have a real job.

I see Disney taught someone how to be positive aggressive this morning

>>84367506
THE KING HAS SPOKEN

>>84367700
Haha, upvoted my fellow Reddit

>>84367828
t. salty marvelcuck

>>84367828
>Armond
>reddit
They fucking hate him. Face it, you've been BTFO. The king of /tv/ loves Wright.

>>84363259
Wright's version sounded like garbage.
I remember there was a thread here awhile ago that described it and what we got was better albeit not by much.

>>84367845
>>84367895
No one is falling fire your false flag horseshit Disney

>>84368041
Defending a man who got burned by Disney means I'm a Disney shill? You aren't making any sense.

>>84367982
Ok marvel, you can go cry to Reddit fur done pity upvotes

>>84365184
Eh. Shaun has some great examples of comedic timing but overal they're just not funny, they lack the bite for that. They're love letters to their respective genres and I can respect them on that basis (which is why TWE is the weakest, there is no foundation to build on. 'The Hangover' is shit and Wright knows it).

>>84367506
>>84367548
Armond White is a subtle, genius comedian.
He reviews every film he sees though it were the last one ever made, each having to be some mega social commentary, a frame of the world that it was born in, rather than ever simply a fun movie for the family or to be watched on a couch with a cold drink and warm dinner. Every movie he reviews is divisive and there is a right or wrong way to view it, and never fear, Armond White will tell you which is which.
Reading enough of his reviews makes it obvious he's flirting with self-satire, a well-spoken contrarian who will never admit that he enjoys being the one with differing opinions, always the debate starter. However the fact that he has done this for years has blurred the line between character and actor. He has such commitment to his craft that he has merged the two, inseparable now. Every review of his is not really so, more of a tale, another chapter in the bold story that is Armond White.
Incredible stuff.

>>84368074
It wouldn't to a brain damaged marvlet I guess

>>84368148
You're the one who has brain damage. Fuck Marvel, Wright's Ant-Man would've been amazing.

>>84368186
Now this is just getting desperate Disney

>>84367982
>Look at me.. I am captain now

kek what a fucking absolute joke Marvel is. haha

btw gonna go check out Wonder Woman again for third time this week. It gets better with every viewing. Tons of layers and shit like that.

ps Justice League is gonna be lit af senpai. Def gonna buy all the merch for that shiz. Excited!

>>84368264
So everyone who praises Disney is a shill and everyone who shits on Disney is a shill. Well then I guess you're a Disney shill too. Everyone is a fucking shill.

>>84368285
>>84368295
Typical. Expose one shill and the false flagger army comes out I full force. Like fucking clockwork

>>84368285
>btw gonna go check out Wonder Woman again for third time this week.

That is like 30 buck, you are the saviour of Warner/DC!

>>84365033
I've wondered this myself. It's my least favorite of the three, but i still liked it

>>84368295
No you don't understand everyone who post in /tv/ is a shill, that's all.

>>84365340
THANK YOU

>>84368385
DC films are for the rich, well adjusted folk with good jobs like myself. 30 bucks is nothing to me for a good dose of Wonder kino.

>>84368523
>kino
Stop. I'm tired of you marvel shills ruining a once great word reserved only for the highest form of film.

Now it's just a meme because of you fucks.

>>84368523
>30 bucks make me rich

Niggah, I buy figures more expensives than that, call me when you spend $5000 in something.

>>84368699
>call me when you spend $5000 in something.

I spent twice that fucking your mom last night.

>>84368285
>>84368385
not that guy but besides SS and BvS I've watched MoS twice and WW thrice (this weekend). Both are really awesome films. I have never ever watched a Marvel movie multiple times besides Ironman 1 and that was by chance when i saw it playing on HBO

>>84368759
you means MARTHA!!!

>>84363259
More like he saw it and it was better than he could have made and now he's a little butt hurt faggot.

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>>84368921
KEK you win!

>>84368921
WHY DID YOU SAY THAT MEME?

>>84367267
>He had all the time in the world and every opportunity to make that happen, and he fucked up.
literally not even true
higher ups do not want someone with their own vision or go against the super friendly safe sterility of Marvel films now (and then)

see Russo brothers: absolute shit directors (fucking meme faggots with your Winter Soldier, its shit) who are yes men to Disney, why do you think they got boosted from TV garbage, to a single fluke of a 'decent' Marvel film (Winter Soldier in terms of plot but for visuals was absolute horseshit, even cinematography) and then finally given the goddamn Infinity War movies after Whedon lost his mind after Ultron.

No I'm not some stupid synderdc/marvelfag whatever shitposter, goddamn I hate this polarized shitposting about capeshit.

>>84365340
that's the point of the character, Scott is trying to impress her at every turn but can't

>>84366748
Which is why parts of Chef are a very clever jab at that sort of thing.

>Carl begins the film as the head chef of a high-end restaurant called Gauloises that offers popular but unimaginative luxury food — caviar eggs, French onion soup, chocolate lava cake. When he tries to put more daring and "artsy" fare on the menu, like sweetbreads, no one orders it.

>The place is a neat stand-in for the studio system in which Favreau's been working, where Carl might be the talent running the show, but he's not the one footing the bill. That responsibility falls to Riva (Dustin Hoffman), the owner of Gauloises whose focus is on getting asses in seats and who pushes Carl to serve the "greatest hits" on the night a famous food blogger is coming in to review the place.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufj6CeqOTJo

>>84372164
a) if you're op you can't bump your own thread
b) neck yourself for bumping a thread like this was /b/ you pubescent nigger

>>84364969
Not him but I haven't, any links?

>>84366721
But he was right
Edgar was wrong

I really can't take the guy who directed fucking Paul of all things that serious.

>>84365080
Snyder made the superior zombie movie, cuck

>>84375557
That wasn't Wright, that was a guy named Greg Mottola

>>84375557

Idiot

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>please dont use my story boards

What a butthurt little bitch

>>84364157
>>84364157
Worlds End might have been trash but that trilogy is better than anything Marlel has ever shat out.

>>84364052
> "and i want it to be completely independent of the universe you've created since then and not have any connections"
this is where he fucked up tbqh

>>84365284
this is some tasty bait, my dude

>Adam McKay on doing rewrites of the script with Paul Rudd
>"We added some new action beats..we added some cool new action. There’s a lot that’s already in there from what Edgar did..."

You can drop this "Ant-Man is Peyton Reed's vision" narrative marvelcucks. You really have to be retarded to think that the man responsible for movies like "Yes Man" and "Bring It On" could have came up with that stuff.

>>84374721
>Wrong to not personally want to watch a film you were involved with
>wrong to mention it years after the fact
Wright isn't a reviewer you cuck, he can watch whatever movies he likes without having to justify himself

Will he see Baby Ant-Man?

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WB should get Edgar Wreddit to do an Atom movie . He's almost a DChad now

>>84380358
Bring It On is better than anything Edgar Wright has ever done though

>>84363259
I wish I never saw that piece of shit either, you're still golden in my book Ed

>>84365284
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

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>baby driver

I don't even remember watching Ant-Man. Write might have made it somewhat unique tho.

>Wright has never made a bad movie
>Marvel has never made a good movie
Really makes you think

>>84383699
>Wright has never made a bad movie
What is The World's End and Scott Pilgrim vs The World?
>Marvel has never made a good movie
What is Captain America: The First Avenger?

>just don't use my storyboards

he shouldn't even have to say that, how you can you call yourself a filmmaker if you're following someone else's storyboards, you're a contractor at best

>>84383699
World's End exists

>>84364052
>> "and i want it to be completely independent of the universe you've created since then and not have any connections"
>> can we change these things, some of it contradicts the ELEVEN films we made before yours?

who fucking gives a shit?

shared universes are flypaper traps designed to catch plebs

>>84383945
That's exactly what Disney wanted and Reed is

>>84383776

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a fantastic movie, you complete clown.

>>84383776
>What is Captain America: The First Avenger?
A shitty Indiana Jones movie

>>84363259
Who gives a fuck? I'll never watch Baby Driver, or Ant Man, or Scott Pilgrim, any of it.

>>84383776
>What is Captain America: The First Avenger?
A bad movie even for Marvel

>>84384421
>>84384432
>implying the first avenger is a bad movie

>there are people on this board who think captain america isn't the best capeshit movie
read up on genre transformations,
>first act is a light burlesque of the superhero mythos, subverting genre storytelling tropes
>second act is a demythologization
>third act is a re-affirmation of the myth by putting it in a different context

>>84364862

You're defending marvel mate. You're the one who needs to go back.

>>84367355
>Nice Guys

You have to go back

>>84367254
So in other words, he really doesn't care about the source material

>>84367351
World's End is pretty meh and GotG1 became one of my favourite movies.

>>84363259
WHO FUCKING CARES???

THESE ARE COMIC BOOK MOVIES???

ALL THIS TEXT???

FOR A COMIC BOOK FILM ADAPTION NO ONE CARES ABOUT

WHY DOES ANYONE CARE?

3.4 BILLION YEARS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ON THIS PLANET, AND YOU SIT HERE DISCUSSING A COMIC BOOK (THAT NO ONE READ) BEING ADAPTED TO SOME SHIT TEEN FILM??

WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?

HOW LOW DO WE FALL?

WHEN WILL THIS END????

>>84386472
SOURCE MATERIAL?!?!?!?1

A FUCKING COMIC BOOK NO ONE READ OR CARED ABOUT EVER

FUCK ME

JUST FUCK THIS IS IT FOR ME

I HATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU FUCKING POND SCUM

>>84383776
>What is Captain America: The First Avenger?

Made before the Disney takeover

>>84386950
OH WAIT ANOTHER COMIC BOOK MOVIE ADAPTION??

?????????????????????????

GET OFF THE PHONE EDGAR AND READ A DECENT BOOK OR JUST KILL YOURSELF

>>84386879
>>84386916
>>84386977
You sound incredibly bitter and perturbed

>>84387041

IS THERE A COMIC BOOK MOVIE ADAPTION THAT CAPTURES THIS? SHOULD WE DISCUSS IT LIKE IT ACTUALLY MATTERS? WOULD DC DO IT BETTER?

YOU ARE ALL CATTLE

>>84383776
Cap1 is so damn boring and the nazis with lazer toy guns is laughable.
I would have liked it more if they showed more of the stuff he does after being accepted, not just basically a ppt presentation of it.
It's not bad, but one of the weakest of the Marvel movies.

>>84365284
>Jon "grilled cheese" Favreau

>>84365284
Literally all shit

>>84366119
but GOTG was made with love

>>84363259
>hasn't made a single entertaining movie
>somehow all of /tv/ gobbles his cock up
don't get it

>>84365315
but Iron Man 3 wasn't even the best iron man movie the first one is, the second one is the worst

>>84379943
>Worlds End is bad meme

what dc flic should he do?

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Can we officially declare authorship dead at Marvel?

Ten years ago and you would see vastly different films based on director vision. But now it's all the same Kevin Feige-approved garbage that looks and plays out the same.

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>>84365284
>>James Gunn
>>Taika Watiti

>>84366792
Do you honestly think an actor puts even a fraction of the work into a movie a director does? Shooting takes generally takes three months at the fucking most. For conveyor cash grabs like this, they get shot in less than two.

>>84363259
How did it all go so wright?

>go to bed
>thread is still going next morning
>go to work and come home
>thread is still going

Wew

>>84390967
Might aswell keep it going even longer.