musings on the sp
I'm starting to think Michael Cera is the hipster equivalent to Larry the Cable guy.
I think having him in SCOTT PILGRIM certainly didn't help when pretty much everyone hates him. Cera is the equivalent of Bud Cort.. a figure for a generation..so eventually he will be respected..then again..he's like Steve martin too in that respect..
I like him, but not in this movie; he's worked too hard to impress his identity on the world as 'awkward teen dude who is incredibly aware of how dorky he is and will sell it to the 10th degree.' I like him a lot and loved his web series with Clark Duke. However, I'm not that much of a fanboy where I'm blinded by the obvious..he's not for everyone and has toyed with the emotions of the general public for far too long. They look at him and want to feel sorry for him and root for him, and often don't know which.
In ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, where he played the loveable yet tragic George Michael, you wanted to root for him to get the girl,be respected and heard.
In JUNO, you wanted to root for him to get the title character. In SUPERBAD, you wanted to root for him to get the girl. In YOUTH IN REVOLT, you wanted to root for him to get the girl.
He literally plays the exact same character in every movie and if he was more of an everyman like Shia Lebeouf, it would be ok because we would want to be on this journey with him; but he isn't one. He's that smart nerdy kid you feel sorry for but has rich parents so you hang around him hoping he will do something cool and you can be apart of it, but nothing ever happens so you end up feeling shafted.
The showing I went to for scott pilgrim was full of fanboys of this guy and the series. They cheered from the first frame of the universal logo in 8 bit graphics till the very end. These people like to just feel like they matter and are accepted..they really don't care about it being a 'good' movie..that's what they mean when all of the reviewers kept saying it was a generational movie..it represented the hopes and dreams of it's core audience.(even though most people in the audience did not get the 'zero' t-shirt reference I'm sure.)Scott is an everyman, not a modern hipster/nerd. That's why he works and is loved. He's not into being ironic, being snobby about bands, wearing scarfs and dark rimmed black glasses at all. He's just into rocking out, dating, and having fun and trying to survive.
I think having him in SCOTT PILGRIM certainly didn't help when pretty much everyone hates him. Cera is the equivalent of Bud Cort.. a figure for a generation..so eventually he will be respected..then again..he's like Steve martin too in that respect..
I like him, but not in this movie; he's worked too hard to impress his identity on the world as 'awkward teen dude who is incredibly aware of how dorky he is and will sell it to the 10th degree.' I like him a lot and loved his web series with Clark Duke. However, I'm not that much of a fanboy where I'm blinded by the obvious..he's not for everyone and has toyed with the emotions of the general public for far too long. They look at him and want to feel sorry for him and root for him, and often don't know which.
In ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, where he played the loveable yet tragic George Michael, you wanted to root for him to get the girl,be respected and heard.
In JUNO, you wanted to root for him to get the title character. In SUPERBAD, you wanted to root for him to get the girl. In YOUTH IN REVOLT, you wanted to root for him to get the girl.
He literally plays the exact same character in every movie and if he was more of an everyman like Shia Lebeouf, it would be ok because we would want to be on this journey with him; but he isn't one. He's that smart nerdy kid you feel sorry for but has rich parents so you hang around him hoping he will do something cool and you can be apart of it, but nothing ever happens so you end up feeling shafted.
The showing I went to for scott pilgrim was full of fanboys of this guy and the series. They cheered from the first frame of the universal logo in 8 bit graphics till the very end. These people like to just feel like they matter and are accepted..they really don't care about it being a 'good' movie..that's what they mean when all of the reviewers kept saying it was a generational movie..it represented the hopes and dreams of it's core audience.(even though most people in the audience did not get the 'zero' t-shirt reference I'm sure.)Scott is an everyman, not a modern hipster/nerd. That's why he works and is loved. He's not into being ironic, being snobby about bands, wearing scarfs and dark rimmed black glasses at all. He's just into rocking out, dating, and having fun and trying to survive.