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10-03-2011, 04:09 PM
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Oddly enough, I didn't like Scott Pilgrim because it wasn't obscure enough. It's like they wanted to make a movie about gamer culture, but then copped out and made it mainstream.

I was being a hipster before it was cool.
I get what you mean. It's like they were scared to reference anything in particular so they just had random Mario and Zelda stuff and then generic computer game cliches.

At the end where he kills the final Evil Ex and gets 7,000,000 points for it, I would have at least smiled if it were 9001. It's a cheap laugh, but it required a little more thought than just adding three more zeros.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’