Found on /Film and sure to be spreading across movie blogs all morning, is Jason’s Reitman’s mini-review of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, filed in the form of 5 consecutive twitters:
In London, @edgarwright showed me 30min of Scott Pilgrim. While sworn to secrecy (so much, surprised blood wasn’t demanded) I will say this: It is a game changer for Edgar and the genre. It moves the speed of light and carries more unadulterated joy than Ive seen in recent cinema. [Scott Pilgrim] does what everyone our age has been dreaming about: achieves the first all encompassing film of the joystick generation. I’m in awe of the sheer control in the filmmaking. It feels like a “Matrix” for love and how willing we are to fight for it. If I had a movie coming out next year, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it. Hats off my friend. Can’t get it out of my head.
Pilgrim director Edgar Wright is apparently a good buddy of Reitman’s (if not in fact his avatar, judging from the doppelganger photo above), but this extravagant reaction seems to exceed a simple friendly gesture. Now I have to balance my own wavering expectations between renewed anticipation one of the sweetest gentlest comic adventures I’ve ever read and the letdown I felt when I heard Michael Cera was playing Scott Pilgrim. (To me, Anton Yelchin always felt like a better fit physically and temperamentally too.)
8 Responses for "Scott Pilgrim a “game-changer” says Jason Reitman"
“It feels like a Matrix for love…”
Have no idea what this could even mean.
Kieran Culkin cast as Scott’s gay roommate Wallace Wells feels just right.
Damn, that pilgrim director looks like Tom´s best buddy in “500 Days of Summer”! Not the long haired scandinavian one, the other nerd-like one.
And what a great, inspiring romantic movie THAT was! “(500) Days of Summer”, really amazing, a great pleasure to watch, with admirable performances, especially Zooey Deschanel, a knockout (where is she on the Contender tracker??)!
And “The Smiths”! Damn, it could be me in that elevator scene, damn damn… and if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die, oooh, there is a light that never goes out.
Oh, that was OFF TOPIC, sorry…but that guy really looks like Tom´s buddy.
hes a very good film maker, and very unique, glad to hear this
yeah the douchebag caveman look on both of them is driving me insane, but these are two filmmakers to absolutely be trusted.
Being a huge fan of Spaced, Shaun, and HotFuzz – this is great news. I hope this vaults Edgar Wright into the stratosphere where he deserves to be. Anyone familiar knows that his work is always incredibly detail oriented, hilarious and sweetly touching.
If SP is really this great, everyone should catch up with Wright’s previous work to get in the mood. You’ll be glad you did.
I wish Jason Reitman would go away.
Jason Reitman has to be among the ten most pretentious Twitter users in the world. At least he makes good movies. [snicker]
I thought Eternal Sunshine was the Matrix for love
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