I barely remember 2010, but I remember Scott Pilgrim being to hipsters like Fight Club and American Psycho are to incels; They totally missed the point of the movie, thought it was aspirational, and the results in dive bars and shitty venues across America (maybe just the midwest?) were disastrous.

Was this real? Did I mandela effect it from the negative zone or something? Am I just getting old?

  • yoink [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    what i don’t get about all the discourse around here lately when it comes to this movie is attacking the wrong ‘bad part’ of the movie (as someone who has been a fan of it)

    no one I know was influenced by scott, if anything he’s the opposite of an aspirational figure - there is little, if any, cultural impact stemming from his character.

    who we SHOULD be talking about is Ramona, and the way in which the Manic Pixie Dream Girl girlfriend became such an integral part of the 2010s culture, it’s impact on dudes who saw themselves as sitting outside the mainstream who now thought that an MPDG would fix them, and how this in turn affected women (feeding into internalised ‘not like other girls’ misogyny that was coming from spaces like early Tumblr)

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      8 months ago

      As much of Scott’s character arc the movie had to skip over, they pretty much gutted Ramona’s entire arc in service of keeping the runtime manageable. A large part of the point of the comics is that they’re both terrible people with a trail of ruined lives behind them and they both have to become better for themselves, each other, and everyone else.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      17·
      8 months ago

      Big oof. I was the manic pixie dream girlboyfriend for a bunch of people in the '10s. It was really easy for people to play with you for a while then throw the toy away when they found out that “manic” also comes with severe depression and sometimes real, actual, scary mania. : p