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?

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    I remember the movie having all the cultural impact of a wet fart, particularly considering it did pretty poorly at the box office, even if it did develop an audience later.

    Has anyone ever really watched a movie with a character played by Michael Cera and thought, "Oooh, him! I want to be just like him!"

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      We should fear whoever pulls the "he just like me fr" thing on a Michael Cera character.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I do like the Michael Cera is one of the few A-list (at least once upon a time) male actors in Hollywood who looks boy-ish and nerdy and isn't a typical square jawed hunk. Even Timothy C and others are still very masculine and square-jawed.

        Kind of feelsbadman as a roundfaced boyish looking guy when everyone mocks Michael Cera constantly, definitely feel like a lot of the venom aimed at him comes from a toxic masculinity place

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          Oh huh, I never thought about it that way. I do feel like I've kinda heard that sort of mocking of him.

          Still think he's an awful Scott though!

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Yeah I think a lot of what undergirds a lot of the dislike of him is that he's atypically "low T" and skinny for what you would expect of a Hollywood actor, who are all buff hunks or adonis-like twinks or fat comic reliefs. It's similar to the hate people have for fat women that oozes out when they talk about them.

            Scott's character is an immature jerk for sure. Some of Michael Cera's characters are sweet and cool though, like George Michael.

        • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          No one wants to be Alan in Barbieland I think, but Alan outside of Barbieland would be a pretty cool dude to have around. That dude can throw down.