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?

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's about toxic masculinity

Except at the very end of the story (that is often ignored or downplayed anyway) the implication throughout is that sufficient fighting and aggression should win sex trophies, and that feeemale agency and choice doesn't really compute.

EDIT: I didn't pay that much attention to the franchise when it was briefly a big deal, but as an outside observer I didn't like what I saw. If the "the protagonist is actually an asshole" message actually reached most of its audience for a change, great.

[–] grey_wolf_whenever@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

eeeeeeeeeeehhhh I feel weird being the scott pilgrim defender in this thread but I think a lot of people here are reading a little too hard into a fairly dopy comic movie. I dont think youre supposed to watch it and think "oh yeah, obviously the movie endorses the fighting of everyones exes". I think its just a boilerplate to get some goofy characters on screen, through which you learn chunks of backstory about the main girl character.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Oh, that sucks.