The Spin-Off Doctors: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

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4.6 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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There was a very brief period of "nerds are cool now" in the late 2000s and early 2010s. We all got over it pretty quickly, but boy did it make for some poorly dated films. Anyway, here's a movie about a bad human being getting everything he wants.

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0:00.0	Now I didn't realize this until I watched Scott Pilgrim versus the world. But maybe you'll agree with me on this
0:20.8	Conrad that gay sex is inherently funny.
0:26.0	Oh yeah you don't need anything else if you have gay sex.
0:31.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:32.0	Forget comedy. Forget trying to craft jokes of any sort.
0:38.2	Just put some gay people having sex. It's because the sex is gay that it is funny. Right, yes, it is
0:47.1	because the sex is gay. It is, and that is therefore weird and therefore funny.
0:53.4	See? It's different, you see?
0:55.2	Yes, something that runs counter to the norm is funny. We're having a good laugh, aren't we?
1:05.0	We're having a good laugh, aren't we?
1:08.0	We're having a good laugh about Scott Pilgrim versus the world.
1:11.0	I've got, I got questions about that film. Do you? Yes. Is one of them why did we do this? I mean that's that's an ongoing question for the series really but one's more specific to this
1:27.4	was Scott Pilgrim the character in any way meant to be relatable or sympathetic and not a weird skeev.
1:40.8	I think he was meant to be relatable and there are aspects of Scott Pilgrim that I do find somewhat
1:49.0	relatable because I can remember being 22 years old and kind of an asshole.
1:54.0	But...
1:57.0	But...
2:00.0	Up to a point.
2:02.0	And I just... But I don't know what I, the sympathetic thing, I can't answer.
2:05.8	I can't tell if we're supposed to be sympathetic to Scott Pilgrim or not.
2:09.7	Yeah, I really can't.
2:11.5	I don't know. I don't like him. I'm not sympathetic but I don't know what the intent is.
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