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      1 year ago

      I haven’t read it, and this probably isn’t what CriticalOtaku meant but someone elsewhere in the thread said Scott is supposedly the top fighter in Toronto. I take it Scott is confident, maybe even arrogant, based on the comments here.

      I’m now imagining Michael Cera playing a douchey UFC champion bideo bamer.

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      1 year ago

      There’s 2 parts

      Part 1, no knock against Michael Cera, he’s a talented actor, but he kinda gets perpetually typecast into his role from Juno: awkward nerdy white guy wondering why life is happening to him

      Part 2, Scott in the comic is, I can’t emphasize this enough, an asshole. He appears to be a Michael Cera character wondering why life is happening to him- except that he’s actually fully self-aware, and he’s just lying to himself and putting on the dopey act just so that he can get away with all his toxic bullshit. It’s only after he basically confronts himself on his own bullshit that he can move on with his life and relationships

      Because the comic wasn’t done by the time the film started production, the movie basically misses out on most of the important parts of the ending and we were left with the cliff notes version.