Also the movie is insanely funny. I mean come on. It's Nick Cage with OCD. It's beautiful. If you seen The Martian ( a different movie by Ridley Scott ) you know how funny Ridley can be when he wants to. And this movie delivers. Though in the same time it does it without sacrificing any of the dramatic and tense stuff. Sometimes the humor actually adds to both drama and tension. Which is wild.
In 2014 Ridley Scott made a very controversial, seems to be - religious movie - called "Exodus: Gods and Kings" about the life of Moses and his subsequent adventure of saving the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Religious people were mad about the movie, since it tried to show a plausible, realistic way the entire thing could happen. It didn't show God, for example, simply appearing in front of Moses as a burning bush. There was a burning bush and there was God. But before Moses saw those he got hit in the head very severely. So you have a possible explanation for why he saw God in the first place.
The story of this film was written originally by Philip K. Dick. And while somebody like Ridley Scott preferred to adopt his "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" into Blade Runner. Spielberg's interests were more aligned with his "The Minority Report".
I guess today is my Edgar Wright day. Earlier today I watched and reviewed Baby Driver and now I just wiped my tears from watching Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
There is a very good, scary Karen character in the movie played orgasmically by Kristin Scott Thomas. She is Julian's mother. Julian is Ryan Gosling's character. But also there is a lot of layers to it. I don't want to spoil it. I enjoy it when people go "What the fuck?" when I show them this movie and her character is on screen.
Edgar Wright is kind of a weird director. His early films usually poked fun at genres. Being somewhat of a parody of any given genre. Hot Fuzz for example is very clearly a comedic parody of a cop buddy film. But despite it being a parody, the action in the movie is surprisingly good. I mean, Scott Pilgrim is a parody of a teen dramas about ex boyfriends and the action in it is also surprisingly very good. Hell, his film The World's End is a story about drunk people going for a drink into a pub. And the action is surprisingly very good.