A guy who looks like he lives in a basement, but it still makes sense when he pulls chicks.

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Evan Peters as Scott and Riley Keough as Ramona

I see this. She has that dry charm to her that’s actually convincing rather than MEW acting sorta blah

Think that's kinda the point with the Michael cera casting. They just went "nerd who gets b****es" on the other side of the dial

If movie Scott looked/acted like more of a "dude" type of 2010 nerd (I'd imagine he'd look more like mark Webber if that was the case, who was the front man for s***bob-omb) the different character elements wouldn't coalesce in the same way

good picks

Never seen this movie

Super fun and charmful movie but the source material was definitely better.

The movie and its ending in particular suffer a looot from glossing over the fact everyone in the source material is a different shade of horrible lol. The stuff that got cut from the adaptation continuously establishes how insufferable these characters get with every storyline. I feel like a lot of that was lost in translation.

good thread
people itt criticizing ops reading comprehension who didnt read his original post properly

i remember when i first saw this i wanted jesse eisenberg but idk if he would fit ops criteria better, probably would have the same issues as cera

Yeah I agree if Edgar was trying to be as faithful to the comic as possible

But I think he wanted to make something more comedic, and Cera’s wimpyness worked for that

Tom Hardy should have been cast as Scott

Like even if a super attractive heart throb was casted, Edgar would have probably still made him a wimpy and awkward character

that's fair yea

i mean the movie's more comedic than the comics that's true

but i think chasing laughs cost it some of the heart the original had

i agree w/ u

the graphic novels >>>>

the movie cool but they don't quite capture the feeling or even the humor

I haven’t seen this movie in years so I technically shouldn’t comment on this but from what I remember I loved him as Scott lol but Evan Peters might have been the best pick honestly

yeah she's bad AF

the casting is perfect aside from him, so I've never cared in the past when this topic arose. The same eyes that saw him saw Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, the other Caulkin, etc etc

And I also wish, with us now being almost 12 years into comic movies becoming their own serious medium, that folks stopped looking at the derivative material as needing to be by the book retellings.

I didnt watch the CB live action yet but people going stark raving mad bc its not a 1:1 rendition

there's no way to re-create someone else's vision perfectly! you just hope you do the best version of it, and Edgar did that

I thought this movie was terrible

Caught it on a random day never read the comic or anything so

He's killing succession too

@op This kind of makes sense, but his casting is even better since most people who look or act like him are the core people who think Scott was a good guy for the comics or the movie. I think the points of Scott being kind of wimpy looking sells the point home of what he does in the movie.

ngl this is sone pretty confusing reasoning

So @Killa_K u think young Neil would've been a better Scott?

lowkey?

ya lol

I mean the movie was also made during the "dork gets hot girl" era of movies.

I think if he was a regular douche looking guy people would have hated the movie lol