Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Sly

[angelophile]

So, AISN has a question and answer session with Sylvester Stallone answering readers' questions. And one of the letters happens to be from a Mr. Edgar Wright, director of the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie, which goes thusly:

Mr Stallone, my question is this. Will you go and see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World on opening weekend if I go and see The Expendables? Bear in mind that I saw Rambo and Rocky Balboa opening day and loved them both.

Yours faithfully, Edgar Wright (age 36), UK

p.s. neither of us have to see Eat, Pray, Love.

Sly responds. This is best read aloud in a poor Sylvester Stallone impersonation, I find.

Edgar, I promise to see SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD only if you pull your spleen out through your nose with a tractor cable. Now, I admire the technology in SCOTT PILGRIM, I’m a supporter, I’m a fan of hard work and I believe this film is entitled to be a bona fide hit, but I truly believe if I were to grab the proverbial bag of bonbons and buttered popcorn and plop my carcass dead center preparing to enjoy the movie in all its glory, the ghosts of Charles Bronson and John Wayne would rise from their graves and snap me to death with oil soaked rat tail towels. So needless to say, I wish him well, but I gotta stay true to my roots so I’ll be watching EAT PRAY LOVE.

I think he may have a point, kids.

Comments

[julia-sevin.livejournal.com]

I think he may have a point, kids.

What... what would that be?

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

The Sly Stallone and hipster flicks aren't a match made in heaven?

[julia-sevin.livejournal.com]

Hm. Isn't he equally ill-matched with a bourgeois soul-searching chick flick (EAT PRAY LOVE)?

My husband opines that it's a reference to Sly's long-running criticism of action movies that don't require their heroes to hit a gym. Folks like Sly and Arnold, et al., spent years perfecting their physiques to sell the story. Apparently, accomplishing the same effect through visual trickery never sat well with Sly. He declared the '89 BATMAN the death of the action hero for that reason. I imagine that a bunch of weedy video game dorks punching each other into the stratosphere falls into his categorical disdain, to the point that EAT PRAY LOVE is (comedically) manlier to him.