[Phoenix Gamma]

Saw the Expendables and Scott Pilgrim today.

Expendables was awesome. Tons of bros and a girlfriend or two were in the theater. Really made the movie even more fun. Everyone's basically just playing the same characters as they always do, but that's what everyone wants anyways. Pretty fucking awesome.

Scott Pilgrim was actually really good, and I expected it to really suck. Almost better than the books, except the casting felt kinda awkward (Michael Cera plays Michael Cera and not Scott Pilgrim, who has more energy than Cera could ever DREAM of. The other actors looked more like awkward cosplayers or stunt doubles for the real actors, except they all called out so we're stuck with the doubles. Alison Pill is pretty hot as a red-head though.)

The fight scenes made up for it, especially the battle with the twins. That felt like something out of the Tenacious D movie (except good.) The ending was way better than the melodramatic disaster from the fifth and six books, so I definitely appreciated that (although Nega Scott still gets thrown in at the end for no fucking reason. WHY IS HE EVEN IMPORTANT IF HE'S NOT EVEN THERE FOR A WHOLE MINUTE?!)

Good stuff. Expendables was a little more fun, but Scott Pilgrim gets points for not being a total disaster.