The Everlasting Stargazer

(Source: girl-ontop)

damn, she’s cute… but she’s a lesbian so… darn.

lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber:

My best friend!  Hey ladies.  She’s single ;)

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oooooh hhaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy

pretty much sums up what I have in mind…

pelikula:

My relationship with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a complicated one
a solemn and angry rant by Rob Cham

When the news hit that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World would not be showing in the Philippines, I was devastated to say the least. It was hard to take at first. It was like a very dear friend just died. It was a loss I was not ready to bear. This paragraph is overly dramatic. It is a sissy paragraph.

Why feel this way? Why should I feel loss? Why should anyone feel sad? ”It’s only a movie. You could watch it eventually when it comes out on torrents, or buy it on DVD if you’re that kind of financially well off yuppie.” 

I could do those things, but it just wouldn’t feel the same. 

It’s just such a different experience watching it on the big screen, with the movie theater’s speakers blasting in your face, from just watching it behind some small 21 inch TV with crap speakers, or even from your computer monitor. I am missing the experience: To watch it all gloriously unfold in front of me in glorious big screen madness in a culmination of past 2 years of my life.

WHAT THE?

When I first heard about how they were making a movie adaptation of Scott Pilgrim, I was skeptical. I hoped it would be animated. I hoped that it would end up decent. I hoped that the news wasn’t real because my 18 year-old mind couldn’t imagine “Scott Pilgrim”, a comic book series I have come to know and love (Volume 4 was out at the time) would work as a movie, live action nevertheless. I was anxious, and I hoped that it would not suck balls like every other comic book adaptation ever. (Catwoman and Watchmen can go suck it.)

Eventually names started flying around. The director was announced, and I felt a little at peace. Edgar Wright, the man who brought us Spaced, Hot Fuzz, and my personal favorite, Shaun of the Dead. I had faith in the movie again. I had hope. I wondered if Simon Pegg would somehow play Scott Pilgrim.

Months passed, and I was still an avid fan of Scott Pilgrim with previews and pages of Volume 5 popping up all over the net. News was circulating about who would possibly play Scott Pilgrim. An actor was cast. It was… Michael Cera.

Well, shit.

I was disappointed in a major way. Michael Cera, the man I had no faith in. I stumbled over my thoughts and words thinking how exactly I was to deal with this. The movie seemed doomed. He was… Michael Cera.

Some other names were cast, but even with Chris Evans and Brandon Routh there, it all seemed like it was going to go wrong with Wallace Wells being played by a Culkin, a white boy. My dream gay Asian best friend was a white boy? It was nerve-wracking.

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

The movie started production, and I was anxious as anybody who was following it or was a fan of “Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life”. This was my “Lord of The Rings”. The same anxieties with the movie adaptation of that book from fans around the world, I was feeling it. I was nervous and excited, and I hoped it would turn out the same way for us as it did for the fans of LOTR—that it would be a good movie, unlike the disappointment that was, again, Watchmen. It would be a really strange time in my relationship with the movie.

Eventually, they started a production blog. I felt closer than ever. I waited eagerly each week for a new blog episode to come up. Things were happening. I was watching everything unfold and it was exciting. Behind the scenes, I was seeing them actually making it well, making it faithfully, making it their own. I had faith in the movie. I had faith in Michael Cera, even. He was doing it. He was making it happen.

I believe in Edgar Wright.

When production wrapped up, my excitement cooled down. Volume 5 came out, and I had my fix. They teased us here and there with production stills and post production and special effects and what not, I was really looking forward to it. All the doubts and fears were washed away. It was all happening. The Scott Pilgrim movie would be awesome. I shared the books with friends; they all loved it. We were all looking forward to it. It was a shared excitement. This was THE MOVIE of 2010 for us.

Even then, more things would go wrong.

The internet was abuzz. Advanced screenings happened all around and reviews kept popping up. I was conflicted. I stayed away. I wanted nothing spoiled. I wanted this movie to be special. I eagerly squealed over how close the release date was, until I was smacked inside-out in the face for living in a Southeast Asian country.

How was I to know that they would delay the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs The World in the Philippines from August 18 to NOVEMBER 4?

I was angry and mad and confused. WHAT WAS THIS? I would watch a recording, a bad recording even. I would fly to Australia to watch this. I would try and seduce my way into America.

But my friends and I decided to wait for it. We decided that this movie deserved to be seen on the big screen. We decided to make sure it became an experience to remember.

Scott Pilgrim 6 came out, and our Scott Pilgrim mania reached it’s high point with the release of a video game, a movie… it was all turning out to be a good time for Scott Pilgrim fans everywhere. The movie eventually came out all over the States, movie reviews were good, I was in high hopes. It flopped, and I curse The Expendables forever. I was disappointed, but at least I had that one thing to look forward to: the moment I get to watch this on a big screen.

Things stop happening.

All that came crashing down when it was confirmed that Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World would not be shown here in the Philippines, ever. I was angry. I was mad. I was thinking of asking how much it would cost the distributors to bring it here, and planned to try and raise that amount of money through myself, friends and family helping through gigs and commissions and fundraisers. All to see this one movie we were all waiting to see. It was a stupid plan. A plan I might actually do? No.

So here we are, after a long journey, at a dead end. What can we do? It’s all out of our hands. It’s bullshit. It’s the way the world turns. I hate it. It is… done.

I have come to accept it, and simply let things be. There is not much to be done but try and make the best of it. I try and understand why. It didn’t seem lucrative. It would have lost money. These are reasons that I totally understand from the side of the distributors, but even if I understand, I really still hate everything.

I will wait for the DVD to come out, buy it, and give the money Edgar Wright and the rest of the people who worked on the movie: The money they so richly deserve. I want to thank them any small way possible for making this movie, and I wish it wouldn’t have ended this way. It was a long, tiring wait, that lead to nothing, but I still will cherish those times where I thought that I would get to see this movie on the big screen. Aside from never seeing it, the wait is prolonged, and it is just getting so frustrating, but when that wait ends, I will make sure to enjoy every minute of it.

Unless some heartless bastards really doesn’t want us to have good things at all and decide to never release the DVD of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World here either.

You, cold heartless bastards.