"people under 30 dont get it" analysis

People Under 30 Don't Get It

“While Scott Pilgrim is about teens and recent teens, the way it goes about telling its story isn't exactly teen friendly. The film is steeped in video game culture which, while that might seem like something the kids can latch on to, in this case isn't. That's evident right from the movie's first frame where the Universal Pictures logo is redone using 8-bit graphics which look like they were created for the original NES. 20-year-old hipsters weren't even born back when me and my now thirty-something friends first dragged out all the cables to hook our first ever Nintendo up to the television for a round or two of Duck Hunt. The movie's steeped not just in video games, but in classic video game references which kids probably aren't interested in and even if they were, almost certainly wouldn't get. It's more than video games really, the film is populated with all sorts of ridiculously fun, outdated references. There's even a Seinfeld scene and I'm pretty sure the desert sequence is a reference to Wayne's World 2. For most kids, the Atari 2600 is just something you get on a t-shirt, and if you reference Super Mario Bros. 2 in a movie, there's a pretty good chance they won't know what it is.”

While the author of this review does have a valid point about the many old school Nintendo references and how the films main target audience wont get them, it doesn’t actually have a major impact on the story or the film itself. In my opinion, the game references are there for the older audience to catch onto and reminisce about their childhood or whenever they played these games.

However I do agree that the film does not have a wide enough target audience. The character Scott Pilgrim seems to appeal to young adults and aged 20 somethings who happen to be in a band/just another lazy musician with no interest in anything other than playing gigs and girls, but, with the affect of todays stereotypes and since the film is based on a comic book series then the film came across as a film for comic book nerds, which it wasn’t.