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Eisenberg or Cera
I thought this voting system was pretty hilarious.
I came out of the theater after seeing Scott Pilgrim with a smile on my face and a bounce in my step. The only change I would have made was switching out Cera for Eisenberg.
I came out of the theater after seeing Scott Pilgrim with a smile on my face and a bounce in my step. The only change I would have made was switching out Cera for Eisenberg.
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Plus rewatching True Blood takes precedence over such things. :P
Thus I can't really vote, because my fanboyism towards anything Scott Pilgrim would color my opinion. But I liked Ceras acting on Scott Pilgrim really much and I don't care if he tends to do similar things. How can it be that if Jackie Chan is "Asian Guy who does cool Kung-Fu stuff" in most of his movies no-one says anything, but when young hipster looking guy plays young hipster in most (all) of his movies, it's a bad thing?
Also, if you haven't seen Youth in Revolt, I think it's one of Cera's best movies. He plays both an awkward teenager and that teenagers evil twin.
I mean, every comparison I've seen is as valid as saying Scott and I are the same person, Since we're both white dudes, geeky, have iphones, speak english, and are both called Scott. As soon as you compare the roles in any sort of detailed fashion, they're usually different, but in a Subtler way they "HURR DURR, THEY'RE ALL GEEKY, AND STUFF!"
I think most of the face-palming with regards to Cera came due to Year One. He had made a few good movies, doing what he is good at up to that point (Juno, Superbad, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist), and people were ready to see him really branch out. Instead, he shit in everyone's cereal by teaming up with a very tired Jack Black and pasting a caveman theme on a very poor version of his emo teen schtick. Then came Youth In Revolt, which is actually very good. Funny enough, this was filmed before any of his breakout roles like Juno or Superbad, but was shelved during the post-writers strike scheduling insanity. When it finally came out, he appeared to be reprising the same old role, but as stated above, he actually plays a much different character (the evil alter-ego) half the time, and does it quite well.
After all is said and done, I say screw the haters, Michael Cera is still a good guy. That being said, I like both actors, and actually prefer Jesse Eisenberg! To all the people who have never seen an Eisenberg film, you gotta watch at least 1. Zombieland is a fantastic movie. The Social Network is an incredibly well-made film if you ignore the complete bullshit geek-insulting storyline, and even his first major role Adventureland was an enjoyable film. (Random fact nobody cares about: oddly enough he grew up one town over from me in East Brunswick, NJ)