"I thought a lot about 'Sky Captain' while watching the recent 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.' Like 'Sky Captain,' 'Pilgrim' had the misfortune to be ahead of its time: Director and quintessential Gen-X pop culture geek Edgar Wright used advances in green-screen technology to create a dazzling virtual world that transformed emo waif Michael Cera into a two-fisted fighting machine out of a Nintendo 16 game. The film scored an indie-sized gross on a blockbuster budget, and is considered a major box office failure. Not a whole lot of people saw 'Scott Pilgrim,' but those who did tended to love it—and it’s not hard to imagine that its witty, loving, Gen-X friendly mashup of romantic comedy and stylized action will influence more commercially successful films. It might even point toward a future where the squiggly lines between video games, comic books, movies, and cartoons no long matter."
Nathan Rabin in The Boston Globe argues for the importance of flop movies.
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