Axe Cop Win: Ethan Nicolle Apologizes, Is Classy

[theotherbaldwin]

So since my last post on the subject of Ethan Nicolle's interaction with one fan w/r/t media & stereotypes, he made the following public apology, reaching out to her:

Last week in the comments on one of the blogs, an Axe Cop reader named Keisha brought up some PC issued she had with the movie Scott Pilgrim and I kind of went off on her.  It's a

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[erf_]

:D

People can change!

[theotherbaldwin]

A commenter pointed out that she's also punching the head off what looks like a bucktoothed doody soldier in the next page, so, like she's literally destroying a stereotype too. If that was on purpose, that was also pretty clever.

[woekitten]

I'm glad that he stepped out of himself, saw the other person's point of view, and resolved to do his best. That's a difficult thing to do.

[theotherbaldwin]

Yeah. To be honest, when I was reading her critique, felt myself getting defensive for liking the movie, like I was somehow culable or something. It's a powerful first instinct.

And yeah, it's very difficult to do that while also owning your mistakes. This was a pretty damned cool thing of him to do.

[akktri]

I thought Scott Pilgrim was the dumbest movie I've ever seen, primarily because it destroys any willing suspension of disbelief by making the movie too video-game-like. It was so dumb that it was funny in parts, but mostly it was just plain stupid. The line about punching the highlights out of her hair was the main thing I got out of the movie.
Embarrassingly bad romances, giant splashy graphics that remind me of annoying arcade machines, and a man that somehow gains magic powers by going vegan. WTF. An "extra life"? In a movie? Are you kidding me?
What kind of genre does this really fit into?