2. "Is That Seriously The End Of The Story?" - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Despite still being underrated (this hilarious, action-packed ode to both graphic novels and old-school videogames should've been a box-office phenomenon, not a movie that actually lost money), Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World still falls prey to the editing errors that blight the rest of this film. After Ellen Wong's Knives Chau begins telling the story of how she met Michael Cera's titular Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead's Ramona Flowers asks, "Is that seriously the end of the story?" This was supposed to be a reference to the same line that Allison Pill's Kim Pine says earlier in the movie, but her line and a brief flashback of Pilgrim picking up Chau's books on a bus, the "story" of how they met, were removed at the last minute. On its own, the extra line is still a funny joke. Basically, Chau hardly says anything before stopping her story, so Flowers' response is not only somewhat appropriate, but it probably was what a lot of other people in the audience were thinking. A similar situation occurs later in the movie when Pilgrim says he drinks "only on special occasions" after his battle with Roxy Richter, played by Mae Whitman. This was in reference to a deleted version of his and Flowers' first date in which Flowers lit a cigarette and said she "only smokes on special occasions." Again, Pilgrim's line is still funny even removed from its context, though it does come out of nowhere. Rife with orphaned lines or not, this is an awesome movie.