Alita Battle Angel: trailer and discussion

Directed by Robert Rodriguez:

cast:
Christopher Waltz
Jennifer Connoly
Mareshala Ali

 

James Cameron is Producer.

Now look at the shit James Cameron has done for the last 20 years.

Now ask yourself "Do I want to watch something based on Manga that involves James Cameron?"

 

YES!

 

Polarizing opinions of critics and audiences: critics gave it a rotten 59% while audiences loved it with 92%. I trust the audience score more because some of the beef I have read from critics is that it was a missed opportunity to send an empowering message to girls while fans liked it precisely because it has ZERO PC politics, just entertainment.

 

I'll give this a go in the week.

 

Probably not, but when it looks this good from the trailer, I’ll give it a shot as long as he’s not writing or directing. It starts next weekend here in Japan so I’m going on Saturday.

 

Box office bomb incoming.

 

Lets see how it does in China before calling it a bomb.

 

Amazing movie.
Loved it.
Enjoyed it.

 

I thought it was pretty good. The problem with movies like this is how so many of the best action sequences are given away in the trailers. I thought the story was pretty good too. One thing that often irks my nerves in action films like these is how — —SPOILER — — a character can go up against a machine gun onslaught and not get hit just because it’s in the script. These were tank styled robots with machine guns who completely surrounded her and there is no way she should have been able to out maneuver them. — — END SPOILER— —.

Still it was a good film ruined mostly by having the trailer reveal too much of the action.
6.3/10

 

I wonder why they do that with CGI-fests? :)

 

You have a problem with CGI-fests films?

 

What, you mean other than the fact that they don't , you know, involve much in the way of acting?

 

I have seen better acting in CGI than in some of your beloved dramas.

 

Alita: Battle Angel What can I say? I just loved this film! It is very faithful to its anime/manga source and what was put on film was plain spectacular. The look and feel of the future city is what the new Blade Runner sequel lacked: it looks credible, a 'worned, used' place where advanced technology is common and old. Kudos to Rosa Salazar who gave an amazing, powerful and emotional performance as the cyborg Alita. Yes, I shed a couple of tears near the end even though I already knew what was coming (I had already watched the Anime series on youtube). Christoph Waltz was very good as the professor who gave Alita his daughter's cyborg body. Jennifer Connely was smoking hot here. She is aging well and putting meat on her curves which I appreciated. It was funny to watch Mexican babe Eiza Gonzalez (From Dusk Til Dawn) as a killer cyborg. While I enjoyed this film immensely, I am disappointed it didn't performed better at the box office as I was left begging for a sequel. 8.5/10

Rosa Salazar

 

I told you it is an amazing movie. You can trust my reviews.

 

What review? All you said was that you enjoyed/loved it. That is no review.

 

Amazing visuals, fun movie, but wrong time, wrong market, wrong year.

7/10

 

Explain all those 'wrongs'.

 

'Development Hell', for one thing.

If this had debuted in 2004-05, like it should've been, people would be talking about it as one of the summer blockbusters.
Instead, it's been dumped out in February which is movies-junkyard and I think it’s been overtaken by the stories/franchises that were inspired by Alita (e.g. Elysium, Hunger Games)

 

BTW, it's much better than Aquaman.

 

agREED

 

I wouldn’t say much better, because neither film was that good to begin with, but I agree it was better.

 

You better retract those words, mister!

 

You read my post and decided to watch the movie. Just admit it.

 

Nope! I went to watch it based on all the hype on youtube from some of my favorite movie channels with the 'Alita Challenge' + the 'Captain Marvel Boycott'.

 

Yeah sure.

 

Alright! Your very persuasive and profound review prompted me to run to the movie theater to watch it. Happy now?o_O

 

Alita passed $400 million globally (after it had reached that number in the prior two weeks, but for some reason lost like $10 million in the following week...fucking strange...). I hope that is good enough for a sequel.