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WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747
what the trailers promise: a bunch of sappy "OH I'M ONLY PART HUMAN" nonsense from a weird-looking anime robot, with a few neat-looking visual bits

what the movie actually delivers: i have now seen a movie in which a dismembered torso does a kung-fu flip and punches a 9-foot-tall Jackie Earle Haley's eye out

y'all need to goddamn see this right now

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kalel
Jun 19, 2012

her eyes are big for no reason.

NavanaSokarad
Jan 19, 2019

SciFiDownBeat posted:

her eyes are big for no reason.

is that a question or a statement? I ask because I was thinking about seeing this movie after I got some reviews.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

I mean, look at them

And then look up Rosa Salazar's actual face

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

What the gently caress were they thinking

ArchivalQuality
May 23, 2001

Stop the music and go home.
I repeat, stop the music and go home.

SciFiDownBeat posted:

What the gently caress were they thinking

My guess is it makes it easier to avoid some creepy, uncanny valley look.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

ArchivalQuality posted:

My guess is it makes it easier to avoid some creepy, uncanny valley look.

they failed

see, I'm saying just nix the enlarged eyes entirely. no cgi, comprende?

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

movie is actually good, see it in 3d before you can never see it again because it didn't make 180 million USD on domestic sales.

plot: is largely bad but consider the source material. The manga wasn't gripping even back in the day. The characters are so-so, and the action is top notch. The 3d is great.

the_enduser
May 1, 2006

They say the user lives outside the net.



Probably the most anime any movie has ever been. Its so great.

ashrum3
Feb 16, 2019
Alita was loving insane like watching a live action anime i give it 10 out of 10

Monolith.
Jan 28, 2011

To save the world from the expanding Zone.

SciFiDownBeat posted:

What the gently caress were they thinking

Because they are big in the manga. Boom.

A MIRACLE
Sep 17, 2007

All right. It's Saturday night; I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

This movie was fukken sick

Chewbacca
Jan 30, 2003

Thugged out since cub scouts
Nice to see all you swell people expressing the correct opinion, that Alita is the most anime live action movie of all time and that it fuckin slaps

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Chewbacca posted:

Nice to see all you swell people expressing the correct opinion, that Alita is the most anime live action movie of all time and that it fuckin slaps

So it's good then? Because I just remember everyone saying it was a poo poo movie because Her Eyes

A MIRACLE
Sep 17, 2007

All right. It's Saturday night; I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

No it was good and the cartoony look actually works really well and the movie is badass af

Sakura-hime
Jul 6, 2019
The movie was really good. I will admit tho that it took half the movie before I could get past the eyes.

Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan
I didn’t know why Cameron wanted to do the movie so much, then I saw it and realized that dismembered fighting hasn’t been done before. So cool.

South Town guy
Jun 6, 2011

SciFiDownBeat posted:

I mean, look at them

And then look up Rosa Salazar's actual face

At least the CG face means that if they go ahead with sequels Rosa can play her until her dying breath, since any wrinkles won't really matter.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
It was real good having just watched it if a little too desperate for a sequel

Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan
I literally can’t believe that wasn’t Cameron as the creepy strong-puller.

nightbae smokewheat
Feb 11, 2011

it`s realy good op

zjentohlauedy
Feb 27, 2006

Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seem to have forgotten good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow w
watched it on a plane and enjoyed it hth

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
It's a good movie

Error 404
Jul 17, 2009


MAGE CURES PLOT
The manga is probably the only anime thing I've ever really liked.

The movie isn't going to amaze anybody, but it was solid and cool. No regrets from me while watching.

Beer_Suitcase
May 3, 2005

Verily, the whip is ghost riding.



So Alita is good? hbo tricked me with that new Hellboy.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
it is

zjentohlauedy
Feb 27, 2006

Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seem to have forgotten good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow w
It was alright. Wasn't completely blown away or anything...

Joke Miriam
Nov 17, 2019



I will say this: I wasn’t expecting the war paint stripes to be puppy blood lol

Grudgerm
May 4, 2012

by Reene
they made the eyes look like that so it would look like ghost in the shell

WIFEY WATCHDOG
Jun 25, 2012

Yeah, well I don't trust this guy. I think he regifted, he degifted, and now he's using an upstairs invite as a springboard to a Super Bowl sex romp.
Movie is bad, as usual do not listen to goons.

GashouseGorilla
Nov 11, 2011


Alita looks like she's related to Gizmo from Gremlins.

Please tell me this canon.

BleedingPhoenix
Jun 3, 2019

The Flames of Disaster are closer than you may think.
The dialogue is the only thing that falls flat, whoever wrote that didn't do a good job. Everything else is pretty fantastic.

Couple fun facts:

1. People comment on Alita's eyes in the manga, too. It was uncanny to them, just as it was for us, so that part is true to the source material.
2. Alita's cgi body was designed from the inside-out. In other words, there are dozens of contraptions rendered in her body that we can't see. Pretty extra and pretty cool.

I watched it in theaters and got really into it for a while, still kinda am into it. Hope Cameron follows it up soon.

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BounceBanana
Feb 3, 2021

GashouseGorilla posted:

Alita looks like she's related to Gizmo from Gremlins.

Please tell me this canon.

This talked me into checking this movie out.

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

lol how unused was this forum but also battle angel alita rocks

Fungah!
Apr 30, 2011

yeah lol, ths was like five from the top before it opened. but yeah also alita battle angel kicks rear end

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Cameron said he's making a sequel

Error 404
Jul 17, 2009


MAGE CURES PLOT
gently caress yeah, awesome!

Big Babby Gygax

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

lol I really want them to have the hosed up plot twist from the manga that everyone's heads are empty because their brains were replaced with a computer chip

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susan b buffering
Nov 14, 2016

Plutonis posted:

Cameron said he's making a sequel

gently caress yes

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