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Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Norwegian fans got Alita requested back in IMAX for one day this Saturday in Oslo. Some Germans and Americans are working on a similar feat.

I'm getting tickets this time, since I missed it when it first came out - I expected it to be Ghost in the Shell level bad.

# ¿ May 27, 2019 21:01

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:41

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Mecha posted:

He even outright states that he doesn't want to live in luxury up there, he just wants to answer his brother's questions.

Add to this a strong sense of entitlement, rootlessness, and of being above other people. He feels that he doesn't belong in Iron City, but not in Zalem either. Movie Hugo is a simpler character, even if just as obsessed: He's like a single guy in a poor country who wants to move to a rich country.

Mecha posted:

It's an early example of obsession and misguided determination, which Kishiro uses a lot with minor characters.

Hugo, in both versions, was so obsessed that he was able to almost attain this "unattainable" goal of a million credits. Vector tries to redirect his obsession towards a more "productive" goal (for Vector), but it would have ended in tragedy all the same. Even if it was accelerated by Zapan.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 12:07

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Darth TNT posted:

I think it's pretty funny how much this Forbes guy loved Alita.

I'm also eternally amused at the idea of the studios just taking risks to keep James Cameron happy.

Dark Phoenix' director Kinberg said that they would need to rush to get ready for February anyway, and took all the blame on himself. That doesn't make the story of asking for a February release untrue, but it's not as cut and dried as the "Dark Phoenix was sacrificed for Alita" narrative. Now the "Dark Phoenix was sacrificed for Captain Marvel" story has taken over for it: 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix' ending completely reshot due to 'parallels' with another superhero movie Not sure if they're just trying to be funny.

In any case, I respect Kinberg for not trying to pass the buck.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 22:18

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

DeimosRising posted:

What like, run to the store and get him some milk?

People like that fake reviewer are projecting some weird sexual thing on Alita. That's pretty weird in itself because I haven't actually seen any Alita fans do that - only people who either disliked or never saw the movie, but go "well hello there fellow robot fetishists" as a role play or expressing some weird repressed emotions.

Barbelith posted:

The Independent noticed that Chuds like Alita. Still completely mystifies me how exactly this movie became a rallying post for those idiots, but here you are.

The Independent essentially took this story from a journalist with The Wrap who actually interviewed people:
https://twitter.com/kylieisntfunny/status/1148233684048216065

quote:

I�m going to add this article to my reporting and not shy away from the allegations that the movie is associated with rightwingers, but if you actually talk to current fans, you�ll see that the politically-motivated faction of the fandom left long ago

I don't think they were ever there, to be honest. Their shtick was to stay home from Captain Marvel, not to actually see Alita.

Vir fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jul 9, 2019

# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 00:54

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I like to see the influx of people who have recently watched it on digital, in-flight and hotel VOD services, because it's concurrent with articles and tweets from journalists and "influencers" admitting that Alita wasn't as bad as they said it was. Even that article in The Independent says that it got worse reviews than it deserved, and ends with a statement (admittedly buried on the bottom) saying that most fans like it for legitimate reasons.

And then there's stuff like this thread:

https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1146477076700000261

# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 09:04

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Amazon already has Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time, though. Those might be multi-season sprawling epics.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 23:26

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I didn't read the manga but I thought the movie made a lot of sense internally. It's not like I need to know anything from the manga to explain the plot.

The only thing I reacted to - beside the end being a bit abrupt - was that there appears to be "hidden" time skip between Alita joining Motorball and her first try-out. They might have done that to keep the dramatic tension going, because Zapan scheeming against her can move straight into the try-out scene. But Hugo doesn't actually do any coaching as it is now. An alternative way to do this might have been to actually approach it like a sports movie - like Cool Runnings - and had actual training scenes that would explain the rules and stuff like that. Cut the "handpicked scum scene". And then spring the "surprise" on both Alita and the audience.

teagone posted:

It's this. The film makes it explicitly clear that the reward for becoming final champion is being sent to Zalem. It's Roman Gladiator-esque�win the crowd, win your freedom type deal.

There's a famous quote from Gladiator in the stadium screens in the scene where Alita goes to watch. "Are you not entertained?"

I think movie Nova finds Alita entertaining. He lets her live because he likes the challenge and finds her interesting. That's what shines through in the movie. I think that works. Haven't gotten to Nova in the manga yet.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 21:11

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

In the Hugo part of the manga, the rings just collect on the bottom of the cable. I'm just getting into the Jashugan stuff in the manga now.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 21:16

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

teagone posted:

I had her watch the "Evolution of Alita" featurette afterward to show her how the performance capture stuff worked and she was just like lmao.

Yeah, these are just CGI costumes and masks over a human performance. It feels real because it is real.

https://twitter.com/challengerST/status/1150062115761381378

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 22:59

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Apropos SDCC and Blade, Marsheshala Ali has been cast as the new Blade.

People in the UK and US are already receiving their Blu-ray pre-orders.

I'd love to go to an outdoor screening sometime, like this one in Croatia:
https://twitter.com/cor_solitarius/status/1153053399061078016

Edit: While the Blu-ray is in 2.39:1 (wide), it appears that some of the digital services have the movie in "open matte" or IMAX formats.
So far, the services who I've heard have the movie in "open matte" (1.78:1) are Xfinity (via the Movies Anywhere app in the US) and chili.com with Chromecast (in Europe).

Image from @LaurentKaelll

Vir fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 21, 2019

# ¿ Jul 21, 2019 22:35

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

So this doesn't work when you transfer your purchases from a different streaming service. But will it work with the Movies Anywhere codes in the US Blu-ray, or only when you purchase it directly in the app?

# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 08:08

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

The BOL.com (Dutch online store) listing claims that their Alita 4K Blu-ray is 16:9 and requires a 3840 x 2160 screen. I kind of doubt that us Europeans get an open matte Blu-ray when the US didn't, though.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 18:20

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Best Buy's steelbook seemed to get sold out pretty quickly, and at least one city apparently didn't even get any steelbooks at all. Alita is currently on the Amazon.com best selling list as number 1 (4K/3D/Blu-ray) and number 2 (Blu-ray/DVD), but that's not really surprising for a release day. I'll be interested to see if the regular Blu-rays and DVDs get pillaged off the physical store shelves too,.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 19:02

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Yes, it looks like they held back part of their stock in each store for the day of release. What might also happen is if somebody pre-ordered and failed to pick it up, it can become available later in the week.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 23:27

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Best Buy's website lists the Steelbooks as available again, with shipping option.

Does it say anywhere how "limited" this edition really is? A store in the Czech Republic had 601 copies of an edition with a lenticular 3D cover/print that I haven't seen anywhere else. But I'm not sure anyone else lists exactly the number of copies that they made.

If Best Buy's is limited as in "time limited" or "store exclusive" that'll be less valuable for collectors, I suppose.

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Vir fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jul 25, 2019

# ¿ Jul 25, 2019 09:09

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

It used to be something to motivate people to get the DVD of a TV show or movie they'd already seen. Sometimes the actors/directors wouldn't even be paid to make the commentary - due to outdated contracts - but did it anyway to support the work and motivate sales. It seems like with all the podcasts and other online media we have these days, film makers and actors have more outlets for in-depth discussion of movies where they also can get paid more than they would for a commentary track.

We might also speculate that they cut the commentary track because of scheduling, combined with the movie being projected to make a massive loss - meaning that spending resources on a commentary track would be like throwing good money after bad.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2019 22:37

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I think the Australian steelbook also comes with four discs. It says it has "2.5 hours" of extras on the box, versus 2 hours in the US.

Lootcrates remind me of those people who buy boxes of toys from Amazon returns or toy store bankruptcies and sell the contents on eBay. Buying a box of stuff which you will mostly sell or give away seemed a bit pointless to me, so I never got into it. Especially if you had to subscribe and couldn't buy individual crates.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 10:09

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Alita army now leaving Blu-rays on windscreens and in public places for free. :catholic:

https://twitter.com/MachineUriels/status/1155587033131151360

# ¿ Jul 29, 2019 17:36

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I think it's less creepy than a movie star who was asking people to donate money for tickets to her movie, since these are fans doing this on their own with their own money. Also they're not stalking people or anything like that ( :cop:

ReyLo). But if they go much farther on this, they'll be founding Alitanetics Wellness Centers and answering "Panzer Kunst" as their census religion.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2019 10:57

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Those motorball bodies are wild. Gangsta's hotrod body is my favorite, I think.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2019 18:33

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Edit:

teagone posted:

Yeah, they seem like a hilariously bad deal if you do the whole subscription thing at full price.

Loot Crate files for bankruptcy and plans to sell itself

My country isn't getting a 3D Blu-ray release, but I got the Dutch steelbook, which appears to be similar to the Australian and German ones. The fourth disc is a conversation between Rodriguez and Cameron.

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Vir fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Aug 13, 2019

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 19:11

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

The Dutch one is sold out, but the German 4-disc steelbook, which looks the exactly the same - except for the paper that you remove - can still be ordered from resellers at Amazon Germany. These two sellers apparently ship to the US. I also saw a claim that it'll be back in stock from Amazon proper on August 27th, but wouldn't rely on that.

Some brick-and-mortar stores in Germany were well stocked with these steelbooks. My German steelbook is currently lost in the mail. If I end up with two steelbooks, I could send one to you at cost. Be aware that the shipping from Norway would be more than $17, because it trips a doubling of the postage. (Unless you want it shipped in a thin envelope.)

Edit: It'll cost over $100 due to import fees, VAT and double shipping, so I'd recommend a German or Dutch re-seller instead.

In garbage tier entertainment news, an artist who didn't watch Alita made an animation of Alita punching Captain Marvel - just for fun - and posted it on Twitter. This kicked off another round of news articles and tweets calling Alita fans alt-right misogynists, or gatekeepers against fun, depending on who the writer wanted rage clicks from. Would be nice if that sort of discussion would be confined to Tumblr instead of popping up in my Google News feed.

Vir fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Aug 13, 2019

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 22:15

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I did see some old couples in the cinema in the second week. I think I'll go ahead and show it to some older relatives - they liked Galaxy Quest.

DuhSal posted:

I didn't like the way the actor portrayed Hugo the first time I saw the movie, but when I re-watched it I liked his performance a lot more. Don't even know why but it just clicked a little better the second time.

I agree, and I've read that from other people too. On the first viewing, the Tanji/Hugo friendship was more believable than the Alita/Hugo romance. For me, it was perhaps because I thought Hugo was supposed to be a generic love interest rather than the "I love you because you can take me to Zalem" creepiness that it was. On the second viewing, we already know that from the start, and Hugo's dropping hints all over the place. That made me appreciate Hugo a lot more. Keean Johnson has some great scenes in this movie (introduction scene, church scenes, bedroom scene), as well as one or two weak ones (Kansas bar, leaving the gang).

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 17:49

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

In the only remaining specialist music and movie store in my city, they rank the Alita Blu-ray as 2nd in their "Top 10" list after Shazam!. The Nordic online retailer CDON.com lists Alita as number 4 behind Hobbes&Shaw pre-sales, and Aquaman and Bumblebee which are both 56% off this week in Norway. They have Alita as number 3 in Sweden.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2019 19:04

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I was fine with the original manga ending, but I'm not complaining that we got Last Order and Mars Chronicle too. There's some echoes of Norse mythology and a nice wrapping up of the Jashugan and Figure arcs, even though it's a bit rushed and treats Nova a bit too well.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

the absolute loving heart attack the #AlitaChallenge morons would have at his whole "being a trans dude and that being treated as completely NBD" deal would be beyond hilarious.

To be fair, the people who actually started that hashtag wouldn't be bothered by it, if I read them correctly. What they were pissed off about was precisely how some people were making a huge deal out of surface level characteristics like gender, and promoting that above actual character development. Random hangers-on like Jack Posobiec didn't even watch the whole Alita movie - of course he wouldn't actually care about what's in it.

In China and Europe, the #AlitaChallenge was more about biting unpeeled oranges.

It's quite ironic that the guy who started the #CaptainMarvelChallenge charity turned out to make racist tweets, but I guess that's the sort of thing that makes some celebrities protect and periodically wipe their Twitter accounts.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 22:01

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Yeah, you'd think the obvious physical and economical stratification of Zalem above Iron City was obvious enough - but no, I guess the blue checkmarks on both sides need a 160 character CliffsNotes to explain it to them.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 22:44

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Just got the Japanese Blu-ray delivered, but the package is customs bonded, so I can't legally open it yet. Box was mangled to the point that I could peep inside though. The Japanese dub is supposed to be pretty good - it has some up and coming voice actors in it.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2019 16:42

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Bilirubin posted:

Air Zalems

Wearing them in Iron City is a capital offense, because you might jump clear up to Zalem.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2019 18:47

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Pirateball tryouts

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# ¿ Sep 17, 2019 01:06

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Undone was indeed great. I hope more people notice how great Rosa Salazar is.

This thing is going to cost as much as a self-winding antique watch, isn't it? :shepspends:

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# ¿ Oct 4, 2019 20:41

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

That's so senseless.

That security guard must feel pretty bad right now both for the "what if" thoughts and for being called out on TV.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2019 17:49

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

For some reason, the Change.org petition for an Alita sequel is getting more than a thousand signatures per hour. Last time the petition got such a boost, it was because the news coverage about the Game of Thrones petition led to an influx of people who also signed the Alita petition.
Change.org themselves wrote an article about the Alita petition a couple of weeks ago, which led to some "news" coverage on sites like CinemaBlend and a few more signatures - but I haven't seen anything which would explain this latest jump. Did some TV show in China or Russia cover it or something? :confuoot:

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 17:42

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Kassad posted:

the factory don't give a poo poo about how bad it is in the Scrapyard.

The only reason that murder is slightly illegal in the Scrapyard is that it harms productivity if the workers don't show up for work. That's why murder is only a class B crime, while anything which challenges the Zalem and Factory system is a class A crime. (If I remember correctly, actions like stealing or destroying Factory property; using a gun; having a flying machine.)

Speaking of flying, the Oscars banner flight campaign hit over $15000, which means it has fully funded a bionic arm, including the medical work to fit it to a wearer and all costs and fees. (The actual banner flight only cost $1800.)

# ¿ Feb 20, 2020 15:07

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

I do hope that Alita working with Zalem against Nova, or working with Nova - or both actually becomes a thing in a movie sequel.

WeedlordGoku69 posted:

Armblessed, a Motorball competitor who is quite literally decorated in the torn-off arms of his opponents,

The torn off arms of his fans.

Android Apocalypse posted:

the OVA & the manga are pretty drat rough to her character.

I don't remember Chiren being in the manga at all.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2020 18:40

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Alita is going off HBO, but the 1/6 scale figure is supposed to be coming out soon.

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# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 00:04

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

There's also that Prime1 statue at $699 or $999 and the 1:1 bust at $2750. :aaa:

I mean, there must be a market for this kind of stuff, but I wonder how many people can afford and have room for a 1:1 movie accurate Thanos or Baby Yoda in their living room. Meanwhile, affordable toys go on clearance. Andy Serkis has a Gollum model in his house, and that makes sense, but production runs on these must be rather low, right?

# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 08:43

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Looks like Cinemark is working on a re-release of Alita:

https://twitter.com/Cinemark/status/1311670860290416641

# ¿ Oct 1, 2020 17:30

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Android Apocalypse posted:

"Hey Alita stans, please risk COVID-19 and keep us from going bankrupt by seeing that movie you like!"

Just buy all the tickets yourself, bring cardboard cutouts.

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# ¿ Oct 2, 2020 17:27

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Regal is re-releasing Alita on October 30th, which is the same day as Cinemark:
https://twitter.com/RegalMovies/status/1312203271382069249

# ¿ Oct 3, 2020 06:15

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:41

Vir: Dec 14, 2007; Does it tickle when your Body Thetans flap their wings, eh Beatrice?

Looks like the re-release in the Regal chain might be mooted:
Cineworld Chain, Owner Of U.S. Regal, Closing Cinemas In Wake Of �No Time To Die� Postponement

quote:

In response to MGM�s No Time to Die moving out of the Thanksgiving corridor to Easter weekend 2021, plus the overall lack of studio tentpoles, Cineworld is closing down 128 of its UK and Ireland cinemas as well as its U.S. Regal chain as of next week according to reports.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 03:17

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