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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)


Andrew Wiggin

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The eyes ended up not bothering me at all.

Narratively it's disappointing. Soooooo much bad exposition. All the history and the explanation for the world is done through talk, talk, talk. To much tell and not enough show.

Finally we get to the action.  

It's like a late 80's early 90's action film with really good CGI. Part Robo Cop, Judge Dread, Roller Ball etc.

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Went to see it this weekend, as a fan of the manga there were some disappointments (no Flan!) and while I understand having to try to cram some information into a shorter movie, they really started blending story lines so that was a bit frustrating to me.  And yeah the eyes were bugging the crap out of me, I mean I know she's mainly a cyborg but some on, her head was still human...ugg anyway, with that being said, if I think of it as a "cliff notes" version it works, at least a better manga adaption than lets say Dragon Ball......  My husband who has never read the manga really liked the movie, yeah it was clunky at times but he enjoyed the story quite a bit.  I also enjoyed seeing Rollerball in real life also : )

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On 2/10/2019 at 4:47 AM, scrb said:

They’ve been advertising the hell out of this one.  What’s the deal, the main character is CGI while the rest are human?

Or just her creepy large eyes are CGI?

Uncanny valley territory?

So, you're a speciest? Would you care if your granma had a cyborg arm, that made it easier for her to make you that vege soup you lke so much, or just lose it, cos she's got no arm?...Focus, sunshinesoutyourarse. Focus

I had low expectations for this, so I was surprised that I enjoyed it some. It had a lot of problems and I was frustrated that they left a lot unexplored, like how URM lost the war even though they seemed to have superior tech, but I guess the movie was already overstuffed.

I was happy to find out that even though the scene didn't make it into the movie, the little dog seemingly killed by Grewishka survived:

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