Saw this the other day. It had some really cool world building and fun action sequences. Unfortnently, the main love interest was insufferable and almost ruined the movie.
I read it was originally going to come out in December, but that probably would have doomed it going up against Auquaman and such, so they pushed it back a ways.
That's not saying much. After all, has there ever been a Hollywood adaptation of a manga/anime that has been good prior to Alita? The closest I can think of is Edge of Tomorrow and that was actually a light novel (All You Need is Kill).
This is hitting my cheap theater tomorrow, so I'm hoping to catch it this weekend...
Looks like it's struggling a bit at the box office. But to be fair, it's currently at $400,000,000, which isn't bad. But it's not great considering the $170 million budget.
It seems like that would be a profit, but I read a few places that it would need at least $500,000,000 to break even.
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
Well I did enjoy the hell out of this and my wife enjoyed it a lot more than she was expecting to also (I showed her the trailer before we went). I missed the first few minutes, though, actually because my stupid cheap theater doesn't have a separate line for just tickets, so I had to wait behind a huge line of people in the concessions line. Yeah, so that annoyed the shit out of me, but whatever, I'll certainly watch the movie again, so no big deal...
So correct me if I'm wrong, but hopefully I didn't miss anything except her head being found in the big scrap dump? Or was there some flashback footage of the war at the beginning? I hope there was...
Anyway, I loved the performances in this. Rosa Salazar was fantastic. Although after seeing several animated movies lately I'm starting to wonder how much expression and emotion the animators are able to add to motion capture performances. Because it was super-human expressive and captivating. The rest of the cast was really fun to watch, too. Even Jackie Earle Haley was extremely entertaining. I wasn't sure if it was him in that role, but I suspected it was and sure enough. He's a fun character actor. Loved him in the first season of Preacher. Ed Skrein seems like he's getting type-cast a little bit, but he was still good as the ass-hole bounty hunter.
The film does require a lot of suspension of disbelief as you would expect with this level of sci-fi/fantasy, but the visuals really sell it well. And even though there's tons of CGI action and heavy visual effects it never felt like too much, because the action was directed so well, very engaging and exciting. Robert Rodriguez delivered even better than expected I thought.
Really awesome visuals. I'm very glad I got out to see it on a big screen.
Please get out and support this movie, it needs it for the sequel it's begging for.
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