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#sci_fi #scifi #dystopia
Jan 3, 2024 4:51 AM
TalkingJengaWho
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#sci_fi #scifi #dystopia
Mahdoton
Just watched this movie yesterday and it is still good and really underrated! Hoping for sequel
spLagger
Honestly underrated
Badwolf09
Right here.
Predacane35
It was OK, I preferred an early release of the anime which had different voice actors to the ones in the current anime release.
msdss
Wasn't there supposed to be a sequel for tihs? I was in the minority by actually enjoying them ovie.
Gogoglovitch
I hated how this movie got caught up in the culture wars. It was a great movie with a female lead; Captain Marvel was a great movie with a female lead; but because right-wing idiots framed it as 'good' femininity vs. 'bad' femininity for ridiculous reasons, the actual movies got lost in the arguments.
redstar0017
Fuk.
Please approve #2
LordHosk
I don't understand why they made everyone in this movie look plastic. The Robot people, the real people, buildings, cars, metal brick flesh, hell even the fire and water, everything whether it was CGI or real looked plastic.
Elnauriel
I absolutely loved the movie! And I also really like the cosplay. =)
sesnut
if you watch the extras on the bluray cameron goes on about only handing if off to rodriguez if he wrote a good script which is fucking weird because all he did was copy the anime in its entirety
Lun4ticH1gh
I fuckin' love robert rodriguez's work, he's a fantastic director. Who would've thought that the best way to adapt a story to screen is to adapt the actual story to screen? He's two for two with battle angel & sin city.
YouKilledMeImADeadGhooostNow
Honestly think this movie would have been a hit if they didn't go with the weird googly eyes. Bummer
DaddyChillWhatTheHellIsEvenThat
I want 2 things. A sequel. Don’t change anything about her eyes in the sequel.
NeverShaveYourDuck
I couldn't watch this one. Those arftficially enlarged eyes were just freaky as fuck. Uncanny Valley City Central.
sf111
mrshihtzu
what ball?
AdrianDunne
The part where all that guy's limbs fall off is unintentionally hilarious.
thegamemongers
Anyone else see Rosa Salazar for the first time in Alita and now think something is off when they see her in anything else without the giant anime eyes?
danomyces
I mean, something is definitely off in Brand New Cherry Flavor, but I love it
enkrypt3d
i hated her eyes.
Firestar002
<3 <3
horseman05
Firestar002
Damn you. I was gonna post that same gif. lol. (Just kidding man. I tip my hat to you)
Nikolai5
Underrated is an overused term, but I tihnk it applies here as while it didn't do bad, it was definitely overlooked by a lot of people and then forgotten about very quickly, but I think its better than that.
SecretCatPolicy
Yes, but the issue with 'under/overrated' as words is that they are all about what people as a whole think, and who gives a shit what the general public opinion of a piece of media is? Saying "XYZ is underrated" sounds to me like it's more important to you what people generally think than whether you enjoyed it. Why not just say "I loved XYZ!" or even better "I loved XYZ, because..." to show how you've thought about it and contribute something actually interesting to the conversation.
TwoNineSix
"Why not just say "I loved XYZ!" Because that's a different topic? Sometimes people want to discuss how something was received by audiences instead of their personal opinions.
Nikolai5
You liking it is implied when you say it's underrated, its a short way of saying that you think people who have not seen it will like it. Its not that complicated.
LordHosk
It also clearly states that it should have had better reviews which is simply not the case with this movie. It was reviewed overall positively it was always just a niche movie targeted at a niche audience most of whom enjoyed it. Words have meaning and underrated means it should have been rated better, but this was rated highly it just wasn't widely viewed.
moolapie
Imagine how many of these we might have if Cameron wasn't making Blue People Boogaloo 2: Part 3
bittenicht39
Don‘t forget that Part 4 and 5 of Blue People Saga also already have release dates! (2029 and 2031, respectively).
moolapie
He's gonna die before he makes anything other than a new bluemen film :(
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Who the fuck are these fans that materialize from nowhere. I have yet to have met people who can even remember any of the movies after watching them.
moolapie
New Challenge: name a single character from the Avatar films who isn't Jake Sully
Redshadow09
To anyone that read the Manga. Is it worth it or is it going to be a slow burn with almost no payoff? Im considering reading it because it sounds interesting but not sure
Nykidemus
The manga is pretty good, but it's got a very different focus than the film or the OVA. A lot more backstory and internal dialog.
sapphsquatch
The manga was good, and the anime was also good.
imtiredboss
Personally I think the anime and movie did it better only because it has a tighter and focused story. The manga meanders a bit more especially in the beginning. The content beyond the movie, I only read up to the end of the first series and the last half of that was VERY weird and got into some magic nonsense with some DJ in the desert and the motives behind the big bad are also nonsensical (he researches destiny... whatever that means). The sequel series apparently erases the series 1 ending.
ka1iban
One of the best ever
KingMCG
Surprisingly good adaption of Gunnmu. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
AK90
I liked it too
spLagger
fr, the actor choices too were so spot on as well.
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erikleorga
There are talks. Some brief information that comes out occasionally. I hope so.
TalkingJengaWho
Up until November of last year they were still in talks.
Durahl
At this point I'm glad we even got this one 😑
evilspyre
It made double what it cost to make so it didn't bomb in the end but it didn't do great either.
lysani
Made something like $400mil, but the production cost was around $170 with advertising costs being about the same. Unfortunately, that basically means it was a flop at the box office despite still having a very large number of fans all these years later.
evilspyre
Ah ok thanks, didn't realise it didn't include advertising.
phuzz00
With Hollywood accounting it's hard to say how much it actually made, but I bet they got some tax write-offs from it bombing.
evilspyre
Depends if the movie cost includes the marketing, if it doesn't it likely broke even at best.
qshamtech
Bought this movie years ago and still have yet to watch it. WTF is wrong with me?
mardukkur
You're not missing anything. I wouldn't say it's terrible but... well yeah for me at least it was pretty bad.
NomDeImguerre
.... ADHD?
qshamtech
Haven’t been professionally diagnosed with it…but yeah I have ALL the classic symptoms.
NomDeImguerre
Maybe it's time to get that diagnosis?
mikenco
You're missing out. If you like action/sc-fi, it's an excellent movie.
TwoNineSix
Yeah, what IS wrong with you? Who does that? Just buying things they don't even engage with... *glances nervously at my Steam backlog*
marthafarquar
They could have saved a fortune on CGI if they just hired Kate Micucci
Efreeti
aaa I love Garfunkel and Oates
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crapolacoaster
Tom Cruise is that you? It's ok. Nobody watched Jack Reacher anyway.
IdRatherBeOnThePlaystation
Yeah but she has a weird black tooth.
ubnty
Or at least didn't have to delay releasing the movie twice to change the size of Alita's eyes (both times).
MadHatter69
Loved her in episode 'The Outside' (S1E4) of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. I wish her a speedy recovery (she had a lung cancer surgery like a month ago)!
bearded3d
Whoa, I didn't hear about that. :(
waeraj
I have had the biggest crush on her for so long
ChonkyHonk
💯
Mindshard
Didn't she come out in support of TFG, or am I remembering wrong.
DonL9
She's so cute and funny. I really liked her in Raising Hope. She has some good talk show interviews out there too .
dumasaphobic
Fn0rd
I didn’t knew her name, god now her characters name in scrubs is even funnier…
Frederf
The Gooch!
kadaeux
Maybe... I like Kate, but her voice can only be taken in measured, and small, doses...
albaboss
Came here to say this. She doesn’t have the voice for a serious character
Botticelliii
Guess you wouldn't like her band Garfunkel and oats then lol
kadaeux
For one or two songs sure. For an hour and a half. No i'd pass. It's not Fran Drescher bad, just not a fan of the voice :P
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
i would have watch the movie if they did
keyblader1985
It was actually really good. I haven't heard any real complaints that weren't about the huge eyes.
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
ive only heard complaints. group of people i know went to watch it in theaters.
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
they were readers of the comics
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
also isnt it 50% of a movie? thats never getting a 2nd half
SonOfScubaSam
I think they recently announced work on the second half, but I can't be certain it wasn't a click bait article. Still, the first movie was actually really quite good. You get over the eye thing pretty quick. She's not meant to be considered a human.
Deathcameawienering
Enjoy the majesty of the first one and suffer with us all who wait for the second
persistentgaze
If you want a good time, listen to the band she sang in, Garfunkel and Oates!
Snooj
Their songs are amazing and they sing in perfect synch. Really great group.
Botticelliii
Ducks! Sex with ducks! We'll do it in the rain!!!
1LostPuppy
Yeah, she's the one that has that great show. " Playing with Micucci"
heyimjephph
She was also recently diagnosed with lung cancer :-(
SnowPeas22
She is cancer free after surgery!
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-19/actor-kate-micucci-says-shes-cancer-free-i-dont-need-to-do-any-other-treatment
heyimjephph
That is excellent news!
ticktockbent
*sad wheezing noises*
VibratingNipples
remember when they made her eyes really big and changed it after the feedback they gotten?
pareidoliaperson
They changed it?? Who gave them the feedback? Bunch of creatively mind dead random people? Anywho, do you have a before and after?
Nykidemus
The changes were very subtle. Mostly just more detail on the eyelids, and increased the size of the iris so there was less sclera (white)
prufock
Are you telling me those eyes aren't really big?
TomahawkJackson
No, I remember the story about Sonic quite differently than the version you just related.
GeraldsNinjaStar
This is the "fixed" version? It looks terrible. I'll stick with the anime version I haven't watched since Clinton was President.
Nykidemus
The anime is better, but not because of the visuals. Because they didnt pull all the punches on the blood and the emotional hit at the end
Durahl
Wussies... But what can you do... It think it was only loosely explained in a book of the third Series that her eyes being that big was for use in the lowlight conditions of space. Her original "birthplace" being on Mars and being some kind of Ninja Space Resistance Fighter.
SoshiGenkaku
Warframe but not!
Rathan5
ubnty
'Birthplace' being a relative term... If you call being an excised tumor given a full cyborg body 'birth'.
Durahl
Why do you think I put the " " around birthplace, huh? 🤨
lostinthoughts
She's a Panzerkünstler (Panzerkunst being the name for the form of martial art she's using), who specialise in space combat
Durahl
So I've heard... ( as a native German speaker who's been following the Series for like 28 years ):
lostinthoughts
Mein Regal sieht genauso aus :)
Durahl
NoGameOvers
Ready for the sequel to resolve that cliff hanger. Whenever y’all are ready guys… guys?
UncleVenoM
I turned it off less then halfway through
rmsrmsrms38
I was about 14 when I started reading the manga. Oh man. My first (and only) comic book crush.... Still to this day.
Ultratoxic
I'm afraid you're gonna have to read the manga friendo
CitrusyGarlic
[Laughs in Patrick Rothfuss fan] Don't hold your breath...
hotrodny
https://screenrant.com/alita-battle-angel-2-confirmation-story-cast-release-date/
HufflePuffPuff
Ready Player Two?
JustAnotherCynicToo
There is a manga.
ministerm
It only just barely made profit, so spoiler alert, you're not getting a sequel.
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ministerm
I would like to know your source for the budget, because Wikipedia has it between $150-200m. Also I'm not sure you're aware of the marketing rule in Hollywood. Films have to make double their budget just to break even.
MahadmaGaudi
Can’t wait….hope they make it someday
TohmaytohTohmahtoh
Never say never? https://screenrant.com/alita-battle-angel-2-confirmation-story-cast-release-date/
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
It's written like the manga, to be fair. All cliffhanger, no payoff.
I still don't know how it ends after the 5 different times she's met Mad Scientist Genius With Secret Lair for the "first time". On earth, on floating-city, on mars. I think on the moon? It's... It's such a fucking cluster fuck.
But god damn I fucking love it.
samwyze
Damn you, Desty Nova! You flan eating, brain obsessed monster!
landofbob
MMmmmm Flan
TalkingJengaWho
It was really an underrated movie. I enjoyed it.
tuxedobob
I generally consider it a bad thing when a movie ends in the middle.
DamnThursdays
I think one of the things I loved most about this film is how much intent there is behind every shot. Each shot is static or tracking to ensure you follow the action. None of this cinematography caught in a 9.4 on the Richter Scale. Shakey cam, to me is the mark of a bad cinematographer when it comes to action, and Alita's action is well choreographed and captured. Love this movie.
Vampoodle
Can't wait for the tournament arc where she fights the space karate organization, the Venus fleshcrafters, a giant robot based on HR Giger's Alien (complete with penis cannon), bolshevic vampire mommy, and space ghandi.
Also she becomes a cat girl, dies, and incarnates herself back into existence with angel wings through Jupiter nanomachines. Zazi shoots a space pedophile, sechs hyperinflates his body to land a hit on space Jackie Chan.
Battle Angel Alita, fucking wild manga.
rardot
Don't forget big fucking guns and a badass sailor with a goofy name.
apneax3n0n
bolshevic vampire mommy : caerulea sanguinis. are we skipping alita's trans clone ?
Vampoodle
Sechs, bro. I'm skipping the weird bunny clones
SatherPrince
Don't forget that she is literally a Tumor turned into a person by a crazy guy.
lysani
https://screenrant.com/alita-battle-angel-2-development-confirmed-james-cameron When interviewed in 2023 on why he sold his California mansion: “And on Avatar, I’m working in Wellington and Los Angeles. And on the new Alita: Battle Angel films, I’ll be working in Austin, so it just didn’t make sense for us anymore.” The TL;DR of it is that he does plan on making more Alita movies, it's just a matter of when.
RobearGWJ
Austin? Wonder if he'll be working with Roberto Rodriguez's virtual studio? ...Did he do the first one? ...Whatever. I love BAA and hope I live long enough to see the sequels lol.
lysani
Rodriguez directed the first one, and so far seems to be involved in the planning for a sequel.
BryanLaserEpee
I think Cameron's plan was always to do it after finishing Avatar.
ShinoXIII
Considering he mentioned having some ideas for possible 6th and 7th Avatar movies as well as mentioning that he would be about 89 years old during their production, chances might not be that great for a sequel. But I wont give up hope as I love both, his Alita and Avatar movie/movies.
alpacasaurusrex
Tbh, 2 was such a letdown. It was just 1 in a costume. Almost emotional beat for beat. Scene for scene. Second in command dies. Bad guy kills him. Destroying one of a kind source of power. Girl he loves is in danger. Innocents killed. Mystical shit. Animal killed and pins one protagonist while they’re jacked in. Humans doing hella evil shit and wiping out huge swaths of land. I also think it’s a joke how literally the whales were NEVER hinted at but SOMEHOW their brain juices were 100x more
alpacasaurusrex
profitable than the unobtanium that “this little gray rock sells for $20m/kg… This is what pays for the whole party, & it's what pays for your science”. The brain juice is 8m for a small vial. Which is less eight than a kilo of the rock - but by weight & use (immortality) more profitable. Visually it was as or more STUNNING as 1, but the story was just 1, but somehow… less interesting. I’ve seen 1 probably 100x (directors cut) & saw 2 once. I tried a 2nd & got bored 20m in & turned it off.
alpacasaurusrex
Also, Jesus, Quaritch was hot in 1 but somehow got hotter in 2, but was much stupider. The concept they brought the ENTIRE SQUAD back including that bald dick & some random ass white baby with dreads who could barely function in any society & acted less human than Mowgli who was raised by literal animals who just HAPPENED to be Quaritch’s unknown son? And dude somehow gave a crap about the little goblin who was literally one of the dumbest & worst characters in film in a decade….? -_-
Durahl
Kinda wonder how he'd continue the story... The Zapan Arc? The Den Arc? Go straight for the Second Series' Books? Can't imagine the latter as there's just too many characters in there that need explaining in the First Series' Books like the existence of the AR Series.
mendrak
What, you don't think they're gonna do the space Nazi with vampires and royal tumors thing? lmao (literally her origin story involves space nazis and gets way weirder). If they do the arena fight thing I could only hope they truncate the hell out of it, that lasted SO long.
Durahl
Yea... I really don't see the 2nd Movie taking place in the Last Order Books 🤔 Too much stuff would have to be left out to make a 2h Movie which would only result in a huge clusterfuck. I'm not even sure how the Hunt for Nova should continue... Another Motorball Arc for Jashugan? Unlikely... But how do you explain her losing the Berserker body for the Zapan Arc? How do you explain her becoming a Tuned without the Zapan Fight? How do we introduce the Den Arc without her becoming a Tuned?, etc...
Durahl
They could go straight for the Den Arc and a Low Tech Fight by ignoring everything else as it beig the only lead to Nova ending in a climax on Zalem, perhaps with High Tech a fight against Rosco with the help of the new Imaginos Body provided by Nova.
siflandollysiflandollyshowROCK
You’ll get it after we get our District 9 sequel….dont hold your breath
pareidoliaperson
D9 had a cliffy?
siflandollysiflandollyshowROCK
Yeah, the one alien said they’d return in 11 years or some shit to turn the guy back into a human that got transformed, and to get the rest of their people because I’m pretty sure they left a lot behind
Bollramm
You get that once we get a second season of Firefly.
The Queue starts here.
siflandollysiflandollyshowROCK
Fuck how do I get in both lines at once?
vurcease
"District 10: DISTRICT HARDER"
siflandollysiflandollyshowROCK
“District 11: 2 Fast 2 District”
TalkingJengaWho
I forgot about that one 🤦♂️
VibratingNipples
might have a better chance of getting a half life 2 sequel
WhyDontYouMakeMe
I have good news and bad news. Good news: HL2 Episode 1&2 have been released. Bad news...
TheGreatAtomsk
read the manga. overall 37 volumes and still going. also it's the real deal, not some watered down hollywood version.
Ultratoxic
I liked the movie! But yeah, the manga goes way harder and the story has continued for years in there.
apneax3n0n
i think it was not that bad . i mean they skipped a lot and her boyfriend is a good guy without any shadow but i mean it's the best we could have. much better than expected
CoqRoq
Uhh her boyfriend was a scav that ripped augs out of people to make cash. That is a bit of a shadow.
apneax3n0n
I did not want ti wrte the spoiler
OtakuMemeLord
I forgot it was still going tbh, I own all of it up to about volume 6 or so of Mars Chronicle. Also own Berserk (RIP) and my fav comic was Saga so the random break or hiatus here and there arent too unexpected, sometimes I let things run for a bit before continuing.
MatrimBloodyCauthon
So this is called Mars Chronicle?
TheGreatAtomsk
The original part is just called "Battle Angel Alita" (yes, thats the correct order of the words, not what cameron did) with 9 volumes. That was followed by "Battle Angel Alita: Last Order" with 19 volumes. After that we have currently 9 volumes for "Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicles", which is a Sequel to "BAA:LO" as well as a prequel/origin story. Then there is the single volume "Other Stories" which contains a couple of selfcontained stories in the same universe.
TheGreatAtomsk
Finally we have "Ashen Victor" which is a spinoff released after the original series but set before the events and focuses around motorball.
OtakuMemeLord
Alita Battle Angel in the US. Mars Chronicle is the subtitle of the most recent continuation of the story.