Discussion of Alita: Battle Angel
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, July 27, 2019 17:51
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My 2nd viewing was last Tuesday.
The sword is the Damascus Blade. I had forgotten that another part of general lore has blades alighting Blue when in the presence of Evil, while handled by Good.
Nobody else handles it besides Zapan and Alita.
The uncredited Jai Courtney role was as the Motor Baller in the pit during Alita's first attendance at an event, his number is 00. Alita goes by 99.
The uncredited Michelle Rodriguez role was Alita's combat trainer and assault team leader, which are flashback scenes from more than 300 years prior.
I was also more struck with the response Alita gives to both the Centurian and other Evil. In future viewings, I suspect those will be moments of hair-raising.
In this and other ways, I feel her role as a berserker is highly similar to Paladins. The magic, the fighting, the Blade, the refusal to Stand By in the presence of Evil, and in fact seeking out Evil to conquer it.
The 2nd time around, I found it more funny that the Ball gets ignored in Alita's audition, everyone passing it by and even leaving the arena.
I felt the annoying scene was the kid getting his shoulder crushed, and then climbing a wall and doing further acrobatics.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I felt the annoying scene was the kid getting his shoulder crushed, and then climbing a wall and doing further acrobatics.
Noticed that too. He should have passed out, or been damn near immobilized, but nope... used that shoulder and arm like it was no biggie.
Glad he 'split ' at the end of the movie. I'd hate have that romance carry over into the sequel.
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Quote:Did you find, in the Canon within the film, adequate explanation for Alita's eyes?
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I felt the annoying scene was the kid getting his shoulder crushed, and then climbing a wall and doing further acrobatics.
Noticed that too. He should have passed out, or been damn near immobilized, but nope... used that shoulder and arm like it was no biggie.
Glad he 'split ' at the end of the movie. I'd hate have that romance carry over into the sequel.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:]Did you find, in the Canon within the film, adequate explanation for Alita's eyes?
If there was , I missed it. I've heard several explanations, from it was done to set her apart from the humans, to ' just because it's in the manga ', but if there was a MOVIE explanation, I didn't catch it.
Will have to re-watch anyways, so I'll try to pay closer attention.
IDK about anyone else, but I find her eyes freaking beautiful, and they don't bother me 1 bit.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Quote:In a flashback scene, Alita is trained by Michelle Rodriguez, another cyborg with enormous eyes. I think Martians build cyborgs with big eyes because that is their unique style. But you can check it for yourself without going back to the theater: http://rlsbb.ru/alita-battle-angel-2019-720p-x264-omnic/ at 1 hour 8 minutes into the movie.
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:]Did you find, in the Canon within the film, adequate explanation for Alita's eyes?
If there was , I missed it. I've heard several explanations, from it was done to set her apart from the humans, to ' just because it's in the manga ', but if there was a MOVIE explanation, I didn't catch it.
Will have to re-watch anyways, so I'll try to pay closer attention.
IDK about anyone else, but I find her eyes freaking beautiful, and they don't bother me 1 bit.
I now know why Alita put warpaint on her face: because Michelle Rodriguez had warpaint. It is the Martian style of war.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Several people have talked, asked about the eyes. I have never replied because I have never heard of any Canon reference or explanation, other than what was claimed to be in the source comic books. Mostly mere non-tangiential ramblings, opinions without basis.
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:]Did you find, in the Canon within the film, adequate explanation for Alita's eyes?
If there was , I missed it. I've heard several explanations, from it was done to set her apart from the humans, to ' just because it's in the manga ', but if there was a MOVIE explanation, I didn't catch it.
Will have to re-watch anyways, so I'll try to pay closer attention.
IDK about anyone else, but I find her eyes freaking beautiful, and they don't bother me 1 bit.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Canon.
Regarding URM. United ?Resistance? Of Mars. I had the impression that human Colonists on Mars had United to oppose the 'Alliance' of floating cities, and they had developed superior technology - which would make great sense.
Or were they really Alien Beings native to Mars that we've never known about? With invisibility shield? If so, perhaps the eyes are representative of how they look? If that were the case, would not everybody know Alita was of URM technology, based upon her eyes?
I thought Alita was clearly from a human core source, brain. I would think this adds to the case of URM being humans.
The other eye, optic sensor which Ido finds in the scrap heap just before he finds Alita also seemed to be larger than human, and it did not seem to hold the URM fascination.
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Alita: Battle Angel has earned $223.4 million in overseas grosses as of Tuesday, which combined with its $63.4m domestic total gives it a $287m global cume. With $90m in China after a week and a likely over/under $25m second-weekend-gross (it'll face How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Green Book), it may end up with "only" $140m in China by the end. So, yes, it would appear that it was a little frontloaded in what was its do-or-die marketplace. It'll still likely pass $400m worldwide, but otherwise, well, ask me again on Sunday. If it ends up closer to $400m than $500m worldwide, that'll make long-term profitability a challenge and the likelihood of a sequel pretty much between slim and none.
That all being said, even a $415 million-plus total was bigger and better than most of us dared hoped when the Robert Rodriguez-directed and James Cameron-produced manga adaptation opened three weeks ago. And it'll be (sans inflation) a bigger global cume than Pacific Rim ($411m), The Mummy ($409m), Edge of Tomorrow ($375m), Mad Max: Fury Road ($370m without China), Independence Day Resurgence ($365m), Legend of Tarzan ($355m), Battleship ($302m), John Carter ($272m), The Lone Ranger ($265m), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ($225m), Tomorrowland ($209m) and Jupiter Ascending ($185m). It's not big enough to qualify as a hit but it's not an outright disaster.
More at www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/02/28/box-office-alita-battle
-angel-james-cameron-sosa-salazar-terminator-dark-fate-avatar-disney-fox/
Total Lifetime Grosses for Alita Battle Angel
Domestic: $63,434,685 22.2%
+ Foreign: $222,240,814 77.8%
= Worldwide: $285,675,499
In Release: 13 days
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alita.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Edge of Tomorrow was not a hit? And it's getting a sequel.
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Alita: Battle Angel has earned $223.4 million in overseas grosses as of Tuesday, which combined with its $63.4m domestic total gives it a $287m global cume. With $90m in China after a week and a likely over/under $25m second-weekend-gross (it'll face How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Green Book), it may end up with "only" $140m in China by the end. So, yes, it would appear that it was a little frontloaded in what was its do-or-die marketplace. It'll still likely pass $400m worldwide, but otherwise, well, ask me again on Sunday. If it ends up closer to $400m than $500m worldwide, that'll make long-term profitability a challenge and the likelihood of a sequel pretty much between slim and none.
That all being said, even a $415 million-plus total was bigger and better than most of us dared hoped when the Robert Rodriguez-directed and James Cameron-produced manga adaptation opened three weeks ago. And it'll be (sans inflation) a bigger global cume than Pacific Rim ($411m), The Mummy ($409m), Edge of Tomorrow ($375m), Mad Max: Fury Road ($370m without China), Independence Day Resurgence ($365m), Legend of Tarzan ($355m), Battleship ($302m), John Carter ($272m), The Lone Ranger ($265m), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ($225m), Tomorrowland ($209m) and Jupiter Ascending ($185m). It's not big enough to qualify as a hit but it's not an outright disaster.
More at www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/02/28/box-office-alita-battle
-angel-james-cameron-sosa-salazar-terminator-dark-fate-avatar-disney-fox/
Total Lifetime Grosses for Alita Battle Angel
Domestic: $63,434,685 22.2%
+ Foreign: $222,240,814 77.8%
= Worldwide: $285,675,499
In Release: 13 days
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alita.htm
As I stated, opening day Wednesday my showing was about empty. Following opening weekend, Tuesday 5:30 showing was Sold Out.
4 days ago ended the 2nd weekend, where's the data from that? And more theaters were showing on the 2nd weekend.
$170 M was the production Budget.
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At least Valerian doesn't seem to be getting a sequel.
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The chances of a second Alita movie
https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/03/01/alita-battle-angel-box-office-s
equel-plans/
Alita now finds itself alongside another anime-inspired blockbuster film, which also struggled with the question of whether there was franchise potential: Pacific Rim. That film also scored well at the international box office ($309M) and did well enough domestically ($101M), but due to the film's $190M budget, it was deemed a risk for full franchise rollout. It would take half a decade before Pacific Rim: Uprising arrived in theaters.
If there's one last lesson to learn from Pacific Rim, it may be this: once the visual effects designs get done the first time around, it's much easier to implement them in a sequel. A lower budget could be all the swaying Fox needs. See the lower cost for the sequel:
Pacific Rim (2013) Production Budget: $190 million
Pacific Rim 2 (2018) Production Budget: $150 million
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pacificrim.htm
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pacificrim2.htm
Alita (2019) Production Budget: $170 million
Alita 2 (2022) Imaginary Budget: less than $130 million
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alita.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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