Discussion of Alita: Battle Angel
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, July 27, 2019 17:51
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Quote:Did you see Salazar in Bird Box?
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:Quote:The flaw that I refer to in my pocket review is not that these two fall in love; it's has to do with the execution within the movie Jewels. Salazar was so damn believable depicting an innocence and vulnerability that older actresses struggle with.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I did not consider a flaw to be the blossoming relationship between a teenage boy and a Triple Centurian girl.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I haven't really seen anybody here mentioning flaws in the story. Other than those who have not seen it.
Does that mean there are none?
Other than Hugo getting crushed shoulder and then climbing buildings.
I think a lot of the backstory is implied, but not yet spelled out.
I just realized another thing. I had assumed the Law Keepers were named Senturians. But maybe they were Centurians. How ironic.
The actor playing "Hugo" was not up to the challenge, and so, IMHO, failed to convince me that he "was" in love with Alita. Salazar became Alita, while he was acting like he was in love. She was in love with him. That's how good she was. So when I talk about flaws, no matter how minor, that's what I meant.
Ultimately, it did not ruin the movie for me. I was riveted by Salazar's performance. Will it win an Oscar, of course not. But she was so good that I fell in love with her. That's when you know that something good has taken place. I refer to her as "Ripley-like." Her mission was to protect the boy she loved...I got that from her. Very convincingly.
I want to see it again, this time in IMAX.
SGG
By the way, Happy Birthday to Rosa.
As well as Phoebe Cates, AnnaLynne McCord, Jayma Mays.
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'Alita: Battle Angel' 4K Blu-ray Review: Manganificent?
www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2019/07/20/alita-battle-angel-4k-blu-r
ay-review-manganificent/
So a funny thing happened to me when I watched Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s Manga-inspired Alita: Battle Angel for a second time (having seen it first at the cinema). Rather than all of its flaws - and it certainly does have flaws - becoming more exaggerated and obvious, as I might have expected, they kind of… melted away.
The rushed, jumpy last third. The occasional cheesy line. Ed Skrein’s rather hammy British villain. The feeling that you’re watching three films being uncomfortably, almost wastefully crammed into one… All these issues and more somehow no longer seemed nearly as distracting second time round.
Instead I found myself irresistibly drawn into Alita’s futuristic world much more than I was the first time round. This time I was much more seduced by the consistently incredible visuals; the lovingly crafted and genuinely original-feeling world; the magnificence of Rosa Salazar’s motion-captured performance; the way the narrative manages to weave in various classic character, sci-fi, mystery and underdog archetypes without feeling too predictable; and the sheer filmmaking ambition that seems to lie behind every gorgeously rendered frame.
. . .
Alita will never miraculously turn into a perfect film, no matter how much you might want it to, and no matter how many times you watch it on this frequently gorgeous 4K Blu-ray. But for me, at least, the more I see of it, the more of a work of art it starts to feel - and the more I find myself hoping they get the green light to do a sequel.
. . .
Perhaps the single most effective thing about the 4K Blu-ray’s images, though, is that they somehow make Alita feel much more like a real part of the world than a CGI effect.
On the surface this seems counter-intuitive. Past experience would suggest that the extra detail, purity and contrast of 4K Blu-ray can make digital effects look less rather than more realistic. Here, though, it’s as if the extra color and light range available with 4K Blu-ray mastering gave the filmmakers more opportunity to better blend her CGI appearance into her ‘real’ surroundings. And there’s no overstating how important this is to how much you engage with Alita’s character.
Much more technical detail at
www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2019/07/20/alita-battle-angel-4k-blu-r
ay-review-manganificent/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Interesting how movies ( and shows ) can change the 2nd, 3rd , etc... time they're viewed.
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There's Already An Alita: Battle Angel Prequel
The motion comic "The Fall" tells the story of the eponymous conflict that plays so heavily into the world of Alita: Battle Angel. While we get snippets of just why this conflict is so important throughout the film’s events, a condensed history of the conflict is provided through The Fall’s six-minute running time.
The current state of Alita: Battle Angel teases just enough about The Fall that the audience knows how important it was and what it did to humanity, but still leaves a lot of that history untold and ready for future films. Should the Disney/Fox studio family want to move forward with more action in Alita’s world, it could easily use the content shown in "The Fall" as flashback scenes in a potential Alita: Battle Angel sequel. In an even more ambitious light, an entire prequel film could be made about Yoko’s life before becoming Alita.
Since Robert Rodriguez did a huge re-write on James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis’ 600-page script for Alita, it’s to be assumed that a lot of the information from "The Fall" motion comic was stripped from that approximately 600 minute, ten hour long, original concept.
More at www.cinemablend.com/news/2477127/theres-already-an-alita-battle-angel-
prequel-setting-up-the-fall-thanks-to-the-dvd-release
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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