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    Alita: Battle Angel (film)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj8mN_7Apcw
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    Curious, the whole 'real life anime girl' look, isn't it?

    I recall that Battle Angel is a project that James Cameron has been working on for ages (since the 1990s, I think?) as one of his 'yet to be made projects' that he had lined up, but evidently didn't get around to himself (especially now with a million Avatar movies waiting to be made ).

    Not sure what to think about it at this point. Not familiar with the source material either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Curious, the whole 'real life anime girl' look, isn't it?

    I recall that Battle Angel is a project that James Cameron has been working on for ages (since the 1990s, I think?) as one of his 'yet to be made projects' that he had lined up, but evidently didn't get around to himself (especially now with a million Avatar movies waiting to be made ).

    Not sure what to think about it at this point. Not familiar with the source material either.
    Cameron did produce it, so was involved to some degree at least...
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    This shit freaks me out.



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    Oh dear - https://www.nme.com/news/the-first-r...t-good-2442007
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    Yikes. I’ve seen several reviews that aren’t quite as negative, but for the most part they settle around an “it’s okay”.

    I like both Cameron and Rodriquez, but something about this film never captured my attention. Definitely going to wait and see it at home, unfortunately.

    Hopefully this is isn’t a sign of things to come with the new Cameron-involved Terminator.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    Yikes. I’ve seen several reviews that aren’t quite as negative, but for the most part they settle around an “it’s okay”.

    I like both Cameron and Rodriquez, but something about this film never captured my attention. Definitely going to wait and see it at home, unfortunately.

    Hopefully this is isn’t a sign of things to come with the new Cameron-involved Terminator.
    ...or the 27 new Avatar films he's doing!?

    Maybe he's lost his mojo like Carpenter did!?
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    By the sounds of it, this has always been a tricky project for Cameron. I read that he had a script for it, but it was some silly length like 300 to 500 pages and he just couldn't figure out how to whittle it down to a feature. So Rodriguez took away the stuff, had a shufty, and managed to get it down to a feature length script (although by the sounds of it from some reviews it seems as if too many things have been shoved into the running time).

    Like you, bassman, I saw the trailer and I had little interest in it. I'll scope it out on telly, but I'm just not grabbed by it.
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    Well regardless I'm still excited for it and can't wait to see it! I'll review it if I get a chance to see it in the theater soon, for sure. The anime is so good!!
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    A couple of parts/aspects of it were good, but a lot else of it felt a clunky and contrived.

    6/10 for action enjoyability...
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    Oh! And a certain Mr Nicotero was also involved in the effects too!
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