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Also, the massive eyes do kinda bother me, but given how everyone else looks in the movie it seems to be an intentional story choice rather than just trying to make the character look closer to the manga. Not hoping for much here given every other anime to Hollywood adaptation (the only one that sorta worked was All You Need Is Kill being adapted into Edge of Tomorrow), so keeping a cautious eye on this one.
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2017-12-09, 04:49 | Link #8 |
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It's a lackluster adaptation of the manga since it's only a two-episode OVAs. In the Japanese origin, the manga is called Gunnm (pronounced as "Ganmu" more or less) and it features "Gally" or "Alita".
The funny thing is, the live action movie seems to try to match the actress' face with Gally/Alita to the point where they make her eyes big like in the manga :
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2017-12-09, 04:59 | Link #9 |
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Too bad there is no Desty Nova.
Tho I may be disappointed if they didnt cast Christopher Lloyd as Desty Nova. Like how I felt Ron Pearlman would have been perfect as Batou in GiTS live. |
2017-12-09, 05:06 | Link #10 | |
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As for the GUNNM what drives me away is not the eyes, who gives a damn about eyes? The real problem is R13 and the setting. What's up with those clean streats and fancy clothes? What's with their skin and what every they had instead of skin? It looks like they spend more time in front of the mirror than fighting for resources and food. This should be postapocalyptic world, mix of Trigun and Mad Max. Even lower life even more hightech. I'm really disappointed right now.
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2017-12-09, 05:23 | Link #11 |
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It's not only about the body. In GITS manga & anime, Motoko already knew her past (more or less) and it doesn't serve as a baggage to her. What makes it funny is that the main plot of the LA movie is basically one big excuse so that Motoko can be played by Scar-Jo . They should've dropped that silly Robocop plot and make Major a Caucasian through and through so that we can have a better story than Robocop regurgitation.
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Watched the movie and was pleasantly surprised. I rank it up with Edge of Tomorrow as very good manga-to-movie adaptation.
Canon-wise - its mixing the two first volumes of the manga with bits of the Motorball arc that serves as a sequel hook with Spoiler:
And took elements from the OAV with the Gurushika and Chiren as canon immigrants. Bits of background were changed to fit the narrative of the movie in a post-9/11 world Spoiler:
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Robert Rodriguez played down some of his typical director tics, so it could feel more like a Cameron movie. The fight choregraphy is tight and Rosa Salazar have fit the shoes of Alita very well. And yes, this is the kind of movie that feel like what happen when the production staff love the original material rather than an opportunistic cash grab. PS: A shoutout to one of my friends from middle school who lent my his Alita volumes back in the day so I could read the original story till the end. He wont see the movie he wanted to see one day, because a car driven by an idiot who was phoning while driving hit him in 2015, leaving him not a chance. RIP my friend.
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