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First Trailer for Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel
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Since you're asking for something specific, I'll say this without spoiling Gits...There is a scene in the movie where Major's face is taken off to show her machine-based side. The eyes that were moving around confused in that scene were still hers while on a cg face. It should be near the halfway point in the movie. I can't gif it because it's during an important plot point.
Oh wow, another action movie with a female lead that nerdy males will hate for many rationalized reasons. Color me surprised and shocked.
Are you serious right now?
It's misogyny that's driving the disdain for dumb fuck eyes and shit CG?
I feel like you'd need to see the Gits movie to understand my point of view on this conversation and why I think using the anime contacts + human face wouldn't be an issue for a CG body and instead would be an improvement.
Not to jump on any bandwagon here, but this comment is why doing a bit of reading and research is important.
Yes, that's what I thought.
As for "why", I already explained above. They went out of their way (speaking of, to all those posters: yes, everybody realizes the big eyes are intentional and are meant to look odd, thanks) to make her look unnatural, to the point where it grosses people out and immediately reminds me of those weird overdone surgery pics, when that simply wasn't needed. She's not supposed to have an alien face.
I feel like you'd get the same problems LA Noire had where everything below the neck wouldn't match the head.
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She reminds me of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite now that I think about it. Right down to the stupidly eerie big eyes.
I don't think Alita is supposed to have unnatural face.
Her past life, Yoko, has the same face as she does.
Wait...isn't that a good thing because they would match in quality?
She reminds me of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite now that I think about it. Right down to the stupidly eerie big eyes.
Elizabeth exists in a cartoony world though. She's kind of taken from Tangled, for obvious reasons.
Man, Tangled was the shit.
These two are exactly what she kept reminding me of.
It's just such a misguided decision to go with this stuff in a live action environment.
Well thats not my worry, my worry is getting people to the theater to begin with. I fear people will be so creeped out by the trailers they won't go. :(
I'm a huge GUNNM/Alita fan. Her appearance in this trailer makes no sense at all. She's a cyborg and her head is artificial, yes, but it's designed to look like a human woman extrapolated from the biological body she had as a child. There's zero justification for this alien face, even if it didn't look freaky as hell.
It's sad that we've waited so many years for... this.
It's sad that we've waited so many years for... this.
Gotta agree with others that giving her (and only her, I guess) those giant anime eyes wasn't the right call. It's seriously way too distracting. It's especially weird they picked an actress who already had big eyes...only to superimpose on her gigantic eyes. Weren't her arms and body evidence enough she wasn't entirely human?
And a $150M-$200M budget? I can't see this performing well even if it does turn out to be good. Didn't they learn anything from the Ghost in the Shell adaptation? Maybe it might be releasing with no competi-
>July 20 2018
>two weeks after Ant-Man and the Wasp, same week as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, one week before Mission Impossible 6
...yeah this film is being sent out to die.
For that to happen, we'd need Hollywood to actually want to take a chance on a CG animated film that is neither for kids/families (most American CG animated films) or a comedy (South Park: BLAU and Sausage Party). The one exception to the rule that immediately comes to mind --the 2009 film adaptation of the animated short 9-- didn't set the box office on fire. :/
And a $150M-$200M budget? I can't see this performing well even if it does turn out to be good. Didn't they learn anything from the Ghost in the Shell adaptation? Maybe it might be releasing with no competi-
>July 20 2018
>two weeks after Ant-Man and the Wasp, same week as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, one week before Mission Impossible 6
...yeah this film is being sent out to die.
For that to happen, we'd need Hollywood to actually want to take a chance on a CG animated film that is neither for kids/families (most American CG animated films) or a comedy (South Park: BLAU and Sausage Party). The one exception to the rule that immediately comes to mind --the 2009 film adaptation of the animated short 9-- didn't set the box office on fire. :/
Getting off the eye point.
The trailer has several issues for me.
1. Its too bright
2. Yugo is a piece of shit, scum of the earth and yet the trailer suggest at worst he's generic bad boy plucky love interest.
3. Nothing suggest any of Battle Angel's signature gratuitous violence
4. It's too clean. Nothing looks obscenely grotesque
5. There's not a single truly world establishing moment.
This trailer has cursory things that suggest they at least watched the ova.
But if they wanted my faith in this project. They'd have included a scene like this.
The trailer has several issues for me.
1. Its too bright
2. Yugo is a piece of shit, scum of the earth and yet the trailer suggest at worst he's generic bad boy plucky love interest.
3. Nothing suggest any of Battle Angel's signature gratuitous violence
4. It's too clean. Nothing looks obscenely grotesque
5. There's not a single truly world establishing moment.
This trailer has cursory things that suggest they at least watched the ova.
But if they wanted my faith in this project. They'd have included a scene like this.
That's the thing, I have no idea what this is supposed to be ratedGetting off the eye point.
The trailer has several issues for me.
1. Its too bright
2. Yugo is a piece of shit, scum of the earth and yet the trailer suggest at worst he's generic bad boy plucky love interest.
3. Nothing suggest any of Battle Angel's signature gratuitous violence
4. It's too clean. Nothing looks obscenely grotesque
5. There's not a single truly world establishing moment.
This trailer has cursory things that suggest they at least watched the ova.
But if they wanted my faith in this project. They'd have included a scene like this.
Like it's Robert Rodriguez, he can do stupid gore. But are they going for PG-13? I certainly hope not
Sausage Party, but that movie's budget was super cheap due to the studio barely paying their employees.
At some point that creativity we put in comic book movies has to carry over to anime/manga. We can make Jack Kirby's weird shit come to life. We shouldn't be struggling on this forever.
Getting off the eye point.
The trailer has several issues for me.
1. Its too bright
2. Yugo is a piece of shit, scum of the earth and yet the trailer suggest at worst he's generic bad boy plucky love interest.
3. Nothing suggest any of Battle Angel's signature gratuitous violence
4. It's too clean. Nothing looks obscenely grotesque
5. There's not a single truly world establishing moment.
This trailer has cursory things that suggest they at least watched the ova.
But if they wanted my faith in this project. They'd have included a scene like this.
u are my people :D
I know we've only seen very little in the trailer, but the weirdest thing is that I'm getting no evidence from the footage shown that they actually used the performance capture headrig that they were supposed to.
Alita has that uncanny look of one part of her face emoting, whilst the remainder seem completely detached. She might be saying something and her eyes are stuck frozen or vice versa. Her face doesn't seem to emote as a whole and that's what seems so weird in an old-school CG Uncanney Zemeckis way.
Alita has that uncanny look of one part of her face emoting, whilst the remainder seem completely detached. She might be saying something and her eyes are stuck frozen or vice versa. Her face doesn't seem to emote as a whole and that's what seems so weird in an old-school CG Uncanney Zemeckis way.
When it comes to anime, Speed Racer already nailed that shit as much as anyone ever will.
If WB is going to blow $150 - $200m on an AKIRA flop, they may as well give it to the Wachowskis to give us a glimmer of former hope.
They should not have done the eye/mouth size morphing.
That song was dull. I hope the next trailer is better.
That song was dull. I hope the next trailer is better.
The only guy I think I can give unconditional faith to for a movie like this is Denis Villeneuve. He made the impossibly perfect sequel to Blade Runner, Dune is next, Akira would fit that trend he seems to be going for.
Except that's not true at all. All you had to do was read a few posts above yours where a screencap of Hugo was posted.
