Seeing Christoph Waltz running around with an oversized rocket hammer in true anime fashion cracked me up a bit, it's fun seeing how the old man can wield such a bulky, unconventional weapon.
I was also surprised how accurate fans of the manga/anime were in predicting where the movie would end. When I saw Hugo climbing up the factory tube with Alita chasing him, I was like "Oh, it's this scene. Well, this is going to be depressing."
Too bad the theater was kinda empty. There were several groups of weebs(?) and a father with a 6 and 8 year-old daughters sitting next to me, but they were quiet and well-behaved for the most part so I didn't have to relocate from my center seat. The movie probably won't get a sequel based on its budget and box office performance, but at least I know I can always continue on in the manga
I've just seen Safe House (2012) on Netflix. Its Ryan Reynolds without any of the wisecracks. Frankly its one of the worst action films I've ever seen. There were meant to be twists in the plot but every one of them was so badly telegraphed it only took about half an hour to guess the whole predictable shitshow of a story. You can't see what's happening in the action sequences, The baddassery was laughably lame. It was basically a cheap ripoff of the Bourne films with none of the style or substance.
On February 17 2019 23:50 yamato77 wrote: Hate to tell you, a sequel to Alita seems rather unlikely, unless the movie has a major turnaround at the box office in the coming weeks.
What?? Its defo getting a second one. Have u seen it?
On February 18 2019 00:29 Jockmcplop wrote: I've just seen Safe House (2012) on Netflix. Its Ryan Reynolds without any of the wisecracks. Frankly its one of the worst action films I've ever seen. There were meant to be twists in the plot but every one of them was so badly telegraphed it only took about half an hour to guess the whole predictable shitshow of a story. You can't see what's happening in the action sequences, The baddassery was laughably lame. It was basically a cheap ripoff of the Bourne films with none of the style or substance.
1.5/10
Check out The Hitman's Bodyguard from 2017, might be more in line with what you expected.
On February 17 2019 23:50 yamato77 wrote: Hate to tell you, a sequel to Alita seems rather unlikely, unless the movie has a major turnaround at the box office in the coming weeks.
What?? Its defo getting a second one. Have u seen it?
I don't think it's up to the people who made it. With a $170M budget, it absolutely needs to be a word of mouth hit, because the weekend's box office isn't promising.
Yeah was thinking exactly same Hex, Hitman's Bodyguard seems exactly same film as Safe House but you sub out Big Denz for Big Sam lol. What on earth, but Hitman's Bodyguard seems a lot better because its a "comedy" film at its base so u can let it go more.
On February 18 2019 04:13 Pandemona wrote: Yeah was thinking exactly same Hex, Hitman's Bodyguard seems exactly same film as Safe House but you sub out Big Denz for Big Sam lol. What on earth, but Hitman's Bodyguard seems a lot better because its a "comedy" film at its base so u can let it go more.
I watched it on a plane last summer, and it was perfectly enjoyable way to spend two hours.
On February 18 2019 04:13 Pandemona wrote: Yeah was thinking exactly same Hex, Hitman's Bodyguard seems exactly same film as Safe House but you sub out Big Denz for Big Sam lol. What on earth, but Hitman's Bodyguard seems a lot better because its a "comedy" film at its base so u can let it go more.
Comedies have an inherent advantage in action movies because you automatically identify with a funny character and they become relatable. Safe House didn't even try to make the characters likeable or relatable because it wasted so much time setting up the really obvious twists at the expense of everything else. I'm genuinely annoyed at it, which is weird I know, even half a day after I watched it. And ffs get a stranger to watch the film before you release it if you have close up shaky cam fight scenes in dimly lit streets because this film is like trying to watch a horse race in the middle of the night in a deserted, unlit field while strapped upside down to the arse of one of the horses.
On February 18 2019 00:29 Jockmcplop wrote: I've just seen Safe House (2012) on Netflix. Its Ryan Reynolds without any of the wisecracks. Frankly its one of the worst action films I've ever seen. There were meant to be twists in the plot but every one of them was so badly telegraphed it only took about half an hour to guess the whole predictable shitshow of a story. You can't see what's happening in the action sequences, The baddassery was laughably lame. It was basically a cheap ripoff of the Bourne films with none of the style or substance.
1.5/10
I actually mind-gamed myself on the primary betrayal twist as I foolishly persuaded myself that it was a fake out.
On February 18 2019 02:34 hexhaven wrote: I don't think it's up to the people who made it. With a $170M budget, it absolutely needs to be a word of mouth hit, because the weekend's box office isn't promising.
Domestically Alita already outperformed the initial tracking on Deadline, but it will depend on the foreign market to break even (which is within the realm of possibility).
For it to be considered profitable though I guess it'd have to do like 500-600 mil worldwide for its budget. Right now it didn't even hit the budget and marketing costs are big for it too.
Saw Alita. Too much teen romance for my taste. And in general I am not a fan of blatantly setting up sequels. Hint at it, if you must, but don't go crazy and leave the movie on a semi cliffhanger.
On February 18 2019 22:43 Manit0u wrote: For it to be considered profitable though I guess it'd have to do like 500-600 mil worldwide for its budget. Right now it didn't even hit the budget and marketing costs are big for it too.
I think the estimated cutoff is ~425 million while the more optimistic predictions project final worldwide gross at 500-550. Alita will assuredly be at a deficit for the domestic BO though.
The laughs just won't stop...Captain Marvel teams up with the financially beleaguered WNBA in this trailer... If that's New York's Tina Charles at 5 seconds then that's doctored up. She can't get within a foot of the rim. Why even suggest it..
Saw Alita in ImaX3D, it was a really good blockbuster IMO, probably because the last movie I saw was Grindelwald and that was probably one of the worst, so my bar was pretty low.
I hope they make a second one (China could save Alita this weekend) and if they do, please show more from the big war.
I guess Alita will be big in China and Japan. I've lost all interest in Captain Marvel now. When first news of this SJW campaign broke out I was unmoved since Marvel didn't give me a reason to worry before. Brie Larson is single-handedly killing this movie now with her cringe worthy activism that's putting more and more people off.
I was seriously looking forward to this, hoping that Marvel will prove everyone wrong by actually creating a good character that has to struggle to become great but judging by Brie's comments it doesn't appear to be like that. Maybe I'll still go see it, but definitely not in the opening week (gotta show my disapproval with such campaigning somehow).
On February 20 2019 23:10 Manit0u wrote: I was seriously looking forward to this, hoping that Marvel will prove everyone wrong by actually creating a good character that has to struggle to become great but judging by Brie's comments it doesn't appear to be like that. Maybe I'll still go see it, but definitely not in the opening week (gotta show my disapproval with such campaigning somehow).
I read someplace some hardcore Star Wars haters bought tickets for a different movie at a Multi-plex and then snuck into the theatre showing the Star Wars movie. They did this to prevent the Star Wars movie from getting their cash.
if you really hate this movie maybe that is an option?
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