People are not going to see Alita, especially people in North America. What happened, is there a plague here or something? Did the critics do something?
A movie directed by Robert Rodriguez who directed movies like Sin City deserves some positive response from the box office, so what the **** happened? Let's go back to the critics. Whatever they did, the audience response is very good which means the critics definitely jinxed it. I'm going to check all the critics response to see how they correlate. And one of the screenwriters (and producers) of Alita is James Cameron, who is among my favorites.
Molly Freeman - "Screenrant" (Feb 18) - Further, it also doesn't make sense that any woman (human or cyborg) having the opportunity to transform their body into that of a warrior's would enlarge her breasts and trim her arms, waist and legs.
A woman can be whatever she wants, and that's what the protagonist is doing. And it's horrifying in your review to use your anti-trans agenda and use it to review it, pathetic. Also, the reviewer compares the protagonist with the Amazons in Wonder Woman saying she doesn't really need to be sexualized. Has the reviewer actually read any of the DC Wonder Woman comics? Like I said, the protagonist can do whatever she wants to do and you're not going to stop her.
Manohla Dargis - "The New York Times" (Feb 12) - If only someone here were joking or had an idea about the construction of femininity. Why does Alita (Rosa Salazar), who has a human brain, even have breasts? Why does any cyborg that isn’t a sex bot or a wet nurse?
Is the reviewer high? I mean, does this mean it's not fine for women cyborgs to be different, but only male cyborgs. Come to think of it, generations of male characters have been glorified, remember the Super Soldier program? Somebody ask this reviewer to STFU.
Hau Chu - "Washington Post" (Feb 11) - We have to talk about the eyes.
There's simply nothing to talk about. Have you ever seen anime (or read manga)? The design was simply given a semi-anime look. And even if that's not an excuse, she is a cyborg so that shouldn't matter.
Guy Lodge - "Variety" (Feb 14) - It’s a shame, then, that Salazar’s personable performance is smothered somewhat by an eerie digital makeover:
There is no end to this I imagine. We live in a ****** up society.
Richard Roeper - "Chicago Sun-Times" (Feb 14) - the white-washing of certain key characters
The first reviewer who gave a bad review based on something relevant. Alita is based on a popular manga series "Gunnm" or "Battle Angel Alita".
But the real answer comes in this review.
Darren Franich - "Entertainment Weekly" (Feb 14) - One main character gets bodychopped into a borgy head-torso with limbs, just like Bishop in Aliens and the T-800 in the original Terminator. And then another main character also gets carved into a borgy head-torso. Rated PG-13: Bring the kids!
Many sequences had to pay homage to the manga series, based on James Cameron's writing. So it was natural that some Rated R scenes would have to be converted to PG-13. This is something that happens a lot in Hollywood. Just to sell to a wider market and bring kids, they make it PG-13 which is in many cases not what the audience wants (Suicide Squad). But in the case of Alita, there seems to be more complaints about her cyborg transformation.
This will be definitely better than Superhero movies, this is a Cyberpunk movie set in the future. No spoilers.
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