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Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019
chuck0 replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
Just saw this. Really a joy to watch. Ending drags a little, but overall a very pleasant movie. Love that Levi got some more work... i did like him in Chuck quite a bit -
Yeah, the early reviews really did not help with this. With a large franchise reviews are not that important, but something like Alita really can be damaged quite a bit. Especially if the bad reviews come in early (this started in the low 30ties). I have tried finding a movie that has a similar top critics/critics difference as Alita and was not able to (27% points)... it really got trashed by a lot of early (major) outlets. Aside from that yeah, the budget is a bit of a problem, but at least every penny of that is visible on screen.
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Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019
chuck0 replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
The collider youtoube review makes a few good points about that. This is really getting some proper rave reviews. -
CM easily swept those away and effortlessly fought off all the fighters they threw at her. Destroying that capital ship was her making a point. Not sure if Mar Vell would approve of that kind of thinking. I guess further debating this might get too political so i will stop here. I mean i understand that it was a really impressive scene and added a lot to the spectacle, but it left at least a bit of a bitter aftertaste for me (certainly not MoS level, but still).
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sometimes? Oh, and saw it today. Was good (7.5/10). Some things they tried fell a little flat (a few really awkward jokes and some of the supposedly dramatic scenes) but the final act worked pretty well. Though her destroying a whole Kree battleship to make a point might have been a little... well, extreme? I mean usually in these large scale battles in CBMs the opponents are dehumanized (either some kind of monsters or even robots). That ship was full of people (we saw kree on Hala). Up until now marvel always had the high ground when it came to these kinds of issues.
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Alita: Battle Angel ***SPOILER THREAD***
chuck0 replied to IronJimbo's topic in Box Office Discussion
Yeah he is pretty sinister (though i do not think that he knew about the plot to assasinate Alita in the motorball race. Though i guess he could have due to the grind cutter thing? Now that i think about it you are right... damn). In the source material he did not stop at taking arms and legs... he took spinal columns. His desire for Zalem is also a bit more on the manic/obsessive side because of his backstory. They toned him down quite a bit for the movie. -
Hehe well, i guess i should have been a bit more specific by narrowing this down to CM/Larson. Using something along the line of "see, i like Alita so i cannot be sexist" as an excuse is not great. Since the whole discussion is so extremely charged it is really difficult to get anything constructive out of it. Bashing Disney/Marvel as a big bad Corporation is ok though
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Yeah, in a way Alita is a hard sell... it is a YA romance story, but viewed from a more mature place (teens do dumb things and their grand romantic gestures will be cheesy ) wrapped into a coming of age story wrapped into a visceral action movie with a ton of hard scifi. And on top of that it is now used by alt-right types as an excuse for bashing disney/marvel 😕 Still would have loved it if it could at least have reached a few more people.