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Christmas movie. Because.
Christoph Waltz going to work with his rocket hammer is somehow a real scene in an actually good movie
The cyborg blood is blue so it's fine
Alita has a flashback to fighting on the moon while kicking a cyborg's arm off, this movie rules
This version of the Deckman is less fucked up but still lovingly weird
Ido: you don't have to be defined by your past self
Alita: but I WANT to wreck cyborgs with kung fu
Movie: oh hell yeah she does
Alita: but I WANT to wreck cyborgs with kung fu
Movie: oh hell yeah she does
Alita kicks a frankly illegal amount of ass
"The legendary Damascus blade"
Again, a Christmas movie
The parallels between the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell and Alita adaptations are fascinating. Picked up by two of the arguably biggest filmmakers alive, sat in development hell for years and years, released less than 2 years apart, and might as well be from different dimensions.
The hilarious thing too is that Ghost in the Shell was probably the easier mark. It had a bigger cultural footprint in the US and multiple adaptations that dramatically improve on the source material.
Alita would fall apart without Rosa Salazar's performance. Under all of the production design, special effects, and everything else, it's her anchoring the whole thing.
I really like Waltz's Ido, like he's got some stuff to work out in his relationship with Alita but his heart is in the right place and once he does, he tries to be the best parent he can be. There's a lot of warmth in his scenes.
Manga Ido is all over the place and I got the sense that Kirshiro wasn't really sure what to do, so it's nice that the movie latches on to him and digs in.
"with the face of an angel and a body built for battle" is such a precarious line and it WORKS
Were the Motorball scenes strictly necessary? No, probably not. Am I very thankful they made space for them anyway as the prospect of a sequel gets worse by the day? Oh very much so, they're a blast.
I love that this was the solution to the bounty problem
Even in the long shot that Alita does get a sequel, I feel like a content minded Disney producer would not give the go-ahead on another scene like "my face!"
Alita slicing a single tear in half with her arm-mounted sword is so anime it hurts
We deserve more big, jump out of your seat yelling "fuck yeah" endings like Alita
