If you haven’t seen the trailer…
This poster tells me NOPE, but I’m going to watch it anyways.
I mostly avoid trailers, but given Get Out I’m onboard for whatever this is.
Trailer is fucked up scary/spooky, I’m for it, but also not for it because I’m such a sucker for jump scares/thriller type movies and I know Peele will make it a good one.
Going to see it tomorrow. People that cared about the source material have only good things to say about this adaptation.
I hear that the only let down on the movie was the romantic story line, which to be fair, was also pretty weak in the manga.
Also, if you have not read this manga, what are you waiting for its amazing and readily available everywhere. The deluxe release is amazing.
Was James Cameron still involved with this? He was supposedly a huge Alita fan, so it would make sense that it would be kept as faithful as possible.
He was a producer on it, though Robert Rodriguez directed it.
He was the producer, and also one of the writers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGdWxOub68
I’ve got a lot of mixed feelings about this. Andre Ovredal was also the director for Troll Hunter which I’ve heard good things about and Del Toro on the screenplay means I will probably see it, but it just doesn’t look that great. They’ve done a good job preserving the look and feel of the monsters from the illustrations but I’m wondering how well they can translate 1-2 page stories into full acts of a movie.
I’m not usually a horror/zombie person, but this looks amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=bs5ZOcU6Bnw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvDD8OFQMGc
Pros: way more monsters, the actual classic monsters, and way more willingness to show them off
Cons: Humor offensively dissonant, I have no idea what the fuck is up with the choice of music
I can’t get this out of my brain. I’m excited that this could be a trainwreck or something legitimately enjoyable. (And I’ve watched the 2000 theater production of CATS before)
Funny enough, this is going up against Star Wars: Episode 9. This happened two years ago with The Last Jedi versus The Greatest Showman and The Greatest Showman turned out to be this massive success.
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Quick, someone edit Sonic the Hedgehog into the background!
Ive been seeing the trailer to Midway a few times now since I run in aviation and specifically WWII aviation sort of circles; and while some people are hype about it, I think it looks terrible. Like worse than Pearl Harbor bad. And that’s a shame, because between all the sides and groups of the war, there is absolutely some interesting story to tell about the grand carrier battles of the Pacific in WWII, ones that could really use some modern VFX and so-on to do some heavy lifting and show the scope of things. But from everything in the trailers, looks like it’s going to be just utterly hot garbage.
So, if they do a halfway decent job with the aviation and carrier parts, I’ll forgive whatever hoo-raing and the overly dramatic officers arguing about plans type conversations we’re likely to see. But I feel that the really cool flying stuff is going to be minimal, and corny, and bad. In fact just from the trailers alone it’s clearly and irrefutably terrible. And so pretty much the rest will be equally crap.
Anyone interested in an actually good WWII carrier movie? Cuz I want one.
Been a Carpenter Brut fan since Turbo Killer, and that’s still a straight shredder of a tune to this day. I hope this doesn’t suck, I really hope it doesn’t suck. And I hope Carpenter Brut puts out more music soon, I’ve already gone through their discog too many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pbLPOrTSsI
I really enjoy the Kingsman franchise as a modern reinterpretation of 007… I also love WW1 dieselpunk so I’m pretty pumped for this one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfYAXMwCpk0
the CGI looks…sub-par, but the everything else has got me excited
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