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ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL Looks As Ungodly As You Might Have Feared In The First Official Trailer

I just spent all afternoon trying really hard to understand why Alita: Battle Angel looks the way it does now…And I can’t. Granted, I imagine it’ll be a fun and fantastic spectacle for some when it hits theaters but I’m with the choir on this one. At first glance with actress Rosa Salazar in the title role, this might as well have been a Pixar movie.
Holy shit.

Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment.

Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories.

A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

You lost me at groundbreaking but……………………………………okay ?.

Yes, I, too, understand what R.R. & co. were going for in staying true to the look of the character in the original IP…but in my opinion, they have done so at the price of making her look as least tangible a protagonist as they could. This, on top of making her look like an Asian caricature with respect to the 1990 manga, just spells a longer extension of the conversation people hoped would end after Ghost In The Shell and Death Note.
I don’t know what else to add here. Folks, you be the judge and watch the first official trailer for….this. And by all means, if I’m being too harsh, talk to me and give us your take.
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