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Originally Posted by freebeard
Back when the thread was shiny and new, the competition was between Captain Marvel and Alita:Battle Angel. Have you seen both so you can make a comparison?
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Just watched Alita in 3D (Google Daydream) last night. Very entertaining. I tend to agree with IMDB ratings almost exactly, and in this respect I think it was rated appropriately at 7.4. Maybe I'd have given it a 7.6. A movie needs to be around a 7 for me to consider it "good", and usually anything less I would consider "ok", and below 6.5 would be "bad".
While I enjoyed the movie, I kept thinking that I'd rather be reading this story because it was rushed, and needed more time to develop the backstory and characters, but it did a good job with the time allotted. That, and I find imagination to be more rich than CGI for rendering a world.
Everything was predictable, which is fine because a movie doesn't need to be surprising. There was one scene which was absurd to me... if you're recruiting help to fight, and you can single handedly defeat all of the help you're trying to recruit at once, then you don't need to recruit help.
It has a theme I like a lot though, and it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, High Noon. That theme is confronting evil even if you've failed to get anyone else to join you, and even when the probability is defeat. That's the very definition of hero.
Some of the acting and dialogue was weak, but then I think it would be extremely challenging to nail that in CGI.
The movie was miles ahead of Captain Marvel. I don't even remember anything about that movie even though it was just a couple months ago. Girl fell to Earth and there was some fighting. That, and the predictable confrontation setup in the opening scenes of the movie.
Alita is worth watching, and High Noon is worth rewatching.