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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-20-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
I think that the best example in my experience is...

I think that the best example in my experience is music reviews. In particular, heavy metal music reviews. Being a metal head I almost only read metal music reviews written by fellow metalheads.
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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-20-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
The vast majority of the world's population does...

The vast majority of the world's population does not holt into any form of "identity politics".

Identity politics is a very recent and very Anglo-American thing that has no existence outside of...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-20-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
The thing is that it is fundamentally impossible...

The thing is that it is fundamentally impossible to measure "artistic quality" objectively.

Art is fundamentally subjective: artistic experience is the communication that arises between the...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-19-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Actually, I just thought about it now.

Alita and Queen's movie are very similar in one aspect: neither movie conforms to the identity politics ideology that dominates the mentality of those...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-18-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Bohemian Rhapsody is similar to Alita in it's a discrepancy of critics to audience reactions: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bohemian_rhapsody,

Critics rating:
Bohemian Rhapsody - 61%
Alita -...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-18-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Rotten Tomatoes' critics tend to love very...

Rotten Tomatoes' critics tend to love very formulaic stuff as long as it follows Western sensibilities. For example, a standard run of the mill family CGI movie such as How to Train Your Dragon 3 has...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 02-18-19
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Alita is an interesting case, it's my favorite...

Alita is an interesting case, it's my favorite Hollywood blockbuster movie in the last 10 years. It is a movie that lacks a deep level of subtlety in its dialogue and it is very fast paced.
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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 11-29-18
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Looks cool actually. I think I will watch it.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
I didn't know that. :eek:

I didn't know that. :eek:
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
I was reading an auto-biographical manga of a...

I was reading an auto-biographical manga of a woman's struggle with depression and she wrote in the manga that since she appears in many panels she should look cute:
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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
The OVA is just an adaptation of a few chapters...

The OVA is just an adaptation of a few chapters of the manga (the same with this movie). The manga actually started in 1990 and finished in 1995 but the author, Yukito Kishiro decided to continue the...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
It's the general psychology of cuteness: ...

It's the general psychology of cuteness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness

Human minds are wired to have an attraction for it. It's basic mammal instincts to feel protective feelings...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
You should read the manga, one of the greatest...

You should read the manga, one of the greatest comics ever made.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-09-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Well I guess it shows a fundamental...

Well I guess it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of animation. It's like making a live action Simpson movie with CGI that looks like this:
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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-08-17
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Let's see if it doesn't bomb like Ghost in the Shell. Although the Japanese people liked the GitS hollywood movie.

Her eyes look weird though. Big eyes in manga/anime look ok because it's an...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-04-16
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Lots of people hate James Cameron. Its easy to understand given he made Titanic and Avatar. Still I respect him a lot since he was a truck driver who saw Star Wars and decided to make movies and now...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-01-16
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

James Cameron is very talented in doing what he does (simple and effective movies, The Terminator and Aliens were among my top favorite movies). In this case however he is not the person that is...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 12-01-16
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Re: Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

I really love the comic. One of the finest works of the comic medium ever and it's relatively short for a manga.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 11-21-16
Replies: 114
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Posted By Guaporense
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Besides Ghost in the Shell it appears Hollywood is adapting another cyberpunk manga, this time a cyberpunk Manga that is in my opinion the best cyberpunk thing I ever read or watched. The budget is...