Forum - View topicNEWS: Alita: Battle Angel Film Earns US$19.8 Million on Opening Day in China
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Escaflowne2001
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I liked the movie but when a film like Battle Angel Alita needs to make $400-500 Million to make a profit. Something has gone horrible wrong.
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yu_samson
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Not necessarily. It is not uncommon for a big budget Hollywood film with a $200 million production budget to have an equally large marketing budget. There's been advertising everywhere for this film...on the Internet, TV, and physical posters everywhere. I'm not surprised. Hopefully it pays off, as it would be great to see more new stories on the big screen instead of another sequel film or reboot of an existing film. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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walw6pK4Alo
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This is how every single big budget film works. The usual number us laymen can go by is twice the production budget to know whether or not the film broke even after ALL unreported expenses are accounted for. For some films, they need more like 2.5 or 3 times the original production budget, because they fired the original directors and reshot the majority of the movie: Solo. Still, word of mouth for the Asian markets is excellent. I have no idea why the Rotten Tomatoes critic community seems opposed to it, the story explains everything clearly and the action is just as clear, so you can't blame it as "meandering" or "impenetrable" like say for BR2049. |
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AmpersandsUnited
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I believe it's because it's "competing" with Captain Marvel in the eyes of a lot of critics. There have been numerous hit pieces from movie reviewers against Alita: Battle Angel dismissing it as a wish-fulfillment male fantasy and criticizing her overtly-sexual design. These same critics are the ones who are propping up Captain Marvel as being a groundbreaking landmark for female lead movies. Unfortunately for Alita, it came out on the cusp of a politically charged, big budget MCU film. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I don't think it has anything to do with politics or Captain Marvel which isn't even out yet but even a lot of people who really like Alita agree the plot is overstuffed and the acting was mediocre which film critics are more likely to be harsher on.
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v1cious
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This sounds about right. I don't know what those crazy people were thinking who said it would blow up in Asia. It's possible Japan will deliver, but unlikely.
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shabu shabu
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Sometimes I wonder if Americans think Asian countries should feel honored they make movies based on their works, and Japan is suppose to thank them by going to see them, but American versions of Japanese works never do well in Japan because they are not that interesting to audiences here. |
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jdnation
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There has been some amusing competition between Alita and Marvel, even with many people turned off by the politics surrounding Marvel to recommend going to watch Alita instead.
But I also agree with the critics that Alita has big problems, especially with acting and dialogue and a lot of overall hamminess and lazy expediency for the sake of moving the plot along. Alita is still enjoyable, it's certainly not terrible, but it's not a well made movie by any metric other than production design and VFX. I doubt it'll get a sequel given it's likely not going to recover its overall budget. But I kinda do hope it sparks an anime revival, and we get a new anime adaptation. There's plenty of material, and the prequel Mars Chronicle is pretty awesome. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Captain Marvel doesn't come out for another week and it's an entirely different genre of film from Alita so I don't know why people are trying to make a fake rivalry between them. Can't people just enjoy movies?
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BadNewsBlues
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A movie that's also getting review bombed.
No especially if it's based on a existing property. Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:20 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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TexZero
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Not in today's society. In today's climate everything has a purpose and must compete for attention even where there is none. |
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El Hermano
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It's more than likely they get compared because they're both female led action movies, and it becomes hard to keep the narrative that audiences only dislike Captain Marvel because they hate women when they're praising Alita and it's audience score is at 94%. So I guess the only way to counter that is by saying Alita is sexist and appeals to nerd fantasy so it doesn't count. Which sucks because at least Alita's director has shown he respects and likes the source material so it just gets dragged into some culture war thing.
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