This was not what we needed, this was what we deserved from an anime/manga adaptation. I'm gonna be honest with y'all, I love reading manga and watching anime but I've never in my life seen a good adaptation of those things. Sure the Bleach one wasn't as bad as Death Note and all the attack on titan and what not, but I still didn't enjoy it. I haven't enjoyed any of them.
That was until I saw Alita: Battle Angel this weekend. I haven't read the manga "Battle angel Alita" or seen the anime adaptation "Gunnm". But I know enough to know where the film should go to be considered a good movie. It starts of really well but then kinda drops the pacing a bit until it gets really good. So the beginning is really well made but the pacing can feel a little bit out of place sometimes, especially after the start of the film. I wanted to know a little bit more about Alita and her origins. Other than that I think the film really kicks you in and you can just enjoy the whole film without worries.
It has great characters, especially the main characters being: Alita and Hugo. They are such well written characters with great origins and story's to tell, though I would've wanted a little more backstory for them both. They also have a really great villain, which I do not want to spoil cause he's so mysterious and just screams villain. The other bad guys also feel really thought out and it's clear what they want to do, which is really re-freshing, cause I think that can be a really stupid problem in modern movies.
The plot itself is really easy to understand and I think this movie really tells what it wants to in a really good way. The surroundings feel so old but at the same time so new and modern. They have this really cool sport called motor ball which can both feel very cool cause it really says a lot about the characters when they're playing it but It can also feel like they're trying to do this really big, modern sport but not quite mastering it.
And as I said before, I haven't watched or read any of the manga or anime adaptations of this story but I can tell you that this works really good as a stand alone movie but also as a love letter to all of the many fans out there that have been dying for this movie to finally come out. It's really worth the hype!
Final verdict:
Though the story was a little too fast sometimes and I wish I could know the characters a little bit more then we already knew I think this movie was really well written and I would love to see a sequel after the avatar sequel. It's easy to say that this is true to the source material and I do highly recommend it to all types of movie fans. Whether you've read the manga or not this is a truly fantastic and beautiful movie and I will now watch the anime and read the manga until the sequel comes out.
That was until I saw Alita: Battle Angel this weekend. I haven't read the manga "Battle angel Alita" or seen the anime adaptation "Gunnm". But I know enough to know where the film should go to be considered a good movie. It starts of really well but then kinda drops the pacing a bit until it gets really good. So the beginning is really well made but the pacing can feel a little bit out of place sometimes, especially after the start of the film. I wanted to know a little bit more about Alita and her origins. Other than that I think the film really kicks you in and you can just enjoy the whole film without worries.
It has great characters, especially the main characters being: Alita and Hugo. They are such well written characters with great origins and story's to tell, though I would've wanted a little more backstory for them both. They also have a really great villain, which I do not want to spoil cause he's so mysterious and just screams villain. The other bad guys also feel really thought out and it's clear what they want to do, which is really re-freshing, cause I think that can be a really stupid problem in modern movies.
The plot itself is really easy to understand and I think this movie really tells what it wants to in a really good way. The surroundings feel so old but at the same time so new and modern. They have this really cool sport called motor ball which can both feel very cool cause it really says a lot about the characters when they're playing it but It can also feel like they're trying to do this really big, modern sport but not quite mastering it.
And as I said before, I haven't watched or read any of the manga or anime adaptations of this story but I can tell you that this works really good as a stand alone movie but also as a love letter to all of the many fans out there that have been dying for this movie to finally come out. It's really worth the hype!
Final verdict:
Though the story was a little too fast sometimes and I wish I could know the characters a little bit more then we already knew I think this movie was really well written and I would love to see a sequel after the avatar sequel. It's easy to say that this is true to the source material and I do highly recommend it to all types of movie fans. Whether you've read the manga or not this is a truly fantastic and beautiful movie and I will now watch the anime and read the manga until the sequel comes out.