Hmmm.... Some hot takes from the first two videos.
I think the point of the characters like Corbyn Dallas and Lilu is to show that even if the rest of the world goes crazy, there's still a few damn decent folks out there that are gonna do The Right Thing(tm), and anyone who gets creeped out... well, it's understandable in a ways, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS DAGNABSIT. Yeesh.
Besides, she pulled a gun on him the one time he DID try something. She ain't as naive as ya think, bub.
TSUGI!!!
Regarding the wait and Cameron getting distracted by Avatar? Sorry bub. I don't give two shits about it. What was absolutely CRITICAL was that THIS BE DONE RIGHT. For that, any amount of waiting is fine. In fact, I wouldn't have minded if it never got made at all, if only for the simple worry that it got a similar treatment like the Dragonball movie, or have the story completely repackaged like Ghost in the Shell simply so Americans can associate better with it. Urgh.
Fortunately, JC did get it right, and so the wait has been a worthwhile one. We have a movie that, for people who have never heard of the story until now, will hook them and drag them deeper into the BAA/GUNM mythos now that their appetite has been wetted. Alita has officially gone mainstream.
For the rest.... Well, I'm gonna have to go see it myself so I can draw my own conclusions.
Now if only life would quit screwing me over.
I think the point of the characters like Corbyn Dallas and Lilu is to show that even if the rest of the world goes crazy, there's still a few damn decent folks out there that are gonna do The Right Thing(tm), and anyone who gets creeped out... well, it's understandable in a ways, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS DAGNABSIT. Yeesh.
Besides, she pulled a gun on him the one time he DID try something. She ain't as naive as ya think, bub.
TSUGI!!!
Regarding the wait and Cameron getting distracted by Avatar? Sorry bub. I don't give two shits about it. What was absolutely CRITICAL was that THIS BE DONE RIGHT. For that, any amount of waiting is fine. In fact, I wouldn't have minded if it never got made at all, if only for the simple worry that it got a similar treatment like the Dragonball movie, or have the story completely repackaged like Ghost in the Shell simply so Americans can associate better with it. Urgh.
Fortunately, JC did get it right, and so the wait has been a worthwhile one. We have a movie that, for people who have never heard of the story until now, will hook them and drag them deeper into the BAA/GUNM mythos now that their appetite has been wetted. Alita has officially gone mainstream.
For the rest.... Well, I'm gonna have to go see it myself so I can draw my own conclusions.
Now if only life would quit screwing me over.