Well, watched the Alita film; no spoilers, but thank god i went with low expectations, cause what a disaster of adaptation.
It’s like they just randomly threw in stuff from 20 years of manga, and stuff from the ova, while making shit up to somehow mix it all,
I don’t usually do “reviews” of stuff, but Alita is my favourite comic of all times, and was rightfully afraid of this adaptation. I still tried to see it with a neutral stance, and managed to not cringe for the first half, but the more they revealed of the backstory and setting, the more i cringed.
I mean it’s not as bad as Dragon ball evolution, it at least have similarities with the manga, but mainly it’s a made up story than then they filled with references to a miriad stuff, while never using it correctly.
Most of the characters and representative stuff are there just as a cameo. The tone is completely lost; they turned scrapyard city into a place full of light and happy people, when it’s a dark city full of poor souls that barely can mantain their cyborg parts. And how they fuck they managed to change Alita into family friendly stuff… like, seriously, Alita is super gory, and i don’t know if i even saw blood here.
Even the motorball, which was the thing i was most hopeful for, is completelly underused, and not even the motorballers from the manga appear. There’s one cameo that even felt insulting because how the fuck you introduce THAT character and let it slide as just a cameo?
They also completelly made up the entire backstory of Alita, the backstory of important characters, and the setting of the world. It’s like it’s a completely diferent world and story, but then Alita is there.
It still has somehow a resemblance to the first volumes so at least there’s that, it doesn’t completely ignore the source like other adaptations, so it’s not on the worse tier of anime movie, but it’s still bad.
I can’t wait for the live action adaption of Monster Girls on Tour. There probably gonna take out all the nudity and take out all the swear words and make every character into an SJW (apart from Europa of course), so that it’s PG 13 rated. XD
Also: I dare to place a bet that it’s not even remotely as dark and depressive as Metro 2033 (book), where humanity is forced to live underground in the metro’s like rats, and where they can’t even go to the surface at daytime, because the sun would blind there eyes.
Man that movie sounds shit. Gonna be watching it tomorrow, with a friend. XD
Is it at least fun for people that didn’t read the manga?
Idk, i think it was boring at parts and lacked a villain, and some people have commented the same.
Why are you always so fucking negative?
JK XD
Done watching it. Not that good, but I had some fun watching it. I never read the manga, so I wasn’t expecting shit and it wasn’t good, but I kinda enjoyed it.
One thing that did surprise me was that you said it was very gory and I could almost not believe that. At some
point one guy gets cut in half, but thats it. And the main character looks so fucking unsettling. She just looked like a doll (and I fucking hate dolls).
Can’t say I hated it, but it wasn’t that good and when (SPOILER ALERT) Hugo died, I couldn’t give less of a fuck, but something tells me that I should give a fuck, but it was simply impossible. XD
Also: I don’t read that many comics or manga’s, but the on I had the most fun with reading Monster Girls on Tour (fuck that name), which is why that is my favourite. No idea if Monster Girls on Space Tour, will be an improvement. I don’t think it will be for me, because I don’t love futuristic and im not in love with mecha shit, but im still hyped as fuck, because it will contain the same badass characters, same cool action scenes, and the stupid jokes that make me fucking burst out. XD
So good luck with MGoST and good luck with your shitty movie adaption.
The manga is super gory, the movie was family friendly
I don’t even know how you make something extremely gory family friendly.
How would you make something like Elfen Lied family friendly? Turn it into the Iron Giant. XD