The motion interpolation is ass, the smoothing is the opposite of that and the lightmatching is circa Star Trek: Tthe Next Generation.
Fairly certain that is SSOB and pretty sure it is deliberate to emulate this
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/e7/34/b2e734d89f1af726be884a3964f91461--battle-angel-alita-manga.jpg
Three of the fight scene are panel for panel out of Gunnm, up to and including exact proportions of the panel exaggerations.
Fetish: the movie, in every context of the word.
The difference with TinTin is that all characters were CGI and were all adapted so they feel coherent and consistent with each other. Like they all came from the same world.
There wasn't a single real human actor in the movie so the "uncanniness" of TinTin isn't as strong if non-existent because you have no real humans to use as comparison in the movie. Hell, it works wonders!
But not here. The movie tries to mix things that don't work when only ONE character has this inconsistent look. If they had gone with what TinTin did, which was interpretation of a drawn character into something more human WHILE keeping what makes those characters unique in the manga (like the professor's massive forehead in Battle Angel), it would look alright if not better.
Why couldn't they make his forehead massive thru CGI? Why was only Alita/Galli's eyes and body CGI? Why is the villain's head not this monstrous looking head? Why the hell did they use that dumb song in the beginning?!
Verdict: Not going to be anything special altho, I guess it gets a few points for trying to stick to the source.
Only like... 2pts.
TBH if they wanted a robot manga to turn into a movie they should have chosen Origin. That's got INSANE style points all over the place.
Rodriguez's films have always been pretty dodgy in the CG department, so I figure what you're seeing in the trailers is what you're gonna get.
I just want the film to do well enough that some studio picks up Gunnm as an anime, the manga's pretty good and there's is not enough gritty cyberpunk in the world.
It's different though, because with Tin Tin the uncanny valley aspect came from the technology itself*, not the character design. In the movie he looks exactly like you'd imagine a realistic Tin Tin to look, as if they just took an actor, did his hair, and then digitalized him. It's not like they did that and then ended up giving him black dots as eyes.
*which is why it varied greatly in effect from person to person, I had no issues with it at all but then I do think I have higher uncanny valley resistance than most people.
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