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Jan 2018

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I don't think the aesthetics are that bad actually.

boy oh boy... id seen screenshots of this around but had no idea what it was

ngl i kinda wanna see it, i love me a good ol robot movie

gunnm / Battle angel Alita... T'was all my childhood in black and white manga at some point.

Even if Gally / Alita had a little bit of very detailed, beautyfull eyes in the manga it still wasn't so "big" looking and out of place looking as it is in here, also, her eyes weren't that "big" proportionnaly to other people, she had a thin and smaller body than most characters in the manga, and her eyes were more akin to other people's proportions, but she was "petite" / small, and had a rather big skull / thin face.

The uncanny effect is too much, i would rather have saw her with slightly smaller eyes than this, it's too exagerrated / the emphasis on that is way over the top and wasn't what was really making Alita / Gally stand apart from anyone else.

I think it conveys the right kind of creepy vibe of an overly-idealised "angelic woman" and fully embraces its anime origins. It's off-putting in a good way.

She's a cyborg* dealing with her place in the world and her own sense of humanity. I'm pretty sure the uncanny valley aspect of her appearance is wholly intentional.

Either way, I'm interested. Battle Angel is a great manga, and the OVA is one of my favorite anime of all time. In fact, I think I'm gonna go put it on right now.

*Originally wrote "android". Wrong word.

Let me just say, I am dying with laughter after opening this topic to see tons of crazy eyes. xD

MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol omg seriously thats disturbing

It could be the greatest movie ever, and I wouldn't be able to watch it. Because I would burst out laughing every time I looked at that face.

I get what they're going for, but I'm not sure that's the best way to go about it.

But in all seriousness, it still looks like a great movie, and looks like it's actually gonna have the potential of doing a good service to the manga. Here's to hoping.

It looks like shit especially when I check out pages of the manga or shots of the OVA and that problem, even with it's specific style, isn't like this at all. Eyes are the gateways to the soul and when you screw up the eyes like this, you essentially take away the character. Even if its intentional the effects are so bad that it just contrast with the rest of what seems like a normal body, even the more mechanical aspects.

The idea of the Uncanny Valley is not to look fake but to look disconcerting. You see something and you know its wrong but you can't necessarily put your finger on it. Here, we know exactly what's wrong and why its wrong. It's not uncanny, it's just straight up fake.

A good example of the uncanny comes from the Australian film "Babadook" where the titular creature is portrayed through stop motion. We never get much of a look at the creature as its almost always hidden in shadows. We knows its real (as in, an actual prop is used) but the stop motion gives it an unnatural movement we know couldn't happen in real life.

If you want something to be uncanny then you needs to have a sense of realism to it. If this character is supposed to have traits of inhumanity, then give it to her in another way. Because what might work in a manga, anime or cartoon, doesn't work in real life.

There's a big difference again between something that is uncanny and something that looks straight up fake.

Now I just want to watch “Big Eyes”, which also had Christoph Waltz. Hm.
Srsly though, the eyes freaked me out a bit. Trailer looked good, though.


They found a way to make something creepier than Lady Gaga's anime eyes from Bad Romance.

I am not at all familiar with the source material, so as an outsider, it just looks uncanny and awful. Also, why not just use a real actress who has naturally large eyes, instead she just looks really fake from head to toe.

On another note, I absolutely hate sappy songs with the word "angel" in them. Which only added to the cringe of this.

Actually the actress looks pretty dang fitting without those creepy CGI eyes. Like... look at her. There is no need to do this to her!

In the Manga she was able to pass as human and actively hid her robotic arms from a boy she liked (as far as I can remember, has been a while since I read Battle Angel). Her eyes were exaggerated a bit in the Manga, but that was a purely stylistic choice to emphasize her young face. Other characters had big eyes as well, because - gasp - most Japanese comics do.

This choice is just so weird.

Yeah I'm with most of the people here with the eyes they're really creepy but I will admit the storyline seems good. Also the actual actress looks pretty especially without the CGI eyes.