Twitter Hates James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Movie Trailer

twitter can f*ck off. a bunch of freaking losers. Alita in the manga has big eyes. it was James decision to make her eyes big and i applaud him for wanting to keep it as real as possible to the manga. haters gonna hate

Something outside of our generic action movie views? Oh no we must label it as weird or dumb before it comes out!

To me, it's an interesting artistic choice. "How can we make our anime movie standout? What new things can we try?" Well, at least they're trying something new. Not sure it's a GOOD choice and it is definitely creepy, but I give him props for trying something fresh. The story looks like it could be ok too.

Eyes... just why? What for? O_O

Ugh Twitter...

Not sure if the movie will be good but I'll give it a chance. Gunnm/Alita is one of the top 5 manga, imo.

I didnt even notice it, the whole face is cgi(or i thought i looked like if not). I think now days its become a thing to complain about something.

I think it made me interested in the film even more. It's definitely weird though, but I'mma see the movie to really see how I'll feel about it. Waiting for the release :D

Now the Anime lovers know how us regular animation fans feel when we look at Anime. It is all creepy.

*flame shield activated*

I've seen things progress towards the Uncanny Valley from animation, but I've never seen something progress backwards to the Uncanny Valley from live-action; it usually just comes off as "they used to much CGI". So this is a first for me lol

But honestly, everything about this movie leads me to believe it will be good. Really great cast, lots of talent, seems like good source material (sorry don't know it but looks cool).

It was a weird artistic choice but it doesn't ruin it for me. What will more likely ruin the film for me will be it being a crappy western adaptation of a beloved anime/manga from my youth. Time will tell.

Looks cool to me. The eyes do give her a bit of a cartoony look, which is a smidge weird only because the rest of her face is soooo realistic. But hey, she's a robot.

If twitter were around during ST: TNG, people would be saying "OMG, why is Data so PALE?!" and news outlets would immediately brand the character and show a failure.

I'd hit that.

Sex robots!

Speaking of sex, you had me at Jennifer Connelly. Just take my money already.

Who care about her creepy eyes, other than the terminator looking robot with the human face near the end that tries to choke her this has to be some of the worst CG animation and effects I've seen in years.

Her eyes look like what a person who has never read a manga in their lives thinks a manga character should look like in live action.

In the manga she was explicitly created to mimic the look of a younger version of a princess. A human princess. As in, not some bizarre monstrosity whose eyes are about fall out because her parents were the inbred type of royals.

Her eyes are so beautiful I would gaze in them all day.

i dont see anything wrong with this, at all.

For once I actually agree with Twitter.

I hate her eyes with a violent passion. Which really sucks because I'm a huge fan of the manga.

The trailer on my facebook newsfeed gave it pretty positive reactions. I actually like the eyes.

Twitter hates everything....who the **** cares

Twitter is pretty much full of whiners at this point. Slow news day?

I can see past the eyes...

My first time seeing this trailer and it doesn't look half bad. Who gives a shit about the eyes that much to ignore the badassery taking place all around them. I'm watching this, screw "twitter".

Who is Twitter? Who is this person who's opinion is so important?

I have absolutely no problem with how this character is portrayed. I actually found her image strangely haunting and really unsettling to look at, yet strangely captivating. Now that is great art direction.

"Twitter hates"? Hyperbolae much, eh Gamespot?

Those comments from Twitter are quite harsh. This is a movie based on an anime in which the character has massive, as is common in most, if not all, animes. I understand that Alita was designed with big eyes in the movie because of that. I also understand making her a CGI character entirely. Alita is a robot from an anime. I personally see these as design and artistic decisions and don't have anything against it. If people want to see a realistic movie with real people there are also plenty of those. So go see those instead. Me, I'm looking forward to seeing this movie and am open to something different. People are entitled to like what they like and have the opinions they want within the law of the free world.

Of all the damn Anime for this mofo to do an adaptation of he chooses.................. THIS

And of course if it flops then it'll serve as example for idiots saying "see, that's why animes/ manga can't be made into great movies.

I'm sure something like that was probably once said about comic books turned into movies before they started getting big budgets and talented directors making them

@ChldsPlay: I know, right? When it's a shot of just her, you think it's an animated movie. But then a real person walks into the shot and it's like a freakish Rodger Rabbit reboot.

Gamespot are bumping their articles again I see. If there's no news then a feature could be written but instead we get the same topic on the feed multiple times. Lazy site these days.

So a bunch of moronic Twitter users = The Internet. Got it.

The trailer on Youtube has more likes than dislikes by a ratio of 7.5:1, so saying the internet hates it is false. Obviously if you look on Twitter all you will see is hate, mockery and generally negative feedback, because those are the types of reactions that Twitter thrives on and amplifies, but it's not indicative of most people's opinion.

As to my own opinion of the trailer, as a massive fan of the manga who read every book years ago, I think it looks pretty good! Will have to wait for the full movie, but many of the images are ripped straight from the manga pages, which is awesome, and they seem to be sticking pretty close to the original story too. I'm hopeful it'll be an R rated movie, since the original's action and explicit violence were a big part of the aesthetic, and knowing Rodriguez I doubt he would shy away from that stuff. I just still can't believe that such a big budget movie is being made about a relatively niche manga, I think that's pretty cool and I'm excited to check it out.

Why would you think CG anime eyes in a live action move was a good idea?

I really like the eyes