{"id":13042,"date":"2019-07-08T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2019-07-07T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T03:34:01","slug":"alita-battle-angel-2019-robert-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13042","title":{"rendered":"Alita: Battle Angel (2019, Robert Rodriguez)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a much improved <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12613\">Ready Player One<\/a><\/em>, stupider but better in every other way.  Or it could be this year&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12233\">Valerian<\/a><\/em>, but in that movie you felt the hugeness of its universe, and this one feels like a video-game future city full of NPCs, with only ten real people who keep bumping into each other.  Anyway, I heard Rodriguez made a campy, awesome sci-fi comic action flick with producer James Cameron and his <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4041\">Avatar<\/a><\/em> effects team, rushed out to watch this in 3D, and was greatly rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2019\/02\/alita-battle-angel-review-movie-james-cameron-avatar.html\">in Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are moments so purely ingenuous they make you laugh with a mixture of disbelief and glee, like when Jeff Fahey shows up as a redneck bounty hunter who keeps a pack of cybernetic hounds on hand. It&#8217;s goofy as hell and borderline inexcusable at times, but it&#8217;s also kind of glorious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a much improved Ready Player One, stupider but better in every other way. Or it could be this year&#8217;s Valerian, but in that movie you felt the hugeness of its universe, and this one feels like a video-game future city full of NPCs, with only ten real people who keep bumping into each other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1582,1029,2546,193],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christoph-waltz","tag-james-cameron","tag-jennifer-connelly","tag-robert-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}