so we get to see eleves and dwarver get frisky? and then probably murder somebody?

Dang, eleves (I assume) put a compass rose AND a scale bar on the map. If it had a decent legend, they’d have gotten a B in geography 101. (Yes, I sometimes make mapes for a living)

With how integral the simulation space and religious themes are in the Matrix, Lain seems a closer fit to me. Then there’s all of the wire fu and leather fetish wear, so any cyberpunk property fits. GITS certainly seems like one influence. A lot of the hacker stuff comes from William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and their…

I suspect your sarcasm detector is outta alignment.

Naw, I just think people give film makers too much credit for rehashing ideas from other media.. I suspect the Warchowskis are pretty open about being influenced by old anime. Unlike, say, James Cameron.

Bryan Adams read this article at breakfast and thought, “Oh for fucks sake, now I’m gonna get mistaken for this asshole for the next year. Jesus Christ on a moped”.

yep

Yes

Twenty year old hot take: Serial Experiments Lain was the best Matrix movie.

Shit just got simulated.

Depending on how true to the manga they stay, it gets pretty damn grim. Alita does kick copious ass, but also gets a LOT of dramatic trauma.

At first I thought this was a dumb premise, but it’s growing on me.

Sure the CGI model has big eyes, but does she make “the face”? I can’t see how that wouldn’t play as narm in live action.

For the record, I’m a German-Irish Catholic which would put me at approximately 33% not-scary and ok for skilled labor with close supervision as long as I don’t mix with the quality.

Yup, damn scary Catholics, Slavs and “Mediterranean types”.  Weirdly, he seemed ok with the Irish.

Racism is just one particularly nasty facet of Lovecrafts epic disfunction. The man was literally afraid of everything, except people exactly like himself and maybe cats.  Noneuclidean geometery, the horror!! Modern architecture! Lucky for him he didn’t live to see brutalism, it would have broken his mind.  He was the…

Wrong Del Toro, Alex.

and weed

Collecting aircraft can be expensive (Ford). Who know how Keanu Reeves blows his cash? We know he likes to give people who work on his films nice presents and profit sharing. 

We’ll still have lazy pop-culture references though, right?