332: Alita Battle Angel
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Bad Sci-Fi Month continues with James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel! We talk about how Rosa Salazar does a truly impressive job with EVERYTHING stacked against her, a trope getting updated to Born Sexy... This Morning, and a genuinely wild cameo.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.6 | I high-bye lie, everybody. |
| 0:27.0 | I high-bye lie, one and all. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to I Hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.9 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.9 | I am Cat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:36.0 | We are continuing bad sci-fi month this week with Alita Battle Angel. |
| 0:40.6 | A movie that was in development hell for about 13 years, and I think really shows it. |
| 0:46.6 | My memory of this was that this was a huge bomb, and imagine my surprise when I looked it |
| 0:51.9 | up, and it did massively well, mostly internationally fair enough. |
| 0:56.1 | But well enough that they're making a sequel, and the only reason that the sequel's been |
| 1:00.5 | delayed was because of the Disney acquisition of 20th Century Fox. |
| 1:05.2 | And also because of the avatars, because I think they really want James Cameron to be |
| 1:09.2 | involved in any future animations of this project, and he's like, I am under the sea. |
| 1:15.2 | I am not available. |
| 1:16.7 | I have no bars. |
| 1:18.7 | Can I help you from my submarine? |
| 1:21.8 | I won't. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm bored. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm working on my blue cats. |
| 1:25.3 | Lord, I love my blue cats. |
| 1:27.6 | Why did you think of this movie? |
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