Download PDF Alita Battle Angel The Official Movie Novelization Pat Cadigan 9781785658389 Books

Product details Hardcover 336 pages Publisher Titan Books; Media Tie In edition (February 19, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1785658387

Alita Battle Angel The Official Movie Novelization Pat Cadigan 9781785658389 Books Reviews

• Kudos on writing this. But I do not see it as a proper novelization. Scenes were changed (sometimes dramatically), added scenes. Sentences were changed (also sometimes dramatically) and how they said it. And there were completely new, unnecessary, scenes. There were even really obvious changes. Colors, memorable parts. Even really big things, like personalites.
  
  I would say it's more like the unrevised script where they had originals for the movie and smashed parts of the manga in it before they did revise before final filming. And I like the movie better.
• I saw the movie before reading this. Then went and re-watched it afterwards. The novelization provided the answers the movie had left me wondering. It filled in some of the holes that had me scratching my head by giving answers to the back story of the characters that the movie did not cover. Some of the material did not match up exactly as it happened in the movie, but had the same results. I wish some, not all, of the content in this would have made it in to the movie. I believe it would have made it better.
• I've read both this book and the prequel Iron City. I've also seen the movie far more times than I should have and that is the basis for my major gripes about the official novelization.
  
  Let's start with the good. There are numerous places in the story where Pat adds some very valid and valuable filler and provides a reasonable backstory about whats going on. In my mind, the good outweighs the bad so this book is worth a read but understand what you're getting.
  
  It could have been so much better and that's disappointing in a way.
  
  In a book like this - where you're the official novelization of the movie - you DO NOT leave out/change movie scenes. You function more as an extended edition and add to what has gone on. Having seen the movie a lot, these changes are some of my biggest annoyances.
  
  Here's just a few examples
  
  1. Final Champion becomes First Champion and then most of the way through the book, becomes Final Champion again. Huh?
  
  2. In the first flashback scene when Alita is fighting Grewiska, the first words heard in the movie is "99, on your left!". The fight scene was in this book, but those words were totally omitted. On the flip side of this particular scene, the filler was particularly good as it filled in some of Alita's history that the movie couldn't do.
  
  3. Many scenes had major dialog shift and/or described something different. An example is the Kansas bar fight - in the movie, its a table that goes into the liquor cabinet behind the bar, in this book its a chair. Other things are even more major - Vector's death scene for example at the end.
  
  4. The Motorball race and Alita's run to the cathedral. Put simply, they are two almost totally different tales with the same characters.
  
  I've also ran down the source material (Vol 1 Alita on ) and the movie kind of sort of follows the source - in some cases religiously, in other cases the movie departs more wildly from the source material than Pat did. For example, Grewiska isn't even in Vol. 1 - it was a more hideous killer that would have earned a movie an "R" rating for sure. Particularly if Chiren was shown as she was in the manga (bare-ass naked in Vector's apartment). On the plus side, the near-end scene where Alita is hanging from the supply tube is almost exactly created in the movie as in the manga.
  
  I go back to the intent of this book - the novelization of the movie. Scenes can be added. Backstory can be told. And in some cases in this book, the added scenes and stories work well. But when it departs radically from the movie - Houston, we have a problem. I enjoyed the book, but unfortunately every time I hit one of these inconsistencies, it was quite annoying. I have to say I enjoyed Iron City more as there were no expectations other than the general characters to hold to.
  
  If you're on the fence about this book, I do believe the good outweighs the bad and would recommend a purchase, just understand there will be some major inconsistencies with the movie.
• I purchased this book right after I watched the movie because I loved the movie so much. I had hoped the novelization would be just as good, but I was disappointed. Although, there are still some good things about this book.
  What I liked about this novelization is that it gives you a more in depth look into who the characters are (their backstory, their relationship together, and their thoughts and actions) and the environment they live in. It also goes into more detail as to why they did the things they did in the movie. The flowers in the book were also pretty.
  What I didn't like was the way the book was written. The writing was mediocre and dull. The narrative humor the author included wasn't very funny, for the most part. The way the action scenes and flashbacks of Alita's memory were described was boring and did not do the movie justice at all. The structure of the book wasn't cohesive and felt restricted and scattered, probably because some scenes were changed in the book and the author did not do a good job transitioning from one scene to another. Overall, the movie was better. Just gonna keep this book cause of the movie.
• I bought this book after seeing Alita Battle Angel twice at my local Imax. Very well written and an enjoyable read, it mostly follows the movie (maybe 95%) and gives more insight into the characters. Of course it can't compete with the movie for action, but I loved the way it delved into the thoughts of the characters in many of the scenes. It gave insight into their motivations that the movie couldn't (there just wasn't enough time). I highly recommend this book if you're seen Alita. And if you haven't, you need to.
• I had such high hope that this would be a good read. It was slow, boring, and a grind to read. Well the 50% I was able to be through.
• It’s fun to read and enjoy revisuolize the movie in my head. Also helps support the movie so that’s obviously a plus!
• Outstanding read. Fills in the blanks f the story. Could not put the book down. Hoping to read the sequel.