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Originally Posted by Empty Glass

Opinions on those?

tl;dr I liked both movies. I better have, I signed up to AMC A-list, so I'm going to be watching them a combined three times a week every week until they leave theaters or until Shazam is released.

Unfortunately, Alita: Battle Angel is a great example of why I am going to avoid any spoiler material regarding Avatar 2 including the plot details recently revealed by James Cameron. There's one particular character who dies in a fairly heartbreaking manner late in the movie. And I'm sure that scene would have gotten to me on an emotional level had I not seen the source material. But I did, so instead I saw it coming from the moment I saw the first trailer. Some of the fight scenes (particularly certain fight moves) reminded me of Avatar enough that after I got home I checked whether Alita and Avatar had the same fight choreographer, which they apparently do not. I've heard criticism that Alita is a Mary Sue and that no one in the movie actually provides a challenge, and I don't agree with that in the slightest. Some of the dialogue between the main character and the main male love interest is rather cringe-y, but they're supposed to be teenagers, so that's not out of the ordinary.


As far as How to Train Your Dragon 3, warning, spoilers in small black text:
The dragons don't all die. I was afraid going into the movie that they were going to all die and it didn't happen


I didn't enjoy it as much as the first two How to Train Your Dragon movies, but I would chalk that up to having a lesser soundtrack compared to the first two (although I said that about HTTYD 2 at first and I eventually came around to love it) and not having what I guess I'll call extended epic flight scenes like the first two did for most of the movie. But it's still a How To Train Your Dragon movie, so it still does have some amazing flight scenes and a decent soundtrack and of course it's still definitely worth watching. But the most common albums I listen to are the Avatar soundtrack, the Pandora: the World of Avatar soundtrack and the soundtracks to HTTYD 1 & 2 and the third one will likely not be joining them.

Two things I appreciated about HTTYD 3 were
A. They did a call back to the Gift of the Night Fury holiday special. Other franchises may claim holiday specials are canon, but how many times do you actually see the referenced in actual sequels?
B. One of the main criticisms I saw of How To Train Your Dragon 2 was that a some of the characters from the first movie such as Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were shifted into the background in favor of a focus on Hiccup, Stoic, Astrid and Valka. I felt like they took that criticism to heart for the third movie as those characters do get at least some more screen time than before.