Cameron should have hired Neill Blomkamp
Rodriguez just doesn’t have “it” anymore. If he ever really did at all.
Neill Blomkamp would of at least done better with the CGI/FX.
Blomkamp would have turned it into some preachy, heavy-handed, cliche liberal propaganda. Filled with indiscernible, shaky camerawork to boot. I much prefer Rodriguez's more fun, less shaky-cammy approach.
shareYou do realize that Machete (which Rodriguez directed) was preachy, heavy-handed, cliche liberal propaganda for illegal immigration, right?
shareMaybe, but one should not forget that Machete WAS a homage to the sleazy exploitation films of the 70's. Those movies often had really loud, overt political messages to them (especially the blaxploitation ones). Rodriguez may have just been aiming for that.
Besides, I don't really have a problem with a filmmaker expressing his/her political beliefs. My problem with the idea of Blomkamp directing is that he most likely would have turned Alita into yet ANOTHER cautionary tale about the evil of capitalism. He would have taken the idea of the rich and the poor living in completely different cities to make some really obvious, ham-fisted allegories to our current world, similar to what he did in Elysium.
And even ignoring all that political stuff, he's not a good pick for this material anyway. The guy would have probably gone for a grittier, more realistic sorta approach. Haven't we had enough of that shit by now? I much prefer Rodriguez's more direct translation of the source material.