Alita was sick of always having to untangle her earbud cables
There is a reason why every announcement of a Hollywood adaptation of a Japanese manga or anime is usually met with a groan of despair from fans of said property – there just aren’t many of those that are actually good.
Case in point, 2017’s Ghost In The Shell, starring Scarlet Johansson, a hollow shell of a movie that was more memorable for the controversy over the Asian-washing of its Japanese lead character than the actual movie itself.
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