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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Action, Science Fiction, Adventure • 2h 2m

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago

UHD tiers

Solid
Fox

Overview

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

Release details

Length
122 mins
Type
Movie
Alternative Titles
Alita - Battle Angel

Featured in Films containing scenes with IMAX expanded ratio

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Director: Taika Waititi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray

3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray

IMAX Version: Disney+ Streaming

Director: Michael Bay

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Original AR: Paramount 4K Blu-ray

IMAX AR: Paramount 3D Blu-ray

Director: J.J. Abrams

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D version: Disney 4K Blu-ray

3D version: Disney 3D Blu-ray or Disney+/Apple TV Vision Pro Streaming

Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount/Fox Blu-ray
3D Blu-ray for the IMAX/Open Matte version

35mm scan for original theatrical cut

Video Notes:

4K Blu-ray is AI upscaled

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Additional Info:

The 4K Blu-ray bonus disc, the 2012 Blu-ray bonus disc, and the 2005 3 disc DVD have exclusive extras.

Director: Joseph Kosinski

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Best Buy Blu-ray has a bonus disc

Director: Denis Villeneuve

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Global 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> WB US 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Dolby Atmos: Sony/Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Sony Blu-ray only has 5.1, not Atmos

Director: Denis Villeneuve

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: both releases do not contain their natively shot expanded IMAX aspect ratios

Best Audio:

Dolby Atmos: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray

Director: Denis Villeneuve

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: both releases do not contain their natively shot expanded IMAX aspect ratios

Best Audio:

Dolby Atmos: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray, Warner Bros Blu-ray

Director: Christopher Nolan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: mild DNR throughout the transfer, non-IMAX scenes appear soft due to being scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative.

Additional Info:

Best Buy exclusive Steelbook Blu-ray has the exclusive The Dark Knight Reborn Featurette

Director: Christopher Nolan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: mild DNR throughout the transfer, non-IMAX scenes appear soft due to being scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative.

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Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Probably Arrow The Mexican Trilogy Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Probably Arrow The Mexican Trilogy Blu-ray over Sony double feature Blu-ray on the same disc

Directors: Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Miramax Blu-ray

Directors: Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Anchor Bay Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

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Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray/BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion and BFI very similar

Best Audio:

Fox Lorber DVD

Director: Chris Columbus

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney+ has Streaming in 4K

Video Notes:

Fox has Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1995 Fox LaserDisc

Director: Terence Young

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain

Best Audio:

UK mix: 1984 CBS Fox VHS Hifi but missing one scene
International mix: WB 4K Blu-ray though source origin is unknown

1995 MGM stereo remix: 1998 LaserDisc and 2000 DVD fix gunbarrel dropout

Director: David Butler

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:

This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel

Director: James Cameron

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling

Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling

Additional Info:

An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908

Director: Peter Faiman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut

Best Audio:

Australia Cut: Laserdisc

Additional Info:

The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).

Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

(additional scenes appear to be upscaled)

Best Audio:

Original Theatrical 70mm 6-Track Stereo: Fox 4K Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 4.1)

Original Theatrical 35mm Matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1999 DVD? (2.0 mix on the UHD is a downmix)

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray, Fox Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 5.1)

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: David O. Russell

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

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