Action oriented

perfect movie

I like your(?) summary.
I remember flicking through the TV series to show some friends and not finding many action sequences to show off that aspect of it. Always came as a surprise to me, since it feels like an action-oriented story. But yeah, if the movie's missing the philosophical bits, it's kinda pointless to have made it.

Dumbass critics comparing a comic book to the hollywood movie, while normal people ask.. was it a good movie?

I suspected that this production will have no respect for the original work. Sadly it seems that this is the case.

PRAISE OUR WHITE SAVIOR

What else did you expect? Watered-down American remake. Goes without saying.

Maybe I should watch the original first?

I liked the original and I really like Scarlett Johannson - but from the trailers I saw I'm really unenthusiastic about this movie. I doubt I'll even pick it up if I see the DVD in a bargain bin in 5 years time.

Let me put it that way ... even if you are IGN ... You have sexual relationship with Scarlet and you LOVE Ghost in shell to death ... you will still give that movie 6/10 .... yeah its that ... average .

Its NOT bad , dont get me wrong i had fun watching it ... but i dont think i will ever waste 2 hours of my life watching a movie in a cinema again

sounds like a good score for an average anime.

I mean, I only got the gist of the original animated movie from some videos talking about it(theories, why it's good, etc.) and never saw it myself but I suppose in a way it's very similar to blade runner in its philosophy? Even then, the premise for the character is hard enough to fit into a live-action movie. Animation and live-action are just received differently, in my opinion.

Not easy to put that into a movie and I would've been surprised if the movie was good.

I don't know why people keep trying PG-13 action movies that are geared for adults, buuuuuut they don't want to alienate the teen market. It fails every time!
On a side note, Ebert is still alive? Good on him!

lookin too bad...

I was more surprised the writer had no experience in the genre, but after the trailer it was obvious going to be an action oriented movie.
they probably had little to no saying regarding the approach, anyway. Thats more a choice made by the studio.

I was pretty tired of watching crap, so just this week i skipped this and power rangers and watched Starship Troopers and Robocop :P

I watched it a couple of days ago. To be honest, it felt pretty boring. The plot is somewhat interesting but it's really predictable (I never read/watch the anime). There's more drama rather than action scenes and it felt weird that everyone seems to understand Japanese but can never actually speaks them.

But hey, there's Scarlett Johanson wearing reaaaaaaally tight suits, so there's that.

Verdit: Not worth it.

Stop beeing sheeple and watch the movie yourself. If you're over 13 you should be able to judge a movie based on your own opinion and not someone else's.

If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't.

Funny enough, the animes, even SAC, lacked the goofiness of Masamune's original (the tone of the 1995 anime movie and the manga could not be more different, honestly). So, I guess, every version must differ from the others in some way when it comes to GitS.

I'm in that minority that enjoyed it. But then, I'm in the minority that enjoyed Innocence.

I think it was an interesting way to blend the original and Innocence together. I also think it did one thing much better than the film it's named after - it made a strong contrast between human and machine. For all the praise the original Ghost in the Shell gets for questioning the line between man and machine, the "man" half is extremely lacking. Most of the major characters come across as calm, controlled killing machines. Togusa is really the only human element, and he plays fourth string behind Motoko, Batou, and Chief Aramaki. Like Innocence, the new film really does drive home that despite all the cybernetic enhancements, all of the people you see are real people.

I also think the new twist they came up with was pretty good. It allowed the story to still be about the rogue mind hacks from the first film, but bring in the missing children from Innocence. It does mean that the Major makes the exact opposite choice in the end, but it also gives us a good reason for her to make that choice. While the original spent the entire film showing us that Motoko was a machine, the new one spends the entire time showing us that she's a human being. So while the twist and the ending are a departure from the plot of the original, I don't think they're a departure from the characters or the message.

Haven't seen it yet but when I do I'll go into it as just another generic action movie and ignore the fact its supposed to be Ghost in the Shell. A lot of newer entries/remakes in various franchises whether they be games/films/series aren't actually that bad if you view them as independent products rather than associating them with a franchise.

Example*: Thief (2014) isn't a bad game, it's just a bad Thief game.

*Not an actual example, just a game that came to mind as I was just talking about it.

Holywood took something they dont understand and fucked it up? WELL THAT WAS UNEXPECTED.

It's even funnier how they did translate the name in my native tongue. It's basically 'Soul in Armor' ...

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... Was sure this was an April Fool's joke. Now I'm really disappointed.

I'm surprised it gets as much as these, cause by everything I've seen it is an obvious trash.