The whitewashing didn't bother me, but the stupidwashing was offensive. Hollywood took one of the deepest, most brilliant cyberpunk classics and dumbed it down to the point of being insulting.
I've been recommending to my friends that they stay away from this film to prevent them having a bad impression of GitS. Instead, I am recommending they watch every episode and movie in the original GitS. Watch many of them multiple times to appreciate just how innovative this series is even today.
Re:Ghost in the Shell
by cuillevel3 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:31PM
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Well it was only 106 minutes long. Actually felt more like 90 minutes. I think it was great, I didn't expect a cinema blockbuster to perfectly sum up more than a decade of GitS canon.
I want to see it again, just for the visuals.
Re:Ghost in the Shell
by spectistcles on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:31PM
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They didn't need to sum up the full canon, they needed to like... have any part of it? The original animation accomplished more with the story in less time.
The visuals in the film we're really well done, in my opinion. In fact, I really enjoyed the movie as a great throwback to coming of age on cyberpunk material such as Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, et al., whitewashing politics be damned.