Re:Ghost in the Shell
by ekianjo on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:41PM
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Ghost in the shell from Oshii was very much a philosophical movie. I had zero expectations that Hollywood could really do anything that matched it. Just as expected.
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Re:Ghost in the Shell
by digitalzombie on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:17PM
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They should have gave it to the Wachowskis to do it.
They would have done it justice.
You've not seen _jupiter ascending_, I take it?
Re:Ghost in the Shell
by digitalzombie on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:26AM
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Yeah I heard it sucked. I did like Cloud Atlas. But The Matrix was inspired by Ghost in the Shell so I have huge hope that they couldn't kill Ghost in the Shell like this current director did.
Re:Ghost in the Shell
by bobwaycott on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:26AM
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Yeah, that was atrocious. A major letdown after being a huge Matrix fan.
It's such a pity they never made any sequels.
They would have called it "The Matrix".
you probably know it, but as the story goes, the Wachowskis did show GitS to the producers and explicitly said: "we want to make this movie".
In a way, Matrix is the Wachowskis GitS.
Re:Ghost in the Shell
by spectistcles on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:29PM
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eeeehhhhh
The film was a masterful rendition of Shirow's vision. I have never seen anime brought to live action with such fullness. Batou and the Major look feel and act like the anime characters. The tech is precisely on point. Brilliant work.
That they did not wallow in obsolete philosophical tropes saved the film from bathetic anachronism.