Ghost In The Shell

>purchase
Hey I'm not going that far, user. Instead I'll borrow a copy from my local library

not even fans of the movie are going to call it a 10/10 masterpiece, but it's a great movie

and i do agree with even though i would've worded it differently. 2049 lacked grittiness. the original blade runner had an immersive futuristic world with slums and shitty little side streets, run down places that people of that world would avoid. that made it feel real and interesting. 2049 on the other hand was sterile, but not in an abandoned oppresive way. it was like villeneuve wanted to do a stage play with few characters and no distraction at all. other than that time k met mariette i don't remember a single scene with more than 3 people on screen at the same time or any indication of a world existing around the characters.

What was the appeal of the original GITS movie? I saw the scarjo adaptation before that and while I didn’t particularly care for either I found that I enjoyed the scarjo one more.

No! Decision that makes me angry! Purchase very good film Ghost in the Shell the 3D movie!

The aesthetic aspects were fine to me (the intro is not as epic as the original tho).
My issue with it is that they didn't went that deep with the story. It's like they thought that the public was gonna be too dumb to understand the plot of the original movie so they simplified it for the live action.

high-quality animation is inherently more pleasing to watch than live-action.
the major in the 95 movie is beautiful, as opposed to scarjo
it's got fancy symbolism that you can pinpoint if you watched other Oshii films to make you feel smart
It's got better everything.
It has nipples and more gruesome violence.
It has a more cohesive color palette.
It's a tighter retelling of some chapters of the manga.
It's got tacticool action
it's got baroque imagery that's pretty impressive, like you're in a nice church or something.

pretty obvious innit?

A fine adaptation and a movie that dares to show cityscapes, not like Blade Runner 2049.

>it's a great movie
Are you sure you don't mean "it's a movie I enjoyed a lot"?
Cause that's not the same stuff.

>Brade Runner

Yeah, it dares to show shitty CGI cityscapes that look like a pile of trash because of the overwhelming color correction that clashes with the colorful production design.

fair enough

It unironically did. If you don't hold it to the Manga/anime's standards, it was a pretty good movie, too.

They changed the kino SAC love backstory to a fairly more generic one.

>shitty techwear for parkour nerds and transparent coats that look like they're made out of plastic bags. A dirty food wrapper aesthetic.
So.. perfect for a cyberpunk setting? I like how you purposely leave out the geisha robot dresses, the robe-y ambassador costumes, the (cut from the movie) yakuza costumes, futuristic suits, several night club costumes etc.
But I do agree with
>of modern cyberpunk
>which is not something that should be allowed to exist
I fucking hate this new wave of "blue and pink neon signs in chinatown at night with a little synthwave = cyberpunk" bullshit.

I gave it a chance and immediately regretted it, this was a piece of shit with another ‘lost identity’ plot and it tried cramming in all the plots from the old GITS into one movie and failed.

I like ghost in the shell, the original. In the anime it felt like the city itself had a much more central role. The sorrowful aspect of transhumanism is really given its due with old and derelict buildings poking through the sleek surface like bones on a body. Shedding our humanity will really be like a never-ending ship of theseus, the amount of material waste will only compound. Existence necessarily becomes one of walking through ghost cities as only the latest construction will suffice.
There's a sadness in the original movie that got lost in the remake

>So.. perfect for a cyberpunk setting?
No.
Perfect for modern-day overweight nerds who want to be badass like their assassin's creed vidya gaems.
>I fucking hate this new wave of "blue and pink neon signs in chinatown at night with a little synthwave = cyberpunk" bullshit.
that's not modern cyberpunk though. Modern cyberpunk is bullshit like Watchdogs and Deus Ex Human Revolution.

>the original
so, not the anime, then. The manga.

Bait thread or a late shill thread?

the original movie adaptation* obviously, since we're on a board for movies. in regards to the manga I'm mostly glad that they cut the comedy and the music itself takes it to another level

>takes 30 seconds to kill the geisha holding the guy hostage
>geisha just sits there waiting to die

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The aesthetics in the trailer looked very good but the movie itself looked cheap, it looked small. Scarjo's acting was atrocious, she acted like a robot because she was too lazy to even watch the anime. Her character origin story was the most stupid idea. Kuze was a weak soiboy, Kitano appears 30 seconds andt hrows cheesy lines. The big villain is just a random corporate guy. the final battle with the sentry was dark and dull.

>It had to go against angry liberals
How? most angry liberals are white women and you are wrong to think they don't want white women to play in their movies. I had no problem with an european cast as think of movie wouldn't work with a japanese cast, that would look to foreign. However, she's an absolute garabge actress and seems to be a real life cunt as well

Reminder that Blade Runner shits all over its source material, but nobody got angry about that. These weeb properties seem to have self-sabotaging "fans" obsessed with the purity of the work.
Reminder that Netflix Death Note had an absolutely kino soundtrack.

For a movie it was fine. It was never going to be a good as the series. Movies are rushed that way.

I like it for what it was, but it was a pretty shit adaptation of the actual story for Ghost in the Shell.
They ruined it by pushing multiple story beats and narratives from various stories and blending characters together to make a singular movie. The only thing they really left untouched that they would be able to do next is Innocence, and even that they used Gabriel in this instead of just leaving Batou as he is and letting us learn about him later.

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>This movie had a great aesthetic.
it didnt actually. Only few scenes with this style
>It was a good movie.
it wasnt. Lost potential. Also very cheap.
> People were mad about it before it came out, and refused to give it any chances.
true thou
this x 100

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It had some nice visuals here and there, good music, and some excellent practical effects. But it is riddled with flaws.

It's a stitched together mishmash of various GitS plots that fails to do any of them justice, it copies several shots from the original movie and just does them worse or completely misses the point, Major's backstory is fucktarded, Scarjo doesn't do her justice, and I'd be complementing the final fight by calling it a garbage fire, those at least have some color to them.

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What was the polemic with that movie exactly? SJW were buttmad about the whitewashing?

Mute is underrated

>SJW were buttmad about the whitewashing?
pretty much, but the movie was mediocre per se

Dumb and boring crap with unnoriginal aesthetic.

I watched the anime movie and SAC and to be honest being bothered by the characters being white is exaggeration even if it take place in Japan, literally no one in Section 9 looks Asian, especially the three main characters.
>Major Motoko which is an android anyway
>Bato, he fucking looks like a GI soldier and has fair hair
>Togashi, looks like some british rockstar

It was not great, not terrible.

Live action anime can't be kino

>>It had to go against angry liberals
>How?
Did you not see the countless amounts of articles on "white-washing" and petitions?