GitS: 3DPD

MAUSJAUS wrote

I think they got the overall look down pretty well, but the dialog in the commercials sounds so lame! I have to admit though, I don't know about anything related to GiTS older than S.A.C, so if this is how Major actually is, than I would never know.

In the manga the major and everyone else is more lighthearted when they are not in action. And I have to disagree with you on the looks of things especially the city. The city looks like it belongs in blade runner not GiTS, but if you wanted a more cyberpunk feel then the movie is giving you what you want.

AbsentLife wrote

MAUSJAUS wrote

I think they got the overall look down pretty well, but the dialog in the commercials sounds so lame! I have to admit though, I don't know about anything related to GiTS older than S.A.C, so if this is how Major actually is, than I would never know.

In the manga the major and everyone else is more lighthearted when they are not in action. And I have to disagree with you on the looks of things especially the city. The city looks like it belongs in blade runner not GiTS, but if you wanted a more cyberpunk feel then the movie is giving you what you want.

Now that I remember, GiTS world was more grounded in reality than this movie. But it looks okay as a generic cyberpunk setting.

MAUSJAUS wrote

AbsentLife wrote

MAUSJAUS wrote

I think they got the overall look down pretty well, but the dialog in the commercials sounds so lame! I have to admit though, I don't know about anything related to GiTS older than S.A.C, so if this is how Major actually is, than I would never know.

In the manga the major and everyone else is more lighthearted when they are not in action. And I have to disagree with you on the looks of things especially the city. The city looks like it belongs in blade runner not GiTS, but if you wanted a more cyberpunk feel then the movie is giving you what you want.

Now that I remember, GiTS world was more grounded in reality than this movie. But it looks okay as a generic cyberpunk setting.

yes it does. but the more changes i notice the more it breaks my suspension of disbelief

Em. wrote

MAUSJAUS wrote

AbsentLife wrote

MAUSJAUS wrote

I think they got the overall look down pretty well, but the dialog in the commercials sounds so lame! I have to admit though, I don't know about anything related to GiTS older than S.A.C, so if this is how Major actually is, than I would never know.

In the manga the major and everyone else is more lighthearted when they are not in action. And I have to disagree with you on the looks of things especially the city. The city looks like it belongs in blade runner not GiTS, but if you wanted a more cyberpunk feel then the movie is giving you what you want.

Now that I remember, GiTS world was more grounded in reality than this movie. But it looks okay as a generic cyberpunk setting.

I'm actually glad they amped up the cyberpunk ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ, just because I'm a sucker for it. I just hope it doesn't negatively affects the story, but I doubt it will.

i do not think the setting will affect the story but i think the story is going to be fucked regardless

I watched the movie, it was actually my the first GitS thing I've seen. The general feeling I got is that it was just another generic American action movie. The plot was predictable and unnecessarily "deep". There was even the standard "humanity will strive on, teamwork is important" moral at the end.

After watching it, I started reading the manga. The feeling is completely different - the setting is more light-hearted, the characters crack jokes all the time, etc. The movie feels like yet another action sci-fun movie, but with cyberpunk mixed in. The only thing it has in common with Ghost in the Shell is characters and the title. Everything else is cyberpunk in general, but being cyberpunk doesn't automatically make something part of GitS.

2AMPE wrote

I watched the movie, it was actually my the first GitS thing I've seen. The general feeling I got is that it was just another generic American action movie. The plot was predictable and unnecessarily "deep". There was even the standard "humanity will strive on, teamwork is important" moral at the end.

After watching it, I started reading the manga. The feeling is completely different - the setting is more light-hearted, the characters crack jokes all the time, etc. The movie feels like yet another action sci-fun movie, but with cyberpunk mixed in. The only thing it has in common with Ghost in the Shell is characters and the title. Everything else is cyberpunk in general, but being cyberpunk doesn't automatically make something part of GitS.

yeah it is kind of sad they could have made the same movie with buying the rights to GitS. but instead they wanted to use a brand because they knew fanatics would see it

it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it still was far from living up to the original GitS' standard. as it was expected, they purged almost all the philosophical framework within which GiTS develops its plot and its meditations on the nature of consciousness, cartesian dualism and what constitutes personal identity in a cybernetic world, and they replaced it with the vacouous hollywood moral dichotomy of the "bad goys vs good goys" where the supposed goodness always triumphs. I really have grown weary of this kind manichaean mindset they keep shoving down everyone's throat where everyone is either good or bad and there are no nuances in between. (tl;dr: hollywood should be abolished)

infornography wrote

tl;dr: hollywood should be abolished

Well, the Writer's Guild of America is ready to go on strike again, so you may just get your wish.

All in One wrote

infornography wrote

tl;dr: hollywood should be abolished

Well, the Writer's Guild of America is ready to go on strike again, so you may just get your wish.

good riddance, there are no orson welles who are worth saving over there anymore