The sad thing is... these ARE legitimately good scifi concepts that'd feel right at home in almost any GiTS adaptation. A cyborg in a body that looks nothing like their original self and limited memories having to rediscover who they were before? That's a good story! Said cyborg reuniting with their mother who accepts them even though they look completely different as long as it's still their brain? Also a good story. You know what would've been better, though? If she got a new face at the end that resembled her old self. Like if the movie closes with a shot of Rinko or a similar actress turning to the camera, who'd take the reigns in a sequel as the Major's new shell. HECK, you know what would've been a great twist? If the people who made her look white did so on purpose to make her less likely to remember who she is. Like if they did it to confuse her brain and throw her off her own scent, make her question herself even more and not get anywhere. THAT would also be a cool story that asks questions about identity and stuff. And I'm just some shmuck on the internet! How did the people paid to write this movie's script manage not come up with a super easy justification like that?
@nastylittlecritter
5 жыл бұрын
Nick on Planet Ripple you can’t do that bc that means no scarlet Johansson and god fucking forbid a hollywood blockbuster not Star a white person
@maduinargentus5878
7 жыл бұрын
Also they removed her bisexuality, can we complain about that? Yes? Thank you.
@lizerdspherex
7 жыл бұрын
That would have been something else to see Scarjo parasail onto a yacht and into a bed to start an orgey.
@maduinargentus5878
7 жыл бұрын
Then Batou calls her on the neural link and she punches him with his own fist for calling her on her vacation time. I would honestly love to see this live-action.
@sonicjrjr14
7 жыл бұрын
Maduin Argentus There's a scene where she picked up a freckled face lady on the street. Doesn't that count as a bisexual scene?
@Grnvolpe
7 жыл бұрын
Maduin Argentus Does she joke with him that she actually might be a guy at least?
@rbfloat
7 жыл бұрын
Yes, let's complain about that because the Major is one of the few characters in big name media that is bisexual. Not only did they fuck up on making her a white woman but they also remove her sexuality too? God, it's like they were purposefully trying to ruin the Major
@ArcaJ
7 жыл бұрын
The real crime is that they replaced the plot. Instead of a winding plot about the nature of humanity and machines, and the soul, we get a weak sauce conspiracy. Heaven forbid that the audience should have to THINK.
@gerbendekker3273
3 жыл бұрын
The plot is different from manga to anime to live action, but I agree the live action one's is the weakest.
@bigcas78
7 жыл бұрын
Basically, skip this and rewatch the original. gotcha. thanks Bob, you saved me twenty something dollars today
@thelinedrive
7 жыл бұрын
Honestly I have no issue with the twist ending since that was the first thing that actually sounds like the materials main purpose, transhumanism.
@ScowlieMeerkat
7 жыл бұрын
Then the twist should have been that she's a man, baby.
@lizerdspherex
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@RottenMooring
7 жыл бұрын
That actually came up in the anime series and the manga, if you're interested. At one point its dressed that the Major doesn't remember who she/he was and therefore doesn't concern her/his self with gender norms or sexual preference. Like, at one point the Major is 100% okay with the idea that she might find out she used to be dude.
@swinehorde9118
7 жыл бұрын
I love that the Japanese brain in a white body thing is successfully baiting SJWs into actually making the profoundly racist argument that brains have races.
@cutiepie4647
7 жыл бұрын
Swine Horde nobody has made that claim!
@lizzymatheson6487
7 жыл бұрын
They pulled a REVERSE PSYLOCKE?!?!!!!
@LungsOutJem
7 жыл бұрын
The original anime was set in Hong Kong, not Japan.
@adambesley4455
7 жыл бұрын
After they've killed all your friends, removed your brain, stuck it in a robot body, burned what was left of your original body, faked your death and erased your entire life from your memories is the robot body's ethnicity really that important. She could like she came from The Simpsons or was an Orion slave girl from Star Trek and it would still be equally horrific.
@heavycritic9554
7 жыл бұрын
We all know it (and if you don't, it's time you learn): Rinko Kikuchi... That's the actress they should have gone with. No offense to Scarlett Johansson - she's a great actress, as is blindingly obvious - but this is not a movie she should have been the lead in. And the twist, as you say, makes it insanely clear.
@dragonkingofthestars
7 жыл бұрын
SPOILER: Vut the ell? They, waa? why. Why would you do that!
@nathanmichaels2708
7 жыл бұрын
You know, the problem about how at one point it was meant to be a police team up movie is kinda funny considering that's exactly what went "wrong" with the original movie. See, if you read the manga or watch Stand Alone Complex, it really is about a whole police department full of super cyborgs in which the Major is just marginally more super. It was a lot like C.O.P.S. just without as much stupid toyetic bullshit. But that would have had to be a Netflix series or something.
@yaroslavgugiev4309
7 жыл бұрын
HE CALLED HER MAKOTO KUSANAGI :DDD Her name is Motoko, Bob
@NaviRyan
7 жыл бұрын
It's an advertisement for the series I haven't heard the creator complaining
@RexMundane
7 жыл бұрын
How did "Sucking bones clean" not get a "Phrasing?"
@TheFilmBaron
7 жыл бұрын
Well, I'm confused; according to the filmmakers prior to release, they implied that the character's identity would not be Asian, just referring to her as "Major." I'm glad I skipped out on this.
@CW257866
7 жыл бұрын
Bob, I was struck by how beautiful this movie was. I think you're crazy for underplaying that. There was clearly so much creativity and time put into many of the even most mundane details. There was a ton of art, just for art's sake, and I loved it. And, really, I think that kind of thing was one of the large appeals of the original GitS.
@NelsonDemifur
7 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the title of this one fits the general feeling of the movie perfectly
@izzymcgee2527
7 жыл бұрын
The twist sounds like a last minute change the did after the backlash they got for casting Scar-Jo so they can jump up and down and say "See! See! She was ORIGINALLY Japanese but got turned into a white person! We're not racist we swear!!!"
@Silverizael
7 жыл бұрын
It doesn't even make sense statistically. If you were randomly assigned the race of someone in the world, you would be more than 75% likely to be Asian, Indian, or African.
@izzymcgee2527
7 жыл бұрын
Lol, I know right? I think it's funnier to think the the evil government in the movie is secretly white nationalist supremacists.
@Thewhitequeen0
7 жыл бұрын
Izzy McGee Two problems; First, the government isn't that evil in this movie; it's moreso an evil business that receives government funding. Secondly, you have WHITE scientists and a WHITE business man who decide that the best way to get subjects for their experimental idea is to kidnap runaways (most of them likely asian), and put them into synthetic bodies that likely mirror themselves (both Kuze and Major are played by white actor/actress.) When you think about it, it's actually pretty well thought out.
@jacobjohnston3983
7 жыл бұрын
Gotta say, I don't mind the twist so much. A big part of the theme of GiTS was transhumanism, and one of the questions the original asked was "if your ghost (soul) is put into a completely different shell (body) are you the same person? and, if the answer is yes, then is your original shell even worth anything if it can just be cast off?" So for Mokoto Kusanagi to be put into a shell that's completely different from her original one fits that theme. Is she the same person because her ghost is the same, or is she different because the evil corp turned her into Scarjo (those bastards!) I get that people may find it problematic, but I don't think it's particularly insulting.
@Jayfive276
7 жыл бұрын
Aaaand once again this Evangelion fan is glad the live-action movie rights to that franchise are stuck in legal hell thanks to a dispute between Gainax and ADV.
@GeahkBurchill
7 жыл бұрын
I knew they couldn't fucking do it right.
@davidv4018
7 жыл бұрын
The reason of why i like Bob's reviews. Is because he thinks context is important.
@AppleBiscuits
7 жыл бұрын
Ghosts in a half shell
@stephen2624
7 жыл бұрын
There is plenty of cool Asian actresses that could've played Major Motoko Kusanagi like Chiaki Kuriyama (the psychotic schoolgirl from Kill Bill) though there is plenty that speak english too. It's sad and pathetic that Hollywood wants a well known actor or actress to be the selling point as oppose to characters, story or setting. My young brother doesn't like Mad Max: Fury Road but loves San Andreas because it has Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in it despite the film itself being generic. P.S. This is the second live action remake of a well beloved animated movie to come out this month. First Beauty & The Beast and now Ghost in the Shell. What's next?
@nathandrake5544
7 жыл бұрын
Death Note. But it's going to be shit.
@RobotShlomo
7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this movie doesn't get made and doesn't get distribution with an Asian actress in the main role.
@TheDukeofCheese12
7 жыл бұрын
Stephen Mc Devitt I may be wrong about this, but I guess the only reason they used said actress is that there aren't really any recognizable female Asian Americans to market the movie. Again, I'm probably wrong but that's my take. Also, Fury Road doesn't have any recognizable stars? Ehem, Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron would like a word...
@EwanMakeMovies
7 жыл бұрын
Nathan Drake well it's Death Note, so yeah, it'll be shit.
@hannabelphaege3774
7 жыл бұрын
It's a puzzler alright. How do you find a high profile Japanese actor for an american movie? There's not many around, partly due to a lack of roles for them.
@Aiddon
7 жыл бұрын
Regarding the twist, I can tell exactly who it came from: Ehren Kruger. Yes, Skids and Mudflap Ehren Kruger, Scream 3 and 4 Ehren Krueger, one of the most tone deaf writers in all of Hollywood was allowed near GitS. And one of the reasons he's so bad is because he thinks he's HELPING. Anyway, this is about what I thought would happen with GitS. It's not great, but it's also not bad enough for anyone to remember ...save for the twist, which has infuriated people even more. And there are also multiple critics reporting that Paramount is trying to control criticism of it during screenings to the point of throwing some people out, which makes me now question the personal character of everyone involved in thing's production.
@taravandevoort2285
7 жыл бұрын
Huh. Kinda ironic that a video where you catch yourself mispronouncing a word ends with you saying 'Mokoto' instead of 'Motoko'. Not a bad review otherwise. I'm one of those fans who can't wait for this one to just fade away into obscurity.
@mgatelabs
7 жыл бұрын
I do like seeing the ending part and the walls, light switch, door knob are actually painted green. Who needs a green screen, just paint everything green.
@bboythekidstudios
7 жыл бұрын
Glad I stuck around for that spoiler. Yeah, I think I'm going to avoid this one.
@Nassit-Gnuoy
7 жыл бұрын
bboythekidstudios There's almost nothing to spoil.
@theblocksays
7 жыл бұрын
Who cares? You're pretty much gonna forget it a week later like I did with Suicide Squad.
@Menuki
7 жыл бұрын
In a future with exchangable body parts, I don't see how it matters. Maybe a throw away line that the heads were made in Europe pr the US. In the original, she winds up in a child's body because it all Batou could find. Masamune Shirow said he always drew her with a more western appearance. The only people who seem to have an issue aren't Japanese.
@yeetleslaw8529
7 жыл бұрын
Same. But that twist though.... I will rent later so just to see that. But man, the fact they went with that revenge storyline is really a turn off.
@NickonPlanetRipple
7 жыл бұрын
It only matters if you look at it in the context of the real world and people who may be trying to find work in hollywood and missing out. In the story itself, it's pretty standard scifi, and it would be nice if stories could exist in a vacuum where we didn't have to think about the real world, but they don't and we do.
@MirandaAdriaYT
7 жыл бұрын
I think I may have to come to you for my movie reviews from now on. Finally somebody who just fucking gets it. Thank you, dude, for laying it out there, keeping it real, and calling bullshit out the right way.
@kaptainKrill
7 жыл бұрын
I didn't get the "phrasing!" joke. What'd I miss?
@The5lacker
7 жыл бұрын
Semen-al.
@CalmBlue
7 жыл бұрын
Seminal can mean both "inspiring" and "relating to ejaculation".
@blshouse
6 жыл бұрын
It is a running gag from the FXX show Archer.
@trishahernz7809
7 жыл бұрын
twist that the Major was a OC male soldier who preferred the female body model for practical uses would have saved this film to be honest, add a stinger they had a past with Motoko.
@Rocketboy1313
7 жыл бұрын
I thought that twist was given away in the trailer? Does that even count as a twist?
@dreddbustya2153
7 жыл бұрын
You got a new system, Bob? Todays video looks beautifully clear. Good job.
@minesbanduk
7 жыл бұрын
Mamoru Oshii had no issues with the casting of Scarlet Johansson as the Major. And yet, here we are in the West, loosing our shit over it.
@dannyni4671
5 жыл бұрын
Well considering Hollywood is PURPOSELY not casting Asian leads because "plot doesn't require it" well of course the Asians in the west will be pissed.
@WilliamGarland
7 жыл бұрын
Wait, they turned Ghost in the Shell into Robocop? (and the Robocop remake at that!) Well, (to quote Clint Howard) fuck my donkey!
@louisduarte8763
7 жыл бұрын
Bob could have also pointed out how GitS inspired video games. There's a ton of similarity between it and Deus Ex. I saw this at a free preview screening at the Metreon in San Francisco, and when the twist came, I was genuinely surprised. I took that as commentary about whitewashing and appropriation of Asian culture. Visually and thematically, it was similar to Blade Runner, which we're getting a sequel to.
@foxxxtheworst
7 жыл бұрын
I think you are totally right about everything you said, Bob. You nailed it!
@jaketaz2848
7 жыл бұрын
There's a difference between saying "this should never be remade", and "this doesn't need to be remade". I never agree with the former, but I often agree with the latter because it's usually said about things that were so good the first time that there was no need to fix anything. Ghost in the Shell did not need fixing.
@TARINunit9
7 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I wish that a movie like this would have two reviews. One if you've already seen the original and everything ripping it off, and one if you haven't (I've seen the original once, so long ago that literally all I remember was Major tearing her arm off trying to beat the spider tank). Does it hold up if I have nothing to hold it up against?
@JoshuaOfGrandRapids
7 жыл бұрын
"Polished turd," "perfunctory," "proficient enough to be unmemorable." Exactly what I've expected since the first trailer.
@ElevatorEleven
7 жыл бұрын
yeah the Major has never been robotic, that was kind of part of the point..
@QUINTIX256
7 жыл бұрын
Am I not the only one who finds all these Disney funded live action "upgrades" to be, in a way, disrespectful to the original animators?
@MichaelAarons1701
7 жыл бұрын
Nope. They've bombed at Star Wars, they've really at best only had Jungle Book (haven't seen it), and I actually thought this was by Paramount.
@TheGameCupboard
7 жыл бұрын
Mirrored my thoughts to the letter. Great review.
@BARMN89
7 жыл бұрын
I still think the best part of the movie is the fact the plot is basically a gigantic self-own
@MarcLucksch
7 жыл бұрын
As I was watching it I kept thinking they gave her a reverse Psylocke....
@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253
7 жыл бұрын
Strange, I heard Chris Stuckmann said it was a very okay movie. Not that I am caring too much... adaptations never end up good, especially when they are being made by people who have nothing to do with the original.
@NoobLord9001
7 жыл бұрын
I had fun with it. Enough to want to see the original movie, anyway.
@johnclavis
7 жыл бұрын
does anyone else have the problem where the video freezes and you have to jump around to make it start moving again?
@RichardMurdey
7 жыл бұрын
Changing the video resolution setting to 480 fixes it for me.
@IronBahamut
7 жыл бұрын
she doesn't even get her kit off so it doesn't even have that going for it
@jeremymurphy2787
7 жыл бұрын
"Makoto"? Bob it's Motoko. Totally different.
@EwanMakeMovies
7 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Murphy get well soon.
@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix
7 жыл бұрын
I had no desire to see this whitewash film when it's casting was first announced and I have even less desire to now.
@BrontoSmilodon1
7 жыл бұрын
Based on what you described this sounds more like Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet. Can someone spoil to me if the main character has someone she suddenly cares about that she decides to protect
@Perfect7en
7 жыл бұрын
Knew this one was going to be a piece of shit from day one. Japanese-America dodged a bullet with this one. Hollywood stop trying to adapt anime! You suck at it!
@winterwackoreborn3864
7 жыл бұрын
Bob I'm really disappointed that you haven't checked out the rest of the franchise of Ghost In The Shell like you did with Power Rangers. Like come on.
@Trunks1stApprentice
7 жыл бұрын
As someone who personally doesn't believe in race and ethnicity, I'm ignoring any problems relating to such things involved with this movie.
@NoobLord9001
7 жыл бұрын
Trunks1stApprentice glhf
@BlueScarabGuy
7 жыл бұрын
Can we please drop this whole "well, Motoko doesn't look Japanese in the anime, therefore it's fine!" thing as an excuse for whitewashing? NOBODY IN ANIME OR MANGA LOOKS ASIAN. The only time people look distinctly Asian is if a) they're going for an extremely realistic art style, or b) they're trying to distinctly racially contrast characters, like in Fullmetal Alchemist with the way the people from Xing look versus the clearly Caucasian people of Amestris. It's called an ART STYLE, people. Not to mention said art style is based on making anime/manga designs more palatable to Western audiences because back when the art form first started, Westerns (Americans especially) though Japanese-looking=bad or untrustworthy, because WWII and propaganda.
@BaggyMcPiper
7 жыл бұрын
That twist actually seems really in line with the themes of GITS. In a world where bodies are totally transient, how can race even be a factor in society?
@Silverizael
7 жыл бұрын
Yet somehow that results in basically every character being white. Seems like maybe the creators are the ones making it a factor.
@tonynoon8693
7 жыл бұрын
Now I want to see Bob and Chris Stuckmann have a Siskel and Ebert style debate over this movie!
@crithon
7 жыл бұрын
..... I may sit through the entire film just for the Basset Hound. Still my favorite theme in the franchise.
@DoctorFuturity
7 жыл бұрын
I knew this was going to be an amusing review with MovieBob. I was not disappointed. Now to go enjoy this movie.
@shindean
7 жыл бұрын
This movie was made to try to have a Black Widow solo without Marvel's permission. This is why they didn't give a shit about being blatant about the white washing or ignoring the best themes of the Japanese original. Can we please stop defending Anime to America adaptations? How many more decades do we have to suffer through to understand this shit never works!
@LPTheGas
7 жыл бұрын
Sooo... they turned it into Girl Robocop? :(
@t4washere384
7 жыл бұрын
Hey, I was hoping they would do that twist, nice!
@shinkaiatsuya950
6 жыл бұрын
I think would be better if they can convince you that this the third installment of a trilogy, the first and second being Lucy and Her respectively.
@Light-Rock97
6 жыл бұрын
I remember having a hell of a time watching this on the big screen. I loved the slow pacing, how long the shots lingered, the production values, etc. Then it came out on digital months later, and it became apparent to me upon rewatch that the story was rather weak, and the action scenes weren't as good as I remembered. Still, I'm glad I saw it at the movies, and it's still a good looking mess. Also, after watching Blade Runner 2049 I realized how good this could have actually been.
@OmegaLittleBob
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, I actually guessed the spoiler.
@docterfantazmo
7 жыл бұрын
I found the film super slow, which isn't necessarily a problem as the original film was slow too, but it was also ridiculously predictable. It just kept dragging on, they threw in all these scenes from the original which only really highlighted how awkward the changes they made were. I remember the Major being fairly dead pan in the original whilst on the job (helping to show how professional she was) but having some fairly chummy moments with Batou, but in this film it was just so fucking dour.
@badhollywoodscience
7 жыл бұрын
Wait a second, from the movie's internal logic, how is kidnapping a japanese kid and putting their brain in an android tone deaf? This is actually one of the subplots from the Laughing Man incident. (TV series 1). How are people getting upset at that? It seems like they (meaning YOU, Bob) are just getting triggered out of nowhere.
@diefty94
7 жыл бұрын
I wish they casted Japanese for Ghost in the Shell and Caucasian for FullMetal Alchemist (not including characters from Ishval or Xing obviously) and yet somehow we got it the other way round.
@THEWHIPX1
7 жыл бұрын
The fact that the major was a little asian girl was a twist in the OG movie. The shell the major lives in are white in both movies.
@SherlocksLeftNipple
7 жыл бұрын
I was going to excuse Scarlett Johanson getting this role as part of the usual marketing BS strategy to get casual moviegoers' butts in the seats, but then I got to the spoiler part. Holy fucking shit. I am laughing hysterically at how stupidly dense that is, and I hail from the country that produced Slave Tetris without the faintest idea of how that'd look overseas. Holy shit, dude. Just... holy shit. x'D
@TOAOM123
7 жыл бұрын
its literally the plot from one of the anime's story arcs. read
@SherlocksLeftNipple
7 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen any of the sequels or series that spun off from the original movie, so how in Earth would I, or anyone else, know that that was a thing? I maintain my stance that, in the context of the bad press surrounding this movie's casting, it's a pretty dense thing to include a twist like that without having at least an inkling of how people who aren't familiar with the source material beyond maybe the first movie will see it. Did they make a statement at any point clarifying that this plot you're talking about is what they were adapting? :/
@MirandaAdriaYT
7 жыл бұрын
Source? Because as someone who has watched and re-watched the anime MANY times, I'm failing to remember where the hell that shit showed up.
@init-rc7gc
7 жыл бұрын
Here is a Question is the Major actually japanease. I say this because it is set in the future where it looks like there is more than one ethnisity. So the major could be born in Japan but not japanease. Just a thought In the anime i never thought the major was japanease but the anime is set in Japan multi culture people. + scarlet actually looks likes the major at angels
@GarrestheWarrior
7 жыл бұрын
I figured out the plot to this thing by just watching the trailers. REALLY not interested in this one. We didn't need another adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.
@Rubberman202
7 жыл бұрын
...You know, I should probably see the Ghost in the Shell anime sometime. There's a lot of good anime I haven't gotten around to, most notably Akira and the Studio Ghibli movies.
@AvauntVanguard
7 жыл бұрын
I'll wait for this to be HD-uploaded to a streaming site so I don't throw any money at this.
@chemclimber
7 жыл бұрын
Bob do you think this is also the reason why we will never see a Nuromancer film? It being the father of so much cyber punk that its fully hollowed out?
@anticarrrot
7 жыл бұрын
Speaking of things you'll see coming 2 seconds after the setup starts... Did anyone NOT see this coming as a lazy hollywood super hero-origin story wearing the hollowed out skin of a much better movie?
@itskoile1985
7 жыл бұрын
I was really on the fence with GitS 2017 but I saw it now 3 times and rewatched GitS 95 several times in between. It´s by far not a flawless movie but I think it does right by the scource material. My analogy for what you can expect from GitS 2017 is, for it´s like a good cover-version of a song. Think of Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. It´s a masterpiece that stands second to none. Then you have the cover by the Metalband Nevermore. They could have just played the song as it´s written, but that wouldn´t be a good cover because if they´d try to replicate the original, it would be futile. Instead they took the time and made an effort to strip down the essence and the feeling of Sounds of Silence and translate it into their own sound and style, as a singular work of art for their own time and audience. That´s how GitS 2017 feels to me. Like a really good coverversion of a masterpiece.
@Evildood89
7 жыл бұрын
hey bob... about that spoiler, did you know that, THE SAME SHIT HAPPEND IN THE ANIME!!!! (Frankly she dind't look japanese in the movies, anime or manga, when some characters really look like they where)
@SilortheBlade
7 жыл бұрын
So are we not doing phrasing anymore?
@katanaridingremy
7 жыл бұрын
Referencing Archer whose season 7 just debut on Netflix, yes please lol also a bit meta saying that during the Ghost in the Shell review, a movie that suffers from adapting anime that didn't use enough Japanese actors and Netflix also has an anime its adapting to live action and of course is also white washing
@whoisbatman
7 жыл бұрын
Which anime?
@katanaridingremy
7 жыл бұрын
whoisbatman oops sorry about that. It's my favorite anime Death Note! The sucky part is that there's already a live action version of the anime and its awesome and fully Japanese, so the comparison is going to be harsh if Netflix doesn't bring it
@whoisbatman
7 жыл бұрын
Ah I see. Thanks for explaining!
@nothri
7 жыл бұрын
Phrasing. Totally hilarious, that joke. 100% comedy gold. Totally. Totally. (Okay, seriously what in the fuck is he talking about??)
@cobracommander8133
7 жыл бұрын
nothri I don't get it either
@sethgartrell9262
7 жыл бұрын
Sir, I've been a fan of your reviews for a while now, and just wanted to say thank you for not shoving "white washing" down our throats with this one. You mentioned it, and moved on. I appreciate it.
@Kaefer1973
6 жыл бұрын
Well I'll say had they changed the original setting from Japan to Canada, they could have turned every character white and renamed them without any trouble. Adaptations don't have to share the geographical setting of the original and in this case a change would have avoided many problems. It couldn't really have been in the USA of course since the country where it takes place to be a smaller nation in the sphere of influence of greater powers is part of the fundamental aspects of the story, but Canada seems to fit that well enough. Of course I would have also liked it if all the actors were Japanese, to me it makes hardly any difference.
@Undrave
7 жыл бұрын
Shibuya? Pfff... you mean Akihabara!
@RobotShlomo
7 жыл бұрын
Love the Archer references!
@ImranAhmad-rz5oz
7 жыл бұрын
Not to mention that looking "robotic" is that last thing that can describe Motoko Kusanagi.
@tvsonicserbia5140
7 жыл бұрын
From a culutural perspective you might say that the twist sucked, but in the film itself it's a great explanation to how they can use an A list actor who is basically the only thing pushing the movie to mainstream, while at the same time keeping the characters origins, also you get that it was the "EVIL CORPORATION" who made her white.
@OGR-4394
7 жыл бұрын
I was hoping it would at least *look* good, I thought the trailer was very promising in that respect. But it sounds like it doesn't even make good on that, what a shame. This is a weird enough thing that I still want to go see it.
@aztn19
6 жыл бұрын
“It would’ve been better if it was worse” is probably the perfect way to describe this movie. It wasn’t bad, it was BORING! When I wasn’t trying to keep my eyes open, I was thinking of cleansing my palette with Stand Alone Complex or Innocence. The tone deaf reveal of making ScarJo’s Major actually Japanese all along, didn’t make things better or worse honestly. Didn’t have much to love or hate in this film
@mikejonesnoreally
7 жыл бұрын
Right then. Well thanks for the reminder that I need to replace that Ghost in the Shell DVD! Ah what a missed opportunity, it would have been far more clever, and appropriate to just have made a complete beat per beat, word for word translation to live action if only to show just how much has been lifted from Ghost in the Shell and affirm it's place as a true classic and source for inspiration.
@diamondfox4766
6 жыл бұрын
Bob anime characters are technically white in appearance but act and are treated as Japanese, this is done so they can have characters with (round) colored eyes, hair,... so on.
@typhoongalaxy
7 жыл бұрын
Hollywood could master anime like comic book movies
@anticarrrot
7 жыл бұрын
What's with the 'seminal' joke? I don't get it.
@oak3785
7 жыл бұрын
Arguably the best review I've seen lol; I liked the film and as a fan of the original film and all the scene that are exactly out of the anime, but it's overall okay
@frankduff18
7 жыл бұрын
just saw I give it a 6/10 not great but good enough that I will rewatch and enjoy my major problem with the film was the loss of the philosophy depth and side charters but the graphics and fight seans were good enough to take the sting out of that
@MichaelAarons1701
7 жыл бұрын
That's not even addressing that the bad guy and story are taken from the plot of Season 2 of the series while only having the memorable sequences (minus the parade sequence) from the film to make you think you're watching an adaptation of the '95 film and also sprinkling in a nod or two here or there to one or more of the other films. As for the white-washing, I have so few fucks to give as long as they look enough like the part and there is a way out like the fact the shell is immaterial to the original organic body who bore the name "Matoko".
@geneirai
7 жыл бұрын
y'know for all the talk about how the casting doesn't matter, and casting the 'best actress' for the job, they really do try to make her look a lot like a japanese person, like uncomfortably, to the point where it borders on yellow face, if they'd actually gone and changed her skin colour slightly in post.
@chapterblaq
7 жыл бұрын
The twist is actually kinda canon. Or at least it's something I've always felt was implied. The major looks the way she does cause Asians (in anime at least) wanna look as caucasian as possible.
@chaosblades89
7 жыл бұрын
I felt like it was a series on netflix or something
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