That is all. No wait! The villain was a highlight. Michael Pitt definitely has range, I want to see more from him.
shareYup, she was quite boring.
She really looked silly with that robot walk. lol
I felt she did exactly what the character was asking for. Born she was a terrified human. Now, after training in a robot shell for a year, with no human life, she ACTING more like a robot than a human brain. This was her life and why it was so sad what she had become. Then briefly finding her old life and her own mother.... being a brain/ghost walking around in a mechanism, not being able to TRULY hug her own mother.... the acting seemed to fit all the parts to me, robotic or not.
Barely remember the anime movie, and never followed the original, but I suspect the character acted like this a lot as well. Whether WE like it or not, doesn't matter... it IS that character.
Nope. Kusanagi never had a body. She's been in a shell since birth.
That's one of the big problems here- they screwed with the story line and Kusanagi's timeline far too much.
..Joe
To someone like me that didn't KNOW any story before hand, it worked fine. I didn't see her in a shell since birth, just her human self being brought in on a stretcher before they took her life away. Anything outside this movie is inaddmissable. Of course, major fans will see all the issues comparing to another story.
shareYeah, but the overwhelming audience was going to be people who liked GITS before hand. They were expecting Mokoto Kusanagi, not whatever the hell her name was. (BTW- she never had any other name than Mokoto Kusanagi.)
I'm no fanboy- I'm an older man that can appreciate a good story no matter where it comes from. Unfortunately, this movie did NOT have a good story.
..Joe
True, true and true! But, I found it watchable as a sci-fi, with pretty colors and stuff. :)
shareSo they "Robocoped" the story? Interesting... I want to watch the original...
sharePretty much. Thing is, the original 1995 film isn't an origin story. But, Kusanagi's origin is revealed over time. There's also a lot of philosophical issues they discuss about cybernetic bodies, and a lot of the origin is gleaned from those. However, the movie is just nowhere NEAR the story. It's like saying Superman was a circus strongman and a freak radiation accident made him even stronger and with the ability to fly. Imagine how that would sell...
GITS: Innocence is a strange sequel: The major is alluded to, but never really seen in this movie. (Even though she is there- I don't want to give it away.) GITS 2.0 is the first movie with enhanced CGI graphics.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a completely different story, independent from the original, focusing on Section 9's investigation of a hacker called the Laughing Man. Lots of good backstory here.
And...
Ghost in the Shell: Arise. This is a re-imagining of the series, which a lot of people don't like. I really do, and if you want, it's streaming on Netflix. Only thing is, Border 4 (the last episode) is not there, so the story feels a little incomplete.
..Joe
Michael Pitt was solid
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