I liked this movie and the film Passengers. I think the reason why both films didn't do well profit wise is because despite the big budget spectacle of it all and the heavy marketing both films had very small stories. Just plot wise, both films felt more like an episode of the Twilight Zone than a cinematic one.
sharethey both bombed thats for sure
shareand, boy, do I miss those days when things HAD stories that were interesting, and not just about the personal drama of a bunch of super heroes in never ending fist fights protecting the entire planet. After saving all the inhabitants of Earth so many times, that plot is just completely boring now. I don't care how they spin it.
shareI disagree. I think the reason this didn't do well is because they screwed to much with canon. Fundamentally, Kusanagi never had a body- she's always been a cyborg. That makes the entire origin story here spurious, and creates conflict that never really existed.
Secondly, Scarlett Johansson was just wrong for the part- Kusanagi's shell is a lot younger and slimmer. The height is about right, but everything else is wrong. Additionally, Kusanagi is not as conflicted as Johansson chose to play her- at best, she philosophically reflects on her existence, not with such Hollywood-overacted angst.
So: what you have is a concept that is loved by millions, perverted and altered just for the sake of Hollywood, an actress who does not reflect the iconography of the original, and who has no concept of how the character should be played; and a misguided origin story that spits on canon. The core audience - the readers and viewers of the original - were the ones that would have spent the money to see it. But, by pissing on the legacy, they just stayed away.
..Joe
Good points.
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