![]() ![]() “What are you?” the hooker asks with a confused face. She visits a hooker who tells her that getting touched by her feels different. At one point, “Major” is confused about living in a robot body. It actually harms the story as well as suspension of disbelief. The casting is bad for a different reason. The Casting Controversyīut wait, wasn’t there some kind of controversy surrounding the movie? Something about Scarlet Johansson playing a Japanese character? (I’ve talked about this issue in a German post about Cloud Atlas). Well… the Japanese audience didn’t seem to care (the movie flopped in the US but made some bucks in Asia) so who are we to judge. The movie then devolves into a cringe-worthy scene between Scarlet Johansson (“Major”) and a former friend and/or lover who also got turned into a cyborg that feels like a prom queen politely refusing the awkward advances of a pimple-faced nerd. A tank does the cliché clicking/snarling sound from Predator that’s usually used for organic critters approaching a victim. The movie then continues to visit all the lame action-movie tropes like the bad guy switching an automatic weapon system to “manual mode” so he can miss his target more easily and ultimately get defeated. The boss of the shady high-tech robotics company straight-out declares the newly-built Scarlet Johansson cyborg a “weapon” in a voice that says “I’m the boss of a shady high-tech robotics company and will definitely be the antagonist later when she finds out what we did to her.” GITS really feels dumbed-down. In the movie’s first couple of minutes somebody explains to you that “Ghost” means mind and “Shell” means body. The GITS movie doesn’t seem to pull anything from this. But GITS has spawned a couple of spin-offs (the “Stand Alone Complex” series for example) that fills the franchise’s futuristic world with details and the special forces team called “Section 9” with life (and cute robots). Of course the GITS anime – when viewed on its own – is also heavy on pseudo-intellectual mumbo-jumbo. Its sequel (Ghost in the Shell Innocence) even more so. We are told that a teenage hot-head once said that technology needed to be destroyed. ![]() Most people in the movie’s universe don’t care and get along well with their cyber-enhancements. To say that it “explores” its central issues like what it means to be human in an age where people enhance their physical bodies with computer interfaces is a gross overstatement. Unfortunately, the story of GITS feels pretty bland. So did the story at least bring something new to the table? Now, in 2017, everything in GITS seems like it has been done before. In a way you could call the Matrix movies the first life-action adaptations of GITS. The original anime, while certainly not inventing gritty cyberpunk, influenced cinema and genres for years. The GITS movie feels like it came late to a party. Yeah, you can have the industry circle-jerk about how innovative their VFX were just as they do after every effects-laden movie. Somebody actually hand-animated all of this! Fast forward to 2017 and rendering shot after shot of a futuristic Tokyo really isn’t all that impressive anymore. GITS (1995) even slowed down at one point, showing scenes of futuristic city life that didn’t advance the story but were simply jaw-dropping. But it was the 1990s and back then this kind of stuff had never been seen before. Of course the original anime was heavy on amazing visuals. But it’s 2017 and movies shouldn’t get points anymore for just “looking good”. Demonstrating the tagline, this is really fucking boring.The life-action Ghost In The Shell (GITS) movie is pretty forgettable. So she can't leave, but there's nothing to kill her (besides me). On the way down she encountered literally nothing but some of the gear of a previous adventurer killed by a giant mole and once there found nothing but giant cave spider webs.Īt first it was rather unnerving finding just hints of a horrible monster that may be around every corner but now it's just tedious because I eventually find going in any direction leads to dead ends (leaving me stuck in cavern layer 1) and there are literally no creatures but some vermin (even when my adventure sleeps for a solid 8 hours). The one who decapitated the bronze colossus was named "Teme Jalpeklod".īefore the aforementioned post (I was actually around when that was made) Meatgod was most famous for Cherry Tapping a couple trolls to death over a very long period of time.Ĭompletely different note: After generating a world with caves set to visible, I've take my adventurer down to a cave and gotten down to the first cavern layer. ![]()
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