05-27-2018, 03:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2018, 03:46 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, the whitewashing sux even with ScarJo. It’s starts out too obvious with way too much talk about ghosts and shells. Yeah, we get it. Movies that have to spend that much time explaining their title is just lazy writing. The plot is choppy - there are some dumb leaps that are never satisfactorily explained. Beat Takano speaks all his lines in Japanese - no one else does this - and everyone understands perfectly as if he was speaking wookie. The effects are awesome, sort of blade runner on cgi steroids, but we all know good effects can only carry things so far. Much of the design seems to be trying to actualize the anime, which with cgi isn’t too hard. It’s very dark, like the anime, with nice moments of ultravi. A tad preachy on the tech vs humanity schtick, but it started to work for me towards the latter part of the movie. Binoche was classy as always and Beat comes alive at the end. ScarJo does what she does well, that husky-voiced stoic heroine, often stripped nude to her bot bod sans nipples and pubes because bots have no need for such trifles. As she realizes her humanity, she gets to act a little, not too much tho cuz she’s still mostly bot. As much as I luv ScarJo, this film didn’t do that well so the whitewashing flopped. A better choice might have been someone like Rina Takeda for the lead, but she’d have absolutely zero traction in the U.S. Moderately entertaining nevertheless, or at least distracting, although I wouldn’t really recommend it unless you’re into the anime, and then just for closure’s sake.
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, the whitewashing sux even with ScarJo. It’s starts out too obvious with way too much talk about ghosts and shells. Yeah, we get it. Movies that have to spend that much time explaining their title is just lazy writing. The plot is choppy - there are some dumb leaps that are never satisfactorily explained. Beat Takano speaks all his lines in Japanese - no one else does this - and everyone understands perfectly as if he was speaking wookie. The effects are awesome, sort of blade runner on cgi steroids, but we all know good effects can only carry things so far. Much of the design seems to be trying to actualize the anime, which with cgi isn’t too hard. It’s very dark, like the anime, with nice moments of ultravi. A tad preachy on the tech vs humanity schtick, but it started to work for me towards the latter part of the movie. Binoche was classy as always and Beat comes alive at the end. ScarJo does what she does well, that husky-voiced stoic heroine, often stripped nude to her bot bod sans nipples and pubes because bots have no need for such trifles. As she realizes her humanity, she gets to act a little, not too much tho cuz she’s still mostly bot. As much as I luv ScarJo, this film didn’t do that well so the whitewashing flopped. A better choice might have been someone like Rina Takeda for the lead, but she’d have absolutely zero traction in the U.S. Moderately entertaining nevertheless, or at least distracting, although I wouldn’t really recommend it unless you’re into the anime, and then just for closure’s sake.
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