Sachi wrote:What you've said is exactly why I don't expect them to live up to the original. I don't want to experience franchise bias. I don't want to put them side by side and judge them. You said it turns a good product into a mediocre product. Why can't I just enjoy the good product AND the better product, without making the former mediocre? If I want to dive into the heavier themes, I'll always have the original. But don't get me wrong. I want the adaptation to be good as possible. I just don't expect the same thing as the original, so I don't get upset when it's not like the original.
I would agree, but the thing is GITS(2017) tries to imitate badly the original in several cases, and what it's worse, take some plot points of the original movie and throw them randomly into the movie in such a stupid, clumsy way. And that's the problem. My favorite example is:
- Well, how can we start the movie without ripping-off the original?
+ Easy man, just make the cybernetic brain a normal, stolen brain from a corpse, and introduce them to a foreign body.
- But that doesn't make any sense, nor the Ghost concept or the Shell concept.
+ Don't worry dude, just make them repeat a thousand times the words "Ghost" and "Shell" to trick the audience into thinking that it's a great, philosophical concept.
Another scene that this shitty movie rips off (or reinterpreted) poorly is the tank scene, and in this movie is a washed out version. You don't see the pain in Motoko, you don't feel the viscerality of the body been torn apart, it's so clean and innocuous that hasn't an impact of the viewer.
But by far, the most laughable ripped off plot point is the Puppet Master one. I mean, what an atrocity. They introduce so poorly the concept that the Puppet Master wants to do a wireless network... I mean, there are a bunch of random monks who are never mentioned again, and in the movie the entire point of the network is invalidated in such a stupid way... I mean, the guy says:
- Come with me to the network.
+ No.
- OK. (And then he dies)
What a waste of a plot point! I mean, beyond the ridiculous. That script is like a 5 years old version of the original...