GHOST IN THE SHELL 1&2

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I haven't seen either GITS or it's sequel in at least a decade. So with the new live action film coming out I thought I'd revisit them.

I remember seeing GITS in the late 90's and didn't like it then wasn't impressed with Innocence either back in 2005.

But watching both movies now, as a near 39 year old, I appreciate them more now. When I watched them initially I was expecting cool robot fights and gore and I think the thoughtful tone and measured pacing is what threw me off. Reminds me of how I felt watching the 2006 Miami Vice movie and being disappointed that it wasn't like Lethal Weapon only to come to admire the movie more and more over the years.

Funny how perception changes as you get older and how I adored the philosophical tone that both movies have while giving me the intellectual food-for-thought that was missing from the Matrix sequels while the original movie cribbed heavily from GITS.

Anywho, Mamoru Oshii's GITS movies feels like the work of an artist although I think the animation is slightly better in part 1 while the overabundance of CGI in 2 kocks it down a bit. However, the scores for both movies are wonderful while they compliment each other and I wish that Oshii could have done a third film for the 20th anniversary because I'm not impressed with the TV show or New Movie or any of that other shit.

I don't have much hope for the live action feature. The Director's a hack, the screenwriters suck and Scarlett Johannson is a shitty actress. I suspect that it'll be a generic big budget Sci-fi action movie although I do like the trailers and the shelling sequence redux was fantastic.

I just wish someone like Gaspar Noe was making Ghost In The Shell!!!FACT!!! https://youtu.be/q0z08OpmEPc
https://youtu.be/3IGTiFuDjTI