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I don't know if I can watch the new live action movie. I saw GitS in 1996 in the only theater in the Bay Area that actually had the original 35mm release (befor
by pdkl95 10y ago
I don't know if I can watch the new live action movie. I saw GitS in 1996 in the only theater in the Bay Area that actually had the original 35mm release (before Manga Entertainment's first VHS release). A friend of mine and maybe three other people were in the audience in the small theater in downtown San Jose.
Seeing GitS that afternoon had a huge[1] influence on my life. How big was GitS's influence? During the ~decade I spent trying to make several anime conventions more efficient and sane, I learned (out of necessity) SQL, Ruby, Postscript, and the art of improvising[1].
With the comments about how they watered down the story in the new live action version, I suspect I should probably ignore it, even if it looks great. Regarding visual quality, however, I suspect most people that saw the original animated film saw it in standard definition (VHS, DVD, etc). Those releases ruined a lot of the detail. The city backgrounds had an incredible amount of detail in the full 35mm version or modern HD re-release. I highly recommend watching (in 1080p) nerdwriter1's brief discussion[2] of Mamoru Oshii's use of detail to define the space of the city as a cyberpunk heterotopia.
[1] "What do you mean you forgot to buy the right labels for our badge printers?! There are over 4000 people in line and we're about to open! ... Fine, send anybody available to the two nearest Fry's and buy out their stock. In the meantime, I'm going to see if I can rewrite the Postscript template to work on last year's printers with different size labels in the next ~15min."
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTnl1FVFBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTnl1FVFBw
- equalunique 10y agoYou're not the only one who will not be seeing this new film. I learned this after Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As someone who has absorbed much of the Extended Universe eratta, it physically hurt to watch that movie. The story overrode much of what Disney relegated to "Star Wars Legends" - this is an experience not worth re-living with GITS.
- amorphid 10y agoIf it helps, I saw it. If you hadn't need the original, you might think it was OK. I was mildly entertained, but not impressed.
- WillyOnWheels 10y agoI had fun at a matinee showing of it. It's fine. I didn't feel angry about spending a few dollars on it. The movie has a few shot for shot remakes of a couple scenes from the anime that are pretty cool. I took to the movie someone not familiar with the anime, she asked me "why doesn't Major just take the elevator?"
- pizza234 10y agoIt's a particularly touchy subject because the source material is very conceptual, therefore there will be proportionally more people looking for that in the movie than any generic sci-fi. I watched both, and I definitely noticed that the main concept has been dumbed down... but then, so what? Aesthetics is a core part of the medium, so it's perfectly justified to enjoy a movie in large part for that. So ultimately it's about what one is looking for; it definitely won't please people seeing GitS through a cerebral lens, but it will certainly please the other end of the spectrum - people looking for a good looking, high-concept sci-fi.