“Ghost In The Shell” isn’t too far away — Why You Should Go See It.
I just saw Ghost In The Shell” in 3D and it was pretty fucking amazing. I had watched the various collection of anime when I was an undergraduate, but that was years ago and I didn’t really remember much except that I liked what I saw back then. It’s why I gave “Ghost In The Shell” my money for a 3D experience.
Do Not Go see this movie if you want the following:
- Deep exploration of characters
- Broad theme development
- An intricate plot
- Are concerned about white washing (actually the cast was diverse)
Go see this movie if you want the following:
- To support anime adaptations
- To see a visually stunning movie in 3D
- Good action that isn’t purely gratuitous
- A possible glimpse of some things that our grand kids might be dealing with in the future
- If you want to see a female lead character in an action movie
To all the haters who don’t like the movie (there are a lot) if it does well from a box office standpoint you at least have a chance to see a Ghost In The Shell Netflix series.
The problem with the film is classic. It can’t go deep and satisfy all of it’s fans because it can only run for 2 hours. It can’t necessarily be a TV series because the audience might not be there to support such a big budget.
Game of Thrones had millions of readers who would support the show.
Game of Thrones as a movie or even a quintuplet of movies flops really fast.
Read further for why I think Ghost In The Shell is worth your money.
Ghost In The Shell is a Visual Masterpiece
I think it’s one of those movies that is worth going to see in theaters for the 3D experience. The visuals and the photography were all stunning. The video clip below does it some justice, but I think it’s a fraction of what I felt in the theater with my popcorn and 3D glasses stuck firmly over my prescription glasses.
The whole film feels like it was shot in 3D and it felt seamless. My issue with 3D is that it can be kind of jarring and gimmicky in some films. Ghost In The Shell makes it feel like none of those things and it felt like I was sitting in the future watching things happen as opposed to “Here is Our Really Cool 3D Scene Because The Studio Made Us.”
The vibe and tone of the not so distant future was from a 1980s view of the future, but they got the idea of data as a commodity right.
The massive holograms and signs on the buildings didn’t feel that real and in fact don’t really jive with how our society is going. The idea that people care and are swayed by things they see on billboards or signs now is dead so why do the creators of Ghost In The Shell think it would be true in the future?
Everything was beautiful to look at, but I think if we extrapolate anything from now to the future the idea of plugging into data streams might be the most logical. Maybe in our future it will not be a cable directly into the neck. Maybe it’s through VR headsets or VR glasses.
What Ghost In The Shell captures well is the idea that data and getting more data will be king.
Spoilers
For instance Hanka built about 100 version of Major before they got it right. They used orphan kids off the street or kids who wanted to be disconnected from data and refused to live at home. By harvesting their brains and experimenting they were able to get data to make the Major.
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The idea of human augmentation will also need extreme experimentation and thus very large amounts of data. Experiments to figure out what bodies reject augmentations and all the data that comes from trying to make artificial livers or enhanced eyes.
If we think we have a lot of data now we just need to wait five years until the internet of things becomes more mature and we start analyzing everything. Like aggregating movie reviews and ratings to decide if things are good or not as opposed to going to see the movie. Looking at you Rotten Tomatoes.
