@ev77 said:
1995 Original Ghost in the Shell (the animated movie) - 2/5.
If you are reading this for movies to consider watching I would just avoid watching the original animated GITS movie. I feel it's super weak on all fronts; and 100% don't watch it if you haven't seen the GITS TV series (which are actually quite good) or the manga (haven't read it) because the movie will make even less sense. It has terrible pacing issues, a convoluted story with large info dumps to try and make sense of it all, and it tries to do the "over-your-head philosophical" bullshit w/o anything else to tie it together. As a "standalone" movie I don't feel it's any good; especially today.
Blasphemer!
"Pacing issues", is the kind of criticism that only applies to things with variable pacing. Movies can be fast or slow paced but their pace is always deliberate. Progress driven video games may be criticized for "pacing issues", because pace is partly player driven. i.e. when there is a puzzle or boss that is just too hard the pace grinds to a halt.
Philosophically inspired or spiritual bullshit is kind of a genre requirement, for anything anime or Japanese. Weirdly enough what you're saying rings a little true, but it's all reversed. It's the slow and ponderous pacing (also a genre staple) that gives people an opportunity to enjoy the melancholy and numbness of the main character. Both story and violence become muted and unimportant as the visuals, the music and the nippleless cyborg's sentimentality take center stage.
Working from decade old memories I don't remember the story of Blade Runner either, but I remember that Anime leaving a similar emotionally haunting and very memorable impression. Movies like this either emotionally resonate or they don't, maybe you just can't watch this stuff on a sunny day.
Sad clowns and sad robots, they are popular motifs. Maybe robots just appear sad to us, when they are simply being emotionless. How is that for philosophical BS?
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