I'm not sure what others are saying, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell again recently and I had forgotten just how brilliant it is. There is something pure about it that you just don't find in modern anime, something that really resonated.
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#162I rewatched Ghost in the Shell recently and I was struck by how poorly it aged. Its animation holds up but its story felt weaker than I remembered. Like the director reached for something deep, couldn't get ahold of it, and then covered his tracks behind wordy philosophy.
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#163I'm not sure what others are saying, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell again recently and I had forgotten just how brilliant it is. There is something pure about it that you just don't find in modern anime, something that really resonated.
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#164GITS is highly relevant today, but I can understand why the Hollywood remake gutted the original story, because GITS is a highly subversive work that directly attacks the authoritarian state's bureaucratic power structure. It's also the story of the transformation of a loyal servant of one of the state agencies, Major Kusangi, into an independent rogue agent who abandons that power structure in alliance with some for…
They botched the remake since it was done by incompetent people. That was (still is?) the time where Netflix was trying to build a library so they threw random people at random projects.
Death Note Remake / live action film was botched too
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#165I rewatched Ghost in the Shell recently and I was struck by how poorly it aged. Its animation holds up but its story felt weaker than I remembered. Like the director reached for something deep, couldn't get ahold of it, and then covered his tracks behind wordy philosophy.
How old were you when you first saw it? I know when I go back to movies that "blew my mind" when I was a teenager or in my early 20s, now 30 years later, they're rarely as incredible as I remember them being.. I'm older, wiser and with more life experience, and it's therefore much harder to "blow my mind" as they say..
For this reason, I prefer not to rewatch movies that really touched me when I was younger. I would rather they hold that place in my heart unchallenged. I'm sort of defending my younger, wide-eyed self.
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#166anime is a completely pointless topic in my opinion. i honestly feel like it has no future because of AI. even if there is something that resembles anime in the future, it will all be drawn and probably written by AI. what is the point of that? and looking back, the only thing that made anime so good was that it was niche. GITS for example, while touching on interesting concepts and being beautifully drawn, doesnt ha…
I don't think most people value the aspects of anime that you are highlighting as highly as you do
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#167I have literally watched this movie 10x easily, and it's my "Continue Watching" menu in Netflix right now. Such a brilliant movie.
Same. For a while it was my comfort pick for a movie to have on while going to bed.
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#168Feels weird not finding the name of Masamune Shirow even once in the article (or the comments here, at least the last time I checked)
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#169I hadn't realised Jin-Roh was from the same creator. And I can see why it wasn't a success: Jin-Roh is dark, properly dystopian, confusing, and unforgiving. But underneath there is a retold story of the little red riding-hood, in the original Grimm fashion. The wolf wins.
I found Jin-Roh's use of the Red Riding-Hood narrative to be much more subversive than a mere retelling. Both lead characters alternately play the role of red riding-hood and the wolf, luring each other in and betraying each others' trust at differing stages in the story. At the same time, neither truly wants to harm the other, but it's the human society they exist in which compels them to.
The last shot of the movie is the Rotkaeppchen storybook lying in tatters in a puddle.
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#170Feels weird not finding the name of Masamune Shirow even once in the article (or the comments here, at least the last time I checked)
Why?