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Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUtG93BebJ4

In case you've already seen it, you can check the post below.

Here's what we know so far...
1. Scarlett Johansson kind of gets naked, but just has a robot camo suit with no nipples, so she's not really...disappointing.

2. Scarlett's Motoko is getting in touch with her sexuality and sharing it with an african woman...which I guess follows the manga slightly because she has lesbian fetishes for some reason.

3. The plot of the movie seems to be about Motoko finding her real (human) identity, even though this was only questioned and or slightly addressed in the first movie, and in SAC she knows she's already human, she just got some enhanced implants that help her become a super special ops agent.


Oh and that Depeche Mode cover seems a bit lame. That being said, can't wait for Not Blade Runner 2.

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bone app the teeth
May 14, 2008

never seen the original (because i'm an adult) and this looks pretty bland. might as well be a marvel movie

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Motoko doesn't have "implants." The only organic parts of her body are her brain and some nerve stems. Her body was destroyed in an accident when she was a child and they had to cut out her brain and put it in a robot body.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

bone app the teeth posted:

never seen the original (because i'm an adult) and this looks pretty bland. might as well be a marvel movie

It will be the next Aeon Flux movie and I'm not excited for it despite being a fan of the franchise in general.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Junior Jr. posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUtG93BebJ4
Oh and that Depeche Mode cover seems a bit lame. That being said, can't wait for Not Blade Runner 2.
All depeche mode covers end up really loving bad. They're like the most covered band in history but all of them pale compared to originals.

Still looks cool and I want to gently caress scarlett johanson

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

why they got a white woman playing manga/anime character

Dogmeat
Jun 20, 2003


Woof!

I'll probably just watch Stand Alone Complex again, thanks OP.

Chrs
Sep 21, 2015

I expect it will be garbage but I'm sure I'll go see it anyway

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord

Chrs Gry posted:

I expect it will be garbage but I'm sure I'll go see it anyway

please tell me you'll make a post about how dissatisfied you were with the movie right after forcing yourself to pay to sit your butt in a seat for a mediocre cgi flick you knew wasn't going to live up to your expectations.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
thats why you go to theaters that serve alcohol so even if it's bad, who cares youre drunk

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

so you spend an even more ludicrous amount of money to watch something you won't like

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Won't be seeing this movie in theaters. I *might* watch it if it comes out on Netflix.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
If I convinced myself to go watch it and get shitfaced, I probably might go see it...

good thing I've still got free tickets so I don't feel bad after the whole rigmarole.

Lassitude
Oct 21, 2003

Blue Train posted:

why they got a white woman playing manga/anime character

Ethnicity/culture are irrelevant to the plot of the manga/anime poo poo. Nerds caring that it's ScarJo instead of a Japanese actress they've never heard of are dumb.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
BONUS CLIP! SCARJO SHELLING SEQUENCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5amv-vqUFo

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

Blue Train posted:

why they got a white woman playing manga/anime character

Why would they build an Asian robot?

DoctorStrangelove
Jun 7, 2012

IT WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT MEIN FUHRER!

Blue Train posted:

why they got a white woman playing manga/anime character

How many Asian actresses are as popular as Scarlet Johansen?

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Geez how many times do they have to do a reinterpretation of Ghost in the Shell's birth?

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.
It looks better visually than I'd expected, and SJ seems like she did an okay job. But it seems like they put the scripts from all the movies and the TV show in a blender and made a plot smoothie for this film.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
Not making any big predictions on this movie, but overall I think it's going to be okay. If it somehow does a slightly better job than I expect it to be, it'll be something like a 6 out of 10.

...7 might be a little stretch.

doctor 7
Oct 10, 2003

In the grim darkness of the future there is only Oakley.

I didn't really give a poo poo about casting a white person in this movie because they said "well Japan at this time is massively multi-ethnic so we planned for a white actress the whole time."

But gently caress she stands out like a sore thumb when she's basically the only white person in the entire film. I thought the whole point of her character was that she was supposed to be a spy you don't notice?

"WHO IS IT"
"LITERALLY THE ONLY WHITE PERSON"
"COOL"

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

doctor 7 posted:

I didn't really give a poo poo about casting a white person in this movie because they said "well Japan at this time is massively multi-ethnic so we planned for a white actress the whole time."

But gently caress she stands out like a sore thumb when she's basically the only white person in the entire film. I thought the whole point of her character was that she was supposed to be a spy you don't notice?

"WHO IS IT"
"LITERALLY THE ONLY WHITE PERSON"
"COOL"

She's not a spy she's a secret police officer working for a benign gestapo.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
Too bad Shirow won't get more credit for this, because no-one's going to appreciate him beyond his creepy porn art.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Dogmeat posted:

I'll probably just watch Stand Alone Complex again, thanks OP.

You're an adult quit watching anime

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

I will probably like this, but I liked Johnny Mnemonic.

Dogmeat
Jun 20, 2003


Woof!

vyst posted:

You're an adult quit watching anime

I'm not really going to watch it again. Or this movie. Thanks though.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
I'm the marketing department that wasn't sure if ScarJo's covered tits were enough of a draw, so we threw in some implied girl-on girl action.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

Zyklon B Zombie posted:

I will probably like this, but I liked Johnny Mnemonic.

Any movie that has a psychic dolphin as a main character is 10/10 imo

rejrjrtjrtjrtjrjr
Nov 11, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
i go to leaside high and am tuff irl

i date a midget and cuck ppl online

i cry liberal tears for my ipod

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

rejrjrtjrtjrtjrjr posted:

i go to leaside high and am tuff irl

i date a midget and cuck ppl online

i cry liberal tears for my ipod

Haiku's are supposed to be 5-7-5

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
Hey are the rest of the GITS animes good for someone that used to like anime but now find it loving retarded because I miss the cyberpunk genre and western media ditched it for zombies and superheros.

rejrjrtjrtjrtjrjr
Nov 11, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Blistex posted:

Haiku's are supposed to be 5-7-5

this is new form of poetry called n word (but with all the spelling correct of the racial term because PC culture breeds authoritarian liberal fascism - aka Stalinism)

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49
Can't wait to hear kids yell how this ripped off the matrix.

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

jane mmemonic looks pretty good, even has the requisite .09 sec Kitano cameo, excited for the region 2 version where hes in there for an hour

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
It looks like a compromised remake of the anime, basically no reason to watch this instead of the original movie.

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

The worst part about the cyberpunk revival is the painful reminder of how the real world cyberpunk future turned out to be super lame.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

FedEx Mercury posted:

It looks like a compromised remake of the anime, basically no reason to watch this instead of the original movie.

yeah except that you get to look at an actual woman instead of a cartoon, but i guess thats a matter of perspective

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

Zyklon B Zombie posted:

The worst part about the cyberpunk revival is the painful reminder of how the real world cyberpunk future turned out to be super lame.

I wish I could find the article but back like almost a decade ago even William Gibson was all 'haha cyberpunk what was I thinking'.

I wonder if what I miss isn't actually cyberpunk but having a sense that the future would be something cooler than our reality of lame suburbs, 'service economy' jobs and slow cars that look fat.

Pinch Me Im Meming
Jun 26, 2005

EvilJoven posted:

Hey are the rest of the GITS animes good for someone that used to like anime but now find it loving retarded because I miss the cyberpunk genre and western media ditched it for zombies and superheros.

Don't worry, you've got a TRUMP card now hehe. It's all gonna come back hehehe. For real hehehehahe.

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Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
idk what happened, but scarlett johansson got way less hot a few years ago and I just feel conflicted about that, she usedto be #1 now just ehh

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