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April 3, 2017 | 22:47 | Written by: snake911
I got to complete my Ghost in the Shell quest this weekend by seeing the live-action movie, and I gotta say it was pretty rad even despite the dismal amount of money the movie brought in during this weekend's box-office.
Could you believe The Boss Baby made over half as much than what GitS brought in?! I was surprised at how low the numbers actually were because the movie theater I was at was pretty full. Welp, I guess Paramount will never do an adaptation of an anime property ever again.
And that's a real shame because it look as if the studio really put all they had into making this successful. I guess the biggest stink coming from fans of the series was the movie whitewashing of some of the main characters, but for me that wasn't really the concern I had going in. I just wanted the story to be in line with what one would be for something with the GitS name on it, and I'd say they did a pretty good job. Not great, but enough for me to recommend it.
Like the Scott Pilgrim movie from 2010 where they needed to truncate and modify parts of the story in order to turn it into a stand-alone live-action movie, they did the same for GitS and I was totally ok with that, even though I prefer how the way things were in the books and movies. They even went with the similar tactic of borrowing certain iconic scenes from the manga and apply it to the other properties, so it was like this latest movie was just like all the other properties in the franchise.
Although I do wish they did more with the other characters in Section 9 like Togusa, Ishikawa, and Saito because each basically had just one line in movie and that was it! Mainly it followed the Major and Batou; although, I did like the amount of time Aramaki had in the film.
And finally, with this being the finish line for all of this Ghost in the Shell related topics, posts, and write-ups, let's put a bow tie on this topic and move on to other things, shall we?
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