Ghost In The Shell
Manga
82 minutes
English/Japanese
English Subtitles
04/01/1998
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Ghost In The Shell
Manga
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I know, I know. I'm late with the update again. You guys can find whatever reason you want to hate me and it's all good, but if you really need something to blame please make it Front Mission 3. I don't know exactly how I managed to let a video game sink its claws into me so deeply, but I've been staying up until ten in the AM most days playing it. I mean, come on, it has robots! And sometimes the robots have shotguns... giant, robot sized shotguns. The only reason I'm even typing these reviews up now is because I got bored with it during my second play through and I imagine my buddy the G-regulator fell asleep instead of calling me. So no going out tonight. I was a little retard the first time I saw this movie, and the second time I wasn't much better. Therefore I really couldn't grasp the fact that this thing is really, really good, despite it's proclivity towards naked robot chicks. Though, as we all know from the Ghost In The Shell manga Masamune Shirow is no stranger to one, sometimes two or three naked chicks at a time. Normally I've got no problems advocating the wonders of lesbians, but these are just pretend people made out of ink on pieces of paper. As a side note, that page was disturbingly easy to find using the internet. |
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Ghost In The Shell, the movie, is mostly the story of making sense out of what one's life purpose is. In this way, I realized watching it this time it's much too much like Perry's "The Third Night". Throw in some references to god and the southern countryside and you're basically talking about the same thing.** But Ghost In The Shell managed to keep me interested in a way that my Irish philosophy teacher that looked exactly like the tall guy from that show with Drew Carrey could not. I think it was probably the robots... or the exploding bodies. Or Batou, he's a slick fellow who's not adverse to letting his arm be blown off as long as it's for a worthy cause. And I can't find any cause worthier than the sexy little chick you'll see pictured left. When the girls use the optic camouflage, they have to be stark-fucking-naked. But when the guys do they get to wear snazzy raincoats. You'll note that this finds no complaints from me, not from some strange desire to see a whole bunch of nude animated ladies, but more because I'd rather not have some guy's bird wiggling around in front of me while I'm trying to enjoy my movie. I'm sure I'll find no argument there. |
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There isn't much to say about this film because everyone out there has probably seen it. The plot boils down to this : There's this rogue AI going around fucking with people and searching out the naked cyborg you've seen above. Now, she's not naked ALL the time but the times she isn't are so few and far between it's not like it matters anyway. The one thing I don't understand about this camouflage is... the gun's invisible while she's using the stuff, so why wouldn't something else be too? Say... CLOTHES, for example. But who am I to judge? And the fact that we've got a naked Major Kusanagi running around three or four times during the film doesn't really hinder the fact that it's a good flick and it's clever about what it says. Ghost In The Shell kind of secrets away its philosophy in these dank corners so you barely notice it, and by the time you do there's some sort of vehicle blowing up so you're quick to forget it anyway. This is good for all those involved, especially yours truly. As anyone who knows me will attest to, I have the attention span of a gnat and the brain size to match. |
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This seems to be one of those movies who someone's always going to find fault with. I'd imagine that's because it's good, and good things have a lot of fans. And somewhere along the way there's always gonna be that group of people who hate anything mainstream simply because it's mainstream, so they put the hate on it and its viewers. Then they go back to watching their shitty fansubs of Cutey Digital Paradise Remix M3 or whatever the hell Shoujo-drama crap is being tossed around in the "People who like crappy shows" market. That shouldn't at all dissuade you though, simply by reading this site you've proven that you enjoy a higher class of anime that doesn't resort to putting chicks in maid's outfits, or taking two inch tall chicks and putting them in maid's outfits. Basically, what I'm trying to tell you is the fact that there are no chicks in maid's outfits in this movie. But that's only because they aren't in ANY outfits most of the time. |
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