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Even the classic colors on a toy looks better than the black "suit".

Re: the Play Arts figures the silver does look better than the black, but they both look good. Looking forward to picking them up.

-b.

Posted

It would be cool with light up visor, complete with broken shoulders.

:huh:Wait, as actual gimmicks or is there some issue with the Play Arts Kai figures where folks have ended up with broken shoulders (or other pieces)?

-b.

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Ok, other than the director at the beginning this trailer almost has me sold on this being a fun, maybe not good, but fun movie. I like the bit with SLJ asking why we can use ED robots overseas but not in america. It calls out the whole drone debate in the news nicely.

Posted

Ok, 2nd trailer does make the movie look like it'll be fun. I'll give it a go in theaters when it comes out.

FYI for those interested the Play Arts Kai figures are up and available for pre-order on AmiAmi now.

-b.

Posted

Hm, I wanna see it, I do. Only problem is it doesn't have that same Umpf as the original did. It feels like a generic super effects scifi flick. I'm not complaining, I'll go see it, but I'm not expecting to be wowed off my seat.

Posted

Another garbage "hero goes after the corporation that made him" storyline.

Why don't they just change the title to Robocorporate and leave the old story

Intact.

Hollywood should get an award for story Recycling!

Posted

Why, oh why, does he have to move like a frikkin Ninja now? And a CGI one AT THAT!!!!

Posted

It doesn't look terrible, but it doesn't look that good either; mediocre is how I'd describe my first impression to this last trailer... it may be worth a rental.

Posted

Did the 'Ghost in the shell' source material Book/manga come out before or after they made the first 'Robocop' movie?

Robocop came out 2 years before GiTS.

Posted

Somewhere Frank Miller is face palming.

His script work is generally pretty putrid. A movie like this from him would be par for the course.

Posted (edited)

After looking at the play Arts figures, I didn't realize that it is more than just a recolor between the classic colored 1.0 and the Black colored 3.0, but the armor is different as well. The 1.0 is so much better looking in both color and style than the 3.0. The 1.0 just looks more robotic to me with the more narrow waist and more angular parts.

Chris

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Posted

I was curious because most Cyberpunk/Cyborg movies end up being called a rip off of GITS.

A lot of the modern genre film makers do get their inspirations from Shirow and other manga/anime but a lot of the 70/80s science fiction writers in america, japan and other parts of the world read a lot of science fiction books from authors such as Heinlein and Philip K. Dick. If you read and watch Heavy Metal, there's a ton of shorts that are filled with fantasy and sci-fi. But yeah... Shirow's GiTS set the stage for a lot of the feel of today's cyberpunk tech.

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Let's not forget that GitS was predated by another Shirow cyberpunk classic: Appleseed.

... and in the list of authors, one can't forget the creator of the term cyberspace: William Gibson.

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