Afraid of change?
Let me first say that I love GITS, manga, movies, tv, novels, etc... When I heard that they were making a movie from the universe of the tv series I was elated. The series was so well done and really captured the essence of the manga where as Oshi's movies were more concentrated on the ideas of humanity and cyber reality but both were extremely well done. But after watching SSS I had the same feeling after watching Superman Returns which was it was a good movie, good action and some pretty cool set pieces but I had already seen them done before. It almost seemed that SSS was trying to remake the first movie with scenes of a mech attack involving Batou and the Major, a character called the puppeteer and its explanation of its actions, the dive sequence at the end where the pupeteer takes over the vocal functions of the major, and at the end with major looking out on the city and saying something to the extent of the net is infinte and vast. Now of course there was still new and interesting scenes like the suicide at the begining, the sniper duel with Saito, The "suicide" of Togusa, and the adaption of the first volume of the manga at the end with the tachikoma's taking on those megatech guards and trying to save the children being held at a government facility. I am not slamming the movie in any way but it seemed to me that the crew of the movie(director, writers, animators, etc..) were almost scared to try something different with the series in the form of a movie which seems weird to me since they had already done so with the tv series. I actually would have liked them to have done an addaption of Man Machine Interface because it still has Motoko away from section 9 and they did have some of that in SSS with her controlling multiple bodies and talking to her net cohorts konan, buzz, leo, etc. In the end it is fine addition to the universe but it just didn't add much new stuff for me
I would love to hear some feedback
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