Spielberg nabs rights to Ghost in the Shell...

I really hope he directs it and doesn't hand it off to someone like Michael Bay. The one I'd really like to see do this franchise though is James Cameron.

http://www.variety.com/VR1117984029.html

 

What is with the movie industry now and remaking Japanese films?


First its horror movies and now we're moving to anime? Jesus... come on! OH:

 

I did a double take when I saw the Live Action Speed Racer movie preview. I was surprised they made a "real" version of the car in the show, and didn't use something else.

 

Jesus no Densetsu, would be a pretty sweet anime

 

I'd worry when Lucas tries to give it a treatment (he tried to do that for the new Indiana Jones movie, and Spielberg had to put Lucas in his place ray. At least Spielberg knows how to put a movie together that doesn't blow ass *coughnewstarwarstrilogycough*

As far as Hollywood doing (terrible) remakes of Japanese films, along with movie adaptations of TV shows from the 70s and 80s, that would be because those so-called writers have no more original ideas. Unfortunately, we can't clone guys like Spielberg, Cameron, Ridley Scott, etc. who gave us movies that have stood the test of time, and were even wonderful in their time.

 

Not to change the subject too much, but when I read that Hayden Christiansen was going to be Case in the Neuromancer film, I sighed so hard I thought my lungs would pop out. On top of that, the guy who directed "Torque" is doing the film.

Is it the new trend to make ultra-shitty movies?

 

Unfortunately, yes. TPTB in the movie studios allow so many bad scripts to get released, along with bad directors to make movies (Lucas, Boell, Bay, etc.) that it craps on the industry, but they still overshadow the indie movies which seem to be running circles around the major-budget films (quality-wise IMO).

 

He will just remake it and add effects that were meant to be put in the original because of limited technology back in 1994....
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Sound familiar?

 

Just let Oshii direct it.

if this sucks i'll boycott Hollywood for the rest of my life

 

Versus what Lucas did to the Star Wars saga, especially what he did to the original trilogy after doing the new trilogy? Spielberg FTW.

 

Bingo!

I watched the anime movie on mute when I was a kid and loved it. I watched it again with sound and it was boring. The series also bores me. Guess I just don't like anime, or it sucks.

 

Fifteen-second hypothetical. Every time an American movie maker gets the rights to some beloved fiction world, people with expectations complain. What American director, producer or company would satisfy your expectations with regard to Ghost in the Shell? Let's not discuss the Wachowskis beyond a necessary threshold, please.

 

As a newcomer to anime I have mixed feelings about Ghost in the Shell too. I found the movies and most of the first series of Stand Alone Complex boring, but loved the 2nd Gig. I think it was the philosophical wranglings in that episode with the 'terrorist' Angels feathers that drew me in. :nod:

Bit off topic but does anyone know of some other existential/philosophical anime?

 

.hack (call it Dot Hack) is one, Bandai's game-related property. In the course of playing an MMORPG, a group of kids come to question the nature of a mortal existence and what it is to know each other. .hack/Sign is the first and best series, with lots of philosophical talk and not as much comedy as the later series.

Noein is another one, that deals with parallel worlds and the principle of uncertainty. A young girl discovers a way to interact with other possible future states, and tries to find one where her parents stayed together.

Really, any series (short of Machine Robo) will take a few minutes in every episode to make a point about something the writer thought was deep. You can find philosophy in Chobits if you look hard enough, beyond the robot slave girl and her quest to please her owner...

 

No two ways about it.

The audience might want to stay awake through the whole thing though.

 

It'll most likely suck.
Speaking of Spielberg, Boom Blox will not include the head-tracking feature

 

i only saw the first Ghost in the Shell. is the second one worth watching?

 

Yes it is, at least i loved it