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Summary: Ghost of the Manga
Review: Read the manga by Masamune Shirow...RENT the movie... Some decent animated sequences but so loosely based on the manga it's incoherent. The art style isn't even remniscent of Shirow's.
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Summary: A true masterpiece
Review: I loved this film, both the animation and the plot was spectacular. This is totally not like most anime because it was VERY detailed having to do with the story. I personally liked this movie a lot more than Princess Mononoke. Since Ghost in the Shell was so hard to follow. I garentee you, when you see this film, you'll think that you figured out everything that is until they show that dog numerous times which makes it confusing why that dog was there in the first place. In addition to the enemy since he's just a "vioce." When I saw this film, I was already a big fan of Mamoru Oshi's work. Now although, the original story was by Masamune Shirow but he had nothing to do with the project. Oshi even asked Shirow If he could change the story in his vision. And Shirow said "Do what you like." And he did and he created a true masterpiece.
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Summary: one of the most intelligent movies ever made
Review: The world of anime is very hit or miss. Japanimation is either amazing or terrible. 'Ghost in the Shell' would be filed under the category of amazing. It succeeds in every area: narratively, musically and visually. The soundtrack is one of the most engaging, magical, original, beautiful things I've ever heard. It's so good I bought the soundtrack. Visually, I would use the same adjectives that I used for the soundtrack. Simply put it looks REALLY, REALLY good. In fact I'd say this is probably the best looking piece of animation I've ever seen. No corners are cut in this film in terms of the research and imagination that went into this film. The weapons are very cool, the action scenes are extremely well thought out, all of the computers/buildings/vehicles are very slick and the scenes in the rain at the end of the film are incredible. One area where this film completely blew my mind was the script. Not only is the 'plot' extremely complex and interesting but there is also an extremely well thought out discussion of artificial intelligence. This film is surprising cerebral, especially for a genre normally associated with little school girl superheroes. This film is a great way to spend 115 minutes of your life.
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Summary: NICE!
Review: I m not gonna write much....cept its a manga MUST...simple...if you like animated adult movies, and especially mangas you just have to watch the movie as its required watching for any cyberpunk, manga lovin freak :) You wont regret it :)
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Summary: Love Sci-Fi, but this is difficult to follow... Dissapointed
Review: As a major sci-fi lover, I found this to be a dissapointment after all the rave reviews. I was debating whether to give this 2 or 3 stars, and ended up with 3 only because the Audio and Video quality was very good. The plot is difficult to follow and I can hang with even the best technobabble filled plots. In this case, the conmstant meaningless technobabble and plot were hard to follow leading to a poor experience. It was if way too much of the movie was an 'inside joke' type of experience. I did not gain anything pleasurable or meaningful from this 'Anime'. Unless you are a proven Anime fan, I'd rent this DVD (at best). Usually I am very enthusiatic when it comes to anything sci-fi, but this did nothing for me.
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Summary: Ghost in the Shell
Review: I was really looking forward to this movie, but I was still skeptical because I had no idea what to expect, so I rented it. Most people said it was good and hard to understand so you had to watch it at least 3 times to fully get it. I disagree it was a fairly decent movie (I'm kind of glad I didn't buy it) but it's not all that great (it's okay), plus I understood exactly what was going on the first time. I would suggest renting this movie before buying it because you might love it and you might hate it. But what's really cool about this movie is that you can see that The Matrix got a lot of ideas out of it. But anyway, I suggest renting it.
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Summary: Visually incredible and realistic, but slow-paced at times
Review: Widely popular on both sides of the Pacific, Ghost in the Shell was a revolutionary anime that set the standard in animation, and questioned the existence and fate of man. On the surface, you have a simple story; In the future, synthetic humans are developed with the same features as any normal human being, except for a real soul, referred to as a Ghost. Major Kusanagi, a cyborg herself, and her unit are to track down a terrorist known as the Puppet Master, who is able to hack into anyone's Ghost. The movie is incredibly realistic, and some of the animated scenes are simply breathtaking. The dubbing is good, but there's an unnecessary amount of cussing, probably to make things more realistic, or something.... The movie at some times crawls at a terribly slow pace, presenting lengthy showings of atmosphere, or talking about humans and existence. There is a LOT of talk about individualism and creation, but it’s at a very simple level and gets boring fast. Spectacular action scenes break up the monotony; the battle against the miniature tank is absolutely the most realistic gunfight I've seen in anime, hands down. Unfortunately, the action scenes appear sporadically and only introduce and finish the film. The curse of the slow-moving plot is enough to bring an anime down to its knees, but Ghost in the Shell remains standing. Barely, though. The 30-minute "making of" feature after the movie is a great extra; how many VHS tapes do you see with extras? I appreciate this anime more every time I watch it. This was THE anime of 1995, and no anime fan should go without seeing it.
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Summary: Bi product of having 5 STARS experience
Review: Alright, there are like 235 reviews on this DVD alone,, and what's the point of writing another same review again? Well, I recently got into watching and collecting animations and have put 'Ghost in the Shell' as Rank #1 of all the animations (and what are the other top ranked animations I have? Mononoke Hime, Samurai X, Neon Evangelion Genesis [latter part], Blue Submarine No.6,,get the idea?). First time I saw it,, I simply decided to see it because of half naked woman-cyborg cover,, I was like in high school,, and didn't understand what was going on,, and after 10 years,, with my friend's recommendation, I bought it and had to watch three times in a row to fully understand the story (it was more like I WANTED TO watch it twice,,). I think it's sort of pointless of writing another review here since this animation is just perpect in everyway imaginable, but I will just state one point here and disppear. The very first time I was watching it(well, second time), I had this feeling, feeling you get when you experience dejavu, or seeing certain places, situations, objects which bring you that strange feeling of being nostalgic,, That was the feeling I experienced. I think I was getting that feeling because of the content, which asks something that's highly philosophical, yet it pierces into and asks YOU the existence of very essence of human being/human nature,,,, and yourself- And you can almost, almost begin to relate yourself to the story where the technology is being developed at such a high speed, yet not only human minds are not fully prepared to adjust to that rapid change, but also it's being dried of its emotion,, we are living in this high tech society where things are getting much more convinient and life standard is getting better and better every day, yet there's this small part, small part of us in our sub/conciousness or mind,, asking what are we, who am I,,, it's more like a trade off where you have to sacrifice to fully appreciate yourself in the nature to live in this ever changing high tech society,, After watching this animation, I just took off and drove aimlessly, putting on low volume music(lyric was about asking the very reason you are working so hard yet so blindly, for what and for whom?), all windows open, feeling cool breeze of early summer night, driving through the place I've never been to,,going under freeway bridge, over the low hills, into residential area,,and it was after 2 AM,,, I felt like I was that cyborg woman for awhile-
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Summary: Good and Interesting
Review: I watched this anime not so long ago on Showtime and I really enjoyed it.This anime is very cool and different from other that I'd previewly seen.I'd never had the opportunity of reading any of the mangas for this anime but if the anime is good the manga must be better.I have to admit that this is not one of my favorite anime,the plot wasn't very clear and I felt that I messed a lot of details just because I haven't read the manga.It interested me a lot because it was beautifully made and the backgrown was pretty similar to the backgrownds in AKIRA.I woulded give it 4 stars but I actually respect anime very much to concentrate just in what I like and forgetting about what is really important.When you watch it you will really know what I am talking about.Buy it or rent it but this is one that you wouldn't want to miss.
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Summary: Required Anime
Review: Ghost in the Shell is one of those pieces of anime that has to sit on your shelf, the animation is flawless, the story deep and compelling. If you're really in to DBZ and more...action driven stuff than you may find the need to think while watching it a bit cumbersome, but it speaks to something that only a few other movies do. If you hate to think about anything beyond the flurry of cartoon kicks ...than you probably won't like it, but if you're into anime for the stories than you will.
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