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Summary: A definite additon for your collection
Review: This is one of the best anime's I've seen. Not only is its story line good, but the quality of graphics is outstanding. The attention to detail is incredible. The jump between CG, video, and cell animation enhance rather than confuse the story line. The scary part is how close to a possible future this anime really is. The music and intro song stay with you.
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Summary: "Ghost In The Shell", objective review.
Review: This movie is played in Tokyo, in a not very far future. Almost every human that walks the planet has some kind om computer eltering in the mind or the body. The world is becoming more & more computerized, and people can communicate every in any situation, just by patching in to the "net". The police and the special agents have superior body functions, and some are practicly Cyborgs.The story line is complex, and very out-studied. A hacker is terrorising the city (Tokyo), and his nick name is "puppet master". The rest you will see for your self. The colors and the art-work are all extra-ordinary, and just stunning. MY OPINION: The longer you see, the longer you get infiltrated in the story. And by the end you're just gasping for air, and your sences are all on top. After a while in the movie you have all forgotten that it is animated, and you just live the movie with your heart. To compare this movie with Matrix may not be a wrong judgement but I think this is the original, and it is a stand-alone and should not be compared with any movie. This anime-film makes you wonder for days, and you forget the world you really live in. And the more you watch the movie, the more you love it. I can, with a stright spine say to you that this movie is one of the best movies made by mankind, EVER. It's worth all money.
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Summary: Gets better the more times you watch it.
Review: "Ghost in a shell" Begins with a bang. It begins with an image of a furturistic city. It zooms on a tall lumious building. On the top of the building is Major Kusanagi, her hair blowing in the cool, night breeze. Major rises from her crouched postion into her full height. She looks down upon the vast city. As cold as it is, Major removes all her of her garments, and, gun in hand, leaps off the building. Major activates a certain device, and becomes invisible. Major lands and materializes at the window of very important person,(its revealed later). The V.I.P is currently giving a speech, but Major decides to interup. She fires multiples shots from her weapon, and the V.I.P wrenches. His upper body explodes. Major leaps backwards and descends into the vast , furturistic city, and vanishes. "Ghost in a shell", based on the manga of the same name, revolves around a cyborg named Major Kusanagi. She gave up most of her once human body parts for robotnic replacemets, but still looks strikingly human(unlike the manga,in which she cleary resembles a cyborg). Major completes her missions almost effortlessly, and is incredably agile. But her a new mission may be her last. The malicous "Puppet Master" does not kill his victims, but it is just as worst. Instead, the "Puppet Master" alters its victims minds,giving their memorys. "Puppet Master"'s frightening power causes terror and confusion, but when even Major kusanagi bravely attemps to stop the "Puppet Master" she too starts to question her own self. Are you truly alive if you are a cyborg or a machine? Can you feel true emotions? I will start with the following,"Ghost in a shell" is a thinking man's film, as it is though provoking, and is fairly complicated.But even if you dont like to think, This film is worth seeing in my opinion simply for the visuals. Animation wise, Its one of, if not the, well animated I have ever seen. The animation blew me away. The character designs looks excellent. The good artwork, attractive animation, spellbounding frame rates(I swear, the character movements look almost human), and toss in computer graphics and you've got... well...what do you think? The way they combine Computer Graphics with their artwork is done flawlessly. I never knew I could get so much enjoyment from watching someone walk. The story for "Ghost in Shell" is a good one, too. The "Puppet Master" has so much power, so powerful that it pychologicily defeats Major. I do have a complaint, and it is about the plot. Similar to "Akira" things seem to happen for no reason, and despite the clever story, It all seems extremly confusing. This didn't entirely suprise me much though. How good can a plot be if it is based on a long running Comic book series. Either way, The plot is overly confusing and seems conpressed. One other problem is the weak character personalities. There was next to nothing character development, and all of the characters personalities seemed lifeless. The Drab dubbing didn't help much either. I suggest you see this film. Even if you don't like to think,I guarentee you will like the breathtaking visuals. If you like intellect in films, don't hesitate. There are worse animes you coulds rent, plus this one has some cool battles to boot.
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Summary: VERY Over-rated!
Review: I've heard so many great things about this anime. But along with Akira, Dragonball Z, and Vampire Hunter D... this is the most overrated piece of junk I have ever seen. I am a huge fan of Japanese Anime, and I have seen many titles. Don't fool yourself... there is a whole ocean of quality titles out there. Why does the American public cling to these old, shallow titles? I will never know.
I'll even suggest a few titles for you... Serial Experiments Lain, Battle Athletes Victory, Trigun, and the king of them all: TENCHI MUYO!
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Summary: Ghost In the Shell
Review: This is probably the first Japanese anime film that I ever saw that delved into concepts beyond action/adventure tyep situations. The visualization is hypnotically beautiful. The only disappointment I had was with the ending. The phrase the little girl uses could have been a bit more vague to add to the mystery that shrounds the movie.
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Summary: Ghost of a Story
Review: I know that most people will disagree, but I found this movie to be wholly disappointing. While the concept is good, albeit unoriginal, the payoff just is not there. Comparing this movie to the Matrix is doing the Matrix a grave injustice. The technobabble in this anime, while necessary, often times gets a bit excessive and hokey. The segments of "characterization" come off as shallow and unfulfilling. Perhaps my reason for disliking this so much is because I expected much more action, of which there isn't that much(although the opening sequence is beautiful). The plot seems fragmented and disjointed at times, coming together to form what I felt was a completely contrived conclusion. To put it bluntly, there are MUCH better movies to blow your money on than this one.
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Summary: [Dang] Sexy!
Review: I would rate this film next best to Akira, the animation is most stunning, the storyline is greek to me, completely wierd, but besides that it is a really emotional and fantastic film, if you like Manga, and you like films like Akira, Cyber City, Genocyber etc. then you should definitely buy this, its a surefire classic.
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Summary: An excellent anime, but not on par with its hype ...
Review: I remember when this film came out in a limited theater run and was billed as 'Anime as good as AKIRA' which just isn't true. 'Ghost' is a good anime film, but neither the sense of diretion or detail to story puts it as a five star film. Several noticible sequences will stick in your head forever (the sluice scene, the tank scenes) but aside from those and a very memorable premise, the movie doesn't coalesce into a grand masterpiece. Rather, it should be noted as a must see for every anime fan or action movie buff, but due to some cheap anime conventions to save money this movie is unwatchable at times for non-anime fans. Beautiful art and design. Very good sci-fi plot about artificial life coming of age as an independant and dominant force in the future. I would not recommend this video to the 'lovey cutsey' anime crowd.
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Summary: A must see for all anime fans
Review: This movie is a must it takes place in 2029Ad where everyone's brain is connected to the internet. The cyborg female cop has to track down a ghost hacker called the puppet master.The plot is top knotch and the characters are awesome. Th dubbing is amazing.
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Summary: Glad to See CyberPunk Is Alive and Well
Review: On my initial viewing of this film, it's truthful to say I was less than thrilled. But (like almost any movie) the second viewing was much better. Not only was I able to catch the subtle nuances of the plot, but I was also better informed on the techniques of animation and was better able to appreciate it. While obviously technically superior to Akira, I still stand by my opinion that is doesn't quite surpass it as a film, and here's why. I have just finished reading the collected manga of Ghost in the Shell and fount in it much more depth and character that the rather short film (Is this sort of like the book/movie thing?). The ideals proposed by the film are intriguing, but fail to develop into much more than that. Also, the concept of one's "ghost" is almost never touched outside of the context of idle conversation as I found many scenes placed purely for the purpose of meaningless exposition. And, although I recognize the animation of this film is obviously technically superior to that of Akira's I still prefer Akira's animation for the simple reason I prefer the amine of the 80's in the first place. It seems animators (in the attempt to save time and money) prefer to simply allow their characters lips to move, as opposed to expressing true and genuine emotions. The only other animator who doesn't abide by these "expressional" restrictions is Hayao Miyazaki (and every animator can't be him, now can they?). But, just to show I'm not totally negative (and to tie in my lead sentence) I really enjoyed this film as a "rebirth" of cyberpunk. This sci-fi sub-genre has suffered much since the likes of Akira and Blade Runner (The Matrix? Cyberpunk? Ha!) and it's great that a film that follows in its traditions has gained world-wide appeal. So, I suppose this is a film any true anime buff should see at least once (or twice) just to see where anime has been, where it is, and where it's heading.
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