A beautiful and thought-provoking anime that cuts occasional plot corners and ultimately runs out of things to say and so it stops.
Full review: https://letterboxd.com/three_star_dave/film/ghost-in-the-shell/
4 stars out of 5
A ★★★★ review of Ghost in the Shell (1995)
My daughter’s off to see the new ScarJo live-action movie of GitS this weekend, so I opined that she should really see the anime first. And since it’s been twenty years since we did, we watched it, too. THE GOOD – Amazingly beautiful artwork and animation. Even something as simple as giving the impression of an invisible combatant is remarkably well done. – Deep thoughts and speculations (occasionally heavy-handed) about the nature of life and co…
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I watched it a couple of weeks ago, and had forgotten how horrible the dub is on that one. 10 minutes into it I switched back to the subtitles.
That said, it is still a fantastic movie that I should pull out and watch more often. I followed it up with watching GitS: Innocent, which, while being more of a straight forward crime/action movie is still stunningly gorgeous to watch.
+Stan Pedzick Since we were streaming it, I didn't have the option to shift to sub from dub. Alas.
+Dave Hill ahh, that sucks. Yeah, the original voice acting really helps the movie, one thing the dub pretty much kills.