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He saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and said it reminds him of movies from his childhood.

Japan: Ghost in the Shell 2

America: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Japan: "Robots. Cyborgs."

America: "Stem cells are ew! God hates technology! Stop talking on your cell phone! Step away- from the computer!"

It's the imagination. The American imagination is totally unprepared for the new world. We are still busy playing "cowboys and indians."

I may be wrong, but my understanding is that Cybernetics is just a matter of course in Japan. I doubt they'd call it that, but the fundamental assumptions and understandings, I think are commonplace there. Pretty much everyone's psyched up about technology. Some people like it, some people don't, but nobody denies that it's going to happen.

Here in the states, you talk about this stuff, and they look at you like you've just grown a third arm. "Nah, that'll never happen..." "...well, maybe, in a hundred years, but-..."

I'm amazed at how little Americans know about the state of technology. And of what Americans do know, how little it's penetrated their consciousness.

Americans don't want this stuff in their mind. They don't want to think about it. It's not even that- it's just not even in the imagination.

(That's changing; witness The Matrix, and stuff like that. But contemporary-wise: We're way backwards.)

This is the new trailer before showing Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow movie.

so few interesting movies... and both this and Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow open the same weekend.

Speaking of which...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Live action, nothing but the actors is real

Sky Captain here we come :)