Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters

Lord Prox writes "The long wait is over, the sequel to Ghost In The Shell is here in theaters!. Titled Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence for the US market and seems to be available in a reasonably wide distribution for anime. There is also a trailer available."

Comments

how's it ?

[mirko]

Seems that people like it (7.1/10 on IMDb) but its plot line sounds like some "I, Robot".
So, is it worth it, besides the Geek Factor ?

Re:how's it ?

[ricotest]

You should check out this IMDB board posting.

Apparently there were 'massive walkouts at the Cannes' and a 30% Rotten Tomatoes rating (which is very bad). I quote:

The common complaint among critics is that while the movie is beautiful, it is souless with too much technological mumbo jumbo and not enough likable characters. The story is said to be at once extremely convaluted and boring with action sequences too far between and countless uniteresting quotes form philosophers or the bible hindering the story.

So althought it saddens me to say this, it really doesn't look like it's worth checking out. That said, everyone is different, and this is just the critics' opinion.

Re:how's it ?

[dep01]

oh no! there's not enough action sequences? and a story you have to pay attention to!? what will american audiences do!?!?

Interesting title

[Mr Guy]

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters

With those nightvision goggles they handed out, there's going to be a lot more "Innocence in Theaters". Poor kids, now where are preteens going to get their first make out session?

How about quoting the title.

[yecrom2]

Looking at the way it's worded, I thought it was something about a new game called

"Ghost in the shell 2: Innocence in Theaters"

Do you have to go do a confession in a theater to become innocent again?

Oh, well.

Beware the Otaku!

[YetAnotherName]

Those of you who aren't otaku may want to bring noseplugs to the theater, as such folk, nice though they may be, aren't known for their personal hygiene.

Oh and before you think I'm baiting/trolling/etc., I am an otaku too ... fear me cosplay Sailor Moon, as I've just had my chest waxed! ^_^

Soundtrack

[Gyorg_Lavode]

Also, the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell: Innocence is wonderful. I have the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 1 CD and it was so good I decided to see about the other ones. Innocence is also excellent. The original is quieter, slower. SAC OST 2 is good also but SAC OST 1 and Innocence really stand out. I recommend them to anyone who liked the atmosphere created by the music of the original movie.

Blarg

[transient]

There is also a trailer available.

Not anymore.

warning: spoilers below

[GillBates0]

bash$ ps -aux |grep gsview

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1009 0.0 0.0 1384 448 ? S Sep14 0:10 gsview

bash$ kill -9 1009

GITS2:Innocence available on p2p

[Anonymous Coward]

I downloaded the latest Ghost In The Shell movie from a little-known BitTorrent site yesterday, and after watching it, I was blown away--far better than the original. In fact, I was so blown away that I'll be paying for the theater experience to see it again and pray that there aren't any cellphone fuckers, crying babies, loud talkers, or sticky floors to piss me off.

And to all of you anal-retentive copyright-lovers who are thinking "you don't have the right to 'sample' a movie before deciding if it's worth the money! especially if its precious anime!", I have this to say: "when 90% of everything is crap, i most certainly have the right to screen it, and neither should I have to rent it or see it aired on TV before I decide the artistic value merits my dollars as a reward to make more."

GITS2

[fistoflegend]

I think this might be a pretty worthwhile film. I liked the first one, but I didn't think it was as great as fanboys make it out to be. I think this one will be a little different.

I don't think this will be "I, Robot" animated. The fact that the robot in GITS2 is a "gynoid", seems to point to a slightly darker, and more mature plot.

Of note is the fact that GITS2 is nominated for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes film festival. It is the first animated film to achieve that.

I also think that this movie will be more in tune with westerners vision of what a sci-fi film should be. Apparently it is quite an intelligent film, but the ideas may be more palatable to mainstream America than many other popular anime films.

I probably won't be able to see it in theaters, but I will definitely pick up the DVD.

There is a very nice write up on the film on Wired
http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64966,00.htm l

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I need more coffee

[Anonymous Coward]

I first read that as "Goatse In the Shell" in theatres.

You can be sure I didn't visit THAT trailer!

Re:What was so great about Ghost in the Shell 1 ?

[Masami Eiri]

Its hard to explain, but I'll take a shot.
The movie's core theme was about what makes us human. Motoko and Batou were both cyborgs (meaning that the only biological part left was the brain), Togusa was fully human (may have had data jacks though, been a while), most of the rest of Section 9 were cyborgs (though not to the degree of Motoko and Batou), and the Puppetmaster was a computer program. All were fully sentient, so the question remains, what makes one human?
Togusa was the only fully alive in a biological sense... but Motoko sure looked human enough. So, if instead, human is defined as having a human form, then we have Motoko and Batou. However, this then would include androids (dolls in GitS2)... and was the Puppetmaster not sentient? If he (she, it?) was sentient... should it be counted as alive despite lacking a biological body?
Basically, where does Human end, and Human-replica begin?

I hope that didn't just end up being more confusing...