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INTEREST: Hideo Kojima Weighs In On Hollywood's Ghost In The Shell


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Nekelen Tinsley



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:52 pm Reply with quote
If his new game doesnt pan out he could definitely make it as a film critic, this was a great analysis.
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production was trapped in the shell of the original

I understood what he ment but i couldnt help but laugh at this Anime hyper
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Lopezz



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:53 pm Reply with quote
Kojima surely knows how to joke.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:57 pm Reply with quote
I'd say this was a very apt critique by Kojima, and I completely agree with it. I feel a little bad for the director and cast, but this movie had basically no chance of being successful. There simply isn't a large enough audience for GitS, and the other controversies around it didn't help it any, either. I doubt this movie will even be a cult success, and it's hard to see it becoming a financial success, either.
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AiddonValentine



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:13 pm Reply with quote
and yet another thing that is problematic about the film: it cannot justify its existence. It doesn't do anything that other films and other installments of GitS haven't done already
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:20 pm Reply with quote
I'm imagining the biggest flipping smirk on his face as he's throwing in all of these hilarious references. You could even say Sanders failed to bring the "ghost" out of its "shell". Laughing
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nhat



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:22 pm Reply with quote
It's has it's flaws so its average but the film is seriously not bad. It's a good watch and the visuals are amazing
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:29 pm Reply with quote
they overspent, it's as simple as that, all you need is tom cruise did well because it had an apropiate movie for an "anime" adaptation.
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:53 pm Reply with quote
I would love to see a GiTS x Metal Gear crossover!
Just to see what that would be like.
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Kreion



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:56 pm Reply with quote
Tuor_of_Gondolin wrote:
I'd say this was a very apt critique by Kojima, and I completely agree with it. I feel a little bad for the director and cast, but this movie had basically no chance of being successful. There simply isn't a large enough audience for GitS, and the other controversies around it didn't help it any, either. I doubt this movie will even be a cult success, and it's hard to see it becoming a financial success, either.


It's not interesting enough to be cult success, which is another part of the problem. The movie doesn't have much to say so you're not going to get people who like movies with real depth to them, it doesn't have enough else to make it interesting to the mass audience. It doesn't have the charm to capture the mass audience at any rate, at best it was going to be a cult hit.
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Dr.N0



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:52 pm Reply with quote
Heishi wrote:
I would love to see a GiTS x Metal Gear crossover!
Just to see what that would be like.
This, a thousand yeses.
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XerneasYveltal



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:21 pm Reply with quote
Dr.N0 wrote:
Heishi wrote:
I would love to see a GiTS x Metal Gear crossover!
Just to see what that would be like.
This, a thousand yeses.


I can only wonder if Tachikomas can hide in a box by then.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:28 pm Reply with quote
maximilianjenus wrote:
they overspent,


Overspent on what?


maximilianjenus wrote:
all you need is tom cruise did well because it had an apropiate movie for an "anime" adaptation.


...I wouldn't chalk that up to the film's success given how spotty Cruise's track record had been up to that point.
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harminia



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:59 pm Reply with quote
Did he make this statement just so he could work "shell" and "ghost" in as many times as possible.
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KH91



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:52 pm Reply with quote
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"I can't help but feel that the production was trapped in the shell of the original, and as a result, it fails to come into its own."


What you did there...I saw it.
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anddo



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:36 pm Reply with quote
Considering the fact that Kojima basically lifted his own "scene for scene recreations" of the 1995 film for his 1998 Metal Gear Solid, it's very satisfying hearing his acknowledgement of the series.

Seriously, Solid Snake was practically a genderbent Major especially with his grey sneaking suit, optic-camo, infrarouge goggles, use of a FA-MAS (similar in design to Kusanagi's CZN-M22), vast knowledge of world affairs and military jargon, and of course a famous man-versus-tank scene. Kojima pulled no punches to Kokaku Kidotai references. Even his earlier Snatcher and Policenauts seem to take inspiration from Shirow's Dominion series, among 80s Hollywood films and sci-fi novels.
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