teslashark
One of the brother site’s janitors
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It's a fucking stupid 1/2-scissor and much worse looking like the KLK one.
Project Ludovico
- Thread starter Athene
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- He/Him
Don't you dare insult the Rending Scissors.
Revlid
blob of bugs
- Location
- England
You almost got me fired from laughing so hard.Marion Cobretti might be one of the worst detectives in 80s movies.
He's rare in that he makes zero progress on his case for the entire length of the movie. Not a single step forward, despite all the scenes of him trying to crack this case. In fact, having him try to make progress on the case is used to get him away from the Hospital so the Night Stalker can attack it. He can't even prove that there's more than one killer after killing a good dozen cultists. A guy with a wheelbarrow could settle that one. I'd question how he gets any convictions, but he probably hasn't had a single suspect make it to trial alive.
Him trying to crack the case looks like someone trying to kill the last five minutes of a shift at an office job without actually doing anything. He makes useless notes on a clear map of the city, he flips through books, he stares at things printing. At one point he compares the police sketch to fingerprints. Not a lot of hits on that, the swirls are all wrong and also don't have faces.
And while all of this is going on, the Night Stalker is walking right in the front door of the hospital. The enemy's gate is down Cobra.
Though to be fair, that should be an incredibly dumb thing to do. There should be plenty of cops there with a fresh description of the guy. Sure its a terrible sketch and he's since dyed and slicked back his hair. But how many Cro-Magnon men walk into a hospital these days? Are you saying the LAPD won't profile early modern humans? I mean, it is the LAPD, so Cobra was trying to match his photo against black dudes out of sheer force of habit. Still though, he shouldn't be able to get in the doo of the one place that people will know what he looks like, to try to get at a person that knows he's the killer.
Don't worry though, he stabs a janitor who he has 50 pounds and 3-6 inches on and takes his jumpsuit. Its looser on the Night Stalker of course. Jumpsuits are bigger on the inside, like a Tardis. He needs the disguise to ghost onto the floor she's on but he almost starts stabbing some old lady for giving him shit. He's just trying to stop the red mist and she's riding his ass. She almost got a face full of knife.
Oh yeah, the knife. The knife from this movie that the night stalker uses is pretty famous. A lot of dudes apparently looked at it and went "I'll show you whose dick is too small!", so plenty of places sell it even 30 years on. At least these days you're less likely to see Rambo on the box thanks to less crossed wires from the place churning them out. This thing looks like it would be a nightmare to own. I'm just imagining the Night Stalker just constantly jabbing those points into his side the whole day. Its getting hooked on shit, ruining shirts and car doors, getting stuck in its own sheath. You're hurting your hand because it has almost no grip because its got crappy brass knuckles instead. I think its meant to be used with a tactical tomahawk in your other hand while wearing page 13 of the latest Blackhawk catalog. The brace of throwing stars in your belt is optional. You've been warned by the cops to take the lightbar off the Crown Vic you found at auction. You've been told to please not open carry a rifle at the Olive Garden.
Its trying too hard is what I'm saying.
"They laughed at me at Bass Pro Shops, but who's laughing now?!"
Cobra gets a call from his useless sidekick telling him that he's down at the station like Cobra asked. Cobra expresses some confusion as to why he's there instead of guarding the highly valuable witness. Gonzalez having had just one job says that someone called saying they were from Central and that Cobra wanted him to go to his office across town. Cobra being the Moe of this relationship, realizes they have been duped and yells "THE HOSPITAL". I want to reiterate here: Gonzalez has left his post in the middle of the night because of an anonymous voice called and said his partner needed him to go to his office. It didn't even make up a reason, it just said that Cobra wanted him to go there. Does Gonzalez keep selling his gun and badge for magic beans? Cobra has to fight his way out of his own apartment as cultists attack it, but instead of calling for backup, its the two of them racing back to the hospital. But hey, what's the worst that could happen by trying to do it all yourself?
Ingrid escapes though and Cobra gets an ass chewing at the station for trying to do things his way. The stupid way. Hey remember when I was like "It would be stupid for the Night Stalker to go there"? Well, apparently Cobra held onto the sketch and didn't give it to anyone. So nobody knew what the serial killer looked like. When asked why he held onto it, he tells them that Officer Gul Dukat didn't say please. Great work Cobra, way to be a dick for the sake of spiting a random dude. I mean, what's the worst that could happen because of that? Oh, right, the murders.
Ohhhhh, the murderer loose in the hospital. That's what can go wrong.
Its ok though, because Cobra asks Dukat why two of the uniformed officers were called off the detail. That's a fair question, given that multiple people were called off and the killers seem to have way too much knowledge to not have someone in the inside. Dukat though throws up a Somebody Elses Problem and tells Cobra its his job to look into it. Spoiler: He never does. Nobody else does either. Detective work is hard, lets go be firefighters.
Oh and Nancy Stalk is assigned to them in order to...more easily betray them? She was a uniformed dispatcher before but now she's a detective. She's really moving up the ranks, she'll be chief of police in a month! But hey, they can't advance the plot forward without her there to send wave after wave of cultists at Cobra in lieu of him having to solve a crime for a change. In fact, he's attacked in a car chase almost immediately because they panicked and didn't want him to have to do anything involving clues or deduction.
I'm not going to go over a car chase beat by beat, so I'm just going to post some random musings:
So we loop back to him in the same room he was in before the car chase, getting an ass chewing. They're furious at Cobra because people keep trying to kill him. Cobra tells them once again they're up against an army of killers but he's dismissed. They demand to know what proof he has for that and Cobra tells them he doesn't have any.
- Cobra's supposedly badass 1950 Mercury Hot Rod with the five point seatbelts can't outrun a Ford truck with a camper shell and a Plymouth Volaré. Its a good thing they didn't have anything faster like a Ford LTD
- One of the longest lingering questions this movie raises is where the fuck Cobra got a Jatimatic from.
- LA traffic will contest lane changes with violent car chases and keep pace with them. Its technically matching the speed of traffic until a car or two blows up.
- A sawed off shotgun can detonate a gas tanker with a single shot. Every day of a hazmat driver must be like Sorcerer.
- Why does Gonzales exist? He's not funny, he doesn't provide pathos and he could be replaced by a Roomba. Hell, give me a movie where Stallone has to partner with DJ Roomba.
Excuse me? The theory of an army of killers is weak? Cobra can't point out the 5 men with identical tattoos who he's killed in the course of protecting this woman? Plus the dude from the beginning with the same tattoo? Did they all turn to ash and blow away after he killed them? Has he been forgetting to tell anyone when he shoots a guy? You're just giving him shit for getting in a multi car vehicle chase. Who was driving one of those cars? Automan? A fucking ghost? Can the LAPD not even see white criminals at this point? Were the guys busting through Cobras door with axes lost firemen?! How do these people play Clue? Do they just shoot the box? Can I escape the police by covering my eyes and yelling "Peak-a-boo" at them?! Are there any actual detectives working for the LAPD?
No? Ok, moving on then.
Cobra moves her upstate to-Sorry, no. The movie is about to go off the rails here but I can't get over this. This has to be the stupidest moment in a movie related to not listening to the protagonists theories. Nobody has a single clue how to actually be police. Cobra is a violent fascist that guns people down left and right and that makes him more competent than his peers. You could give a monkey a gun and it would get more results than these idiots. I know they're just there to be speedbumps for the hero and to help glorify his violent government thug tendancies, but you could have given them a brain! Cobra could prove everything he's said so far by just thinking for 15-30 seconds and then pointing at the corpse pile. This doesn't require the deductive abilities of Wishbone.
The world needs more Wishbone though
Doesn't matter though, their plan is to just send Cobra north and hope for the best. Don't worry, they're sending Nancy Stalk up with them to keep the plot moving. Cobra almost had to do some actual policing instead of just gunning people down. The movie lets down its hair for a bit at this point though giving Stallone the chance to just absolutely fuck around at random. Half the lines on their trip north have to be Stallone adlibs, as he fucks around with weird props, makes dad jokes and seems incredibly uninterested. This is of course, where Cobra comes off as being actually likeable. Don't worry though, we get some vintage Cannon Group fascism! Apparently the problem with the US Justice System is that it allows judges and juries to have a say instead of just going with whatever the cops say. If there's one thing I've learned about American culture, its that police are holy, blameless creatures. Who wouldn't want a country where the courts just rubber stamp police arrests and shootings? That's never gone wrong, not once. Ok, maybe its gone wrong a few times. Ok, maybe its gone wrong every time that's ever happened in the US. But this time, its going to work out.
You might be wondering at this point "Moira, you magnificent bitch, you keep referencing a cult. What do they believe in? What's their deal?" Oh they're just skinheads with the fascism replaced with trying too hard. They want to establish a generic new world order where they hunt the weak. They won't stop warbling about being hunters in fact. They're all white and love axes and obviously some matter of white supremacists, except that a lack of diversity in the movie means they only kill white people. But they're hunters! They're the Future! They're Generic! They're lazy screenwriting! They have no motivation or beliefs, they're just Evil Badmen.
Well, except for Nancy Stalk of course. She's Evil Badwoman. Cobra catches her in the middle of the night making a phone call in a payphone and the movie plays it like he's realized she's the mole. He goes back to his room and gets his SMG, hundreds of rounds of ammo and grenades ready in preparation for a battle. But then the next day, they're all caught by surprise by her being the mole. You had one last chance to actually figure something out Cobra! You are 2 for 50 at this point. DJ Roomba would have cracked this case. There are chatbots that would be better detectives than you! Yeah you're a murder machine but at this point the cult is trying to stop a running propeller with their bare hands. At any point they could walk away and just keep up the Turner Diaries Larp and you'd never catch them. Instead, the army of killers rolls through town murdering everyone. Oh shit, were we supposed to warn anyone in this small town that there was an army of killers probably coming? Shit, guess everyone's dead now huh? Boy is our face red!
So any attempt to break down this action scene is going to just be "Guy comes at Cobra, get shot. Repeat 35 times". Boy that edgy, dark and dramatic action movie fell apart real quick. This started out as a serial killer movie and ended up as Commando. But hey, Cobra shoots and burns his way through everyone until he's finally face to face with the Night Stalker. Now, Cobra has killed 100% of the criminals he's interacted with. He hasn't arrested a single person in the entire movie and I suspect, also in his entire career. So naturally, the Night Stalker gloats about how Cobra's rules and restrictions as a police officer won't let him kill him.
Motherfucker, have you been paying attention? Were you off sharpening your ridiculous knife when he was killing everyone without mercy? He gives speeches about how the law stops where he begins and how no justice matters but his own at the drop of the hat. The lady at the 7-11 has probably heard it every time there's no penny in the take a penny, leave a penny. His Christmas cards all have Frank Rizzo on them. He writes books that Paladin Press rejects for being too quick to violence. He once gave Jim Cirillo a CLP handjob. He was in fact going to just murder you as you gave a speech about how constrained by the rule of law he is until the gun got knocked out of his hand. He lit two of your buddies on fire and watched them burn to death. Hows this going to end for you? Not well! He's going to go for a combo death of impaled and on fire. That's a 4x multiplier in addition to the 10x streak multiplier he's on. Also, I deeply suspect he has an erection as you are slowly dragged into a furnace by the giant hook in your chest.
Second star on the right and straight on to incineration
Cue standard 80s movie ending. He punches out the guy that gave him shit for not respecting rights and doubted his detective work. You might be like "Isn't that assault" but you were allowed to attack people you know as long as the ending credits are going to roll in the next couple minutes. The case law for it is very clear. He rides off into the sunset, ready to go back to work attacking civilians and killing criminals without mercy or thought. Swoon!
Oh and the movie ends with them just assuming they got them all. Almost had to do detective work there!
Cobra is a mess. Every scene in this movie is a mess. Its your typical 80s action movie only written by a particularly fascist Martian. Oh its enjoyable, because its one of the perfect storms of crazy yet watchable. You can talk about this movie for hours, there's so much shit wrong with it. It shifts genre so hard it rolls the vehicle. Stallone alternates between trying too hard and sleep walking. Its original music is jarringly off theme. If you bought the sountrack you would eject it to make sure you got the right one. It's main plot is bouyed by idiocy at every turn. The cops refuse to believe this army of killers has an army of killers and the cult destroys itself trying to go after a single woman who probably couldn't have taken them down anyway. Its so stupid at every turn, you can't help but love it. Especially if you're making fun of it with friends.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
I can confirm that the 80s LAPD could not see white criminals in the daytime. They had to wait until night since they were all dark then
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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- He/Him
What? I can't go in to visit my grandmother?
Thank you, Atkins diet!
Oh come on, who wouldn't?
Everyone who sees it? Even I find that too edgy a knife.
Yes, he does.
Good to see my sister is getting work in these tough times.
So he'd fit right in with the LAPD in that timeframe?
- Location
- Portland, OR
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Fixed that for ya.
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hey, I heard they actually improved, and this is from @Nuts!, who has to deal with them regularly.
Man that sounds crazy bad. And I'm speaking as someone who (mostly) sat through the entirety of The Giant Spider Invasion. Some things you need to watch with a riff.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
Because it's got a blood curse on it, probably. You trash it, it'll end up in you by the morrow.
Number6
Unrepentant Like Addict
- Location
- The Village, Scotland
So Holly wanted me to do the live action "Ghost" in the ""Shell".
Unfortunately I love her so I saw it.
I...saw it..
I deliberately avoided watching this film for fear of embarassing myself in the middle of a cinema. Your sacrifice will be honoured in the coming empire.
Eukie
Powered by furious Canadian redheads
I...saw it..
;_;7
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- He/Him
I actually didn't think it was that bad, as far as film adaptations of anime go. Which I know is damning with faint praise. But the whole
Is a massive millstone around the whole movie.
Government kidnapped a Japanese Teenage Girl and turned her into robo- Scarlett Johansson
Is a massive millstone around the whole movie.
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CompassJimbo
Where’s Your North?
- Location
- The former Rubber Capital of the World
Athene, you poor, tormented soul.
- Location
- HELL
- Pronouns
- They/It
So what was your favorite part? Mine was where they missed the fucking point of the movie they tried so hard to replicate the shots of. Because the director's a stupid fucking pillock.So Holly wanted me to do the live action "Ghost" in the ""Shell".
Unfortunately I love her so I saw it.
I...saw it..
- Location
- Brittany, France
- Pronouns
- He/Him
My favorite part was when they replicated the exact scene of the Major's doomed fight against a spider-tank, only in this one she wins on her own because it's more uplifting.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
My favorite part was the one where I didn't see it
Athene
Rise for the Shadow Queen
- Location
- Dream of The 90s
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Kanazuki: What do you think?
Major: I have to admit, for a movie it wasn't bad- but diversionary entertainment is transitory, it just comes and goes at the viewers whim. It's the way it should be, but a film with no beginning or end that hooks an audience and won't let go of them is harmful no matter how wonderful you may have believed it was.
Kanazuki: Ohh, you're a tough critic. Are you saying that we members of the audience have a reality to which we should return?
Major: Yes I am.
Kanazuki: For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?
Major: No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.
Kanazuki: You're a realist.
Major: If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.
Kanazuki: A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, you give me a call. When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.
Fake Ass Major: Everyone around me seems to fit. They seem connected to something, I am... not.
Major: There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.
Fake Ass Major: My mind is human. My body is manufactured. I'm the first of my kind, but... I won't be the last. We cling to memories as if they define us. But what we do defines us. My ghost survived to remind the next of us... that humanity is our virtue. I know who I am... and what I'm here to do.
This is going to be a short review for one reason: Because for all that this movie infuriated me, its so forgettable that its all just fading away. I've seen Stand Alone Complex more than 20 times and I don't even know how many times I watched the original movie. This movie is a rather soulless simulacrum of a deep, meaningful fictional universe. Its like a serial killer broke into your friends home and is wearing their face. Only instead of killing you, they're insisting its your old friend Ben and hey want to go to bowling or something? Just your old friend from middle school and not a soulless husk of meat, noooooo ma'am. Only it understands Ben so little, its got their face strapped to a foot. That's where faces go right?
Honestly, this movie feels like a shoutout to the idea of "American" being a way to say something is a fake version of the real thing, like American Cheese. Its like a cultural Rorschach test. Lets take a movie and series that reveled in philosophy and questions about life and existence and boil it down to "TECHNOLOGY IS BAD EXCEPT NOT SO MUCH SOMETIMES". Lets grab Kuze and the Puppet Master, and lets jam them together into a single character. They have the same goals and personality right? They're both hu-Ohh right.
"STOP HITTING YOURSELF" - The Major
Lets take a strong, confident woman and turn her into a scared little girl, who finds out she was originally some sort of luddite. Is she a Super Class A Hacker? Nah, lets make her the worst at it, unable to hack anything because woooah, that would require thought. Instead of having her contemplate her own existence and what makes an almost completely cyberized person like her still human, just remove all thought from her pretty robot head. She'll need to be rescued a lot because she's just so helpless. Its not like she's supposed to be a strong willed and competent character right?
This is a Ghost in the Shell for people who think WiFi gives you cancer and kills sperm. The Major is the only person of her kind, which boy, makes Togusa rather pointless, doesn't it? Its ok, he's so forgettable in this that I despite being introduced to him, when he shows back up later I thought he was an extra for a solid minute. This means he has more personality than most of Section 9, especially since most of them disappear into the void between pages of script.
Also real talk: This is a movie that can't decide how to portray drawn characters. A lot of ink has been spilled about the Fake Major, but good god, Batou looks like a mall security guard that gives you a speech about being the thin blue line. He looks like Jack Black was struck by magical lightning while holding peroxide. He walked into the old memetic barbershop and demanded his shit be fucked up. Did he rub the lamp of an overly literal genie and ask to be the biggest cock?
Nothing says badass like X-Com Rookie Chic
I'm going with generalities of course, because its just dumb and forgettable. Its riffable but its more frustrating than anything. Its a movie that makes you ask "So wait, can Scarlett Johansson even act?" She's just doing Black Widow again but deprived of people like RDJ or Chris Evans to act off, it makes you wonder if everyone has just been polishing a turd for years. Its like when movie critics saw Heavens Gate and were like "So wait, was I wrong about Deer Hunter?!". I mean, the movie at times directly steals Black Widow scenes from the MCU, including her fight against security in Ironman 2. Only, you know, shit.
I honestly don't know what to say. I yelled at my TV yesterday but now I'm like "Uh...I think there was a cat?!". Actually, I know exactly what its like.
Or you know, that Conan movie I saw in 2011 that I continuously forget existed despite seeing it the day it came out.
"Oh yeah, that was, uh...the, well, I think there was a guy?"
I have a feeling this movie will follow that-Shit, what was I talking about?
Major: I have to admit, for a movie it wasn't bad- but diversionary entertainment is transitory, it just comes and goes at the viewers whim. It's the way it should be, but a film with no beginning or end that hooks an audience and won't let go of them is harmful no matter how wonderful you may have believed it was.
Kanazuki: Ohh, you're a tough critic. Are you saying that we members of the audience have a reality to which we should return?
Major: Yes I am.
Kanazuki: For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?
Major: No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.
Kanazuki: You're a realist.
Major: If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.
Kanazuki: A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, you give me a call. When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.
Fake Ass Major: Everyone around me seems to fit. They seem connected to something, I am... not.
Major: There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.
Fake Ass Major: My mind is human. My body is manufactured. I'm the first of my kind, but... I won't be the last. We cling to memories as if they define us. But what we do defines us. My ghost survived to remind the next of us... that humanity is our virtue. I know who I am... and what I'm here to do.
This is going to be a short review for one reason: Because for all that this movie infuriated me, its so forgettable that its all just fading away. I've seen Stand Alone Complex more than 20 times and I don't even know how many times I watched the original movie. This movie is a rather soulless simulacrum of a deep, meaningful fictional universe. Its like a serial killer broke into your friends home and is wearing their face. Only instead of killing you, they're insisting its your old friend Ben and hey want to go to bowling or something? Just your old friend from middle school and not a soulless husk of meat, noooooo ma'am. Only it understands Ben so little, its got their face strapped to a foot. That's where faces go right?
Honestly, this movie feels like a shoutout to the idea of "American" being a way to say something is a fake version of the real thing, like American Cheese. Its like a cultural Rorschach test. Lets take a movie and series that reveled in philosophy and questions about life and existence and boil it down to "TECHNOLOGY IS BAD EXCEPT NOT SO MUCH SOMETIMES". Lets grab Kuze and the Puppet Master, and lets jam them together into a single character. They have the same goals and personality right? They're both hu-Ohh right.
"STOP HITTING YOURSELF" - The Major
Lets take a strong, confident woman and turn her into a scared little girl, who finds out she was originally some sort of luddite. Is she a Super Class A Hacker? Nah, lets make her the worst at it, unable to hack anything because woooah, that would require thought. Instead of having her contemplate her own existence and what makes an almost completely cyberized person like her still human, just remove all thought from her pretty robot head. She'll need to be rescued a lot because she's just so helpless. Its not like she's supposed to be a strong willed and competent character right?
This is a Ghost in the Shell for people who think WiFi gives you cancer and kills sperm. The Major is the only person of her kind, which boy, makes Togusa rather pointless, doesn't it? Its ok, he's so forgettable in this that I despite being introduced to him, when he shows back up later I thought he was an extra for a solid minute. This means he has more personality than most of Section 9, especially since most of them disappear into the void between pages of script.
Also real talk: This is a movie that can't decide how to portray drawn characters. A lot of ink has been spilled about the Fake Major, but good god, Batou looks like a mall security guard that gives you a speech about being the thin blue line. He looks like Jack Black was struck by magical lightning while holding peroxide. He walked into the old memetic barbershop and demanded his shit be fucked up. Did he rub the lamp of an overly literal genie and ask to be the biggest cock?
Nothing says badass like X-Com Rookie Chic
I'm going with generalities of course, because its just dumb and forgettable. Its riffable but its more frustrating than anything. Its a movie that makes you ask "So wait, can Scarlett Johansson even act?" She's just doing Black Widow again but deprived of people like RDJ or Chris Evans to act off, it makes you wonder if everyone has just been polishing a turd for years. Its like when movie critics saw Heavens Gate and were like "So wait, was I wrong about Deer Hunter?!". I mean, the movie at times directly steals Black Widow scenes from the MCU, including her fight against security in Ironman 2. Only, you know, shit.
I honestly don't know what to say. I yelled at my TV yesterday but now I'm like "Uh...I think there was a cat?!". Actually, I know exactly what its like.
Or you know, that Conan movie I saw in 2011 that I continuously forget existed despite seeing it the day it came out.
"Oh yeah, that was, uh...the, well, I think there was a guy?"
I have a feeling this movie will follow that-Shit, what was I talking about?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Admittedly Soulless is a great way of describing it. It was like everyone who made it watched the Original movie but didn't understand any of it. And when it comes down to it the only thing that sticks in my mind from this movie is the fact that Scarlet Johansson is a kidnapped and brainwashed Japanese Teenage Girl.
I always feel weird about getting hung up on that but it's just... I question both why they added it and why they did so little with it. It didn't feel needed considering how much effort they put into explaining why the city is so culturally diverse, like Neo-Kobe in Snatcher (Only Snatcher is far better). And a Better movie could have done a lot with the fact that the Major was easily a decade or so younger than she thought she was if not more, and had that much of who she was before erased. But the movie doesn't really do anything with it, which makes the whole situation stick out awkwardly and painfully. it seems like they tired super hard to avoid the dumpster fire of a situation Scarlet's casting created PR wise, only to crash into a far bigger Dumpster fire of their own making. And yes I stole that from Honest Trailers.
I always feel weird about getting hung up on that but it's just... I question both why they added it and why they did so little with it. It didn't feel needed considering how much effort they put into explaining why the city is so culturally diverse, like Neo-Kobe in Snatcher (Only Snatcher is far better). And a Better movie could have done a lot with the fact that the Major was easily a decade or so younger than she thought she was if not more, and had that much of who she was before erased. But the movie doesn't really do anything with it, which makes the whole situation stick out awkwardly and painfully. it seems like they tired super hard to avoid the dumpster fire of a situation Scarlet's casting created PR wise, only to crash into a far bigger Dumpster fire of their own making. And yes I stole that from Honest Trailers.
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- Location
- New Delhi, India
So Holly wanted me to do the live action "Ghost" in the ""Shell".
Unfortunately I love her so I saw it.
I...saw it..
..... GOOOOOOODAMMIT WWWHHHYYYY!!!!?????
Captain Orsai
Davion Heavy Guards Captain
Well, that's certainly one crossed off the "Potential DVD purchases" list.