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I just watched the movie (on TV), and it was f*cking awesome.

No, not Stand Alone Complex, the movie.

I gotta get me GITS: Innocence.


Anyway...., uh, one question by the way: What is Solid State Society? I only watched the movie, and I know about the sequel, but thats about it. SAC is the series, from what I gather, but what is Solid State Society?

(Made new thread because the other was about the series)
 
Thank you.



So much violence at the start though. D: Ripping out skulls and spines... If I'd been those police, I'd be pretty shocked, at the least.
 
Eh? Skulls and Spines? In the Movie?

You mean Ghost in the Shell, the first one, with the puppet master and Section 6 and whatnot?

*tries to think*

Oh! When Motoko is all "Yeah, Democratic!" and totally blows up the ambassador.

Was that it?
 
Yeah. And when the muscular guy with weird eyes (don't remember name) captures the kidnappers.
 
Batou! HIS NAME IS BATOU! AND HE IS AWEEEESSSOOMMMEEE!

I don't know, I just like Batou. He's cool. And he likes the Tachikomas, too.
 
Talking spider-tank things.

They rock. Their voices are just so incogrueous with the serious bent of the rest of the series. ^^
 
Well, the movie takes them out completely, excpet for the scene near the end, with Motoko VS the tank spider thingy, which doesn't talk at that scene...
 
I remember being puzzled that the GitS Playstation game was all in the spiderbot when it only features for about 15 seconds in the movie...

Yeah. Idunno, the movie doesn't really do much for me, except for a few bits of awesome animation scattered here and there. But the majority of it is really... static. Just people standing around talking. And being anime you know that's just like 3 frames of animation recycled over and over. It probably has a good plot but I didn't care enough to pay attention.
 
15357 said:
Well, the movie takes them out completely, excpet for the scene near the end, with Motoko VS the tank spider thingy, which doesn't talk at that scene...
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I don't think that was a Tachikoma. That was just a tank-bot. :D

Well, maybe it was a recoloured Tachikoma.

In any case the whole point of the Ghost in the Shell is the talking. Not paying attention to it sort of, well, misses the point.
 
Yeah, yeah. GITS matters on the storyline, and not the action. Although the action scenes are good.


Just finished watching Innocence, btw. It somewhat hurt my brain, having to think what each piece of dialog meant. Loved the yakuza scene, hehehe.
 
Innocence was really damn strange. > >

I still need to watch Second GiGS...
 
Sounds horrible. But then again, they were going to make a Live Action Evangelion.

Whatever happened to that?
 
I thought you were all HATEHATEHATEHATE about Japan, Numbers?

Great movie to. Especially the bit at the start when the dude gets shot in the head and it EXPLODES.
 
gick said:
I thought you were all HATEHATEHATEHATE about Japan, Numbers?

Great movie to. Especially the bit at the start when the dude gets shot in the head and it EXPLODES.
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Meh, I still want to invade and conquer.


Yeah, head exploding... hehehe.



I've just got GITS: Solid State Society (the 3rd movie), and I'll have to watch it soon.
 
Is that one related to the SAC stuff?
 
I think so, Motoko (?) comes out at the first scene.
 
the first GitS movie was, i feel, a lot better than the second.

Where the first had all this awesome hand drawn animation, the second one goes and puts in mediocre cg that just does not hold up to the visuals of the first.

Also, IIRC both of the ghost in the shell movies were directed by Mamoru Oshii. One thing that you'll notice real fast if you start watching more of his films, including the live action ones, is that they all follow the same formula.

-Explosive intro with action and special effects and baddassness.
-An hour of mindnumbingly boring politics and talking
-Explosive outro with action and special effects and badassness.

They are all like that.
 
Jintor said:
I don't think that was a Tachikoma. That was just a tank-bot. :D

Well, maybe it was a recoloured Tachikoma.

In any case the whole point of the Ghost in the Shell is the talking. Not paying attention to it sort of, well, misses the point.
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Naw, Tachikomas are waaaaay smaller and armed only with a machine gun and a single-shot cannon. The thing that Motoko fought was just a robot tank.

And if someone is looking for just a total, non-stop action fest, then GITS probably isn't for them. Though the action is superb. It gets really deep and philosophical at points, and the storylines can seriously make your brain hurt. But definately a must for the anime-affectionado!

Batou's good, but Togusa's the best.
 
Leave it to numbers to love a japanese movie about chinese government officers who learn the value of breaking the conservative status quo.
 
Err... what?


#1. Chinese? Huh?

#2. What value? All I see is teh Commission of Public Security blowing people up.
 
Ok, it was about humanity in a transhuman world, to be breif. I don't see any conservative status quo.
 
Do you follow Section Six (?) who are officially part of the government and ****ing around with internation politics via the puppet-master scheme, OR do you do this weird phase-interlink thing with him instead and become a super cyborg program spreading over the internet.

Lol, I dunno.
 
Lol, they don't really make a choice.
 
Solid State Society? Huh Got to see it agen its bin a lomg time. I have the Ghost In The Shell but not the new movie the old movie.

Do they have like a secret war with the USA or a type of Cold War with the USA?
 
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