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The cast and performances are fine. I like Jamie Bell in pretty much anything he does. The problem is we get about an hour and a half of origin and so so build-up to maybe ten minutes of action rap up that is underwhelming at best. It's boring. The cast isn't given anything to work with. I place the blame on the script and Josh Trank, the director. Much wasted potential here.
Friday, August 7, 2015
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Blame Avi Arad. He is the executive producer on these flops. He gets it right about a third of the time. (He is the one basically green-lighting the scripts.) He only knows how to do origin stories. Origin of superhero, followed by a sequel that is origin of an arch-villain. (Spider Man and Spider Man 2 - the early versions, not the relaunch.)
I was interested to see that there is a live-action version of Ghost in the Shell planned - even if they did cast Scarlett Johansson in the lead (they haven't said they are keeping the character's name the same - supposed to be Japanese) until I noticed that Arad was producing. In the original, the origin is skipped completely, and you figure it out as you go. I can't imagine old Avi will understand that.
Actually Trank said that it was the studio who re-cut the film....
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/17679
On the central characters you don't need much of an origin. On the characters where we've been origined to death we definitely don't need them. Just pick up the story and move on. FF had an origin. they didn't need another.
I know Trank said that but these big tent poles are always collaborative efforts. If you don't play well with others you end up with crap.
Live action GITS? No interest in an Americanized version. I'd rather see more animated entries like the four parter released last year. Good stuff.
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