Scarlett Johansson signs on to star in Dreamworks' 'Ghost in the Shell'

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Fuck PG-13 tbh

Fuck the MPAA in general tbqh.




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[Cthulhu]

Fuck movie makers aiming for that rating in particular.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Fuck movie makers aiming for that rating in particular.

Well... yes & no. It happens because of all of the stupid restrictions around R ratings insofar as marketing and promotion are concerned that reduce your potential audience (aside from just the age restriction). It's less significant now than it used to be, but in conservative states (like where I live), they get insanely strict about R rated films – especially if they have nudity in them.

This Film is Not Yet Rated is still my favourite documentary about how awful, broken, corrupt, and controlling the MPAA is over all that shit, because they basically get to give a movie whatever rating they want, and have a MASSIVE amount of control to break Independent films from being able to recoup their costs by holding the PG-13 rating hostage from certain films (or even sometimes holding the R rating hostage if they're being huge douches about it).


tl;dr – The real issue is the restrictions, or lack thereof, granted by the ratings themselves that inflates their importance under a bullshit set of moral guidelines that the MPAA completely controls. If films like this DIDN'T attempt to go for the PG-13 rating, they would have a snowball's chance in hell of making any profit at all, because of the way the system is designed.



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[Strangelove]

WHY ISN'T SHE BOLLOCK NAKED?!

she wasn't actually bollock naked in the scene from the original film this seems to be ripping off inspired by, she's wearing a skin-coloured bodysuit that's just really really tightly fitting

 

[Octo]

lalalanotlisteningtoyoulalalasheistotallybillybollockslalala

 

[Hisako]

I thought it was seethrough, like those kitschy 80s fetish costumes

 

[Octo]

It's hi-tech clingfilm or saran wrap for our American cousins

Because there is nothing more satisfying than kicking the shit out of a guy and knowing the last thing he sees before losing conciousness is your nice juicy snatch....

...sorry, it's my problem I'll deal with it....

 

[Strangelove]

i could have done without hearing the term 'juicy snatch' today

 

[Ghost X]

^Yeah? Do go on .

I'm back to not liking the look of the film. It's looking really low budget.

 

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Some brief looks at Batou and other BTS stuffs

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[X-SOLDIER]

That's a pretty big seal of approval. Also, it looks like the full trailer is going to be released as a launch party with Sanders, Johansson, & Takeshi Kitano in Tokyo on November 13th, so I'd expect it online very shortly thereafter.





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[X-SOLDIER]

Details about how they did the opening "shelling sequence" with both practical effects and digital effects: http://sea.ign.com/m/ghost-in-the-s...e-shell-recreated-the-iconic-shelling-sequenc




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[X-SOLDIER]

Shelling sequence and other footage is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/osteoferocious/status/797737538387472384

Will edit post when theres a YouTube link.

Spider fingers concept art: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/797753618623401984



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[Tetsujin]

Looks surprisingly okay

 

[Cthulhu]

Looks surprisingly okay

The best we can hope for

 

[Channy]

I can dig it

 

[Octo]

I still can't get over how much I hate her fucking hair. Oh and if it's gonna have her being bisexual then there's the scene in the comic, it's funny because Batou interrupts her and gets a nosebleed and cognitive dissonance because he has the wrong genitals. Anyway I don't want to see Scarjo doing sexings at the best of times but that hair is like chemical castration to me

 

[Animexcel]

Live-action take on the original opening sequence.

Spoiler

 

[Strangelove]

i don't think the opening looks too bad

that scene with the stealth camo thing still looks too unreal in a bad way

 

[Ghost X]

Likely a shitty studio responsible for it, seeing as other scenes don't look so bad. Would be interesting to find out who did it. I'm not a fan of the Matrix wall running thing either. No imagination. This franchise deserves better than an average film.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

A huge gallery of images from the event last night: http://collider.com/ghost-in-the-shell-movie-props-costumes-images/




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[Octo]

Ok, I been trying to think of something nice to say: the set designs are nice, they have retained the look/feel of the comic/film.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Not to poke the bear so-to-speak, but what is it exactly that bugs you about her hair, Octo? It's the same cut as the anime uses, but just how it actually turns out on people insofar as I can tell (also from having had one very similar to it at times).




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[Octo]

It's similar to the Arise hair - which I also hate. It's flat and dull and lifeless. It actually looks thin, where Motoko's hair has always been thick.

If I had to pick out her hair for the live action it would look more like this http://www.short-haircut.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Graduated-Bob-Hair.jpg only maybe a bit shorter at the back.

But I defintely wouldn't have cast ScarJo, I don't think she has the build or the right face for Motoko.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Yay! I like discussing these sorts of things.

It IS much closer to Arise & the original film than any of Stand Alone Complex (which is similar to the side-view you posted). The weird thing about The Major's hair is that when it's longer, it also seems to get positioned further back on her head, which doesn't really work out for real people's non-anime hair.

While a common comparison of Rinko Kikuchi's hair seems a bit more similar from the from with her hair in Pacific Rim,
it's less like it from the side and other angles (it doesn't have the little independent hanging bits).

Even when it comes to good cosplayers, it's something that varies a lot – especially depending on which version of her character they're going for (which is most commonly the longer SAC version).

But then you're running into the territory of, do we care more about it looking like the anime, or looking like the Major spends a chunk of time styling her hair every day, since the look is more function than it is fashion for her character. – Especially when you're doing it as an actual haircut rather than a wig (which the film did). The tl;dr version is that it's one of those anime hairstyles that I don't think ever translates to actual human hair QUITE the way you think it will (coming from someone who's been doing some version of the Noctis/Sasuke/whatever look with my own hair since forever ago), so I'm probably more forgiving of this in particular.


Out of curiosity, who would you've gone with for Motoko instead – strictly for a closer resemblance for the character's build/face (since discussing actual actresses to cast for ALL THE REASONS is a whole other conversation)?


Speaking of her build/face accuracy: some great individual did a side-by-side comparison of the Shelling Sequence on YouTube. The film version is still just the cropped bootleg footage from the event, so it's VERY dark (still hoping that they release it officially). Also, animated nudity and such from the original, so it's gonna live under a spoiler tag.

Spoiler: Shelling Sequence Side-By-Side

Aaand lastly, there're a few interview clips that I can pull from Twitter if anyone's interested.




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