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shinyRK9
to be fair, most fuck robots come from japan
BluBoxx
@OP the major isn't a robot. She's a human whose brain was cyber linked (placed in a neuro-cyber interface) and set in a prosthetic body
babaroga73
http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pepper-robot-635x357.jpg I'm not a japanese robot , I'm white !
EdwardSanders2808
Please don't suck... Please, please, please.
didgeboy287
What are you worried about? Aeon Flux turned out fine.
gorillaClutch
I'm more worried about the fact that live action anime adaptations are mostly garbage
SaltyInternetPirate
Might have something to do with the fact that anime is mostly garbage.
NERDRAGEohacat
Don't worry, it's going to take its place next to timeless classics like the Street Fighter and Dragonball movies. Now I made myself sad.
BleepBlorpBop
And technically Avatar. IsaidtechnicallyIknowitsnotananimebecauseitsamericanpleasedontremindme
RealScienceMan
That's true, but most live action anime adaptations are low budget pieces designed to cash in. Casting Johanason at least suggest maybe not.
FreeFloatingFullTorsoVaporousApparition
Most? I'd say all
gorillaClutch
I keep thinking i'm wrong and there are some good ones but i'm trying really hard to think of a good one and i got nothing
GigavoltFox
Anyone know how the Phoenix Wright live action thing was?
DapperBlook
Have you seen the trailer for the live action Fullmetal Alchemist? I almost cried, it looks so fucking awful.
saithvatar
Technically she is a cyborg.
punchlineguy
Classic robit
Raandy
ElegantKitty
I don't even like it and know she's a fucking cyborg and it IS about whitewashing you piece of shit lol.
TheycallmeRisky
Its like when people say goku supposed to be chinese. Hes a fuckin SAIYAN
TheresABirdOnMyFoot
She's a robot and not a partially biological cyborg? They've gone too far.
CamelSpotter
The only part that should be organic is her brain. Her entire body is prosthetic.
TheresABirdOnMyFoot
Yes, but she should still have an organic cyberbrain, unlike the fully electronic robots (like Puppet Master).
threyon
Cyborg. Not robot. Human brain inside a machine body.
DanielVanTilburg
Better argumemt my brother told me. The city that she's from is basically a multi national citystate. So nationality is irrelevant
Odb718
Yeah but it didn't have freaking Coy Fish swimming around like it was B2tF 2 either. It was modeled after Hong Kong. Now it's bright and new
KawaiiPotatoChan
*cyborg
thelastchipinthepacket
If steve aoki's remix is anything to go by, I dont have hope for this film:(( which sucks because it could of been amazing
Odb718
Well, I kinda hate you for informing me of this atrocity. But I guess I dont have to waste my money walking out after hearing it.
thelastchipinthepacket
sorry! I hated the person who let me know too. Its such a stupid thing to do! WHY A REMIX? Keep the original!! *facepalm*
jelladelta
How did they mess up the haircut?
5m4llP0X
Cyborg--her brain is a Japanese human brain, but I really don't give a shit about the "whitewashing", more that the story will suck
NERDRAGEohacat
It hardly matters, in Man-Machine Interface the Major freely hops between cybernetic bodies of different ethnicity. That's part of the whole
NERDRAGEohacat
transhumanism theme. That being said, I hate what little story the trailers have shown, it feels like sci-fi Bourne Identity with tits.
5m4llP0X
I hate that the big reveal seems to be that section 9, the one group who has done everything to make her feel human, is the bad guys.
IdAppreciateDickPicsIWould
Word. I feel like the people making such a huge fuss over this make a statement as to what they care for & its not the story or the movie.
tj328
It doesn't bother me who they cast as long as GitS remains about the philosophy between man and robot, not just a bland action flick.
CharlesFuckingBronson
It doesn't bother me who they cast as long as I can get more google results for "Scarlet Johansen nude"
BiomedicN7
This
TinySupreme
I really wanted to see it but then I heard bad things about it. Now im just thinking the bad things are all coming from annoying anime nerds
valkrez
Thank you.
Keru
Also why wouldn't they use the absolutely fucktastic soundtrack that Kenji Kawai made for the first movie
balmut
FlyingGorrilas
This exactly. *sigh* of only producers cared more about staying true to story then their focus groups of idiots
shhep
You do realize that producers care about the highest risk-reward ratio? Because movies are supposed to make money and unless you're
shhep
Wes fucking Anderson or another huge name director, they won't allow you to risk tens or hundreds of millions.
FlyingGorrilas
I mean maybe, but it's more story driven. I bet you they don't put a crucial part in so they can put an original piece by the writer
squidnib879
I want to believe
icantthinkofanythinginteresting
GitS?
BigBeardedBoy
Ghost in the shell
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
I'd love to see it stay true to the anime/manga. But I'm not going to bitch about action titties either. Action titties will not get me in
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
Theaters though. I'll just rent it when it hits DVD.
GoodbyeOldAccount
That's the problem. When action titties fails they'll say 'ok movies of realy popular anime/mangas don't work'. It couldn't be their fault
7hatsBollocks
But if you water down a beloved story with boom boom titty then... (brain stopped, time for me direct movie too! )
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
I think part of the problem is a lot of people think we like it for action titties, instead of the actual movie/show
7hatsBollocks
Shallow sexual content has mass market appeal and it cynically sells well. It's like the difference between popcorn and a true meal. :(
Odb718
They took away Batou's eyes. It's about close-ups and money. https://animemojo.com/images/articles/banners/2104.jpg
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
He has them in some scenes. They look awful on an live actor and look distracting. So they will probably be replaced with "new" bionics
GodEmperorOfImgur
Doesn't look to be from an actual trailer or anything, so might be before make up and what not.
Odb718
There's multiple images of him and the Major walking down a road. One seems to have cameras pointed at them. Previews have eyeless Batou too
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
Also eyes would be added in post production. Not on the set
Odb718
Perhaps. But then there's shots of him with them on during shooting.
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
No, I'm fairly sure I've seen a still with the eyes in. It's still gonna fucking blow, though.
Odb718
He doesn't have them 100% of the movie from the previews. It's like they treat them as glasses. Which goes against his whole personality.
CamelSpotter
Recent ads are making me think that they're trying to make her into Robocop or something. She's not supposed to be all that unique.
NERDRAGEohacat
I got more of a Bourne Identity vibe with it. Elite government operative discovers brain's been fucked with, goes off grid, government turns
NERDRAGEohacat
out to be evil and tries to eliminate the operative who dared stand up for personal liberty. The transhuman philosophy is just a plot device
NERDRAGEohacat
to trigger the plot's central conflict rather than being the conflict itself.
valkrez
That shit anime from the 2000s had her as a lawful good robo cop
AnActualTsundere
Well.. Major did have incredible military capabilities.
CamelSpotter
Yeah, but she's not the only one. She was a very unusual case, but there were a number of other cyborgs in the military as well.
inboxmefoxes
Not unique? She's a full-body transplant done at the youngest age of anybody in history and filled to to the brim with state of the art tech
CamelSpotter
I meant unique as if she's supposed to be the ONLY full-bodied cyborg in the movie. In the anime/manga, they run across a number of them.
CamelSpotter
Granted, her circumstances are more unique. Like you said, she had a full-body prosthesis at an early age. But that looks like it changed.
biolologist
They're making out like she knows her past and wants revenge when her core conceit has always been her doubt about her identity and past.
CamelSpotter
I'm hoping that they're just badly made ads and that the movie stays somewhat true to the source.
TheWorldEndsWithYou
its the director of snow white and the huntsman so probably not
TharrickLawson
I saw a trailer for it last week. There seems to be some kinda plot where she's amnesiac and her backstory is a lie, which I wasn't terribly
CamelSpotter
The ads give me the impression that a full-body prosthesis is supposed to be something never done before and that she was an experiment.
TharrickLawson
Perhaps, but all that 'they didn't save your life, they stole it' bull left an unpleasant taste
TharrickLawson
impressed by
Cammo353
Inb4 it's like the shitty total recall remake but with more robots.
FightingIrish1
I'm happy to see scar jo in this, Don't care what anyone says
DeadHamster
Mee to. I think she's gonna be great in it.
hakuzaki
Asian little girls don't get to see an Asian woman kicking ass. We've all seen white American women being strong a thousand times.
Binsto
They do, they just have to watch asian movies
hakuzaki
There was this really great Asian movie... something about Shells...
dangerousDoc
Yeah the major is barely human and uses tons of different "generic" models who's to say her main body was Asian? The artist doesn't mind
dangerousDoc
Asian little girls should watch some actual movies as there are hundreds of great films where they do
MapToTheCrunch
I'm gonna see it. Just a bit bummed they lost another opportunity to put an Asian actor as the Protagonist.
Bigcurly2000
From what I've seen of the trailers, practically every character with a speaking part is white...in a film set in Japan.
VmVegeta
Ehm the city it's set in is based on Hong Kong , which was part of GB when written
Bigcurly2000
Based on Hong Kong...Yet set in Japan.
VmVegeta
True
IAmAGoodPerson
What movie is this
Bigcurly2000
Ghost in the Shell, based on a Japanese anime,
shitduke
people are upset at transformers for being too male
FurbySavant
Right? I mean, maybe the alien robots are girls. It's not like they'd need titties.
kenspiration
reboot star wars and cast luke skywalker as black, i dare you to tell me there wont be backlash from that
dangerousDoc
They've already tried with Finn and he was alright even if he was sidelined by Mary su-sorry Rey
JimLaSomething
*Blacklash
DeadHamster
Yea but in the original comics and movie she wasn't even japanese looking. It's anime - everyone looks white. Pretty good casting choice.
jonbristow
yes she was. what was her name?
dangerousDoc
The major. The only real parts of her that are real are her brainstem. She is little more than a ghost with a generic synthetic body
AgamemnonsMemes
https://thenextissuepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/kusanagi.jpg
MrWolfwood
She's not a robot sh'es a cyborg jesus christ pick up a fucking book Lana
GasBandit
valkrez
Top comment quality
lickwidghost
Noooooope
narcolepticturtle
withoutapaddle1
Wasn't she technically a he? She/he was technically a full body transfer or something, so any dispute over race is kindof moot...
Tsumino79
there was a thing in the manga where batau had to put her in a new body and it turned out he had got one based on michael jackson
darthbiscuit
Wasn't a he. In the arise series had her brain kept alive as a fetus and put in a cyborg shell. never truly had a human body.
MrWolfwood
No but there was a man who was identical to her, they both went through the same thing.
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MrWolfwood
Android is purely mechanical, Cyborg still has some fleshy bits.
RincewindTVD
She's got some bits of human brain.
MrWolfwood
2. Per the story people are dumped with fleshy bits & bits o brains into mechanical cyberbrains. Not fully Androids.
Dignato
There's actually no conclusive evidence in the movies that her human brain still exists.
Dignato
S P O I L E R S after this
Dignato
And it definitely doesn't after the first movie.
MrWolfwood
It's based on Ghost in the Shell, which has a human brain
bigbrother
I don't believe it's her brain. She gets a body swap without the brain being moved. It might not even be an organic brain.
RincewindTVD
There's no conclusive evidence in the movies that any brains exist.
GasBandit
But there is in GITS:SAC.
Dignato
The entire point of the plot of SAC is that The Major doesn't know if she's even a real person or not.
GasBandit
That's not because of any brain ambiguity though (and it's shown even cyberized brains can be rewritten), it's a deeper question about (1/2)
GasBandit
what it means to be human or sentient, about the nature and origin of the "ghost," regardless of the presence of the human brain. (2/2)
Zap117
The it would be an Android then , ?
YanderePrincess
Gynoid. Female body type.
YouWillNotLikeThis
Wait, ghost in a shell takes place in Japan. Motoko Kusanagi is cyborg. I would assume she would be japanese.
dangerousDoc
Yeah but the major uses generic models of varying types. So it's little surprise if she wanted to be white as there would be white models
YouWillNotLikeThis
But she kept her face...
Tsumino79
nope the entire thing with the original film is that Project 2501 was in a body that had her face cause it was some mass produced thing
YouWillNotLikeThis
http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Puppet_Master
dangerousDoc
This doesn't disprove it.
Tsumino79
eh... pretty sure i remember motoko saying something about 2501 having the same face as hers...
Septagrim
https://www.google.com/amp/kotaku.com/ghost-in-the-shell-publisher-never-imagined-a-japanese-1771992584/amp
DoomSkuller
looking at the image of her they used there, she has the anime girl face profile anyway. It works.
thisisprocrastination
Obviously a *publisher* would be okay with whatever decision, they're in it for business, and you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
dangerousDoc
GitS is a hot commodity and businesses have bent over backwards to try to get it. They could have made any demands they wanted but didn't(1)
dangerousDoc
Because in the gits universe it doesn't matter she could be Asian originally but the body was built off of a famous actress
Daxter513
it's not about the race, it's about casting a nobody who would've brought mystery to the role. Now all I see is scarjo doing scarjo things
AllTimeAverage
Huh?So you want someone you never heard of?What What are you doing?
SomeCallMePants
Exactly.
BrassBallsBenLondon
If she makes it through the entire film without biting her bottom lip, she's really committed herself to the role.
hawkesnightmare
That sexual tension scene with the short haired black chick might be where that breaks down.
Slindrin
You lack imagination.
JoseDeLaNoWay
Yeah
PhillyBlunts
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Crowlands
See also: Will Smith as Deadshot, and Silvester Stallone as Judge Dredd.
Memari
It's a big budget movie, I'm totally in favour of them casting an actress who will allow them to make money. If it's good, that is.
JoseDeLaNoWay
That sounds like a personal problem
TEDwisdom
When you put it that way, every problem in the world is personal. How many people have to have it before it's not a personal problem?
JoseDeLaNoWay
It appears you have a personal problem with logical fallacy. You and many others, but make no mistake, it's still a personal problem. 1/2
JoseDeLaNoWay
If our buddy can only see Scarjo doing Scarjo things, I don't believe there's any evidence that the whole world shares his problem. 2/2
ThisIsSteel
It's exactly a personal problem.
dangerousDoc
They wanted a good actress not a nobody. Ghost in the Shell is a very very heavy duty ip that costs the studio millions for the license
Vectorman2
How dare the studio spending millions making this try to make money? Don't they know hardcore fans always know what's best???
dangerousDoc
These people are not fans fans are just excited for / dreading the movie
Vectorman2
I believe you on that! Never got the outrage over adaptations unless they COMPLETELY changed everything about the story
CephalopodLodge4
I have no idea who that is, then again, I dont know many famous people
keyserv
Maybe we should withhold judgement until we've seen the movie.
IseeallofthesepeoplewithlongusernamesandIdecidedtotryitout
But how am I supposed to hate it if I don't have that mindset going into the theater???
lifeisapicnic
Nobody did that for Ghostbusters lol
RealScienceMan
I waited until the trailer, and if the highlights of the movies are bad, that's telling.
UndeadGopher
Ya but I feel like I should have been refunded my 30 seconds after just watching the trailer.
lifeisapicnic
IDK I think people just want to give this movie more of a shot bc it's "sexier"
srsfaceI8C
I know it's unpopular on Imgur but I enjoyed that movie. Decent popcorn flick.
Daxter513
Where's the fun in that?! This is the internet, where rationale is a bad joke and my dick is 13 inches long...
Tfox6712
Yeah. We're fairly irrational here. And have the hugest dicks.
Slindrin
And you slept with my mother too, DIDN''T YOU?
heathyboyj
Who didn't?
d0uble0h
Yeah, but by now, who hasn't?
HighHeals
I have facial blindness, so it doesn't matter who they cast to me.
fettuccine
Wats dat mean?
guntbagmunkball
fettuccine
Wats dat mean?
cas86
Its all about money and getting a big star to play the leading role and also being able to show the film in China
squishybaker
that makes a ton of sense, as more and more you're seeing chinese studios funding these films.
AwfulCalamity
Some say that is why black male leads are so few. Chinese audiences prefer white actors.
dangerousDoc
Not really, it's more because black people see any character flaw as a slight against the race of all people thus they get tons of shit (1)
dangerousDoc
For normal character flaws and weaknesses that white characters get all the time. When the complaints stop the numbers would grow
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And hate the Japanese.
causeyourepretty
I enjoyed ghost in the shell stand alone complex, but i am druck now and have nothing useful to say
CaffeineManic
Druck is a hell of a drug.
putridepiphany
Kenona
I have not seen anything 'Ghost in the Shell', but i am also drunk and got nothing usefull to say.
janedrew
You should watch the original movie. Standalone Complex was good, but the movie is great.
BlackManedLion
Upvoted. Hope you make top comment
OnePingOnly
Isn't druck german for fashion or something?
causeyourepretty
Yes, it's similar to grunge
OnePingOnly
I remember seeing this shop when I was visiting hamburg http://www.druckdealer.de
realkiwinet
it's german for pressure or print
OnePingOnly
I remember seeing this store when I was visiting hamburg http://www.druckdealer.de
realkiwinet
Yeah thats a printing store. The pun is on point :D
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I need to get druck after the day I've had
PixelatedVinyl
I am at druck before or after black-out?
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In-between.
causeyourepretty
How bad was you're day?
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Bad enough to want to get druck.
causeyourepretty
May Odin give you knowledge on your path, May Thor grant you strength and courage on your way, And may Loki give you laughter as you go.
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