Her face looks way too weird. I'm a fan of the manga, but they didn't have to literally design her face that way for the live action movie. Pass for me.
I saw it in IMAX 3D, I wouldn't say the whole movie is impressive in 3D but there are action sequences that I found very impressive.
Just watched the 2 animated portions that this is based on......if you are a fan of it, I can say that the movie is really really true to the source. They didn't do what Ghost in the Shell did by using sequences from the animated movie and repurposing them, this movie keeps the plot more or less the same with a few changes. Major story beats are the same. This is a better version of the anime from the 90s for anyone interested;
I really loved the movie. It was a whole lot of fun and left me wanting for more. Sometimes that's exactly the type of thing you need in a film.
I don’t know the story. Is the main character supposed to not look quite human, to be physically different from the rest in an easily identifiable way?
In the manga, what differentiates her from other people is that she is a cyborg, not that she has huge eyes. Her eyes are drawn that way by the artist because that was his character design for her, and honestly, her eyes are not that much larger than some of the other characters. If they wanted to translate everything from the manga to the movie, Dr. Ido in the movie should have a huge jutting chin and a pinnochio nose but they left Christoph Waltz's face unchanged.
Saw it today and there are a lot of good things. 8.5/10 First the eyes... The movie begins with the doctor finding a half cyborg body from a dump site. So who she is is a mystery and where the movie is set isn't the most wholesome of places. It took me awhile to get used to the eyes, but it helped remind me that she was an outsider. I think it also helped with establishing her innocence, maybe because the acting wasn't strong or the special effects was not as seamless as some people would expect. The pacing is pretty tight for a story that needs a bit of world building. It borrows on a lot of tropes but I liked that it didn't have to be heavy handed about the how depressing that world could be. Most of that is because of the main character. Speaking of tropes, if you liked the sfx and style of Speed Racer and the 2000 Tron's action scenes, it borrows a bit from it but I liked this movie much more than the mentioned two. I didn't feel much tension in those stadium scenes that you see in the commercial but it's there and something different. I actually hope they retain the character driven theme in future adaptations. It might be contrived for some, but there hasn't been many successful sci fi/anime/video game adaptations because they usually end up trying to do so much without accomplishing anything. I hope this does well in the box office.
Not sure but I'm not a fan. I guess for me it's my brain telling me it looks human but be careful because something aint right.
