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Ghost in the Shell Actors: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi Director: Mamoru Oshii Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Animated, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures/Manga Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31 Buy from Amazon |
 "EXCELLENCE"alot has been said and written about this great anime film.you know why ? because it diserves it.and all the good reviews you heard about it are true.so go a head,buy it. full of amazing and unforgettable scenes .like the one after the opening credits when motoko wakes up in her apartment.took my breath away .in a story about cyborgs questioning their humanity,and a virus trying to become one. the dvd features are your typical making of video and trailers .there is also a production report and a guide to ghost in the shell.you have to read them though. like akira, the plot isn't that great,but you can't resist watching the film. great anime.average dvd. unrated.suggested 17. means R rated then.alot of artistic nudity.  "Still one of the Best!"After watcheing the second movie, I still think this is the better one. Feels like there will be at least another one out, maybe the second movie suffer the middle child syndrome. This is definately the one that will blow you away, sort like the first time you see Matrix. Superb sound track, and editing.  "you've got to be kidding"I watched this movie and didn't much like it. Based on the reviews here, I watched it again. I'm Japanese and proud of it, but I've got to say this is just not a good movie. It's not as good as the Matrix (sci fi); nor is it as good as Shrek (animation). It is for anime geeks, which until I saw this movie, I thought I might be one. But for you anime geeks, can you honestly tell us this movie -- which most claim to be the standard in anime -- has better animation than the Incredibles? better effects than Spiderman 2? better story line than Terminator? Not even close. With all due respect to the work put into this film, the animation is reminiscent of the Speed Racer cartoon, and it makes the "adult plot" hard to appreciate. "399th Review..."Being the 399th review, what more can be said? The animation was really good but the voice over in english sucked- I recommend watching it in english with the subtitles on (of course, after watching it in japanese) to see what they're really supposed to be saying. It was also sooo much better than the book. if you didn't like the manga, you probably will like this. Not so much politics (and they explain those confusing future terms so you know what they're talking about). The music is the worst part. It's kind of scary. You can't even turn it down, risking missing something said. :( Well, its great other than that. "Mangled Anime"I was really excited about Ghost In the Shell Special Edition. I am a fan of the movie which covers similar ground as Blade Runner. Unfortunately Manga, which a lot of fans refer to as Mangled got the rights to this title. The Special Edition is much much better than their original release. The menus are very well done keeping the green terminal like computer motif represented within the film, and makes effective use of the score as background music. Too bad the content is where the disc starts to go downhill. First, the transfer and audio well done, except that for some lame brained reason, they decided to replace the closing song. This totally throws the flow of the ending off balace. This is a big thing in my book. Who do these people think they are, overriding the original song? Do they think they have more artistic talent than the creators? They also included only english credits, while this isn't anything big, they could have taken the extra step an made a multiangle disc like what disney did for Princess Mononoke. These are pretty glaring considering this is supposed to be a "Special Edition" The new release comes with a few more extras and on a second disc. There is the production report that was included in the first release of the DVD, but they did not include the Japanese audio track as they did with the original disc. A new feature has been added showing the computer production techniques they used on the move, but this only has a Japanese language track. This time around they also included a few more trailers, but are in one long single sequence showing each of the three trailers back to back. The packaging is very nicely done. The discs come in a tri-fold that is becoming more comon with dvd's these days. That in itself comes in a clear plastic sleve with graphics printed on it. If you own the original disc, you're just getting fancier packaging, a new extra, good menus, and multi-channel Japanese tracks (a big plus), but still with the messed up ending (a big minus). |
