Hollywood’s live action Ghost in the Shell movie has apparently flopped as it has only generated about $18 million in box office takings ($40.1 million internationally) during its opening weekend, with the film’s excoriation by anime fans now backed up by regular critics…
Though the film managed to land at #3 at the U.S. box office, its $58.1 million in sales come nowhere near its $110 million production costs (excluding the likely gargantuan marketing budget) – and considering opening weekends are usually when movies make the most money, it is likely only downhill from here.
Despite some immediately claiming the whitewashing controversy to be the major cause of Ghost in the Shell’s downfall, the colossal abundance of negative reviews imply that the film itself might have also played a role as most believed the story failed to properly utilize the complex issues of cyborg identity which characterized the original.
The film’s failure has proved shocking to few as live action adaptations of popular anime tend to commonly share the same fate – the only upside to the disaster perhaps being how fat Masamune Shirow’s wallet must be by now…
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That’s unfortunate. I actually saw the movie, unlike the rest of you. It was actually pretty good.
YES! Hitting those jews where it hurts, the wallet, is the ONLY way to teach them to NOT insult, degrade and humiliate Asians.
Makes sense, as the wallet is what they have in place of what Human Beings have for Hearts and Souls, so hurting that is the ONLY way to bitchslap the hollywood hebrews to wake the f♥♥k up and accept the multiracial and multicultural world that the evil monolith of zionism no longer has ANY control over.
this was no surprise. it went completely south the minute mamoru oshii tried that PR interview to save the movie but this mess was going to tank and hard. this flop have proven what i have been saying for years. hollywood and adaptations will NEVER EVER MIX!!!!! PERIOD!!!!!
Something bugged me about how Major saw glitches and was convinced they weren’t real. That’s not the same as the scene they removed/changed, how the garbage man saw a picture that he knew was his daughter but she wasn’t real and he could not see it. These are both very similar concepts but in the glitch you have faith in yourself that what you see is real; and in the photo scene that you need skepticism to see what you think is real as unreal. You need to question everything.
If you equate those, like “they’re both about faith in yourself” then you missed the fucking point, you are one of the main things that can’t be trusted. If they’d trusted their eyes they never would have found the Section 6 agent who was invisible and came into Secion 9 HQ, right?