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I really liked this movie.. I truly don't understand all the flack it's getting.. Probably because I expected very little (because of the review scores) and it was really not close to as bad as I expected..

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I just returned from watching it. I on purpose haven't read any reviews (had to pretty much ignore facebook for couple of weeks) and first 15 minutes I was ready to be upset. Dialogues were not very promising, visually movie didn't felt deep and dark (nice pretty boy Batou, overdone holograms in city-scapes, no distinct music). But then it became so much better. References to GITS and GITS:Innocence are plenty but nicely done. Visually it became feast for my eyes, I really enjoyed it after all. THough still: holograms are not needed and there is no OST at all.

And soundtrack is actually big part of both original gits movies. Not sure why its' absence is not really noticed.

little clarification: I'm not talking about street signs in general or tastefully done holograms. It's about those building-sized holograms, mostly in daylight scenes, that looks so unnecessary. (article's "solograms" part has shots very carefully selected and they look fine)

I had the same reaction; the first 2/3 of the movie I was upset and angry, then everything changed, for the better. I still don't like the major change(s) in the major's character and background but I think I can almost accept it as a differing history. I really was expecting more from this movie and while I'm happy it was made, I am slightly disappointed.

Same here.

To me books > anime > movies.

So I was prepared to be disappointed. By the end of the movie, I was really impressed. I think they did justice to the original.

Same here. The original is one of my favorite films, so I went in expecting to be disappointed, but it wasn't that bad. The story is different, but they made an effort to preserve some of the themes and kept the "Hollywood dumbing down" to a minimum. And it was cool to see some of the iconic scenes from the original brought to life.

It seems like expectations for watching movies tends to produce the opposite result. I have been trying to trick my friends into having false expectations before we watch a movie to test this hypothesis, but I'm a horrible liar and they always manage to see right through my shenanigans.

I really liked it too. I wasn't comparing it to the original, I saw it as its own thing and I really enjoyed it. It's artsy, techy and there's a good amount of fashion and attention to detail involved.

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