Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 23, 2020
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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 5 out of 10
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  1. Rattazustra
    May 2, 2020
    0
    I am usually not fond of vulgarity, but it saves a lot of time to put it bluntly: This rendition of Ghost in the Shell is just plain **** Animations are horrible. Everything looks cheap and uncreative, trying desparately to be cool, yet failing to get even remotely close to the original movie or sac-series. Even the title and end sonds suck.
  2. MeritCoba
    Apr 30, 2020
    3
    Ghosts of the past

    The first episode didn't entice me to watch more. There is nothing engaging to find and most is run of the mill and sometimes downright bad. The story is nothing to write home about. Batou and Major have had their character arcs so maybe it is better to introduce new characters. Wait, they do, but those are so terrible cliché that they make Batou and Major    Ghosts of the past

    The first episode didn't entice me to watch more. There is nothing engaging to find and most is run of the mill and sometimes downright bad.
    The story is nothing to write home about. Batou and Major have had their character arcs so maybe it is better to introduce new characters. Wait, they do, but those are so terrible cliché that they make Batou and Major interesting again. Perhaps that is why.
    Heavy exposition, denoting that you are unable or unwilling to weave the background story into the narrative.
    Overdone sequences filled with explosions and shooting resulting in massive damage to assets but without any consequence, taking away any tension. It is not required that people die, but if you take away the sense that they might die all these fights are just fireworks that take up too much time. This is exacerbated by the fact that the participants treat such deadly activities as if they are fireworks; as if they know they won't die. As if they know they are just animations (which would be a fun twist). Big bangs are not a good alternative for thoughtful story telling.
    Twists that are so cheap as to make you groan, such as a character that gets killed, but then we find out it is all…. a dream. oh, eh. Wait.. eh virtual reality.
    The art itself is so terrible run of the mill. It suffices in the way that white bread can feed a person, but it is also as dull as hell. On top of that, this series cannot shake itself loose of the usual mix of depilated world combined with neo art.
    The worst is the story telling. It is just a rehash of what we have seen before, but then some espionage agencies thrown in. Some of the characters look like a rip-off from agent Smith from the Matrix. Which made me groan even more.
    A reviewer noted that the world has advanced with movies (AI, Bladerunner 2049) and series(Westworld) that explore more and different themes set in a near future world deeper and more meaningful ways. Ghost in the shell might have been something to behold back in the day, but it has the same issue as observed by someone with Alien(s) and The Terminator: after the first two the material is exhausted and it is better to do something new instead of clinging to your ghosts of the past.    … Expand
  3. metalatraiu
    Oct 5, 2020
    0
    There use to be deep philosophical concepts in ghost in the shell. This new show is lacking content and is out rite bad compared to its predecessors. A common complaint is the cgi but this has so much more wrong with it than that.

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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Toussaint Egan
    Apr 21, 2020
    42
    As wonderful as it is to return to this series’ interpretations of Major Kusanagi and company after more than a decade away, you’d be better off dusting off Stand Alone Complex DVDs and give this one a pass.
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