I watched both movies this weekend, they are awesome, but they are also not hollywood material. They are extremely slow paced and very little action scenes, the first movie shines through its marvelous plot and beatiful drawing, but Hollywood can`t make nothing out of it whitout butchering it into a action movie.

Edit: Why the second film had to use so much 3d-esque effects? The first movie even being 1995 is beatiful, animation is gorgeous, I guess this rush into putting 3D into anything they could is an early 2000`s thing.

The first movie is an absolute masterpiece, it blew my mind first time I saw it, but as you said, not Hollywood material. However the trailers are looking pretty decent, so I think the end result will be clearly inferior to the original yet still good. At least I hope so...

it's going to bomb and then, in a few years, it will be forgotten.

This.... hollywood makeover to fit american audiences, with tons of cgi/special effects/action/explosions galor/fast tempo & millions of screen cuts, will probably ruin it.

Its also why I think "Valérian and Laureline" will be great. Its made by french guys that love the comics for what they are, and the french-european/sci-fi element. They probably wont butcher it.

I have a very strong feeling that any of the subtle nuances of Ghost in the Shell will be completely lost in the new movie in order to make it accessible to as wide of an audience as possible.

That's what they said about Dragon Ball Evolution, and not even Sean Schemmel forgot about that pile of shit.

Well, they didn't have to watch it.

I didn't.

What I have seen of the new movie seems pretty faithful on the surface.So that is promising. My fave iteration of GiTS is Stand Alone Complex and the movie Solid State Society is pretty good. I love the animation best of the original film. I want this to be really good as we could have another Bladerunner in the era of HD film.

Can't wait for the movie even though I think Johansson looks totally out of place in the role.

I'm looking forward to it.

Visually speaking, GITS fits very will into a Hollywood production. From what I see, it looks alright. The only thing they will really fuck up on is editing. I bet its going to be either too shoppy (Marvel like) in some places and also too slow / lame (Resident Evil ) in others.