Anime Reviews: Ghost in the Shell

After seeing Cowboy Bebop, I decided that I was done with my sister's anime collection, not to mention my winter vacation was coming to it's end, so I had to get back to school. I didn't start watching my sister's anime collection again until fall, simply because if I learned anything from Macross II, that was not to have any expectations on my sister's anime's and if I wasn't going to have any expectations on those VHS tapes then what's was the point of watching them anyway?

But then came fall and I was a big fan of the Spoony One and as I was visiting he's website for the 5000 time of the day, simply to see if he had put anything up there that wasn't one of those V-logs of he's, and that was when I found the Sage's Anime Abandon series to be more specific Mad Bull 34 episode and that was when I got hooked because I just wanted to see what was that mystery anime of he's and it just so happened to be Ghost In The Shell.

Now way back on my winter vacation I had stumbled upon The Ghost In The Shell and thought about watching it and that was when I saw the VHS cover -

Once again it came right down to the lesson I learned from Macross II which I already have explained.

But now to the movie.

I really don't know what to say about Ghost In the Shell. Bennett the Sage already talked about this one in a great detail and I really don't have anything else to say.

Aside from this:

SEE GHOST IN THE SHELL!!!!!!

And I mean it. Even if you don't like anime you owe it to yourself to see this one!

And that is why I'm not going to tell you anything about it, because you should see it!

Ok, I'll tell you a quote from the back of this VHS: "Ghost in the Shell is a movie that James Cameron would do... if Disney would allow him!" that pretty much sums it all up.

Ghost in the Shell is that good old sci fi goodness that James Cameron was known for, until he made the Avatar and the Titanic. Ghost In The Shell is still pretentious as all but that's James Cameron for you and the plot is somewhat hard to follow through from time to time and if you ask me this one should have been two hours long aside from 75 minutes, just because Ghost In The Shell has way too much atmosphere at the expense of the plot.

And yes, I've heard about the rumours that Spielberg is going to make Ghost In The Shell into another movie and not James Cameron and I'm a bit sad because of that too, because it would have been a match made in Heaven if James Cameron was given the opportunity to direct a Ghost In The Shell, but what can you do?

I know this really wasn't much of a review but seriously you have to see this Japanese Blade Runner for yourself because it's just that good, much like Blade Runner - see Blade Runner too!