This movie is a graphic disaster. A complete remake of the movie with the CGI approach at least would have been a sensible creative move, although in my opinion would still not hold a candle against the original. But remaking just parts of it, while alternating those with original parts???? Who the heck thought a fractional remake like that would have any infinitesimal degree of good? Not only that, they replaced precisely some of the most beautiful original scenes in the opening minutes. It's just so horrible. Unbelievably annoying as hell, a stylistic inconsistency galore, on top of what feels like an overt lazy rip-off/ plagiarism. Brings to mind the "retouching" done by a cleaning lady on that famous Ecce Homo fresco in Spain, completely ruining it. Ridiculous to think anyone seriously thought this GITS 2.0 would be worth it done this way, or would improve in any absurd way upon the beautiful and graphically consistent original (which is more consistent than the manga, in fact.) What an absolute disaster. I have not heard of any other case, but if there are any other examples like this fragmented remake in film history, I'm sure those must be similarly awful and unbearable, regardless of genre. This kind of movie mutant seriously ought to be outlawed.
Review of Ghost in the Shell 2.0
