"We focus-tested the original movie on 8 year olds and they liked the fight scenes but some of them weren't sure what was going on"
"Add more expository dialogue!"

I think your statement indirectly gives too much credit to americans (and lets be honest, chinese) over the age of 8.

Yeah, once I stopped eating playdoh, it was all down hill from there.

Yeah, okay, but not every successful cartoon needs to be remade in live action just because Hollywood has figured out green screens now. Especially if the best thing you can think to do with that technology is put Scarjo in a naked barbie doll suit.

They're ruining Ghostbusters!

Yeah, um, I'm very upset about how they made they made all the Ghosts in the Shells women this time, I guess.

The hell you talking about.

I hear you. I'd like to see a great cyberpunk movie but I doubt this is going to be that film.

The Aeon Flux movie was the first thing this reminded me of, and that's probably one of the worst things a trailer like this can do.

Stars for the Slim Goodbody reference.

At least the Aeon Flux movie had the Mile High Jellyfish.

really? worse than this?

Tachikomas are fucking stupid. Except in that one playstation game where you play as one.

"THEY USED ORPHAN CHILDREN TO MAKE THEM!!!"

/emo-pe

That game is awesome. When you fail a training mission you get a cutscene of the Tachikomas celebrating. They're happy because "we're covered with injuries and racking up experience!" Then the major tells them to shut up as they begin demanding promotions.

Fuchikomas.

Maaaan, Batou sounds so much lighter in the Japanese original than his low-octave counterpart accross the pond.

...I meant Macross.

I wish they'd just adapt Shirow's never-made pitch for an American Ghost in the Shell. It was called Neuro Heat and starred a renegade cyborg code named Annette Oakley.