you must be a tad challenged like me shambler, but thats ok

Summarized :
1 - you see her face way before the 37 second mark, unnecessarily - the anime achieved the desired effect way better - Lead actress face time priority.

2 - they pissed on world building (glaring camo tech inconsistency), for no good reason either

3 - Scarlett evidently does not give a fuck about the role and representing the character correctly or has no spine to impose this, too bad for her rep.

4 - add to that what bal pointed out - the Major is not a thug. 

Johanbitches face

Jocunt face-time

Jobitches face

And no nothing against Scarlett Johannson per se

OK then. 

 

Why even bother... it astounds me for people who are old enough to have been around when Anime was less of the super weird cringey fucked up stuff still only see it for that ? Like the fans extreme annoyingness negates any talent / worthy art ?

Battle Angel Alita, Serial Experiments Lain, Akira, Cowboy Bebop, GITS, Perfect Blue, Ninja Scroll and so on are nothing "weirder" than anything else and certainly do not lack talent or quality to them 

tbh most of the movie I'll just be staring at her almost naked body anyway, not her face.

true to the character they are portraying "Heath Ledger"
What character was that? You can't be talking about his portrayal of the joker, that was equally as off-character (just not as awful) as the Jared Leto abomination.

Re costume somehow covering her face with invisi-goop as well, you sort of have to expect that from Hollywood these days. They have trouble gettings things like logic correct these days. At least they seem to be following the original closely, maybe scene-for-scene? Usually these reboots or remakes of foreign movies Hollywood they have to smear it all with shit and change everything 

Also one Anime I loved was Neon Genesis Evangelion. I don't like the films though, I think the last few episodes of the series were the most amazing and unexpected thing I've ever seen and the films completely ditch them. I also really liked the two Golgo 13 animated films. 

Kona why is a scene for scene remake good? That is probably the worst type of remake I can think of. At least bring something new to the table apart from just translating it into english?

@killes, I am not sure why you are so angry? The original GITS is still there, no one has taken it away (heck even I have both the original and the 2.0 version on blu ray). Just ignore the remake and move on? 

...Amused to see people freak out for even nerdier reasons than I often do...

... face this, whitewashing that...

..."Ledger.... off-character..."

-Uh wait a minute what?

Anyway Scarlet Johansen, who does have an annoyingly cheesy name, was good in Under the Skin, so she can't be the worst actress to have. She can play alienated. It's not like they hired Jessica Alba for the part. 

I was referring more to this movie than to all of Hollywoods remakes. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Sounds like all they're doing is weakening an already perfect (if going by the cult following fans) film. Obviously it won't be perfect because that's a subjective thing, but if they Hollywood writers don't have the skills to improve it, as they often don't, then I'm happy for it to remain as is.

Also as it's a 22 year old animated Japanese film, based on a almost 30 year old Manga. The Americans that will be watching the live action probably never saw the old one. So does it need to have the story all changed up just because? 

more than just the same script though. That's what I was getting at.

Also I think much of what is lost in literal translation is cultural aspects, so even a scene for scene remake loses something from a foreign original. 

Kong Skull Island - soulless but intermittently entertaining, would also have benefited from being fully committed to either outright parodying Vietnam war films or simply referencing/homaging them rather than the bit of both it seems to have settled for.

5.5-6/10

Manchester by the Sea - well acted but otherwise I found this surprisingly amateurishly made and only surface level engaging. Possibly also has some of the most grating use of background score in recent times (at least in what is meant to be an honest realistic drama) in attempting to tell the audience what to feel.

6.5/10 

Pretty much what nitin said but I found the narrative interesting.

Jury's still out on whether Renton's ending is happy or bad though. 

And people go to her movies.

Lifetime Gross Total (38): $3,611,323,311
Average: $95,034,824
Opening Gross Average (23): $49,537,590 (Wide Releases Only)

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=scarlettjohansson.htm

"Lucy" made close to half a BILLION worldwide: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lucy.htm

Pretty simple casting decision. 

I found the themes in the narrative interesting but the last 1/3 (particularly the Begbie part of the story) was what didn't work for me narratively.

Do you know how much how much of it is from Porno and how much is original? 

will just be happy to see more Begbie, because that extreme character is entertaining. Also the end of the first one did kind of imply some sort of eventually reckoning. Plus people do age but not die right away. So I'm looking forward to checking it out. 

Haven't read Porno, but from what I know, it's pretty loosely adapted, probably more loosely than the original Trainspotting book was in the first film.

Fun fact though is that the parking lot meeting scene is, at its core, essentially the ending of Porno, except totally reimagined. 

yeah that's what I had read too but I was hoping you had more specifics, for some reason I thought you had read Porno :)

Will have to look up what they did with the parking lot scene. 

Begbie spots Renton across the street and runs towards him, only to get run over by a van. The movie does a total 180, of course.

Tronyn, you'll be satisfied. 

In other news:

Legion is an outstanding series. It's apparently based on the X-Men comics but has zero relation to Marvel's Cinemacancer Universe. It shares two, maybe three characters from the comics and everything else is Noah Hawley (of the amazing Fargo series) going hog wild.

The camera work, the set designs, the choreography, the ensemble cast (!) and the acting thereof (!!!), the bizarre nature of it all, the blah blah, everything here is A+++. Spoiler-less example of all of this at once 

looking forward to it. 

I don't know, it's getting a bit too pretentious now. 6 episodes in I think people are going to start getting stick of the progression where about as much has happened in the last 5 episodes as it did in the pilot. I was only half watching the last episode so I got a bit lost with it, but it seems to be trying hard to be all Lynch bizzaro. I shouldn't be complaining about that though, maybe I should concentrate on it harder/give it my full attention.

I've started on Iron Fist as well. Anyone else watching that? 

That last episode of Legion was pretty good huh? I tried to pay more attention to it, the long musical sequence was good. I hadn't realised who the bad guy was but all the dreamlike stuff fits now. First time The SK has been used in live action right? 

#5879 yes, simple decision, expensive decision and what probably greatly lowered the risk to the financers of it - if the asset is made use of, and it is, it seems more about a series of setpieces for Jo to strut her shit than about GITS - aka typical ego-hollywood fare. 

As in the scenes are retake of Anime GITS scenes but adapted to show off more Jo first and foremost.