(Written 2.4.17)
So last weeks have been little hard workwise and schoolwise. In a little attempt to get some drive back, I went and saw Ghost in the Shell. I was positively surprised how the movie went, I mean, the OAV was one of my formative years favourites.
The money's been used good. The movie has exellent visuals, the actors are at the very least passable, and even the 3d effects I loathe were not of instant migraine grade. Plot was... Independent. It worked as it stood, although not without it's flaws, and tried hard to honor it's setting and origin. Maybe too hard in places, as some of dialogue seemed little loose at times. It didn't bother much though.
The whining and bitching about making Major of 'different' ethnicity was just ridiculous. She is a cyborg after all. Johanssen made good job, although there was a sense of difference for the whole movie. In some way it makes sense: just as Stand Alone Complex was 'alternative reality' to original, this movie is as much. Expect OAV in live-action version and be dissapointed.
On the other news, I've read a lot about Hubris setting lately. Although I don't think that my crew would like the setting itself, the ideas presented in the book are very nice additions to any DCC game, like firearm rules and calling the name of deity.
