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khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

Companion Cube posted:

The Major's body is supposed to resemble an off-the-rack sexbot, the kind of body which is reasonably fashionable while being easily overlooked compared to obviously militarized cyborgs like her team's heavies. Characters in the fiction remark on how much she resembles a common design of android and in fact criticize her "owner" for going with an older model.
The existence of this thing:

strongly suggests that if Megatech Heavy Industrial did exist to crank out countless identical sexy robot bodies for androids and cyborgs, they would probably look exactly like Scarlett Johansson. Therefore Maj. Kusanagi would too.

Given what we know about people who may want sexbots IRL 100% of them would be modeled after rickety Asian women.

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TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



Trumps Baby Hands posted:

TITS in a gizzy

Jizzin on the titties.

je1 healthcare posted:

Wow Hollywood, you couldn't cast a robot-American to play the part? smdh

You joke, but I just know this will be a thing some day.

TheMostFrench fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 15, 2016

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
4 pages and no one yet mentions how she will end up in a 6 year old school girl body to hide from everyone.
Pedos.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

happyhippy posted:

4 pages and no one yet mentions how she will end up in a 6 year old school girl body to hide from everyone.
Pedos.
If you know anything about anime, you're a paedophile.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Alejandro Jodorowsky is still alive. Let him make the movie.

hand-fed baby bird
May 13, 2009
Has anyone asked why Japanese cartoons are all about white people yet?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Applewhite posted:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/first-look-scarlett-johansson-ghost-shell-whitewash-edition-138841.html

Personally I would have picked someone taller to play MAJ Kusanagi, but Scarlett Johansson is still a pretty good casting choice, IMO. lol at the internet outrage machine already getting spun up over this.

Myself, I'd have chosen someone thinner-cheeked and -lipped in the face. Or maybe a bit more androgynous to resemble the Kusanagi from the Oshii movies. Like Rooney Mara or Charlize Theron. Or perhaps find a relative unknown.

Applewhite posted:

Also I would not have picked Rupert Sanders to direct, but rather someone like Ben Affleck (The Town) The Cohen Brothers (True Grit) Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet) Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale).

Ideally I'd have Paul Verhoven direct but he doesn;t seem to do US films any more. I'd also be interested to see what Tarantino would do with a big budget Sci Fi, even though they are not his usual milieu.

gently caress you when it comes to Kurt Wimmer, although his common trope of having the antagonists being super-competent fighters and special forces veterans even if they've been behind a desk for decades would actually work here.

Tarantino's been talking about doing a science fiction movie but it sounds more like Invasion Of The Body Snatchers than anything else. I thought he might do a future urban decay a la Enzo G. Castellari 1990: The Bronx Warriors or a post-apocalypse movie like Castellari's Thje New Barbarians, but I think he found Fury Road hard to top.

Serious Frolicking posted:

he is openly a porn man because that has been the entirety of his work for decades now. like, good for him i guess? he loves drawing greasy porn and he has made a living from it.

Yep, his last few books he's actually been redrawing his porn and adding in black dudes gang banging the white/Japanese girl protagonists.

Serious Frolicking posted:

wait, the first episode starts with a violent police raid. the show has a lot of talking about isolation and some laughing man, but it obviously doesnt lead off with that stuff. wtf is wrong with your friend if he thinks loads of exposition with no context is gonna grab anyones interest?

And the second episode has a goddamn urban tank battle. The whole Laughing Man stuff doesn't start until about 4 episodes in. And even the Laughing Man episodes have great action sequences like the multiple assassination attempts against the police commissioner in a single episode and where the rogue Japanese DEA agents are assaulting a hotel with military powered armor.

happyhippy posted:

4 pages and no one yet mentions how she will end up in a 6 year old school girl body to hide from everyone.
Pedos.

Only in the Oshii film. In the manga, Batou steals an androgynous cyborg body from it's previous owner that turns out to be a guy. Kusanagi even remarks it's hard to walk in, presumably because of the balls.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 15, 2016

Zeluth
May 12, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
I am pretty sure Ghost in the Shell 2 was supposed to be a LSD trip.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
Does Motoko have a thing for transferring into female robots, or there's that theory where she's actually a he.

There's just so many interpretations of her in the manga, films, SAC, and Arise.

Just like every comic book character.

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


the tv series is the best part of ghost in the shell

this is the hill i choose to die on

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Glokta posted:

Has anyone asked why Japanese cartoons are all about white people yet?
Please, explain to me the issue and your opinion on it.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


Junior Jr. posted:

Does Motoko have a thing for transferring into female robots, or there's that theory where she's actually a he.

There's just so many interpretations of her in the manga, films, SAC, and Arise.

Just like every comic book character.

She has the same voice when she's in the kid body so anything is possible.

Robo chicks with cyber dicks.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Glokta posted:

Has anyone asked why Japanese cartoons are all about white people yet?

WHAT ARE ALL THESE WHITE KIDS DOING IN MY JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOLS???

Bro Dad posted:

the tv series is the best part of ghost in the shell

this is the hill i choose to die on

correct

Schlonged Again
Jan 30, 2016

"oh hey a four-page thread about scarlett johannson. hells yeah."

*gets lotion and prepares to crank hog*

*thread has no pics of scarlett johannson*

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Schlonged Again posted:

"oh hey a four-page thread about scarlett johannson. hells yeah."

*gets lotion and prepares to crank hog*

*thread has no pics of scarlett johannson*

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
The sequel to Ghost World is going in weird directions

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

ghost in a windbreaker

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Ork of Fiction posted:

Is there anything essentially Japanese in character about the story or ppl in it?

I saw the animated movie like 20 years ago, so I don't remember it as being culturally Japanese beyond the fact that Japanese ppl made it.

In terms of SAC, the Japanese governmental/police structure and the general mythology of American CIA from the point of view of Japanese people do play a role.

Really what makes GITS great or not is the strength of the scifi story. And the action.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Inzombiac posted:

She has the same voice when she's in the kid body so anything is possible.

Robo chicks with cyber dicks.

In Solid State Society, she's using a little boy and the mastermind of the plot turns out to be a splinter of Kusanagi's personality using a male body.

Also, there's that ambassador who likes getting freaky switching out his male brain into female geisha robots or Paz's obsessed girlfriend who builds a replica body of him and wears it tells me transgender full-conversion cyborgs aren't an uncommon occurrence.

Helical Nightmares posted:

In terms of SAC, the Japanese governmental/police structure and the general mythology of American CIA from the point of view of Japanese people do play a role.

Really what makes GITS great or not is the strength of the scifi story. And the action.

This, but an adaptation in better hands could easily swap out the Japanese National Police Agency and Public Safety Agency for the FBI and the CIA and set it in America. Although, I'll admit, NPA while analogous to the FBI, the FBI doesn't have near the power of of the NPA. Major Kusanagi can order Superintendnet Tao of Bumufakku prefecture to do poo poo, she would have a harder time ordering Sheriff Joe Bob around without a court order if she was FBI or a Federal Marshall.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Apr 15, 2016

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
Dear Batou,

We came by to gently caress you, but you were not home. Therefore you are gay.

-Tiffany and Amber.

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

I thought everyone was bitching about there not being enougg big movies with female leads shouldnt theh be happy with this

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
stay safe poverty ghost in a shell

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Uncle Wemus posted:

I thought everyone was bitching about there not being enougg big movies with female leads shouldnt theh be happy with this

im never happy :unsmigghh:

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Young Freud posted:

In Solid State Society, she's using a little boy and the mastermind of the plot turns out to be a splinter of Kusanagi's personality using a male body.

Also, there's that ambassador who likes getting freaky switching out his male brain into female geisha robots or Paz's obsessed girlfriend who builds a replica body of him and wears it tells me transgender full-conversion cyborgs aren't an uncommon occurrence.
Hmm.

Ben Smash
Aug 22, 2005

LARDROOM
Grimey Drawer
still wating on that greasy horse porn and perhaps more images of ScarJo as the ghost lady

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
So scarlett johannson's staring in a remake of ghost in the machine? sounds awesome! every little thing she does is magic was my favourite song!

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
James Cameron still plans to do a Battle Angel Alita movie, probably all CGI. So, the internet has something else to pre-hate.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Say Nothing posted:

James Cameron still plans to do a Battle Angel Alita movie, probably all CGI. So, the internet has something else to pre-hate.

there are also 4 avatar sequals in the works too

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Isn't Cartoon Brew the blog that used to unironically defend racist WB cartoons from the 40s? They sure made a big 180.

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


Nooner posted:

she is hot and I want to have sex with her

nailed it and when i say "nailed it" i wish i was referring to scarlett johannson's fine behind rather than this post on the somethingawfualdotcom interforums

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

notZaar posted:

Isn't Cartoon Brew the blog that used to unironically defend racist WB cartoons from the 40s? They sure made a big 180.

you can still ride the Song of the South ride at DisneyWorld

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


i keep hearing about this "goats in the shell" thing and it's like, what the gently caress is a goat doing in a shell, that's crab territory friend!!

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


picture here a picture of a sad hermit crab which left its shell to stretch the ole legs and comes back to find it occupied by a rude and sassy goat

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

MiracleWhale posted:

i keep hearing about this "goats in the shell" thing and it's like, what the gently caress is a goat doing in a shell, that's crab territory friend!!

Goats in the Shell is a future Issac thread.

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Alejandro Jodorowsky is still alive. Let him make the movie.

Let him try and make the movie and ultimately fail in pre-production and then get David Lynch to make an inferior version and then make a cool doc about What Could Have Been

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


Trumps Baby Hands posted:

Let him try and make the movie and ultimately fail in pre-production and then get David Lynch to make an inferior version and then make a cool doc about What Could Have Been

<creates the change.org petition>

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer
Jodorowsky sucks but keep passing that kool aid around

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Hector Beerlioz posted:

there are also 4 avatar sequals in the works too

Battle Angel ain't happening until those get poo poo out, as well. We're looking at 2025 at this point, and Cameron would be about 71.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Glokta posted:

Has anyone asked why Japanese cartoons are all about white people yet?

Because the Japanese respect strength above all else, and the Americans gave them the most epic asskicking that was ever delivered to any country in the history of the human race. We are to them what black men are to little white men with a cu*k fetish.

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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

JiveHonky posted:

Jodorowsky sucks but keep passing that kool aid around

He makes good comics, I know that much. My wife won't let me watch Holy Mountain so I haven't been able to judge his filmmaking skills yet.

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