Watched the new Ghost in the Shell. The only, only redeemable part of this movie for me was when the sexy broken-ass robot turned out to be Michael Pitt. I had to idea he was in it and I was sooo bored until he took off his hood then
And then he was only in two scenes and it was like wow, what a fucking waste.
ScarJo was one of the most boring people they could have casted for this. Seriously, I know she's supposed to be a robot and no emotion or whatever, but she was painfully uninteresting and I mostly just wanted her to get blown apart because at least it was neat looking. No one else in the cast was particularly insufferable, but I just don't get why they didn't use an asian actress, or literally anyone else. It seems dumb to go through the trouble of casting Beat Takashi and a few others, and then have your main girl be a white girl in yellow-face makeup.
And yes, I realize my name is Satsuki and I'm a weeb but sometimes the blatant asian fetishism gets sooo boring. There was not a single asian cliche unturned here - from the geisha girls with porno screams, the southeast asian "ladyboy," the wise old sensei, the bonsais and koi, just...everything. It wasn't a neat homage to 90s anime, it was just piling every asian trope on top of each other. I would give literally anything at this point to see a cool cyberpunk movie that wasn't just a mishmash of cliches.
But yeah Michael Pitt was so underutilized in this that I'm getting Jude Law/AI flashbacks.
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