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GITS 2: Innocence - Manga UK DVD release

  • 02-03-2006 2:16am
    #1
    Laguna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭


    Old news by now, but Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence is now on general release in region 2 format from Manga UK. I do believe (going by www.play.com listings) that the disc is sparse in terms of special features, but fear not!, we have one saving grace over the prior region 1 release in the form of an English dub, supplied by the same actors who voice the Standalone Complex (another great Manga UK release).

    My copy is in the post (naturally ;)), but I have a question for anyone who has seen this DVD, has a film which suffered poor reviews benefitted from a decent English dub?...


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  • #2
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I should have mine by Friday... I got the double pack with first film in it too as I didn't have that one on DVD yet.

    Haven't seen Ghost in the Shell 2 yet.. I wasn't actually a huge fan of the first one... I'm just a bit of a completist I guess.


  • #3
    Laguna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Laguna


    Like myself (being a completist).. I actually thought the first Ghost In The Shell was highly overrated and at best a non eventful film full of sanctimonious drivel about human arrogance.. ahem... I loved the majority of the Standalone Complex (bar a few **** episodes) as it was more eventful and wasn't as depressing as the film, now, I haven't seen Innocence but I may as well have given the amount of reviews and film critiques I've read on it which have lowered my expectations so low, I think I'll be impressed by the opening titles at this stage (probably the best way to be going into a GITS film :o)..


  • #4
    carbonkid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭carbonkid


    I wont waste my money buying GITS2...might download it sometime :p


  • #5
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    I wanted to see this in the cinema last year but when I got there it was gone. :(


  • #6
    Laguna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Laguna


    Having finally watched this film (with the English dub), I have to say I really enjoyed it, all the people who slated this film were, in my opinion, overly harsh on it. The action is fairly sparse on the ground in this movie, but that's not what this story is about, it's a great insight into a future world (much the same insight that the original Ghost In The Shell offered) but with a new dynamic, now that the Major's gone and Batou (nearly a complete cyborg) still longs for her, one contemplates the fact that if two entities which can't really be classed as human (the Major & Batou) can be in love, what is the fundamental difference between human and machine?.

    The voice overs are great, as I've come to expect from the group of actors who did a wonderful job dubbing the StandAlone Complex, the visuals in places are amazing, blending next generation CGI with traditional cellwork and all in all, this is a good film, improving much over the cogitated and, lets face it, dull original Ghost In The Shell.


    8/10


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  • #7
    Raziel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Raziel


    Watched it today-pretty good, it goes a bit haywire towards the end, though. Amazing animation.


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