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Finished watching it. I'm struggling to give it more than 5 or 6/10 to be honest. I'm glad they made it but it was always a difficult task to translate it on to screen. I'm not sure how much sense it would have made if you'd never read the books because, as someone else said, the characters seemed to do things for no reason at all, probably because you don't get the 'internal narrative' from the books. I think the changes made to the plot and the changes / extensions / deletions / merges of characters from the book were all for the worse, the whole story would have made more sense if these didn't happen. I also think the Bancrofts were all played wrong. The visuals for the virtual reality sections were rubbish too.
The whole thing could have been made more coherent with some simple changes such as on screen captions saying where and when certain things were happening and maybe even a different 'filter' or screen effect for the flashbacks.
The positives were to have a cyberpunk type of world brought to life for the big screen and some of the visual effects were great.
One of the dumbest criticisms I've seen is that "it looks a lot like Blade Runner / owes a lot to Blade Runner". Well, it doesn't copy Blade Runner, it's a genre. I imagine they will wheel out this exact same point for Mute and Neuromancer. It's like saying, "Why are all these soaps set in a suburban environment?".
There was also the mention in reviews that this cost $70m which sounds a lot but not for 10+ hours of content versus a 1.5 to 3 hour movie for between $50m - $200m (BR2049 was about $150m IIRC).
What's your point?
EDIT - That reminds me - the critic point about "whitewashing" was even more retarded than it first appeared since the one of the first scenes in the series was him in his original Japanese body and there is a decent amount of time in later episodes of him in that body. It's obvious he is "really" Japanese and not "trapped" in a white body.
The whole thing could have been made more coherent with some simple changes such as on screen captions saying where and when certain things were happening and maybe even a different 'filter' or screen effect for the flashbacks.
The positives were to have a cyberpunk type of world brought to life for the big screen and some of the visual effects were great.
One of the dumbest criticisms I've seen is that "it looks a lot like Blade Runner / owes a lot to Blade Runner". Well, it doesn't copy Blade Runner, it's a genre. I imagine they will wheel out this exact same point for Mute and Neuromancer. It's like saying, "Why are all these soaps set in a suburban environment?".
There was also the mention in reviews that this cost $70m which sounds a lot but not for 10+ hours of content versus a 1.5 to 3 hour movie for between $50m - $200m (BR2049 was about $150m IIRC).
Reviews were pretty fair then?
What's your point?
EDIT - That reminds me - the critic point about "whitewashing" was even more retarded than it first appeared since the one of the first scenes in the series was him in his original Japanese body and there is a decent amount of time in later episodes of him in that body. It's obvious he is "really" Japanese and not "trapped" in a white body.
I swear the guy just has one note!!
