I had a lot emotions when I was watching the scrolling credits for Ghost in the Shell (2017). It was surreal. I felt a mixture of satisfaction, relief (that the movie was over), and really overwhelmed. For some backstory I had been sitting on watching this film ever it’s announcement to its release date. I hesitated as most of my other APIA friends did because there was no way in hell any of us where going to support this film with our hard earned coin. We didn’t do it for Aloha so logically we wouldn’t do it for this film. On the other hand, watching the movie gave a different perspective. Originally the my reasons for putting off the movie as bad because 1) I believed it was going to be terrible overall (nothing good about), 2) it wasn’t going to be true to the original story and 3) the obvious whitewashing of the movie.
Don’t get me wrong some of these points still ring true but I’ve shifted in my exact reasons why this movie was a trainwreck which is what I’ll be getting into.