I remember watching this in middle school on my friend's living room with three of my friends. All of them fell asleep while watching this except me. Good times.
Youre not alone. I watched this for the first time in college for a Philosphy class, most of the class failed the exam. People who dont like it really hate it, but those who like it consider it one of the greatest stories ever told.
@@GRAITOM I watched it at an Odeon in the UK. It was funny because the music is so out of classical tone in Akira that the walls started to rattle. I also watched the Konosuba movie in a cinema as well. You just have to be patient really.
@@trabant3060 Funimation’s release of Akira is a shit show. They released it on 4K HDR blue-ray disc in Japan. They fucked up and released it, sold it everywhere else without HDR by mistake. Gets worse. On the limited collector’s edition you get the 4K non HDR gimped version along with a blue-ray and promotional material on the case stating it comes with a digital code that can be redeemed to receive a digital copy of the film to be watched anywhere. The problem none of them have a code because the codes don’t exist and they never existed the reason they don’t exist is because the promotional material is a typo 😠. Oh you can send your gimped 4K version of Akira in via physical mail in to Funimation free of charge for a replacement for a HDR version. But it’s a run around and you have to spam them with emails trying to keep your support ticket alive when all they want to do is pretend you don’t exist. Many, many, many people still are waiting and continuing to wait for a replacement even now.
Just got home from seeing it in the theaters with my wife, it was her first time. I’m a lifelong anime fan. Don’t forget to pick up your promotional poster when you go into the theaters, they’re handing out large nice lenticular posters
Seeing it in IMAX was truly an experience (This was also my return to the movie theaters after the shutdown). Grabbed my poster before the movie and I'm going to frame it, the poster looks too damn awesome! Whoever made that deserves more credit.
Ghost in the Shell has never looked better. Production IG keeps putting money into using CG for GitS...they should spend their budget on getting back to awesome hand-drawn art like this that doesn't start aging poorly as soon as it's done.
So I watched cyberpunk: edgerunners, I checked the game to know what is the real deal with it and now it all brought me here to the origin of everything. And there is more! If the infinite tsukiyomi was inspired by the matrix then the matrix was definitely inspired by ghost in the shell too!
I have the 4K Blu-ray and it looks amazing (it’s a native 4K title which means they digitally scanned the original negative in 4K when it comes to catalog titles). I’m pretty sure it won’t be displayed in the IMAX ratio.
Considering this film was exposed to negative back in 1995, I am a bit curious of how noticeable the mid 90s CGI feels resolution wise as often enough High Res CG back then could be at best close to 2K/HD, or as low as 480p depending on the resources and goals of the producers. I bring this up as yes, most of the footage is cels optically photographed onto 35mm film. But GitS was also cutting edge on the front of CG and several scenes are using various digital compositing tricks and even cel-shaded models if memory serves. And those shots will be limited in resolution to whatever the compositor could muster. I mean. Cowboy Bebop for instance looks awesome in full HD but the CG sequences do stand out a bit as the series was destined for TV and they opted to render those shots in 480i. I'm not suggesting GitS has it that bad. But I doubt those original renders were done higher than 2K. So on an IMAX screen even a 4K doubter like myself would be able to see the seams, I recon.
Also. I'm pretty sure GitS was hard-matted. But even if there was an open matte 4 perf negative, chances are there isn't much outside the black bara to be gained as the shots were framed for 1.85:1 from the storyboard phase and probably even painted for that ratio. Maybe there could be enough wiggle room to open it up to 1.66:1 as that was a popular matte for european releases. But I mean. While it is fun to find open matte anime where you get to see the edge of the animations. With color zones boiling and going haywire. But it's not exactly what the general paying audience expects. So a 1.43:1 release would either have to crop the sides (such a waste) or generate new visuals top and/or bottom (very unlikely and would still mess with intended compositions).
@@jmalmsten looks like they're going to release it in 1.9:1 judging from the black bars in this trailer, whether or not they draw extra features to the side or just out right crop it i dunno.
Ok I did saw it and it's one of the best anime movie and series I have seen...it's masterpiece...I'm a bit sad you guys didn't included the original soundtrack here
