We all know that box office receipts are not a good way to determine if a movie is good or bad. The problem is that if a movie does badly at the box office, the studio making the film’s Blu-rays and DVDs will skimp on the extras. Which, sadly, is the case with Ghost In The Shell (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, 3D Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, 4K Ultra HD, DVD), the cyberpunk action flick that has its fans — myself included — but not enough box office clout to warrant the extras-packed discs its fans want.
In the twenty-eight years since Masamune Shirow first published his manga Ghost In The Shell, this cyberpunk story has been adapted into an animated movie (also called Ghost In The Shell) that inspired a sequel (Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence), an anime TV series (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) that got its own movie (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society), and a second animated series (Ghost In The Shell: Arise) that, of course, had a movie of its own as well (Ghost In The Shell: The New Movie). But what makes the new live action version of Ghost In The Shell unique is not just that it’s the first adaptation that wasn’t drawn (obviously), but how it remixes elements from the animated adaptations into something new and cool.
Attention Scarlett Johansson fans: Funko have announced that they will release an Avengers Age Of Ultron Black Widow POP! action figure this June.