After being hyped for nearly a year, Ghost in the Shell was practically dead on arrival at the U.S. box office this weekend. Despite opening in 3,440 theaters nationwide on March 31st, Ghost in the Shell only grossed $19 million in its opening weekend, finishing behind both The Boss Baby, which also premiered March 31st.
With the new The Crow remake coming soon, we take a look back at the 30-year-old cult classic original–and where the stars are now.
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Not enough marketing in my opinion.
Good, now hopefully Hollywood will stay away from adapting anime movies while simultaneously taking a huge dump on it's fans.. looking at you whoever thinks it would be a good idea to adapt Akira. Funny thing is, it's actually a decent popcorn sci fi movies, the average movie goer would probably enjoy it. The problem though is they took a deep intelligent cult classic and reduced it to being a movie which is about as smart as your average Michael Bay film.
It could have been better executed but at fundamentally it was still a good movie.
Yeah I expected more but then again most movie goers these days just prefer to sit there and have everything handed to them like they are just passengers.
Damn. I was hoping this was good. The trailer actually gave me hope but I guess it turned out to a decent action sci fi movie but with none of the deep philosophy that made you still think about it decades later. It would be hard for a remake to have that sort of profound effect like the first time you saw the Matrix.
Hmm, I still want to see it but Ill go in to watch it for what it is, popcorn fluff, not what I wanted it to be, a brilliant tribute to a bonafide classic.
Hollywood is nothing but a ghost in the shell of its former self. Its time to turn the page on the American film industry.