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lubczyk · 2009-03-05, 04:11

It's the typical Japanese War-is-horrible-pacifist bollocks. Clones of the Teacher to keep the fighting going forever?? I say it's just a convenient way for the writer to make the movie seem deep while having no real depth at all. All the different technologies mixed together with the WW2 setting is just an easy cop-out for forsaking research and creative thought that could have made a cohesive, original, fantasy-like setting or a series period-piece.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

At least Ghost in the Shell series has enough plot to it, not to have resort to familiar period pieces and contrived deus ex machina to keep the setting going.

Basically this movie explained away the plot instead of actually developing one.

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lubczyk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005	It's the typical Japanese War-is-horrible-pacifist bollocks. Clones of the Teacher to keep the fighting going forever?? I say it's just a convenient way for the writer to make the movie seem deep while having no real depth at all. All the different technologies mixed together with the WW2 setting is just an easy cop-out for forsaking research and creative thought that could have made a cohesive, original, fantasy-like setting or a series period-piece. Spoiler for Spoiler: The Whole Kildren/Clone is just one big Deus Ex Machina to keep the otherwise mediocre movie moving along. Yeah, introduce some contrived technology so that you will not have to actually develop a plot and make sure it's cohesive. There's no build up, the plot is stringed along with the unraveling of Kildren, or clones of The Teacher so that the movie seems like it got somewhere. At least Ghost in the Shell series has enough plot to it, not to have resort to familiar period pieces and contrived deus ex machina to keep the setting going. Basically this movie explained away the plot instead of actually developing one.