Look a bit eh!!! Think I caught a glimpse of Tricky in the clips, do wonder will he contribute to the soundtrack...his music style does fit the gritty electronica styling a little.
That cover of "Enjoy the silence" also a bit meh!!

Early reviews not promising....

Nah I have zero interest in BatB because of Disney. Hardcore anti disney person here because of bad blood of having to work with them although they signed my paycheck now and then.

After the opening 5 minutes....the whole movie went downhill. They couldn't pull of the more philosophical nature of the original. Majority of the casts acted like dead fish with no emotion and a little too hard to connect with. Tonally they are going after the more slow burning artsy Mamoru Oshii style but for commercial viability IMO they ought to do the SAC version instead. The action sequences also nothing to write home about.

It's an inferior interpretation of the iconic anime. Skip it or wait until Uncle Jack sailing the sea with it.

This is coming from a dude who read all the manga and anime of GITS.
First of all there are multiple version or iteration of GITS.

The Manga works like an anthology of the Section 9 tales. It's goofy and bloody confusing because of the abstract themes by "pseudo science-ing" it with real world theoretical scientific studies. It's usually an abstract concept that being weaved into a story with action and philosophically debating it among the characters. The puppet master is sort of social studying the hacking culture before it even became a thing and they was even a story of growing human organ in a pig farm. So you get the idea it's about reaching the near future phenomenon that being researched at the present. Just that you have a sexy badass protagonist narrating it while the artist gratuitously drew her as revealing as possible.

The 95 anime is all Mamoru Oshii effort to art house the manga to become a respectful anime that can sell to Cannes and Otakus at the same time. It caught on simply we are at the dawn of the internet age at that junction of the anime release. It resonate with people still having to grasp with what the internet is all about and also became an influence to many beloved films by stating the obvious Matrix.

GITS:Innocence which I admit is a shitshow that when a director over indulge his success and came out looking like a wanker. Reminded me a lot of the current Hollywood version.

GITS:SAC is the long running TV series that did the best of both worlds. It's not abstract to a point you need to crack your skull to understand it while have no issue appealing to traditional anime kakis because there's plenty of shooting and the story does move a lot more faster with a smart storyline to boot. SAC=Stand Alone Complex is a fancy word for flash mob before it was even coined. The theme is random individuals with no ties to each other appear at one location at the same time to accomplish a feat. That explain the build up to the climax of the puppet master hack in the storyline.

GITS:Arise is a reboot and rehash to milk more money from the franchise with all the same ideas and themes explored before. Some hits and misses.

Was not aware Hideo Kojima had a movie review column in a magazine. Pretty good read.
http://www.glixel.com/news/hideo-kojima-on...e-shell-w475805

Was compiling reference material for a work related presentation...can't help this very old MV gave me more satisfaction than the movie on a whole. Do check out the director's (Chris Cunningham) other work cause back then his name was as relevant as David Fincher and Mark Romanek in the world of MVs.