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Honest Trailer - Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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Ghost in the Shell (2017) is the 209th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell and Andy Signore. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2017 live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. It was published on July 25, 2017, to coincide with the release of the film on home video and Blu-ray. It is 4 minutes 8 seconds long. It has been viewed over 3.1 million times.

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"Hollywood is running out of stuff from the 80's and 90's to remake; now, they're remaking a film they've already been ripping off for decades." ~ Honest Trailers - Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Script[]

From the minds behind Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders), and Transformers 2, 3, AND 4 (?) (Ehren Kruger) -- Oh no... -- comes the glossy Hollywood adaptation of a beloved Japanese anime that... goes about as well as you'd expect.

Ghost in the Shell

Hollywood is running out of stuff from the 80's and 90's to remake (shows the posters for Power Rangers (2017), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Baywatch (2017), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Ghostbusters (2016), RoboCop (2014), Point Break (2015), The Karate Kid (2010), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Conan the Barbarian (2011), Transformers (2007), Total Recall (2012), Poltergeist (2015), and Clash of the Titans (2010)); now, they're remaking a film they've already been ripping off for decades (shows similar scenes of the main character fiddling with their implants in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and The Matrix), but with controversial casting, a dumbed-down plot...

Kuze: Your shell belongs to them, but not your ghost.

...juuust enough recreated scenes from the anime to put it in the trailers (montage of shots copied from the original film), and a complete lack of understanding about what made the franchise popular to begin with, because as Dragonball Evolution taught American film executives, if at first you don't succeed, blame the reviews and learn nothing from your mistakes. (a The Huffington Post article with the title "Paramount Says 'Ghost In The Shell' Flopped Because of Whitewashing Controversy" pops up, highlighting how domestic distribution chief Kyle Davies attributes the film's poor box office return on bad reviews)

You've seen Scarlett Johansson as a special ops soldier (shows Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2), an enhanced human (shows Johansson as Lucy Miller in Lucy (2014)), a stoic outsider (shows Johansson as the Female in Under the Skin (2013)), a sexy robot voice...

Samantha (Her): Can you feel me with you right now?

...and a white girl feeling out of place in Asia (shows Johansson as Charlotte in Lost in Translation); now, she'll combine them all as the Major, an enhanced special ops sexy-robot-voiced stoic outsider white girl who feels out of place in Asia.

Killian: I don't know who to trust anymore.

She's a RoboCop with a weird RoboWalk, and only one weakness: getting snuck up on by dudes with tasers. (montage of Killian getting shocked with stun batons from behind) You know, for all the gadgets... maybe invest in a rear camera.

Watch as the studio avoids a whitewashing controversy, by showing off how multicultural their version of Hong Kong is, and explaining that Major's body is just a robot shell for someone else's brain...

Dr. Ouelet: We made you a new body. A synthetic shell. But your [...] "ghost", it's still in there.

...which... all right, I'll bite; then cringe in disbelief as the studio manages to ruin their own solution, by revealing that... yep, she was full-blown Japanese all along.

Batou: What's your name?

Killian: Motoko.

Way to double down, gang; you just tried to put out a dumpster fire with a much larger, easily avoidable dumpster fire. (shows Killian and Batou being knocked back by a fiery explosion)

Jack in as the Major teams up with side characters who get two to four lines of dialogue (shows Ladriya, Togusa, and Carlos Ishikawa), led by Japanese legend Beat Takeshi, who was smart enough to know this movie wasn't worth speaking English for.

Aramaki: (in Japanese) Can you prove this? / Find out what she recovered from the geisha. / I told you not to jump.

Together, they'll chase down an evil Max Headroom hacker...

Kuze: (glitching out) --l-l-l-lessons... took... f-f-from my... failure.

Max Headroom: This is Ma-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-- He-He-Headroom.

...in a cat-and-mouse game of shifting loyalties that will have you wondering, "Can you see her bewbs or not? I-I can't tell, and I definitely don't care what else is going on; this movie is really boring."

So gear up for the latest movie with John Carter syndrome (shows the poster for John Carter), where the source material was so influential, that now it feels like it's copying the films it inspired (shows the logos for The Matrix, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Avatar (2009), and Ex Machina), and witness the newest lame attempt at a live-action anime film, which we should really just leave to the Japanese at this point. (shows a Scout getting eaten by a Titan in the live-action Attack on Titan film) Ooor... not.

Starring: Turning Japanese, Oh Yes I'm Turning Japanese, I Really Think So (Scarlett Johansson as Major Mira Killian/Motoko Kusanagi); Cable (Pilou Asbæk as Batou); Beat Takeshi, Beat Beat Takeshi ("Beat" Takeshi Kitano as Chief Daisuke Aramaki); Palpatine (Michael Carmen Pitt as Kuze/Hideo); Business in the Front, Party in the Back (Chin Han as Togusa); Holy Crap, Is That Top Dolla?? (Michael Wincott as Dr. Osmond); and Literal Whitewashing (shows Killian's shell being lifted out of a white liquid).

Bicentennial Woman

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Ishikawa: (lifting his shirt to reveal surgical scars) Cyber-mech liver. Been saving up for a while. Now it's last call every night.

Uh... Guys, your friend is an alcoholic.

Trivia[]

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Honest Trailer Commentaries - Ghost In The Shell

Watch the full Honest Trailers Commentary on YouTube

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - Ghost in the Shell (2017) has a 94.2% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Syfy Wire said the Honest Trailer was "hilarious" and the comment about Hollywood running out of movies to remake was "eloquent." The Mary Sue wrote that Screen Junkies "does not hold anything back" and the best moment in the Honest Trailer is its "absolutely vicious takedown of the whitewashing controversy." Comicbook.com agreed the Honest Trailer was "brutal" and said it was "far more entertaining then the actual movie itself." Comicbook.com noted the Honest Trailer "hits all the (easy) marks" including the Americanization of the source material and the whitewashing controversy. Slash Film wrote that the Honest Trailer's "most astute observation of the Ghost in the Shell movie is how the character of Major feels like an amalgamation of several characters that Scarlett Johansson has played before." Slate wrote "if the original trailer had been a little more upfront, like this one, it might have saved us all a lot of time."

Production credits[]

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Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - Ghost in the Shell

Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Series Created by Andy Signore & Brett Weiner

Executive Producer - Andy Signore

Producers - Dan Murrell, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Michael Bolton, Christina Kline

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell & Andy Signore

Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker

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