Ghost in the Shell 2017: Lean & Mean Edition

I thought it was great. I didn't know there was a good movie in there until I saw this edit. What was radically improved was the pacing. It is so much tighter and to the point than the original version. The original movie isn't anything amazing, it's a fairly generic plot with mediocre direction, but the editing now gives the film momentum and energy. The original version just plods along a snail's pace. I remember seeing the theatrical film in Imax and was incredibly bored, but this time I was engaged and entertained. I just find it remarkable when someone is able to take a movie that I had essentially written off and forgotten about, and was able to make me appreciate it. The file is in HD, no hard cuts or issues in the edit, and is definitely worthwhile. Excellent work.

Definitely does what it was set to do - bring it to feel closer in spirit to the much adored animated film and remove on the nose lines and filler plot points.
Though I still have gripes with some bits in the movie itself, I loved every editing decision in the Lean & Mean Edition.

This is a major improvement. I don't see how it could be edited any better without adding new footage. The edits are only noticable in that the pacing is so different and the last "consent" line being so prominent that removing it, while necessary, stands out. Other than that, I'm not a fan of the Depeche mode track over the credits, but that's not a big deal to me. And the sound during the action sequences does suffer due to not having the encoded audio, though I wouldn't expect an edit to be able to maintain that. Overall I think this is the best version we'll ever get, and the best that can be created with the material available.

A very orderly scraping away of the chaff. The film itself is still a fairly graceless mashup of familiar motifs, shots and beats from across the manga and its anime adaptations, but the considerably more understated approach to the narrative and the much leaner and slightly meaner 90 minute runtime helps tremendously. Great work.

I enjoyed this. The original is one of my favorite films, so I definitely needed to see some justice done to the remake. Loved the reincorporated original track in the “birth scene.” An amazing track. But yeah, overall, a deftly executed edit with only one minor issue that was readily visible. Other than that, very well done.