They should have gave it to the Wachowskis to do it.

They would have done it justice.

You've not seen _jupiter ascending_, I take it?

Yeah I heard it sucked. I did like Cloud Atlas. But The Matrix was inspired by Ghost in the Shell so I have huge hope that they couldn't kill Ghost in the Shell like this current director did.

Yeah, that was atrocious. A major letdown after being a huge Matrix fan.

It's such a pity they never made any sequels.

They would have called it "The Matrix".

you probably know it, but as the story goes, the Wachowskis did show GitS to the producers and explicitly said: "we want to make this movie".

In a way, Matrix is the Wachowskis GitS.

eeeehhhhh

The film was a masterful rendition of Shirow's vision. I have never seen anime brought to live action with such fullness. Batou and the Major look feel and act like the anime characters. The tech is precisely on point. Brilliant work.

That they did not wallow in obsolete philosophical tropes saved the film from bathetic anachronism.