I watched a recap and besides being "woke" it looks kinda bad.
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Superhero movies need to die. They got big all the way back in the 00s and have been done to death for over a decade now. Something, anything needs to take their place. At this point, I only go to the theater for anime films and the very odd action flick. Everything else is a reboot, remake or the tenth sequel in a series that should have ended a long time ago (like the fast and furious films, which should have ended when Paul Walker died).
Be careful what you wish for. The last thing I want to see is Hollywood start widely doing film adaptations of manga, anime, and video games.
Ghost in the Shell, but the moral quandary of what makes someone human in an increasingly cyberized and digital world is just a shitty allegory for progressiveism. Metroid, but Samus is an obnoxious quipping girlboss who saves the metroids because they're just a mistreated race looking for a new home. Animal Crossing, but it's just pushing race-mixing and immigration. Attack on Titan, but it's even more 'war bad, revenge bad, nationalism bad' than the anime was. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, but Yang Wen-li is unequivocally good, has no philosophizing discussions with anyone, and Reinhard von Lohengramm is just Space Hitler with no redeeming qualities who mistreats his own men all the time in cartoonish fashion.
If Hollywood has become good at anything over the years, it's taking a story and characters that people like and twisting and torturing them into grotesque disfigurements of what made anyone like them in the first place, with a heaping helping of completely (often maliciously) misunderstanding motivations and inspirations dumped on top.