Just. Fucking. Brilliant. In all honesty, this covers the exact same themes of the nature life in the face of technology as the original Mamoru Oshii-directed movie, and is about 9000% more coherent. And that's with all the sirens and screaming. Much thanks to my sister-in-arms Liz over at LA Weekly for the tip.
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pi8you said:
Fucking Perfect.
Listy said:
Love it! It's my two favorite things in one! Thank you for this one.
mikhel said:
. . . this made me miss Sealab so much. I am now sad.
mikhel said:
And it includes a topless robot. What more can you ask?
Joe Anthrax said:
Best. Mash-up. EVER!!!
Strolpol said:
There was another one of these that was also great, done by LittleKuriboh: Battlestar 2021
TechnicolorNinja said:
Listening to Aramaki say "My nipples are hard" has perfected my day.
demoncat said:
loved how the robot at the end finaly gets tired of section nine arguing about what it would be like to have robot bodies and then goes nuts. plus they all talk about the laws of robotics not to mention armakie showing his crush on andrian baboo
FrankenPC said:
Frankly....the only think which could have possibly been better would be Bizarro Ghost in the Shell.
Madness Monk said:
Go with the GitS: Stand Alone Complex series over the movie. It has more time to make sense. ;-)
More importantly, can anyone ID the music over the end credits? It sounds like a choral version of the strings theme from Platoon.
neverknowsbest said:
reminded me of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iSMUp3SUsc
Meddler said:
I always thought that half the fun of GitS was staring in dumbfounded confusion at the rapidfire tech jargon. Hilarious and life-affirming though this may be, I'll still take the overloaded original.
Still, GitS could have been so much fun with chainsaw hands.
Capsulesn'Coffee said:
Epic Win. I'd put my brain in a robot body right now if it meant more Sea Lab (sigh).
Now I'm waiting for a mash up of Ninja Scroll and Harvey Birdman: Attorney at law.
Toden said:
This made my week.
Madness Monk: The music is Barber's Adagio for Strings Op. 11 (and yes, it is in Platoon.) :)
CaptainLoquacious replied to Toden:
Thank you Toden; I had been wondering about the music myself.
Baltimoron replied to Toden:
The music is sort of Barber's Adiago. You'll notice the total lack of strings. It's an a capella rendition of the Agnus Dei portion of the Liturgy set to the tune of Barber's Adiago. The standard arrangement of the piece has no vocal portion.
Cambridge's Trinity College Choir arranged and recorded the version used in the video. It shouldn't be too hard to find online and it's also available on a CD compilation of various arrangements of the piece. The CD also features a really great chamber version.
Madness Monk replied to Baltimoron:
Thanks to both of you! Knew I could count on my nerd peeps coming through big time. :-)
JBurton said:
Glad to see this is making the rounds again. It was on the anime music videos site for a bit
and has had good staying power. shweet. :)
hakojo said:
This is the best thing I have ever seen. As much as I love Ghost in the Shell, I love making fun of it even more :3
clashcty said:
Funny...chainsaw hands...all for em'.
Writer's Block said:
This made my day about five times over. Brilliant barely covers it!
Gleeman said:
I've never seen Sealab, looks like I'm missing out!
And yes, this is fucking brilliant!
Kaeli said:
Absolute genius. I'll never watch the whole film again! Plus, hooray for Samuel Barber! :D
Archer said:
Not only is it 9000% more coherent, it's also 9000% less pretentious. It's really a win-win proposition.
Charlie said:
That was great, though shame the Bizarros didn't make an appearance.
BIZARRO!
OriginalDavid said:
i love that even in this video, he never left the chair. unless he did and i missed it. in which case, disregard that, i suck cocks.
i need more hesh in my life, make more sealab.
not even adultswim, just anyone who is reading this. PLEASE MAKE MORE SEALAB.
Geoff said:
This reminds me why I'm happy that I've never seen the GITS movies. At least SAC makes sense....
CrackerJacker said:
"We don't need ROME telling us what to do!"
Classic. I miss Sealab, and I miss Harry Goz, the show just wasn't as fun after the great man passed. There's just nothing that ever comes close to the insane hilarity of that show, especially my personal faves: The one used for the above clip, the one where Murphy gets stuck under the vending machine and gets into a horrible relationship with a scorpion(Which ends tragically after a duel with a robot), and the totally insane dream episode. Special mention for the end credits sequence(I think from the ep used above), where Harry Goz' outtakes of him reading the line "There go my nipples again" in a variety of different ways on demand from the other side of the booth. Awesome.
