Ghost in the Shell - Innocence. Holy shit is this movie ugly. That 3d aged like milk.
Listen, i don't even mind the complete change in color temperature, and even the city looking less and less like a real place, and more like an abstract plane of existence.
I think the first movie played around with a pre-apocalypse concept, with the net being vast and deep, and human lives and their plane of existence becoming less and less relevant, by fault of being too narrow.
Innocence sort of builds on that imo, from a visual stand point, making the "human" world appear more and more like it's starting to lose its physical form, from the eyes of the protagonist (the Major, who's silent for the whole movie, but it's implied to be there as a "guardian Angel" presence).
So even the use of 3dvs2d, to create that sort of detachment between the physical world and the net, with the net taking over, it's cool, and the reddish tone giving that apocalyptic feeling, also is fine, for the above mentioned reason, so is the more outlandish design of places that don't look like real places (especially in the second half of the movie).
The problem is, it's just so fucking ugly 3d, it's that simple.
Also the constant quotations felt sort of out of place, since they weren't a thing at all in the previous movie, and sometimes feel forced in for the sake of having them, when the point is abundantly clear without them.
Still though, it's a subject matter that interests me greatly, and although i didn't enjoy it like the previous one (the action scenes also felt more forced in) there are several moments that were interesting, like Batou getting hacked in the minimarket.
Or them doubting and experiencing artificial memories first hand, whereas in the first movie they were looked down upon, when the trash guy had been hacked with them.
P.S.: I watched the original version of the first movie, not the 2.0 crap.