The first being, considering the trailers i have seen for the recent Neon Genesis Evangelion film, i feel that the 3-D graphics, though might improve the whole experience of GitS and bring to light a new set of fans, i feel the original film is kept in context with the graphics it has as it is a reminder that this is a mans vision of the future and so the graphics of the time i feel not only suit the film but act as a boundry to show his 'vision' that has not become reality.
The next point would be that the music, i read in one of the links, was
from the anime news network site. my worry is if anything is added to the backingtrack as its simplicity is complexity in itself but adds complexity to the film as it makes the audience think and wonder for what the true meaning is and create their own opinions.the new soundtrack with Kenji Kawai's original music and a final mix that has been produced at Thom and Lucas Digital's Skywalker Sound studio in California
Finally i feel that this is part of some hollywood exploitation of anime as we are having the classics redone for us with new graphics and better quality this and that but i feel that GitS needs to die down for a while as each part of the franchise is a masterpiece to show how depth in social analysis can be shown to the public without losing interest or contorting things to a hypodermic message where the director is telling us what to think. The series invokes the freedom to consume media without being bound to a set view, thus promoting freedom to hold opinions and then discuss them with others. What i fear is that not only will other anime classics, like Akira, will suffer the same fate but also that the true meaning of the text might be lost as to enable it to be shown to a western audience so it can consume the text. The other part to this is the fact that there might be another series released when the film reaches us and it has become another manufactured asset of the Hollywood world thus making GitS losing its true meaning and so will lose many of the original fans.