Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
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We can argue which GitS work is the best but I enjoy all of it. Even bad GitS is better than most anime. And I'd argue the live action movie would've been better received if it didn't have the high expectations of being a GitS adaptation. It's still a fun sci-fi movie.
The live action movie was terrible. The shoehorned love story was completely unnecessary and ruins the character development. It's also a textbook example of whitewashing.
But the most egregious thing is that it completely misses the point of the original by making Motoko explicitly human. In the original, it is an open question whether Motoko is a human or an AI that believes itself to be human, which the antagonist AI continually questions her about. It must be this way for the plot to have any meaning. Without this central conflict around self-identity and self-knowledge the story is empty, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."