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This is one of my favorite animes. Reason being, its the second Anime i have ever watched ever since i first started watching anime. Even to this day, i watch it again and i find something new. Probably becuase the whole movie is just too diffucult to understand at times. its one of those movies that you can watch over and over again and not get bored.

Yup, definitely agree with you. This is the movie that needs to be re-watched. It is not only enjoyable but you'll be discovering something new to connect to the story's plot. If I may say, this movie is very well made and I personally consider it a classic.

The movie was not made to earn money but to let you in on an experience! The experience of being in the GitS universe. The movie makes you think, think even more about the seemingly merging lines of man and machine. You'd be surprised that despite being made in 1995, the movie seemingly foretells the future. The advancement of the net, communications, robotic etc. This is definitely a movie that even our grandkids would enjoy. I put this film in the league of Kubrick's 2001 and its sequel 2010.

How is this an oldie? It was made in freakin 1995. An oldie would be more like something made in the 70's or early 80's

I first watched it in a friend's house in 1998 and I was totally blown away by the technical near-perfection standards set by the movie. It was quite an amazing experience to see a rare anime of this genre especially when I was about 14 - 15 years old. I didn't understand much story-wise, nor did I comprehend what the movie was trying to say. But I could care less, I had never seen an anime of this quality at the time and I had to read up other people's analysis on the movie in order to understand a bit.

I read somewhere that this movie was influenced by Blade Runner and Mamoru Oshii had made some comments regarding its influential impact on how he shaped Ghost In The Shell. The movie does look a bit old if I watch nowadays and I can see the drawings are becoming outdated by today's standards. People who first encounter the movie today may not feel as impressed as I once did. I watched Innocence when it became available, but I didn't like it as much as the 1st one.

Oshii didn't shape GitS. Shirow did, and he hardly got to be involved in the creation of this movie. I still love it, but what Oshii did to that manga was strip it of all of its vitiality, and leave the heart behind. He doesn't have the Fuchi/Tachi/Uchikomas in it at all, none of the other S9 members (except Azuma, who got a part when frickin Saito gets left out?!), and leaves out most of what made GitS interesting to begin with. After reading the manga, Ive grown to respect all of the different versions of GitS for their strengths, but I'll never see the movies in quite the same light again...

Depends on your point of view. To me, many series and movies made in the mid 90's and earlier has a beautiful feel to it visually that I fear may be starting to become extinct with many modern releases. Classic and nostalgic are probably the two best words to describe this for older works of art like this movie.

Aside from this movie, only Robot Carnival and Miyazaki's works (what I've seen, anyway) holds the same visual feeling to me. Even Innocence failed to instill this same feeling to me; though the CG was stunning, it is by no means even close to old school quality. CG is starting to homogenize everything in the animation industry, IMO.