This is why GITS is the best filmmaking/screenwriting site on the web.

My dad took me to see it in theaters when I was 13 or so. That shit rocked me to the core. All I drew for two years after that was Matrix shoot outs.

I was, shall we say, less than impressed with The Matrix. You know something has gone horribly wrong with the writing when a story begins by redefining relating and ends in a gunfight.