You know, I did have a conversation with a friend who had seen the live action and she made a really good point about some of the iconic scenes that were recreated. She said something along the lines of, "When ghost in the shell first came out, these scenes were mind blowing and advanced for their time. You couldn't look away. Now you're seeing it remade with new technology, it's beautiful but its flat and lacking emotion. " I guess I will remain a purest! Lol.
It is also because these scenes meant something in the original film. Here they are just quotes that goes against the weak ass ending. The 1995 film had the strange mix of religion and technology that was part of the cyberpunk idea and the ending was a mystical trancending. In the new film they didn't dare to have such a strange ending and just went for the nothing-really-happened-but-we-are-ready-for-a-sequel
No magic in the new film - stay pure :)
You should watch the sequel, which is Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. I enjoyed it.
I have to answer this comment because @katharsisdrill, made me laugh with the introduction of this post, and what it says @vermillionfox friend she is right there was very good recreations scenes of GITS 1995, but new movie the script was very poor, i think rupert sanders would have done a better job with a better script.
I saw it many years ago, but I will follow your advice and try to watch it again. It had a much higher budget as I remember it - and was really beautiful.