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This movie is begging to be one of the best in ages, or an incredible failure that will ruin Toro (from an investor standpoint, at least). I really hope it's the former, because this looks amazing.
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I've read it's somewhere in between: A robot-vs-monster flick with a lot of loud action, done well for that category, but not transcending the genre. I might catch a matinee.
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Some PR Posters/Fan Art
Link To More Posters/Fan Art –
http://blurppy.com/2013/07/01/exclusive-blurppy-poster-posse-project-3-warner-bros-guillermo-del-toros-robots-vs-monsters-sci-fi-action-flick-pacific-rim/
Link To More Posters/Fan Art –
http://blurppy.com/2013/07/01/exclusive-blurppy-poster-posse-project-3-warner-bros-guillermo-del-toros-robots-vs-monsters-sci-fi-action-flick-pacific-rim/
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I really want that poster that Shinkawa did for this movie...
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Some of the posters look really good!
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I'm going to write a longer opinion in the movie thread later, but I just saw Pacific Rim and I thought it was okay to above average. I think I can summarize it in one sentence: It was basically "Independence Day" meets a "Godzilla vs." film set in the rain. There were some good performances and it never felt stupid during the movie, but there were a lot of plot holes that brought me out of it and it's riddled with a lot of cliches. The 3D was nice and not obtrusive.
Okay, just one plot hole that hit me during the movie:
Okay, just one plot hole that hit me during the movie:
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Agreed. Shinkawa's PR poster looks great.
The Mondo posters are pretty nice too.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/news/?a=82984
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Just saw it and really enjoyed it quite a bit. I hope it does really, really good.
Bobak's right in that there are some narrative deficiencies, but overall I'd highly recommend it.
I think calling it Independence Day with giant robots and monsters is fairly accurate, except for one detail.
Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, who is more talented and capable than the entire crew of ID4 combined, and it shows. The characters are more engaging in this film and you really find yourself rooting for the heroes.
This movie is visionary in its cinematograophy, and deserves to be seen on the big screen.
In fairness, the film's 'quality' rating is probably a 3 out of 4. But for fun factor, this is the best movie since The Avengers. In fact, I liked this more than The Avengers, and that movie had my favorite superhero, BEING my favorite superhero, in it. Says something for Pacific Rim in my book.
Bobak's right in that there are some narrative deficiencies, but overall I'd highly recommend it.
I think calling it Independence Day with giant robots and monsters is fairly accurate, except for one detail.
Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, who is more talented and capable than the entire crew of ID4 combined, and it shows. The characters are more engaging in this film and you really find yourself rooting for the heroes.
This movie is visionary in its cinematograophy, and deserves to be seen on the big screen.
In fairness, the film's 'quality' rating is probably a 3 out of 4. But for fun factor, this is the best movie since The Avengers. In fact, I liked this more than The Avengers, and that movie had my favorite superhero, BEING my favorite superhero, in it. Says something for Pacific Rim in my book.
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Your favorite superhero is a member of Marvel's special-ed superhero team?
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What are the most important Marvel team franchises?
X-men - It has Wolverine, who is a one man army. One time he put the Thor in a sleeper hold, and Thor woke up complaining that his asshole hurt.
Brotherhood of Mutants - Run by Dumbledore, they are badasses.
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Let me just mention that I did like it enough that I'd be willing to see a sequel. It's silly fun, for sure.
They fry electrical grids though, so that's the issue.
The most notable portrayal was The Day After, here at ~2:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3XsOWPlIso&t=2m16s
True, it's definitely not as stupid as ID4 and I would look forward to a sequel, but it was so chock full of cliches that it felt about one or two drafts beyond a Roland Emmerich picture. There was nothing unpredictable in this movie, zero--that just felt like a shame because the Hellboy films and Pan's Labyrinth were more complex--and this wasn't even based on anything. I know he added the bridge concept because he wanted to make the pilots more interesting, and I wish they'd gone more into that. We really only got a few perfunctory scenes.
They certainly did a great job of portraying the murkiness of night rain and the ocean deep--oh, and a blizzard. We did get about 15 seconds of daylight fighting in Sydney though and kind-of saw a fight in Japan (but not clearly, but I feel that was for legitimate narrative reasons). If you asked me to draw half of those kaiju from what we saw in the film, I simply could not because they were too hard to see.
Will someone please go ahead and turn King of the Monsters into a feature film, now?
Also: I really want Ron Perlman's shoes...
They fry electrical grids though, so that's the issue.
The most notable portrayal was The Day After, here at ~2:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3XsOWPlIso&t=2m16s
True, it's definitely not as stupid as ID4 and I would look forward to a sequel, but it was so chock full of cliches that it felt about one or two drafts beyond a Roland Emmerich picture. There was nothing unpredictable in this movie, zero--that just felt like a shame because the Hellboy films and Pan's Labyrinth were more complex--and this wasn't even based on anything. I know he added the bridge concept because he wanted to make the pilots more interesting, and I wish they'd gone more into that. We really only got a few perfunctory scenes.
They certainly did a great job of portraying the murkiness of night rain and the ocean deep--oh, and a blizzard. We did get about 15 seconds of daylight fighting in Sydney though and kind-of saw a fight in Japan (but not clearly, but I feel that was for legitimate narrative reasons). If you asked me to draw half of those kaiju from what we saw in the film, I simply could not because they were too hard to see.
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Will someone please go ahead and turn King of the Monsters into a feature film, now?
Also: I really want Ron Perlman's shoes...
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You really wanted them to spend more time on the people in a movie like this? The entire concept is preposterous. The movie is an ode to the genre. It's not trying to reinvent it, nor should it.
The narrative carries its nonsensical plot and archetypal characters perfectly fine.
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Then get glasses or go see a retina specialist, because I have retinopathy in both eyes and I could easily tell which one looked like a tron gorilla, which one looked like a lizard and which one looked like a turtle.
If you want to bring up that those murky environments helped to mask problems with the special effects, I will not disagree. But the movie engaged me, and it engaged plenty of other people as well, and that was its primary mission.
Here's my review of Pacific Rim.
Big robots punch big monsters
Likeable cast and characters
Understandable plot
Great visual effects and sound
Doesn't drag
Two problems I have with the film are the scientists, if only because their brand of slapstick humor doesn't seem to mesh with the world around them and the scene where the Australian guy talks to Idris Elba about his son, because it felt weird to see real screen time devoted to a character who was essentially Iceman to Hunnam's Maverick and didn't need context. I understand that this conversation might have taken place at some point but it just seemed...off to me. Maybe if Iceman would have been a more meaningful character.
3 out of 4.
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I really enjoyed this flick. The fight sequences were pretty damned good, and they didn't lay on the drama too thick. The characters were pretty well developed, which is rare these days. I saw it in Imax-3D and --- in all honesty--- I would recommend seeing this film under the same conditions.
Initially, I felt a little disappointed, but then I realized something. I happened to take my nephew to see this film, he's 7, and he mostly likely didn't notice all the little things that bothered me. I spoke with him afterward and he was still overly excited about all the fight scenes, talking about how awesome it was when the robots did this, or that. He was spiritedly reenacting each fight scene hours after the movie was done. Seeing that reminded me of how excited I was, as a kid, to watch Godzilla and Gamera flicks… how I didn't care about how shitty the secondary plot was (or how fake the FX were) , I just wanted to see giant monsters and machines throwing each other into buildings while humans fled in terror. The best way to see this film is watching it while tuning into your inner child… if that makes any sense.
Ok, I will shut up now.
PS: I was so happy that the romance wasn't cheeseily done, I mean… it was so subtle that it was way more "romantic" than the rolling around in the grass, then kissing, bit.
Initially, I felt a little disappointed, but then I realized something. I happened to take my nephew to see this film, he's 7, and he mostly likely didn't notice all the little things that bothered me. I spoke with him afterward and he was still overly excited about all the fight scenes, talking about how awesome it was when the robots did this, or that. He was spiritedly reenacting each fight scene hours after the movie was done. Seeing that reminded me of how excited I was, as a kid, to watch Godzilla and Gamera flicks… how I didn't care about how shitty the secondary plot was (or how fake the FX were) , I just wanted to see giant monsters and machines throwing each other into buildings while humans fled in terror. The best way to see this film is watching it while tuning into your inner child… if that makes any sense.
Ok, I will shut up now.
PS: I was so happy that the romance wasn't cheeseily done, I mean… it was so subtle that it was way more "romantic" than the rolling around in the grass, then kissing, bit.
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I would gladly watch a Pacific Rim animated series showing a lot of those other Jaegers and the war with the Kaiju. I liked the dumb, G Gundam elements of the pilots and their nationalities.
I wouldn't waste my time reading a comic book or novel, though. It has to be animated because the appeal is in the visual aspects of the battles.
I wouldn't waste my time reading a comic book or novel, though. It has to be animated because the appeal is in the visual aspects of the battles.
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Lima in the "eastern hemisphere"? Anchorage with temps averaging just above freezing?
I know Del Toro knows better, what was that from?
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Saw it last night in IMAX and really enjoyed it, just good fun. I wasn't looking for something that will be on the level of a Star Wars 30 years down the road, it was just a perfect big FX summer film. Plus they had Charlie Day in there, Always Sunny in Philadelphia is one of my favorite so that was a bonus.
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Yeah, you’re right. You’d think they would’ve done some research on those locations. That pic was taken from the Pacific Rim, Pan Pacific Defense site –
http://www.panpacificdefense.com/#/shatterdome
To find the pic, you’ll need to go to the room that isn’t numbered. Then go to Loccent Mission Control, #2 (press explore room). It’s located on the right side of the page (to move the arrows you’ll need to click and drag).
I’d be interested in watching that series. I'm also still holding out hope that the sequel gets made.
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