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Just a reminder to you folks that the Spoiler Thread is out there if you want to discuss this movie freely.

Yes! Awesome title!

 

[3N16MA]

EviLore endorsement. This thread has now been certified fresh.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Totally delivers. Satisfying, no origin bullshit, no franchise building compromises.

Do the robits feel all floaty like in Transformers?

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Do the robits feel all floaty like in Transformers?

The robots in Transformers were floaty?

 

[mjc]

Can't wait to see what the reviews tomorrow say now, this is intense!

 

[Ridley327]

In Dookake, I trust.

 

[3N16MA]

The robots in Transformers were floaty?

I think he meant agile and fast. The Jaegers seem to have a real sense of weight behind them which Del Toro really wanted to portray.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

I think he meant agile and fast. The Jaegers seem to have a real sense of weight behind them which Del Toro really wanted to portray.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20...ector-s-Pacific-Rim-Resurrects-the-Kaiju-Film

"We sort of know how to make things look really big: You slow them down, there are other visual cues you can give it to say this thing is 250 feet tall," says animation director Hal Hickel. "But if everything is moving very slowly, that could potentially be boring. You don't want everything to look like it's in a slow-motion. The trick for us was to move things in a way that suggested their gigantic size and felt kind of realistic-ish, but at the same time was exciting to watch."

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I think he meant agile and fast. The Jaegers seem to have a real sense of weight behind them which Del Toro really wanted to portray.

That I can understand. Because the effects work in the Transformers movies is spectacular work.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

In Dookake, I trust.

Indeed.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

The robots in Transformers were floaty?

I think he meant agile and fast. The Jaegers seem to have a real sense of weight behind them which Del Toro really wanted to portray.

Like, the robots in Transformers are supposed to be huge and heavy, yet they're able to flit about the environment as if they weigh nothing. It's like they're operating in zero grav or something. Like this

 

[Jarmel]

Like, the robots in Transformers are supposed to be huge and heavy, yet they're able to flit about the environment as if they weigh nothing. It's like they're operating in zero grav or something. Like this

He should probably be dead from whiplash alone.

 

[shira]

Like, the robots in Transformers are supposed to be huge and heavy, yet they're able to flit about the environment as if they weigh nothing. It's like they're operating in zero grav or something. Like this

You want a realistic giant robot/monster movie?
I think you best leave your brain at the door and just enjoy the moving pictures.

 

[DonMigs85]

I wonder what sturdy alloy they use to prevent the Jaegers from collapsing under their own weight

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I wonder what sturdy alloy they use to prevent the Jaegers from collapsing under their own weight

Or how they power them.
Probably nuclear.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Or how they power them.
Probably nuclear.

I assume nuclear power.

Of... some sort.

 

[3N16MA]

Canadian Jaeger powered by poutine.

 

[Quick]

I assume nuclear power.

Of... some sort.

They explain it, sort of, in Tales From Year Zero.

Spoiler

Nuclear power. Stacker's former partner, Tamsin, got cancer because of being in close proximity to the nuclear reactor inside the Jaegers.

 

[inky]

Canadian Jaeger powered by poutine.

Canadian Jaeger didn't make it into the film because the engineers couldn't find a place to put the fuel bags.

 

[Sent]

I wonder what sturdy alloy they use to prevent the Jaegers from collapsing under their own weight

Bullshit-tanium. Really that's what Del Toro calls it when they just have to make something up.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Lack of Rottentomatoes reviews by now has me worried. GDT has not disappointed so far so fingers crossed.

Tonight at midnight.

If you like kaiju, you will probably like this movie a lot.

If you are some johnny-come-lately, you can probably go fuck yourself.

So you're saying I am going to love it? I've made it pretty clear how much I love Kaiju films.

 

[Coldnoodle]

Coyote Tango's stats :lololol

 

[Quick]

If you like kaiju, you will probably like this movie a lot.

If you are some johnny-come-lately, you can probably go fuck yourself.

 

[3N16MA]

EDIT: Already posted.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Heh, are these going to be added to the OP?

 

[Toxi]

Now I'm imagining Count Dookkake as a 250 foot tall Kaiju telling me to go fuck myself.

I'm wondering how professional critics will treat this movie. I mean, critics like the Avengers, and that was a stupid action movie that handled the action part pretty damn well.

 

[coldfoot]

Totally delivers. Satisfying, no origin bullshit, no franchise building compromises.

Until EA gets the videogame rights.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Now I'm imagining Count Dookkake as a 250 foot tall Kaiju telling me to go fuck myself.

I'm wondering how professional critics will treat this movie. I mean, critics like the Avengers, and that was a stupid action movie that handled the action part pretty damn well.

I can imagine the Count standing on a wrecked Jaeger telling a Kaiju to go fuck itself.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

https://twitter.com/scottEweinberg/status/354114774985998337

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Until EA gets the videogame rights.

Kotaku: NeoGAF Owner Confirms Guillermo Del Toro Hates EA's Origin Service

 

[RatskyWatsky]

You want a realistic giant robot/monster movie?
I think you best leave your brain at the door and just enjoy the moving pictures.

Nope. I know how to enjoy summer blockbuster movies - I was just wondering if the robits were floaty is all.

 

[Error]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pacific_rim_2013/

first review is up and compares it to... Battleship and Transformers lol.

 

[titiklabingapat]

It is 12 midnight here in the West Coast!

 

[XiaNaphryz]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pacific_rim_2013/

first review is up and compares it to... Battleship and Transformers lol.

Guillermo del Toro blows the likes of Battleship and Transformers out of the water

Well, it at least addresses a bunch of comparisons people were making.

 

[TheKaeptain]

@davidehrlich 2m
PACIFIC RIM: a colossal misfire. dull monsters, duller humans. stakes confused for scale. GDT's vision distilled into joylessly generic pap.

Flood gates are opening.


http://www.indiewire.com/article/gu...arter-blockbuster-or-a-different-kind-of-dumb

B-

 

[vareon]

-nm-

 

[TheKaeptain]

http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-pacific-rim-1200535260/

Viewers with less of an appetite for nonstop destruction should brace themselves for the squarest, clunkiest and certainly loudest movie of director Guillermo del Toro’s career, a crushed-metal orgy that plays like an extended 3D episode of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” on very expensive acid.

Sounds like a movie I have wanted since I was a kid.

 

[Error]

Variety absolutely trashed it, not shocked at all. Seems like they want the movie to fail. 3 articles explaining how big of a bomb it's going to be and now this review. I know I know conspiracy theories lulz, but it's just... too obvious IMO.

 

[ElbowRocket]

Is there anyone out there who still feels negative about this film??

Spoiler

Didn't think so

 

[Discotheque]

glad to hear it's good fun. reviews on blockbusters i don't really care about anymore after they trashed lone ranger and i had so much fun with it. (and the opposite effect with star trek 2). gaf impressions seem cool.

if this succeeds i wish him well but i hope to god they don't give him any lovecraft properties.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Not going to lie. I just want Godzilla vs Power Rangers.

 

[Mariolee]

So basically what I'm getting the feeling that if you hated or disliked the trailers at all, seeing the movie probably isn't going to change your mind. Meanwhile, if you liked the trailers, then the movie will totally deliver.

Good enough for me.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

So basically what I'm getting the feeling that if you hated or disliked the trailers at all, seeing the movie probably isn't going to change your mind. Meanwhile, if you liked the trailers, then the movie will totally deliver.

Good enough for me.

Pretty much, the movie has been sincere about itself from the start.

 

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/8/4501378/pacific-rim-review

 

[grounded_dreams]

Guardian review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/08/pacific-rim-review-guillermo-del-toro?CMP=twt_fd

 

[Amalthea]

http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-pacific-rim-1200535260/

Sounds like a movie I have wanted since I was a kid.

I hope they realise that this MMPR on acid quote backfires because it sounds friggin' cool.

 

[Chinner]

you guys should have listened to expandables friends...

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Variety's always been silly in my eyes, so to see them confirming my expectations is nothing new. This movie's going to rock.

 

[TheKaeptain]

I hope they realise that this MMPR on acid quote backfires because it sounds friggin' cool.

They legit sold me on the movie right there.

 

[Mariolee]

Guardian review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/08/pacific-rim-review-guillermo-del-toro?CMP=twt_fd

Pacific Rim is entirely in keeping with much expensively-made effects-heavy cinema of the present time: it's put together with such artistry and such devotion that it can't help but be impressive as a visual spectacle. (Del Toro's devotion to Japanese monster movies is particularly evident.) But, like Man of Steel or The Dark Knight Returns, it can't quite bring itself to believe in its own pop-culture disposability and ends up paying the price.

Did he mean The Dark Knight Rises?