Pacific Rim |OT| Apocalypse Never

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onlyindreams said:
just found out on kojima's twitter that shinkawa did the Japanese poster art...

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I need to own this.
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omg
 
Hoooly shit at that Shinkawa art, awesome.

If Pacific Rim doesn't reignite Kojima and Shinkawa's inspiration for a new Zone of the Enders, nothing will.
 
Expendable. said:
Just got back. Yep, some large-scale, dumb fun. The script is dirt poor and Charlie Hunnam is a Garrett Hedlund clone in the worst way possible, but Guillermo Del Toro delivers the thrills and sells the world.

Despite all being set at night, the 3 battles in the film are pretty great and each got my heart pumping (including one greatly executed flashback). Charlie Day is very funny, as is Ron Perlman, and Idris Elba is probably the stand-out. Unfortunately the script has some of the stiffest, boilerplate lines I've seen in a blockbuster. Thanks to Hunnam's extremely forced delivery, I laughed my ass off at his tough guy routine.

But yeah, you pretty much get what you came for. Del Toro keeps the pacing up and it keeps building and building as he expands the world more and more. Unlike Man of Steel's repetitive last half, it's thrilling right up to the end.

I'd give it a C+ on the whole and with a better leading man and script, it'd be in the B territory.
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Glad to hear! Thanks for posting this.
 
Dmax3901 said:
Comes out in Australia tomorrow, probably gonna see it.

What was the final consensus on the 3D?
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Not sure there is a consensus, since only a handful of people have seen it. I really enjoyed. The action scenes take place at night, so it's fairly dark, but the immersive effects are really well done.
 
I would have preferred not to know how many battles were in the movie. Now I will be gauging when the movie is over by how many fights are left.
 
*scrolls fast down to avoid any spoilers*

Just picked up four tickets for Friday night at the VIP Theatre in town here. I know where I am sitting and soon to be shitting myself. This HYPE Train is heading into Erection Ville and only watching the climax of this film will finish me off.
 
I find it funny how most reviewers main complaints are about the weak and cliched script. People need to understand that all these so called perceived cliches and faults are actually part of the anime mecha Genre. It's supposed to have a cheesy over the top dialouge with wooden stoic actors. The Genres main selling point is all about the incredible battles and spectacle. I feel most reviewers just don't understand the typical Genre tropes and mistakenly assume that its a weak script.
 
Why does something that a reviewer doesn't enjoy, being 'part of a genre', make that excusable?

Would an anime mecha genre film with a good script and interesting characters and witty dialogue really be a worse film?
 
samn said:
Why does something that a reviewer doesn't enjoy, being 'part of a genre', make that excusable?

Would an anime mecha genre film with a good script and interesting characters and witty dialogue really be a worse film?
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Not a worse film, but if it wasn't executed properly it would detract from the main point of the movie.

Imagine a big giant gun battle in the middle of Sleepless In Seattle.
 
FuzzyNorman said:
I would have preferred not to know how many battles were in the movie. Now I will be gauging when the movie is over by how many fights are left.
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Yeah, I'm pretty pissed that it was mentioned in this thread too and will also know "how long" until the end of the film.
 
Expendable. said:
Just got back. Yep, some large-scale, dumb fun. The script is dirt poor and Charlie Hunnam is a Garrett Hedlund clone in the worst way possible, but Guillermo Del Toro delivers the thrills and sells the world.
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Heh, funny you mention that, this movie did remind me of a much better version of Tron Legacy.
 
hal9001 said:
I find it funny how most reviewers main complaints are about the weak and cliched script. People need to understand that all these so called perceived cliches and faults are actually part of the anime mecha Genre. It's supposed to have a cheesy over the top dialouge with wooden stoic actors. The Genres main selling point is all about the incredible battles and spectacle. I feel most reviewers just don't understand the typical Genre tropes and mistakenly assume that its a weak script.
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Nah. I movie can have genre tropes that work effectively (see Captain America). Pacific Rim's are just stale and unengaging.
 
Expendable. said:
Nah. I movie can have genre tropes that work effectively (see Captain America). Pacific Rim's are just stale and unengaging.
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Well at the minimum did the movie make you feel for the characters? For me that's the bottom line. If you can't emotionally invest in the characters then the movie has failed.
 
hal9001 said:
I find it funny how most reviewers main complaints are about the weak and cliched script. People need to understand that all these so called perceived cliches and faults are actually part of the anime mecha Genre. It's supposed to have a cheesy over the top dialouge with wooden stoic actors. The Genres main selling point is all about the incredible battles and spectacle. I feel most reviewers just don't understand the typical Genre tropes and mistakenly assume that its a weak script.
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I really doubt del Toro & Beacham set out to write a lame cliche cheesy script on purpose as some kind of nod to the genre. It certainly isn't being marketed or presented as that kind of film, and if they were going down that route they wouldn't have opted for the realistic CG.
 
Jarmel said:
Well at the minimum did the movie make you feel for the characters? For me that's the bottom line. If you can't emotionally invest in the characters then the movie has failed.
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Not really, no. Definitely not Hunnam, perhaps just Charlie Day and *maybe* Elba, but that's more due to how strong they are as performances -- the script doesn't do them any favors.
 
Guys, which trailer should I show to my friends who all mocked me the other day for being amped about this? The first batch gave them the seemingly standard response of "this looks dumb lol."
 
Expendable. said:
Not really, no. Definitely not Hunnam, perhaps just Charlie Day and *maybe* Elba, but that's more due to how strong they are as performances -- the script doesn't do them any favors.
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Hunham is the character I'm most worried about. The marketing stuff has like five minutes of him despite being the main character and he doesn't really seem to have much of a personality.
 
Jarmel said:
Hunham is the character I'm most worried about. The marketing stuff has like five minutes of him despite being the main character and he doesn't really seem to have much of a personality.
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It can't be overstated how bad he is here. Some of his lines feel like voice-over, because he feels like he is putting a fake tough guy voice that doesn't match his demeanor whatsoever. Shame, really took me out of the movie.

Raptor said:
Did you liked Captain America?

Just to see what kind of tastes you have thats all.
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Low bar, but it's the best Marvel movie.
 
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