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Pacific Rim |OT| Apocalypse Never
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Spike Spiegel
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My face almost the entire time:
LOVED IT. :O
Doesn't waste time. Doesn't make apologies. It is what it is, and what it is is two hours of honest, unadulterated, robots-punching-monsters-in-the-face JOY. Amazing spectacle, brutal fighting, genuine laughs, and genre cliches and corny dialogue served up with earnest feeling. Biggest "oh sh*t!" moment for me was undoubtedly when
, and the shot when
made me almost jump for joy. Heck, that whole Hong Kong sequence was a damn masterpiece.
Favorite movie of the summer, and I'm definitely going to be seeing it again.
LOVED IT. :O
Doesn't waste time. Doesn't make apologies. It is what it is, and what it is is two hours of honest, unadulterated, robots-punching-monsters-in-the-face JOY. Amazing spectacle, brutal fighting, genuine laughs, and genre cliches and corny dialogue served up with earnest feeling. Biggest "oh sh*t!" moment for me was undoubtedly when
Otachi sprouted wings ("so that's the flying kaiju!")
Mako activates Gipsy's sword and slices through the wing and they just hover there in that pose for a few seconds
Favorite movie of the summer, and I'm definitely going to be seeing it again.
You shut your whore mouth!
Don't get me wrong it's a perfectly valid question because I, personally, didn't fully understand it either but I feel like the movie was careful to explain what it needed to explain and get out of it's own way. Movies can over explain themselves. Inception was guilty of this. It was explaining itself up until the last two minutes or so and it was a very hard story to get into at times.
But here, I understood it on a base level which is all that mattered to me. I didn't really care about the rest. Two pilots, one mind,
sometimes one person can control it but it's super hard
Sometimes I just want to have fun in a movie. It's when a movie is narratively shallow AND boring where I find issue. You gotta do SOMEthing right.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
This movie was pretty freaking awesome. Definitely some cheesy by-the-books moments, but yeah, impressive.
I was still skeptical and not feeling it until the scene where
that was so intense, it put me all in.
I was still skeptical and not feeling it until the scene where
they rifted into Mako's origin story.
Even better a Bay film starring Adam Sandler!
Count Dookkake
Member
Everyone needs to guilt their friends with kids into seeing PR this weekend.
It is the only way.
DEATH TO GROWN UPS 2!!!
It is the only way.
DEATH TO GROWN UPS 2!!!
No kidding, I can't come into this thread anymore...
At least I'll be seeing the movie tomorrow...
Some members are douchebags...
It's a Conspiracy! Legendary Pictures splitting with Warner Bros means Pacific Rim is in the middle of the crossfire.
http://comicsbeat.com/hollywood-mystery-who-is-trying-to-kill-pacific-rim/
Gamecocks625
Member
my former co-worker's brother wrote this movie. Crazy.
Seen it and...
My word, was that one EPIC film.
Yes the story was as expected and such, but the visuals, CGI, action, fighting.. oh man.
It is 29 Celsius outside ( in the UK, to us that is very hot) and inside the Cinema it was also hot, but I still got goosebumps like 7 or 8 times throughout the film, so good.
Easily the most I have enjoyed watching a film in the last few years.
3D... wasn't worth it IMO ,but IMAX with its improve audio defiantly was worth it.
My word, was that one EPIC film.
Yes the story was as expected and such, but the visuals, CGI, action, fighting.. oh man.
It is 29 Celsius outside ( in the UK, to us that is very hot) and inside the Cinema it was also hot, but I still got goosebumps like 7 or 8 times throughout the film, so good.
Easily the most I have enjoyed watching a film in the last few years.
3D... wasn't worth it IMO ,but IMAX with its improve audio defiantly was worth it.
Allow me to re-purpose a quote from GDT,
"Anyone who doesn't see this is a motherfucker."
I welcome this
Newtypes = Aliens
Newtypes brought Gundams to Earth centuries ago
America now has all the Gundams and New Types in their custody
Or there is good and bad Newtypes. And They fight.
Bay
Count Dookkake
Member
Ban this sick filth!
TheKaeptain
Banned
Bros Japan will save this movie. Just watch.
Gundam already has way too much infantile shit in it; I don't even want to know how much further Bay would take it.
That article is just unsubstantiated nonsense. Warner Bros is not going to try to lose tens of millions of dollars when Legendary moved on and signed deals with other distribution companies months ago.
I'm gonna hold you to your word.
I PMd shipping costs to those of you that got a Yoji Shinkawa poster from me
Damn. Looks like I missed out. If anyone has extras of the Shinkawa poster... =(
Grimm Fandango
Member
They really should have picked a better weekend to release. Going against Sandler is never a smart idea.
ZedIndyLil
Member
I know it's of topic, but from that HR article... How the hell did Grownups 2 cost 80 freaking million dollars???
If Japan supported and was interested in kaiju eiga to that degree, the Godzilla and Gamera franchises wouldn't have still been stuck with seven digit budgets and double billing with cute hamster anime, nor would they be working on a decade long hiatus.
Japan cannot save PR. Not unless Kojima buys every one in the country a ticket.
Look at who it stars. Like 90% of the cost can be explained just by that. Get cheaper actors and the movie would have cost $3.50
xXBetter Off DadXx
Member
My more accurate impression would be that he was "great" in that he was perfectly adequate for that role, fulfilled what was needed, nothing more than that was necessary.
firebricks3
Member
The 3D is worth it imo. I was genuinely surprised it didn't ruin any of the movie for me.
How though? Japan audiences are small, UK have limited release, and Aus loves cartoons...
Deified Data
Banned
I wish I could travel back in time, to when I was a child, and a movie was just a movie.
Not the numbers it grossed, or how it placed in its opening weekend, but just a little slice of magic. I wish we could just sit down and love a movie, and not have to worry about the implications of its success and failure. I think Pacific Rim makes that possible, for approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. You forget about the box office numbers and just revel in the spectacle.
Not the numbers it grossed, or how it placed in its opening weekend, but just a little slice of magic. I wish we could just sit down and love a movie, and not have to worry about the implications of its success and failure. I think Pacific Rim makes that possible, for approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. You forget about the box office numbers and just revel in the spectacle.
I would only watch it in 3d, especially at imax.
Fucking loved it, packed house to at 9:45 this morning, imax 3D. So much fun, love how it starts at 10 and just takes off. The 3D was just fantastic and the sound was incredible. The mech's and their design and the kaiju were awe inspiring. DAT HONG KONG FIGHT! Everyone was really into it, the crowd loved it. This will have fantastic WOM. When I get it on blu ray, I am absolutely paying extra for the 3D version when I get a 3D TV.
to show how powerful the kaijus have become via evolution.
also, it's worth mentioning that
Cherno Alpha
TheKaeptain
Banned
That has more to do with Japan's film industry. They just don't have the money American companies have.
Expendable.
Member
Doesn't hold up that well on second viewing, sadly. With the initial spectacle gone, everything gets so much dumber. Still has solid pacing, but the action doesn't have the same bite. I'd probably put it in the C range now.
Also, saw it in 2D after seeing it original IMAX 3D. The latter is definitely immersive, but having more clarity is nice. It's a toss-up, really.
Also, saw it in 2D after seeing it original IMAX 3D. The latter is definitely immersive, but having more clarity is nice. It's a toss-up, really.
God damn it. I saw it in a large packed cinema tonight (Saturday, Australia) and had hoped it was doing well.
TheKaeptain
Banned
What was your Cap America score again?
the big main characters were mostly soulless. Mako was kind of ok but she mostly pouts her way through things. But I think that's fine - they're stupid action hero archetypes.
the best characters (outside the kaiju and mechs of course) were the supporting cast. The scientists, Ron Perlman and mini-Mako were stand outs for me
one stupid moment for me was when the jaegers have been punching the crap out of the kaiju for most of the movie, but they start getting their ass kicked. Then
they suddenly remember they have a sword attachment! And from then on the jaegers are all suddenly fighting with swords from the start. Why not do that earlier!?
SJRB
Gold Member
So what you're saying is that watching the movie for the first time is better than watching it a second time because you already know what's going to happen?
WHO KNEW
Will you put it in de D range after your third viewing?
I'll make another transformers
I actually really enjoyed the first Transformers film.
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