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[ThoseDeafMutes]

Only things I didn't understand were the comment about GD being analog. How can something like that be analog? I don't understand.

It makes no sense given that it clearly uses electronics all through it. And because military hardware is typically EMP shielded (tanks, aircraft etc). Given that Jaegers are plausibly operating in environments with nuclear explosions going off, they ought to be shielded.

 

[Ghazi]

So I saw this today:

I hate how the rivalry between Becket and the other guy completely stops after their fight and they have zero interaction.

Also, Mako is amazing that so quickly after her fuck up in the Jaeger she's good to go without a problem or any practice

 

[zulfate]

Like I said, not in a large capacity. He will be Michale Bien in T2.

i can already see him walking away while mako calls out to him.

Only things I didn't understand were the comment about GD being analog. How can something like that be analog? I don't understand.

I also didn't understand how the main character escaped since there is a DNA scanner in the rift. But then I figured it must just check one way.
.

yeah that part right there was one of the biggest letdowns of the movie, he shouldve died to be honest lol. as for the GD being analog i dont know-dual nuclear reactors can power it itself? i dont care what the explanation would be, what bugs me more is the end.

 

[DarkKyo]

Also, Mako is amazing that so quickly after her fuck up in the Jaeger she's good to go without a problem or any practice

??

They explain several times that the first drift is the most difficult.

 

[Ghazi]

Sure, but one go and your pro at it? I don't buy it


Edit: let me clarify, my issue is that she was doing as good as Becket was even though it was only her second time drifting and was only in there shortly the first time.

This could've been fixed or acknowledged with quick random memory flashes or something. It isn't necessarily big an OT could've been annoying to watch but it's important for the characterization/evolution

 

[Aytrial]

I hate how the rivalry between Becket and the other guy completely stops after their fight and they have zero interaction.

At first I was bothered by this, but on my second-run not so much. Herc explains that it's not in Chuck's personality to be grateful, but you see him give Raleigh a bro-nod during the celebrations. Sure, the development was quite sudden but it makes sense in context.

Everyone was on edge and if you were almost killed because a rookie couldn't handle a Jaeger, you'd be having second thoughts about them as well. However, after Raleigh and Mako saved Chuck and Herc's lives while also proving they were more than capable of standing up to the kaiju.

 

[Eteric Rice]

i can already see him walking away while mako calls out to him.


yeah that part right there was one of the biggest letdowns of the movie, he shouldve died to be honest lol. as for the GD being analog i dont know-dual nuclear reactors can power it itself? i dont care what the explanation would be, what bugs me more is the end.

I think it would have been fine if the if the rift was collapsing, and that taking a few minutes. But the way they talked about it, it collapsed instantly. How his pod didn't get wrecked, I dunno..

Feels like a part was cut from the end, making his escape seem instant. I'm almost willing to put money on this.

Hopefully we get an extended edition, eventually.

 

[Black-Wind]

Sure, but one go and your pro at it? I don't buy it

Wellll.

1. She was top of her class in all the simulators and stuff.

2. She's working with a vet.

3. How well they fight is based on how "synced" they can get. Which is why they were such a great team. Hell, I think most all the drivers were related to their partners because I guess that's easier for 2 people who are already emotionally tied to each other to do.

 

[inky]

Sure, but one go and your pro at it? I don't buy it

She was a pro at the simulation long before, it was only her first experience drifting that threw her off.

The drift, as they explain it, is a stage when they both go into silence and it is only if they latch to memories that one of them or both get lost. It stands to reason that after her first experience she is able to manage it and stay concentrated in the action.

 

[Archpath1]

someone explain what i was seeing in the Tunnel bridge
what was the purple area ,a lobby for the door way? and then the orange place was alien homeworld right ,but was that in the ocean too ,it looked like they were floating in air?

 

[yogloo]

I really want an armored core game based on this movie.
Where we start from the beginning invasion until the last fight.

 

[Ghazi]

She was a pro at the simulation long before, it was only her first experience drifting that threw her off.

The drift, as they explain it, is a stage when they both go into silence and it is only if they latch into memories that one of them or both get lost. It stands to reason that after her first experience she is able to manage it and stay concentrated in the action.

Wellll.

1. She was top of her class in all the simulators and stuff.

2. She's working with a vet.

3. How well they fight is based on how "synced" they can get. Which is why they were such a great team. Hell, I think most all the drivers were related to their partners because I guess that's easier for 2 people who are already emotionally tied to each other to do.

There was a simulation for drifting? That makes sense then, I thought the simulation was just controlling the Jaeger (not through drifting) and testing your decision making/fighting skills.

The concentration require to do something like that though, man.

I really want an armored core game based on this movie.
Where we start from the beginning invasion until the last fight.

Might I recommend the XBLA game for Pacific Rim that is

Spoiler

A reskin of Real Steel and garbage

a quality product and even better than Armored Core?

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Just came back from this movie, goddamn, that was great.

I'm hyped for more giant monstor mayhem, bring on Gozilla next year!

Though I'm sadden by the boxoffice meaning no more films, at the very least this movie exists for me to watch again and again. The sword sequences, that's just pure awesome.

 

[Infinite]

Sure, but one go and your pro at it? I don't buy it


Edit: let me clarify, my issue is that she was doing as good as Becket was even though it was only her second time drifting and was only in there shortly the first time.

This could've been fixed or acknowledged with quick random memory flashes or something. It isn't necessarily big an OT could've been annoying to watch but it's important for the characterization/evolution

To be honest it wasn't even her fault when that happened.

 

[daftstar]

Best part of the movie for me:

Amazing.

 

[Eteric Rice]

Just came back from this movie, goddamn, that was great.

I'm hyped for more giant monstor mayhem, bring on Gozilla next year!

Though I'm sadden by the boxoffice meaning no more films, at the very least this movie exists for me to watch again and again. The sword sequences, that's just pure awesome.

It depends on how it does in other regions. If it does well, we might get a sequel.

someone explain what i was seeing in the Tunnel bridge
what was the purple area ,a lobby for the door way? and then the orange place was alien homeworld right ,but was that in the ocean too ,it looked like they were floating in air?

I thought it was under water too, but then saw what looked like a sun and a planet. Honestly, no idea.

 

[Ghazi]

I would've loved to see more of the Kaiju's creators

If we ever get a sequel I'd like it to be from their POV or something like that or another world they are attacking.

 

[Toa TAK]

How are you guys making all these custom Yagers?

 

[Mattdaddy]

How are you guys making all these custom Yagers?

Pacific Rim official website has a jaeger builder.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Just got back from seeing this with my wife (who was not hyped about seeing it--i have to go see Much Ado About Nothing with her as a trade-off). She liked it better than she expected to and I thought it was great. It just made me really happy to see this kind of film get made even if it was extremely by the books. The Jaegar's jacked me up, though. Awesome.

My wife's major complaint (other than she thought it was too long--no doubt padded by the weird comic relief[?] scientist scenes): "Why don't they just remote control the mechs like drones?"

I agree having one line in the movie explain why they have to sit inside the things, rather than just remote control them would have been nice. My answer to her was "they wouldn't be mechs if they weren't inside," and she accepted that for dramatic purposes you need to have them inside or there isn't any feeling of tension in the movie.

 

[Toa TAK]

Pacific Rim official website has a jaeger builder.

Ah yes Unity, we meet again.

 

[hoos30]

Regarding Cherno and Crimson's short lifespans:

When those two went down like that, leaving the whole spotlight to Striker and Gipsy, it made me think that they could have filmed a second version of the movie and just flipped the script, where the two 'red' jaegers go on to save the world. Reuse 25-30% of the current scenes, Toho style. Asia would eat that up; that would have gotten them their billion $ box office

/silly

 

[Deified Data]

Just got back from seeing this with my wife (who was not hyped about seeing it--i have to go see Much Ado About Nothing with her as a trade-off). She liked it better than she expected to and I thought it was great. It just made me really happy to see this kind of film get made even if it was extremely by the books. The Jaegar's jacked me up, though. Awesome.

My wife's major complaint (other than she thought it was too long--no doubt padded by the weird comic relief[?] scientist scenes): "Why don't they just remote control the mechs like drones?"

I agree having one line in the movie explain why they have to sit inside the things, rather than just remote control them would have been nice. My answer to her was "they wouldn't be mechs if they weren't inside," and she accepted that for dramatic purposes you need to have them inside or there isn't any feeling of tension in the movie.

Yeah, you basically have to suspend your disbelief where the practicality of mechs is concerned. Not only could they have been remote controlled, but their anthropomorphic form wasn't really ideal for combat, either. The same applies to all mechs, really. It's all Rule of Cool.

Regarding Cherno and Crimson's short lifespans:

When those two went down like that, leaving the whole spotlight to Striker and Gipsy, it made me think that they could have filmed a second version of the movie and just flipped the script, where the two 'red' jaegers go on to save the world. Reuse 25-30% of the current scenes, Toho style. Asia would eat that up; that would have gotten them their billion $ box office

/silly

I would kill to see that movie.

 

[KalBalboa]

Just got home from the theater.

Easily the most fun I've had in a movie theater in years. What a joy.

 

[ActStriker]

Watched it today with Arsenic Yellow and Robertm

sooooooooooo good. Rinko Kikuchi is cute. Charlie Day was hilarious

 

[BuggyDClown]

It makes no sense given that it clearly uses electronics all through it. And because military hardware is typically EMP shielded (tanks, aircraft etc). Given that Jaegers are plausibly operating in environments with nuclear explosions going off, they ought to be shielded.

I think they meant power. GD could be restarted because it didn't run on battery, the others did. GD had it's own reactor.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Regarding Cherno and Crimson's short lifespans:

When those two went down like that, leaving the whole spotlight to Striker and Gipsy, it made me think that they could have filmed a second version of the movie and just flipped the script, where the two 'red' jaegers go on to save the world. Reuse 25-30% of the current scenes, Toho style. Asia would eat that up; that would have gotten them their billion $ box office

/silly

The tiff between pilots should have been between the Americans and the Russians, then, so they could team up together just like if this movie had been made in the 80s.

 

[Zodzilla]

Watched this tonight.

Man, what a stupid stupid movie.

What a stupid stupid awesome movie.

What a stupid awesome amazing movie.

What an awesome amazing action-packed movie.

That being said, most of the human stuff was pretty terrible. Not enough to groan, but enough that it was less than engaging. The acting from Charlie Hunnam was pretty bland, with his accent slipping in and out at various times. You could really tell that Charlie Day was trying super hard to be an 11 out of 10 on the ratcheted up Charlie-Day-O-Meter (most likely he was just super psyched to be in a Del Toro film). I understand that the entire thing was meant to be anime/comic-esque, but it was more grating than anything else. Elba and Rinko were a-ok in my book, though.

The robot fight scenes though? Gob smackingly awesome. One of my largest complaints with the Transformers series was that somehow Michael Bay made gigantic robots fighting each other dull. Not so here. The jaegers fight with so much weight and momentum that you can feel every swing and hit. It's unlike anything I've seen in the "giant robots" fighting genre. The environments take so much of a beautiful beating, and because of the camera direction we can actually follow what the hell is going on.

There were so many gaps in logic with this movie (why didn't they use the sword earlier? before they got their ass handed to them and flown up to space?) but all in all I have to say, if I saw this when I was between the ages of 8 and 12, this would probably be my favorite film of all time.

Just gob-smackingly stupid awesome.

 

[sol_bad]

My wife's major complaint (other than she thought it was too long--no doubt padded by the weird comic relief[?] scientist scenes): "Why don't they just remote control the mechs like drones?"

I agree having one line in the movie explain why they have to sit inside the things, rather than just remote control them would have been nice. My answer to her was "they wouldn't be mechs if they weren't inside," and she accepted that for dramatic purposes you need to have them inside or there isn't any feeling of tension in the movie.

You have remember when the pilots are drifting they aren't just syncing with eachother but also the Jaeger.
They basically "feel" what the Jaeger feels. This helps them keep balance etc. It would be impossible to keep the Jaegers balanced without any sensory connection.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

I loved this movie so dang much.
Sooo much.

 

[Error]

Best part of the movie for me:

Amazing.

I like how the Sword command was just a Sword Icon with the word sword below it. SO awesome.

 

[Qvoth]

Pacific Rim official website has a jaeger builder.

wat
WAT
WAAAAAAAAAAAAT
to google!

 

[foodtaster]

did they explain why they actually have to be in the robot? after the movie I was just thinking "couldn't they just do it remotely?"

 

[Gorillaz]

Best part of the movie for me:

Amazing.

Our entire theater (which was basically packed friday) lost there shit when the wings were shown.

 

[Zebra]

did they explain why they actually have to be in the robot? after the movie I was just thinking "couldn't they just do it remotely?"

The explanation I would say is that it would be a very boring film if they piloted remotely. :lol That's the only explanation needed, really.

 

[foodtaster]

The explanation I would say is that it would be a very boring film if they piloted remotely. :lol That's the only explanation needed, really.

haha, of course, but i mean it's such an OBVIOUS solution i would've like a sentence or two explaining why they didn't do that.

 

[sol_bad]

Read my explanation above.

 

[Infinite]

What if we get animatrix like side stories for this? I would be happy with that tbh if we can't have a sequel

 

[childplease]

I hope this gets a sequel I really do.

 

[Toxi]

Awesome art.

 

[maliedoo]

I walked into this movie with low expectations....shit was i wrong...

 

[inky]

What if we get animatrix like side stories for this? I would be happy with that tbh if we can't have a sequel

I'd settle for an animated series in a heartbeat. For that I'd really like to see the Mk. I & II Jaegers and the rise of the program.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Ok, this was pretty good. Not godly, but I did like it a lot.. I do want to see it again so I can get a better feel for the action and looks of the Kaiju.

Speaking of which, are there any good high res pics of the Kaiju and Jaegers?

 

[Toxi]

I just realized something.

Otachi's pregnant and Leatherback is the father.

I'd settle for an animated series in a heartbeat. For that I'd really like to see the Mk. I & II Jaegers and the rise of the program.

This would be great; an episodic format could also give us a bigger variety of robots and monsters.

 

[scytherage]

did they explain why they actually have to be in the robot? after the movie I was just thinking "couldn't they just do it remotely?"

One plausible explanation could be latency.

 

[NoRéN]

Regarding Cherno and Crimson's short lifespans:

When those two went down like that, leaving the whole spotlight to Striker and Gipsy, it made me think that they could have filmed a second version of the movie and just flipped the script, where the two 'red' jaegers go on to save the world. Reuse 25-30% of the current scenes, Toho style. Asia would eat that up; that would have gotten them their billion $ box office

/silly

I need this movie!

 

[layzie1989]

Man, the Slashfilm podcast review this week was particularly unbearable. I won't go into detail but it shows how someone can really misunderstand a movie by coming at it from the wrong viewpoint, misremembering major parts of it and judging it based on this, and critiquing parts of it through lenses that are completely nonsensical.

 

[Antiochus]

nevermind, wrong time

 

[NoRéN]

Damn, this jaeger designer is fun!

 

[Regulus Tera]

I keep reading all these posts and I'm at a loss whenever I read a character's name aside from Mako. I think that says everything about the script. lol