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Pacific Rim Spoiler Thread: Today, We Are Cancelling the Use of Spoiler Tags!
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Out of Stock. The time to buy Gipsy was before the movie released. Knifehead is creeping up in price too. Crimson seems to be the only one available.
Deified Data
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Glad I picked up all three while I still had the chance. You can still pick them all up for a fair price on Amazon, I think.
Slackbladder
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I wonder how many times Idris Elba is going to have his character sacrifice his life. Twice so far. I bet it happens in another film too, before long!
Alebrije
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depths20XX
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this movie is just so fucking good.
the sword reveal was one of the best parts in the entire film, i agree.
also:
https://www.riptapparel.com/
ya got 8 hours.
This is kind of dumb because Jägermeister already means the same thing.
super-heated plasma
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luckily i ordered gipsy for $20 on amazon before the movie. he's now over fifty bucks on there!
forgeforsaken
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to me of this :
Definitely felt the Mazinger and other Go Nagi era robots influence, but I think they most reminded me of Big O.
they should get more in stock eventually, plus if you live by one you can go look in person.
yeah its up on Amazon.com for like 30 bucks.
WordAssassin
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W_Dreamer has you covered on the first point but as for the second, I didn't mean necessarily that there was a pilot and copilot, it just seemed like Gipsy was "his" Jaeger and they were looking for someone compatible to pilot it, with him. Like all those candidates they tried to match with him, why not just shove them in the Jaeger together? Instead, they brought Raleigh in (likely due to familiarity with the mech) and paired people to him.
I don't know if this makes sense and I'm having trouble wording it properly.
Fun movie.
Having Otachi waste time hunting the scientist seemed a little strange though. even with the kaiju being a hive mind, how would they know about the drift to a damaged frontal lobe on the other side of a portal that had no live kaiju and why would they care enough to abandon the last Jaegar they know about in order to hunt down this scientist. how did they even hunt him down.
they dropped it as soon as they could, so i imagine they didnt want people dwelling on it and just wanted to set up Hannibal as being a big enough jerk to deserve the only real onscreen death by Kaiju.
Having Otachi waste time hunting the scientist seemed a little strange though. even with the kaiju being a hive mind, how would they know about the drift to a damaged frontal lobe on the other side of a portal that had no live kaiju and why would they care enough to abandon the last Jaegar they know about in order to hunt down this scientist. how did they even hunt him down.
they dropped it as soon as they could, so i imagine they didnt want people dwelling on it and just wanted to set up Hannibal as being a big enough jerk to deserve the only real onscreen death by Kaiju.
Someone didn't stay during the end credits ;-)
Sadly, Hellboy 3 seems even more unlikely than a sequel to this. The studio doesn't really want to make it, and Guillermo needs/wants 150 million.
Deified Data
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Damn, I got it for 20. Just in time, apparently.
forgeforsaken
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Perlman cuts his way out of the baby kaiju;s stomach and says "Where is my god damn my shoe!"
WordAssassin
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PG-13
Spike Spiegel
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Just got notification from Amazon, my copy of the art book shipped out today. 
Nappuccino
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I wouldn't have wanted this movie to be R anyway.
ScraftyDevil
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Man, the song that plays during the beginning of the battle for Hong Kong (Double Event) is epic. It's pretty cool how both Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha have their own distinct parts of the song which kick in while they're fighting, but it's also a harsh reminder of the fact that Crimson had less than two minutes of action before handing off Otachi to Cherno and then going down like a jobber -_-;
At least Cherno got some sweet hits in, and the fact that both are apparently being rebuilt is awesome.
At least Cherno got some sweet hits in, and the fact that both are apparently being rebuilt is awesome.
cubicle47b
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What?
From what I remember, rebuilding Crimson wouldn't be such a major deal, as only the head got ripped off. But Cherno got acid face, the reactor ripped apart, and the pilot cabin pretty beaten up.
For a Mk1 Jaeger I would have thought they would have other bits of Jaeger left from other battles in better condition to repair.
Stacker tells the Shatterdome staff to have Crimson and Cherno restored to 100% capabilities. It's the part where he also tells them to reset the clock.
However, they probably stopped at least a while after the rift was sealed.
I don't think that is what they said. I agree that track is pretty cool, and a gaffer sang in it.
Just got notification from Amazon, my copy of the art book shipped out today.
Mine hasn't shipped yet D:
I could still add a figure to the order!
Vulcano's assistant
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The robots reminded me of this.
I usually like sequels directed by someone new to the universe, but with similar interests. I would kill for Pacific Rim 2 by Brad Bird.
cubicle47b
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No, he told them to get Striker and Gipsy up to 100% immediately so they'd be ready for the final mission.
Clobersaurus15
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Is that when he's talking to Choi? He says he wants "those 2 Jagers restored to 100% as soon as possible", I just assumed he was talking about Gipsy and Striker, Typhoon might be salvageable but there didn't look to be much left of Cherno.
Hope I assumed wrong, I really want to see Cherno in particular lay some serious smack down.
I was under that impression too as if they needed to be repaired ASAP for the mission rather than embarking on some salvage mission.
Vulcano's assistant
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Crimson Typhoon jobbed so fast that the body was probably intact
Raptor2155
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Good movie, but I had a few too many problems with the script to say I really enjoyed. The quality of the writing wasn't good enough to justify the length for the noncombat scenes. I thought the subplot with Charlie Day good have been better executed. The fight scenes were really good though, except for the last one. I thought that was pretty underwhelming. It really did leave me wanting a sequel or at least an expansion of the universe. I think it's scope is beyond a two hour movie as a lot of the Jaegers did not get enough screen time.
Freezasaurus
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Just got notification from Amazon, my copy of the art book shipped out today.
The artbook is amazing. The only minor disappointment is that the propaganda posters are folded up, and thus not suitable for framing.
ScraftyDevil
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Oh yeah? Who was it, and did they do the kiais in Crimson's section or the chanting in Cherno's?
....he was a Cylon the whole time...
BronsonLee
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So I'm back from the 2nd viewing, and you know what random thing I want in the sequel if it ever happens?
The doctors in a Jaeger.
They can drift, right? STICKEMIN
They can be so incompetent they win. Makeithappencapn
The doctors in a Jaeger.
They can drift, right? STICKEMIN
They can be so incompetent they win. Makeithappencapn
ScraftyDevil
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They could pilot "Kaiju Numeric."
Dang it, now I'm going to be disappointed if this doesn't happen.
SirMossyBloke
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I'm sure this has been asked a million times but this thread is big, so I apologise.
If all these guys were being cloned, why is one of them pregnant?
If all these guys were being cloned, why is one of them pregnant?
While I didn't expect epic storytelling, the tagline, "To fight monsters, we created monsters." I didn't expect to be completely literal. I thought that there would be some serious psychological happenings with the characters. The concept of two humans mind-melding in order to operate the Jaegers certainly seemed like it had the potential to go in that direction.
Spike Spiegel
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The tragic love story of an Otachi and a Scunner who fell in love and broke all the rules was, unfortunately, cut from the film's final draft.
SirMossyBloke
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That's it, i'm buying the Blu-ray for the deleted scenes.
after seeing this movie 3 times, i gather that it was used as a type of weapon. like a secret weapon that no one thought would've happened since we discovered they were clones because the cat 4's had actual combat abilities unlike before.
I don't remember who it was, but he posted in the other thread. He mentioned chating in Russian.
I don't think there is any reason other than GDT wanting that scene there. He's mentioned he was born that way (with the umbilical cord around his neck) and that the scene depicting that was on his list of requirements to sign the deal.
Vulcano's assistant
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Don't get your hopes up for a fully rendered version of the infamous 10 min sex scene.
I think it might be possible that there is more of them in the trailer than in the actual film
ScraftyDevil
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I think it might be possible that there is more of them in the trailer than in the actual film
That can't be so! Crimson's whole neck-slicing and Kaiju flip schtick isn't in the trailer, and neither are Cherno's elbow drop or headlock.
Plus Cherno's brutal overkill death took like two minutes alone.
lol, I was joking
But it did feel like it was far far too little and it did just end up being the American Jaeger saving the day despite never actually having an American pilot (Canadian, British and Japanese). It's an American and a Brit piloting Striker Eureka, but two Brits that are piloting for the ending. What I didn't realise though was that the 5 pilots controlling both Cherno and Crimson are ALL Canadian.
So what we learn most of all from this film is that if you need someone to drive a hulking great machine into the side of a giant monster, ask Canada for drivers first.
Most important of all, the giant bastard (Robert Maillet) piloting Cherno was trained in Wrestling by Bret Hart AND knocked out Robert Downey Jr on set of Sherlock Holmes.
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