BronsonLee
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I could watch that and the sword scene on loop for years. ELBOW ROCKET
Pacific Rim Spoiler Thread: Today, We Are Cancelling the Use of Spoiler Tags!
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I could watch that and the sword scene on loop for years. ELBOW ROCKET
ScraftyDevil
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I would personally want a sequel. I'd really like to see where they can take the Jaeger program now that there are none left and the only ones they can make are Mark 5+.
That, and I'm really curious to see what Gispy Danger v2 and Mecha Kaiju would look like.
if we do get a mecha kaiju-you think that it would look a tad ridiculous? i wonder how GDT and crew will present it.
MickeyKnox
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And he yelled out the name of his attack!
This is the first film in a very, very long time that requires complete and total suspension of disbelief on my part and actually manages to get it. Probably because it's a film with SUCH a ridiculous premise made by people who obviously wanted to and enjoyed making it.
I'm definitely seeing it again.
ScraftyDevil
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I'm just imagining a navy blue Leatherback wearing Gipsy's head like a helmet and Knifehead with Gipsy's sword for a head, and it is awesome.
FO-totality
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You joke, but I would expect it to be revealed in the same way i.e. you think it is a regular kaiju at first, and as it gets damaged in battle you realize he is really a robot on the inside. I would lose my shit if something like that happened.
i heard even in japan, they actually use a japanese VA to dub her
not sure if they're talking about dubbing all her lines or just the part where she 1st met raleigh and her goodye to stacker
It would probably be a end of movie thing that they use to get to the other side because it can trick the other kajiu because if they use the jaegers they risk losing their only defense if the plan doesn't work. I wonder if they start using jaegers in teams to capture kajiu and the whole movie is about finding a kajiu they can rift with because a jeager won't back it through a second time.
Wow, that's almost certainly how it would happen too.
Have Raleigh and Mako are fighting off what seems to be another regular Cat-4 Kaiju, when Gypsy Danger knocks it down into the water.
Boom.
Deified Data
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Needs to be more bio-organic, not a straight robot that only appears to be a Kaiju. I'm thinking cyborgs with enhancements in the arms, legs, heads, vitals, etc. Maybe a limb totally replaced with robotics here and there but it still needs to be an animal - it still needs to be mostly teeth, scales, bone, chitin.
Honestly I'm not sure if the idea has legs - I think the Kaiju evolve to be perfect for whatever role they're bred for. Replacing one of Leatherback's meaty arms with a robotic limb would probably just hinder his combat performance. I prefer the notion of humans perhaps finding a way to drift with the Kaiju and control them that way.
XANDER CAGE
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Saw it again. Still love it, flaws and all.
What I really want now is a live action robot-on-robot movie, like a big screen 0800: War in the Pocket or something.
What I really want now is a live action robot-on-robot movie, like a big screen 0800: War in the Pocket or something.
Sequel. I want to see how the world progresses and learns from the Kaiju war. Technology, tactics, etc. should all be evolving. At the same time, the aliens will be sending in stuff like mecha-Kaiju when we least expect it and are starting to get over our teamwork and alliances.
Plus, it allows the movie to breathe because the future isn't already known. I always hated that about prequels.
I guess u r from the US?
Yeah I am.
Well, let's look at the winners for the past five years.
- 2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- 2009: Avatar
- 2010: Inception
- 2011: Hugo
- 2012: Life of Pi
Nope, I don't think so. Every one of those films that won was nominated for best picture. Some of them really do have quality visuals, but it's clear that the award isn't just given out for those quality visuals. The Oscar for visual effects has seen tons of bizarre upsets and strikes me as a circle-jerk.
(Fucking Benjamin Button? Wow.)
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Isn't the visual effect award given to a specific effect or shot from a movie and not the movie as a whole?
Antiwhippy
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Never watched independence day?
Nappuccino
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Benjamin Button was probably more the CG for sets. It was pretty damn seamless.
oh yeah, now that you mention it. At least this movie is doing poorly domestically.
Independence Day is definitely a bigger Murica Fuck Yeah film than PR.
chicko1983
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just got home from watching this at the cinema in 3D.
Was good fun film and didnt ever feel like it was dragging on and the story, although childish, was not bad.
The only gripe I have, as an Australia, I was cringing during all the Aussie accents. Sounded like a POM doing and English accent.
So I just checked out IMDB, and it was Englishmen and American's doing Aussie accents!
Surely the can get some cheap Aussie actors!
Was good fun film and didnt ever feel like it was dragging on and the story, although childish, was not bad.
The only gripe I have, as an Australia, I was cringing during all the Aussie accents. Sounded like a POM doing and English accent.
So I just checked out IMDB, and it was Englishmen and American's doing Aussie accents!
Surely the can get some cheap Aussie actors!
Well, I'm glad someone was wise enough to skip Man of Steel.
"It's a twister Auntie Em!"
I was thinking it was for CGI used on his face. It's fantastic technology, but it's damn unnoticeable except when you realize how creepy Benjamin's face is.
Benjamin Button was kinda a clusterfuck that year. It got nominated for 13 awards and won 3 of them, all visual awards.
Hugo winning over Prometheus is another one that strikes me as more motivated by external factors like the overall quality of the movie. I mean, Hugo's miles ahead of Prometheus as a movie, but Prometheus blended practical effects and CGI very naturally in comparison to Hugo's conspicuous smoke clouds.
I guess the old man make-up was what got them to say no. That was pretty terrible.
NinjaTehFish
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I dunno but i would hazard a guess as the most awesome fucking thing ever.
I guess you've never seen the 3 Transformer movies? Or any Micheal Bay summer blockbuster. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the death scene though.
DeaconKnowledge
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In the sense that the all american robot is destroyed in the first few minutes, its scrap is taken by a British guy who rebuilds it in japan while the american's toil away on a dead end project that will delay their death by kaiju for about an hour?
atleast the russians brought the bomb that killed a cat 4 and severely wounded a cat 5.
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9/10. Needed more Cherno.
Also, if there is a sequel it needs more action from multiple jaegers.
Also, if there is a sequel it needs more action from multiple jaegers.
I don't feel this way. It's pretty much the equivalent of "Japan is our hero" in animes.
Liberty4all
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what's the word on how PR is doing anyways?
not great http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pacificrim.htm
it's being beaten by Grown Ups 2 and definitely under performing.
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Well the foreign numbers are doing great. It has done 100 milllion total in 6 days.
Shit... It needs to make at least 200 mil to break profit right?
Its sitting at like 102 mil... It needs to do better, DVD/Bluray can't make up a gap like that.. damn it. This movie doesn't deserve this.
I can't help but wonder how much better it would do if it was released earlier in the summer... But I know they didn't wanna go toe to tow with Man Of Steel... In hindsight, this being the better movie, I think they could have competed instead of losing lunch to Grown Ups 2 (really people? fuck) and Despicible Me 2
It's basically been custom tailored to sell to a global movie audience though so that's no surprise.
Tron Legacy couldn't win it with it amazing art and unique look in 2010, but instead Inception won that year. Make your guess.
It never occurred to me that they were portrayed as Australians, I thought they were British. The son's accent was very similar to the cockney accent and guess the actor's from West Sussex, UK. The guy who played his father is American.
You're a troll.
There was never one flag representing a country at all that I could see in the movie.
It mostly took place in Hong Kong. The only time you ever saw or heard of America was when San Francisco got destroyed and I think Gipsy Daisy was stationed in Alaska in the beginning.
One could never make the connection that Raleigh was American at all. He was just a caucasian Jaeger pilot. Plus his co-pilot was Japanese.
The movie bled multiculturalism.
Death scenes made you feel sorry for the pilots. Watching the Russians drown and then crushed to exploding was heart breaking.
Raleigh's brother being pulled out of the head of Gipsy Daisy was brilliantly done.
Hope you have a grin on your face for trolling and making dumbasses like me take the time to write up responses like this.
chickdigger802
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It really could have more though if a few more nationalities were present, and let them have a few minutes to shine.
Would definitely would watch an anime prequel or comic book or what not of Cherno. I bet that mech has a few stories behind it.
with comic con going on... can't wait for next year. i'm betting jaeger cosplay is gonna be big.
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You must not have seen many movies, like, at all.
You can raise many criticism towards Pacific Rim, but this is not one of them. How did you even get to that conclusion is mind-boggling.
chickdigger802
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can't see any part of gipsy danger screaming 'America'... would be kinda awesome though. Uncle Sam beard.
Liberty4all
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Damn.
Does it look like there is any shot of making back it's budget?
edit: Also, off topic, but do Canada movie theatres count as domestic or foreign gross total ?
chickdigger802
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the lack of much merchandising push for this movie is baffling.
Could easily have its own toy line and flood nick or CN or disney channel.
This is really the ultimate boys movie.
Could easily have its own toy line and flood nick or CN or disney channel.
This is really the ultimate boys movie.
"The following is film industry specific terminology as defined by Box Office Mojo.[4] For movies released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning U.S. and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. "
So Domestic is CAN + USA.
So Domestic is CAN + USA.
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