Del Toro's Pacific Rim is the Godzilla movie GINO wasn't

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ThisWreckage said:
Reminds of Speed Racher aesthetically for some reason. But Speed Racer's aesthetic was supposed to conjure up cheese whereas this is not supposed to.
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The designs are anime inspired like Speed Racer. The problem is there are fine details in real life, and anime generally lacks detail.
 
What are they fighting to need such gigantic robot? The enemies must be Angel of Evangelion sized for them to be that desperate. But I love it!
 
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Kikuchi even has the same hair!
 
I had a dream about this last night. I was in the middle of the city center, and a giant humanoid monster was wreaking havoc. The asshole's head was tickling clouds, and there was an explosion at the docks. Cargo boats were flying with debris hailing down. The destruction was so high up, it took almost 2 minutes for it to crash down near where I was.

Everybody was running screaming, but I just stood there with my loved ones, saying, "oh well." I didn't think I would have given up so easily. Damn dream.
 
It's a little OT, but which of Del Toro's films are worth watching? I've only seen Pan's Labyrinth and I thought that it was a really great movie, but nothing else on his filmography strikes me immediately as very interesting... Can't say I'm interested in, say, Hellboy at all.
 
PersonaX said:
I hope the monsters aren't as generic looking as that giant space marine looking mech..
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First off, we haven't seen the full mech, so it's a little premature to say they're generic. We've seen the scale and half of the head, that's it. Will they be fully humanoid? Tank tread legs? AT-ST chicken legs? How many arms will they have? Will they even have arms, or just lots and lots of guns, or blades, or whatever weapon that particular mech has? (We know each mech uses a different weapon and fighting style). Do all the mechs even look the same? Or do they differ from land to sea to air?

As for the monsters, it's friggin' Del Toro. If there is one man on earth who can design some bad-ass creatures, it's him.
 
I hope they rip off Evangelion's 'monsters' to a degree. At the very least there's some kind of weirdness to those monsters so we're not stuck with the usual type of monster designs.

Also, does anyone has a high-res, non scanned version of Raleigh Antrobus/Mako Maki (Hunnam/Kikuchi) in their plugsuit picture? I love their character names, btw, I hope they don't change it.
 
To keep up with the tradition of picking even the tiniest minutiae apart. How big are those robots supposed to be? if that poster is accurate then they are absolutely ginormous. If it's not accurate then that's false advertisement and i'm not watching the film.
am I doing it rite?
 
Days like these... said:
To keep up with the tradition of picking even the tiniest minutiae apart. How big are those robots supposed to be? if that poster is accurate then they are absolutely ginormous. If it's not accurate then that's false advertisement and i'm not watching the film.
am I doing it rite?
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They're huge. Del Toro has said time and time again that these are not small power suits or medium sized military mechs. They're GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS fighting GIANT FUCKING MONSTERS. Or whatever. So far, it looks like he's not lying.
 
It's gonna be proper amaze. This and Elysium will make Comic Con so awesome. And because they don't have a cast full of stars, they can spend most of that 200 million dollar budget on monsters and mechs.
 
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USA TODAY - If any movie at Comic-Con comes close to the scale of Jackson's Middle-earth flicks, it's del Toro's Pacific Rim, where human "riders" of the robotic Jaegers (played by Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and more) engage in spectacular battles with the huge and dangerous Kaiju (inspired by the genre name for Japanese monster films).

"It is almost like seeing a tornado clashing with a hurricane," del Toro says.

Pacific Rim doesn't come out until July 12, 2013, but del Toro is currently busy building this world, even going so far as to not only design monsters, but also personally create sound effects for all his "children."

"I am an obsessive compulsive, and I can tell you without any shadow of a doubt I am involved very deeply on everything, from the pin on the lapel of a jacket to which way the monster's eye slants," he says. "I am essentially a socially inept creature. I dedicate my entire life to this. This is what I do, this is what I live for."

Every one of his monsters, which fans will be able to see for the first time on Saturday at a Warner Bros. panel, will have individual personalities and abilities. Some are adept at swimming in the depths of the sea, others fly, and one even vomits corrosive magma-like liquid. "There's a lot to love," del Toro quips.

He laughs heartily when asked how one of his monsters would fare in a Comic-Con-ready creature-feature throwdown with Godzilla. "That sounds like a question I would ask my 10-year-old."
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You know, I always found womens armor depicted horribly in film.. Mens always has these pecs of steel, women either have armored boobs, which I think makes no sense... or a weird shape. So I decided to backtrace what real women armor looks like.. Seems that not even the Pentagon knows, and is working on a "Xena Warrior Princess" Inspired type armor that fits women better.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Milita...s-as-inspiration-for-new-body-armor-for-women

As of july 9th folks.

Xena Warrior Princess...
 
the visors reminds me of Crysis nanosuits and the mech build, assuming that's the shoulder, looks like the Atlas from MechWarrior.

kinda disappointed by the designs, shoulda hired a Japanese mecha designer imo.
 
THE-Pink-Dagger said:
Please, can you tell us if they will show the monsters at Comic Con, PLEASE!
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Del Toro/Legendary are rumored to be showing robot designs, 1st look
footage and some of the kaiju designs.

Absolutely cannot wait for this, especially growing up with Godzilla, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko
and His Flying Robot and other giant heroes/creatures. :)
 
hteng said:
the visors reminds me of Crysis nanosuits and the mech build, assuming that's the shoulder, looks like the Atlas from MechWarrior.

kinda disappointed by the designs, shoulda hired a Japanese mecha designer imo.
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Not sure if serious.....
 
commedieu said:
You know, I always found womens armor depicted horribly in film.. Mens always has these pecs of steel, women either have armored boobs, which I think makes no sense... or a weird shape. So I decided to backtrace what real women armor looks like.. Seems that not even the Pentagon knows, and is working on a "Xena Warrior Princess" Inspired type armor that fits women better.
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Joan of Arc just wore men's armor. Really there's enough room in the chest in old timey armor to fit all but the DDD chests. The fitting was more at the joints. Realistically, it would just be the same.
 
The Jaeger on the poster is probably the 'old, obsolete' model. Can't wait to see what Idris his Jaeger looks like.

Can't F-ing wait for this movie in general. Like someone said, can't believe this got actually green lit.
 
If they get the tone of this film right this could be the event movie of next year bar none.

I really can't wait to see what an 'unchained' Del Toro can do with a canvas of that size.

ultrazilla said:
Del Toro/Legendary are rumored to be showing robot designs, 1st look
footage and some of the kaiju designs.
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There is also a "don't quote me rumour" that Legendary will have some kind of announcement about a Gears Of War film as well.
 
Well the WB/Legendary panel at ComiCon goes from 2:30-5pm and the description specifically mentions the Hobbit and Pacific Rim being the films on showcase sssoooooo yeah they're gonna show stuff.
 
I had never heard of this (my bad!), but now i'm HYPED.
Please please do not fuck up the monsters Guillermo!
(btw, i'd love a tentacled-one! :P)
 
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