Pacific Rim - Part 6

[dark_b]

http://www.**************.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=88910#PbIBFs4mEEuuofHS.99 A number of fantastic photos of sculpts of Kaiju.


Also, this sculpt of GDT as a Jaeger pilot is awesomesauce.

i would love a big figure from GDT as a jaeger pilot. i would pay a lot money for this.

 

[redhawk23]

IT reminds me of the George Lucas storm trooper toy.

 

[THANOSRULES]

Saw this movie tonight via rental...blown away by how awesome it was...what a solid flick.

Here are my strong points

1. great fight scenes
2. great effects
3. well acted
4. Nice Sci Fi vibe...even a touch of thinking mans sci fi

I can say this movie probably did poorly because the somewhat juvenile trailers, where the movie looked a lot cheesier than it actually was.

Plus and the visual similarity to dreadful transformers flicks.

hope the make a sequel!

 

[Marvin]

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pretty much.

 

[Hulk1968]

Don't know if this has been added yet, but I though it was pretty damn clever t:

Pacific Rim Trailer Toho / Godzilla style

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[DIRECTOR]

I watched this movie in theatres....... and now i'm watching it in Bluray at my house........ and wow both acting and writing sucks.

Please are wondering why the movie may not get a sequal? A movie can't ride on just action, it need everything

 

[redhawk23]

Writing is more than just dialogue. I didn't the the overall writing, in terms of the plot beats and characters was bad. A lot of the attempts at technical jargon certainly was though.

Outside of the two scientists I didn't think any of the acting was bad. The film won't be nominated for any acting awards, but everyone was serviceable at worst. I thought Idris Elba and Rinko Kikuchi did good work in their roles

Let's put it this way, pretty much everyone in the film did a better job than Anthony Hopkins in Thor 2. Now that's bad acting.

 

[venom892]

I watched this movie in theatres....... and now i'm watching it in Bluray at my house........ and wow both acting and writing sucks.

Please are wondering why the movie may not get a sequal? A movie can't ride on just action, it need everything

If you didn't enjoy it the first time, why are you watching it again?

 

[DIRECTOR]

If you didn't enjoy it the first time, why are you watching it again?

I forgot, i did enjoy the film (it was ok) in theatres and overlooking everything else, just wanted to see Robots vs. Monsters.

Now, i saw it on blu-ray right after watching Star Trek ..Darkness on bluray, maybe that was the issue.................

 

[Tanin]

I watched this movie in theatres....... and now i'm watching it in Bluray at my house........ and wow both acting and writing sucks.

Please are wondering why the movie may not get a sequal? A movie can't ride on just action, it need everything

And yet Man of Steel gets a sequel.

 

[Dr Lee]

Missed this at the cinema, but bought it earlier today... It has a few misteps, but I really enjoyed the movie.

Perlman was brilliant, as was Idris Elba. Hunnam was great (though there was a little too much Jax Teller swagger at the start). The CGI was great and I really liked the designs of all the Jaegers. Having Ellen McLain voice the computer was a very cool touch.

It was full of the cliche that you'd find in most Hollywood blockbusters and I thought that Burn Gorman was highly irritating, but they didn't take away from enjoying the movie.

8.5/10 (would be a 9 had Burn not been so irritating)

 

[DIRECTOR]

And yet Man of Steel gets a sequel.

you must be joking in comparing Pacific Rim to MOS. Of course MOS get's a sequal, and the public wants it if you look at the box office

 

[redhawk23]

Which has very little to do with the quality of writing in that particular movie.

 

[Teelie]

Naturally someone posting with a MOS avatar will defend it over anything else...

 

[Morg]

you must be joking in comparing Pacific Rim to MOS. Of course MOS get's a sequal, and the public wants it if you look at the box office

I am a big Superman fan but I rather have another Pacific Rim movie then Superman

 

[Micromind]

MOS was better than Pacific Rim, even though critics would have you believe otherwise.

 

[Lord]

No it wasn't, and i'm someone who enjoyed Man of Steel more than Pacific Rim due to the action.

 

[Dr Lee]

I liked MoS, I also liked Pacific Rim.... But which is better? There's only ne way to find out......


FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Just saw Pacific Rim tonight. I'm going to repeat some of what I wrote in another post and then add some new thoughts as well.


I really liked it, except Charlie Day is the movie's JarJar Binks. Another film that compromised itself by feeling obligated for whatever reason to shoehorn in 40 or so minutes of "comic relief." I realise at its heart it is a mechzilla movie and so it can't be too serious, but his cartoonish antics (and to a lesser extent Ron Perlman's) repeatedly took me out of it. All that crap should have been cut.

If you want comic relief in a dramatic movie, make it flow out of organic moments with characters who could be real. Don't force it by relying on the overracting of some cornball sitcom star. And definitely don't keep following his boring-ass "relatable everyman" story in the middle of a film about giant robots fighting monsters. I don't know why so many action films do this (Michael Bay's films are particularly notorious for shoehorned comic relief), but it just brings the movies down.

So I didn't care for that whole dumb part of it.

But I loved Maiko, Idris "Stringer Bell" Elba, the Aussies, the Mech-Kaiju fights and the complete eye-popping effects (and this was on my laptop without 3D). I don't know why people are bringing up MoS (god you guys will fight about anything), but the movie it reminded me of most was Cloverfield. I like to think that was an early Kaiju (even though it wasn't on the Pacific seaboard... can't we pretend?).


Still enjoyed the film, but Day's whole dumb subplot probably brings it down from an 8 to a 7 for me.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

They both have the best action of the year and they are both in my top 5.

 

[redhawk23]

Just saw Pacific Rim tonight. I'm going to repeat some of what I wrote in another post and then add some new thoughts as well.


I really liked it, except Charlie Day is the movie's JarJar Binks. Another film that compromised itself by feeling obligated for whatever reason to shoehorn in 40 or so minutes of "comic relief." I realise at its heart it is a mechzilla movie and so it can't be too serious, but his cartoonish antics (and to a lesser extent Ron Perlman's) repeatedly took me out of it. All that crap should have been cut.

If you want comic relief in a dramatic movie, make it flow out of organic moments with characters who could be real. Don't force it by relying on the overracting of some cornball sitcom star. And definitely don't keep following his boring-ass "relatable everyman" story in the middle of a film about giant robots fighting monsters. I don't know why so many action films do this (Michael Bay's films are particularly notorious for shoehorned comic relief), but it just brings the movies down.

So I didn't care for that whole dumb part of it.

But I loved Maiko, Idris "Stringer Bell" Elba, the Aussies, the Mech-Kaiju fights and the complete eye-popping effects (and this was on my laptop without 3D). I don't know why people are bringing up MoS (god you guys will fight about anything), but the movie it reminded me of most was Cloverfield. I like to think that was an early Kaiju (even though it wasn't on the Pacific seaboard... can't we pretend?).


Still enjoyed the film, but Day's whole dumb subplot probably brings it down from an 8 to a 7 for me.

I don't think the Newt character or related humor needed to be cut out, but Day in particular just wasn't good in the role. In the making of book del Toro speaks about how he approached working with Day in a completely different manner than the other actors, or any other actor that he's worked with before as he didn't want to "kill his energy." He basically just let Day do his own thing and it doesn't quite work.

One part I find particularly bad is when Otachi busts through the ground above Day in the shelter and there's a really weird moment where Day is kind of doing a Matrix style back bend while Otachi looks down at him. It is one of the worst cases of acting against CGI that I've seen in a long time.

 

[THANOSRULES]

In terms of MOS vs Pacific RIm

I'll say the writing on the psuedo science was worse off in MOS, it really didnt make any plausible sense at all...and really a lot of it (MOS) was even unneccesary to get into.

Pac Rim had some gaps in its own science, but it tried to do just enough to give it a plausible edge, but didnt get to carried away with itself.

That being said loved both films.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

Day was the standout character in the film.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I liked Day in this movie. He added some nice levity in movies and I would not go as far as to say he's Jar Jar Binks. Day had shown that he was more than comic relief and that was an essential character in the movie. Maybe it's because I watch It's Always Sunny, but I did felt he dialed his usual "crazy and incompetent" shtick down. all his antics, I never found his character to be incompentent or annoyed.I liked Day more than I did Hunnam in the movie.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Hunnam definitely didn't make the film shine. He's a handsome meathead who thinks "dramatic" means growling your lines like a toned-down Batman. That role definitely could have gone to a better actor. But he doesn't take me out of the film like Day. If you like 'Sunny' I understand, but I think the first problem here was casting a sitcom actor in a dramatic movie. It reminded me a bit of the whole Ken Jeong Transformers 3 cameo, admittedly nowhere near as bad as that though (and of course PR is a much better film).

I guess I'm just a big ole hater in general when it comes to over the top comic-relief roles in otherwise serious movies.