Pacific Rim - Part 6

[Lord]

I meant "not exactly slow", just corrected the post. And the point of my post was how Transformers are big too but their fights aren't slow (and no, they're not allways too fast to follow, the best fights in the 1st and 3rd film are generally easy to follow)

 

[Nathan]

Still not quite comparable though. There weren't many 260ft Transformers in the Movie. And the biggest one, Devastator, wasn't exactly jumping around like Sideswipe or the Arcee sister.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

I meant "not exactly slow", just corrected the post. And the point of my post was how Transformers are big too but their fights aren't slow (and no, they're not allways too fast to follow, the best fights in the 1st and 3rd film are generally easy to follow)

You're right, they aren't slow. They move with a speed and weightlessness that makes no sense what so ever.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Transformers were big but not exactly slow. Some people just don't like this tipe of action, deal with it.

I know, try as I might I can still follow the action in Pacific Rim.

 

[dark_b]

transformers moved a lot slower in the first movie in 2007. but thats hollywood . the sequel needs to be faster and bigger.

remember Spiderman 2002? compare the web swinging and fighting in 2002 and than in 2004 and 2007. the difference is crazy.

 

[Lord]

Ok then, nobody should dislike the almighty action in Pacific Rim, it's obviously the most entertaining slow punches i have seen in my life, a sight to behold and whoever disagree is wrong. Sure. And Transformers has bad action. yep.

 

[MrMaooz]

Transformers has some kickass action.

 

[addison81]

Recently received the Art of Pacific Rim book as a gift. That book is so good. A lot of the imagery has found its way on line but there is still a ton that has not. Also it comes with 2 full size anti Kaiju propaganda posters. Highly recommended!

I just ordered this on amazon. Glad to hear it's worth it.

 

[Schlosser85]

I find the action in Transformers completely incoherent. And every fight in Pacific Rim being in heavy rain at night makes them all look the same.

 

[TheVileOne]

There's nothing coherent about Transformers 2, especially what the **** the Twins were doing.

 

[DrDoom]

There's nothing coherent about Transformers 2, especially what the **** the Twins were doing.

You mean BESIDES being Lucas-level racial stereotypes?

 

[X Knight]

so I finally watched Pacific Rim last night. It was good, it was ok, and I enjoyed it. It certainly wasn't terrible.

I just feel it really caters towards a narrow audience. that being anime fans and giant monster/robot geeks. If you don't like any of those, I'm not sure how well you'd enjoy it. and perhaps that's why the critics were so harsh on it.

it really did feel like a live action anime with over the top action and over the top characters.

ironically, I feel the weakest points were the monsters themselves. they just looked too goofy, fake, and "rubbery" to feel threatening or scary at all.

I enjoyed the jaegers and the pilots much more, and I wish the film could have spent more time exploring the dynamics among the pilots and their connection with their mechs.

The overall premise of the movie was interesting, but the execution was lacking a bit.

 

[chamber-music]

I could barely make out the different transformers in the fight scenes. The robots just blended into each other in some fight scenes.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

I just feel it really caters towards a narrow audience. that being anime fans and giant monster/robot geeks. If you don't like any of those, I'm not sure how well you'd enjoy it. and perhaps that's why the critics were so harsh on it.

Uh, most of my friends have never picked up a manga or watched an anime or seen a Godzilla movie outside the 98 film and they all liked or loved it, so this is a very narrow opinion in and of itself. Hell, I've never read a manga and I'm not an anime fan at all. I am a Kaiju fan but all of the anime references people say this has is lost on me. And the critics weren't harsh on it. It was surprisingly well liked by the majority of critics. 72% is hardly a critical failure and much higher than a film of this type usually achieves.

 

[X Knight]

Uh, most of my friends have never picked up a manga or watched an anime or seen a Godzilla movie outside the 98 film and they all liked or loved it, so this is a very narrow opinion in and of itself. Hell, I've never read a manga and I'm not an anime fan at all. I am a Kaiju fan but all of the anime references people say this has is lost on me. And the critics weren't harsh on it. It was surprisingly well liked by the majority of critics. 72% is hardly a critical failure and much higher than a film of this type usually achieves.

well, I'm glad you and your friends liked it.

I was just stating my opinion based on how I felt after my initial viewing of it.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

Just wanna point out what somebody a page or so ago said about the last battle. It is MUCH better on BLU. It's clear and you can actually see the Kaiju and the fighting, making the finale a much better action scene.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I thought it looked much better on my 2nd viewing in the cinema anyway, my 1st viewing was 3D, 2nd was 2D and I could see everything much more clearly. If its even clearer on BD then even better.

It still doesnt touch the HK sequence though.

 

[redhawk23]

so I finally watched Pacific Rim last night. It was good, it was ok, and I enjoyed it. It certainly wasn't terrible.

I just feel it really caters towards a narrow audience. that being anime fans and giant monster/robot geeks. If you don't like any of those, I'm not sure how well you'd enjoy it. and perhaps that's why the critics were so harsh on it.

it really did feel like a live action anime with over the top action and over the top characters.

ironically, I feel the weakest points were the monsters themselves. they just looked too goofy, fake, and "rubbery" to feel threatening or scary at all.

I enjoyed the jaegers and the pilots much more, and I wish the film could have spent more time exploring the dynamics among the pilots and their connection with their mechs.

The overall premise of the movie was interesting, but the execution was lacking a bit.

It actually did pretty well with the critics, to be quite honest. I'm not sure where this perception comes from. It did far better critically if not financially than many of the other big releases this summer such as Man of Steel, World War Z, the Lone Ranger or Elysum. While it is was a pretty bad summer for critical reception overall I actually can't think of any action-blockbuster movies that did better critically than Pacific Rim other than Star Trek and Iron Man.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

^I thought it looked much better on my 2nd viewing in the cinema anyway, my 1st viewing was 3D, 2nd was 2D and I could see everything much more clearly. If its even clearer on BD then even better.

It still doesnt touch the HK sequence though.

No, but it holds it's own now, which is a blessing.

 

[X Knight]

I thought the monster designs were the weakest aspect of the film. they looked too fake and cartoonish. not threatening or scary at all.

the jaegers and pilots were far more interesting, as were the alternate dimension/world and the master alien race.

hopefully a sequel will explore the master aliens more.

 

[Liam_H]

It never seemed like they were meant to be scary, maybe except for sequence with Knifehead. Oh and the Tokyo sequence too.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Uh, most of my friends have never picked up a manga or watched an anime or seen a Godzilla movie outside the 98 film and they all liked or loved it, so this is a very narrow opinion in and of itself. Hell, I've never read a manga and I'm not an anime fan at all. I am a Kaiju fan but all of the anime references people say this has is lost on me. And the critics weren't harsh on it. It was surprisingly well liked by the majority of critics. 72% is hardly a critical failure and much higher than a film of this type usually achieves.

I don't particularly agree with that in whole, but no, I do sort of get what he means. The giant monsters and robots obviously, but there's just a lot of stuff in the movie that strikes me as anime-y. Particularly the idea of building a wall around the entire Pacific region, and the Drift idea.

I'm not saying that as a bad thing, either. I know most people seem to hate anime inherently around here, but I'm open to it.

 

[redhawk23]

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.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

No, but it holds it's own now, which is a blessing.

Oh definitely, 1st time I watched the movie finale paled in comparison to HK sequence, now I would say its only slightly worse than the HK sequence, which was hard to top to be fair.

 

[redhawk23]

The art of Pacific Rim book gives little bios for the main cast of characters including their fictional birthdays. I never really thought about, but the movie takes place a decades in the future. Most of the Jaeger pilots, Raleigh, the male Russian, the Chinese brothers and the younger Australian were all born in 1998.

Newt and Sasha (the female Russian) were born in 1991.

Gottleib was born in 1989 and the older Jaeger Pilots, Herc and Stacker were born in the early 1980s.

Mako was born in 2003.

I find this immensely entertaining for whatever reason.