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Pacific Rim

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I'm surprised no one has yet created this thread.

http://www.djfood.org/djfood/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Pacific-Rim-poster-BIG.jpg

The movie is set in the near future. Giant monsters called kaiju emerge from the depths of the Pacific and launch devastating attacks against humanity. To stop this threat, governments create Jaegers, titanic mechs piloted by pairs of humans. Because why not (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool).

Reasons to get excited:

-It has giant mechs
-It has giant monsters
-It has giant mechs fighting against giant monsters
-Rocket punches, retractable arm blades and freighters used as clubs
-Ellen McLain, voice actress of GlaDOS, voices the Jaeger AI.
-Guillermo Del Toro's directing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85EtOalcsM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6vQBGqLW8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA92Rw6kNWw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guMumPFBag		2013-05-20 05:12:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

I was excited for this at first, but after seeing the official main trailer recently, I really can't wait. I know some of these monster movies don't turn out that well, but having absolutely loved both Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, I think Guillermo Del Toro could really create something great with this.2013-05-26 15:34:00

Author:
Dragonvarsity
Posts: 5208

Yep. I'm pretty hyped for this. After Iron Man 3, this is my most expected movie of the year.2013-05-26 20:21:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

Well, its a movie about giant mechas beating the hell outta giant monstars, im ok with this!2013-05-26 21:18:00

Author:
Ragnarok
Posts: 898

Well, its a movie about giant mechas beating the hell outta giant monstars, im ok with this!

Don't forget GlaDos! >.>		2013-05-26 21:46:00

Author:
Momoli1344
Posts: 54

Here's the main mechs of the movie, and their stats:

http://fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Pacific-Rim-american-jaeger-stats-fizx.jpg

http://www.pacificrim-movie.net/media/coyote_tango_trading_card.jpg

http://fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Pacific-Rim-russian-jaeger-stats-fizx.jpg?2d4bb6

http://www.pacificrim-movie.net/media/crimson_typhoon_trading_card.jpg

http://www.pacificrim-movie.net/media/striker_eureka_trading_card.jpg


Yes, it's quite a surprise Japan has the worst mecha. But it was also the first one built, so no wonder its stats aren't that great. Apparently Gypsy Danger, the american one, had been decomissioned and is called back to duty to replace a defeated mech, so it's the underdog. The russian mech seems to have a nuclear reactor for a head.

And imagine Australia's jaeger lunging at a kaiju and pulling it's jaw open, while the pilot shouts "Krikey, look at the fangs on this beauty!" in a Steve Irwin voice.		2013-05-27 22:41:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

man they really crippled japan, kind of ironic 2013-05-28 01:09:00

Author:
Ragnarok
Posts: 898

man they really crippled japan, kind of ironic

According to the viral marketing it was the first one built, in 2015. The others were build later and probably had improved designs based on data collected from previous fights. Gypsy Danger was built in 2017, Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon were built in 2018. Striker Eureka, the one with the best stats, was built only in 2019. And apparently there are two of them being built in South America.

So the japanese were basically the pioneers in building giant mechs, which is quite fitting, but they probably didn't have enough resources to make an upgrade. And besides, I don't think the stats account for the huge twin cannons mounted on its shoulders.

I still can't decide if the names sound really silly or really awesome.

(BTW, I screwed up the link for the russian mech's picture, so it didn't appear. It's fixed now)		2013-05-28 11:00:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

There was only one film I wanted to see this summer. Not interested in Superman, not World War Z, and definitely not Grownups 2. Just one film.

And I'm happy to say that it did not dissapoint. :kz:		2013-07-14 20:29:00

Author:
Dragonvarsity
Posts: 5208

I'm going to watch it on tuesday 2013-07-14 22:53:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

http://i.imgur.com/1BidGmPl.jpg2013-07-15 23:56:00

Author:
Rabid-Coot
Posts: 6728

Ah, hell. In Finland this movie isn't coming out in weeks. If there's one movie anyone ever expected that was something new and had not really been done before, this is it.

Finland, get your **** together!		2013-07-16 09:45:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

I'm going to see it in one hour and I couldn't be more excited 2013-07-17 11:22:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

I'm going to see it in one hour and I couldn't be more excited

Awesome, hopefully you guys enjoy it. ^^ Really fun popcorn flick imo, the booming music and giant set-ups/fights are awesome! Are you seeing it normal or in 3D?		2013-07-17 11:39:00

Author:
Dragonvarsity
Posts: 5208

I think I'll go with 2D or iMAX. 3D Always makes the image sort of blurry and unless the movie is especially filmed in 3D like Avatar or Dredd 3D, it kind of ruins the immersion.2013-07-17 12:19:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

Okay I saw it. Immensely entertaining movie, totally worth it. We were promised beautiful giant mechs vs giant monsters fights, and that's exactly what we got. Don't expect it to be smart or deep or anything like that. It's just cheesy dumb fun, not intended to be taken too seriously.

In my opinion, there are two kinds of movies. Movies that are easy, fun entertainment (like The Avengers), and movies that aim to be thought-provoking masterpieces (like Inception). Pacific Rim aimed to be the former and succeeded. And that's alright, because that's exactly what someone would expect out of a movie about mech fights.

Some movies are supposed to be just dumb fun and can't manage to deliver even that. cough cough Transformers unconvincing cough.


My only disappointment was how much they focused on Gypsy Danger while the other mechs and their crews were barely relevant. In the spoiler boxes below I explain what let me down the most. The first one isn't really a spoiler, but it crushes the expectations the marketing team created about a certain mech, so I'll let you decide if you want to read it or not. The second one is an actual spoiler.

Coyote Tango, the Japanese mech (and apparently one of the first ever built) doesn't really play a part in the movie. We only catch a small glimpse of its sillouette during a flashback and that's it.
Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are described as total ba*******es and then wiped out in under 5 minutes to illustrate how threatening the kaiju are. It felt cheap, and I would've liked to see them put up a real fight.		2013-07-17 16:48:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Do the mechs use any kaiju components or are they entirely mechanical?2013-07-17 19:00:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

Do the mechs use any kaiju components or are they entirely mechanical?

Entirely mechanical.

However, the technology used between two people to pilot the Jaegers is tested between a person and a kaiju's brain.		2013-07-17 19:22:00

Author:
Dragonvarsity
Posts: 5208

@SnipySev, while I agree on the point that there are two kinds of movies, I'd say that Avengers falls into the last category. Just because a movie has great production values and is incredibly entertaining, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have any deeper significance. In Avengers this significance comes in the form of subtext.2013-07-18 09:14:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

@SnipySev, while I agree on the point that there are two kinds of movies, I'd say that Avengers falls into the last category. Just because a movie has great production values and is incredibly entertaining, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have any deeper significance. In Avengers this significance comes in the form of subtext.

Nope. It's just an entertaining movie through and through.

Even entertaining movies have underlying themes. Pacific Rim has them: it's a movie about unity, hope and cooperation. Avengers has those too. But that doesn't make it a deep movie, because it fails to do something meaningful with those themes.

Look at The Dark Knight: it's about ethics, morality, anarchy, chaos, the corruption of both the society and the individual. But TDK does more than just having those themes as subtext: it implements them into the story and explores them. That's why it's a deep movie. Avengers doesn't do that.

Avengers is beautifully designed, fun and witty, but besides the whole Marvel Universe thing, it doesn't do anything new. It isn't complex. It isn't thought-provoking. It isn't moving. There's barely any character development. It's even somewhat cheesy. That's why I consider it to be just an entertaining movie instead of a deep, thoughtful masterpiece.		2013-07-18 14:58:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

Saw it and it was fun and entertaining. I agree with SnipySev's letdowns but overall it was rather entertaining.2013-07-18 19:43:00

Author:
argetlam350
Posts: 212

This movie is kickin' rad. That is all.

Okay fine.

Okay, the sense of scale is phenomenal. That is the one thing that really got to me, and it elevated this flick from being something I enjoyed to something I love. Everything, and I mean everything in this movie appeals to a sense of massive scale. It's awe inspiring really.

The characters may be two dimensional, there may be cliches (in homage to the inspiration material, so I don't consider that a flaw), and there may be a few consistency and factual issues, but this is a movie about giant robots punching giant aliens in the mouth.

Go see this movie.		2013-07-18 20:05:00

Author:
bonner123
Posts: 1487

I'm sorry to be off topic again.

@SnipySev
I'm seeing where you're coming from, but claiming that Avengers fails to deliver on its subtle themes is just ignorant. Also, the character development is done in FIVE movies before the Avengers.		2013-07-18 20:19:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

@SnipySev
I'm seeing where you're coming from, but claiming that Avengers fails to deliver on its subtle themes is just ignorant. Also, the character development is done in FIVE movies before the Avengers.

It's a movie about a half dozen superheroes teaming up and stopping an alien invasion. And it does that really well, but it's all The Avengers is. Actual ignorance is claiming it has any actual depth beyond that.		2013-07-19 06:49:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

I just saw the movie. It kicked *** 2013-07-19 19:32:00

Author:
Ryan86me
Posts: 1909

Since the movie is out on BD I've watched it now. It was a lot more silly than I thought it would be, but it was entertaining if you turned your brain off.

I would have appreciated more sci-fi stuff and seeing more of the logistical side of running the mechs, it didn't feel like there was a whole lot underpinning the movie at times.

The Russian mech, Cherno Alpha, was easily my favourite. Although Gypsy Danger dragging that tanker through the city was cool. I wish they had used their weapons more instead of just punching everything.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3TUg2Jp0Q		2013-11-19 21:38:00

Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 2454

Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are incredibly awesome. I'm still bummed about how little we got to see of them. I wanted to see more of the mechs in general, and less of the relations between the humans.2013-11-20 00:16:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

The relations between the humans from different cultures was the entire point of the movie. It showed that the entire world could stand together in a time of such crisis, no matter what race, nationality or religion you are. It also benefited from the simple characters because it puts them into something different from any other movie ever. With a world as detailed as that of Pacific Rim, simplicity in terms of characters complexity.

Sorry, it's just that this movie is so AWESOME. I viewed this last weekend and remembered why it's my favourite movie of this year, so far. Pacific Rim is the apex of simple yet fun action movies.		2013-11-20 10:46:00

Author:
FreeAim
Posts: 2462

Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon are incredibly awesome. I'm still bummed about how little we got to see of them. I wanted to see more of the mechs in general, and less of the relations between the humans.

http://i.imgur.com/bO9Ykgw.jpg		2013-11-20 13:19:00

Author:
Rabid-Coot
Posts: 6728

Love the movie. ^^

But the knives felt cheap. It was like;


"Hey, those monsters are resistant to all the expensive firepower we have (missiles, nukes, lasers... whatever). What should we do?" Answer: "Use the knives - you can easily cut them! " XD

Well, big swords and such, aren't a bad thing. But why haven't they used them sooner?
"We have knives? Great, now you tell me! You do realize, that we've been punching our way through the monsters, till now?"

Or this:
"We can't defeat them. Let's not invest in big robots with strong armors - but build a wall instead!"
Honestly?


But other than that, a fantastic fantasy-action movie, which reminded me a lot of the anime classic "Neon Genesis Evangelion".		2013-11-20 17:12:00

Author:
Lumina
Posts: 641

The relations between the humans from different cultures was the entire point of the movie. It showed that the entire world could stand together in a time of such crisis, no matter what race, nationality or religion you are. It also benefited from the simple characters because it puts them into something different from any other movie ever. With a world as detailed as that of Pacific Rim, simplicity in terms of characters complexity.

Sorry, it's just that this movie is so AWESOME. I viewed this last weekend and remembered why it's my favourite movie of this year, so far. Pacific Rim is the apex of simple yet fun action movies.

I didn't mean the internation cooperation aspect of it. I liked that too. I mean the relationships between Mako, Raleigh, the australian dude and his father, and the Marshall. Not that they were out of place, it's just that they dragged on and on.

Well, at least it wasn't vomit-inducing like in the Transformers movies. So I guess that's something.


@Lumina: An appropriate excuse would be that because kaiju blood is extremely toxic, they were trying to avoid causing as much bleeding to the monsters as possible, especially in the middle of a populated area. And Raleigh not knowing about it can be explained by the fact that he and Mako weren't expected to pilot Gipsy so soon, so there wasn't any time for a proper briefing about the changes made to her.		2013-11-21 00:03:00

Author:
SnipySev
Posts: 2452

So for some reason I avoided commenting on this thread for far too long. And like many who saw the movie I did indeed enjoy it; yes, it was cheesy and shallow entertainment for the most part but I respect it for how shameless and unapologetic about it the movie was. Though I'd also agree that the movie would have been improved with less melodrama regarding the characters' past traumas and with a greater showing from Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha, though I do wonder what that would do for the movie's budget.

Also, don't know how many people have seen this but someone made an 8-Bit arranged version of the Pacific Rim theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHlOIKr_oY

Am I crazy that I actually like this more than the original McCoy?		2013-11-23 03:45:00

Author:
Dapiek Absaroka
Posts: 512


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