Guillermo del Toro's not-Hobbit/not-Lovecraft next movie, Pacific Rim

I'll end up seeing this, despite my reservations. You really can't beat "monsters and robots fighting" for a summer movie premise. I just hope the non-monster/robot stuff is bearable.

but controlling giant robots via jazzercise is stupid

Stolen from Gunbuster iirc (and probably a million other giant robot anime shows)

the trailer does nothing for me because idgiaf abt giant robots, but I will see it because of Guillermo

I want to see this in Japanese(w/ English fan subs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBC5s5qmLY

ROKURATU PANCHU!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLlGYsKC80

lol my friends tweet just now:

Pacific rim. Pathetic. Burn the film reel. Just ignite it.

http://screenrant.com/guillermo-del-toro-pacific-rim-mountains-of-madness-sandy-121451/

Okay I would really go for a movie of Mountains of Madness with Cruise at the helm. Seriously.

wtf, yet another trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e3h51pKZO9A
This one did make me laugh and groan several times (omg holding hands on deck -- omg dude holding back angry other dude as captaindude looks back all sternlike -- omg dude doing way-to-go chin-tap to girl and looking real doe-eyedlike -- omg jazzercise comments upthread OTM -- omg PREPARE FOR NEURAL HANDSHAKE)

Will watch this. Pretty sure I'd prefer it if the movie would be as quiet as this trailer, cuz goddamn smashypants cityburst with dun-dun-drums and gunshot blasts gets tiring for this cranky jerk. But Del Toro makes movies that I'd in theory hate, yet end up finding rather enjoyable -- so hopefully this too will somehow work out. My ten-year-old self would be so goddamn exciting about all these huge robots.

At this point I'm kinda hoping the "we're canceling the apocalypse" speech will be cut out.

Hellboy director's cut is great, Pan's Lab great, Devil's etc is great. Hellboy 2, not so great but well made. Blade II great. Was looking forward to this, but ... didn't we just get a giant fighting robot suit movie like last year?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkZSOO1ZvzAIjYO2vczAD4q2HO2ZYFggUKSDdyCK4uUmSa94QRUw

i'll say this much: Del Toro has much more respect for characters/words (which is to say, script) than your average big budget action sci-fi dude. He has yet to make a movie that could be summed up as "big and dumb with explosions."

real steel's robots werent giant and they didnt have pilots in them

Eh, close enough.

dun get all the del toro bashing itt. pan's labyrinth and the devil's backbone rank high among the best fantasy/horror/whatever films of the new century, and even his blatantly commercial productions are a hell of a lot better than most of the competition. he's never made a truly bad movie, and aside from an obvious fondness for genre filmmaking, he has nothing in common with quentin tarantino.

to his detriment

sure, but he can still shoot for "second best living human"

so pumped about this

http://25.media.tumblr.com/f407b66de7b57f7a8803e66d98eeecaa/tumblr_mpecraQQhU1rotb3io1_500.png

Not Another Robot Movie

Kanye and Ben Lyons oughta be good pals

Yuh yug yuck Yukon Yukon yucky yucko

uh oh... possible confirmation for my number one concern based on trailers... I know del Toro wanted to inject some "how it would feel on the ground" urgency but if that comes at the cost of satisfying establishing shots and choreography this is going to be a bummer.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/pacific-rim-review-monsters-somewhere-070219626.html

One guy in one rubber Godzilla suit stepping on a balsa-wood scale model of Tokyo provides lots more thrills than del Toro's Monster Armies of the Night...

Part of the film's problem is the whole "of the Night" thing: whenever the jaegers and the kaiju throw down in "Pacific Rim," it's at night in the pouring rain — unless they're both at the bottom of the ocean. What's the point, exactly, of cutting-edge CG monsters filmed in a way where we can barely see them? Would "Jurassic Park" have worked if our glimpses of the dinosaurs had been fleeting at best?

That's what I was worried about :(

The online movie dork crowd seems to be enthusiastic about this, but they're an easy bunch to butter up.

im hearing good things from ppl i know whove seen it

What's the point, exactly, of cutting-edge CG monsters filmed in a way where we can barely see them? Would "Jurassic Park" have worked if our glimpses of the dinosaurs had been fleeting at best?

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 8, 2013 6:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i approve of this btw - showing the monster is often deflating

not my words btw but imo we're not talking about Pumpkinhead chasing rednecks through the woods here. in a gojira/mecha type scenario the full monty is kinda traditional.

more to the point, if flick is selling giant robots battling kaiju imma be bitter if I don't see some dope battling.

Mecha-pseudo-Shiva. Underwater Cthulhu Jr. Charlie Day with sleeve tats. Not one comprehensible accent.

I loved this movie.

that's all I needed to hear

"We built several blocks of Hong Kong to destroy and then we destroyed them," said del Toro.

Yes

Zen.

that's all I needed to hear

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, July 9, 2013

+1 and i have no idea who charlie day is.

hey hey hey kanye likes it

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/352660601681625088

Ok, I can probably skip this one on the basis of this:

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/07/pacific-rim.html#more

dude sounds bitter. he needs to relax. i hope del toro makes buckets of money and gets to do what he wants from now on. plus i will see the shit out of this movie.

(otm about the earth elemental's death in hellboy 2 tho)

Wonder if the inevitable porn parody of this goes big or small.

http://i.imgur.com/6xprh1K.jpg

looks like it went small, amirite

Fortune Nookie a much better title tbh.

I was very into this. Ripped some great stuff straight from the Eva playbook. Every name is ridiculous, but especially "Stacker Pentecost".

The script was no smarter than it needed to be, which was the right choice. Art direction and creature shop were triumphant. Del Toro and ILM deserve accolades for delivering this on time and under budget, because the fx work is spectacular.

Also this was a good movie because a monster carries a robot into the upper atmosphere to drop it to earth but is foiled when the robot kills the monster with a sword. At which point the robot crashes to earth anyway of course.

Also a robot survives what is supposedly a massive thermonuclear blast that detonates a few hundred meters away by crouching defensively.

if an EVAngelist gives it a thumbs up i'm gonna go see it

Can I take my daughter to this?

Or should I? She's 8.

There were a bunch of kids in my audience. I feel like I would've been scared at their age, but maybe I'm misremembering what freaked me out then. I think I'd seen Night of the Living Dead and a few Nightmare on Elm Streets by the time I was 8 or 9.

My girl did OK with Jurassic Park, so I assume this is cool. This must be less scary than that.

Whoa syncro jazzercize looks straight to mst3k in trailer lol

I also meant to mention that the post-converted 3D is pretty much fine, and even worthwhile on the hero robot and monster shots. Really the only jarringly bad result to my eye was a pile of spaghetti on a cafeteria tray hovering flatly above the background.

fsm?

Parmesan Rim

How Japanese are the mecha or kaiju designs?

Whether or not it sounds like damning the film with faint praise, the greatest virtue of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim may be that you can always understand what’s happening, what the characters are doing, and why they are doing it.