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

Synopsis:

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Well...maybe.

I'm going with a YES.

Charlie Day is in it!

Movies Like Jaeger.

Thx for new display name idea , Gordo. PS - this sounds sad.

http://io9.com/5916944/first-official-picture-from-guillermo-del-toros-pacific-rim

did GdT recently overdose on manga

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17p5wdqhvfabigif/cmt-medium.gif

^from the comments

yeah, was wondering what the hell that was from

WHERE CAN I GET A CHAINSAW FLAMETHROWER

http://io9.com/5916944/first-official-picture-from-guillermo-del-toros-pacific-rim

well that's my weekend made

oops

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17p5y8nml4ib5gif/cmt-medium.gif

danger 5, aparently?

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/29/danger-5-1960s-superspies-fight-adolf-hitler.html

god bless you, Australia, you weird bastards

idris elba's character is named "stacker pentecost"

is this based off of a thomas pynchon novel?

Nope, anime, almost as weird

Haha I was reading the description and was like "this doesn't make any sense this is crazy" and then realized it had to be based on some anime or manga...

How come del Toro got the Pacific Rim job?

hes a good director

Of all the user names on ilx, you're the one who didn't notice the word choice in my post? Perfect.

damn... shit!!!!

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTP9HmNIm3l-xD9gG9IDaYdNW9Z0jzF0f5iwVlpg1_JE1f_iWDvrc4U9cNq

Some further details

why would THAT be the first picture you released? how about a robot or a monster?

i would guess they're saving the money stuff for when they start showing actual footage. first publicity still is just something for the fanboy sites to run, not something you use to sell to the public at large, with the avengers it was just a photo of some chairs

will there be more Idris squeezebox y/n

maybe he will sing Creedence songs in this one

i would guess they're saving the money stuff for when they start showing actual footage. first publicity still is just something for the fanboy sites to run, not something you use to sell to the public at large, with the avengers it was just a photo of some chairs

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:54 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i know. i hate those fanboy site still premieres. IDRIS ELBA STANDING IN A ROOM.

here's a li'l sneak peek:

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/articles/62034.jpg

so judging from the photo he races motorcycles and lives in some kind of horse stable

yeah i feel u

http://io9.com/5924179/first-look-at-the-giant-robots-in-guillermo-del-toros-pacific-rim

amuses me that Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Day are both in this since i remember there was like a week once where i could not remember who was who among 'guys named Charlie who have shows on FX'

Details details:

Guillermo del Toro's new movie Pacific Rim doesn't just feature enormous, insane robots — it also features totally massive monsters that trash cities with their terrifying limbs. We just saw the first footage from Pacific Rim in Hall H — and that included some insane glimpses of monster faces and monster limbs.

More there at the link, also that there's a trailer made so I suspect online scrounging will turn up something...

LOL at this, frankly:

A voiceover says: " Today at the edge of hope, the end of our time. We have chosen to believe in each other." Eventually we realize this is Idris Elba speaking to a group of robot pilots. "We are standing against the monsters outside our door," Elba says. And then louder, "TODAY WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE."

i hate movies these days

Interview, backstory details, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS6kk1bTqJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9PFtl2tt9E&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=2vKz7WnU83E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E

GLaDOS!

I was sold at "giant skeleton on aircraft carrier." brb, buying tickets.

I'm on board.

Yeah, that works.

Not terribly interested in seeing another giant monster destroys cities movie, or another giant robot destroys cities movie. Not sure how I feel about this movie being both of those things. Maybe they'll pull a Godzilla on Monster Island and send both sets of giants to duke it out on some reserve or Planet X or whatever.

I'm expecting this to be either highly deconstructed emo weirdness like the back half of Eva or just a bunch of fanservicey explosions like the first few episodes of Eva. Either way, I hope it's going to be reminiscent of Eva.

lol @ "cancelling the apocalypse"

looks sort of stupid, would have preferred the Lovecraft movie

that line made me think of this song for the first time in years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XC6dyBWi4

GLaDOS!

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real

the fact she's in this would suggest that this is going to be 100% fanboy indulgence (which might be a good thing)

littlestkaijutheme.mp4

Fantastic Voyage remake?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guillermo-del-toro-talks-direct-852592

And perhaps related to that -- Pacific Rim 2 is a go, but interestingly...

https://deadline.com/2016/02/pacific-rim-2-directed-by-steven-deknight-spartacus-creator-legendary-pictures-guillermo-del-toro-1201708221/

:/

so naked mechas then

Anyway

http://io9.gizmodo.com/our-first-official-look-at-john-boyega-in-pacific-rim-1792081609

\o/

is this a thread for not-hobbit, not-blockbuster GdT?
if so, new one is getting excellent reviews!
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-reviews-for-guillermo-del-toros-the-shape-of-1798667636

Did mean to start a thread for it when the trailer came out but u kno there was Ready Player One to pile on etc.

Really puzzled by the Abe Sapien similarity going on with this tho.

i will start a thread for it
why not!?

thread to discuss Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER

PACIFIC RIM 2: PACIFIC RIMMER

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

The effects look duller and more Transformers-y for some reason, maybe the fact that it's mostly showing daytime scenes.

hang on did those three kaiju merge into a mega-kaiju?

why were the battloids gundams wanzers jaegers fighting each other?

A kaiju in jaeger's armor.

Cannot watch video at work but I'm choosing to imagine this merging you speak of is something akin to a Kaiju Centipede.

PACIFIC RIMMER sounds like the worst Red Dwarf episode

red dwarf on holiday

SO IN

this will be the first film i'm seen in 3-d in some time

I've only seen the trailer yesterday and didn't know about this !
I agree that, visually, it seems less impressive than the first one... and actually kinda ugly...

Cannot watch video at work but I'm choosing to imagine this merging you speak of is something akin to a Kaiju Centipede.

just saw this comment, fp'd u for providing an indelibly horrific mental image

i just had this horrible realization that PR2 might not be available in 3D near me

You should consider moving, imo.

truth bomb

Directed and co-written by Steven S. DeKnight, the creator of Starz’ Spartacus, Uprising centers on Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), the son of Stacker Pentecost, the throaty Jaeger commander played by Idris Elba in the first film. Here, one is obliged to point out that there is no way in hell a man named Stacker Pentecost would settle for naming his kid “Jake.” The characters in Pacific Rim had names like Rocky boxers: Hannibal Chau, Hercules Hansen, Mako Mori, Raleigh Becket, etc. There were twin Russian pilots named Kaidanovsky, like the Soviet actor who played the title role in Stalker. In Uprising, the hero is named Jake and his co-pilot buddy is named Nate.

refuse to believe this will suck

it will suck

i may watch when it hits netflix in a year but the trailer gives me too much of a Transformers vibe & that is an immediate nope for me

I will see it on IMAX because I want to believe but let's be real it's probably gonna suck.

The first one was crap. Not sure why anyone expects this retread made by also-rans to be any good.

Takes some skill for a film full of giant robots and monsters to be boring, but Pacific Rim managed it.

Now I just feel bad for you.

you shouldn't, i am fine

Fine, and correct.

Most of Del Toro's movies are pretty bad and boring. The Devil's Backbone is good; Hellboy is good; everything else I've seen has been a disappointment. I haven't seen The Shape of Water and have no plans to, for exactly this reason.

wtf you are crazy

the first Pacific Rim was awesome

For very carefully defined values of 'awe'

first pacific rim was awesome and also bad and boring... i am sure of this bc i saw it twice

I haven't seen the shape of water so maybe exception proves the rule but afaik GDT has never shown much capacity for or even interest in telling a satisfying story so.

i’ve seen it like 5 times and i know in my heart that it is neither bad nor boring

it seems like this director is somewhat polarizing. I wonder if there have been any other threads about his films that bear this out

FUCKING HELL, OCCUPIED S2 HAS BEEN ON NETFLIX A WEEK AND NOBODY TOLD ME

well, this was the wrong thread for that

why dont u yell at HIM tombot, instead of all of us arguing on-topic

Tomjaeger in here swingin boats

So I enjoyed this tons more than I expected. The visuals weren't as breath-taking as the first but the fight scenes were excellent and still did a great job of conveying the scale of the Kaiju/Jaegers. The plot was as b-movie as ever but goddamn did John Boyega make the most of his role.

**Spoilers** I was pumped to see the continued pilfering of Neon Genesis themes/visuals, even if PR is unwilling/unable to grapple with all the crazy shit NG gets into. The scene where the Kaiju brains take over the Jaeger drones were ripped straight from when Shinji went berserker and his Eva's inner angel started to break loose.

:D

"TODAY WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE"

thank you stacker pentecost

somehow i have not seen this film till now

burn gorman's decision to inject bits of fast show sketches into his scenes is bold