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

i'm gonna be overseas on opening weekend ;_;

With the kaiju chasing you

was that Charlie from Always Sunny?!? lol

well it looks like it'll open the week after at where i'll be

having just watched NGE this past fall, man, this is just a straight rip.... wish the robots were more angular / sleeker instead of some kind of weird american gladiators x50 aesthetic

a straight rip of Eva into an action blockbuster directed by GdT sounds like a getting-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate kind of problem

haha i mean it in the best possible way of course

i hope the last 10 minutes is just a blank screen with manic voiceovers

Our friends The Asylum bring you ATLANTIC RIM.

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

there's no such thing as an atlantic rim!!!

I heard you can get one in Philly for $25.

every time i hear the name of this movie i think of

Liz: You won an award! Did I not tell you?

Tracy : Come on, lemon.

Liz: Yes! You are getting.. A.. lifetime achievement award from the.. Pacific Rim Emmys.

Tracy : Pacific Rim? I love the Pacific Rim. I spent nine months in Japan shooting Samurai I Amurai. I fell in love with their culture, especially sharking.

lol

sharking

this looks like a formalist exercise by del toro and that gets me kind of excited

he always lets me down

i think he has a great movie in him though

i'll kind of rep for hellboy

totally rep for hellboy, and pan's lab

maybe it was just that the reviews were so ecstatic, but i was a little let down by PL... i still liked it, don't get me wrong.

i like his art-house movies (pan's, devil's backbone) better than his genre stuff. (a very un-ilx opinion i know). hellboy starts strong but it's not really very good

you're not really very etc

i think this looks really graceless and inelegant

i mean, i'll go see it anyway. but controlling giant robots via jazzercise is stupid

maybe it's intended, having nitro and turbo doing lunging pirouettes and twirling arabesques inside the control chambers while decked out in full halo combat gear. a touch of the comic.

blade 2 is fucking fantastic yall

the first blade is 100000x better

i feel like del toro is like tarantino w/o all the talent

the first blade's a masterpiece though... no shame in not measuring up imo

fair enough

for some reason i hated that the vampires were kind of indestructible (bone thing around their hearts) in blade 2, you just knew blade was never gonna kill them in any of the fights, it made them kind of tiresome

blade 2 has more wrestling moves. though trinity goes all the way and has triple h.

i feel like del toro is like tarantino w/o all the talent

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i admit the fact that he's really smart and knows his film history and i would love to just bro out with him probably means i overrate his movies a bit

ya he seems like he has great taste in geeky horror/sci-fi things and a genuine love for the craft but i don't think he's got... "it"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LRYVFYpmZpI/TUg4PkacPhI/AAAAAAAABOY/aPDntLjhcEw/s1600/clara-bow-eight.jpg

This movie looks ugly. All the monster/robot fighting in the rain reminds me of the '98 Godzilla movie

it reminds me of blade runner or akira

i like all the lights and colors. the mech designs are too western. the stuff that isnt robots and monsters punching each other looks like it could be crummy. i dont know why they have some monotone asshole narrating the trailers, if he's the star of the movie that doesnt bode well

s10cki otm

pan's labyrinth is pretty good tho

mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes - a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee

These twenty words quoted in the OP speak volumes about this movie.

Crusty, lovable.

'll kind of rep for hellboy

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),

All about Hellboy 2. Contender for the best superhero movie imo.

i like all the lights and colors. the mech designs are too western. the stuff that isnt robots and monsters punching each other looks like it could be crummy. i dont know why they have some monotone asshole narrating the trailers, if he's the star of the movie that doesnt bode well

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he sounds like the sort of fellow who they'd get to dub a character for the american release of an anime

haha shit he kinda does. okay well that sells me on it a little

if this movie is basically a complete rip of Eva I'll be totally happy. I'll also be happy if it's pretty much anything else.

ontrolling giant robots via jazzercise is stupid

― 乒乓, Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

this more than anything is a turn off, for some dumb nerd reason. ~synchronized~ jazzercize no less

no dude they're not jazzercizing the pilots are obviously mind-linked via the neural bridge and acting as one being to control the jaegers which clearly are too massive to be controlled by one person do u see

expect a 75-second explanation of why this should be so somewhere during the first act

you guys are harshing my buzz. i mean of course this will probably be terrible but i hold out a faint glimmer of hope, if for no other reason than the evident glee w/ which del toro is making this. (was making this.)

I like all the neony stuff in the trailer

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)