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

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