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

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