Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim!!!

[Darth Waller]

Epic and DM2. What was the third?

Monsters University.

 

[CelticPredator]

I hope you have that glass ready.

 

[greygoose]

Just got back from seeing the film.

It was pretty much everything I expected. I liked the characters and actually cared what happened to them. I didn't mind the fight scenes always being in the rain, however

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The final fight left me slightly (and I mean slightly) disappointed because with it being set underwater I feel we didn't get to see the true size and power of the category 5 Slattern. Maybe watching it on blu ray will help.

Otachi was my favourite Kaiju design going into the film and was my favoutite coming out of it.

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She was huge, especially when she opens her wings, put up a great fight (probably involved in the most brutal and best fight in the film when taking on Crimson and Cherno) and served a purpose with hunting down Newton.

I give the film a solid 8/10. Hopefully it has great rewatch value on blu ray.

 

[Gruson]

It was ok for me. The cast wasn't that great. It was good but I enjoyed Man of Steel, Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Fast 6, and World War Z more.

 

[CelticPredator]

So what was the secret Kaiju?

 

[greygoose]

So what was the secret Kaiju?

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Otachi's baby?

 

[IrishJedi]

MUD destroys all of your nerdy films.

 

[CelticPredator]

So what was it suppose to reference? I don't know Kaiju too well outside of Godzilla, and a few of his baddies...but I saw nothing that looked like anything i've seen.

 

[CelticPredator]

MUD destroys all of your nerdy films.

Well, maybe if that movie got a wide release, and not some lame ****ty arthouse bull****, then maybe I'd have seen it.

 

[IrishJedi]

It was actually showing in all of the big multiplex theaters here.

 

[CelticPredator]

I looked. No where in Colorado. Not even in the arthouse theaters, nor the Alamo Drafthouse.

 

[JonWes]

MUD is great!
I also really liked Before Midnight.

As far as the summer genre movies in general, I've liked them all overall. Just a few things that were so-so about them. But overall I've liked Oblivion, IM3, Star Trek: ID, Pacific Rim and, yes, even The Lone Ranger. Oh, and I like The End, too. Were they all stellar? No. But I liked them.

Everyone i saw this with last night wanted more from this universe. It just seems like ther is more to explore past present and future.

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The whole dinosaurs were the original kaiju, was a cool tidbit i want to know more about.

Excellent job of World building.

Wait, wait, wait. About our prehistoric friends...

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I thought they were saying that the first wave of Kaiju wiped out the dinosaurs to take over the planet until they realized it wasn't really habitable, not that they WERE the dinosaurs.

 

[CelticPredator]

Are those "Before" movies really that good? When I heard about what they were, and how they made them, it really seemed intriguing.

Plus, Richard Linklater is a pretty awesome director.

 

[CelticPredator]

Wait, wait, wait. About our prehistoric friends...

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I thought they were saying that the first wave of Kaiju wiped out the dinosaurs to take over the planet until they realized it wasn't really habitable, not that they WERE the dinosaurs.

Yessir. That is what they said.

 

[Sithlord1975]

If we gonna list...

Spring Breakers
Pacific Rim
This is The End
Pain and Gain
Iron Man 3
The Conjuring
maybe Oz, cuz Sam Raimi.

It's the summer of Franco!

Ewwww....that's my only issue on the list lol
Ucky Bay.

 

[Eli26]

If Grown Ups 2 beats Pacific Rim at the box office this weekend, I will cut my face with broken glass.

This is perhaps the most ridiculously stupid comment I read on here in a while.

Surprised it came from you.

 

[Vivek]

Heavy Future: Review: Pacific Rim is Awesome and that is an understatement

Pacific Rim isn't short on action and visual treats. The scenes where the awe inducing scale of the mighty Jagers fighting the nasty Kaijus are indeed the main highlights of the film. But I was quite pleased how the rest of the film managed to keep me entertained with the story.

Though there are some hokey dialogues during few parts of the movie, it didn't put me off in any way. The human characters in Pacific Rim aren't iconic, but their acts are heroic and they serve the story well. We know their past, their prior battles, so everytime they are out fighting while being inside the mecha, it brings the sense of real danger and anticipation as we are quite emotionally vested in those characters; while marveling at the beauty of the Jagers kicking serious Kaiju ***.

Many seem to have been irked by the characters of the scientists, I for one really liked the character of Newton played by Charlie Day, (maybe cause he plays my favourite character on the hilarious series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia). Also I really enjoyed the scenes and banter between Newton and Hannibal Chau played by Ron Perlman. Idris Elba manages to express his role with great gravitas and authority.

While most seem to identify the lead actor Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy, I only knew him as Lloyd, the charming British guy on Undeclared and now quite enjoyed his performance as Raleigh Becket. Rinko Kikuchi (who was great in both Babel and The Brothers Bloom) as Mako Mori was bit awkward during the initial scenes or are atleast they seem to have been written her character that way, but quickly becomes an admirable character as the story continues. Both made a good team. Mako Mori's younger self played by Mana Ashida gives a remarkable performance in a quite a memorable sequence.

As wonderful as the Jagers vs Kaijus fight scenes were, I wanted to see more in the daylight. Cause there is so much detailed work that went into those designs of creatures and suits, that most of it would go unnoticed. Some of the footage of Kaiju attacking cities were shown in daylight and looked great, but were short in duration. But since many of the creatures had that glowing effect from their bodies, it's understandable that they would look better in the dark.

I liked the score by Ramin Djawadi especially the fantastic main theme of Pacific Rim which also featured music by Tom Morello, the track "Go Big or Go Extinct" which is a variation of the main theme is another one of my favourites.

I will be buying the NECA figures for sure, at least the Gipsy Danger ones in both 7" and the upcoming 18" version. I really want to own a human scale head bust or helmet mask of Gipsy Danger, hope NECA or somebody else makes them.

Warner Bros. and Legendary took a chance with this film and I hope it really pays off for them.

Thanks to Guillermo del Toro and all the artists involved for crafting this gorgeous chapter in entertainment and thanks to screenwriter Travis Beacham for birthing this story and world of Pacific Rim to fruition.

Pacific Rim is the most fun I had at the theatre in 2013 and is my favourite movie of this summer so far. I can't wait to see it again.

 

[CelticPredator]

Probably his best movie in a long time. There's a level of understanding when it comes to hating Bay, but sometimes, I think it literally is just hating him because it's cool.

I get the hate for Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon...and maybe to a degree Bad Boys II, but I don't get the hate for The Rock, Bad Boys, and Pain and Gain. He made them work. But they also had better scripts (well, Bad Boys was improved mostly) then his later films....but still.

Everyone has the right to hate him for Transformers. They're ****ing ****ty movies.

 

[IrishJedi]

I can't believe those huge Jaegers just smash through those densly populated cities and cause huge amounts of destruction themselves without stopping during the Kaiju fights to save individual people. I mean, they didn't even try to take the fights back out of the city.

 

[Darth Waller]

I can't believe those huge Jaegers just smash through those densly populated cities and cause huge amounts of destruction themselves without stopping during the Kaiju fights to save individual people. I mean, they didn't even try to take the fights back out of the city.

Everyone was supposed to be in shelters else you're on your own!