Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim!!!

[CelticPredator]

But in another up n coming film if Colossus throws a Sentinel thru a skyscraper it I'm sure will be Ok then. LOL

Im not excited for The Sentinels.

 

[GasparZizou]

The final battle underwater was a big MEH to me- the battle in the city right before it was far better, as was the opening battle. The underwater stuff was murky and not much interaction with environment to be placeholders for huge size of these battlers(yes they needed buildings and cars to smash!!)

Yeah, the final battle was a let down compared to the previous ones.

A few buildings and more car smashing would've been good.

 

[CelticPredator]

You got enough of that this summer.

 

[GasparZizou]

Nope, it's never enough.

 

[CelticPredator]

Destruction porn is laaaammmme.

 

[GasparZizou]

Nope, underwater and no building smashing is lame.

 

[CelticPredator]

Senseless murder of innocents is lame.

 

[GasparZizou]

That's the best part

Now Kaijus are not supposed to destroy and kill?

Besides, wasn't everybody safe in the bunkers?

 

[CelticPredator]

Yes they were. But still. I appreciate GDT not doing that. The shot of Gipsy stepping over the little overpass was the coolest detail in the film,.

 

[GasparZizou]

Yeah it was cool, if you ignore the fact that every step GD took destroyed millions worth in paved streets anyway.

 

[CelticPredator]

Sure. But still. That will always happen. But it's nice to see them take that extra step. It was classy. No need to senselessly destroy something that could be avoided.

 

[furystorm]

I had that exact thought last night while watching it. Then I started doing rough math in my head on the cost of just walking down the street in a Yeager.

 

[CelticPredator]

Probably not much. Because remember, that's the ghetto area. No one wants to pay for that.

 

[Biojex]

Plus there'd be even more destruction of the jaegers didn't stop the Kaiju. This movie is almost post apocalyptic, so it's a different mind set for the world.

 

[GasparZizou]

The streets of downtown HK are considered ghetto area?

Plus, destroying building while fighting with a Kaiju isn't "senseless destruction".

Well it wasn't classy for me as it was just kind of funny in a ridiculous kind of way.

When they grabbed the fishing boat at the beginning and put it away from the danger that was classy to me, even if it was destroyed afterwards

 

[CelticPredator]

Yes. That's where all the poor people live. Why else do you think they're living near a place where Kaiju attacks are incredibly likely to happen?

And it becomes senseless when the destruction becomes front and center the main focal point of the scene. If they don't linger on it, it's not that important. Unlike another summer film....

 

[GasparZizou]

Mhm I didn't see Australia as a ghetto, and they're arguably just as close as HK to the portal, besides HK is supposed to be the last resistance outpost, and all that beautiful streetlighting definitely screams not ghetto.

Plus a little more destruction in this film woudln't become senseless at all.

And MoS also wasn't senseless.

 

[CelticPredator]

This isn't the thread for it. But i'm sick of destruction porn. So done with it all. ...

And you know my thoughts on MoS, so I don't even know why you even brought that up.



But yeah, it was a small line, but it pretty much suggested that people living in the cities near the Pacific weren't rich, and they didn't have enough money to move. So they had to deal with the Kaiju attacks. Hence why buildings were built ON the Kaiju, and various other things.

It's a very interesting world. You can get the ocean view, high class apartment you've always wanted in Hong Kong for cheap...but you might have to deal with the occasional city destructing force of a Kaiju monster.

 

[GasparZizou]

Still think neither MoS nor this movie fit the description for destruction porn.

It is an interesting world, I'm guessing how will they handle the sequels, prequels, no problem, but a sequel? If there's any, how will they manage to "re-open" the portal? Or maybe this movie was the last one? Ala Star Wars?

 

[furystorm]

MOS sure did. I was nauseated by the destruction.