Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim!!!

[Vivek]

"why didn't they use the sword before".

Ha..I keep seeing similar questions elsewhere as well. Cause it was such an awesome cinematic moment when they used it later. It wouldn't had the same impact if they used it right from the start. Baffles me that people fail to understand that. Guess some prefer logic over the element of fun.

It's like saying "Why didn't Han Solo come earlier and help the rebel starfighters early on. Oh he had a change of heart later, but still he should have come earlier and saved more."

It wouldn't had the same impact if he didn't get to make his grand entry later on. Same case with the sword.

The following was mentioned on another forum (RPF) by a member named Kerr Avon, which offers some explanation regarding the usage of the sword. Though not necessarily here on this forum, but I am sure even this explanation won't suffice for many and they need more logical explanations to decipher the film or to validate it, so THEN they can finally enjoy the film at its fullest.

"Regarding the chain sword, it was only used twice and under very specific situations. First, the bat Kaiju had Gipsy and was flying up into the stratosphere. They couldn't miss hitting it and the Kaiju while holding Gipsy would be braced so the impact from the sword would be pretty damaging. The other situation was the Kaiju swimming at Gipsy very quickly. Sheer inertia kept that Kaiju going as Gipsy cut through it. The Kaiju literally did the damage to itself by running into the blade. With what it took to get 5000 tons of Kaiju meat going, when it hit the sword it wasn't going to stop on a dime, it just tore itself to shreds."

 

[fosing]

i thought Gipsy Danger got an UPGRADE, a version 2.0 after the initial beat down. that made sense.

i still wish that mech had some crotch cannons/blasters.

 

[GasparZizou]

It's not about moment over logic, you can have both.

They could have reached the moment, still saving the sword for last and still respect common sense, I mean, they could've come up with an excuse to not use the sword earlier, even one little line like "it's moving too fast, we can't use the sword", or I don't know, something to not make the audience wonder and detract from the movie.

A change of heart can certainly be unpredictable so, Solo's example is not a good one.

There's no need to over rationalize, it slipped their minds, period, no biggie, it's one teeny tiny little thing, there's no need to blow it out of proportions, the fact that it's virtually the only "technical" gripe people has and that they have been fixating on it, and being so small, speaks for how well the movie is made.

 

[fosing]

but still, crotch cannons/blasters could have been used to fill that void.

not a primary weapon but you know its good to be in there stuff.

 

[jnmx2000]

but still, crotch cannons/blasters could have been used to fill that void.

not a primary weapon but you know its good to be in there stuff.

would have been the greatest cinematic moment ever if Gipsy did this in Pacific Rim.

 

[CelticPredator]

Gipsy Dildo.

 

[greygoose]

would have been the greatest cinematic moment ever if Gipsy did this in Pacific Rim.

How I wish Gipsy had done that in the film.

 

[Natrix]

Box office: 'Pacific Rim' sequel could hinge on China

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Pacific Rim" hits China on Wednesday, a watershed territory for Guillermo del Toro's monsters-and-giant robots epic.

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' 3D spectacular is at $84 million after three weeks domestically and may or may not clank its way to $100 million. But international was always seen as most important for the $180 million "Pacific Rim," and China the most significant foreign market.

"Pacific Rim" has taken in $140 million abroad already. If it's able to hit $50 million there, and build on that in Japan and Brazil, it could well hit $300 million in foreign grosses.

"That may or may not mean there'd be a sequel, but at least there'd be a discussion," BoxOffice.com editor-in-chief Phil Contrino told TheWrap.

China has a history with colossal clanking contraptions: "Transformers 4: Dark of the Moon" is one of the all-time box office hits there, taking in $145 million in 2011.

"You'd think ‘Pacific Rim' will be able to do a third of that," Contrino said. "The concerns would be the lag time between the U.S. opening, which makes it vulnerable to piracy, and ‘Fast and Furious 6.'"

This past weekend, Universal's cars-and-criminals turned China, its last foreign territory, into a record-breaking victory lap with a $24 million, the studio's best ever in that market. That should a little bit of the sting out of the recent decision by Chinese film officials not to grant a slot to the minions of "Despicable Me 2" for Universal.

"Pacific Rim" has plenty of elements that should appeal to Chinese moviegoers.

It prominently features key Chinese characters who pilot Crimson Typhoon, one of the film's nastiest robots. The final battle takes place in Hong Kong.

"Pacific Rim" has shown strength in the Asian markets in which it's played, already bagging $17 million from Korea and nearly $9 million from Taiwan, and is off to a fast star in Hong Kong.

"Transformers 4" played to a vastly different Chinese market, even though it was just two years ago. It's much bigger, but the competition is far more intense, particularly from domestic offerings. Though China's film market has continued to grow more than 35 percent through the first half of 2013, revenue from imported films has shrunk by 21.3 percent, according to data by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

And given the market's growing pains, there are no sure things for American-made movies at the box office in China.

Universal's "Les Miserables," for example, struggled to crack $10 million in China earlier this year. And this week it will be passed on the box office charts by the Chinese comedy "Mr. Go," about a baseball-playing gorilla.

 

[Biojex]

Transformers 4 eh?

 

[furystorm]

I honestly didn't even know there was a Transformers 4!

 

[CelticPredator]

It's got Markey Mark!

 

[Biojex]

And apparently China has already seen it and it did gangbusters...

 

[furystorm]

Oh, it's not out yet huh?

 

[CelticPredator]

....I see.....

 

[crows]

that article came from the future...

 

[CelticPredator]

 

[Kuzeh]

Gonna see it a 6th time this week!

 

[Devil_666]

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Gonna see it a 6th time this week!

Jeez, take away you and the movie has only made about $55 mill

 

[Devil_666]