Pacific Rim

[BadMouth]

I'm psyched for this movie, but the fact that they purposefully made the monsters look like guys in monster suits knocks it down a notch for me.


I'm all for paying homage to the genre, but shouldn't it evolve to have cooler monsters?

[ark_ader]

I saw it in a trailer before Superman and I was not impressed.  The Superman film was ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - so go figure.

It is like for some reason they like to put ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- trailers on a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- film you just rented that looked good, but you have yet to find out it is ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  Like Seven Psychopaths - that looked good and it had ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- trailers you cannot fast forward through.


I think Transformers scared me off, the huge monster robot gig especially with Shia La Barf. 



Reminded me of Giant Robot we watched as kids.  Loved that show.

[Vigo]

I was excited for the first 30 seconds in the theater when I thought this might have been the live Evangelion movie that has been rumored for years now. Now I know it is another Godzilla remake but taking the idea of a neurally linked pilot of a giant monster from Evangelion. Well, we will see how it pans out.

Reminded me of Giant Robot we watched as kids.  Loved that show.

I loved that too. So the cheese on that show was epic. Over here, it was called Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. I remember I even bought a copy of the first episode where the Giant robot defected the evil Drycolon.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm psyched for this movie, but the fact that they purposefully made the monsters look like guys in monster suits knocks it down a notch for me.


I'm all for paying homage to the genre, but shouldn't it evolve to have cooler monsters?

That was actually the first GOOD news I've heard about the film.  Kaiju are much more awesome than mere giant monsters.  For examples simply watch the American Godzilla or Cloverfield.  They tried to do giant monsters... giant monsters suck.. you have to do it Kaiju style.  Kaiju films are professional wrestling matches with guys in suits... much more fun than just stomping up a city (which they also have of course). 

I don't think you can really have cooler monsters than the old suit-a-mation films... you have everything from giant apes, to dinosaurs, to giant bugs, to robots, even a giant tar monster.... you can only make the effects a better and honestly humanoid monsters just work better anyway.  The only non-humanoid monster that ever caught on was Mothra... why I don't know.

What worries me about the film is the serious tone.  People don't like Godzilla films because they are good... they like them because they are terrible.  They are intended for kids, but are just goofy enough for adults to enjoy as well.  This thing just seems to be all serious.  And the synchronized break dancing required to make the giant robots work, it's so laughable that it makes anime mecha look serious by comparison.  And again, it's played totally straight, which is a bad sign. 

Also I don't get why he just didn't do a straight Kaiju film, with guys in suits and everything.  They STILL make Godzilla films in Japan, and while it still looks fake as hell, the effects are amazing compared to what they did back in the day.   I would argue that the cgi looks equally fake btw... it's just a different kind of fake.

[kahlid74]

I think this movie isn't going to be very good.  I agree with Howard that the subject matter for this movie is supposed to be funny but it looks like they are taking themselves way to serious.

[danny_galaga]

I suspect it's gonna be bad, purely for the fact they have been advertising it for ages. That tells me they had a lot of trouble putting it together after the shoot and couldn't figure out how to polish the turd. But then again I believe they had that trouble with Lone Ranger, and I thought that was great 

[BobA]

Saw it and it was as expected.  Good old monster vers mech shindig but it has so busy and so loud that it gave me a bit of a headache.  Not as good a most transformer movies but better then alot of the monster vrs tokyo flics.   I will give it a 3 out of 5 rating. 

[selfie]

It is like for some reason they like to put ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- trailers on a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- film you just rented that looked good, but you have yet to find out it is ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  Like Seven Psychopaths - that looked good and it had ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- trailers you cannot fast forward through.

On your remote, press stop twice (sometime three times) then play and it will go straight to the movie bypassing menus and all the other sh!t. It has worked on every disc I have tried it on...