I saw it the 10:10 showing last night. If I can convince even just one other friend to go, I will see it again. hell I might just say hang it and go see it again even if I have to go by myself. I had a ****ing blast at this.
Like I say always say to people "never underestimate the power of a good ass whooping" it really can do wonders.James Bowe said:Mako had way more baggage to be resolved through punching Kaiju in the face and the third act was far more transformative and empowering for her than for Raleigh.
Exactly. Bob has the right to his opinion and while I respect that, in mine that opinion has never been right, so I never liked to hear him ripping it to shreds the first time around. Even if ASM truly was objectively a terrible movie to pretty much everybody, hearing him continue to rip on it at every available opportunity for a year straight would still be very annoying, and it's even more grating since it's not.Kitsune Hunter said:Sounds interesting, may go and see it if I get the chance. Also another week, another rip on the Amazing Spiderman, seriously Bob, it's been a year already, let it go
Also:Yuuki said:Another few gripes with the movie, firstly the candidate selection process and how secondly how Mako being thrown into the plot felt rather forced.
So the selection process involves Raleigh fighting people with STICKS to see how compatible they are with the pilot - not working with them but literally fighting against them. Can someone explain to me how that makes any sense?
I'd have thought the ideal matches would've been found by putting both pilots in "Jaegar simulators" (or something), since the whole thing is 90% mental compatibility and synchronization. That would test if their brains could even get past the first drift and then go from there. They could've also avoided the whole fuck-up when Mako nearly blew everyone up with a plasma cannon because the first time they drifted was in a live Jaegar...fully activated, fully operational, fully armed. That whole scene seemed completely retarded and really made the audience dislike Mako with that uneasy air of "she shouldn't be here, she isn't ready".
So Mako is introduced, she fights Raleigh with sticks, they trade blows and Raleigh immediately concludes "SHE'S THE ONE!". Literally 30 seconds later he's completely at her side, fully at her defense and acting as if she's his sister (or long-term romantic partner) or something - me, as the viewer, felt he was being irrational and stupidly white-knightly. The audience has been given no reason to sympathize with Mako, what has she done for Raleigh? Who is she? What is her emotional state, her background? We don't even know! The romance/partnership feels quite forced, as if the directors were thinking "well we have to crowbar this character in somehow since two pilots are required, just do it".
Chicks dig giant robots.DVS BSTrD said:In Soviet Pacific Rim, boat is on YOU!
That is if you happen to be a Kaiju's face.
Everyone digs giant robots.
Explanation:Daria.Morgendorffer said:Why did Idris Elba and the Aussie son have to die? If Mako and Raleigh could make it out via escape pods, why couldn't they? I handed that one to Del Toro's flair for "not everyone gets a happy ending because that's not reality", but still, logically they could have all made it back
Saw it earlier, I don't follow, give us a wee hint which scenes you're referring to.Paragon Fury said:Anyways, the movie was amazing. Except for two scenes (anyone who has seen the movie knows which two I'm talking about) that absolutely smack of "executive meddling", the movie is amazing. The soundtrack is absolutely perfect; I don't think there is a way to make it better.
gim73 said:It was fun to watch, but every single bit of 'science' in this science fiction movie is blatantly WRONG. Star Trek takes liberties and elaborates on current theories for many of their concepts. Pacific Rim doesn't even do that, they take scientific principles known for hundreds of years and state the opposite. If you can turn off the part of your brain that knows things about science, it's a good movie about monsters fighting robots.
Jegsimmons said:I wish people would stop making comparisons with Eva...this is a GOOD film, not 17 hours and some change of annoying people i hope the monsters kill.MorganL4 said:The Guillermo del Toro equasion for Summer Blockbuster epicness:
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Shinji + Idris Elba + Ron Pearlman^2 = TOTAL EPICNESS
wrong. on so many levels. considering one was made before the other. saying "starwars cant exist without startrek" is bs.MorganL4 said:Jegsimmons said:I wish people would stop making comparisons with Eva...this is a GOOD film, not 17 hours and some change of annoying people i hope the monsters kill.MorganL4 said:The Guillermo del Toro equasion for Summer Blockbuster epicness:
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Shinji + Idris Elba + Ron Pearlman^2 = TOTAL EPICNESS
Thats like wishing people would quit comparing Star Trek and Star Wars.... With out one the other CERTAINLY would not exist.