GlaDOS Gets Screen Time in Pacific Rim Trailer

[Owen Robertson]

Hmmm... the impression I get from this trailer is basically Neon Genesis-lite, except with crappier looking mecha.

Don't get me wrong, I freaking love Guillermo Del Toro. But this trailer doesn't strike me as being particularly Del Toro-esque in any way. It looks like a bunch of standard action scenes, combined with elements already thoroughly deconstructed by Gundam and Neon Genesis years ago.

I could be mistaken, and it could turn out to be awesome. But the trailer hasn't sold me, and I've already got anime shows and films that provide me with all the 'giant mecha vs kaiju' I need. So yeah... next trailer must try harder...

It's supposed to be a Western-accessible version of "giant fucking robots with pilots". It can't look realistic AND as mobile as the mechas in NGE or Gundam. It's one or the other. Oh also, watching giant fucking robots shoot lasers at aliens? Cool. Watching giant fucking robots sword-fight with aliens? Cooler. Watching giant fucking robots beat the shit out of aliens in bare knuckle brawls? Coolest.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Del Toro and Ellen McClain?

My mind cannot begin to process the epic that this (could) be.

Your brain can't repel awesomeness of this magnitude?

 

[GLo Jones]

If you look at the design specs [http://www.pacificrimmovie.net/gallery] for the mechs, you'll see that they don't all require two people. Japan's only has one pilot, while China's actually requires three.

 

[Loop Stricken]

If you look at the design specs [http://www.pacificrimmovie.net/gallery] for the mechs, you'll see that they don't all require two people. Japan's only has one pilot, while China's actually requires three.

Well that's because the Japanese have clearly been trained for this, watching all that anime. Giant robots just grok for them, so they don't need two people!

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Del Toro and Ellen McClain?

My mind cannot begin to process the epic that this (could) be.

Your brain can't repel awesomeness of this magnitude?

The potential of this is off the charts.

Let us hope it achieves it.

 

[Owen Robertson]

It's supposed to be a Western-accessible version of "giant fucking robots with pilots". It can't look realistic AND as mobile as the mechas in NGE or Gundam.

There is nothing realistic about the concept of mecha at all. Realistically, the concept is a technological dead end with no real purpose or strengths. The entire idea of mecha is based around looking cool. With that in mind, I'd rather Del Toro either went for something more non-human and military vehicle-esque, a la Metal Gear Rex, or just went the whole hog and made humanoid mecha that actually look appealing, a la the EVA Units or GUNDAM. The ones in the trailer just look clumsy, badly proportioned and have weird looking heads. Me no likey.

It's one or the other. Oh also, watching giant fucking robots shoot lasers at aliens? Cool. Watching giant fucking robots sword-fight with aliens? Cooler. Watching giant fucking robots beat the shit out of aliens in bare knuckle brawls? Coolest.

You know, it's easy to get jaded with Rule of Cool when it seems to be all Hollywood is interested in presenting people. I've seen about a dozen films over the last few years where robots and mecha beat the crap out of something or other...

I get that. I meant: make them look like they could be real OR make them fly and do backflips. You only have enough in the budget for one when your actually making a good movie.

I think the heads contain the processors and electronics and the rest of it is gears and hydraulics and shit to make it move.

In regards to your other point, why make a movie with giant fucking robots in it if you're not going for the rule of cool. If you put giant fucking robots in it, then make it about humanity and it's all artistic, the frat boys and children who went to see it won't get it and will call it shit (like the knobs in my class who went to see Watchmen). You'd have to advertise it correctly. No studio is particularly interested in making art. It's just about return on their dollar.

 

[Product Placement]

Yeah... I thought it was a little odd that they not only got Ellen McClain to voice the A.I. but that they treated it so that it sounds exactly like GlaDOS. I mean, what is the point, other then to get fans of Portal to sqee and line up to see the movie?

I'm also not a huge fan of exposition trailers, where the main character drones on and on about the plot. If you feel the need to spell out the story, so that I can understand what's going on, you're not a good cinematic storyteller.

It's supposed to be a Western-accessible version of "giant fucking robots with pilots". It can't look realistic AND as mobile as the mechas in NGE or Gundam.

There is nothing realistic about the concept of mecha at all. Realistically, the concept is a technological dead end with no real purpose or strengths. The entire idea of mecha is based around looking cool.

Spoiler: At very least, the justification behind the Evas in NGE is that...

At very least, the justification behind the Evas in NGE is that they weren't actually mechas but bionic hybrid clones of the angels that were attacking. Since the angels had those impenetrable A.T. Fields that conventional weaponry can't penetrate, they needed to build those Evas so that they had something that could generate a similar field that would cancel out the one protecting the Angels.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

Guillermo Del Toro makes movie with giant robots fighting giant monsters. At the end of the film Cthulhu rises for the final battle. I want this to happen.

 

[Zenn3k]

Plot seems kinda weak, BUT at least its kind of an original idea to create giant death robots to fight giant death creatures with...so thats a plus.

GLaDOS's voice seems like a strange fit, but its neat to hear it in there, doesn't make me want to see the movie more than if it wasn't there, but its a neat nod to our culture.

 

[Loop Stricken]

What are you... oh, I see. Yes, technically that is the only mecha in the series. However, for the purposes of generalisation, the EVA units count as well, and goddamn do they look sexy. The mecha in this trailer just look like clumsy supersized versions of the Crysis suit.

But that's entirely because the Eva armour is just a suit.

 

[antipunt]

What the hell did I just watch..

 

[Call Me Jose]

This is going to be the most awesome terrible movie I'll have seen in a while.

This guy said it best, I was thinking this the whole time watching the trailer as well.

 

[Nicole Maronn]

I know everyone has already said this but yes, I also saw traces of Evangelion in this trailer. Still, pretty cool they got Ellen McClain (aka GLaDOS) involved. I like Guillermo del Toro as a director (Pan's Labyrinth is one of my favorite foreign language movies). I think I might check this out if I'm bored and I'm in desperate need of a movie date night with the BF; other than that, I'll just wait for the DVD and rent it.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Movie not out, fans already discussing sequel. God I love fans. When they're not rabid, that is.

 

[ryukage_sama]

I'm going to need a minute to recover from my nerdgasm.

 

[shintakie10]

I watched it and I was mostly eh about the whole thing.

The plot basically sounds like its just an excuse to have giant robots fight monsters. Unfortunately for me, those giant robots looked like shit. I'm not a huge fan of the "realistic" lookin robots because they're tryin to be realistic with a premise that is completely ridiculous. Why can't they just let the robots be pretty instead of just giant gray blobs?

 

[Olrod]

Two things wrong with that video: unskippable advert that wastes far too much time, and not enough Ellen McClain.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I also note from this trailer's very quick credits that the film will also star 'Sons of Anarchy' luminaries Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman

 

[Kapri]

Any one else think the monster looks like a Dodongo from Legend of Zelda?

 

[ryukage_sama]

What are you... oh, I see. Yes, technically that is the only mecha in the series. However, for the purposes of generalisation, the EVA units count as well, and goddamn do they look sexy. The mecha in this trailer just look like clumsy supersized versions of the Crysis suit.

But that's entirely because the Eva armour is just a suit.

Could it be that the robot in Pacific Rim are similar to the Evangelion Units in that they are also suits of armor built on top of an alien body to control and additionally empower/arm them?