Movie: Pacific Rim

[Illrenmazou]

Its screening is only less than two months away but there's no thread in sight. Let's fix that.

Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket
Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau
Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost
Charlie Day as Dr. Newton Geiszler
Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
Ellen McLain as Jaeger Computer Voice

Written by: Guillermo del Toro, Travis Beacham, and Drew Pearce.
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro

With del Toro at the helm, I'm quite confident that this will be the best mecha movie made outside Japan.

[Animeniax]

Giant robots fighting giant monsters! It's like the 80s and 90s are making a comeback.

One weird thing I noticed, both guys controlling the suits seemed to do everything in unison, which is weird since aren't they each controlling their own suit?

[Illrenmazou]

Piloting a 2,500 ton robot is too much to bear for a single pilot. So a pair of pilots who are locked in a neural bridge and must move in tandem to control one. This is also the reason why people who share the same history like siblings, twins, parent and child, or couples are chosen as pilots for optimum synchronicity.

The exception to this is the Crimson Typhoon which is piloted by triplets for extra control of the third arm, and the Coyote Tango which is piloted by a single person because its one of the early models(and also the most under performing).

Here are the posters(which somehow look like model kit boxes) of the five main Jaegers of the movie.

[Kraco]

It looks good, and not too goofy either. Based on those mecha in Illrenmazou's post, it looks like the economic collapse in Europe is so bad the countries here couldn't fund a mecha even if our survival depended on it. So realistic it's sad.

[Sapphire]

Piloting a 2,500 ton robot is too much to bear for a single pilot. So a pair of pilots who are locked in a neural bridge and must move in tandem to control one. This is also the reason why people who share the same history like siblings, twins, parent and child, or couples are chosen as pilots for optimum synchronicity.

The exception to this is the Crimson Typhoon which is piloted by triplets for extra control of the third arm, and the Coyote Tango which is piloted by a single person because its one of the early models(and also the most under performing).

Here are the posters(which somehow look like model kit boxes) of the five main Jaegers of the movie.

Oh wow. The level of thought that went into this (much more than the typical neural link = naked orgasm) is freakin' AWESOME.

[Carnage]

It looks good, and not too goofy either. Based on those mecha in Illrenmazou's post, it looks like the economic collapse in Europe is so bad the countries here couldn't fund a mecha even if our survival depended on it. So realistic it's sad.

Don't worry, maybe you guys'll get a gun or two....

[Animeniax]

It looks good, and not too goofy either. Based on those mecha in Illrenmazou's post, it looks like the economic collapse in Europe is so bad the countries here couldn't fund a mecha even if our survival depended on it. So realistic it's sad.

Thinking about it a minute, the countries that own these bots all surround the Pacific ocean, hence Pacific Rim. It's nothing to insult Europe about, there's plenty of other things for that.

Oh wow. The level of thought that went into this (much more than the typical neural link = naked orgasm) is freakin' AWESOME.

It is a pretty great post. Thanks Illrenmazou.

Here are the posters(which somehow look like model kit boxes) of the five main Jaegers of the movie.

Yeah that's a clever way to promote the movie by making them look like model kits.

I think the Japanese Jaeger needs bigger guns and the Russian one needs a hammer and sickle, though it's right hand does look vaguely hammerish.

[Kraco]

Thinking about it a minute, the countries that own these bots all surround the Pacific ocean, hence Pacific Rim. It's nothing to insult Europe about, there's plenty of other things for that.

Yeah. I wasn't altogether serious, especially since I had just before posting read the description telling the movie is about monsters emerging from the Pacific Ocean.

[Animeniax]

Yeah. I wasn't altogether serious, especially since I had just before posting read the description telling the movie is about monsters emerging from the Pacific Ocean.

I didn't notice it at first until I saw that Australia has one, at which point I wondered why they would have one and not some other more powerful countries/unions.

[Illrenmazou]

It’s also interesting to note that the Aussie bot is the strongest Jaeger of the bunch.



And Japan having the weakest is really laughable considering they kick started the mecha genre.

[darkshadow]

Seems eureka is a fking beast, those are SNK boss syndrome stats.

[Animeniax]

Yeah that doesn't seem right. Typically having more speed means less power or less armor, or strength in one area means weakness in others. Is the movie based in Australia with Australian heroes? Charlie Hunnam has a pretty heavy Brit accent that could be tweaked to Aussie.

The PR wiki says it is the latest model but also has the most kills.

And Japan having the weakest is really laughable considering they kick started the mecha genre.

That's particularly bad since of all the countries Japan is most likely to actually have real world giant robots being constructed right now.

[Kraco]

That's particularly bad since of all the countries Japan is most likely to actually have real world giant robots being constructed right now.

That doesn't really matter. Even if they did, the USA would have twice as strong a robot in short order if there was any weapon potential in the design. Europe would have a fifty percent better robot - but that wouldn't help much because Europe would run out of money before more than 50% was finished, haha. Australia has the strongest one because they stole all the best parts from the others and combined them into a super robot. You know those Australians.

[Buffalobiian]

We eat deadly animals for breakfast. Pacific or w/e.

[Animeniax]

That doesn't really matter. Even if they did, the USA would have twice as strong a robot in short order if there was any weapon potential in the design. Europe would have a fifty percent better robot - but that wouldn't help much because Europe would run out of money before more than 50% was finished, haha. Australia has the strongest one because they stole all the best parts from the others and combined them into a super robot. You know those Australians.

I think US military might is overrated. The Japanese are doing the smart thing. They're letting the US spend billions of dollars to protect and shield them, meanwhile using the money they save to develop secret projects like giant robots.

You're pretty hard on the Euros and Aussies .

[Sapphire]

You guys should check out the other movies that the heroine of this movie, Rinko Kikuchi, is in. She is REALLY good at playing the crazy biatch role (Brothers Bloom, Babel, etc.). She didn't even say a WORD those two roles too, which is insane. I think this shows her awesome fearlessness in committing to a role and owning it.

There is also a blatant vagina shot of her in Babel, which I'm sure degenerate pervs like Ani/Buff/Kraco/everyone on this board will take well to.

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PR Wiki also says the Japanese Jaeger is the oldest one in service, which you could spin to mean that Japan was one of the fastest to develop a prototype to save the world!

A comic is coming out soon.

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When does this movie come out again?! What I really, really want to know is how society reacted to this and how they fare now, as well as the economic and political implications of this. Society after a disaster is fascinating.

[Animeniax]

I didn't realize it's the same girl from Babel. She isn't too appealing in that, and all you see of her in that one scene is bush.

That's cool that Japan had the first Jaeger. Still, considering how they like to update technology you'd think they'd have a newer model available.

[Illrenmazou]

That's cool that Japan had the first Jaeger. Still, considering how they like to update technology you'd think they'd have a newer model available.

Uhh... about that:

7Jaegers appear "active" in the film and 2 more "passive" or as BG but 4 get big screen action. 7 kaijus do battle, and four more appear in archival footage or as remains. Plus two king of Aliens.

Coyote is built in America but stationed in Japan. The Japanese solo Jaeger Tacit Ronin appears in doco footage.

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del Toro himself posts in this fan made forum to answer questions and clarifications.
source: http://www.deltorofilms.com/wp/forum...t+ronin#p16733

-The Tacit Ronin is stationed in South America with the Chilean Jaeger Diablo Intercept
-The Jaeger in the cover of the Graphic novel is called Horizon Brave
-The one in the victory parade is the Romeo Blue

BTW, the video in the opening post is second trailer. Here is the first one:



And there's a 1.5! This one was shown during the CES Qualcomn 2013. It's just the first one but with more footage



A third trailer was shown on Hero Complex Film Fest. Those who saw it said it was glorious and at the same time spoiler-ish.

[Animeniax]

It's weird then that the box art labels Coyote Tango as the "Giant Japanese Techno-Tyrant" if it's made in America and controlled by Americans. Or is it Japanese design, constructed in America, like some of their cars?

Or is it that the movie mirrors real life where the US defends Japan militarily? In our world where we only defend against potential dangers, this is a fine arrangement. But in a world with real threats from sea monsters, it doesn't make sense that the Japanese wouldn't have their own Jaeger.

[Sapphire]

It's weird then that the box art labels Coyote Tango as the "Giant Japanese Techno-Tyrant" if it's made in America and controlled by Americans. Or is it Japanese design, constructed in America, like some of their cars?

Or is it that the movie mirrors real life where the US defends Japan militarily? In our world where we only defend against potential dangers, this is a fine arrangement. But in a world with real threats from sea monsters, it doesn't make sense that the Japanese wouldn't have their own Jaeger.

Yeah, these are the questions I have, too.

We also don't know how much the infrastructures of these Pacific Rim nations were destroyed, so that may account for who builds what.

But why don't we see contributions from other countries?! Politics aside, it seems more like a "world" threat than something localized lol.