Movie: Pacific Rim

[Animeniax]

Transformers did well enough, though.

Pac Rim made a little more than half than that, opening weekend though. :/

Are Megan Fox's wiles that great?!

To me after the first Transformers movie it was all downhill for the franchise. Another giant robot movie has to overcome the distaste that the last 2 Transformers movies left in peoples' minds as well as be awesome on its own. Did PR even have a hot female lead for the giant robo fanboys to drool over?

[enkoujin]

Why did people have to wait for FOUR invasions until they started building Jaegars? Seriously?

Can't remember the details too much, but wasn't it because regular military weapons were slightly adequate enough to handle the first couple?

There's also bureaucracy, raising capital, and developing the technology to deal with the Kaiju. Weren't they running tests with neural link after the first couple appeared?

I might be wrong, but I was laughing when Stacker was on a conference with the world leaders. The UK seemed the most concerned of all despite not bordering the Pacific Ocean and Canada was barking out orders. But I guess if they knew that the Kaiju were planning to colonize the planet and their lobbyists' foreign investments were at stake, I'd be pretty desperate for results too.

I liked the movie; I watched it in 3D, but at times, it was difficult to tell what was happening during the action scenes. Plot could have been more complex, but I still liked it.

[Carnage]

People suck, what's there left to say?

[Animeniax]

I liked the movie; I watched it in 3D, but at times, it was difficult to tell what was happening during the action scenes. Plot could have been more complex, but I still liked it.

I think they used the same trick in Transformers where they purposefully make it difficult to tell what is happening in complex battle scenes. It helps to disguise flaws in CGI rendering quality.

[shinta|hikari]

It was much better in that aspect compared to Transformers. In PR. the darkness and debris sometimes makes the action harder to follow, but in Transformers, even perfect visual conditions still don't help clarity.

[Animeniax]

I've been meaning to watch the fight scenes in Transformers in slow mo to see if all the robots are fully rendered and differentiated.

I noticed how the darkness and weather effects blurred the robot action in PR even in the trailers.

[Sapphire]

Yeah, the rain and darkness was a little annoying in PR, but I remember not really being able to see jack shit in some of the Transformers scenes. Like insane closeups to the extent where all you see it metal clashing around lol.

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I liked the movie; I watched it in 3D, but at times, it was difficult to tell what was happening during the action scenes. Plot could have been more complex, but I still liked it.

I'm super surprised you were able to enjoy the movie at all in 3D! The only two positive experiences I had with 3D were when I watched Up and Avatar. It seemed to make the colors more vibrant rather than have a 3D effect. My latest attempt to watch the latest Star Trek 2 movie was disastrous, though (as usual).

I agree that the plot could have been more complex. For example, they totally glossed over how commercialism and greed came into play with the Kaiju. I guess Charlie Day was a great example about how the Kaiju came to be mystified and idolized, but they might as well have not mentioned it.

[rockmanj]

This movie was fucking awesome and that's pretty much all there is the say about it.

I agree...I almost soiled my pants when


SPOILER



Gypsy Danger sliced that one monster in in the air with the sword

[Death BOO Z]

for a movie that was betting on the foreign market (I.E not USA), this movie had surprisingly few non-American doing anything. sure, there was the japansese pilot chick, but aside from her accent (which was probably true, but still charming), she was a usual 'yellow babe'. the Russians and the Chinese didn't get to do nothing (I can't recall any of them speaking outside of their jagers). the main characters were white asshole, japanses chick, black commander, aussie father and aussie douche, and two white (one brit? one german?) science guys. I know that Asians love giant robots, but they could've thrown them a bone with some speaking roles.

also, the nukes did work on the kaijus, right? so why not just drop one on them once they surface. or just have some jager hold the beast and then nuke it.

[darkshadow]

Few non-americans? Literally only Raleigh was american. And how was he an asshole?
And yes her accent is real, she didn't even speak english very well a couple of years ago.
Also the Kaiju adapt, did you miss that? If they kept nuking them they would've adapted against it, in fact, Slattern was near death and it still survived a point blank nuclear explosion.

[shinta|hikari]

That was weird though. Aren't nukes killing things with impact and heat? If a nuke doesn't kill it point blank, no punching or slashing from a giant robot can even hurt it.

I do understand why the last one had to survive though. It was necessary for the suspense in the final jump. It can also be explained by simply saying that the final Kaiju was invulnerable.

[darkshadow]

Cept he wasn't, Striker was straight up killing it; Slattern might've adapted to withstand force and heat more, but Striker has those giant blades.
Striker and Gipsy were the only two with blades, and they only used them at the very end.

[shinta|hikari]

So that means that the final boss had soft skin but was impact and heat resistant. What a weird adaptation.

Didn't the Chinese Jaeger also have blades? Three spinning ones, in fact.

[enkoujin]

Yeah, but those Chinese brothers sucked ass.

What would you expect from three Chinese guys playing basketball who aren't Yao Ming?

[darkshadow]

They had little tiny finger blades, which functioned more as a slow, ghetto sawblade. Otachi in fact was the result of adaptation to completely dominate Crimson, that's why she just grabbed the hands to stop the blades from turning.

Slattern's skin is prolly really tough so it can withstand explosions, but that's not going to help against piercing/bladed weapons.
Prolly why Striker's missiles were disabled, they would've straight up wrecked Slattern since they are not only armour piercing but also have a burrowing mechanism so not even hard bone stops them.

The kaiju are still organic in nature, so there is only so much they can adapt to when it comes to taking damage, and it seems piercing/heavy blades and concentrated heat are one weakness they can't overcome.

[Ryllharu]

Why did the Russian Jaeger pilots wear suits without facemasks or air? Yes, it looked cooler, but that's also the reason they died. They couldn't do a whole lot when they were struggling to breathe because the compartment was ruptured.

Considering the first fight we see is Gipsy Danger getting its pilot compartment punctured, having all jaegers equipped with air systems would have been a good idea.

They got blown up underwater, so plotwise it wouldn't have mattered, but drowning is a shitty way to go.

[darkshadow]

Hubris, Cherno was literally the toughest Jaeger they had, that's why Otachi had acid to weaken its armour.

[rockmanj]

Hubris, Cherno was literally the toughest Jaeger they had, that's why Otachi had acid to weaken its armour.

I also believe that the Russians' fighting philosophy was that they either win or die. If you look into the other materials, you would see that the Russian models don't have escape pods either.

[Y]

Imagine if the first 30-50 minutes of Speed Racer were devoted to explaining what a 'car' is, and why people were racing them. "I was fifteen when I saw the first speed race... They called them automobiles... Driving very quickly... We built them because horses were too slow..." Just interminably. That's Pacific Rim.

Del Toro fans might recall how Hellboy 2 unceremoniously ditches the bland human audience-identification character from the first film, having Hellboy and the other monsters go rogue from their government organization to have wild pagan monster adventures. Imagine if they killed off Hellboy instead. That's also this film.

Just gonna leave this here.

[Illrenmazou]

The explaining part took only a several minutes and it was done during the prologue. Some people were still asking "Why not just nuke the monsters instead of building giant robots?" even of it was clearly explained. Now, imagine if they left out that part -_-
As for the Hellboy part, it didn't feel like it at all.