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Pacific Rim: at the edge of our patience, at the end of our waiting
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The short: There are kaiju. Not monsters, kaiju. Then people build robots to fight the kaiju so not everyone is crushed/eaten.
The long: Let's see what Del Toro has to say about his project:
“I wanted to explore how some of the characters would not get along in real life, actually hate each other, but they’re good at something. You
know like, I was never a great dancer obviously, but as a kid ,as you saw couples that fought all the time, but they danced beautifully together and I thought this would be great to have two characters that hated each other, but when the time comes they can pilot, they’re good at that. They can black out all the differences and come together. The movie is not an individual thing, coming together is what saves us. The Kaijus are completely individualistic, sheer force, and the pilots need to join together. Most of the characters in the movie don’t get together and then they come together and it works. Which I think is what it means to be human.”
“And we come from the point of view that we are vanquished. We are the resistance. We are coming at the moment when you must keep calm and carry on. You know, rationing. People are
hungry, people are working for food. Humanity is not triumphant. We are trying to build a wall that is 300 miles around the coastline, it’s an uninhabited force all across the pacific. Food is the coin of the realm. We are at the lowest and at the lowest we take the approach that we are not going with white teeth, blonde hair, super Aryan heroes coming to save humanity. We’re going with a Japanese girl, an Australian team, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, we have a Peruvian-Chinese that is played by Clifton Collins Jr..”
“I carefully avoided the car commercial aesthetics or the army recruitment video aesthetics. I avoided
making a movie about an army with ranks. I avoided making any kind of message that says war is good. We have enough firepower in the world. I was very careful how I built the movie.
One of the other things I decided was that I wanted a female lead (Babel’s Rinko Kikuchi) who has the equal force as the male leads. She’s not going to be a sex kitten, she’s not going to come out in cutoff shorts and a tank top, and it’s going to be a real earnestly drawn character. One of the decisions we made as we went along in the process of the movie was, let’s not have a love story. Let’s have a story about two people…
I have been offered movies that have huge budgets that have war at its centre and I said, ‘I don’t do that.’ I have two daughters and I wanted to make this movie for kids. It’s my lightest movie and yet it’s one of the most precise, adult exercises in world design I’ve ever made. It has the craft of a 48-year-old (del Toro’s age) and the heart of a 12-year-old.
What I wanted was for kids to see a movie where they don’t need to aspire to be in an army to aspire for an adventure. And I used very deliberate language that is a reference to westerns. I don’t have captains, majors, generals. I have a marshal, rangers…it has the language of an adventure movie. I want kids to come out of the movie and say, I want to be a Jaeger pilot! I really think that would be my dream come true.”
this is coming out like tomorrow and people are probably gonna wanna talk about it huh
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Because here it is already tomorrow.
Cut to today where I found that page, and now I have a second ticket pre-ordered for a 7:00 pm show at my regular theater
I would like to say I Just Blais'd It (@T4CT)
Preeeeeeeeeeeety excited for it
But was this all from your ipad?
Gotta stick that landing
There are tears in my eyes
It's the iOSing on the cake
The movie will be there on Friday, Foley will not.
All of them. Together.
You really don't want to know the specifics.
You're one of my favorites, Gatsby
I'd even say you're the greatest Gatsby I know
named Alex Jaeger
Is anyone here surprised?
Still a better dad than Frank Reynolds.
Why I fear the ocean.
oh but I do
I just am amazed. This movie is beautiful and bombastic and has some amazing acting and the soundtrack is so fucking rad, I want it in my veins.
CAN'T WAIT
CAN'T
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
It's an entirely different beast, but I think I like it more. It doesn't transport you to child like joy in the same way, but it has the same audiovisual effect of tearing open your skull and pouring life into you.
I might enjoy this movie more than any other movie I've seen, but it needs at least two rewatches and time for the immersion to wear off for me to make a real judgement.
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This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
And SUPER SECRET SPOILER
but
I'm thinking of going tonight
bad idea? tell me it's a bad idea
Go NOW.
Also Ron Perlman has enormous feet.
I did it on my windows 8 phone, so I'ma get that sweet sweet 5.4 from the Ukrainian judge
The movie does not laugh at its concept or make miles of references to the history it draws on. It takes the concept and the world and goes full bore into the heart of it.
It is beautiful,
This is where, depending on who I am talking to, I might lean into my Timbersaw ava/sig combo and make a joke about that
But in this case; dang Gatsby ice cold, now to up my score I'm going to see both showings because I probably could (How long is this movie anyway?) and also my college orientation is the day after tomorrow
But I most know...I must know of this movie's greatness.
I am ridiculously pumped.
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I ducking can't wait to report back