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Pacific Rim: at the edge of our patience, at the end of our waiting
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I was kinda nervous about it at first, especially given that I technically have a lazy eye and that seems like the kind of thing that could mess up 3d glasses, but it worked perfectly
I don't really have a frame of reference, and I can very easily see how 3d could become an obnoxious gimmick real fast, but its use in pacific rim was just as downright solid as everything else about the movie. the 3d trailers had all this stuff flying out of the screen- there was one in particular that should have just been called "Stuff Blows Up and People Float Into the Endless Void of Space" that was particularly egregious about it- but in pacific rim itself it was more or less completely unobtrusive except in the "holy shit, I can't believe that looks like that" kind of way every so often. very little stuff coming "towards" the viewer, but the effect is used a lot to convey depth and scale in a really cool way
NO SHAKYCAM OR FAKE DOCU STYLE ZOOMS
absolutely.
then the beckett brothers say fuck that and they go after the boat. they try to save everyone. and sure, gipsy danger gets ruined and one of them dies, but that might have happened anyways- and they save the boat. they save those people.
it's actually used as convenient shorthand later in the film, in sydney. we see the striker eureka / kaiju fight from an angle where there are people on top of a building of some kind, and striker eureka ends up slamming the kaiju into that building during the fight to get some leverage. the next thing you see? chuck hansen boasting in front of the cameras. jaeger pilots are rock stars and chuck hansen is a jackass, double check
Every minute of it.
It was great.
But now I feel super sick every time I move I feel really hot and tired and I think I'ma go lay down til my doctor's appointment tomorrow morning.
Some stuff re: that stuff you said!
I totally feel you on the Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha dying way fast, but they had to let Gipsy Danger bring itself up and redeem itself in a real fight, I feel, and yeah Crimson or Cherno probably should have killed one between them before going down but I feel like that wouldn't have given the ending that feeling of danger and desperation if Gipsy didn't get beat to hell and back or one of those two Jaegers made it.
there was me, one other lone woman, a family, what looked like two father/son outings, a few couples, and two girls who sat right in front of me talking about how pacific rim was basically evangelion just all americanized and I just glared at them from behind my 3d glasses
agree 100%
Two crucial things Pacific Rim had that Man of Steel lacked:
The destruction felt real. You really believed that cities were actually being destroyed - living cities with living people. The world wasn't a CGI playground for a heavyhanded director to smash all his toys, it felt like Del Toro and co took the time and care to craft a real world.
It had an appropriate amount of gravity and seriousness, because the end of the world is a serious matter. But there was also a sense of fun and excitement. Because robots are really cool and this is thrilling pulpy adventure.
Did anyone else think "Is this a Witcher movie? This feels like a Witcher movie."
They were quite obviously an homage to Votoms.
Also I really like this movie, the action was fantastic the pace was great and the plot was good fun.
I'm not Australian, but my time here made me cringe basically every time the Australian accent was even vaguely exaggerated
both Blake and I burst out laughing when Martini said the word "table" like "tybull"
Oh yeah, Cuaron's new film looks like Mirror's Edge In Space.
But it was an early showing on a preopening night.
it has *THREE FUCKING ARMS* and all they do with that is rotate the upper body 180 degrees to throw the kaiju into the water
oh nooooooo not WATER
I was waiting the whole time for the triplets to be all HEY LET'S BE BADASSES but nope
I mean yeah, I'm glad they addressed it within the space of the movie that it was a futile idea and the jaegers were the only realistic answer
but I guess if the idea was "the governments of the world have completely given up fighting the war because of the blood/treasury/resources required to do so and the wall is a big distraction/pancea", its very much up to interpretation
but the wall isn't the point of the film, its just the reason to gather all the characters for the rest of the story, so its fine either way
But at the same time I felt like it was missing something, and I can't place my finger on what
To be honest I thought Kazinsky's was far far worse and I wasn't quite sure if Martini was actually Australian and just exaggerating it for the movie's sake. He actually sounded like a friend of my dad.
Steam ID - VeldrinD
this reminds me I need to seethe about asinine theater ads, I just got to
let's leave behind that the trailers included such book adaptations as the twilight/underworld mashup and that one that looks like a cheap fantasy ripoff of another cheap fantasy ripoff, I'm just talking ads here
there was one that featured two attractive young people in a musty old used bookstore. they reach for a book at the same time! the boy lets the girl have it and leaves. the girl buys it, then follows the boy and gives it to him! then they have a delightful midnight romp through the city, late-night musty old used bookstore-goers that they are, and they are delightful and charming and beautiful and having fun and falling in love and do you know what the ad is for?
mcdonald's.
it's the most cynical kind of calculated, painstakingly assembled attempts to stoke the cold embers of emotion and it just sickened me in a way that I can't really articulate and find oddly disproportionate for a stupid commercial. just shut up mcdonald's, I'm a miserable person, I will always be a miserable person, don't lie to me as part of some unfathomably moronic plan to sell me fucking egg mcmuffins
I felt Imax would probably be overwhelming, and I didn't want to see it in 3D and have the colors a tiny bit desaturated. Vibrant crazy colors. And the rain and water effects were incredible.
I want to emphasize that the whole thing had an incredible amount of visual clarity. Even the murkiest or most chaotic scenes were relatively clear and easy to follow.
God everyone associated with that movie looks like a vampire the masquerade larper.
probably would have improved it greatly
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I keep coming back to adjectives that could be used to describe giant robots themselves: solid, heavy, weighty, powerful, stylish
- conventional attempts to combat the aliens are extremely ineffective until inventiveness and technology provide a non-conventional option.
- one of the protagonists is a man with a fraternal bond with another character who is killed as a consequence of overconfidence when fighting the aliens.
- one of the protagonists has history with the aliens and seeks vengeance.
- a protagonist sacrifices himself in an explosion to defeat an alien threat.
- a man who studies and profits from the aliens and the destruction they cause is killed by those aliens.
- there is a potential suicide mission involving a nuclear payload.
- access to the alien's home territory requires a measure of subterfuge.
- the aliens operate on a basis of moving from planet to planet, exterminating any extant life and stripping the planet of resources. they operate via some kind of telepathic link.
- a character learns the above fact via getting a glimpse into the mind of one of the aliens.
- a member of the alien species looks upon the instrument of its own nuclear obliteration in brief confusion (before being obliterated).
- a figure of authority makes an impassioned speech to a crowd before the climactic action scene.
- the film contains obvious themes of cooperation and hope.
It wasn't terribly uncomfortable; the previews were actually way worse in terms of volume than the actual movie.
Plus, it's worth it just to feel the bass thump through your chest with every hit, and it makes the fight sequences even more satisfying, which shouldn't really be possible.
No offense to Cuaron, but Gravity looks like the dumbest thing.
"Oh, it's a movie about Sandra Bullock and George Clooney floating about in space, I'm definitely gonna pay to see that."
Maybe the most effective trailer I've ever seen for anything
there's george clooney talking about how great space is
then everything blows up
then a person floats away into the forever blackness
how do you pad that out to theatrical length, was that the entire movie right there
"What?"
"The sunrise."
And then cue the sound of gagging noises from the assembled audience.
Well how about I go see it and save you the trouble then
Turns out he did Children of Men, I liked that movie
I don't think I'd be able to watch Gravity though, I'd break out in chokes
Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter 3 (which is the best of the Harry Potter movies, take that how you will)