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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #30 on: 12 July 2013, 08:48:54 »
If this movie does well enough that we can convince Hollywood that THIS is the guy to be doing action blockbusters instead of Bay, we just might be heading into a new golden age of cinema.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #31 on: 12 July 2013, 08:52:08 »
Trace, I hate you. Now I'm going to have that hanging over my head until I can get to an unblocked computer to listen to it! >:(

I just had this blissful idea of Del Toro doing a Transformers film, now I need to take up smoking to say I need a light.  [drool]

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #32 on: 12 July 2013, 08:55:17 »
Trace, I hate you. Now I'm going to have that hanging over my head until I can get to an unblocked computer to listen to it! >:(

Del Toro: One shall stand, one shall fall!

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Del Toro: I thought you were made of cooler stuff.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #33 on: 12 July 2013, 08:55:22 »
  You mean like the main theme music, AKA Gipsy Danger’s character music?  [drool] [rockon]

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #34 on: 12 July 2013, 08:57:04 »
  You mean like the main theme music, AKA Gipsy Danger’s character music?  [drool] [rockon]
Well this soundtrack just made it in my list alongside the OMF 2097 main theme.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #35 on: 12 July 2013, 09:00:48 »
Trace, I hate you. Now I'm going to have that hanging over my head until I can get to an unblocked computer to listen to it! >:(
  Trust me, it's worth the wait.  8)

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #36 on: 12 July 2013, 10:43:27 »
I'll be seeing it Saturday on IMAX in 3D.... been pumped since first trailer and all the buzz I'm hearing seems to confirm my wait will be worth it.

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #37 on: 12 July 2013, 13:35:03 »
Watched it last night at a 10PM screening.

Great movie, just for what it is ROBOTS vs. MONSTERS!  ;D

The CGI/props were fantastic, had the urge to punch right along with the Jagers!
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #38 on: 12 July 2013, 13:36:51 »
This movie has nothing to do with Battletech IMO. Just big robots beating up monsters in a city. It's Godzilla vs Robot Jox to me. It's going to be a fun movie for me, I will be laughing and cheering. But does that make a good movie for everyone else.....far from it.

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« Reply #39 on: 12 July 2013, 16:01:26 »
just saw it today.. it was fantastic normally even movies I like I find something critical wrong with the film.. some plot home.. something that took me away from my enjoyment even for a sec.. this movie didn't.  It deliver exactly what I was expecting and wanted to see.  While I would had like to have more action between monster and robot what I did get was more then enough to satisfy me stay to the end to see how Pearlman make out in the film

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« Reply #41 on: 12 July 2013, 16:11:31 »
Okay, everyone, I need opinions: should I get tickets to this in 3D or will regular ol' 2D suffice?
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« Reply #42 on: 12 July 2013, 16:13:14 »
Okay, everyone, I need opinions: should I get tickets to this in 3D or will regular ol' 2D suffice?

I did not see it in 3-D (I can't... my eyes and brain don't process it properly) so I can't say.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #43 on: 12 July 2013, 16:18:59 »
Okay, everyone, I need opinions: should I get tickets to this in 3D or will regular ol' 2D suffice?

saw it in 3D thought it was great but none of the scene need to be scene that way.  while the transition work aka nothing out of whack.. I think you are till good and it wont hurt you to see it in 2D

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #44 on: 12 July 2013, 16:19:56 »
Same here, I saw it in 2-D. (I can see 3-D, but it rarely adds much to my experience.)

It's more expensive, there's usually less available times...I avoid 3-D shows unless I REALLY like a movie, want to see it in theaters a second time, AND feel like it would be worth the extra cash(after all, a ticket saved is a cruiser earned). Pacific Rim was perfectly enjoyable in 2-D.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #45 on: 12 July 2013, 16:59:26 »
Saw it and had a great time!  I wish Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha had gotten more screen time, but the movie was still damn good.  Everything I hoped for and more when I saw the trailers!
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #46 on: 12 July 2013, 18:17:56 »
Oh my god, that soundtrack. . .like hot metal in my ears.  :D Hot, gloriously sexy metal. [drool]

Getting this when it comes out on DVD, plus the full soundtrack AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  ;D

I'd love to explore this universe some more, learn about the other Jaegers and the other Kaiju. . .

Suffice to say I'll be snapping up all the stuff they release for this for a long time to come.  Maybe a decent board game. . .hell, I bet any action figures coming of the back of this will be sweet as hell!

(oh, did any one else get a massive robot-hard on when Idris Elba casually mentioned that the Hong Kong Shatter Dome could support 30 Jaegers?  Was I the only one struck temporarily blind by the awesome imagined sight of 30 jesus wept Jaegers riding forth like the heralds of a metal apocalypse to bring down the hammer?)

In short: GO SEE THIS MOVIE!
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #47 on: 12 July 2013, 19:09:16 »
You know several years ago somebody posted house rules for titanic mechs that could weigh like a thousand tons.  I think we've found a purpose for those rules. 

Now we just need a few things to turn the metal up to 11.  Like Jaeger-scale mech chainsaws, capitol scale flamethrowers and plasma cannons, a giant handheld weapon that's a cross between a mech-mace and a cannon.  You hit them with it then it expends a round of ammunition to do internal damage.  And rules for Jaeger scale sonic weapons.  Rock so hard the sound liquifies enemy infantry and shatters armored vehicles.

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #48 on: 12 July 2013, 22:21:05 »
(oh, did any one else get a massive robot-hard on when Idris Elba casually mentioned that the Hong Kong Shatter Dome could support 30 Jaegers?  Was I the only one struck temporarily blind by the awesome imagined sight of 30 jesus wept Jaegers riding forth like the heralds of a metal apocalypse to bring down the hammer?)

That would have been good to see in the movie, unfortunately they didn't have it.  Those Kaiju were tough though.

There is one stinger after the fancy credits, but at the very end (after all the credits) is only a kaiju roar.


What I was thinking they would do as a basic anti-Kaiju defense would be tandem warhead shaped charge Brahmos or Bazalt missiles, built assembly line style.  Giant bunkers full of them, volleyed when a Kaiju comes in range, orbiting when the Kaiju stays underwater, and slamming in at Mach 2+ when the Kaiju surface.  The first part is a shaped charge to get through the skin, and the second warhead detonates inside.  Multiple missiles as needed, and if they aren't the missiles just fall in the shallows, to be recovered.

Plus a biological solution to deal with the Kaiju blood, maybe bacteria of some kind to break it down faster?

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #49 on: 12 July 2013, 22:36:53 »
What I was thinking they would do as a basic anti-Kaiju defense would be tandem warhead shaped charge Brahmos or Bazalt missiles, built assembly line style.  Giant bunkers full of them, volleyed when a Kaiju comes in range, orbiting when the Kaiju stays underwater, and slamming in at Mach 2+ when the Kaiju surface.  The first part is a shaped charge to get through the skin, and the second warhead detonates inside.  Multiple missiles as needed, and if they aren't the missiles just fall in the shallows, to be recovered.
"These missiles will go through Godzilla like crap through a goose!"

Come to think of it, I wonder if that's what Striker Eureka carried? It did have missiles that seemed reasonalby effective vs kaiju.
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Plus a biological solution to deal with the Kaiju blood, maybe bacteria of some kind to break it down faster?
Frankly, I'd be terrified of any bacterium tough enough to survive in a Kaiju's system(to say nothing of surviving what would likely have to be a very violent delivery system), and lethal enough to kill one of those monsters in the short period of time between crossing the breach and getting put down by more conventional means.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #50 on: 12 July 2013, 22:53:10 »
It was perfect.

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #51 on: 12 July 2013, 23:10:31 »
I watched the whole thing while the Godannar theme song played in my head.

This film was AWESOME.

I never imagined that this film would have been one, non-stop love song to super robot anime like Mazinger Z and Gaogaigar to this extent!

The head coming down into the torso like Mazinger....
The rocket punch....
the iron armor (Tetsujin 28 reference, perhaps?)....
The down on one knee pose Gypsy Danger assumed after slicing the fast aquatic kaiju in half....

All we needed was for someone to announce that their hand was burning red with the desire to defeat kaiju!

Absolutely EPIC Del Toro!  Nice job!

Oh DAMN.  I missed this in the theatre and had to go back and check online....

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #52 on: 13 July 2013, 01:27:56 »
There might be an edition difference, MadCap. The version I saw had a dedication to Ray Harryhuasen (Either that or IMDB is wrong, and you know that never ever happens ever)

Saw it today. The giant robots versus monsters was pretty damn epic, though I will agree in the chorus of disappointment that Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon didn't get to do much beyond asplode. (In fact, I'll say now that aesthetically Cherno was my fave of the robots. I loved the cooling tower head and the bulky headsets of the pilot). I did note rather conspicuously that almost all of the fights took place at night, in the rain or otherwise darkened conditions.

The design of the base itself was rather nice; I liked the worn industrial look of it all and it definitely felt real and lived-in which added a degree of beliveability to it all. It also had a great sense of scale, which is oft missing from CG settings.

With that being said, the characters were wretchedly shallow and uninteresting; a combination of bad writing and a less then stellar cast. None of the characters were even remotely compelling to me, and the actors, Perlman aside seemed to be going through the motions more then anything else. It didn't help that Our Hero and Aussie Guy were shockingly similar in appearance and blandness. Speaking of which, the so-called Australian accents made me wince.

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« Reply #53 on: 13 July 2013, 04:24:00 »
It was awesome. I loved the story and the build up. The monsters got better when the Jagers got better.
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #54 on: 13 July 2013, 05:52:05 »
This is a soundtrack album I am looking forward to saving up for and buying.

I just saw it's on Rhapsody.  I will be browsing it and downloading
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #55 on: 13 July 2013, 06:12:04 »
There might be an edition difference, MadCap. The version I saw had a dedication to Ray Harryhuasen (Either that or IMDB is wrong, and you know that never ever happens ever)

I suppose that's possible, I don't know.  Either would make sense, honestly.
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« Reply #56 on: 13 July 2013, 07:46:17 »
I suppose that's possible, I don't know.  Either would make sense, honestly.

The version I saw had the Harryhausen dedication
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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #57 on: 13 July 2013, 08:51:38 »
Most of the negative criticism I've seen around the InterWebz so far is centered around the story and characters. No surprise.

I thought both were perfectly acceptable for what this movie set out to be: monsters versus aliens. Sorry if it didn't have enough Oscar-worthy monologues and deep, nuanced, Indie-style complex relationships between the characters. Monsters. Getting. Punched. In. The. Face. Del Toro made the right call by not letting the story get in the way of the spectacle.

More than other recent movies, it's been fun to watch the film nerd critics on Rotten Tomatoes evaluate "Pacific Rim" like it was "Before Midnight."

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Re: Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??
« Reply #58 on: 13 July 2013, 11:52:10 »
Just got home a little while ago and have to say it was bloody fun to watch. I did not catch the music though. Have to see it again. But youbare right, worth getting on DVD to see the extras. The mecha movement was  very cool and the suits where cool. Anyone noticed the carbon fiber pf the blacks suits and how whacked out the white suits of the Frost combat where. The one funny thing is the talk about how gypsy is analog and the other mecha where digital. They looked high tech to me, no 70, s looking tech that would have igioned the emp blast.

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« Reply #59 on: 13 July 2013, 11:59:42 »
Yeah, I laughed at that comment!

So they switched back to using analog systems briefly just for giant robots and then switched back?

Ah well.  Super robot is all about the passion and pagentry anyway.  It's not like the whole movie wasn't playing more fast and loose with physics than a Disney film.

 

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