Pacific Rim -- But...was it Battletech??

[Atlas3060]

Bad-ass commanders, GLaDOS's voice as the AI (and my favorite throw away line "Quick! Release the neurotoxin!")

Next time I go see it I must listen for this.

[Lord Harlock]

Obsessed with this soundtrack...Can't. Stop. Hitting. Replay.

I know. And thankfully, it does not have that ending rap song that was my only complaint about the movie really.

[Banzai]

Next time I go see it I must listen for this.

It is from one of the techs when Mako is "chasing the rabbit" and has the plasma caster pointed at the control room.  Unfortunately, it isn't Ellen McLain that says it.

[Atlas3060]

Darn, because I would have busted a gut laughing.

[Charlie Tango]

It is from one of the techs when Mako is "chasing the rabbit" and has the plasma caster pointed at the control room.  Unfortunately, it isn't Ellen McLain that says it.

Still a nice reference.

[YingJanshi]

Just watched it.
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS FUN!!

Ahem. Can anyone do monsters better than Del Toro?
Idris Elba rocked. No surprise there. Burn Goreman was fun. (Been seeing him in a lot of stuff since Torchwood.)
And Perelman...dude is hilarious.

Have to ask though: how many of you stayed through the initial end credits? As soon as they hit the screen the entire theater emptied. (And so everyone missed it.)


Okay this isn't about the movie...but does anyone else think you should have to turn in your cellphone when you enterthe ttheater? Maybe like a coat room deal? The guy sitting next to me was talking into his phone like every five minutes. The only thing keeping me from having a melt down was the fact that he wasnt speaking in English so I could kinda tune him out.

[Banzai]

You can always have the staff at the theater shut them up or down, as it were. 

And yeah, I always stay through to the end of the credits.  Blame The Matrix more than anything else. (They had a website password at the very end.  This was way before "viral" was something positive...)

[kuttsinister7]

I want it on Blu-ray as soon as it hits a shelf...I wonder if there is enough material for a sequel

[FedSunsBorn]

Just saw it and it rocked!  }:)

I wouldn't mind a prequal at all or even a sequel where the new Jaegers start to join up with certain governments and fight each other, Jaeger vs Jaeger.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

I've seen it twice now, including once at the IMAX.


Soooo worth it.

[Banzai]

Just saw it and it rocked!  }:)

I wouldn't mind a prequal at all or even a sequel where the new Jaegers start to join up with certain governments and fight each other, Jaeger vs Jaeger.

Well, there is a graphic novel, Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero.  Haven't read it yet, but it sounds promising.

[Lorcan Nagle]

I've read it, it's not bad.

[Colt Ward]

Does 'Pan Periphery Defense Command' come off as too reaching?

[Mendrugo]

Not if the kaiju it faces are the AD&D Giant Space Hamsters.

[Ghostbear_Gurdel]

The other day, at the behest of my fiance, I saw the 3D version of this movie. Despite my general aversion to the 3D gimmick, it was fairly well done. I thought the 3D effects were not too distracting and generally well used and good additions. Especially in the very beginning, when the star field turned into the plankton in the ocean. The 3D really made that scene much more convincing.

[Marveryn]

The other day, at the behest of my fiance, I saw the 3D version of this movie. Despite my general aversion to the 3D gimmick, it was fairly well done. I thought the 3D effects were not too distracting and generally well used and good additions. Especially in the very beginning, when the star field turned into the plankton in the ocean. The 3D really made that scene much more convincing.

that my feeling too.  I seen a few review that complain that the water droplet on the 3 d that stay on the lens was distracting for them.. but when I saw it in theater I never notice that and it never register.  I guess different people see thing different.  for the most part moves online reviewer I look at thought it was a good movie with the exception of one so far.  In his case I think he just had a burr up his saddle anyway and wasn't really looking at the film to enjoy it.

[Weirdo]

One more thing to give Pacific Rim credit for:

No shaky-cam! O0

[Arvanna]

That was one of the things I can't understand reading some of then less then stellar reviews, saying between the rain and the darkness you couldn't follow the action. WTH? I had no problem following the action, Transformers I couldn't track most of the action and it was done mostly in broad day light cause too much was going on at once.

[I am Belch II]

The Jäger bay in Hong Kong was awesome, would love to see more of that and at its peak.

I was laughing when they thought a wall would keep out the kijau monsters, just climb it or go around it.

[Trace Coburn]

The Jäger bay in Hong Kong was awesome, would love to see more of that and at its peak.

I was laughing when they thought a wall would keep out the kaiju monsters, just climb it or go around it.

  Much less breach the damned thing, like Mutavore did in Sydney.


EDIT: Also, a random and kind of crack-y idea that occurred to me, mostly because they're both things I like: a crossover or fusion between Pacific Rim and the anime Girls und Panzer.  After all, the Nishizumi sisters would be what, in their late twenties by the time of the movie's main plot-line?  I just have this image of Miho and Maho being a Ranger-pair whose fused tactical instincts (as demonstrated by the 74th National Panzerfahren Tournament) allow them to utterly pulverise any kaiju that comes into their AO....  :D

[Colt Ward]

While I realize they are out of the scale . . . I am trying to decide if we would consider them lumbering assault or perhaps mediums.  Gipsy reminded me of a Centurion a bit with the head, and the movement/mobility on Striker felt Phoenix Hawk-y.

[Trace Coburn]

While I realize they are out of the scale . . . I am trying to decide if we would consider them lumbering assault or perhaps mediums.  Gipsy reminded me of a Centurion a bit with the head, and the movement/mobility on Striker felt Phoenix Hawk-y.

  Cherno Alpha is clearly an Awesome.  ;D

[Van Gogh]

The Jäger bay in Hong Kong was awesome, would love to see more of that and at its peak.

I was laughing when they thought a wall would keep out the kijau monsters, just climb it or go around it.

  Much less breach the damned thing, like Mutavore did in Sydney.

In the Sydney scene, it looks like weapons or turrets are installed on top of the wall, which makes the anti-kaiju wall closer to Festung Atlantik than just a wall. Note that the comparison is NOT encouraging as to its capability to stop invaders from the sea...

[FedSunsBorn]

What was the wall called again? The Wall of Peace or some such nonsense?

It makes sense from a political standpoint imo to switch to an all encompassing wall of defense vs giant metal machines that can level a city block with one punch. Supposedly, no collateral damage that the politicians probably had to constantly hear about.... #P And, of course this doesn't even take into the actual cost of said Jaegers. Nuclear reactors, mind melding computer equipment and large experimental weapon systems all must take a good chunk out of the national budget that the politico's probably saw as throwing money away once the Jaegers started going down faster than they had hoped.

[Atlas3060]

Wall of Life.
And the Russian helmets reminded me so much of StarCraft's Ghosts I squeed.

[Banzai]

What was the wall called again? The Wall of Peace or some such nonsense?

It makes sense from a political standpoint imo to switch to an all encompassing wall of defense vs giant metal machines that can level a city block with one punch. Supposedly, no collateral damage that the politicians probably had to constantly hear about.... #P And, of course this doesn't even take into the actual cost of said Jaegers. Nuclear reactors, mind melding computer equipment and large experimental weapon systems all must take a good chunk out of the national budget that the politico's probably saw as throwing money away once the Jaegers started going down faster than they had hoped.

Oh, the realist in me understands the politicians perfectly.  Jaegers, like superheroes, tend to cause a huge amount of damage while preventing even more.  Look how many buildings were destroyed in each fight.  Which is why the SOP was for the Jaegers to intercept the Kaiju in the ocean before they made it to the cities.   So while the Kaiju like to destroy cities, and Jaegers are there to stop them, the politicians are being inundated with "hey, your stupid robot smashed my muti-gazillion skyscraper!  Again!  I just inished rebuilding it from last time!  Tell them to knock it off!"  Their email boxes must be so full!  So yeah, I can understand how "lets make a defense that doesn't destroy stuff" came around.  [/spoiler] And if the Kaiju were what they thought they were -- dumb animals --it may have.  But they weren't; they were weaponized monsters, created specifically to clear out the pests, us. [/spoiler] 

[MadCapellan]

Wall of Life.
And the Russian helmets reminded me so much of StarCraft's Ghosts I squeed.

I was reminded of the heads of Scopedogs from VOTOMS, actually.

[Kat]

Finally got to see it, today. Also, I am going to be extremely disappointed in all of you, if I'm the first person to think of this:

[Marveryn]

Finally got to see it, today. Also, I am going to be extremely disappointed in all of you, if I'm the first person to think of this:

hmm upgrade

[YingJanshi]

Finally got to see it, today. Also, I am going to be extremely disappointed in all of you, if I'm the first person to think of this:

Sorry...don't get it...