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[Bandages]

I'm tryna see this Friday. I don't know if my friends are as keen on giant robots and monsters as I am but too bad for them.

[gimymblert]

kanye west like the movie too ...

[Bandages]

Kanye West is a paragon of integrity, and his word is law.

I just talked to Jesus
He said, "What up Yeezus?"
I said, "Shit I'm chilling
Trying to stack these millions"
I know he the most high
But I am a close high
Mi casa, su casa
That's that cosa nostra
I am a god
I am a god
I am a god

As it is written, so shall it be.

[gimymblert]

Does that mean the movie is a trap, I mean kojima like the movie but he is master of deception, and kanye, well kanye ...

[Kinaetron]

Or we could be boring and base our opinions on the directors previous work 

[Belimoth]

I never bothered to look up who the director was, now I'm actually excited

[JobLeonard]

Hence my analogy to Once Upon A Time In The West: Del Toro is probably as big an Otaku as Leone was a Western fan.

[antoniodamala]

Del Toro's Hellboy is actually pretty good. It's very different from the comics feel, but still quite great.

[Richard Kain]

Del Toro's Hellboy is actually pretty good. It's very different from the comics feel, but still quite great.

I concur. I was a little disappointed that the visual style of the film deviated so much from the comics. At the same time, I found it to be a very entertaining movie. And I consider Hellboy to be one of DelToro's worst movies. Blade 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine, much more entertaining than the first Blade movie. Mimic is a very well-executed monster/horror film, and Pan's Labyrinth is a straight-up dark fairy tale.

DelToro's worst film is better than some other director's best efforts. I am extremely excited for him to helm a big-budget production like this. If it took a little bit of a safe-bet premise to get here, it was worth it.

[Tanner]

Saw it last night and left very pleased. Make no mistake, this is a big-budget loud explosions spectacle, not a nuanced character study. The performances were all over the top caricatures, but I see this movie like a more toned-down Speed Racer--a live-action anime. And on that front, holy shit does it deliver. It was really refreshing to see a new IP that isn't trying to set up a franchise, and it's a good decision since, let's be real, this isn't going to be a huge hit. But I want it to be, just so I don't have to see another god damned superhero movie or movie based on a toy line to see a good sci-fi action movie.
I saw it in 2D, but I'm probably going to see it again in IMAX 3D.

[JobLeonard]

I see this movie like a more toned-down Speed Racer--a live-action anime.

Sold

[airman4]

Hence my analogy to Once Upon A Time In The West: Del Toro is probably as big an Otaku as Leone was a Western fan.

Leone wasn't an otaku too ?

otaku of Kurosawa or somethin ?

[Bandages]

Debating with friends on whether or not we should watch it in 3D tonight.

I just don't know!

[hoksy]

I've only heard about this through GameGrumps and they only seem interested because of the whole promotional thing they're doing.

[s0]

Hence my analogy to Once Upon A Time In The West: Del Toro is probably as big an Otaku as Leone was a Western fan.

idk maaan the relationship between italian and american westerns is a bit more complicated than just fans paying tribute to their fave genre.

[Bandages]

Okay so I just got back from the theatre.

My thoughts:
-It felt longer than it actually was (2 hours, felt like 3)
-The intro is succinct and sweet and I love that
-CHARLIE DAY???
-CHARLIE FUCKING DAY??????
-Interesting Japanese Woman Character
-White Man and Japanese Woman Duo in a Western Movie
-ELBOW ROCKET
-Elbow rocket could have been cooler
-GLaDOS voice was neat, glad they didn't give "her" a personality
-Interesting characters. No development, but interesting characters.
-Sunglass man was A Nice Surprise
-Holy fuck, rest of audience, stop clapping at EVERYTHING.
-CHARLIE DAY
-Good movie

[moi]

I saw the trailer and I don't think my eyes will support these amounts of blue and orange.

You almost got me at Charlie Day though...

[Noogai03]

This film would be way better in 3D

[Rayiner]

[Richard Kain]

Saw it this morning. And I loved it. Strongly recommend watching it.

There have been complaints about the acting, writing, and general tone. None of that matters. And oddly enough, I actually found the writing to be better than most other recent blockbusters, the dialogue was FAR better than Man of Steel's, and all of the actors did a solid job with what they were given. One thing needs to be taken into account when evaluating the human elements of this movie...

...this is a Kaiju film.

Pacific Rim is a love letter to Godzilla and his ilk. When taken in this context, all of the decisions with the acting, dialogue, and script make a lot more sense. The kind of melodrama that the film employs is perfectly in keeping with the style of traditional kaiju films.

And at the end of the day, the director and writer opted to keep things in the movie rather simple. This film does not suffer from the nonsensical complexity seen in other modern blockbusters. The mythology is simple, the motivations are simple, and the whole story hangs together much better because of it.

And all of this before we even get to the real draw of the movie. Giant robots fighting giant monsters! You know how the action sequences in a lot of modern blockbusters are hard to see because of pretensions of realism and too much shaky-cam? Pacific Rim is the EXACT OPPOSITE of that. The fight sequences are spectacular, visceral, and a joy to behold. The framing and camera angles are extremely well thought-out.

Go see this movie!