• It's official, Pacific Rim 2 is slated for April 7, 2017 including a upcoming animated serie
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Atlantic Rim animated series anyone ?
The first one was more of a monster/disaster movie, so I'm kind of hoping this one explores some Super Robot shenanigans. I need me some HYPE.
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45227408][t]http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/35300000/Raleigh-Becket-pacific-rim-35384206-1760-2000.jpg[/t] [t]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/dc/c9/8fdcc9ee481f16f9989d97129f941225.jpg[/t] So this is misandry then?[/QUOTE] Does this take up a great portion of the movie though? If you enjoy it, be my guest, but this is part of the movie that most people wished went faster, and saw more fucking HUGE ROBOTS punching each other's shit. I didn't see Del Toro throwing a hundred Mako Mori cleavage shots everywhere. You can go back your Age of Extinction, with a solid %13 RT rating. Enjoy your Victoria's Secret models making the same face in every scene.
[QUOTE=Ridley;45231190]Does this take up a great portion of the movie though? If you enjoy it, be my guest, but this is part of the movie that most people wished went faster, and saw more fucking HUGE ROBOTS punching each other's shit. I didn't see Del Toro throwing a hundred Mako Mori cleavage shots everywhere. You can go back your Age of Extinction, with a solid %13 RT rating. Enjoy your Victoria's Secret models making the same face in every scene.[/QUOTE] I in no way want to defend the shitty Transformer movies. But saying that showing the body of a female is automaticly misogyny is just ridiculous. Then you can say that every woman which walks around with short skirts or with clothes showing cleavage in the summer is perpetuating misogyny. And didn't the character of Megan Fox do guy things like working on cars? I thought that is pretty progressive, as it shows that the movie doesn't push for gender roles.
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45227408][t]http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/35300000/Raleigh-Becket-pacific-rim-35384206-1760-2000.jpg[/t] [t]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/dc/c9/8fdcc9ee481f16f9989d97129f941225.jpg[/t] So this is misandry then?[/QUOTE] No this is shitposting
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45231404]I in no way want to defend the shitty Transformer movies. But saying that showing the body of a female is automaticly misogyny is just ridiculous. Then you can say that every woman which walks around with short skirts or with clothes showing cleavage in the summer is perpetuating misogyny. And didn't the character of Megan Fox do guy things like working on cars? I thought that is pretty progressive, as it shows that the movie doesn't push for gender roles.[/QUOTE] Which gets thrown out the window when you realize every single shot of her working on cars has her in some sexy pose with the camera shots lingering on her tits and ass. It's not about what they wear, it's about how it's shot. With PR, the shots of Raleigh being shirtless can be interpreted either as "showing off his body" or "showing off his scars", it's highly debatable which one it was trying to do (and, there's also the whole "they only get shown off for a few seconds" thing). With TF, there is little doubt that all the female leads are just there for tittilation. Hell, the first thing you see of the female lead from the third movie is her ass just barely covered by a t-shirt and lingerie.
That dude's name is Raleigh? That's news to me. I could have sworn it was Riley.
where will the story go? they already closed the portal...
[QUOTE=AJ10017;45231849]where will the story go? they already closed the portal...[/QUOTE] The aliens that were invading had supposedly taken over tonnes of worlds before they invaded earth, if the information gotten from the doctors experiments was right. If that's the case then there's no way whatever they destroyed meant the end of their entire species. Maybe they build another rift, maybe they come to earth via non-rift space travel, who knows.
[QUOTE=Steve Stump;45224404]I feel like this animated series could be shit.[/QUOTE] I don't see how it would be very different anyway. The movie was just a live action anime.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;45227706]I wonder if this Animated series will be Western or Anime? I suppose Anime would make sense because Giant Monsters + Giant Robots = Sucess.[/QUOTE] Genndy Tartakovsky and his crew for art directors pls [t]http://www.bhmpics.com/walls/samurai_jack_is_the_swordsman-wide.jpg[/t]
I hope for more Ron Perlman in the sequel
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;45233056]I hope for more Ron Perlman in the sequel[/QUOTE] make a short film before pacific rim 2 begins about hannibal chau looking for his shoe.
Honestly i really liked the first film for the same reasons many people say they liked the transformers movies. Its still mindless action centered around large CGI robots bashing the shit out of stuff- only this time, i can actually make out whats happening in every shot, and as a bonus, the acting wasn't that bad so i actually found myself caring about who some of the characters even were anyway. Also i thought the GLADOS voice in the on-board computer was a great Easter egg, and i hope they do it again.
Sweet, it's nice to see a completely new IP succeed enough to warrant a sequel.
I hope that Pacific Rim cross Godzilla project ever happens. Though, if it does, I kinda hope it'd be more Pacific Rim than Godzilla. [editline]27th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=AJ10017;45231849]where will the story go? they already closed the portal...[/QUOTE] They'll think of something. Its not like this is a movie that needs to explain itself too much. Hell the first minute of Pacific Rim just goes "there's a portal in the ocean that craps giant monsters" - and that's all that needed to be said. No why. No how. Just there it is.
[QUOTE=Skyward;45234168]I hope that Pacific Rim cross Godzilla project ever happens. Though, if it does, I kinda hope it'd be more Pacific Rim than Godzilla. [editline]27th June 2014[/editline] They'll think of something. Its not like this is a movie that needs to explain itself too much. Hell the first minute of Pacific Rim just goes "there's a portal in the ocean that craps giant monsters" - and that's all that needed to be said. No why. No how. Just there it is.[/QUOTE] somewhere down the line (it was probably the second scriptwriters' meeting) they decided to not give a fuck about justifying their vision of giant monster / robot battles in the universe. as a result, so much is unexplained and the plot is basically a slice of swiss cheese, more holes than not however, the portal is explained throughout the events of the movie. raleigh reflects on humanity's yearning for contact with advanced life forms, and the surprise of aliens finding us via portal technology. [sp]the race of masters seen at the end found earth, noticed that the oceans had just the right mineral and chemical content for their race to thrive in (death by hubris, humanity polluted the waters just right for them), opened a portal, and began sending their combat monster clones through to clear out resistance before the rest arrived.[/sp] if you want to be hyper analytical, there's the problem of the purpose of the Jaegers. originally the Kaiju's acidic blood was a huge threat. conventional ballistic weaponry, e.g. stationary cannons, artillery, air-to-surface missiles, etc. were somewhat successful, but every hit meant tons of Kaiju blood spilling into the water, causing an ecologic catastrophe more destructive than the largest oil spills. the Jaeger program was founded for the purpose of beating the monsters back into the ocean, fist-by-giant-metal-fist, without spilling blood. they were very successful at their job, and the program grew. but then comes the movie, and we have none of this justification. all we get is a crumbling wall, and "to fight monsters, we created monsters" (which, in my opinion, was a terrible tagline, considering the plot spotlights the resurgence of the Jaeger program, presenting it in a positive, underdog-type light that makes you feel sympathy for the giant robots). when the big uglies attack and the Jaegers are greenlit for battle, we watch them slice 'n' dice these monsters while blood flies everywhere, finishing them off with plasma cannon blasts that fling acid onto everything. i guess they decided that it would be more boring if the rock'em sock'em robots couldn't eviscerate the Kaiju and make them explode in neon blue glowstick fluid. it's obvious that they made a few key decisions to cut out any flimsy excuses and go balls-to-the-wall [i]cool factor.[/i] i'm guessing the sequel will involve a second portal opening, perhaps with [sp]whatever survivors from the race of master aliens sending a blitzkrieg of vengeance through. or, maybe, to explain the potential Kaiju-Jaeger hybrid Guillermo hinted at, one or more survivors among the cloned Kaiju will escape into our word, docile, freed, and seeking shelter, leading to the Jaeger administrators hiding them away and performing experiments on them.[/sp] whatever the case, i just want more of what they set out to give us: towering, spotlit, nuclear-powered mecha, glowing and slick with rain, beating the shit out of similarly massive Godzilla stand-ins, knee-deep in crashing ocean waves, delivering rocket punches and cargo-ship beatdowns.
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;45234631]but then comes the movie, and we have none of this justification. all we get is a crumbling wall, and "to fight monsters, we created monsters" (which, in my opinion, was a terrible tagline, considering the plot spotlights the resurgence of the Jaeger program, presenting it in a positive, underdog-type light that makes you feel sympathy for the giant robots). when the big uglies attack and the Jaegers are greenlit for battle, we watch them slice 'n' dice these monsters while blood flies everywhere, finishing them off with plasma cannon blasts that fling acid onto everything. i guess they decided that it would be more boring if the rock'em sock'em robots couldn't eviscerate the Kaiju and make them explode in neon blue glowstick fluid.[/QUOTE] that's not true, though. the kaijus are only ripped apart or blown to bits when they have no other choice. (yeah sure there's the [sp]scene where striker eureka uses missiles but only as the final blow, and they're clearly not strong enough to spill kaiju blood everywhere[/sp])
Dude, why are you using spoiler tags? All of Facepunch has seen Pacific Rim.
I love Pacific Rim. I even bought the game made by the same people behind Real Steel. The gameplay is great, but shame everything is behind a microtransaction paywall. Paying $20 just to buy the game wasn't enough. Parts, and customization options are all locked via store purchases.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;45224336]Alright, so I'm kind of confused. They closed the rift in the first movie, right? What're they going to follow that up with?[/QUOTE] The Rift wasn't some natural thing, or an accident, that alien race made it, and while the Rift was blown to high hell and back, they probably didn't wipe out the alien species. At least, that's the way that makes the most sense, this is a movie about giant robots and giant monsters, does it really matter? :v:
What made me able to properly enjoy Pacific Rim was not thinking of it as "super cool giant robot fights" like the internet hyped it to be, but more "throwback to every giant monster movie ever", which Del Toro has pretty much flat out said thats what it is. Every character is borderline cartoonishly stereotypical on purpose, and it somehow all works out. (Im looking forward to a cartoon tho because that means less expensive to have the giant robots, and less expensive means more mindless fun robot vs. monster)
If it doesn't put more focus on this badboy then we'll have a problem. [img]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130823052433/pacificrim/images/1/11/Jaeger-03.jpg[/img]
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