Daft Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 This thing needs its own thread. I want to say I loved the trailer but...it was a bit much. I's much prefer it if they teased a little more like in Man of Steel. Having said that, I am definitely looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Guillermo del Toro actually asked Gabe Newell if he could use the voice actress and the same voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 It's not really GLaDOS unless she's an asshole. I hope the AI goes insane and she becomes and asshole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 This is everything I ever wanted out of cinema. I've been looking forward to this ever since I read "del Toro" "Idris Elba" and "giant robots" in the same sentence and this looks set to deliver beyond expectations. Guillermo is capable of making a bad movie (probably), but never a dull one. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise will be fighting me in the street. In giant robot suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Man, this film better not suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debug Mode Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Evangelion? :S Looks good, mainly because I'm seeing a lot of inspiration drawn from sources I happen to love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I would watch this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramar Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Giant Robots vs Sea Monsters. Not really interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Is this a serious film or some sort of piss-take? Saw the trailer for this before The Hobbit. Looks atrocious, in all honesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Giant Robots vs Sea Monsters. Sponsored by Kinect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Anyone still excited for this? I still can't wait, they actually built full-size operation cockpit sets godammit. Del Toro continues to be cinema's insane saviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Was not a fan of the original trailer. The latest ones have been brilliant and have turned a film I thought was going to be a little lame into something I'm really quite excited for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellmeister Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Anything with giant robots is a must see for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Anything with giant sea-monsters is a must see for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fused King Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Is this a serious film or some sort of piss-take? Saw the trailer for this before The Hobbit. Looks atrocious, in all honesty. It's a sort of homage to more or less the Japanese genre of giant robots and giant monsters fighting eachother. Anything with giant sea-monsters is a must see for me. Hello, you fool, I love you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 And I love spending time with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 (edited) Went to see this last night and just really super enjoyed myself. It stops just short of being a great movie but I've not had quite as much fun sitting in a cinema for ages. It absolutely does deliver on it's "Anime come to life" promise, incorporating a number of recognisable tropes and themes with genuine affection. The general design on everything and the robots in particular are bold, clear and interesting. When something big goes stomping across the screen you do get a real sense of something with genuine size & weight. The dialogue is curiously forced in places but the lead trio of characters are well performed with an especially captivating Idris Elba anchoring the whole movie. I really hope Pacific Rim does well, he's the beating heart of it and deserves to become a huge international star already. All in all it's a bit goofy and couldn't quite seem to decide if it wanted to be disposable fodder or something with much more depth but it's a movie with real heart that consistently impresses & entertains for it's 2 and a bit hours. Go and have a good time. Also, Idris Elba has one the best moustaches in cinema history. Even better then Apone's from Aliens. I paid £9-something and the moustache alone justified all of it. Edited July 13, 2013 by gaggle64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Saw the trailer whilst seeing World War Z last week. Just looked like poor version of Transformers with that bloke from Luther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Pacific Rim is the film Michael Bay likes to think he made but never will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Nothing could ever be the poor version of anything Michael Bay does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Nothing could ever be the poor version of anything Michael Bay does.Although Deep Impact is the poor Armageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 looks like it could be fun so long as you don't try and treat it too seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Although Deep Impact is the poor Armageddon. Hold up, Deep Impact is waaaaay better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Anyone else seen this? Went last night. Exactly what I was expecting. Loads of fighting and loads of CGI. Decent film if that's your type of thing. Any time I go into these films I come out disappointed because the part I enjoy most is the back story and how everything came about but you never get anything like that in this genre and target market. I thought the characters well incredibly shallow, the scientist dude did my nut in. Anyway, I didn't go in expecting anything more than what it was so I enjoyed it for that. And why was it raining in every single outdoor scene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) Minor spoilers: It's passable but almost everything about it is incredibly naff, the dialogue especially. Not because it's all cliche, although a lot of it definitely is, but rather the phrasing is always a bit off ('we are cancelling the apocalypse!' & similar lines). The pacing was all over the place too, build-up got rushed (like, talk about cutting to the chase in the opening) and then the climactic bits didn't deliver - no time was spent reflecting on what had just happened so it felt like there weren't any peaks. To its credit there was more going on in the film than I expected and it wasn't overly American. The combat was pretty cool. They tried to throw in some oddball stuff with the scientists, but the scenes with them and (randomly) Hellboy didn't really work at all or make any sense. I have no idea what they were going for. Their efforts to inject comedy fell completely flat every time. Having recently passed my driving theory test it was disappointing to see the woman take off the main dude's helmet after the climactic explosion. In an otherwise watertight plot with zero scientific or character inaccuracies I was frustrated that a trained driver such as her (OF HULKING GREAT BIG ROBOTS NO LESS) would fail to consider the risk of removing someone's head protection so shortly after a major incident like that. So implausible as to completely taint the film, for me. [/endjoke] but srsly, even though one should expect there to be holes in this kinda thing, the quantity and magnitude of them was hilarious. Too many to list, but that's what the cinema exodus is all about - the buzz of funny discussions 'Drift Compatibility' is a cool phrase, can see myself dropping that into convos down the line. Also, did anything come of that Kaiju using its tentacles to 'sense' that biologist guy? It was like they forgot about it. Surprised how NO time was given to the commemoration of Idris. You don't just kill that guy off, move on and end the show. I suppose the writers knew they'd given audiences no reason to be attached to any of the characters and they didn't need to bother, the picture was looooooong enough man. Whatever's said and done, there's lots of things to talk about when you come away from it, even if only a few of them are positive. Doesn't feel like I've been robbed at all, it was aight. Edited July 17, 2013 by dwarf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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