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onlywonderboy
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GhandiEAGLE
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WaveofShadow
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I loved Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth for differing reasons and I think they're both pretty good movies. I think my wife would disagree with the former though, heh. | ||
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Capped
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WaveofShadow
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On December 08 2014 10:14 Capped wrote: I think both are pretty terrible. Pacific rim is at least bearable though, hasnt got shit on transformers though. Now I know you're trolling. Never saw the below before, but Braum's character design (I'm on a character design 'kick' sorta since the whole DnD thing) is so fucking good. + Show Spoiler + | ||
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Capped
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WaveofShadow
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Eppa!
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onlywonderboy
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On December 08 2014 10:22 WaveofShadow wrote: Well first you'd have to explain yourself I suppose. Yeah, I'm interested to hear this as well. | ||
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Dark_Chill
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PrinceXizor
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WaveofShadow
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On December 08 2014 10:43 PrinceXizor wrote: i hated pacific rim and all transformers stuff. giant robot stuff outside of the mechwarrior universe is just not my thing. See this I get. I'm not a huge fan of giant robots either, it's the giant monsters that get me. The one major gripe I had with Pacific Rim (aside from character cliches being a little weak, even for a cliched movie---I was surprisingly able to look past that pretty easy though) was the fact that the lighting of the action sequences made things very difficult to follow, and much of the time it was hard to get a sense of monster anatomy. | ||
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Scip
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PrinceXizor
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On December 08 2014 10:45 WaveofShadow wrote: See this I get. I'm not a huge fan of giant robots either, it's the giant monsters that get me. The one major gripe I had with Pacific Rim (aside from character cliches being a little weak, even for a cliched movie---I was surprisingly able to look past that pretty easy though) was the fact that the lighting of the action sequences made things very difficult to follow, and much of the time it was hard to get a sense of monster anatomy. I can understand the interest in the giant monster stuff, but pacific rim fell into stock giant monster problems. where the monster didn't really have character. it was an animal of base intellect. Maybe i'm just too into Lovecraft but i like my monsters to have an agenda, not just instincts. if you are going to go down the whole, Monster just following insincts and killing as something you can be interested in, you have to go with the Xenomorph over stuff like godzilla or pacific rim/coverfields monster. there is nothing threatening about a giant monster apart from it being large you know? a movie starring mice as main characters trying to keep their home from being destroyed by a giraffe has the same level of threat to me. On December 08 2014 10:46 Scip wrote: I found pacific rim to be completely average. I was rather entertained, but it didn't really touch me in any good (or bad) way. i sense a youtube series. Good touch/Bad touch, movie reviews by Scip. | ||
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WaveofShadow
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On December 08 2014 10:49 PrinceXizor wrote: I can understand the interest in the giant monster stuff, but pacific rim fell into stock giant monster problems. where the monster didn't really have character. it was an animal of base intellect. Maybe i'm just too into Lovecraft but i like my monsters to have an agenda, not just instincts. if you are going to go down the whole, Monster just following insincts and killing as something you can be interested in, you have to go with the Xenomorph over stuff like godzilla or pacific rim/coverfields monster. there is nothing threatening about a giant monster apart from it being large you know? a movie starring mice as main characters trying to keep their home from being destroyed by a giraffe has the same level of threat to me. i sense a youtube series. Good touch/Bad touch, movie reviews by Scip. The eventual unraveling of the story behind the monsters was nice though, and I loved the look into the 'monster world' at the end. In that sense the monsters do have something beyond simply following instincts (or at least those that sent them do). I mean we'll see what happens with the sequels (and on a Lovecraftian note, one day maybe there will be hope for At the Mountains of Madness). | ||
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Scip
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onlywonderboy
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WaveofShadow
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On December 08 2014 11:04 Scip wrote: The one point where I felt kind of cheated was at the very end of Pacific Rim, they made it such a big deal that only things with the exact DNA of those monsters can pass through, so when our main hero grabbed onto one of the monsters and flew through the portal with him into the alien world, I was so sure he was taking a 1-way ticket to hell with a nuclear bomb in his pocket. Seemed like such a sad story of self sacrifice, and sacrifice in general, as the girl seemed to be dead too iirc. Then his radio could somehow reach from the alien world to the human universe (?!?!!?) and they all survived?! I was like wtf, it was supposed to be a dramatic and somewhat sad story, why do you happy end me so hard fuck And this is where you went wrong. | ||
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Parnage
United States7414 Posts
On December 08 2014 10:43 PrinceXizor wrote: i hated pacific rim and all transformers stuff. giant robot stuff outside of the mechwarrior universe is just not my thing. I liked the first transformers for one reason and one reason only. The opening scene where you see Blackout(I had to look the name up) Transforms and starts shooting up the US base. Part's of that just reminded me of Battletech/mechwarrior to a point that I could kinda see what a film of that would be like due to it. I prefer my giant robots piloted,slow stompy and heavy impacting which is what parts of that scene show. Of course I enjoyed Pacific Rim mostly due to seeing genuine giant robot vs monster fights outside of anime or Godzilla. It's not flawless by any means but it's an enjoyable film. Unlike say the racist, pandering bullshit that was Transformers 2. | ||
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