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Giant Robots And Giant Monsters Get To Rumblin' In The First PACIFIC RIM Trailer!
Beaks here...
If you've ever wanted to see a big-budget kaiju flick made by people who genuinely love the genre and, you know, movies, allow me to introduce you to PACIFIC RIM.
Thank you, Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham, for making the movie the eight-year-old me used to crudely enact with my Godzilla and Shogun Warriors toys. Amazingly, I'm told that this is just a sliver of the world del Toro has created. There's much more to come. We just have to wait until July 11, 2013 to see it. No sweat, right?
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Dec. 12, 2012, 6:47 p.m. CST
the green gargantua just simultaneously jizzed, crapped his pants, saw God, and then his head exploded Scanners style
by lv_426
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:47 p.m. CST
You know how I know this trailer worked? My eyes opened wide!!
by Kamaji
Seriously, I'm looking forward to this now! Though I'm waiting for all the backlash from people saying, 'Guillermo is just making Transformers vs Godzilla.' That tagline I also love
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:48 p.m. CST
Hmmm...I wish I was more impressed by this. Frankly, I'm not...
by Mr. Nice Gaius
...and I hate being "that guy". I'm sure that I'll see it though.
The first person who says, "This reminds me of RobotJox" gets punched in the fucking maw. I came and came hard over this one. There is such a low degree of difficulty to stick this landing, and frankly, I think this is the movie our loveless penises have all been waiting for. Remember when Knowles fellated Blade II? It's time for us all to step up to the plate and get to fuckin slurping.
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:48 p.m. CST
I nominate Charlie Hunnam for the role of Anakin Skywalker's grandson in Episode VII
by JackSlater4
Please. Because now I have to go look on Youtube for a video that doesn't require outdated bloatware.
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:49 p.m. CST
by CreepyThinMan
Without a compelling story, this is just Godzilla 98 all over again. lets hope it has one. I see no hint of it in this trailer.
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:49 p.m. CST
Brought to you by: ALL THE OTHER TALKBACKERS TALKING ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS
by Pete Susoev
Beaks didn't even say thank you....
On paper, this sounds like a great idea. The robot designs are lackluster, and they look rather cartoonish (yeah, it's still early) and non-existent (like most 100% CGI creations). I also don't like the synchronized piloting. It made sense in that one Evangelion episode, since the Eva pilots were fighting dual Angels. Having 2 synchronized pilots here just doesn't make any sense.
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:53 p.m. CST
I hope the monster mashes are gory. looks alright. They didn't show much, but I'm still optimistic.
by CodeName
I'd have like a whole Starfleet crew at the helm, and then gun and missile pods at different points of the mech's body. Example: nipple gun turrets or something crazy like that. Sort of like a B17 Flying Fortress but in mecha form.
a million times in Japanese cinema or anime. Clearly that's what Del Toro was going for and this is the big budget, American version of those stories. Looks like fun but nothing to get too excited about as we've already been there done that.
Do not let this venture into Transformers territory. Been there. Hated that!!
...has taken it upon himself to break down a movie he hasn't even fucking seen yet. Good job, ash. How do you know what makes sense and doesn't make sense, fucko? COME ON.
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:55 p.m. CST
by CreepyThinMan
and what's with the Microsoft Windows 95 voice synth?
So GDT can do ATMOM next!
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:58 p.m. CST
So their using WHIRRRRRHHHH instead of the Inception BWAAAAAAHHHH.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Dec. 12, 2012, 6:58 p.m. CST
by CreepyThinMan
Pacific Rim looks cool, and fun, but you're right in that it isn't looking like the game changer it seems to have been hyped to be. No matter, it looks fun and I like seeing kaiju and mechs duke it out, even in the crappy low budget flicks as they have a particular charm to them. I wonder if Pacific Rim is all CGI, or if Del Toro who is known to be a fan of practical effects, used some man in suit or miniatures for this?
This old bastard think this look inspiring and kick ass!!
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:01 p.m. CST
creepythinmanlives -- I kinda dig the cheesy over-the-top feel if this
by lv_426
I think that is possibly intentional on Del Toro's part. He could very well be trying to keep some of the low budget gonzo charm of all the wacky kaiju flicks from Japan that have been exported since Godzilla first appeared.
Not the type of movie I'd spend hours upon hours discussing on a messageboard, but I'd check it out on a matinee, perhaps at a discount theater, but still.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
We are at nodding, clapping, drooling, happy retard up in the Gargantua Lair.
by the Green Gargantua
its kinda pathetic.
The video is not working for me. Do the Mechs actually transform? They do have pilots, right? So how are they Transformers? Do they have Flames on their Bat-Nipples?
I'll admit that. But I can think of a better cure for sea monster infestation. Instead of inventing trillion-dollar killer robots, why not just use a few of the 100,000 or so nukes we humanity have stashed here and there? Oh, also, inb4 "it's a lion"
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
I just hope it doesn't take away from the Godzilla reboot.
by planetran_fan
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
I will never fully trust Guillermo Del Toro, bad CG stunt double in Blade II, claims of Abe Sabien being the finest and most beatiful creature ever committed to film. Oh yeah, and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
by JackSlater4
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:05 p.m. CST
This is the the cinema was invented, not to simply sing in the rain,
by the Green Gargantua
but to watch mecha on monster action.
hit's play again
Ellen McLain isn't credited.
the trailers been out for an hour and people are bitching nonstop already. Jeezus F-ing Christ people.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:07 p.m. CST
the green gargantua -- you know in Three's Company when Mr. Furley makes his surprised face?
by lv_426
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs1/4065019_o.gif That is what I picture you doing now for like the next three days as you watch the Pacific Rim trailer on a continuous loop while you eat microwave popcorn and delivery pizza (gotta have the easiest fastest food so as not to take eyes off of PR trailer for least amount of time).
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:09 p.m. CST
by the Green Gargantua
Man of Steel AND Pacific Rim trailers?!?!?? (and to a much lesser extent, the Lone Ranger)?
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:10 p.m. CST
Guillermo has yet to make that really great movie that has proven himself as one of the best. The only part of "Pan's Labyrinth" which was as as-good-as-film-gets was the scene where the kid escapes the creature with the hand/eyes in the cave. Breathtak
by Ali Kerim Bey
It's much more like Evangelion. Please, try to know your stuff so you don't sound stupid.
Does he only have ONE mode of line delivery? I mean really.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:10 p.m. CST
If that's not GLaDOS, then it's the most blatant rip off of anything I've ever heard.
by nephilim138
I'd shit bricks if Aperture Science or the portal gun showed up in this flick!
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:11 p.m. CST
@ands, yep. If I closed my eyes, it sounds like a SAMCRO trailer.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:11 p.m. CST
Regardless of Hunnam's one-tone delivery, Pacific Rim looks frakking awesome. I am there, with bells on.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Why does every handheld shot look like it was photographed by someone with palsy? Watch "Norma Rae." Mostly shot handheld. The camera doesn't twitch and spasm. Watch "Jaws." Mostly handheld. The camera is pretty still even though there's a giant man-eating monster lurking under the boat. The list goes on. The answer to the question, however, remains a mystery, unless "Pacific Rim" was infected with "Cloverfield" disease in post production.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:12 p.m. CST
lv_426 , gonna say it's more like "Stimpy's Appointment"
by the Green Gargantua
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:12 p.m. CST
EXCITED! A little too Transformery though.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:12 p.m. CST
ROCKET PUNCH..... seriously this looks good. I hate you people. Why do I come here.
by theneonsamurai
Love love love the name! One of my all time favs! The movie rocked. Brown Gargantua was the man though, no offense.
Every big hollywood movie trailer copies this effect. I mean ENOUGH already! To the marketing people ( I know you're reading): It's not cool or effective anymore. Maybe if you're 14... Thank god The Man of Steel trailer held it's chin up high above this crap.
Hey, maybe they could use that name for a Jaeger?
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:16 p.m. CST
Damn you Apple Quicktime! Anyone have a youtube link to this?
by Brandon Dillard
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:16 p.m. CST
Remember del Toro quite recently said that he wanted the virtual cameras to be placed as realistically as possible?
by aphextwin
..to give the whole movie a more realistic approach, in terms of the visuals (?) Well..there is none of that! The 'cam' is flying allover the place! impossible heights and angles. That dude with the glasses is annoying as fuck and we see only a few glipses of him...I fear.. "let's catch some fish" *shivers* But..I remain optimistic, although I have overhyped myself...but that should be my problem isn't it? Damn..that trailer could have gotten a better treatment...with better fitting music...IMO!
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:17 p.m. CST
I didn't like the trailer or it's content, but I know Guillermo will have done a sterling job.
by D o o d
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:17 p.m. CST
Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Day get top billing... FX NETWORK RULES!!!
by Beefy Trout
If I was 8 this would already be my favorite movie. That's not a bad thing.
Why the hell do the robots have to be operated by two pilots moving in tandem?
Pretty awesome.
Now that would be something to see. They'd need the assistance of Dolph though. He nose the truth!
Quicktime. Big surprise. Guess I'll wait for YouTube. Fuck you Apple.. fix this shit.
as someone who was really looking forward to this one as a big GDT fan...this was underwhelming to say the least. The voice over sounded like something out of a bad FMV game, and the "canceling the apocalypse" line made me gag on the cheese. This just doesn't look good...and I'm convinced had it been a Michael Bay movie rather an a GDT movie and this trailer was EXACTLY the same the majority of those on this board who like what they see...would be ripping it a new asshole.
...on these boards complain when a trailer shows too much. Then they complain that the trailer didn't show 'enough story'. Are you fucking kidding me?! That was exactly what a FIRST trailer should be. A peek into the general idea of the film and enough action to create interest. The next trailer will likely show more character-ish stuff and a couple more monsters.
It's nice to hear Cap'n Janek use his 'real' voice.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:21 p.m. CST
Well it looks like the gauntlet has been thrown down at the foot of Gareth Edwards' Godzilla
by Joey Stars
I'm guessing Del Toro was none too happy about being upstaged at Comic-Con. I'd hate to have to respond to that trailer.
What, just because it has big robots you automatically think Transformers? Unlike Transformers, there's a clear sense of design here, and I can tell WTF is going on.
I love the monster action, but not a fan of the robots. For fuck's sake, how hard is it to come up with an interesting/original design? And someone else mentioned it already, but the Man of Steel trailer was like a breath of fresh air after all this BWAHHHH nonsense. Fucking retire it already.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:29 p.m. CST
Yes that's GLaDOS! Del Toro mentioned it way back at Comic-Con.
by 5_day_forecast
Nice nod to the geek gods. I hope she's a raging bitch that keeps commenting on how fat Kikuchi looks in her suit while mocking orphans.
Maybe a giant green man cameo...?
That is just jaw-dropping. Good Grief Charlie Brown!! What the hell is wrong with you haters?!?!?!?
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. CST
Right now Michael Bay is humming Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
by JackSlater4
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. CST
Had really high hopes for this... but seriously underwhelmed. :(
by Farrokh
This hardly seems like a consolation for losing "At The Mountains of Madness" or a Del Toro "Hobbit" but I still hope it's good just hard to get excited over a minor Del Toro when we lost what could have been his very best.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:32 p.m. CST
I think there was a little nod to Robot Jox, when the Robot punches it's own hand.
by Farrokh
The one where there are hundreds of them all grown in different places, from broken off chunks created in WOTG? Black Gargantuas, Red Gargantuas? White Gargantuas?? never thought about it.
I can't believe there are twats out there who swear by that shit company. No reason why I can't watch this trailer remotely.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:33 p.m. CST
Is the 'BWAHHH' that metallic, synthy sound that starts the trailer? If so, I agree, it must be destroyed.
by Farrokh
Broderick or bust!
it's one 90 minutes long (and still counting) ULTRAGEEKNERDGASM
Looks uninspired. People need to start coming up with new concepts. It's cool but I'm not excited.
Robots versus monsters. AND YOU AREN'T ENTERTAINED??? Go fuck yourselves.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:36 p.m. CST
Stupid fucking quicktime, I have to download the fucking thing to watch it in 1080p. No telling where they're stacking all those files up.
by JackSlater4
A halfway-decent looking, big budget, western Godzilla(-type) flick? Made by Guillermo del Toro? *sees trailer* ...I need new pants.
This will rule!
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:37 p.m. CST
thenotoriousdrb: Weak story and shitty characters can ruin ANY film. No matter how seemingly foolproof and awesome the concept.
by Farrokh
plan on it being post converted and thus all the edits are too quick. The eyes need time to adjust between scenes.
or whatever
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:41 p.m. CST
Oh, this is converted 3D? Fuck that shit, not when the movie is that dark.
by JackSlater4
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:42 p.m. CST
The fact that we will be Getting GODZILLA fighting other monsters and shooting nuclear fire, in the other film
by the Green Gargantua
fucking jubilation bitches
First of all...Godzilla - the REAL Godzilla, not the 98 abomination - would completel annihilate the Transformers just by looking in their direcction (the 280 foot height difference aside, even). Second of all....think Evangelion, not Godzilla, as the inspiration here.
So instead of a live action version of Evangelion...I guess this is the next best thing? Giant Robots to fight a threat that is actually coming from within our own world (Angels). Looks cool, though, but still...I think I would have preferred an attempt at a live-action Evangelion.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:46 p.m. CST
The haters in this thread need to stop watching movies. That's a great trailer.
by Imagikafan
I'm really looking forward to this movie.
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:47 p.m. CST
The Pussybear stuff in EVA would not fly on these shores bud
by the Green Gargantua
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
for the record I love EVA and could teach a fucking class on the subject, but yea, we can't do pussybear.
by the Green Gargantua
The Lone Ranger (Pirates logo + Depp = Sold.) Man of Steel (4 yr old says his boot looks like Spiderman's costume. I ask if she posts on AICN.) Pacific Rim (7 yr old demands a replay. I oblige 3 times.) WINNER
God what I wouldn't have given to see his Cthulhu mythos film
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:50 p.m. CST
Charlie Hunnam will finally get some major noise, hopefully
by georgecauldron
He's a better actor than anyone else getting awards on tv, except for maybe Cranston.
What the hell is wrong with some people
Dec. 12, 2012, 7:56 p.m. CST
tTHEY GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAEGER!!!..................... FACT!
by IDIOTMAGNET
I'm looking forward to this movie, and I'll surely be seeing it, but this teaser is kind of a mess. The tone seems...off; and the opening narration is painfully flat, and unnecessary. But I hope it's good, if for no other reason than I'd love for Idris Elba to be in a GOOD movie for once, since he's awesome.
monster looks like Dazerb from guyver btw.
WTF? really, if it's an in-joke then OK but you could hum the theme song to Robot Jox over this trailer and it fits too well. Also didn't hate Robot Jox so I'll check this out but so far this just looks like a bloated version with CGI monsters. I hope it would be more interesting but guess not.
I enjoyed a lot of that. I did not enjoy hearing GLaDOS. That took me so out of the moment it's not even funny. Looks like a fun movie, but I am not nearly as jazzed as others seem to be. Maybe if I watch it on a bigger screen than my iPhone? I dunno. Seems fun for sure, but GLaDOS kinda ruins it for me.
... Just kidding, this looks incredibly fun. Hopeful GDT will hit this one out of the park.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:08 p.m. CST
GLaDOS is obviously in it because aperture science labs tech was used to open the dimensional portal.
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:08 p.m. CST
This is the greatest nerd trailer in history kids. Hope you like it.
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:08 p.m. CST
Jax Teller and Stringer Bell piloting massive robots battle gigantic Lovecraftian sea monsters???
by Tim
Sounds cool
Was when the robot fell into the bleachers crushing the fans.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:11 p.m. CST
I think it was the first transformers that started teh BWWWAAAHHH thing
by Rebel Scumb
but inception certainly cemented it
That seem to infest these type of films coming out of Hollywood.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:11 p.m. CST
I thought that asian chick was Mary Elizabeth Winstead for the whole trailer pretending to be asian
by Rebel Scumb
Turns out it is just an asian actress who looks a lot like her!
Guillermo del Toro is going to own this summer! Mark my words!!!!! And if any of you other geeks got any complaints about this movie, there is no hope for you and you'll probably die alone. Joking, of course ;)
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:13 p.m. CST
Hopefully this movie utlizies the infinite comedic possibilities of a conversation between Idris Elba as bad ass no nonense military guy, and Charlie Day as... Charlie Day
by Rebel Scumb
I thought it was good when Elba essentially played a different version of Stringer Bell on THE OFFICE as the most unlikely nemesis of Michael Scott ever imagined But Elba arguing with Day would take it to a whole new level
Now THIS is a movie I want to see!
That was absolutely boss!!! if that doesn't excite anyone than you have to be dead inside! This movie is gonna look great on HD!!! Hell yeah!
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:14 p.m. CST
If this goes into the Half-Life/Black Mesa Universe I will Pacific Rim my pants!
by dixieflyer
great joy!
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:14 p.m. CST
lordoflight: not to be confused with the cheesy one liners in films that come out of basements and from under rocks
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:15 p.m. CST
If the story stays focused on just the drama of stopping the monsters then that'll be a great summer popcorn movie. If they put in a story of a model and her boyfriend crap then it'll end up like that other movie.
by Cedric Ford
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:16 p.m. CST
What's the deal with Elba is he just the baddest mutherfucker on earth or is there another?
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:16 p.m. CST
This movie is a dream right? I'm gonna wake up and it'll just be transformers and shit right?
by UltraTron
For fucks sake man. Why do they insist on putting such stupid dialogue in films like this.
GlaDOS totally threw me off when I first heard it. That voice is too iconic for it to be anything but a distraction. And I adore Portal. However, this looks interesting, at the very least. Del Toro is an excellent director, and I really look forward to his having a big special effects tentpole flick.
But this is going to be a huge flop. If no one saw battleship last year. Why would anyone but us movie nerds see this. Yes it looks fun. But normal people are going to think this is junk.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:20 p.m. CST
Was just watching hellboy again and man I was hard on it when it came out because mignola hadn't even finished an arc for the character but it's pretty great and the production holds up well
by UltraTron
Looks like I missed the party.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:21 p.m. CST
League of gentlemen hadn't even finished it's 6 issue first run and they greenlit it and whatever they could get at the time. Hellboy was a bit premature.
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:21 p.m. CST
erichaislar: I'm sure someone said the same thing about Star Wars...
by Farrokh
As long as people CARE about whats happening on screen, it'll do fine.
This will rock
Truly dreadful fuckin dialogue.
But other than that, looks fun
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:22 p.m. CST
..................................................................This would have been a great story for Trans4ormers 4. Instead, Del Toro's latest shitburger!
by Punisherthunder
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:22 p.m. CST
I'll take bprd and whatever this guy wants to make- make it all. This trailer wins. This is the best use of effects ever done
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:23 p.m. CST
I can only hope a Robotech movie can be realize like this before I die.
by HollywoodHellraiser
I know Godzilla will do its thing but c'mon a Robotech movie I'm pushing daisies. PLEASE!!!
Please god spare us from any further dialogue and heroic speeches like that.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:25 p.m. CST
I know but even a robo tech movie doesn't have giant monsters vs giant neon genesis robots. This is what I wanted from phantom menace. I wanted mud wrestling giant robots competing instead of pod racing
by UltraTron
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:27 p.m. CST
This is how it's done. Take the best shit from your favorite influences and run.
by UltraTron
...I don't even care if there's an actual storyline. Just give me two hours of giant robots fighting giant monsters and I'll be satisfied.
I've been waiting to see how this would look...and it looks not so good. This trailer will read to audiences like a transformers rip off. How sad.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:29 p.m. CST
Like shadow of the colossus has competition from Hollywood all of a sudden.
by UltraTron
Giant Robots do battle with extra-dimensional monsters? I can almost see how the pitch went down - Guillermo del Toro: "Think The Mist meets Battle Tech." Hollywood Exec: "I like it. Here is a check for $300,000,000."
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:29 p.m. CST
lordoflight when you have mechs vs. giant monsters
by HollywoodHellraiser
you shut the hell up and enjoy the fucking ride! Speeches like this is a must!
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:29 p.m. CST
All right, Godzilla vs. Gort! But it should be Tokyo getting smashed, and maybe Raymond Burr's ghost could narrate.
by Clio
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:29 p.m. CST
I'm sorry, punisherthunder: Del Toro's LATEST shitburger?
by Mikey Wood
As if he's had shitburgers before? Are you SERIOUS? DO you have ANY taste at all? Like the slightest teensiest tiniest SHRED? Del Toro's WORST movies are about a dozen times BETTER than most of the shit that gets fed to us.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:30 p.m. CST
Canceling the apocalypse? Really? Stringer Bell wouldn't say that with a straight face
by quicksilver80
The rest was cool though, fingers crossed
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:30 p.m. CST
I'll watch it but fuck......it won't be long before Hollywoods run out of ideas.
by LORDOFLIGHT
Really, not quite sure how I feel about this...
Rocket punch indeed... that voice over guy is no Cumberbatch!!!
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:32 p.m. CST
I just wish they'd change to a different title font than Bank Gothic. sheesh.
by Lakewater
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:34 p.m. CST
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhuuuuhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.........
by UltraTron
uuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkkkk yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the response you give if your soul isn't flaming rice paper at this point in your life.
Why does the PA system at Voltron headquarters sound exactly like GlaDOS?
If ever there was a movie that needed Michael Bay to direct it, it's this one.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:37 p.m. CST
Mignola hadn't finished an arc for the character when HELLBOY came out?
by Autodidact
The character was 10 years old at that point.
Plus who is the Japanese honey in the movie What is her name?
what ever happened to the days of actually watching a movie before making up your mind on the quality of said film? Bitch Bitch Bitch Bitch.... that is all I see about every trailer that comes out. Nothing ever pleases some people, they watch a 90 second snippet of a movies, and can instantly decide that the entire movie is going to suck without any sort of context for what they have seen. The man of steel, Pacific rim, Oblivion, and After earth may turn out to be complete pieces of shit, but there is also a chance that they might actually be good, why not be a little optimistic. And if the trailer turns you off so much, then just don't watch it, but enough with the detailed criticisms of movies you haven't watched.
This looks like Hollywood's answer to the live action Evangelion movie that was shelved years ago. Knowing they would never be able to make hardcore fans happy they decided to take the concept/universe and add a lot of Hollywood to it.
That just bloody owned.
Jax Teller has left the Sons to pilot giant robots.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/pacific-rim-first-trailer/ That knows not to put links to Quicktime shit on their website.
our INDEPENDENCE DAY! No Pullman = no sale.
A giant pair of hot metal balls, this looks like it will crush every attempt bay made to tell a proper transformers story. I'm sold... 2013 is shaping up to be one hell of a movie going year... Can't wait...
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:44 p.m. CST
Of the bajillion projects GDT has been linked to, this is easily the least cool.
by Space Robot Five
... and yet it's the one that gets made. I'd trade this for At The Mountains of Madness or Haunted Mansion in a heartbeat. And another thing: Giant robots are cool and all, but when you see them in a live-action setting instead of a cartoon, it really reinforces how ridiculous they are.
Doesn't look all that great.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:45 p.m. CST
I'm all for Mechs V Monsters hellraiser.......but those one liners and heroic speeches are just awful.
by LORDOFLIGHT
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:47 p.m. CST
Type of dialogue you'd see in a crappy film like Battleship
by LORDOFLIGHT
Now that was truly dreadful shite.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:48 p.m. CST
Man of Steel is too emo! Pacific Rim is too cheesy! Giant fucking robots beating up giant fucking sea monsters is BOOOORING!
by FuckinAmateurMan
For fuck's sake, make up your minds.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:50 p.m. CST
way tooo much robots. we have akready been Transfomered to death
by Jack Desmondi
And the guys in the big robots has already been done well by Stuart Gordon about 20 years ago. The only thing that MAY be original are the monsters and you barely see them in in trailer. And what the tuck is it with directors now shooting all their action pieces at night or in rain when you cant get a feel for the scope of the fight? God this looks like generic action crape. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DIRECTOR OF PAN'S LABARYNTH?
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:52 p.m. CST
This looks awesome. And why is the dialogue a bit cheesy? Because it's a cheesy concept. Awesomely cheesy.
by FuckinAmateurMan
You want these guys quoting MacBeth while they're beating holy shit out of 300 foot sea monsters with 300 foot robots? Get the fuck right outta town.
Agree with lordofflight. Why does Hollywood dialogue always have to be dumbed down for the masses? Like why does the obvious hero always have to say something like, "Let's go fishing." before heading into battle? Existential questions to throw out there to maybe positively influence the world somehow to stop making crapola. Honestly, I grew up watching and loving monster movies. I saw Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla in the theater in the 70s My favorite movie when I was a kid was War of the Gargantuas, watched it on a black and white TV. I was excited and curious about this project, and some of it does look cool but it's a letdown for me. But then again, maybe I've lost that sense of wonderment and some eight year old kid now will be totally inspired by this. It's just a shame they will never know the magic of Godzilla, main in suit style. What's up with Portal in this movie? Is there a Valve connection? btw don't listen to me, my wife thinks I am insane.
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:58 p.m. CST
by the Green Gargantua
do you hate boobs too?
...the famous voice of actress and singer Ellen McLain out from Valve's Portal 1 and 2 how the hell somebody on this page is not knowing this... ridiculous specially after GDT said wide spread on the web over all movie and gamingsites this.... "I'm a big fan of Valve," del Toro said, adding "Portal and Left 4 Dead have been instrumental family experiences at my house." When Del Toro made the call to Gabe Newell, del Toro used his daughter's influence to seal the deal. "Like a complete geek," according to Del Toro, she - he didn't specify which of his two children it was - let her love for Valve shine through, and helped clinch it. "My family was instrumental," del Toro beamed. ....and the japanese actress is JUST one of the main actors, mentioned in any frak'in plot synopsis on every more frak'in moviewebsite LEARN TO GOOGLE
Dec. 12, 2012, 8:59 p.m. CST
Not every film like this has to have cheesy one liners and macho heroic speeches
by LORDOFLIGHT
But Hollywood seems to think otherwise.
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:01 p.m. CST
To those harping on the dialogue...do you REALLY think what a lot of real leaders say is any LESS cheesy?
by wcolbert
We will not tire. We will not faulter. We will not fail. Peace will prevail.
yes it is glados
if you heard a good deal of historical real life quotes uttered in a movie, e.g. the MLK "I have a dream" speech, you'd call it cheesy if you'd never heard of MLK. For fuck's sake the Bush quote I used above even RHYMES.How's that for cheesy. The dialogue is NO cheesier than half the shit bush said in office.
Let's appeal to the lowest common demoninator in rural America, the average Joe and the girl next door, so we can make lots and lots of $$! They make the dialogue like real leaders because that's the kind of bs we are used to hearing and are supposed to be inspired by. Why is that inspiring? Another note, the shot of the brain in the computer screen is very reminiscent of the Avatar. OK, a positive, nice opening shot.
...there seems to be a fairly large positive majority. Nice change of pace. The are a few of the usual deep-throaters whining about this and that, but they are of no significance.
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:10 p.m. CST
yeah... unfortunately it does need to have cheesy one liners. Have you ever seen a goofy concept that takes itself too seriously? It's a fucking disaster.
by FuckinAmateurMan
I'm not normally a fan of Godzilla-type movies, but I liked that trailer. The fact it's an original Del Toro idea (though I know we can see his influences), the fact Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba are starring in it, and the fact there's an orginal, and hopefully compelling, backstory definitely makes me want to see it. I can't even imagine how crazy the large-scale battle sequences will be. Man... Right on, Guillermo!
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:14 p.m. CST
by TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:18 p.m. CST
Looks surprisingly lame. I wasn't expecting CLASH OF THE TITANS meets BATTLE:LOS ANGELES.
by justmyluck
Who decides who has significance? Are all the reviewers' on this site of no significance? They were unknown once too, yet now they are influential. There's a serious gang mentality on these talkbacks, a simplistic positive-versus negative-2001-warring-ape style. I find it fun to be able to pick apart entertainment that large corporations expect us to guzzle down like sugar.
And I thought the trailer was pretty sweet. As long as these Sea Monsters are actually scary I think this has the potential to blow the mind.
Dude, Zack Snyder rules
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:24 p.m. CST
How many shitty Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movies are we going to get?
by Mel
It's like somebody fed Guillermo del Toro a whole bunch of sugary breakfast cereal, pointed him at Hollywood, and said "Fun! Go!" I am so there. The word there isn't there enough for how there I am.
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:26 p.m. CST
I don't see an emotional attachment to these robots like I felt in Real Steel...
by tickled_by_elmo
I think the screen time will be too divided between trying to squeeze in as much mech warrior time and then flashing to the human counterparts to really make an emotional connection. Ultimately this looks more like two different styles of toys battling it out than a decent movie. This will be a popcorn movie that I think anyone will enjoy, but I believe GDT has more in him than a Saturday matinee popcorn flick... It just seems that he pussied out on making something worthwhile and truly visionary as opposed to something that if flops, can be easily assumed away as just trying to make a "cool" project for the sake of making it... So far I am still NOT impressed by GDT and have always wondered why I feel alone in this. I am sure as hell glad he stepped away from The Hobbit and every other project he has been attached to and then gone back on or put on the backburner which brings me to another point, why the hell does he become attached and then unattached to so many damn movies? Impulsive much?
GDT seems like a pretty awesome guy with lots of passion and talent... Unfortunately he can't really direct English speaking films.
Watch the Season 4 episode of Samurai Jack entitled, "Robo-Samurai versus Mondo Bot", fucking amazing, and dare I be so bold to suspect Mr. Del Toro has seen this episode as well
Can't put my finger on it right now, though I can say I *did* watch it on my iPhone in my car while I waited on someone. The voiceover didn't do much for me. Anytime I hear someone in voiceover say something like "It was a portal to another dimension..." I just think of something like the opening narration to SUPER MARIO BROS. In other words, that part felt cheesy. Did we need to hear that in a trailer? Could we not just get giant monsters appearing? We really needed to say something like "portals to other dimensions"? Ah well. The robot stuff didn't do it for me. But the monsters- THAT shit was great. That's where the strength of this trailer lies, in the monsters.
This looks more serious (or at least played straighter) than 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' but FAR less serious than 'Man of Steel.' It's got EVAs...er, giant robots fighting extradimensional sea monsters. It's got Idris Elba rocking some crazy-ass accent (Australian?). And it's got GLaDOS. I'm failing to see any sort of problem with this, unless the execution completely fails in and of itself.
Everytime they say "Jaeger", take a shot of Jager
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:39 p.m. CST
You're talking about a movie based on impractical giant humanoid mechs fighting monsters...and you complain about cheesy
by wcolbert
Perspective, people. The very premise is insanely stupid and cheesy if you give it a moment's thought from the pragmatic standpoint. In what way would a giant humanoid mech EVER be the PRACTICAL, realistic response to a threat? Why humanoid? Why bipedal? It's the least stable configuration you could have, other than hopping about on one leg. Why not just develop more powerful missiles and bombs and planes, which is what the REAL WORLD response would be? Cheesy, you say? Peh. Try watching BATTLESHIT and then call that cheesy. Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day was beyond cheesy - but people loved that movie. Hell some of the most quoted movie lines of all time are beyond cheesy. Die Hard 1 is beloved by many - but did you HEAR that dialogue? Fuck. And again...if you actually listen to half the shit our own politicians say ... it is pretty much exactly as cheesy.
Actually, where is that babe Angelina?
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:40 p.m. CST
2013 looks like it will be the year Geeks have dreamed of their whole lives. Fucking Mayans.
by AntonStark
I think I pooped a little...
Portal to another dimension = bringeth the Elder Gods! Liked this trailer a lot, nothing to dislike, looking forward to it.
right? 3rd best trailer I've watched this week, and I've only watched 3 of 'em bitches.
I have never played Portal 1 or 2, so how was I supposed to know? Yes I know how to GOOGLE! I was just asking. You are very RUDE.
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:57 p.m. CST
2013 is huge for scifi. Neuromancer, Snow Crash, We Mortals Are, Pacific Rim, Elysium, Oblivion, Robopocalypse, After Earth, Star Trek, Zero Theorem, Ender's Game, Cloud Atlas... and yet you geeks still find things to bitch about and hate?! You don't fuck
by Hardboiled Wonderland
It looks big, it looks dumb and loud, but I don't feel like I'll have contributed to the decline of mankind for watching it.
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:57 p.m. CST
Oh, and in 2013 a little film with jedi in it begins shooting...
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Dec. 12, 2012, 9:58 p.m. CST
But noooooo, all these movies suck, they're horrible piles of shit, stop making scifi Hollywood, go back to reboots of superhero stories we've seen a dozen times already!
by Hardboiled Wonderland
No father/son nonesense, no emo shit "I'm all alone in a deserted planet" Just giant robots rocket punching giant monsters. GDT has more balls than anyone in hollywood right now. I'm looking at you Sir Ridley Scott. Can't wait for this
Most hilariously true unintentional writing error so far in this talkback.
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:04 p.m. CST
In 9 days these talkbacks will be quieter as some talkbackers climb into their bunkers awaiting the apocalypse, without internet access
by Bobo_Vision
Media Messiah, I'm looking at you.
That would be a funny cameo. I hope this doesn't turn into Battleship.
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:12 p.m. CST
@hawaiian_stallion: certainly, though for some reason that didn't sound like his natural accent.
by Bill C.
I'm basing that on reruns of 'Luther,' though, so I could well be wrong. It definitely seemed like Idris is/was affecting SOME sort of vocal quirk in this trailer...
Where's he been? Did they let that looney out for good behavior?? Ultratron has taken over his post while he's been gone.
So many movies to look forward to, and that is not even mentioning tv. They won't all be gems, but you guys have to admit it is a good time to be a geek.
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:25 p.m. CST
Actually, haven't seen Media Messiah in this talkback, but I've seen him in others. Weird thing about him is, he never checks back after posting. He posts and moves on.
by Bobo_Vision
So I figured I'd talk to him pre-emptively...but I don't think he reads talkbacks, either.
Had enough robot fighting with all the Transformers movies and Reel Steel.
He's a wily bastard. I'll tell you who I miss- BringingSexyBack. That was one funny dude.
Ever since Inception I just can't get enough BWAAAAMMMM. Sue me.
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:29 p.m. CST
Something About This Seems Perfectly Homo-Erotic???!!!!!
by Media Messiah
Maybe it's the costumes of the pilots, and their togetherness in the cockpits (cock-pits) of the robots, I don't know? It all just seems like a homo-erotic version of Ultra-Man, Johnny Socko's Giant Robot, Voltron, and Gundam.
I'm back, thanks to your special request!!! Happy Holidays!!!!!:)))))
Now where is me Godzilla teaser!!!
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:35 p.m. CST
Haterz BLEEEEED, SHIN GETTER ROBO FUCKING RULES BITCHES
by the Green Gargantua
GETTTTTTTAAA!!!!! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpluqd_shin-getter-robo-armageddon-episode-1_shortfilms#.UMlaWI4c_8s
yes even better then any of the Transformers movies
You crazy mofo! Good to see an oldschool name!
We all know that this is the warmup to the main event. Well ok for me it is. Some animeheads may be more into giant robots. Wait. Godzilla had Mechagodzilla. Strike that. I realllllllllly hope Garreth Edwards shocks and awes us all with Godzilla - MONSTERS was...OK. For a low budget flick by a director with 0 experience. But to give him such a big project as GODZILLA? One has to wonder why they have so much faith in him given how much is riding on this after the 1998 atrocity and how it was recieved. The KING of the monsters has to be reinstated as just that - the KING OF ALL MONSTERS. None of this cloverfield JarJar Abrams crap. That thing was ok, even though I HATE found footage type films...but the monster itself was just...so very abrams. I swear the monsters in his projects always look like that - even in SUPER 8, the alien reminds me so much of the cloverfield monster. And the image of that creature just isn't ICONIC. Godzilla's outline alone is iconic - hell, his ROAR is iconic -it's enough to give you goosebumps - all a teaser has to do is play that roar over a destroyed city as a backdrop and I guarantee you millions of people will be geeking out and getting the chills all at once.
By the way, Media Messiah....where will you be on Dec.21, 2012?
Although, his excessive activity in political TB's was annoying. And he had no integrity whatsoever. He started out as a bleating liberal pretending to be a bleeding heart when it was clear he didn't give a shit about anyone but him and his ilk, and then he became an independent...and eventually he became a hardcore right-winger talking about how his wife is a teacher in the ghetto. I think BSB eventually joined the Klu Klux Klan.
...all great artists are insane--and besides, this site has been missing some insanity lately. Time to give it some psychedelic colors again!:)))
He'll be here at my birthday party, bc that's my fucking birthday, and I always knew it'd be the LAST FUCKING DAY ON EARTH (as we know it).
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:53 p.m. CST
Jets shooting machine guns point blank at a giant robot
by AlibyebyeEssmob
Is pretty fucking Michael Bay level stupid.
The Talkbacks have been full of too many... erhm... "honest" haters lately. People who sound like entitled teenagers or angry, grumpy old men. You know, the kind you can't take seriously but don't understand the concept of fun debate, and thus they make arguing with them a pointless venture. Not enough of the insane enlightened, like you, or CreepyThinMan, or BringingSexyBack... So I say to you, welcome back. And... YOU BETTER BRING IT!
Dec. 12, 2012, 10:55 p.m. CST
Just couldnt be bothered reading the whole coard this time...sorry. Thoughts...
by Sean
I have to agree with a few others here. Not yet doing a lot for me. Don't get me wrong, i've been wanting to make a giant robots vs monsters film since i was a kid. At least one is being made. However, i thus far have not enjoyed Del Toro's work...though some design work in the Hellboy films were good. The robot designs are weak and disappointing...one of them has a bucket for a head for God's sake. I want to love it, but i can't help but channel a Battleship vibe...and that doesn't help the situation at all. Fingers crossed it is so much more, so SOOOOO much more than Battleship.
Media Messiah WILL be at your birthday party. He'll be standing outside your window waiting for the right moment to jimmy the front door lock, come into your house, and hide in your bedroom closet. Then when you're asleep, he'll watch you sleep for a few hours before loudly saying, "VADER! THANK YOU, VADER!"
Though I guess I said it second time, and we all know it takes 3 chants to bring you back ala Beetlejuice.
On 12/21/12...I'll be in the same boat as everyone else, either facing the end of the world, or...just another day. But I'll tell you, whenever a person dies, be it today, tomorrow, or on the 21st--well, it is the end of the world, at least for them--so considering that, we all have to face that end some day. No need to panic though, if you are good with God, then you have the ultimate golden parachute package, no matter who you are--there is no real end, just another beginning. Happy Holidays...Vision!:)))
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:01 p.m. CST
Media Messiah is using a retro-fitted version of the talkbacks and he has me on ignore with a special ignore function he crafted
by Bobo_Vision
He's still mad at me for cracking wise when he was asking Script Girl's producers to take a look at the script he wrote because it would help him financially take care of a special girl in his life.
just askin
Jets shooting guns point blank at giant monsters..
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:15 p.m. CST
I've been waiting for Hollywood to make this movie for my whole life.
by Danny Boil
It's about time. But better late than never. Hell to the muthafucking yes.
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:18 p.m. CST
Well, there goes our bridge AGAIN! I don't know why we bother rebuilding it anymore.
by AzulTool
Is it me, or has CG water made a great leap technologically in the last few years? The way it moves and the fine particle effect work looks far more 'real' to my eyes lately.
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:41 p.m. CST
How many times are they going to destroy the golden gate bridge?
by bohdi71
Can't wait to hear those tiny asian girls singing!
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:47 p.m. CST
Visuals look fantastic. Line delivery is terrible. Big robot in the snow looks like it's aping Trollhunter.
by kevred
That segment with the giant troll in the snow in Trollhunter is one of the best-realized special effects I've ever seen in a film, period. The quick snowy shot we see in this trailer seems to be a tribute to that one. The line delivery in the trailer stinks. The opening exposition is so painfully contrived in its delivery, it sounds ridiculous. As for Elba, like the guy, but it's way too much "I AM ACTING!" That said, the visuals look pretty spectacular, though a lot of that comes from the evocative qualities of the snippets we see here. Apart from the initial water-drop, the robots themselves don't look all that interesting. And the two pilots side by side is a bit silly, really - it's like watching people playing a wii. All that said, this looks very cool, and it's kind of surreal to see a full-on, big-budget, high-tech version of this kind of story. Here's hoping it's a knockout.
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:54 p.m. CST
Or, you could just watch anime (or, better yet, not) - FAIL - empty theaters=me laughing. I tried to tell you all.
by Nintendarth
This lost the at the line -neural bridge-. Aaaaaaaaand I hit 'X' on the page. Empty theaters! Box-office catastrophe! Calling a $20 million opening NOW! HAHAHAHA!
Dec. 12, 2012, 11:58 p.m. CST
Looks retarded, but it's giant robots, so who am I kidding... I will be seeing this.
by Ironhelix
Dec. 13, 2012, midnight CST
PACIFIC RIM is a smart brutal suspense flick... just what I'd hope GUILLERMO DEL TORO would make!
by bloody_shit_on_my_dick
I've seen PACIFIC RIM for about a month now. Just cleared the embargo stage so let's hop right into it. Why should you give two shits about this film? Well, it is based on a series of THE BIBLE by JESUS CHRIST that has huge fans. Stringer Bell is essentially the most badass Military Detective that there ever was. He found problems. That life is in the rearview and now he wanders the earth like Rick from Robotech having adventures. Now, there's no Eastern philosophy. Pacific Rim is a bit more like fucking Robot Jox… except a whole lot more functional. Rotot Jox's zero to sixty is almost instantaneous. Pacific Rim has that kind of acceleration of violence, but he has a rather intense personal code. I'm pretty sure he belongs behind bars… but he's kinda like the whole damn SAMCRO boiled into one very lethal Jax Teller. Jax Teller is probably a bit more talkative than his character in the book, but Del Toro's dialogue for Teller is so choice. In fact if you watch Hunnam's Jax Teller… efficient & precise describe his actions, dialogue and line of thought. Shortest distances. He keeps things explosive, even if they're barbs of the rocket punch side. You should not be surprised. This film is the forty third feature film directed by Del Toro. The first is an intensely violent crime film called THE WAY OF THE GUN. Del Toro is all kinds of sharp. He writes and directs like a clockwork mechanism. You always can look and marvel at the film as it comes together. It is deliberately clever & I really respond to that in a film like this. PACIFIC RIM is an old school man with internally created way of life. He's a man like VOLTRON. And that's a very good film to conjure when talking about this movie. You're talking ex-LION badass, never able to return home. Living day by day the way he lives. He's a violent man. He stays off the clock, between the shadows. He uses the FUCKING LION bus system to travel. No ID checks, no tracking. You get the idea… trouble finds him… you also get the idea that people around him get hurt and he moves forward. Always forward. He doesn't do anything that he can't live with. Now the bad guys in this are into OCEANIC RIFT corruption, they're part of the infection feeding on society, but that's getting ahead of myself. AND FUCK THE REST OF THIS SHIT! This film is called PACIFIC RIM and after you see it, you'll know the name and what it stands for.
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:04 a.m. CST
Looks cool I guess but...I mean, haven't we all seen this shit before?
by rhizomeman
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:13 a.m. CST
rhizomeman - where, exactly? Transformers? Don't make me laugh
by wcolbert
Just saying. There's a monumental difference between this and the tripe served up by Michael "let's add more TNT" Bay.
And we are the worse for it.
I thought about finishing the sentence off in another post but then decided i'd leave it hanging there like that. heheh
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:37 a.m. CST
@rhizomeman, I think we're seen everything before. Nothing new under the sun these days, I'm afraid.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Very cool/fun looking. The CGI for the most part looks like it is done quite well. Del Toro has a good sensibility about special effects and visuals versus Peter Jackson who thinks any half assed CGI creature looks good.
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:57 a.m. CST
Do these Jaegers have giant chainsaws or are they going to punch the Kaiju to death?
by Lakewater
Wait I'm a virgin. But fuck me sideways
picture has been out of sync with the sound on every QT video i've watched for the last 3 years. WTF??
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:17 a.m. CST
Not sure about the film, but My Jaeger Synchronizes and deploys for Rinko Kikuchi...
by conspiracy
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2006_Babel/006BAB_Rinko_Kikuchi_006.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EmBI97YMMNE/TqlmkotRa2I/AAAAAAAAAWk/VXNAojzQsyg/s1600/Rinko+Kikuchi+2.jpg http://www.tokyokinky.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/rinko-kikuchi-map-of-sounds-tokyo-nude-3.jpg
Unless they actually call her Glados and make her the passive-agressive bitchqueeen of the resistance or something it will take me out of the movie. She's way too popular and recognizable. It's like putting Donald Duck's voice in your movie, and make him a calm, spiritual advisor.
Jax Teller, Idris Elba, Giant Fucking Robots, I'm in.
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:27 a.m. CST
Wait, from what you guys write... She's like actually GLADOS from the Valve games?
by David Cloverfield
In that case, that's amazing, I'll buy four tickets.
Go troll JoBlo right now over this trailer. The twelve year olds are going apeshit for this trailer, going so far as to declare "Cancel the Apocalypse" as one of the greatest lines they've ever heard. I shit you not. Any deviation from that enthusiasm is not being received well :)
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:33 a.m. CST
Looks fucking awesome and directed by someone you KNOW is SMART so he will get the tone just right.
by quantize
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:35 a.m. CST
and my comment posted for several minutes and then disappeared because?
by peter_dickinson
My ticket is already sold.
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:38 a.m. CST
Is it because I advocated trolling another movie website?
by peter_dickinson
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:38 a.m. CST
Because in all fairness I advocate all across the web for people to troll this site too ;)
by peter_dickinson
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:43 a.m. CST
Watch the Jaeger punch at the end of the trailer! ROCKETOO PUNCH!!
by Bob
Ha! Love it!
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:43 a.m. CST
I concur....please use something other than quicktime links. They rarely work anyway. What's wrong with a link to a youtube video or something?
by wcolbert
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:43 a.m. CST
I told you guys it's actually GLaDOS because aperture labs opened the dimensional portal. Cave Johnson is mentioned apparently. I think valve is one of the producers.
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:50 a.m. CST
In fact this is exactly the kind of thing that happens in the portal universe. Black Mesa is probably responsible and stole cave Johnson's aperture tech to open the portal. Here's hoping for giant baby boss monster from half life
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:53 a.m. CST
autodidact. He's in hell now but he still hasn't finished an arc. You're right I remember having some other issues like the guy who isn't a comic character and is just there to help the audience
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:56 a.m. CST
Weird. That was simply supposed to say science isn't about why. It's about why not
by UltraTron
listen to my trying to be cool and gritty voice spewing laughably bad lines... why the fuck wouldn't you use Ron Perlman as the voice over when he is even in the movie? damn you Guillermo !
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:58 a.m. CST
why would the pilots be inside the robots instead of somewhere safer?
by Windowlicker74
like da drone pilot
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:58 a.m. CST
All the "Meh"ers, you need to take 5 years away from genre movies and get a bit of perspective, you jaded bunch of cynics
by BenBraddock
Seriously, this is about as awesome as we're gonna get in this day and age.... you're obviously spoilt. Take a break from fantasy movies, go watch some European art-house and come back when you've lost the spoilt kid attitude.
Hey beak lets hope it doesn't get too many good reviews though. Or you'll have to give a contrary opinion. Bit like Avengers. All i'm saying is i can never trust your opinion again, ok.
It's probably your machine. Quicktime works fine for the rest of the world
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:07 a.m. CST
windowlicker74 they are neurologically linked to the mecha, transmitting synchronized commands that cannot be transmitted.
by the Green Gargantua
also placing the pilots in the mecha creates a sense of mortal jeopardy.
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:09 a.m. CST
I must explain this shit? Robot Jox transforming mother fuckers. I am so sorry that you do not understand this genre
by the Green Gargantua
It hurts me.
Then i'm good. Google Mazinger Z bitches.
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:19 a.m. CST
Uh...oh. The cynic in me, meaning my entire being, is gettng a 'meh' vibe. Yeah, I'm awful.
by A. Garcia
that looks kinda awesome
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:35 a.m. CST
I'd love to see a giant robot Dethmatch that pitted the Megazord, Voltron and this huge damn mech. Winner gets to keep making movies.
by Rob Hill
All I could think about during the trailer was that it had a Transformers feel but with a Guyver budget. Is this a foreign film that's being repackaged for the Western market? Elba has about as much charisma as Keanu Reeves. Charlie Hunnam is pretty decent in SoA though. 3/10 on the excitement meter.
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:56 a.m. CST
Worst trailer since "Battleship". Mazinger Z + Vanquish+ Godzilla= pure crap
by Lourdes Galan
What was Del Toro thinking?
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:58 a.m. CST
Actually a bit underwhelmed, somehow. Will reserve judgment.
by reflecto
[2nd production logo] BWAAAHHHHHH 1st panning scene BWAAAHHHH 2nd panning scene BWAAAHHHH 1st SERIOUS voice from character, BWAAAHHH + 1st moneyshot, Cut to Black, 1st part of stylized Tagline, 2nd SERIOUS voice from character 2nd part of tagline, SILENCE...then, Rolllllling Drums getting faster and FASTER aaaannnd SUPER MONEYSHOT plus BWAAAHHHH, TITLE, BWAAHHH to release date, and Fin. Alternatively throw in a post-title shot of characters saying something witty in a dangerous situation, then BWAAHHH to release date. That's how you make a trailer.
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:04 a.m. CST
Roboto shito in hater moutho000000000000 G00000000000000OOOOOOOOO!!
by the Green Gargantua
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:04 a.m. CST
suntzu77 - could not agree more. It seems a shame GDT is wasting his talents on this Transformers-Like stuff.
by rhizomeman
Seems more like a cash grab so the studios will fund some other project that GDT really wants to do (At the mountains...) Anyway, hopes it's good - giant fighting robots just feels so played out right now.
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:05 a.m. CST
Looks like a turd. And probably will be. 2 bad...Loved Pan's labyrinth! Hellboy was meh...
by fredxx
This is going to bomb so bad!! Holy shit!! People are going to lose their jobs over this one.
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:06 a.m. CST
by the Green Gargantua
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:21 a.m. CST
The end is nigh for fanboys. They hyped the shit out of this thing and it's just one more broken link to mass suicide when star wars fails to excite. You all deserve this!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:22 a.m. CST
The fatcoats are coming! The fatcoats are coming! Get out of your toilet converted desk chair and kill yourselves now!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:24 a.m. CST
They way they move in those white suits looks like they've retro-engineered Dance Dance Revolution into a giant robot
by tangcameo
Anyone else expecting to see Hank Azaria as a cameraman in this?
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:25 a.m. CST
You can never go back to your youth and the only light you can see ahead now is the flashing in your eyes from a fat cop hovering over your corpse because you realized STAR WARS IS DEAD!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:27 a.m. CST
It's a great time to be alive! Well unless your a fanboy who hypes projects for ages and has a .44 ready when they fail!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:30 a.m. CST
You militirized right wing shits can hate Avatar all you want, but the garbage you anticipate will never dethrone it. Stew in your own ass juices you upright pieces of shit!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:41 a.m. CST
I have no doubt you hobbitonians were the first to indict the people who exalted in the world that was pandora. "F u pandorians only middle earth is real!"
by sagamanus
I know it's standard practice here to act too cynical, too wordly, too "sophisticated", too much of a learned "insider" to be a fan boy, but please ... giant fighting robots battling huge Ultraman style monsters in a big budget production? How can you NOT love that? Sign me up!
Just send in SAMCRO with a shiv hidden behind their back and they'll sort it all out!
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:01 a.m. CST
To all of the nitpicking, critical meh-mongers on this talkback - two words.
by The Reef
DO. BETTER. I dare you.
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:23 a.m. CST
Del Toro's long awaited scifi blowout resembles Battleship, Transformers 3 and Gozilla with Matthew Broderick more than a proper Del Toro film
by awepittance
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:25 a.m. CST
i'm not saying it looks shit, it just looks extraordinarily visually bland. hopefully it has a great script, story and characters
by awepittance
because if i'm judging this by the visual spectacle alone it's pretty boring and bland looking. I'm a pretty big Del Toro fan so i have to say i'm a little surprised by how unimaginative the execution of this concept looks in the first trailer
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:27 a.m. CST
you know we've reached a new level of divisive brainwashing when Avatar is seen as a film with a 'liberal agenda'
by awepittance
Go watch your Quest for Valors, Black Hawk Downs, Zero Dark Thirties and Hurt Lockers and shut the fuck up you pussies who glorify war because you are a moron who is addicted to Call of Duty
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:29 a.m. CST
Unfortunately hollywood does not throw money at black leads(will smith exception), so what you see in the trailer is pretty much it. The story will revolve around that.
by sagamanus
I've really tried to like Del Toro stuff or at least gave him a shot with all the praise and crap this site gives him but.. Hated blade 2, hated Chrono, hated Pan's with its ambiguous ending, hated everything he's done! well hell boy movies I didn't hate but they were still so meh So thankful he couldn't do the hobbit... This trailer gives me little reason to think my feelings will change any time soon...
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:04 a.m. CST
"Hated blade 2, hated Chrono, hated Pan's with its ambiguous ending, hated everything he's done!"...Translation : I'm a moron with no taste.
by quantize
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:06 a.m. CST
Alert : whiney internet babies don't like something they haven't seen
by quantize
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:06 a.m. CST
'This is gonna bomb', the battle cry of every raging keyboard jockey who is always wrong.
by quantize
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:08 a.m. CST
jackslater4 , you dont' trust Del Toro after Blade 2?
by chronicallydepressedlemming
The guy's made great movies since then, and let's not pretend Blade 2 was anything but Snipes running that show. Del Toro got his name on it, that's about it.
what a humorless cunt.
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:46 a.m. CST
The people inside look really silly doing Dance Dance Robot Revolution.
by higgledyhiggles
Real Steel with mechs vs monsters, and by way of a shit ton of pilfered production design, just doesn't fill me with confidence. DelToro has always been hit and miss for me. For as great a visualist as he undoubtedly is, he's often pretty damn terrible at character and dialogue. And I got that same follow feeling here, watching the trailer. It's got an interestingly eclectic cast, and I'm sure it'll look impressive, but I dunno, it just all felt rather hollow, like it didn't have much of a pulse. Be happy to be proven wrong, but so far, can't say I'm all that excited for it.
Dyslexia sucks, it really does.
Dec. 13, 2012, 5:51 a.m. CST
And how come it takes 2 people pretending to walk to make 1 robot walk ? Errr.
by higgledyhiggles
Neural Macguffin engaged.
Voicing the Jagers Computer or whatever? Feels like a cheap trick to grab attention. I think I would have preferred men in suits by the look of it so far.
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:25 a.m. CST
GlaDOS will distract me and make me forget I'm watching a movie about robots fighting monsters
by bah
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:26 a.m. CST
Imagine how distracting Peter Cullen in a Transformers movie would be
by bah
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:30 a.m. CST
As long as no one yells "JÄGER BOMB" while pile driving a monster
by quicksilver80
All is good
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:37 a.m. CST
by Wcwlkr
Where I can actually see what they're DOING! That's was magnificent!!!!!!!!!!!!
You twats said the same thing about AVENGERS. How did that work out?
Iron Man 3, World War Z, & now Pacific Rim!!!!!!!! I can't wait for the summer.
Iron Man > Santa Claus ...just kidding Santa. I would like The Avengers blu-ray and a pony.
Dec. 13, 2012, 7:09 a.m. CST
An analogous conversation between 2 summer movies summing up my excitement for PACIFIC RIM
by Clavius
Summer Movie #1 - Yo my friend! You looking forward to ruling summer 2013? Summer Movie #2 - Oh hells' yea bro! it's gonna be sweeeeeet! We're gonna make The Avengers look like Ishtar! WOOOooo! (both movies give each other a douchey fist bump when suddenly...) boooom Summer Movie #2 - Dude, you hear that? boom....boom Summer Movie #1 - Yeah, tha hell? (getting closer) BOOM.....BOOOM....BOOOOOMMMMM Summer Movie #1 - Uh...bro? Summer Movie #2 - Yeah man I see it! Holy &^#*! What the $*&! IS THAT THING?!?! PACIFIC RIM (In a voice like unto the gods themselves) - KNEEL BITCHES! KNEEL BEFORE ME AND I MAY SHOW MERCY!! Summer Movie #1 - Yeah man, it's cool! it's cool, we don't want any trouble! (both movies, now humbled at the might of this colossus of awesome fall trembling to their knees) Summer Movie #2 - w'w..what.....what the &$^@ are you.?..uh....my lord?...sir? PACIFIC RIM - ALL OTHER SUMMER MOVIES SHALL BEHOLD MY POWER AND DESPAIR, FOR I AM THE BRINGER OF YOUR DOOOOOOOMMMM! (Pacific Rim raises it's mighty foot which seems to eclipse the sun over the two cowering movies) Summer Movie #2 - But..my leige, you said you would spare us! PACIFIC RIM - I LIEEEEEEED! BWA HAHAHAHAHA!!! HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW! (and in a moment that feels like an eternity, both films lives are snuffed out under the mighty, unsympathetic heel of their destroyer) So what I'm saying is we have a movie coming out next Summer, featuring giant mother&$^#-ing monsters fighting giant mother$#&^-ing robots, directed by Guillermo mother&*!-ing Del Toro. My geek wood will just not go away after seeing this trailer! Oh yeah, and Ron mother-^$&ing "Hellboy" Perlman is in it too!
GLaDOS gotta eat!(someone needed to say it)
Dec. 13, 2012, 7:15 a.m. CST
Amazingly, I'm told that this is just a sliver of the world del Toro has created. There's much more to come.
by Skankardly
Well no fucking shit?
I ususally LOATHE internet-whiners who only seem to find hapiness when complaining and ridicule other people. People who start to bitch and moan about movies 7 months before they're released are annoying to say the least. Having said that.... this looks kinda shaky to me. The robot designs are lackluster and uninspiring (at least the ones we've seen so far) and the dialogue is just plain awful. Seriously, why do we always have to have one of those "today we turn the tide, today we cancel the apocalypse!!!!!!"-moments in movies like this. Why?? Do you americans get off on shit like this. Do you fistpump and give each other high-fives in the movie theatres? Because the rest of the world gags on the cheese. I almost start crying because it's so embarrasing. Also I agree with what some of you have said. GdT is a genius when it comes to visuals and he has grand ideas but he often stumbles in the execution. But only time will tell, maybe this will turn out awesome.
I'm literally drooling....... :-D
The monsters look like what the EVA looked like.
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:10 a.m. CST
Wait, why didn't they build one robot twice as big as the monsters instead of making two smaller robots?
by MoneyGrabSequel
I mean, it just seem like a better idea.
True story.
This looks fantastic, what with the fucking GIANT ROBO-PUNCH and the GLaDOS and Kaiju and... Sorry, let my nerd goggles get in the way. This looks pretty damn fucking good.
Maybe. But it looks like a good movie to check your brain at the ticket booth and get a 50 gal. barrel of buttered popcorn. I'd like to see it!
Okay, so like, I have this movie's plot figured out: 1. At the beginning of the movie, the rift in the Pacific is introduced, and a single Kaiju comes through. 2. It attacks the United States, and the military just barely has enough juice in its military to kill it. (Hence the scene of the Kaiju on the aircraft carrier) 3. There is much celebration, and the Kaiju is taken to an unknown base for study. 4. More Kaiju come through the rift and quickly make minced meat of the remaining military. 5. This sends mankind on the run where they develop the Jaegers after studying the dead Kaiju. 6. The first Jaeger developed is not ready for prime time as it is just a prototype. 7. Other Jaegers are developed and pilots are recruited for them. (Enter Charlie Hunnam) 8. The Jaegers are deployed and meet with initial success. 9. Eventually though they are beaten back by the Kaiju and Charlie Hunnam's robot is destroyed with him being the only survivor. 10. The failure of the Jaegers is because they have pilots, not fighters. Charlie Hunnam realizes this. 11. He finds Rinko Kikuchi, and trains with him. (Hence the fight scene where Charie Hunnam is holding the sword) 12. Together, Charlie and Rinko convince the government of their idea, but are only given the first, experimental Jaeger to use for their idea. 13. They quickly start kicking major ass against the Kaiju, and end up in a battle against the biggest, baddest Kaiju of them all (the one that screams at the end of the trailer). 14. A giant battle ensues as the climax of the movie with Charlie and Rinko barely winning. 15. They even manage to close the rift. 16. The movie ends with the rift opening back up in another part of the world setting up Pacific Rim 2. There, you don't need to see the movie anymore.
Jamie Foxx killing underwater white people, but it's not so I will have to setting for next year's transformer movie. Oh well, better luck next time. BTW, isn't the next real Transformer movie to come out in 2013? or is it 2014? I get confused. Michael Bay, where are you and what have you done with GDT?
because that's the only way he'll be able to upstage this film. Of course, he'll probably ruin Unicron, too.
So this is like Power Rangers without the man-in-suit?
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:55 a.m. CST
Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the film
by seagrass
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:55 a.m. CST
Didnt move me like the Superman trailer but I'm in. Wish they had just used the robotic voice for the voiceover.
by whatevillurks
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:55 a.m. CST
This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
by seagrass
You don't even care, do you?
Personal, practical and original, as in "Pan's Labyrinth." I personally find his foreign language works more interesting and contextual than these kind of high-concept pictures. This just seems lazy and generic. Don't turn into Michael Bay, Del Toro!
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:59 a.m. CST
Look at you, soaring through the air like an eagle... piloting a blimp.
by seagrass
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:04 a.m. CST
My beef with the robots is lack of horns. People of Earth, WHAT THE FUCK?
by FlickaPoo
I realize the planet might be doomed and this is your darkest hour, but you got your shit and resources together enough to build a couple giant robots...don't cheap out! Spring the extra $ and take an extra day to put some awesome fucking Grendizer/Mazzinger horns on him! Once again, people of Earth...what the fuck? This could be the end, show a little self respect!
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:09 a.m. CST
Or, in layman's terms, SPEEDY THING GOES IN, SPEEDY THING COMES OUT.
by TheMachinist
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Bring on Adrian Barbau-bot and her d-cups of justice! The pilots operate the robots from inside them instead of remotely because
by UltraTron
it increases drama. Avatar's original screenplay had them operating the avatars from earth which is the whole point. Space travel is dangerous so why do it at all when the avatar can do it. This proved so boring dramatically that they decided to just let stupid nerd bitching happen and operate the avatars in more dangerous proximity.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:14 a.m. CST
seagrass: when you're long dead I'll be still alive. Still aliive
by UltraTron
I'll add to your statement: Kaiju are the new Zombies. 2013-2022 = the decade of the Mecha-Kaiju!!!!
and then there will be cake
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:16 a.m. CST
by 2017, around these parts everyone will be saying how they're sick of mecha and kaiju and how we need something fresh like zombies and vampires
by lv_426
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:20 a.m. CST
Your entire life has been a mathematical error... a mathematical error I'm about to correct!
by seagrass
It's not a bad thing.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:28 a.m. CST
@ archibald; agreed- Pan's Labrynth, Devil's Backbone far better than big films by him.
by T
Hellboy is pretty good though, and yet, I'd say Hellboy II went off the rails a bit, too cartoony.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:36 a.m. CST
In return for allowing GlaDos, Gaben makes a cameo in the movie...
by Ultron ver 2.0
...getting squashed by Kaiju while destroying a bag of Funyons.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:45 a.m. CST
Why is it that all the nasty goth kids always seem to post first?
by technosnob
This looks awesome!
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:51 a.m. CST
Really, people are NOW COMPLAINING ABOUT SOUNDS AND MUSIC IN TRAILERS!!!! GET A LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
by peter
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:52 a.m. CST
oh and the trailer looks great, except for the maybe over used 'heroic rallying speech'.
by peter
See Braveheart See ID4 See Gladiator See MOST WORLD ENDING, BIG CLIMACTIC BATTLE SPEECHES IN MOVIES scenes.
when you make the crank calls.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:59 a.m. CST
If Pacific Rim is successful, maybe we'll get Sentinels in X-men and...
by Deceased Fan
Someone mentioned Unicron for TF4. HELL YEAH Unicron for Trans4mers. Who betta?
Maybe Metallo, or Brainiac in a huge housing. That's all I've ever wanted from a Superman movie.
I cant say ive had anything more than a passing awareness of this movie - so the trailer was really an initial intro - and i just dont see it. Concept - i like the overall thought of Robots versus Monsters -could possible love it hate the stupid interdimensional portal - such a weak device The Monsters. Seems to be bipolar - torn between CGI goodness and the ability to create some awesomeness and the Homage to men in suits. Frankly big and fast moving are more scary to me than lumbering destruction. The Robots - show me something new The Darkness - we all know this bodes poorly for 3D imagery. We can build 30 story robots, create neural connections - but cant track a 40 story monster to initiate a daytime encounter? And further, why can't use virtual imaging and and feedback to run them? Need buff guys to run them? Id rather have Stephen Hawking's imagination run them - he'd kick their ass and send them back through the interdimensional portal. duh Trailer - i want that image that really makes my cremaster reflex go wild. I really didnt see it here. Make me more intrigued. the Man of Steel did a better job with that. My on the Fence vote so far is a negative - hope trailer 2 changes that!
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:22 a.m. CST
dr.007: other dimensions exist. So how would a dimensional portal be a weak device to facilitate a giant monster attack? Oh yeah all of your wants and needs are completely fucking insane.
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:25 a.m. CST
autodidact: that's all I'VE ever wanted from a superman movie! Remember when Luthor steps on him with that robot and sinks him into the ground in the jumbo size issue?
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:26 a.m. CST
Ya know? Assuming you have literally processed every piece of media ever committed to every format beyond what even that guy on comic book men that bring in who knows toys like nobody else.
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:31 a.m. CST
Be so great if this was a hit and we got an R rated neon genesis with naked beer drinking chick
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:38 a.m. CST
seagrass: when I found the potato science project Cave had done as a kid I knew the potato would be used somehow. I have the potato electrode kit with the project backdrop. It's perfect
by UltraTron
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:39 a.m. CST
God portal 2 is such a great movie. One of the best science fiction movies I've ever been the star of.
by UltraTron
Let's have a round of applause!
Can I get an amen ?
It just won't. The first weekend will be the best. Followed by a very sharp decline. Asia, on the other hand will eat this shit up. Especially China and Japan. Personally I hope this is like Big O in two respects. First: That show had great action. The megadeus was a walking arsenal. I hope the jagers have that too, cause this movie will have at least 3 major monster fights and if they are all just fisticuffs then I would consider that a wasted opportunity. Second: While I admit Big O has the classic WTF Anime ending. It is nevertheless a great ride to the finish. I don't see that in this movie outside of the action scenes. Beyond what I posted last time about this movie pulling "a goose" is further cemented by the fighting scene with the asian chick and the main character. Sets up some great sexual tension. But it doesn't help the story. And that's what worries me. People may rip on Robot Jox, but it had a story.
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:56 a.m. CST
So I guess Portal is a great game? Can I skip the first one?
by the Green Gargantua
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:07 a.m. CST
I can imagine the kids hands holding these as action figures... Neeeeoooww! Badddooof!
by higgledyhiggles
Can't see the trailer on this site, on Apple's site, and it won't let me download it either.. AND I'M USING A MAC. <P> Just use Youtube. At least it works most of the time.
....until I watched that disappointingly lame trailer. And for the record: GDT is no better than Paul "Weasel Shit" Anderson as far as writing and directing goes... time to face the truth ladies and gentlemen.
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:26 a.m. CST
Movies are now being made for geeks, and all they can do is bitch, bitch, bitch.
by kidicarus
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:27 a.m. CST
Giant robots fighting giant monsters in a movie by the big G, that's my kinda fun!
by cameron
Bitches bitch coz theyre bitches...Fact.
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:29 a.m. CST
Honestly, I'll give this a chance before The Dark Trek Knight into Darkness Rises.
by Refrigerator_running
I like GDT, even if his movies can be a bit hammy -- at least he can write and the action isn't so cocaine fueled that I can't tell what's happening. <P> Dunno. Actually looks fun.
Just cause they're making "geek" movies doesn't automatically mean that they're good.
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:32 a.m. CST
GAIKING TRAILER MYSTERY...... Still I ponder, what happened to GAIKING???? What of his plight?
by the Green Gargantua
could this film's inevitable success result in the green light? According to Harry's article, multiple Go- Nagai created licenses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QSceQzMyjQ
Anybody who says a single negative word about this trailer can go pound sand. That was freaking AWESOME! Will 2013 turn out as great a year for movies as 2012 was? Is it possible??
Wasnt that in the Superman/Spider-man crossover? Luthor had red-sun radiation flowing through the robot so Superman was vulnerable to its physical attacks? Geeky sentence of the week? ;-) Movie Superman battling humungous robot onscreen with modern CGI? Awesomeness. Maybe in the sequel!
Just because I love seeing people come out of the woodwork who somehow still manage to have trouble with it.
I'd advise against skipping the first one. It's pretty short, and the humour is brilliant, and it makes the second game feel all the better.
First day at aicn?
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:57 a.m. CST
Wake up fanboys - there won't be a GDT ATMOM ever! Ever! Prometheus put an end to that shite - GDT said so himself.
by MoPea
Dec. 13, 2012, 11:58 a.m. CST
Not enough 20 year old female model bad actress types bending over in tight revealing clothes for my taste.
by Drew
A lot of the plot and humor in the second is derived from the first.
Looks pretty good but we all know even a pretty face needs a great personality. Well, there are exceptions to that rule..
then it was worth being a middling effort by Scott. Why GDT thinks Prometheus' themes are so vastly similar to ATMOM as to make it obsolete is another question.
In a few shots the backgrounds look like Sky Captain. But I don't mind, still dying to watch this movie. It's going to kick major ass.
You could cut in FX shots from that old film and they would fit right in this trailer. I still don't understand why it would be more cost effective to spend trillions of dollars and many years to design and build working robots that big to fight monsters attacking the earth when C-130's with lasers could be used today to fight them from the air. A bunker buster shot right down the throat should do the job but I guess it is more fun to built a giant rocket powered hand to punch a monster in the face. This will not be a good date movie IMHO
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:19 p.m. CST
Unfortunately, one of the great things about Portal was discovering that it had a plot
by bah
At first, it just seemed like they made a fun little physics puzzle game on the Half Life engine. You would only gradually realize that there is more going on. It was like if after five hours of Tetris, it suddenly turned into a platformer where you're fighting whatever is throwing the blocks at you. Some people actually didn't finish it and were disappointed because at one point, the game breaks its own model so completely, they thought the game was over. That's not to say that knowing there's a plot ruins it. It's still every kind of great. And for all that, Portal 2 lives up to the original.
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:32 p.m. CST
wish robots were less halo-looking and more district 9 looking...but still looks fun. Hate the poster though and the trailer relied too much on the BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sound.
by K-Gin
Anyways...still would like to see it.
Dec. 13, 2012, 12:37 p.m. CST
Perhaps it is a good thing the Del Toro was removed from The Hobbit
by Citizen Sane
Looks like what we have here is Cloverfield vs Transformers with cheesy and cliche dialog. Oh well, so much for this one.
with an internally created way of life
The Nominees for Best Picture (Drama) are ... LINCOLN - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHH ARGO - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHH Life of PI - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHH Django Unchained - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHH Zero Dark Thirty - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHH - BWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHH - BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH !!! (Fade)
Robots and Dragons. Hell, Sucker Punch had both.
There are people driving robots in TRANSFORMERS 4 now.
who would bet $50 on that ?
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:16 p.m. CST
In the words of the great Keanu..."Woah"
by The_guy_in_the_rated_R_movie
This looks fucking awesome!
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:17 p.m. CST
Do the giant monsters repeat the word 'Mama' repeatedly until I no longer want to see this movie?
by kindofabigdeal
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:18 p.m. CST
What are the chances of us getting Pacific Rim: The Musical?
by kindofabigdeal
Do we really need a subplot about "female" robot jox? Or training scenes? Rocket PUNCH! This is the first BIG BUDGET Giant Robot movie and they are going to rehash gags from Robot Jox. Really? Maybe I've watched Robot Jox too much to be objective : ) Would rather see Shin Getter Robo's in Live action, never thought of Robot Jox watching that show.
I'm quite satisfied with getting this before we get GDTs 'At the Mountains of Madness'. I don't think I could be more psyched for this and I haven't even seen the trailer linked above yet. I truly hope this movies makes a mint, 9 figures range kind of mint - in the states and overseas (and it easily could genre-wise). I hope it unequivocally proves that GDT can bring the coin to the studios so much that they give him Ridley Scott leeway to make AtMoM a rated R film with the necessary budget to tell the story as GDT sees fit. hell, maybe it will inspire michael bay to read a physics book. cannot wait for this. nuff said.
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:45 p.m. CST
we're almost there folks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ0WuNvHr8&feature=player_embedded#!
by Squinty CGI Flynn
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:47 p.m. CST
darth macchio, not sure coming out as a fanboy is a big risk around here buddy
by P
No apologies needed :)
Dec. 13, 2012, 1:49 p.m. CST
You can skip the first portal but I wouldn't recommend it.
by Autodidact
Portal 2 has got to be one of the best sequels ever.
Go GOJIRA!!!
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:01 p.m. CST
So, instead of see BattleTech or a classic Anime, we get this drek?
by impossibledreamers
Dec. 13, 2012, 2:46 p.m. CST
But will there a tiny, flying stagecoach filled with tiny, Japanese women?!
by animatronicmojo
Your puny robots cannot save you!! The Shobijin must call Mothra for help!
crap. I could not have been more disappointed. This is what everyone has been so excited about? Seriously?
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
by Mike Soiseth
ABout now the creative design team over at the Robocop reboot is having a sick feeling in the pit of their stomach. Turns out everybody is ripping off the HALO soldier armor.
the chick's later revealed to be a droid, by the way.
Does anyone else recall, years ago,...when Del Toro said about making a movie about a little girl walking home, and during her walk, the apocalypse happens? Cause the very first shot of this reminded me of that movie.
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
Hoping for big box office for this is going to be a stretch, unfortunately.
by kevred
No A-list stars. Giant robots and monsters, which is primarily a male magnet. No real sense of romance and only a tepid nod in the direction of female empowerment. That is not the formula for a crossover success in today's world. I think back to John Carter and Dredd. Or even back to the Hellboy films. Those were, per the prevailing opinions, very effective genre films. But they went almost completely ignored by the masses. This looks like a completely effective genre film, but that has such a limited appeal to society at large. What is going to make this one transcend? Will the Asian market go for it? Will any other country? I hope it does spectacularly well. But realistically, what kind of opening weekend do we expect for this?
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... what a right royal pail of pish that looked. you always knew this would look ridiculoulsy bad!
by larsson
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:31 p.m. CST
THE END OF FANDOM IS NIGH, YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! The final break between generations is coming. You can never return to your youth.
by sagamanus
Interesting... From the trailer I figured the asian girl could be Rinko Kikuchi's character at a young age, probably in the beginning of the movie witnessing one of the earlier kaiju attacks.
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:35 p.m. CST
Anyone ever read del Toro's The Strain? No? Here's a sample of the dialogue "She could tell by the look on his face that he was troubled by the look on her face." 500 pgs of that. Yeah yeah!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:37 p.m. CST
There are some really nice shots in this trailer, very colorful but not overdone
by lv_426
I love the first shot of the young girl in the empty street as what looks like ash colored snow falls. The part with Rinko Kikuchi in the rain, camera moving in on her as she raises her umbrella. I just like that shot for some reason. The one of her in the black armor and helmet walking in a flurry of snowflakes. The giant mecha in the snow looks great. Somebody mentioned Troll Hunter, and I see what you mean but it doesn't look like a rip-off of Troll Hunter (I love Troll Hunter btw). The shot with blue and purple lighting, where it appears to be Charlie Hunnam's character attending to a wounded mecha pilot. I just overall like the color palette and feel of this. It isn't totally serious, nor is it too overly saturated and cartoonish either. I think it will be a fun flick.
Wait for it.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wait... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...EPIC
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:43 p.m. CST
The question on everyone's mind 'Is Pacific Rim the cure to aids...or just a new strain?'
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:46 p.m. CST
The only time fan'cocksuckers' suddenly embrace so much cgi(after never shutting up on how much they hate it) is when their desires for military responses is met.
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 3:47 p.m. CST
Apolitical/right wing assholes, not a contradiction or oxymoron in the world of fanboys.
by sagamanus
I could force-choke all of you just by saying the word URANUS right after you take a big bite out of a hamburger or sandwich or something.
Pure, 100 percent unadulterated *fun*. That is all I want. Make it wonderful to watch and have the story engage me. But I do have one tiny criticism. Who the hell decided the monsters needed to have glowing mouths? Is that gaiju thing? Looks fucking dumb.
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
Look, I have been on board with this thing the whole time, but not any more, THAT LOOKED AWFUL BEYOND BELIEF. HAMMY CHEESEY RIP-OFF COMPUTER-GENERATED BULLSHIT.
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
That trailer was GODZILLA, TRANSFORMERS, the stupid INCEPTION noise, stringer bell, a bunch of godawful cliches. The only thing I did NOT see referenced or stolen was fucking Resident Evil zombies.
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:28 p.m. CST
Too much derived from CLOVERFIELD and frigging Power Rangers. You know it stinks when they have to talk about the INNOVATIVE COLOR PALETTE.
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
and by derived i mean the way it's presented, before some idiot goes off about the origins of gaiju
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
The trailer also seemed to rip off IRON MAN a bunch of times
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:30 p.m. CST
I absolutely love the hell out of Pan's Labyrinth, for the record. Blade 2 was utter shit, though.
by golden tribw
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:49 p.m. CST
Since when has PACIFIC RIM'S main draw been anything other than basically a big budget GODZILLA vs. BIG ASS MECHS?
by lv_426
I'm kind of shocked that people are so surprised that Pacific Rim looks and sounds like it does in that trailer. Did the Headgeek overhype this one too much? Cause this looks like what I was expecting for the most part. Maybe not as intense as I was initially expecting, but that could change once I'm in the theater and a giant ass kaiju is looming over my puny self as I stuff Junior Mints into my feeble human maw. If anything, I think Pacific Rim will be pretty cool on the big screen, as I've already gotten a better feel for the film from re-watching this trailer in full quality 1080p Quicktime as opposed to the Youtube version on my phone. So extrapolate that to IMAX scale and you'll see what I'm getting at.
OMFG! TOO FUCKING COOL, I'M IN LOVE WITH GLA-DOS! (sorry for all the shouting...)
Dec. 13, 2012, 4:55 p.m. CST
looks terrible. more pg13 shit. yawn. what is up with the AICN pg13 push its like they forgot their roots
by Creative
We all know he is capable of making films like Pan's Labyrinth, and yet he also chooses to make movies like Hellboy and Pacific Rim. He isn't a sell-out; the loving care that he pours into every one of his films is obvious. The Pacific Rim trailer isn't mind-blowing, but Del Toro knows when to abandon all pretensions and just have fun.
Wow. Robot Jox meets transformers meets Real Steel meets shitty Gamera baddies. Grandizer reruns have more depth.
...and made me shoot confetti out of my asshole.
who passionately revels in genre cliches. It's not a shortcoming.
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:23 p.m. CST
I sincerely don't understand what is everyone bitching about.
by lord Baul
The trailer looks great. That's all we know. No, we don't know if the movie sucks, what we know is the trailer looks great. I just love the internet era: no movie is good enough, no matter what.
Go go Power rangers!! Really though, this is like what the live action update to the power rangers should be. I don't know why they don't just call this thing Power Rangers X and just get it over with... What the fuck are we waiting for hollywood? We get avatar with alien cat people, yet no thundercats movie? We get a SECOND attempt at a superman movie, this time with testosterone fueled action and less Donner nut sucking, yet no proper take on dragonball z which I guarantee you would completely dominate the box office. DBE was a huge missed opportunity. But give chatwin some beefed up muscles, a real actual good fight scenes and it'll make a billion dollars. Just saying, the whole "let's make a movie that's like an old popular show or comic, yet not call it that" is getting ridiculous...
Dec. 13, 2012, 6:39 p.m. CST
Iv_246: i think people thought it might be an original or creative spin on the imagined concept, this looks like any big budget work horse hollywood hack made it. Visually bland as fuck. And this movie seems all about visuals, so...
by awepittance
I'll torn on this one. So to be NICE, I'll say this... 1) Yes, there's still a little kid geek in me -- a kid who grew up on cheesy sci fi and monster movies that really didn't have much of a budget... who is old enough to even admit that he grew up on Ray Harryhausen monsters and movies like THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD what not... who can then look at something like this, with its huge budget and uber slick CGI effects and grin. Because there is something fun and doofy about a silly movie where giant robots will slug it out with giant monsters. So, to use a phrase that I know many don't like to hear, this looks like a standard summer popcorn movie -- where you go on a hot day, to get out of the heat, and you just sit there and enjoy your refreshments and turn off your brain for 2 hours of mindless fun. 2) On the other hand, it does look incredibly STUPID too. I mean, come on, the science involved in just making robots that can keep their balance and walk...even at a crawl's pace... is still incredibly complex to manage, but suddenly I'm supposed to believe that we're gonna be building giant fucking walking billion ton robots? And even if this is set in the future, nice to know that Robot Building 101 got so much better...but the planes all look like current jets. And even if the opening trailers shots of the trailer are set in the modern day or "past" of the movie -- as others have noted -- why the fuck would anyone build a giant complex robot to fight monsters VERSUS simply tossing down some fish (ala Godzilla) to lure these monsters to some secluded part of the world...where you could then just nuke the fuckers? I mean -- what the hell? -- a few strategically dropped nukes can't take these creatures out, but a few PUNCHES from a silly oversized tin can does the trick? Seriously, on what planet does THAT logic make any kind of fucking sense? Finally, I guess the reason I'm less than enthused is that PACIFIC RIM is just late to the game. AICN and Harry's love for all things Del Toro made this sound like such an overhyped game changer...when in truth, in the wake of Speilberg and Bay, it now just seems like TRANSFORMERS 4 -- where instead of it being giant robot versus giant robot, you just insert a big creature instead. But it's not like we haven't seen the whole "giant robot" thing done with modern CGI to a spectacular level...where they're walking and tearing through cities and stuff...so, again, this just seems like more of the same of stuff we've already seen. BUT...like I said before, for a hot summer day where you just want to get out of the house -- and at a matinee price -- I'm sure it will make for some fun to see, so long as you totally turn off your brain.
...except on a totally superficial, surface level? Del Toro is an inspired, virtuoso filmmaker, as far away from Bay as a director can get. In my opinion, Pan's Labyrinth is the best film of its decade. I will see anything the man makes, from his loftier work in Spanish to his nerd-fests. I will be there on opening night. His films are the exact opposite of cynical; he clearly loves everything he puts up on the screen.
As jackofhearts29 said above, we're going to spend trillions of dollars making 300 foot robots to battle giant monsters? A weapons delivery system is a weapons delivery system. So.......a drone or bomber or silo can hit the monster with the exact same weaponry a robot can. The only, THE ONLY thing the robot can do a drone can't is punch. And you're telling me a giant monster is impervious to high tech weaponry but can be hurt by a punch? Fucking retarded. I admit this shit was the tits as a kid when I watched Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, but as an adult you realize just how fucking asinine the concept is. Thankfully this garbage will bomb domestically but unfortunately will do very good box office overseas. But maybe the domestic failure will kill a sequel and Beachem's career.
Dec. 13, 2012, 7:40 p.m. CST
Yes, this is stupid but Superman and Avengers are pretty much Ken Burns documentary level reality here
by lv_426
The geeks have spoken. More men in tights and midichlorians and other stuff based on existing properties, or remakes of old westerns like The Lone Ranger. Oh, and how dare movies like Oblivion or Pacific Rim try to introduce new characters and fictional settings? Who do these fuckers think they are? New stories and characters? WTF? Hollywood has trained the geeks well. Don't accept it if it ain't based on pre-approved IP. ------ *But maybe the domestic failure will kill a sequel and Beachem's career.* WOW! I'm speechless.
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:09 p.m. CST
More men in tights and hard boners - don't ever forget fandoms love of a hard cock!
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 8:11 p.m. CST
That being said. This is not an alternative to superhero's its a distilled evangalene. Makes you wonder why they paid for the rights to battleship when no one would have suspected similarities.
by sagamanus
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:36 p.m. CST
LV_426, relax buddy. Thankfully, all us old fuckers ain't dead yet.
by AlienFanatic
Those of us that love a good old Kaiju flick will be there. Yes, we may need glasses. Or maybe we'll ask them to turn up the volume so we can hear it. Or a few of us will be escorted out for taking a swing at the nearest dickwad watching PSY on his wag his (obese) ass and dry hump ugly Korean men on his cellphone. But I suspect that enough of us old fuckers will make it through to ensure DelToro gets to make Pacific Rim II while the young'uns (whose TB names we've never heard and whose shit-talking reminds many of us of the kinds of things we heard when we drove the Special Ed. bus) continue to get all aflutter when Channing Tatum does hip-thrusts in Magic Mike promo trailers. That's life, buddy. Let it go.
Dec. 13, 2012, 9:40 p.m. CST
Why build robots instead of sending nukes? Oh that pesky radiation thing's such a BITCH isn't it?
by AlienFanatic
I mean, my first thought when a big old monster approaches my city is, "Well, shit, let's just drop a 2MT nuke on its ass and let's see what happens!" What do you mean that flattens everything for a radius of 15 miles? Yes, I've seen Terminator 2, fuck off! If we can invent 300ft robots we can invent nukes that don't leave radiation. No, I'm not a scientist. Who cares? I call bullshit. Also, space ships don't make sound in outer space so FUCK STAR WARS!
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:27 p.m. CST
There is purity in the old Godzilla movies that is missing here.
by Snake Foreskin
I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems off about this. Does it remind anyone else of the crappy Godzilla remake with Broderick? There's something about the way Hollywood handles this genre that's all wrong. Maybe it's that it's too clean, too perfect-looking. I don't kow, it just seems boring.
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:28 p.m. CST
Yeah all the science is unsound in this one. There should be a law against improbable movie concepts.
by lord Baul
Dec. 13, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
No, but seriously, personal taste aside I think this going to be nice
by lord Baul
Not a game changer but pure pop corn heaven
The St. Crispin's Day speech was atrocious! Idris Elba? WTF? This looks more painful than an Independence Day/Godzilla remake mashup!
In Hawaii. Her tongue was like a roto rooter getting the few stuck pieces of corn out of my colon.
And that robot voice was that GLaDOS from Portal ? I know Del Toro is a Valve fan...
The brilliance of Evangelion wasnt the Robot's vs' Monsters theme. It was using that to frame the aspects regarding human interaction and psychology. This looks incredibly corny. Independence day with robots and monsters. I think this will probably kill any chance for their to be a live action Eva movie anytime in the foreseeable future. Eva deconstructed the genre and reassembled it with much higher order themes. This looks no different than Battleship to me.
Dec. 14, 2012, 1:21 a.m. CST
PACIFIC RIM's likely $18-$35 MAX opening should silence the fanboys, right?
by Nintendarth
Will they finally recognize how small a group they are? Who knows?
Michael Bay missed the entire point of Transformers by not presenting them as characters. In Bayformers, the Cybertronians are dialogue-free CG and nothing more, playing second fiddle to human characters because Bay has no interest or knowledge of the source material. Contrast that with Del Toro. Yes, there's Evangelion, Godzilla, and even GLaDOS in there, but that's because Del Toro knows the genre and knows the various elements of it. That said, I felt the trailer was uninspired, and they could have come up with something more interesting than the Inception booming stuff. They should have shown more of the characters and less monologue.
Michael Bay missed the entire point of Transformers by not presenting them as characters. In Bayformers, the Cybertronians are dialogue-free CG and nothing more, playing second fiddle to human characters because Bay has no interest or knowledge of the source material. Contrast that with Del Toro. Yes, there's Evangelion, Godzilla, and even GLaDOS in there, but that's because Del Toro knows the genre and knows the various elements of it. That said, I felt the trailer was uninspired, and they could have come up with something more interesting than the Inception booming stuff. They should have shown more of the characters and less monologue.
Dec. 14, 2012, 3:57 a.m. CST
So this is basically Sucker Punch minus the spank-material saving grace?
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
Dec. 14, 2012, 4:02 a.m. CST
Just teasing. If it has an actual story and character development, it's promising.
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
It's too bad filmmakers don't have the ability to design and bring to life instantly iconic characters and imagery. Star Wars isn't my absolute favorite, but I do remember being a little kid in the 70's and being instantly taken by the appearance of the action figures that preceded the movie, despite how shitty they look in comparison to contemporary kid's toys. Even via the poor sculpting, the strength of the design and characterization came through.
Del Toro is a great director and I usually love his work, so I'm going to ignore that this trailer didn't blow me away in the way that I had hoped it would and get those goosebumps going. I guess Transformers/Battleship have kinda taken the impact out of any new giant robotics/vehicular blockbusters. With Del Toro at the helm, I'm hoping for a more compelling story and attention to characterisation over simply trying to pack as much destruction and action into the film as possible. In any case, I'm just happy to see original new franchises appearing instead of cashing in on the names of older established franchises... Between this and "Oblivion", I am cautiously optimistic...
The only thing we're missing there is a Big Trak as the command center!!!!! I'm in line right now for this movie!!!! Although, people are looking at me funny for standing in line for a film that comes out in 8 months, and of course they're saying " You fool... dontcha know the world ends next week... looks like a waste of time there, Slappy!" But I just keep laughing and eatin' my Milk Duds 'cause I'm carrying the only Mayan map with the safe zones listed... and this movie theater's one of them! (it's kinda heavy 'cause it's made of stone and all) SO WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, GRANDMA? And as I slam that big stone tablet grannies head, I think to my self "Self, that was kinda dumb. breaking the only Mayan map over old Grannies head... now you have to stay at this movie theater forever... or at least until they run out of Red Vines and Mountain Dew...
Just saying
... is partially borrowed from another race, I even sort of get this vibe that the Asian chick isn't from *around here* Plus that's kind of a giant monster movie convention, the friendly aliens assisting the earth. The trailer? I dig on it.
...we created shitty dialog, overused CG and bromance
This could rise above the cliches and become a really good story if one or more of the giant robots go "rogue" and start taking over the planet and ignoring commands after beating down the giant aliens from another dimension. The line "to fight monster we had to build monsters" makes me think that it might be a possibility, no? Then, in Godzilla fashion, one of the Pacific Rim monsters might become sympathetic and end up beating the evil robots and saving mankind from itself. What do you think? Or it could be Khan. :)
Dec. 14, 2012, 10:44 a.m. CST
@kikstad, that's a great idea. Hope it's not just rah-rah BS.
by kevred
I am personally hoping that, if they don't go the empire-is-bad route, there will be a sinister intelligence at work. Building giant robots to fight dumb animals who don't know what they're doing doesn't make me enthused. It'd be like sending Arnold Scwarzenegger to shoot a mentally-handicapped person who had inadvertently hurt some people. Who can root for that? I'm hoping GDT has some nuance up his sleeve on this one.
Dec. 14, 2012, 12:51 p.m. CST
Oh look... "Speed Racer" Part Deux! Yep, niche market... looks good but not possibly a bomb from a monetary perspective.
by blhotz
Dec. 14, 2012, 1:37 p.m. CST
>>There is purity in the old Godzilla movies that is missing here.
by ObiBen
Poetry of the Steak. Too much CG, tastes synthetic. The old school Godzilla movies are technically more akin to traditionnal japanese puppetery and theater than to cinema. I would love to see a big budget movie using ultra sophisticated variants of man-in-suit-stomping-on-models techniques with invisible digital compositing and intelligent, realistic CG enhancements. And, above all, a killer script.
This looks like it could be something great, but I really hope it's character focused. Otherwise we're just going to end up with "Battle Los Angeles" again. Which really wasn't awful, but just was sort of flat. All of these movies forget that it's the characters that make a disaster story memorable. It doesn't have to be "romance" like Titanic, but it just needs characters with depth. On a technical level, I really hope those "pilots" aren't remote connected like the trailer implies. That is entirely bone headed. This problem was solved 30 years ago in anime. I really would like to see what could have been done with the Big O story line instead of this. Or hell, go the other way and make this not an anime style monster movie and make it a n HP Lovecraft movie instead
Dec. 15, 2012, 1:04 p.m. CST
What if the hero mecha turns out to actually be a Kaiju/mecha cyborg??
by the Green Gargantua
ala Eva.
It wasn't all that popular, and the individual episodes were extremely formulaic, but the ongoing story and eventual revelation at the end is absolutely worth 1 or 2 movies. I know for certain that when this movie fails ( yeah... sadly I said WHEN ) no one will go anywhere near Big O or any other giant robot film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O
Yeah, I know, complaining about realism in a movie about giant monsters and robots...
During that last bit where it punches the Kaiju in the face, I will make embarrassing squee noises. No matter how good/bad it turns out.
... a brilliant director with a wasted career. Let go of the negativity, people; ANY time Del Toro makes a film it's a good thing, even if that film is a glorified Godzilla movie. But the man has a dozen or so films he wants to make, many of them sound cool as hell, and I fear that we will only get to see a fraction of them.
The Defective Detective or Mountains of Madness.
Ron "Clay" Perlman's in this as well. Wonder if the Jaegers are built by Harley?...
Dec. 16, 2012, 1:33 p.m. CST
For the amount of money spent on John Carter or Battleship...
by P. David
A studio could have made Ronnie Rocket, Defective Detective, and two or three smaller Del Toro movies, like Frankenstein or an animated Witches. None of them would have made a huge amount of money, but they would have at least turned a profit.
The studios need to make smaller movies that actually have built-in audiences. Honestly, I don't see how the current situation, where the studios are taking gambles on 200 million dollar movies, is going to be able to sustain itself.
Dec. 16, 2012, 10:54 p.m. CST
You don't need a 15 story robot to fight inter-dimensional monsters!
by DougMcKenzie
All you need is Gordon Freeman and a crow bar, FFS!
Dec. 17, 2012, 10:53 a.m. CST
As a Fan of most f Go Nagai's Anime and to a lesser extent Gamera..
by Stalkeye
..I'm not too stoked for this Movie. Nice effects but the Mecha/Monsters are a bit too generic in comparison to the cool shit i have seen from Japan. I'll hold out for the Gatchaman live action Film instead.(made in Japan, Bitches!) Thanks, but no thanks GDT.
..but after seeing how shitty both Transformers & GIJoe were handled, it may not be a bad thing if the project stayed in development hell after all. (0:'
Dec. 17, 2012, 11:35 a.m. CST
Go- Nagai fanboys wanting primary colors and no texture on the Jaegers is comparable to fanboys wanting Batman to wear his undies on the outside of his pants.
by the Green Gargantua
It's so very interesting, so many of you alive but dead on the inside. I am thee biggest mecha and kaiju fan on the AICN boards, and this looks great. Smoke some dank weed, mellow the fuck out and enjoy this spectacle. The ones that are just straight up unable to embrace this concept, they are just miserable people, probably listen to Pavement and have zero enthusiasm for anything
Dec. 17, 2012, 11:37 a.m. CST
The Big O was amazing btw, love the Art Deco Mecha
by the Green Gargantua
Boon - Trailer looks really cool. Almost reminds of another really cool trailer. Movie was called BattleShip..... Oh Come on... Do I have to spell it out?
Dec. 18, 2012, 8:46 a.m. CST
RE: "Go- Nagai fanboys wanting primary colors and no texture on the Jaegers is comparable to fanboys wanting Batman to wear his undies on the outside of his pants. "
by Stalkeye
Or Superman with his Red Undies. I'd rather have a Mazinger Z Movie as not only were many of Nagai/Dynamic Planning's designs are impressive, but a much better concept. Judging from the trailer alone,Rim looks like a generic coated mash up.i.e. unimpressive. We are ALL entitled to our opinion yanno. :P Maybe it will be a hit, but I'm reserving enthusiam until the final product is out.
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