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I'm surprised there's no thread here talking about the movie, one of the few modern movie I've seen in a theater....
Anyway, the technicians on these films keep getting more and more awesome, don't they?
I'm just sorry that every battle was at night or underwater. I wanted to get a better look at those monsters.
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I'm just sorry that every battle was at night or underwater. I wanted to get a better look at those monsters.
I get that the underwater stuff was story-driven, and the city battles at night were probably done to show off the urban illumination, which is quite colorful. But why have so many of those battles in the rain? I can't figure out whether it indicates that the filmmakers didn't have enough confidence in their effects to show them clearly, or that they had too much confidence in their ability to put multiple elements into the frame ("Look how convincingly we can do CGI rain!").
I saw the film in 2D. Perhaps 3D would have made things more clear by putting things on different planes, but maybe not.
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This movie is a cinematic tampon inserted into the wrong orifice.
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I'm just sorry that every battle was at night or underwater. I wanted to get a better look at those monsters.
I get that the underwater stuff was story-driven, and the city battles at night were probably done to show off the urban illumination, which is quite colorful. But why have so many of those battles in the rain?
I am now wondering if they were trying to create a distinction between them and the (and I realize I'm going to cause an trans-generational groan of disgust at my lack of knowledge about these franchises  ) Transformers movies.
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Aug 3, 2013 - 10:41 AM
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David-R.
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I thought it was very very average. The designs were ok but the script was absolutely awful and the characters stereotyped and one dimensional.
Yeah, the script could definitely have been better. There was a lot of technical stupidity, too -- but then, there has to be in a monsters vs mechas film: there's just no unstupid way to believe that punching monsters with giant humaniform robots is the most efficient way to deal with them. That said, as a number of viewers have observed, this movie's smart other than scriptwise:
http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.ca/2013/07/the-visual-intelligence-of-pacific-rim.html
http://raptorific.tumblr.com/post/57184329007/pacific-rim-is-a-proof-of-concept
And I'm sure you can find more if you're interested. But there are reasons I still stick with del Toro despite his often clumsy scripts and pacing: his worlds are full of visual rather than textual wonder and intelligence, and I'll forgive a lot in a movie for that.
I enjoyed the heck out of the movie, and went a second time within a week. Sure the dialogue is corny, but del Toro makes it so you even care for the side characters, and the action is pretty amazing (not to mention the fights evolve - it isn't Man of Steel, where it's basically an invincible god brawl in a city for the last hour).
I also read the first link article a few days ago and found it compelling how visually intelligent the film is. A lot of that stuff I didn't even notice the first time around. Makes me appreciate what this movie does have, even if it isn't perfect.
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