Comments on: Pacific Rim official trailer

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:33:00 +0000

I like giant robots and it can´t be any worse than transformers.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:24:00 +0000

I’m not sure where’s it’s from but it sounds just like the start of “Music for the Jilted Generation” by the Prodigy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ6jApzrExY
And thus, to my ears, sounds great, I’m just expecting a beat to kick in…

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:24:00 +0000

I will be VERY disappointed if the boy and the girl doesn’t learn to coordinate themselves thru the power of classical music then exterminate the kaiju with a flying kick.

By: Sven Oberg

Sven Oberg — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:09:00 +0000

That looks like a terrible, terrible movie. Thanks for bringing it to my attention and therefore saving me the money and time I would have wasted on it.

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:36:00 +0000

Saying a film like this rips off Evangelion is like saying Game of Thrones rips off Eragon. Its a genre piece, its not plagiarism: its leveraging tropes.

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:35:00 +0000

that robot has a ROCKET ASSISTED PUNCH function, your argument is invalid. :P

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:34:00 +0000

somone page Valve. This must be done!

By: jackrabbitslim

jackrabbitslim — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:24:00 +0000

Not just robot punches, you guys.

Rocket punches!

I’m acknowledging the silliness of giant punching robots. But I clapped my hands with the rocket punch. I’m rendered infantile by this AND I LIKE IT.

By: TombKing

TombKing — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:06:00 +0000

I make no excuses. Call it a guilty pleasure. But formative tv shows for me were Johnny Sokko and Ultraman. I make no claim that this will be a good film, just that I will take great pleasure in watching big things fighting other big things while cities crumble in their wake. I don’t have high expectations but I will probably see a bargain matinee if I can.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:58:00 +0000

That red turbine thing at the front of the bots looks a lot like a similar feature on the Reapers in the Mass Effect series.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:49:00 +0000

If anyone films At The Mountains Of Madness, I demand that they score the ‘running from the Shoggoth’ sequence with Yakety Sax.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:45:00 +0000

Feh. How often did Mechagodzilla actually throw a punch at Godzilla? He had an energy beam in his mouth, another in his chest, and fired projectiles from his fingers, knees, and toes… and he was the guy who always came closest to defeating Godzilla (who, admittedly, never shied away from physical brawling, even when his ranged attack would have made the fight much easier and briefer). I can’t believe this point is remotely important to my enjoyment of such ridiculous kiddie fare as this, but I can’t help but feel that using an enormous (and no doubt prohibitively expensive) robot to throw punches is just stupid.

I know you guys will enjoy the hell out of this, and that’s perfectly okay by me. I’m just coming to grips with the fact that, out of all the things logically wrong with this movie, it’s the giant robot punching the giant monster that I have a problem with.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:35:00 +0000

It's so weird. I love kaiju, and this movie looks totally made for me with just one exception: the giant anthropomorphic robots. Of all the things to bring my suspension of disbelief crashing to the floor, I'm amazed to find it turns out to be the idea that humanity will fight off gigantic Lovecraftian horrors from the deep with equally-gigantic bipedal robots, rather than with jets, submarines, nukes, lasers, infiltrating ninjas, copious quantities of Corry's, pods of cyborganic orcas, federally-funded necromancers, cloned and irradiated monitor lizards wearing tinfoil mind-control helmets, or any number of more conventionally available methods of waging war with Cthulhu. I'll see it, but for whatever weird reason, it's the giant robots, and the giant robots alone, that make me sit back and sneer, "Dazz Buuulll-shit." Oh, and by the way, for your daily BRRRAAAAHHHMMMMM needs, this still works.

By: TombKing

TombKing — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:23:00 +0000

They have me with the giant robot punching the giant monster. That is all.

By: Oliver Crosby

Oliver Crosby — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Colin Stetson does the /coolest/ BWAAAAAAAAAMP on his bass sax. Somehow he does it better then any special sound engineers can produce in the studio.

http://youtu.be/4OzqRqZ1gSM

By: John Irvine

John Irvine — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:53:00 +0000

Giant Robots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb7WIS0RjT0
Ah -a -a -ah.

By: devophill

devophill — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:50:00 +0000

”At The Mountains of Madness” collapsed. Funding, IIRC.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Independence Day 2

Also: “Get away from her, you FISH!”

By: the spacebase

the spacebase — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Also I’m pretty sure that’s the point of giant monster movies. They’re the “Louie, Louie” of cinema. Big dumb fun.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:23:00 +0000

Possibly still has daddy issues, though.

So it’s a Tom Cruise film?

On the minus side, no cute, drunken little penguins.

By: nvlady

nvlady — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Wow, ‘Matrix Revolutions awful’ that’s harsh.

By: spatley

spatley — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:49:00 +0000

this looks awful
like Matrix Revolutions awful

What happened to Del Toro doing Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness? there have been rumors for years, and then this?

By: Zyr

Zyr — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:35:00 +0000

To (sort-of) quote Ben Kuchera:
Jax Teller, Heimdall, and GLaDOS use mechs to punch Cthulhu.It’s everything I never knew I wanted.

By: caseyd

caseyd — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:34:00 +0000

who plays Dean?

By: Dave Bullock / eecue

Dave Bullock / eecue — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Robots of Anarchy

By: Dan Century

Dan Century — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:08:00 +0000

It’s the same lady doing the voice. Ellen something…

By: Dan Century

Dan Century — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:07:00 +0000

Ron Perlman and Charlie Hunnam are in the movie… “Sons of Anime”.

By: Jorge Villamizar

Jorge Villamizar — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:04:00 +0000

I for one, welcome our new delightfully cheerful psychotic A.I. overlords.

By: Keith Blodgett

Keith Blodgett — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Is it me, or is the computer voice GladOS from Portal? If GladOS is running things, it could make the movie much more comically interesting than the trailer makes it appear.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Sure is blue and orange. And rain. Lots of rain.