Zorak posted:

I think this is the first Hollywood film in some time that has an Asian (co)protagonist that wasn't a kung-fu film?

Gorilla Salad posted:

Why is this one wearing a hat?

Jack Does Jihad posted:

Godzilla was about 150~ish when he fought King Kong. He got increased to around 300 in the 90's.

That's the "official" height, though. Whether or not it's consistent to the buildings around them in each film, I don't know.

Captain Invictus posted:

Del Toro said they're roughly 25 stories tall, so it seems they're even bigger than the estimations from the blueprints.

Darth Walrus posted:

It's the question of whether they mean 'to fight monsters, we created monsters' in an 'oh poo poo' sense or a 'gently caress yeah' sense.

Thunderlips posted:

Giant robots are inherently awesome. But if they're making this world "realistic-ish," I can't get past the thought that thousands of tiny robots would be more effective than 1 or 6 giant robots.

I had a similar thought in Terminator Salvation, where the super-giant terminator is attacking the gas station out in the middle of nowhere. That's a huge amount of Skynet resources in one creation, when dozens or hundreds of tiny robot spiders would probably be more effective and terrifying at killing humans. Less steel, less computing power, faster, sneakier, and less of a loss if they are destroyed.

And looking at the scale of Pacific Rim, my layperson physics says that the stress forces on a giant robot's joints would be enormous. Like a huge lever, the knee or elbow would have to handle an insane amount of stress just from moving itself, let alone fending off a huge monster.

So again, maybe thousands of smaller robots like the squids in the Matrix would be more efficient at crawling all over the monster, cutting and burning and burrowing inside to do some real damage.

The Glumslinger posted:

I need one of those on my desk yesterday

AnonSpore posted:

But all of the Kaiju will be as well.

tehsid posted:

This movie is going to make such a great video game, too.

Shaocaholica posted:

Except a nuclear explosion isn't 100% radiation. There's, you know, a big explosion and fire. Now if the Kaiju can feed on explosions and fire then I'm not sure if the Jagers would be of much effect.

Xguard86 posted:

it looks like every other facility warning/info sign. Its not like they design the real ones with an eye for style.

Fight Club Sandwich posted:

It's godzilla not goddesszilla

Hewlett posted:

That's the Asylum's stock in trade - they make 'mockbusters' that are similar in at least surface respects to a big movie coming out, name it something similar (e.g. Transmorphers, Street Racer), film for 30 days in Romania with a cast of nobodies and one B-list actor or pop culture figure looking for a paycheck, and shove it into Redboxes and video stores just before the film's release. The goal is effectively to fool people into renting that movie at the store thinking it's the real flick, and/or getting them in as SyFy Original Movies.

The Asylum makes bank doing it, too.

Gatts posted:

It would be awesome. I dont know what you are implying though. Hulk? There was weight and such there. Even as he lept he reacted in the air as he should have. That Hulk was better than the CG rubber smooshed together like a child mashing his toys in the second movie.

jivjov posted:

Going with friends doesn't magically increase the per-ticket price though.

Lars Blitzer posted:

If anything, The Thing with Kurt Russell (and an epic beard) is closer to the story.

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TTBF posted:

I know quite a few non-movie people who won't see a movie unless it's rated fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It seems to be really common among people who only see a couple of movies a year.