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RBA Starblade posted:They should go the Zone of the Enders route and make the cockpit literal. Yep. 
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ufarn posted:DeKnight is an amazing director, but I wonder how much he's involved screenwriting and VFX direction. DeKnight directed Netflix Daredevil season 1, right? I want the hallway fight, only with a mech vs a bunch of kaiju.
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Cythereal posted:DeKnight directed Netflix Daredevil season 1, right? I want the hallway fight, only with a mech vs a bunch of kaiju. Does Tokyo have a Manhattan?
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Calaveron posted:Kid Icarus Uprising Well, that was a lot of cliches, it just took the piss out of itself and had good gameplay.
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The title has me worried it'll mostly be angsty mechs fighting each other with a kaiju or two showing up at the end to help everyone put their differences aside.
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Dinosaurs! posted:The title has me worried it'll mostly be angsty mechs fighting each other with a kaiju or two showing up at the end to help everyone put their differences aside. A Robot Jox remake? I'm down.
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Wild Horses posted:Shin Godzilla versus Legendary Godzilla from your lips to god(zilla)'s ears
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The Jaeger designs look pretty boring, but I hope they make the Kaijus scary as gently caress this time.
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Milky Moor posted:Oh, I know. My phrasing was bad.  As usual, blame Go Nagai for this one
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Milky Moor posted:Oh, I know. My phrasing was bad. On the website it says that it (she?) fights with two swords and has a highly acrobatic style compared to the other jaegers' heavy brawling approach, so there's that. But really Zzulu posted:Because anime
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Acrobatic Jaeger gonna fuse with the brawliest Jaeger and be the most dangerous one. Just watch.
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I wanna see more ground-level perspective scenes of the kaiju and jaeger fights like Mako's whole flashback thing and the News clips.
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At least it's fitting, Athena being the goddess of defensive warfare, wisdom and martial skill. If something of an overused motif.
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Milky Moor posted:I'm pretty sure that's exactly what GDT and the writers said about any prospective PR2 sequels. Can't wait to hear the new composers original bland poo poo score. What is even the point of this movie?
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CelticPredator posted:Can't wait to hear the new composers original bland poo poo score. MY COCK RAGES ON, that's the point of this movie
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:MY COCK RAGES ON, that's the point of this movie Okay but this won't be playing in the background so who cares? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY Goddamn, they didn't really want anyone back from the creative team. More Charlie Day and Burn Gorman is good, and I do like John Boyega. But I wish he wasn't playing the son of the only black dude in the first movie. I'm legit disappointed about this. I didn't bother to look it up until that post, but I'm just baffled as to why it's being made at all, considering all the good things about the first came from the very people who have nothing to do with this. Bonus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhE42Noj1Lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNuFCG2dVE 
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Inescapable Duck posted:'Uprising' is one of those subtitles that lets you know a movie, game or tie-in book is going to be as generic as it can possibly get. Where else has it be used other than here and kid icarus
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To be honest, I'm fine with the original writer going; but no del Toro, no sale.
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CelticPredator posted:Can't wait to hear the new composers original bland poo poo score. After the sale of Legendary to Chinese Wanda Group for $3.5 billion,[21] observers noted an increased likelihood of Pacific Rim 2’s production being revitalized because the first film was so successful in China.[22]
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Milky Moor posted:After the sale of Legendary to Chinese Wanda Group for $3.5 billion,[21] observers noted an increased likelihood of Pacific Rim 2’s production being revitalized because the first film was so successful in China.[22] I guess that explains why they ditched Rinko Kikuchi for the sequel. 
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I bet you the plot will be that after beating the kaiju the scientists use Charlie days research to clone kaiju brain tissue to act as the second half of a drift so they only need one pilot, and these stupid new designs are all a propaganda machine that turns evil when the kaiju brains psychically link and take over the suits, so old school double pilot Jaegers are pulled out of storage to destroy the new robots.
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McSpanky posted:I guess that explains why they ditched Rinko Kikuchi for the sequel. IMDB says she is in the sequel
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Milky Moor posted:I'm pretty sure that's exactly what GDT and the writers said about any prospective PR2 sequels. What the heck? And echoing the Pacific Rim theme was all kinds of loving awesome.
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Of the new designs Bracer Phoenix and Guardian Bravo are the only ones that have any personality to them. Guardian Bravo pretty much reminds me of the Gouf with its electro whip, while Phoenix has a nice brawler look. They still don't hold a candle to the original designs. Give me more weird stuff like Tacit Ronin or Romeo Blue than wannabe hulkbuster and iron man suits.
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Seriously did none of you watch Spartacus? I'm bummed that Del Toro is gone but DeKnight fuckin' owns like hell so I'm hype regardless
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kanonvandekempen posted:If you don't like it by the end of the first season I don't think it's the show for you to be honest. I liked it. It started kinda slow, but by end of season 1 it was nuts!
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Jul 27, 2017 00:12
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I was shooting the breeze with the stylist cutting my hair a few weeks ago and somehow the first movie came up. We agreed it was dumb and trashy, but it had giant robots punching giant monsters so it's still rad as Hell. Though I disliked the fact the Russians and Chinese pilots were basically an afterthought and existed solely to get chumped in the harbor fight. Agree that these new designs seem kind of 'meh'. Since there was that bigass 'Jaeger graveyard' in the first movie, I was expecting a sequel to have the Jaeger restoration project keep salvaging older ones 'just in case' or whatever. Though I suppose if they need some 'foreign cannon fodder pilots' they can easily write the backstory 'I used to co-pilot Matador Fury before it got destroyed'. (The amount of Jaeger concepts made up seem kind of cool)
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We'll see how many of those mechs actually play a part in the story - promotional art for the first movie hyped up Coyote Tango as one of the mechs of the movie, but it only appeared stationary in flashbacks and was never named. Pacific Rim is all over the place, watching it with veteran eyes. There's moments of genuinely great drama and suspense, like Mako's flashback to her childhood. There's good clean cheesy action fun, like everything with the Aussie pilots after Striker's disabled. There's fun mech-on-monster action in Hong Kong, though there's maybe less than there could have been. And a movie with a huge message about putting aside differences and working together is undercut by the girl character falling unconscious and being literally jettisoned for the final act as the personality-less male lead proclaims that he can finish this by himself (from a lack of oxygen no less, when the much smaller Mako should have been the one doing okay while Hunks McGee was unconscious). There's genuine pathos from Pentecost's relationship with Mako, and Aussie Dad watching Aussie Son go off on a suicide mission. But it just doesn't come together very well, I feel. Hunks McGee, the ostensible lead, has no personality and sleepwalks his part while everyone else gets some real development, or just a couple of fun personality notes to hang their hat on. McGee's character and his arc don't interest me, and there's little else stringing everything together. What I feel lets down the action in particular is the constant cutting between pilots and mechs during action scenes. It messes up the flow of the fights, hard. Let the pilots be the voice of the mech, and let the mechs have some personality - things like Typhoon shaking its head after its first ambush, Cherno's little "Bring it!" fist pounding. It's the same kind of mistake I think the Transformers franchise keeps making, establishing human characters and human stakes is important to make us care about why the robots are fighting, but there really is a time to put the humans away and give us the hot epic sci-fi violence we came here to see.
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PR has a whole heap of weirdness. The big thing I always think of is the scene where Chuck is talking with Pentecost prior to the final mission. The scene opens with them walking down the hallway with Chuck saying stuff but it is clearly dubbed over and his mouth isn't moving at all.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Seriously did none of you watch Spartacus? I'm bummed that Del Toro is gone but DeKnight fuckin' owns like hell so I'm hype regardless Spartacus is so so good and I will watch stuff Jai Courtney is in because of his role as Varro.
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That teaser was lame, something they just whipped up for Comic Con at the last second. Here's to hoping all those generic jaegars get chumped in the first 20 minutes.
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I found PR to be pretty awful the first time I watched it. For some reason, the plot exposition didn't feel as long and the fight scenes seemed long than they were the second time I watched it, though. You probably don't think much about pacing and plot mechanics on the second time so that could be it. Not that I'd try to see if it works with End of Evangelion.
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ufarn posted:Not that I'd try to see if it works with End of Evangelion. Yeah, 98% of runtime is "Life sucks everyone is going to die" and 2% mechs ripping each other apart before the world goes up in a biblical flood of Tang.
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I guess I'm one of the few that thought the first one was awesome from beginning to end?  It's funny though that when it came out I thought it should have been bigger deal than the reception it got. Now years later there's a sequel incoming and I'm kind of "meh" on it. I do hope when they are start releasing more info on it I'll get hyped again.
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Literally the only way there will be any hype is if they bring Cherno Alpha back somehow and have it show up in one of the climactic fights to bail the new poo poo Jaegers out.
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I would settle for Cherno Alpha lite, where it's a different jaegar just suplexing kaiju and dropping elbows on them and just punching them to death
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yeah the movies need more wrestling tbh and less guns and stuff like the completely superfluous rocket battery on the leg (?) of one of them. what's that really going to do, is that really necessary? If you want a rocket weapon on a mech, you make that thing central to the design, put a huge silo in the spine of the robot and make a massive missile to go inside it
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Wild Horses posted:yeah the movies need more wrestling tbh and less guns and stuff Alternately go the Mad Cat route and alpha strike the giant monster to death.
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