Pacific Rim

[gregm]

I saw this movie review in wired, the plot doesnt really seem that interesting but the effects are supposed to be pretty phenomenal . Probably not really deep intellectual fare but alot of fun to see on the big screen with a good beer. Definitely watch this one on the big screen.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/07/pacific-rim-surprising-review/

Pacific Rim Is Literally the Most Awesome Movie of the Summer

"Just ask Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, whose recent eight-tweet love-letter to the film declared, “I have never imagined that I would be fortunate enough to see a film like this in my life. The emotional rush I had inside me was the same kind I had when I felt the outer space via 2001: A Space Odyssey and and when I had touched the dinosaur in Jurassic Park. Animation and special effects movies and shows that I loved in my childhood days they all truly exist in the screen… This film is not simply a film to be respected, but most importantly, it let us dream the future of entertainment movies. Pacific Rim is the ultimate otaku film that all of us had always been waiting for. Who are you, if you are Japanese and won’t watch this?”

I saw this on trailer site. new trailer for grand theft auto 5. I have never played this game but pretty impressive graphics, I have a friend who works for a a gaming comapny and his art is pretty amazing. I like stuff like rome and some sim stuff but never thought much about this grand theft auto stuff, this looks pretty interesting.

"A sprawling, satirical re-imagining of modern Southern California," the soothing narration said while introducing the video game. "Covering mountains and oceans, expensive stores and strip malls, urban decay and untouched wilderness, beaches and backwoods, the sublime and the ridiculous, greed and hypocrisy."

"The world is not only huge, it's packed with a vast array of things to see and do," the narrator said. "Cars to customize, planes to fly, clothes to buy, sports to play, nirvanas to pursue, oceans to dive, animals to spot, hunt, and be hunted by, freaks to watch, meet, and befriend, bounties to hunt, and on and on."

 

[gregm]

I just saw another trailer. I am sure I am going to hate this movie but will probably check out the 3d on the imax screen. I really want to see This is the End

funny review of pacific rim from forbes. the demographic is one that trackers miss- hispanics and college boys without land lines .lol

It sounds like you are better off finding pans labyrinth and watch that again but I will give Del Toro the benefit of the doubt. Very good director

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/07/10/review-pacific-rim-looks-big-feels-small/

"I’m not going to predict what the film will gross this weekend, because it’s too up-in-the-air. The tracking says $30 million, but this film is pitched to the very audience demographics (young teenagers, Hispanics, high school/college boys without land lines) that tracking often misses anyway. The good news is that the $30 million opening weekend figure is so burned into every pundit’s brain that anything noticeably above that will be seen as an unmitigated triumph. The film’s pointless 3D conversion will help the film score overseas, which is where the film’s real money will likely come from. Word of mouth will be interesting because the film delivers exactly what it promises but nothing more.

The biggest weapon the film has its the relative lack of any big summer movies on the horizon. With the exception of The Wolverine on July 26th, the blockbuster season is basically over. This late-July advantage is part of what allowed previous Warner Bros. blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Inception to run the tables until Fall. If Pacific Rim can open, it should share the same advantage. As for what’s at stake, well Legendary Pictures put up 75% of the film’s $180-$200 million budget, so Warner Bros. is only on the hook for around $25 million as well as marketing and distribution costs. If it tanks, then Warner Bros. only takes a token loss, while Legendary Pictures merely takes an ego hit while unpacking at their new digs."

On a purely surface level, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim delivers exactly what it advertises. You want giant monsters (“Kaiju”) duking it out with giant robotic machines (“Jaegers”) with humans inside? That’s precisely what you get. But anyone expecting the auteur behind Pan’s Labyrinth to create something primal or genuinely epic may be a bit disappointed. Despite the world-changing stakes, the picture feels introverted and small. The characters are mostly stock cliches and there is almost no real plot to speak of. While it’s interesting that the film seemingly takes place not at the beginning but at the end of a very long story, the picture plays like a series finale to a long-running television series that we’ve never seen a single episode of. The film’s technical merits are (with one big exception) beyond reproach, but this is clearly a film more focused on the literal nuts-and-bolts of its futuristic technology than the nuts-and-bolts of its narrative.

Come what may, the film looks big and tall throughout. The 3D is pretty irrelevant, but it’s worth sitting through the 3D to see this film on an IMAX screen. At its best, the film’s robots vs. monsters action feels akin to that great shot-in-IMAX forest fight scene from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (the one must-see moment in an otherwise poor film). But too much of the action is shot incredibly close and edited inexplicably tight, rendering a number of major action beats all-but-incomprehensible. Most of the action goes down in the film’s second half, but all-too-much of it is a blur of metal crunching monster skin, with no real sense of what happened until one of the combatants falls down. But on the rare occasions when the camera goes wide, the picture is a jaw-dropping marvel to behold. There is a major set-piece in the second hour of the film that is frankly worth the price of admission by itself, but it is the exception rather than the rule. Still, if you’re going to see Pacific Rim, see it in IMAX if at all possible."

 

[xpansive]

Not versed in PR but will watch it if only for the visual experience.

The CGI looks quite polished