[FILM] Pacific Rim

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Seen this yesterday in IMAX - 3D and have to say it was SICK!! Giant Mechs, Giant Monsters, cities being destroyed. What more can you ask for?

Don't go all Siskel and Ebert on me and start trashing the storyline! We all know that we are not watching these for the storylines. That is always secondary to the action and this has lots of action.

I always liked the feel of the Cloverfield movie even though the camera shake got to me after a while. This will sort of give you that same feeling of 'I wonder what it would be like if a giant monster attacked'?

http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/
 
Agree with the above. As complex as a Saturday morning cartoon and the characters are just the right amount of comic book stereotypes to make it work. (Though the Aussie accents did scratch my ears in places. :rolleyes:)

The action is superb and even though most of it is set at night the movie is surprisingly colourful and bright so you always know what's going on.
 
battle tech i still play. a hornet running is hard to hit.
i max missiles with one med laser.
'beatem down then kill'

As possibly THE sf guru and sf gamer/reader [3000 'sf' books] on this forum.
i own.

pacific rim to me is overtones of shared consciosness and pure technolgy. a theme never before used by hollywood.
adjustment bureau and inception. 2 great flics gone because 'general public is an idiot'
well i have both on drive and disk [paid for]

worth watching just for that.
as for gamer


 
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eniced73 said:
Seen this yesterday in IMAX - 3D and have to say it was SICK!! Giant Mechs, Giant Monsters, cities being destroyed. What more can you ask for?

Don't go all Siskel and Ebert on me and start trashing the storyline! We all know that we are not watching these for the storylines. That is always secondary to the action and this has lots of action.

I always liked the feel of the Cloverfield movie even though the camera shake got to me after a while. This will sort of give you that same feeling of 'I wonder what it would be like if a giant monster attacked'?

http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/
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agree

many hated cloverfield. i am a scientist i use the method. cloverfield is quite possible. As spec fiction.
Pacific rim you know more than i.
same goes

in 1901 the idea of showering enemy nation with bits of the sun.. was a fantasy.
as was cyborging people to move act and even think faster and more accurately.
waldo, semi cyborg. is easy

in 2013.. we [can]do all above
i love science the method.. i am not a sheep. i am also not a wolf

i am a beaver. fk off and let me alone aspie beaver.

now just watching 'phantom' ed harris a star.
hopefully it may rival red oktober.
one can only hope
 
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Watched it ... popcorn brain candy from a plot p.o.v ... at times visually brilliant!
(liked Cloverfield at the time too ... although when watching it on the big screen, the jerky hand-held camera shake was a bit much after a while)

My BIG issue with Pacific Rim was that by 2025 ... the BEST weapons humanity can come up with to find giant monsters is giant metal men to duke it out with them in mid-ocean boxing matches????

You'd think some satellite-delivery big-ass kinetic penetrator missiles perhaps .... or even what ever happened to combined arms combat? ... at least have the air force distract them with stand-off missile attacks while the big Jaeger machines go in close.

Also, if these monsters were vulnerable to being punched into submission ... they would be even more vulnerable to big depth-charges while still under water (shock waves much more deadly under water)

Umm ... how about setting up a movement-sensor-triggered minefield of tactical nukes around the mid-ocean fissure ... as soon as a monster pops his head out of the hole, BOOM!! ... kentucky fried monster\.

-- but then, I guess there'd be no movie...LOL

I remember laughing my head off at Starship Troopers when I first saw it ... they were called the "Mobile Infantry" ... yet not a single vehicle in sight ... can fly them across the galaxy in giant starships to fight wars, yet can not land a single tank, combat helicopter or heavy artillery piece?
The average late 21st Century platoon of marines or mech infantry had more firepower available than these yokels... LMAO.
 
Rico i laughed.
" how about setting up a movement-sensor-triggered minefield of tactical nukes around the mid-ocean fissure ... as soon as a monster pops his head out of the hole, BOOM!! ... kentucky fried monster\.
-- but then, I guess there'd be no movie...LOL

or 300 kt fusion weps. set to not trigger the next wep in ring on detonation.
then low orbit partical accelerators or even just this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

project Thor and kinetic based destruction was vetted by usaf.
fact a 5 kilo crowbar as they were called entering at mach 15+ produces a small hiroshima
10 k ~
no radiating just IMPACT power.
think of it this way.

A rock smaller than manhatten island. 4 miles in diameter.
hit earth some way back. it killed every thing that could not hide and scurry to hide. humanity is species that evolved from very good burrowers

Thor
it was too cheap and allowed reduction of funds to usaf.
a crowbar with guidance costs 10% of one nuke warhead
bureaucracy rules

weareverygood at war. aliens seem easy meat to me
 
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I loved this movie, because of one thing.
It looks like comic book.

Not much to see in acting, characters or story, but it's like old superherosavetheworld comics :)
 
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