Guillermo del Toro's not-Hobbit/not-Lovecraft next movie, Pacific Rim

amuses me that Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Day are both in this since i remember there was like a week once where i could not remember who was who among 'guys named Charlie who have shows on FX'

Details details:

Guillermo del Toro's new movie Pacific Rim doesn't just feature enormous, insane robots — it also features totally massive monsters that trash cities with their terrifying limbs. We just saw the first footage from Pacific Rim in Hall H — and that included some insane glimpses of monster faces and monster limbs.

More there at the link, also that there's a trailer made so I suspect online scrounging will turn up something...

LOL at this, frankly:

A voiceover says: " Today at the edge of hope, the end of our time. We have chosen to believe in each other." Eventually we realize this is Idris Elba speaking to a group of robot pilots. "We are standing against the monsters outside our door," Elba says. And then louder, "TODAY WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE."

i hate movies these days

Interview, backstory details, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS6kk1bTqJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9PFtl2tt9E&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=2vKz7WnU83E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E

GLaDOS!

I was sold at "giant skeleton on aircraft carrier." brb, buying tickets.

I'm on board.

Yeah, that works.

Not terribly interested in seeing another giant monster destroys cities movie, or another giant robot destroys cities movie. Not sure how I feel about this movie being both of those things. Maybe they'll pull a Godzilla on Monster Island and send both sets of giants to duke it out on some reserve or Planet X or whatever.

I'm expecting this to be either highly deconstructed emo weirdness like the back half of Eva or just a bunch of fanservicey explosions like the first few episodes of Eva. Either way, I hope it's going to be reminiscent of Eva.

lol @ "cancelling the apocalypse"

looks sort of stupid, would have preferred the Lovecraft movie

that line made me think of this song for the first time in years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XC6dyBWi4

GLaDOS!

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real

the fact she's in this would suggest that this is going to be 100% fanboy indulgence (which might be a good thing)

that line made me think of this song for the first time in years:

Yeah me too. Good track.

looks sort of stupid, would have preferred the Lovecraft movie

― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 13

Same here -- this doesn't really look interesting at all.

may as well be Battleship 2

Anyone else remember the story in the New Yorker about bootleg Chinese films that cobbled together disaster footage from real life and movies into crazy all-star cast supercuts?

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/10/15/011015fa_fact_hessler

ha yeah that reminds me of another old NYer story about the bootleg Chinese Harry Potter books which had gotten up to something like Book 16 and had Gandalf in them, Harry screwing Hermione, etc. I still wanna read those!

surely a google for harry screwing hermione will give you rich returns in english

i want the weird semi-chaste version though!

xp: probably not as many hits as Harry screwing Ron

I want him to rescore "The Hobbit" with cues from Ornette Coleman's and Shore's "Naked Lunch" score.

Whoops, I'm going to put that in the tandem thread.

this has a skyscraper sized robot rocket-punching Godzilla in the face. this is exactly what i wanted

http://www.samuelowengallery.com/images/P/533.jpg

so psyched

fuck a hobbit

http://scifiwire.com/assets_c/2010/04/SpoofLordGStrings-thumb-330x464-37633.jpg

http://pornparody.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/whoreoftherings1-420.jpg

http://images.adultfilmdatabase.com/Graphics/Boxes/200/Front/68994.jpg

Oh, shit, sorry about that. NSFW!!!!!

Delete as needed.

what, the thread?

lol, "private movies"

when imagebombing goes bad

One last trailer, I'd say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA92Rw6kNWw

yessssssssss

colorful!

dragging a tanker along like a club, monster head smash <3

Then the monster recovers from head smash = even better.

otm. still bummed about the loss of mtns, but this is looking better & better.

cat. 3 kaiju

Where is Asuka?

monster looks kind of like the cloverfield monster, doesn't it?

And yet one MORE trailer. Presumably the last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guMumPFBag

Fine, and correct.

Most of Del Toro's movies are pretty bad and boring. The Devil's Backbone is good; Hellboy is good; everything else I've seen has been a disappointment. I haven't seen The Shape of Water and have no plans to, for exactly this reason.

wtf you are crazy

the first Pacific Rim was awesome

For very carefully defined values of 'awe'

first pacific rim was awesome and also bad and boring... i am sure of this bc i saw it twice

I haven't seen the shape of water so maybe exception proves the rule but afaik GDT has never shown much capacity for or even interest in telling a satisfying story so.

i’ve seen it like 5 times and i know in my heart that it is neither bad nor boring

it seems like this director is somewhat polarizing. I wonder if there have been any other threads about his films that bear this out

FUCKING HELL, OCCUPIED S2 HAS BEEN ON NETFLIX A WEEK AND NOBODY TOLD ME

well, this was the wrong thread for that

why dont u yell at HIM tombot, instead of all of us arguing on-topic

Tomjaeger in here swingin boats

So I enjoyed this tons more than I expected. The visuals weren't as breath-taking as the first but the fight scenes were excellent and still did a great job of conveying the scale of the Kaiju/Jaegers. The plot was as b-movie as ever but goddamn did John Boyega make the most of his role.

**Spoilers** I was pumped to see the continued pilfering of Neon Genesis themes/visuals, even if PR is unwilling/unable to grapple with all the crazy shit NG gets into. The scene where the Kaiju brains take over the Jaeger drones were ripped straight from when Shinji went berserker and his Eva's inner angel started to break loose.

:D

"TODAY WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE"

thank you stacker pentecost

somehow i have not seen this film till now

burn gorman's decision to inject bits of fast show sketches into his scenes is bold