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Pacific Rim Uprising - Trailer 1
- Thread starter Rickelodeon
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Boyega trying to outdo Idris Elba's Cancelling the apocalypse speech.
Boyega is like Katy Perry, trying too hard to become something, instead of working what they do best for it.
The last scene where the Jaegers start to run, Gipsy looks like if she is jumping.
Looking heavy and obeying the weight physics are two different things. These Jaegers looks more acrobatic, when in the last movie the only jump one did had a lot of windup and even used additional thrusters to be able to "jump"
CosmicGroinPull
Member
It does look like Transformers, but somehow I have a feeling it won't make me sick watching it like transformers does, either through its headache inducing CG or badly written script.
It can't ever be that bad, right?
WaterAstro
Member
Not if it ends up being Michael Bay Rim.
Just watch the trailer.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I love the fact that much of the action we see takes place in the day time.
The suits look cheap though.
I'm not bothered by how fast they move for now, since these are Mach 6 and Mach 7 Jaegers. They're supposed to be faster. Just like Striker Eureka was faster than Gipsy and Cherno Alpha.
My speculation is that the enemy Jaegers are not human. They are made by the aliens that made the Kaiju. I say this because the swarm of small metallic squid things you see in the trailer. Maybe the aliens learned our technology from the Jaegers we dropped into their world.
The suits look cheap though.
I'm not bothered by how fast they move for now, since these are Mach 6 and Mach 7 Jaegers. They're supposed to be faster. Just like Striker Eureka was faster than Gipsy and Cherno Alpha.
My speculation is that the enemy Jaegers are not human. They are made by the aliens that made the Kaiju. I say this because the swarm of small metallic squid things you see in the trailer. Maybe the aliens learned our technology from the Jaegers we dropped into their world.
i meant, good for the mechverse when thousands of years transcur and the technology doesnt get any better, if that what the autor wants to hype the titular gundams, good for them.
this is pacific rim, whole other rules apply
this fucking "bayformers" shit is getting out of hand tho
At 1:10 the Kaiju is thrown against a buidling by a whip, after that any scene with Gipsy Avenger (there is one that looks like she is going for a roll to avoid some missiles) and of course at 1:37 the kick.
Also why are their helmets visorless? The cockpit is not debris-proof. Was it so we can see how they know how to act? If that's the case, they need to learn to act.
WaterAstro
Member
Yeh, I watched a movie called Pacific Rim, so I want the movie Pacific Rim Uprising to be like Pacific Rim.
They mentioned in some interviews when the first was still on theaters that the sequel could explore how there are jaeger parts because of the explosion at the end happens to be based on SENDING A JAEGER TO THE KAIJU WORLD
Maybe that is where they are going with this.
Cow Mengde
Banned
These are Mach 6 and Mach 7 Jaegers. Cherno Alpha is a slug compared to Striker Eureka. Hell, Gipsy is a slug compared to Striker.
Vital Tundra
Member
I don't want to be that guy, but something was really off about that trailer. The use of color, the animation, the weird power ranger "everyone charge at the monster" thing. Didn't feel like Pacific Rim 2. I don't know. Also I liked the weird mech designs of the first way better.
no dude! they gotta be slow to be jaggers, dont you see? if they are fast they are bay's transformers OBVIOUSLY
Princess Carl
Member
yeah im little taken aback by the level of rejection lol.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
It's not the speed. It's the fluidity of motion and animation that's the problem.
It looks far less believable than the original.
Striker still had a lot of windup in its attack, remember the scene where it starts running? Even in the first scene it appears it was "slow", each blow took some time to land and stop momentum before the next one, even when they deployed the missle bay, it took some time for the arms to move around and the chest to open up because the metal parts were heavy.
I'm sure the fans of the mechanical aspect of the first one loved that because they moved like robots, like heavy pieces of metal with lots of gears and motors. These ones could be Mach 99, but they move like a person in a suit, they move like a Megazord or a Transformer, even Samus in Smash looks more mechanical. You could have fast moving Jaegers like Striker but it looked mechanical, and limited by whatever alloy it was made of and by whatever quantity of engines it had for articulations. Here they look more biological, shaking the cam to add weight to each step is not them being heavy. It's how the animate that doesn't look like they are mechanical or affected by gravity (in relation to their size).
Again check the last part of the trailer when they start running, Gipsy looks like she's jumping like Mario instead of running like before.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I just watched the trailer again and paid attention to the end. Both shots of it running wasn't even a complete step. The motion still feels slow like a huge machine. It never felt like it was jumping.
However, the Jaeger breaking out of the warehouse (or whatever) shot did seem to move too fast. The snow battle also looks too fast. Otherwise, I don't see the Mario jumping.
It's a trailer, everything is cut so quickly. There's also more time to polish the special effects.
This is Striker Eureka from the first movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwRCybe_M_Q
The first hit is too fast yes Mach 5, but he had momentum because it was running before that hit, it twists its body a little, when the arm comes down to grab Mutavore, the body now twists to the right and the left arm hits the kaiju, then you can see how it's lingering there for a second as Striker tries to rebalance by moving its feet to a new more stable position, you can't see the feet but the motion of the upper body suggest it's taking two steps or three steps to not fall down. The last hit has the body twists and Striker does a 90° (or more) turn (from facing the camera to side view) now in order to untwist its body he uses that turn momentum to take the arm from the hook all the way to the position to open the missile chest. Again it's fast, but still looks mechanical, just rebalancing the weight of the body to connect the next move.
It's not something you will notice the first time tho, but it moves in the confines of the mechanical body (and the sounds effects of the engines add a lot of that), I'm sure del Toro wanted that scene to play like a boxer fighting, he described Striker as a "dirty boxer or brutal brawler".
There are things that don't make sense in the first movie, like Gipsy being able to move after having it's back destroyed by Otachi or its knees surviving the drop, but Jaegers moving as robots is as hard as you can take sci-fi with Kaijus.
This is exactly the Chrono Trigger to Chrono Cross kind of change, tho we don't know if Uprising will be any good. Both are good, but there is a big change that will turn people away, and some people will love the new one because of the changes.
Geno Breaker
Banned
It's definitely a step down from the first visually. No sense of scale or weight, and comes off as cheap like Kamen Rider or any other tokusatsu shows made for TV. I'm sure the action will be fun in the end and it's not offensive for me at least, but I definitely think it could have been better.
RedAssedApe
Banned
eh. these trailers need 4k versions.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
Imagine how bad the tracks were that didn't make it? Seriously though, trailer music these days is pure garbage.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
When that Pacific rim theme started to kick in I was like YES! But after that I was sad
torre_avenue
Banned
If only someone would say what they really mea-
And there we go.
Half-expected someone to say this trailer was made just for BET.
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
People don't have to like hip hop, though
longdi
Banned
Looks terrible, i cant tell if this is Power Ranger 2 or PR2.
Why Del Toro not doing this? He seems interested to make a Kaju Cinematic Universe.
He did a good job capturing the pilot piloting a mecha feel. Something only a real Otaku can make. You feel the un-wielding mass and power whenever a Jaeger fights a Kaju. The arena destruction meant something.
I think the framing here illustrates that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwRCybe_M_Q
PR2 looks like your hollywood SFX template of robots-big-aliens-invasion-city-destruction.
Why Del Toro not doing this? He seems interested to make a Kaju Cinematic Universe.
He did a good job capturing the pilot piloting a mecha feel. Something only a real Otaku can make. You feel the un-wielding mass and power whenever a Jaeger fights a Kaju. The arena destruction meant something.
I think the framing here illustrates that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwRCybe_M_Q
PR2 looks like your hollywood SFX template of robots-big-aliens-invasion-city-destruction.
torre_avenue
Banned
Of course they don't have to, it's just that on this forum, it's not always about just not liking hip-hop.
As seen in the Assassin's Creed trailer thread, people react viscerally if it's hip-hop they don't like soundtracking a trailer. It always devolves into them explaining that a) they think hip-hop is trash and doesn't deserve a fair shake or b) them irrationally hating the artist. Here, it's more of a).
I will admit that it is unfair of me to have quoted the first two people because I particularly didn't think the 2Pac song was the best fit for the trailer, but that third post is just utterly ridiculous and a case of someone showing their ass.
SuperStiltzkin
Member
Trailer wasn't edited around the song very well is my problem with it.
Bornstellar
Member
Time for a rewatch.
And this trailer gives me more hope than the initial stills, but it still seems to be missing the weight that made the first movie feel so good.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
What... Do you think the first movie was?
GamingPheasant
Banned
The remake of Robot Jox I've always wanted.
Agree. It really felt totally out of place. Really hope the actual movie doesn't have it, whats wrong with just using the fantastic PR Theme throughout?
Bobo Dakes
Member
The thing that gets me is how dramatic people have to be when they express their dislike of hip hop.
ROUGE_BLOCK
Member
Yeah I did not feel this trailer at all, this just doesn't look like it got the kind of stupid goofiness from the first Pacific Rim and went a more generic Kaiju smash.
snickothemule
Member
kinda lame trailer, not really digging all the Bay sweeps and corny ass setups.