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Del Toro's Pacific Rim is the Godzilla movie GINO wasn't

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remz

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Simo said:
The Australia Jaeger, Striker Eureka, blueprint:
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This could be my patriotic streak showing but the australian one fuckin owns
 
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3N16MA

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Idiots in the YouTube comments (why do I read them?) think that the viral video is some kind of trailer and it's ripping off Cloverfield. They don't understand it's not a found footage film or that there is giant fucking robots.


Jaegers look nice but it would be great if Canada had it's own. However I'm sure that we are so polite that the Kaiju's just left us alone and we had no need to build one.
 
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Pretty sure if giant monsters attacked the world, the Jaegers would be made by joined multi-national efforts, like space programs. This isn't the Olympics.

Should make a Bokurano movie. One of the rare animes that I think would be amazingly powerful if made into a live-action movie, if it kept the central theme of kids' emotions and what they go through at its core (probably with a multi-national spin, where each kid comes from different countries and of different social classes, to put even more emphasis on it). The mecha war aspect is just a vehicle to put the innocence of kids at the forefront, which no movie has even done in recent times, not even Oscar baits.
 
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Ether_Snake said:
Pretty sure if giant monsters attacked the world, the Jaegers would be made by joined multi-national efforts, like space programs. This isn't the Olympics.

Should make a Bokurano movie. One of the rare animes that I think would be amazingly powerful if made into a live-action movie, if it kept the central theme of kids' emotions and what they go through at its core (probably with a multi-national spin, where each kid comes from different countries and of different social classes, to put even more emphasis on it). The mecha war aspect is just a vehicle to put the innocence of kids at the forefront, which no movie has even done in recent times, not even Oscar baits.
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The countries are all working together under the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (all Jaegers are owned by PPDC). Each country seems to have their own division.
 
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Ether_Snake said:
Pretty sure if giant monsters attacked the world, the Jaegers would be made by joined multi-national efforts, like space programs. This isn't the Olympics.
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I dunno about that. You really think most countries are going to want to share that kind of R&D? Ideally a day will come where there are no more giant monsters, and suddenly those defense systems become the biggest militaristic threat since the nuke.
 
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The Jaegers are great. If I'm not mistaken, there is a Chinese one as well that does some crazy shit in the script.
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It is seriously needing some eastern asian mechas !

I expected to be a Japanese one, but chinese is the next best thing

It is a little strange that the australian is the most anime mecha so far ... must be the proximity
 
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Ether_Snake said:
Pretty sure if giant monsters attacked the world, the Jaegers would be made by joined multi-national efforts, like space programs. This isn't the Olympics.

Should make a Bokurano movie. One of the rare animes that I think would be amazingly powerful if made into a live-action movie, if it kept the central theme of kids' emotions and what they go through at its core (probably with a multi-national spin, where each kid comes from different countries and of different social classes, to put even more emphasis on it). The mecha war aspect is just a vehicle to put the innocence of kids at the forefront, which no movie has even done in recent times, not even Oscar baits.
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The script that I read sounds like Eva with grown-up pilots. Mako Mori's appearance is also modeled after Ayanami Rei.
 
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Replicant said:
The script that I read sounds like Eva with grown-up pilots. Mako Mori's appearance is also modeled after Ayanami Rei.
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"So did you liked my EVA movie script internet ?"

"IF YOU ARE GOING TO CHANGE SO MUCH WHY DID YOU CALL IT EVA ???? GWAAARRR"

"Good idea !"
 
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Hmmm... looking at all the designs so far, I would say the Japanese mech looks the most basic, maybe it was one of the first models? The Russian mech looks derivative of the Japanese one, with more complex stuff just thrown on top of it. The American and Australian ones seem the most advanced so far, with better form factor, more elegant feet, and possible wing attachments suggesting aerial ability?

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3N16MA said:
Jaegers look nice but it would be great if Canada had it's own. However I'm sure that we are so polite that the Kaiju's just left us alone and we had no need to build one.
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Or they already destroyed the whole country :p

Australian Robot reminded me of Soundwave for some reason, not a bad thing though.

They look great.
 
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The Australian one should be the deadliest and most sophisticated. Reflecting the fact that coming to this country means near instant death due to the wildlife
 
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I haven't been following this movie all that much, but I gather that Earth is under attack by those massive things and therefore several countries build giant mechs to battle those aliens?


..because that would be AWESOME.
 
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SJRB said:
I haven't been following this movie all that much, but I gather that Earth is under attack by those massive things and therefore several countries build giant mechs to battle those aliens?


..because that would be AWESOME.
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Thats exactly whats happening
 
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duckroll

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SJRB said:
I haven't been following this movie all that much, but I gather that Earth is under attack by those massive things and therefore several countries build giant mechs to battle those aliens?


..because that would be AWESOME.
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Yes, basically the movie is about how at some point in the future GIANT MONSTERS start coming out of the ocean and destroying entire cities. To fight back, humanity starts building GIANT ROBOTS to fight them. There will be a variety of different designs for each GIANT MONSTER and each GIANT ROBOT complete with their own unique attacks.
 
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duckroll said:
Yes, basically the movie is about how at some point in the future GIANT MONSTERS start coming out of the ocean and destroying entire cities. To fight back, humanity starts building GIANT ROBOTS to fight them. There will be a variety of different designs for each GIANT MONSTER and each GIANT ROBOT complete with their own unique attacks.
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Which mech will the main characters pilot? Has that been revealed?
 
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Looks cool, but I don't want this to be a toy movie with soulless CGI fights and a lame cardboard protagonist who hooks up with the chick because why not. I want my Del Toro-ness in this film.
 
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Forkball said:
Looks cool, but I don't want this to be a toy movie with soulless CGI fights and a lame cardboard protagonist who hooks up with the chick because why not. I want my Del Toro-ness in this film.
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http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/21728/guillermo-del-toro-describes-pacific-rim’s-action-sequences

“We had a Tokyo scene that we shot here in Toronto,” del Toro said. We had several Hong Kong scenes and a few scenes in Australia, through the television. We briefly see the kaiju take over San Francisco. The whole Pacific Rim needs a sense of danger.”

“We take the battles far and above! Two or three of them happen in places where there have never been a battle between kaiju and robots. From the bottom of the ocean to the atmosphere of the Earth. We have a battle in a storm at sea. Every battle we try to do differently. One is seen from the point of view of a single person. We never cut away from that point of view.”
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http://collider.com/guillermo-del-toro-charlie-hunnam-pacific-rim-interview/181072/

In the case of Pacific Rim, we really built a lot of stuff that was oversized and difficult, in order to bring that tactile effect. We built a whole street of Tokyo, and we rig it with shockers, so that every time the monster took a step, the whole street would vibrate and the cars would jump and the walls would shake and the lamp posts would shake and the air-conditioning units would fall. Normally, that would be digital, but it’s about making the plate seem to exist in a world where it’s hard to shoot. So, instead of doing an impossible move, I tell my guys at ILM to come back to the same shot. Nobody does that in CG. Every shot is great and every shot is new. But, I tell them, “Come back to the same master, as if we were shooting this fight for real and we needed to reuse the same angle. Don’t always do the operation of the camera so smooth. Miss the punch. Be late for the monster breaking the building. I know we’re spending so much money on breaking the building, but come in three seconds later, so that we can keep that reality.” So, the dirtier the effect, the more real. That is in play in Pan’s Labyrinth, and that same philosophy comes into this one.
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3N16MA said:
New video with first glimpse at one of the Kaiju's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS6kk1bTqJs

So hyped!


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Cloverfield?


Simo said:
The Australia Jaeger, Striker Eureka, blueprint:
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I'll be honest, this is the only design I have liked so far.

duckroll said:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/21728/guillermo-del-toro-describes-pacific-rim’s-action-sequences



http://collider.com/guillermo-del-toro-charlie-hunnam-pacific-rim-interview/181072/
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Ok, awesome.. Sounds like he will make this work.
 
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duckroll

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Forkball said:
Well I don't think the effects in a Del Toro film will disappoint, I just hope that since this is a real-ass mech film that the story won't just be filler to get to robot fights. I want my Eva-esque deconstructionism or Gundam's war is hell mantra.
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Well, if you read the interviews, he talks a lot about the characters, and world building, and so on. I don't think it'll just be mindless battles, but then again, I've never been a big fan of Del Toro's actual stories either, so I just hope the action is good. Lol.
 
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SJRB said:
I haven't been following this movie all that much, but I gather that Earth is under attack by those massive things and therefore several countries build giant mechs to battle those aliens?


..because that would be AWESOME.
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Every major city of every major country that touches the pacific, where the portal of the Kaiju is located, have their own Jaeger. Atlantic Rim for the sequel ^^
 
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Darth Pinche

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I love how each has a different style, just like GDT promised. The Russian looks rough and industrial, the American like a athlete. The Australian clearly looks anime style while the Japanese one looks like a prototype.
 
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