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CelticPredator posted:Why did Stacker Pentacost abandon his son for a little Japanese girl? The mother always gets custody. Anyway, I allowed myself to love the first movie... And so far I am really hating the look of the new movie trailers. Instead of looking like ginormous, building sized robots lumbering around... they move like power rangers. Sigh.
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CelticPredator posted:Why did Stacker Pentacost abandon his son for a little Japanese girl? He's a goon.
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Nov 22, 2017 16:31
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Milky Moor posted:"At the start of the film, he [Boyega's character] is an absolute crook. There are rogue Jaegers where people have collected spare parts and made their own machines. Jake is stealing from people and selling Jaeger parts." This is just ludicrous enough to interest me.
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Nov 22, 2017 17:27
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Pacific Rim Build Fighters sounds like absolutely my jam
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Nov 22, 2017 18:37
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GORDON posted:The mother always gets custody. I saw the trailer before Justice League and compared to the first one it did a pretty bad job of selling the incredible mass and size of these things. The lumbering movement, dynamic camera angles and deep surface detail did a lot of work in that regard. Not a lot of that on display this time around.
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Nov 22, 2017 18:47
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Even the fastest one in PR1 (Striker Eureka) was slower than almost everything shown in the trailer and had some good scenes of it building momentum. Also that giant merged Kaiju reminds me of the Kraken from that stupid Titan movie and that’s not something you want to remind me about.
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Nov 22, 2017 22:26
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Build-a-jaeger work shop.
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Taintrunner posted:Pacific Rim Build Fighters sounds like absolutely my jam Can I talk to you about Real Steel?
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Toshimo posted:Can I talk to you about Real Steel? That movie is surprisingly good and effective.
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Nov 23, 2017 14:59
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Real Steel is the bomb.
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Real Steel got panned by most people so when I saw it I really wasn't expecting anything. What I saw was a nicely put together movie which was surprisingly fun and touching. Legit cool movie.
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One thing I'm disappointed about so far is that they haven't hyped up the Jagers and pilots like they did in the first film. The first film had stuff like a badass Russian married couple piloting a very distinctive Jager. A trio of Chinese triplets piloting a three armed Jager. This film has 5 Jagers but the only pilots we really know anything about is Pentecost Jr and a new Mako analogue.
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Nov 23, 2017 18:52
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Panfilo posted:One thing I'm disappointed about so far is that they haven't hyped up the Jagers and pilots like they did in the first film. The first film had stuff like a badass Russian married couple piloting a very distinctive Jager. A trio of Chinese triplets piloting a three armed Jager. I've seen the trailer 2-3 times, and other than GYPSY DANGER v2.0, I can't really remember anything about the others. PR1 Jaegers were instantly memorable.
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Nov 23, 2017 22:45
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The battle of Tokyo bay still pisses me off super hard. Cherno and that other jaeger deserved better.
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AlternateAccount posted:I've seen the trailer 2-3 times, and other than GYPSY DANGER v2.0, I can't really remember anything about the others. PR1 Jaegers were instantly memorable. Happy Noodle Boy posted:The battle of Tokyo bay still pisses me off super hard. Cherno and that other jaeger deserved better.
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Panfilo posted:Crimson Typhoon. Unfortunately this is an example of the 'Worf Effect'. The Kaiju wouldn't seem as much of a threat if they didn't defeat any Jagers on screen, so they had to kill off two of them just to show how dangerous Leatherback and Otachi were. Habibi fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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Nov 23, 2017 23:29
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And to think in the thread we were all expecting Striker to get chumped to establish the threat, since it was the most advanced and powerful of the lot. Still mad that the only really interesting looking mechs were there as cannon fodder. Gypsy and Striker were visually boring as battle mechs go.
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Panfilo posted:One thing I'm disappointed about so far is that they haven't hyped up the Jagers and pilots like they did in the first film. My theory on this is Jaeger pilots were initially seen as war heroes on a near-mythic scale because after the initial devastating Kaiju attacks humanity was fighting back and winning for the first time. Now you have no Kaiju threat but governments and/or corporations hyping the Jaegers instead of the pilots. Whereas the first film celebrated the strength of the individual and their connections to one another, it seems this film begins at least with how that spirit is lost to self-interested authority.
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That and a lot of people were disappointed with the first movie how the Jaegers with the most interesting designs got Worfed before they could do anything interesting, so they might be playing their cards closer to their chest this time.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:My theory on this is Jaeger pilots were initially seen as war heroes on a near-mythic scale because after the initial devastating Kaiju attacks humanity was fighting back and winning for the first time. Now you have no Kaiju threat but governments and/or corporations hyping the Jaegers instead of the pilots. Whereas the first film celebrated the strength of the individual and their connections to one another, it seems this film begins at least with how that spirit is lost to self-interested authority. This is what the first movie's intro mentions, that Jager pilots became celebrities. The backstory timeline actually has Jagers have a pretty good run; it's like 6 or 8 years into the war before they start losing Jagers, but once that happens it's obvious they won't be able to keep up with losses. That's not even getting into the challenge of drift compatibility, where they had to screen millions of applicants to find drift compatible pairs. I wouldn't be surprised if the drift technologies got explored further after the war. They make it look like we could always hold giant robots, it just never occurred to us to build them until the Kaiju arrived. However the technology to drift was the real innovation, and the one with a lot of practical applications.
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Cythereal posted:And to think in the thread we were all expecting Striker to get chumped to establish the threat, since it was the most advanced and powerful of the lot. quote:Still mad that the only really interesting looking mechs were there as cannon fodder. Gypsy and Striker were visually boring as battle mechs go. Agree on Stryker, but despite the somewhat generic humanoid appearance, I dug the poo poo out of Gipsy's design details. All the moving parts, the exposed machinery, the swagger... Don't get me wrong - there's a reason I own a Cherno Alpha figurine, and I would have loved to see both it and Typhoon get more non-death-scene screen time, but I also feel like they were also fairly gimmicky.
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There was kind of a theme that while the other Jaegers were cool they were overspecialised with specific attacks and techniques that got beaten by Kaiju made to counter them, while Gypsy Danger was more generally and used a broad variety of weapons and tactics, melee and ranged, improvised weapons and so on. Another reason why the sequel's Jaegers seem based on Gypsy's frame, since it proved to be the most versatile.
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They had also mentioned in the back story that when the Kaiju first arrived they were desperate to find an alternate solution which would explain the unconventional early designs.
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Was reading a NYT article and was reminded of CineD.  quote:And he refers to the 2013 science-fiction movie “Pacific Rim,” in which society is attacked by massive monsters that emerge from beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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The real fascism was the enemies we made along the way
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Motto posted:Was reading a NYT article and was reminded of CineD. Who could have guessed?
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Motto posted:Was reading a NYT article and was reminded of CineD.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The Nazis have a point, you fascists could learn a thing or two from. 
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MariusLecter posted:i'm a big poopy moron who smells my own farts
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Cythereal posted:And to think in the thread we were all expecting Striker to get chumped to establish the threat, since it was the most advanced and powerful of the lot.
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Originally strikers design was going to be used for Gypsy Danger but they decided it was too aggressive. I agree gypsy dangers design is good, his head reminds me of a motorcycle helmet and his body shape suggests they went for an all-around design vs some specific gimmick. Have we even gotten the names of the other Jagers? That's the important part. Hope they stick to the two word pattern.
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Panfilo posted:Have we even gotten the names of the other Jagers? That's the important part. Hope they stick to the two word pattern. First page: Gypsy Avenger (Gypsy Danger 2.0) Titan Redeemer (flail/morning star thing) Guardian Bravo (whips) Saber Athena (girl, twin swords) Bracer Phoenix (guns)
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Cythereal posted:First page: Also Obsidian Fury, the Black Gipsy Avenger repaint in the trailer.
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Zedd posted:Striker was kinda generic, cool, but generic. But they nailed the "WW2 bomber in mecha form" thing they where going for with Gypsy Danger imo. To me he always looked like a mechanised American football player.
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kanonvandekempen posted:To me he always looked like a mechanised American football player. That was exactly what del Toro was going for.
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Motto posted:Was reading a NYT article and was reminded of CineD. That's amazing. Why can't humans and the giant monsters purposefully built to wreck their poo poo just talk it out, maaaaan.
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A little ironic given the idea is unity of culture, nation and race against a threat easily analogous to climate change. I knew that the exclusion of class always fucks this up. (I think? american dude is an underpaid worker in terrible conditions on a pointless border wall...)
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Labes for days posted:That's amazing. Why can't humans and the giant monsters purposefully built to wreck their poo poo just talk it out, maaaaan. Characters successfully talk to the giant monsters in the movie Pacific Rim, which you presumably watched. Inescapable Duck posted:A little ironic given the idea is unity of culture, nation and race against a threat easily analogous to climate change. It’s easily analogous to climate change except for the part where the threat is two distinct humanoid species that are alive and you can talk to them.   
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In the first movie it was all about subsuming yourself into a place of total empathic synchronicity with your partner, in turn subsuming yourselves into the collective of the jaeger squadron; this movie looks to be all about the totality and imminence of John Boyega
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Characters successfully talk to the giant monsters in the movie Pacific Rim, which you presumably watched. But which you clearly didn't.
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