Pacific Rim, a movie by Guillermo del Toro

Alternate trailer:

stevenmack wrote:

wait...is this not just...Neon Genesis Evangelion...?

The pilots are about twice the age they should be, if that were the case.

Agent 86 wrote:

My favorite part of the trailer is near the end when the robot pulls back it's fist for a punch and it gets a rocket assist from the elbow. Oh man I love little things like that.

I loved that, it reminded me of Big O:

Ya, it immediately reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion. (sans kid pilots/melodrama)

fangblackbone wrote:

Ya, it immediately reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion. (sans kid pilots/melodrama)

In this video del Toro claims the story will be pretty different once you see the whole thing:

They had me at the rubber suit alien, but to top it off with giant robots and Idris Elba in a hardsuit just makes it a moral imperative. I called all the kids in to watch this trailer, and have added it to my scheduling spreadsheet.

Heinous geeking no-one probably wants to read:

Spoiler:

Just from what I've seen here the control system looks a lot more like Star Driver. In Evangelion, the pilots were in the machines, rather than piloting remotely.

I would have been more excited if instead of robots...it was Godzilla

I wasn't sold on it until I saw del Toro talk. I love that man.

cyrax wrote:

I wasn't sold on it until I saw del Toro talk. I love that man.

Yep, seeing his name as Director already convinced me to give it a shot. The guy is an amazing film maker and so passionate about his work, I can't help but want to see what he's working on, whatever it is.

My brother sent me the trailer, referring to it as "the GLaDOS movie." Not the GlaDOS movie or the GLADoS movie or the Gladys movie.

Wait... the two pilots have their nervous systems linked together and each controls half the robot? Who came up with that idea?

tanstaafl wrote:

Wait... the two pilots have their nervous systems linked together and each controls half the robot? Who came up with that idea?

I haven't watched the commentary, but my guess is that they are going for a Maverick/Goose type thing.

I love this stuff, but I always end up thinking "who the heck greenlighted THAT design" in the world of the film. That right-left split in control structure may beat the Tachikoma memory synchronization system (and the fact that it's brain chips are floating around inside it's cooling and lubrication system!?) from GOTS and Eureka 7's LFO launch system for pure WTHeck factor.

LightBender wrote:

Alternate trailer:

Robot Jox is the first thing I thought of as well.

tanstaafl wrote:

Wait... the two pilots have their nervous systems linked together and each controls half the robot? Who came up with that idea?

I realllllly don't see why people think this looks good, much less great. The trailer had me until the giant robot suits, and it turns out the entire focus is the giant robot suits. I'm bummed out that he's doing this instead of Hellboy 3.

Oh, I think it looks terrible. But hilarious enough to see at a matinee.

Blind_Evil wrote:

I realllllly don't see why people think this looks good, much less great. The trailer had me until the giant robot suits, and it turns out the entire focus is the giant robot suits. I'm bummed out that he's doing this instead of Hellboy 3.

All I'm hearing is "I missed out on the glories of Godzilla as a child".

It's like this. You can make a movie about two guys fighting, or you can make a movie about skyscraper sized monsters getting beat up by skyscraper sized robots, knocking down historical symbols of the magnificence of man like they're made out of matchsticks and playing cards.

This is supposed to occupy the same brain space as things like DragonBall Z and Professional Wrestling. You don't think about it. You sit back and drool. The difference is, whereas you cannot escape the stupidity of Michael Bay's Transformers, this is being made by Guillermo del Toro, who not only does genre film well, but simply does film well (if you want to know the talent of a film maker look to their own work, and Pan's Labyrinth is amazing).

As someone that grew up with Godzilla, I've wanted to see giant monsters stomping around a city in big budget Hollywood film for a while. Godzilla 1998 was a gigantic insult (Godzilla does not run away and Godzilla does not get killed by a couple of missiles to the rib cage and for God's sake why is Jurassic Park all over the third act?!?!), but 2013 and 2014 look like the chance to make this happen. Pacific Rim in 2013, and Legendary Pictures is bringing a much more accurate Godzilla back in 2014 (though that one is a bit more iffy considering all four people doing writing are a 50/50 resume-wise, and while the director's indie film Monsters isn't bad it's also a completely different kind of story/film than what Godzilla ought to be).

So yeah. Totally excited.

clover wrote:

Oh, I think it looks terrible. But hilarious enough to see at a matinee.

Yah that is the kind of good I think it will be. Mindless fun with sweet fighting robots. Like a Japanese honeymoon, basically.

ccesarano, you're reading an awful lot into the little that I said.

Blind_Evil wrote:

ccesarano, you're reading an awful lot into the little that I said.

Sorry, I meant to unquote you about halfway through writing that since it was more addressed to all the naysayers. I forgot about it in the excitement of loving the fact that this movie is going to exist and have the budget that it has. Seeing the trailer before The Hobbit was still unbelievable. I was watching giant robots, Japanese looking robots, fighting huge ass monsters on the big screen.

I just couldn't believe it.

This is a better remix of the trailer I think

farley3k wrote:

This is a better remix of the trailer I think

Still. f*cking. Watch it.

I actually thought it was going to be an Ultraman movie, for the first part of the trailer.

Concept is perfect, but it needs a way better cut to really shine. I was really pumped when I first heard the song, but the creator didn't do anything with it.

This is not a very good trailer. Stirring speech talking about the indomitable human spirit, buildings and bridges getting destroyed, shots of robots fighting, Inception music. del Toro should not have gone to Bay's marketing agency. But then, I guess they know Bay movies sell tickets.

I saw del toro and that was enough, the rest is just icing on the cake.

I love Guillermo Del Toro. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, and Ron Perlman wins me over. Seeing this trailer when I saw the hobbit just got be all tingly.

Saw this trailer a few times. Only until yesterday when I saw the trailer at the movies (The Hobbit, great movie, go see it), did I realize it's GLadOS as the voice.

I'm asking Santa to take all of this year's gift back in order to get both GLadOS personality and voice into this movie.