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[Jopax]

Indeed, he's yet to make a movie I don't enjoy. Really stoked about PR too, going to see it with some friends next week, then probably with my cousins sometime after that, can't ever get enough of robot punching action!

[Sirus]

Related to the current discussion of Pacific Rim.

Features:
Grown men playing with action figures.
Hype.
Nerds.
Salt.
del Toro and WETA Workshop.
Hype.
Discussion of the influence of kaijuu and mecha in modern entertainment, and the possible future of the two.
Hype.

[misko27]

Pacific Rim didn't suck.

Did you expect it to? O_o

This is Hollywood we're talking about man. I halfway expected it to have a really awkward shoe-horned in romance subplot and end with us learning to coexist with the giant monsters

SPOILERS MAN

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A giant robot punches a Kaiju.

Pacific Rim didn't suck.

Just because Transformers went in bad direction doesn't mean all the big giant mech movies are bad.

hence, why i posted that in the happy thread. I hope we get more good movies about giant robots beating up aliens or other giant robots

Excellent! Hollywood might have learned that all we need is Monsters and Robots killing each other.

[Aklyon]

Related to the current discussion of Pacific Rim.

Features:
Grown men playing with action figures.
Hype.
Nerds.
Salt.
del Toro and WETA Workshop.
Hype.
Discussion of the influence of kaijuu and mecha in modern entertainment, and the possible future of the two.
Hype.

Theres also this, which is terrible but also silly and involves a bunch of TGS members in jaegers.

[Sirus]

Related to the current discussion of Pacific Rim.

Features:
Grown men playing with action figures.
Hype.
Nerds.
Salt.
del Toro and WETA Workshop.
Hype.
Discussion of the influence of kaijuu and mecha in modern entertainment, and the possible future of the two.
Hype.

Theres also this, which is terrible but also silly and involves a bunch of TGS members in jaegers.

Anything that involves Jesse and TB is alright with me.

[Furtuka]

[Vector]

Dammit.  Now I feel like I have to watch it out of patriotism.

[Sirus]

With Pacific Rim and World War Z, there's two movies I really want to see this year. When compared to some years when I don't want to see any, that's pretty good.

[Jopax]

Yeah, it's wierd but for the past week or so pretty much all nerds/geeks/whatevers have been shilling and rooting for this movie. Now I've been excited like rarely before for this, but it's truly wonderful to see how invested people have become into something like this, that a movie has a cult following before it even released.

Also, why would you want to see WWZ? It's like, the complete anti-movie of Pacific Rim, taking a fresh and novel approach to a whored out genre and doing the most boring and standard thing it can do in essence becoming just like every god damned zombie movie out there. It's really sickening that an imaginative book has to share its title with crap like that :C

[Sirus]

Cuz I like zombies, really. I know it's not gonna be anything like the book, so I'll just go into it expecting to see thousands of undead doing undead-related things. Not every movie has to be a gem, and just because I'm excited about Pacific Rim doesn't mean I can't be excited about something else

[Jopax]

Oh I know that, and that's fine.

I guess I just couldn't get over it. Because every time I see or hear about the movie I remember how much more it could have been. It doesn't have to be a gem, but when people stop trying because it's easier and safer to just follow the trends then we get into trouble. One of the reasons I think people are so stoked about PR, it's not playing it safe, at all, and that is something fresh and amazing.

[Sirus]

Trust me, I felt the same way at first. But honestly, PR is the thing I'm most excited about, while WWZ is more of a bonus to see if I have time. Still beats whatever other crap is coming out around this time >_>

[Jopax]

Elysium would like to have a word with you.

Edit:

Tho that's a bit off, a month I think, so that's pretty accurate of a statement.

[Sirus]

Elysium would like to have a word with you.

Edit:

Tho that's a bit off, a month I think, so that's pretty accurate of a statement.

Eh. Even so, it's not something I'm quite as excited about. Might check it out, but it isn't "must-see" like PR.

[Frumple]

Why is it that games that shit on the protagonist amuse me sooooo~

Started playing Last Remnant. Main character dude is thus far a mostly useless idiot that's getting his arse pulled out of the fire by a duex ex machina. Sister got kidnapped right in front of him while he got wailed on. Goes off hunting, case of mistaken identity (which is like point the one "This guy is an idiot." Sister is young and brunette. Lady he thought was her is middle aged and blonde.) ends up with him in the middle of an pitched battle right as the arcane tac nuke goes off. Swag saves ass, falls in hole with mistaken-identity lady. Ask what's going on, response is, "We fell in a hole. Now we're in a cave. Need anything else obvious pointed out?" Which kinda' sets the tone for his interaction with other people so far.

Ends up being helped by MI-L and her allies because they realize he's toting a Duex ex Machina (and god damn isn't that refreshing?) and he's the kid of high level weapons researchers. So now he's getting help! By a seemingly obvious going-to-turn-out-to-be-evil ruler (Sephiroth prettyboy vibes like goddamn and giant fuckoff cannon, check), MI-L (Thinks main-character is an idiot, is giving off serious "I want to kill this fucker" vibes, and looks like a middle aged soldier), Goro the Catboy, giant sexual predator fish dude, and sociopath rabbitlizard (Kingdom's spymaster, by all appearances). Who despite being the high muckitymucks of an entire kingdom are more-or-less dropping everything to help out some mostly-random country bumpkin. Riiiiight.

Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, and I'm definitely not far in. But. Bad moon rising, ahahahaha! Hopefully, anyway. Leave me to my delusions.

And I love it. There's this constant shit-eating grin lurking in the back of my subconcious going, "This guy is screeeewwweeeedddd." Which is good, 'cause the protagonist is like the only character I don't like thus far, haha.

Haven't got this much chuckle from a game since Black Sigil, which starts out the game wearing steel toed tapdancing cleats riverdancing on the protagonist's head (and gets better fairly shortly into the game, but that first bit is great~).