http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/13/what-do-you-think-of-the-pacific-rim-trailer Comments On: What Do You Think of the <em>Pacific Rim</em> Trailer? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Charlie Day is in this movie.

Guillermo del Toro, giant robots, and Charlie Day? I'm sold.
Posted by Ipso Facto]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:21:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by evilvolus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by evilvolus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:51:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cassette tape fan]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:35 -0800 The Stranger
You can try to make me feel bad about this, but it's not going to work.
Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:58:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Prettybetsy]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:45:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Knat]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:15:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fazzyfaz]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:59:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Akbar Fazil]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:58:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by McGee]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:52:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sisyphusgal]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:30:20 -0800 The Stranger
Since they at the very least cast Ellen McLain, I have hope for this.
Posted by zachd]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:29:35 -0800 The Stranger
@27 - I'd guess maybe a wide shot would tick off our innately human sense for not-quite-rightness. Either than or the people that make these movies grew up loving anime and all its fast-slow-fast/close-up/pull-shot/cutaway blah blah blah action direction.

Also, I'm down to watch some big budget monster fights as much as the next person... but it still bugs me that these—presumably organic—monsters are always so damn indestructible. Missiles impacting with little effect. F-18s bouncing off monster arms like footballs. We've all seen television war coverage of actual things actually blowing up. I have little doubt our puny human weapons wouldn't make short work of an invading monster army.
Posted by Dougsf]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:45:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:38:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:31:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ben_is_lost]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:11:48 -0800 The Stranger
I know why spaceship models in the 70s and 80s all look the same. They had to make the surfaces of every model look like a jumbled mess to avoid reflections of the lights and cameras and the gaffer's best boy person whatever. Those guys standing around the model.

But now we have this great CGI and all we do is make the same dark, greasy looking robots. You can't see a damn thing. It's like the golden age of film, when they used cuts and shadows and framing to hide the wires and the shitty costume the guy was wearing. Now we have this great technology and they still don't have anything for you to look at but smoke and haze and lights glaring in your eyes.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:10:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Minneapolitan]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:00:49 -0800 The Stranger
Ah. An intimate, character-driven film full of subtlety and grace. Got it.
Posted by rainbird]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:57:07 -0800 The Stranger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttbQTz8t…
Posted by gcm]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:54:58 -0800 The Stranger
I'm really on the fence because the trailer has zero actually fight footage, making me think the fights look worse than the undecipherable nonsense from the Transformers franchise.
Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:48:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Former Lurker]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:48:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Warren Terra]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:46:17 -0800 The Stranger
Guillermo could have at least tried to shoehorn "Voltron" or were they too cheap to buy the rights?
Posted by Former Lurker]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:43:31 -0800 The Stranger Tokusatsu, with better FX than your typical episode of Ultraman or the Chouseishin series.

And FYI to all you Portal II fans: Ellen McLain, the voice of GladOS and the computer in "Pacific Rim" lives in Seattle, along with her husband, John Patrick Lowrie, who is himself an accomplished voice actor (Agent Gray in The Matrix Online, The Sniper in Team Fortress 2, Beleram in LOTR: War In The North, et al.)
Posted by COMTE]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:43:05 -0800 The Stranger