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Giant. Fucking. Robots.
Jul. 22nd, 2013 03:40 pm Boy and I went to see Pacific Rim -- and yeah, I was totally going to love it from the start, because Giant Robots, but it was ACTUALLY REALLY FUN.
I love that it wasn't an origin sort of story, that the world had been dealing with this for years, that this was the end of the war. That there were kaiju games and merchandise and groupies, that there were such things as BONE SLUMS built up in and around the skeletons of the beasts -- it gave it all an extra dimension of reality. And there's so much story potential lurking around, what with the backstories of all those jaeger pilots, the program itself, the destruction and rebuilding of all those coastal cities . . . it's a wide open field.
I LOVED the tech. The gritty, worn down, USED look of it, the weight that came across so easily -- these things were massive, and they looked it, and they felt it too, what with the obvious effort it took to move the things, and the way the joints worked, and the camera tricks they used to put across the sheer scale of it all . . . I have nothing against the slick, shiny Star Trek style scifi, but sometimes all I want is impossible tech that feels fucking dirty, you know?
The Drift was really cool, too, and an interesting way to emphasize the sort of toll that kind of tech would take on a pilot -- and anyway, it's just about custom made for fandom use! Canonical soul bonding! Memory sharing! Awesome.
Rinko Kikuchi pretty much ruled, which is impressive in a cast with Idris Elba at the helm, but I really thought the whole cast did a good job -- and whoever that kid was who played baby!Mako is going places, she was fantastic.
Parts of the plot were pretty predictable, sure, and the dialogue was incredibly cheesy a lot of the time, but I didn't care. I was having too much fun.
In short, go see it! It's great!
I love that it wasn't an origin sort of story, that the world had been dealing with this for years, that this was the end of the war. That there were kaiju games and merchandise and groupies, that there were such things as BONE SLUMS built up in and around the skeletons of the beasts -- it gave it all an extra dimension of reality. And there's so much story potential lurking around, what with the backstories of all those jaeger pilots, the program itself, the destruction and rebuilding of all those coastal cities . . . it's a wide open field.
I LOVED the tech. The gritty, worn down, USED look of it, the weight that came across so easily -- these things were massive, and they looked it, and they felt it too, what with the obvious effort it took to move the things, and the way the joints worked, and the camera tricks they used to put across the sheer scale of it all . . . I have nothing against the slick, shiny Star Trek style scifi, but sometimes all I want is impossible tech that feels fucking dirty, you know?
The Drift was really cool, too, and an interesting way to emphasize the sort of toll that kind of tech would take on a pilot -- and anyway, it's just about custom made for fandom use! Canonical soul bonding! Memory sharing! Awesome.
Rinko Kikuchi pretty much ruled, which is impressive in a cast with Idris Elba at the helm, but I really thought the whole cast did a good job -- and whoever that kid was who played baby!Mako is going places, she was fantastic.
Parts of the plot were pretty predictable, sure, and the dialogue was incredibly cheesy a lot of the time, but I didn't care. I was having too much fun.
In short, go see it! It's great!
