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Del Toro put in another script, how excited is /m/?
https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/659756334842183680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I hope this doesn't come out, wouldn't want another cheap Eva clone.
>>13431190
>>13431182
Cautiously optimistic
Please oh please get made.
I just hope they come up with something original this time. Aliens sending giant monsters has been done to shit.
>>13431924
>Eva clones have been done to shit.
ftfy
>>13431991
>>13431329
>>13431190
Why ruin the ending of the last movie though?
>>13432097
because MOR MECHA PUNCHING KAIJU INTO BUILDINGS AND SHIT FUK YAR, thaz y
>>13432097
Charlie Hunnan needs to fuel his weed and puppies addiction
>>13432097
I wasn't aware the last movie's ending was so good that it was in danger of being ruined simply by the existence of a sequel. I enjoyed Pacific Rim, quite a lot even, but I'd never classify it as strong enough that any sequel would ruin it. Especially when the entire thing is basically set up from day one to be a franchise anyways.
>>13432097
Blowing up the staging area is like blowing up the Death Star. It's a big blow yea, but the evil empire behind it is still out there.
>>13432097
How is the ending of the last movie not a sequel hook?
>>13431190
>>13431329
>mfw a coworker of mine said something akin to this to me last year
>>13432004
Oh my God, I hadn't seen that bait pic. It just made me lose my shit laughing at work. Amazing.
>>13432097
For a godzilla cross over
>>13432097
iirc after Pacific Rim came out Del Toro or the writer reminded people that the bridge works both ways. While the scientist got knowledge about kaijus and the aliens, what did the aliens learn? And also mentioned that whatever's left of Gipsy after exploding is sitting in the alien's hands too.
It's over.;_;
Legendary had to foot most of Crimson Peak's bill themselves since Universal bailed due to it being rated R, and it hasn't even made back the budget, let alone the marketing. Getting gangbanged by the family-friendly Goosebumps and the bog-standard Paranomal Activity didn't help its case. Universal jumping out on CP was what stalled PR2 to begin with, and with CP's failure to rope in the Mexican and tween crowd for mega horror movie bucks (especially given its enormous budget, when most "horror" movies are made with $100 and free Subway sandwiches for the cast and crew), things are grim.
Our only hope is for some /m/an to win the lottery and dump money into Del Toro's pockets.
You know what you have to do.
>>13433166
Good riddance. The first one was so offensively awful and dumb it made Avatar look decent.
>>13431182
>Budget
>Script
Hollywood is going to reject it as too expensive and want it done for $30 million.
>>13432957
InB4 Godzilla v Gypsy: Dawn of Earth Buttfucking the Kaiju Empire, where Gypsy goes after the the proto Kaiju that saved SF decades earlier, only to realize that it wants to protect Earth as much as it does, and despite the two fighting initially, we eventually have a righteous team up of the two fighting alongside one another where no city on Earth is left without some facet of catastrophic destruction brought about by a blitzkrieg of Kaijus sent to Earth all at once all of whom are eventually defeated by the worlds finest kaiju stopping duo. Even Kong gets a cameo appearance!
>>13433166
Dude, there's a pretty big difference in the average movie goer that would watch Crimson Peak and the one that would watch Pacific Rim.
Pacific Rim will be judged by its own numbers, which were pretty good especially in the international box office.
It's got the makings of something that is Hollywood's greatest addiction: Franchise.
If the suits think that the first one got the foot in the door and the second one might out-perform it and move some toys, it will get greenlit.
Some Victorian Era Horror film isn't going to change that.
>>13436980
You're talking about Hollywood executives. They operate on completely different logic to the rest of humanity.
>>13436980
Executives hold things against directors who appear to be risky bets like Del Toro.
>>13431190
Is wasn't a EVA clone. Del Toro even went into detail about how HE WANTED to make an EVA clone but the studio didn't allow him to. I imagine the sequal would be more EVA clone-ish. There were rumors of a Kaiju/Yeager hybrid that was basically a biomechanical mecha that could be piloted by a single person, but had an A.I. the pilot needed to fuse with. If you did it poorly, it fried your brain.
>>13437115
>Del Toro even went into detail about how HE WANTED to make an EVA clone
Source?
>>13437071
If that were the only deciding factor DelToro would have stopped making big budget movies years ago.
The only reason we ever got a Hellboy 2 is because of great BluRay sales.
>>13437127
His ass. Del Toro hasn't even watched Eva.
>>13434551
Destroy all kaiju,
Mothra, Rodan, King Kong, Anguirus, Big G, and a collection of Jaegers vs. an alien Kaiju Blitzkrieg for some reason space godzilla and king Ghidora are with the aliens.
>>13437115
Bullshit. Del Toro hadn't even seen Eva when PR was made.
>>13433166
>Our only hope is for some /m/an to win the lottery
Sorry man, already doing this to dump money into Kaneko's pockets for more Symphogear seasons.
>>13437229
Del Toro had watched EVA and is a fan, the guy that wrote the screenplay hadn't.
>>13437127
There was an interview where Del Toro stated that hos desire to make PR came from being denied making a EVA movie by the studio.
>>13439425
your first point is the reverse, pretty sure. also where'd you see the interview?
>>13433003
That means cyborg kaijus right?
>>13431182
>One pilot per mecha
>All the pilots are between 13 to 19 because reasons
>MC is a teen boy with Japanese roots
>His dad created the mecha and/or he's the boss of the headquarter
There, I saved Pacific Rim. No need to thanks me, Del Taco
>>13439425
>http://exclaim.ca/music/article/guillermo_del_toro-toys_with_pacific_rim
>I've got to ask — are you an Evangelion fan?
That's one of the four animes I've never seen. I will acknowledge openly the influence of Patlabor, gladly. I'll fully acknowledge most Gaiden movies being an influence, but Evangelion, I have, and they bought it for me before the movie started and I made it a point not to watch it. I said "I don't know if it's close or not, but I don't want to be influenced," you know? Now I'm gonna watch it. I always loved the designs. I actually bought a couple of the toys because the look is fantastic. I don't know if it's the good guy or the bad guy but from a purely visual point of view I love it. I will watch it, I'm hugely influenced by anime; I have no problem with that above board but unfortunately I haven't seen Evangelion. I'm so attracted to the designs that I'd blindly go and buy all the toys but my daughter has watched it this year and said "You're gonna like it." And my daughter is my guru. My two daughters are my contact with the world.
http://www.craveonline.com/culture/531757-exclusive-interview-travis-beacham-on-pacific-rim/2
>Yeah. I think tonally it’s definitely an influence, because really what blew me away the first time I saw “Evangelion” was it treated this genre, this sort of silly genre – or a genre that could be sort of silly, and could be outlandish and cartoonish – and treated it with a real sophistication. Which I really liked. I think what I identified less with in “Evangelion” was the sort of apocalypticism of it, and kind of a surrender to human neuroses or whatever…
>https://twitter.com/travisbeacham/status/340692328756948994
>I did love Evangelion very much, but I actually wrote most of Pacific Rim before I saw it.
>>13432097
Because PR was based as fuck and I want moar.
>>13441037
>He's a Patlabor fan
Taco is based as fuck.
Also, don't they often talk about how Noa and Asuma need to be 'two in one' to function as an effective labor team? The stuff in Pacific Rim with the Drift seems like a very literal version of that.
>>13433166
what does CP have to do with this?
>>13437826
That's a horrible decision unless you also demand he pull his shit together.
>>13432184
But they sent Gypsy into the Anteverse and blew up all the Precursors.
I was hoping for a prequel, as I'd love to see the Jaegers' development and early battles fleshed out more.Most of all, I just want my Tacit Ronin. ;_;
>>13431182
Don't play with my emotions any more Del Taco
>>13444124
>But they sent Gypsy into the Anteverse and blew up all the Precursors.
Dude how small do you think that universe is? One blown fusion reactor isn't going to annihilate an entire universe. They blew up a staging area seen the drift scenes. I'm pretty sure the rest of their universe is in tact.
>>13444175
It's Legendary playing with his, and your emotions at this point.
>>13444191
Yeah, you're right. I thought you were referring to the breach as the staging area.
I still want to see my OG Jaegers being built and then kicking alien ass.
>>13443657
>Legendary had to foot most of Crimson Peak's bill themselves since Universal bailed due to it being rated R, and it hasn't even made back the budget, let alone the marketing
Can you read?
>>13444209
Me too.
>>13444255
As RLM pointed out, it was interesting that he picked up the plot when the war was already almost over. But, if you ask me, there was a lot of wasted potential there. I don't know if this is true for all mecha fans, but I have a huge boner for scenes that take a closer look at the design/manufacture/logistics behind the mechs. I love it when they take the time to provide in-universe explanations for stuff. It adds depth, and it makes the robots that much more impressive (at least for me). In addition to the designing/building/testing process, it'd be cool to see the first encounters against the kaiju, and how the pilots react. I wanna see more like that snippet from the prologue, where Romeo Blue decks Hardship in the face with a fucking bridge. I love the creativity there.
>>13431182
Nope, more interested in a third Grown Ups movie
>>13437115
Imagine Pacrim doing a Lovecraftian horror a la Shin Getter
>>13445280
What will it take before Adam Sandler is destroyed for the good of all mankind?
A second one would only be good if they actually go full anime instead of half-assing everything.
So much of the movie is generic Top Gun filler and even with that they couldn't give the main character or his asian waifu a real personality beyond "tragic past lol".
Their characters needed some development and the other mechs needed to be non cannon fodder.
>>13445342
Seeing how another movie del Toro wants - but never manages - to get greenlit is an adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, by the man himself, the chances are as good as they could possibly be.
I imagine you already knew that, but it's worth repeating to keep the dream alive.
>>13441037
Beacham sounds so much like one of those stereotypical and uninformed Eva fans you hear about that it's not even funny
>>13445354
Well he pissed off a bunch of native americans working on the film that he's shooting now, so we may not have to wait long before stops making things
>>13445779
he should have gotten the Hekowis from F-Troop and the Nihonjin from Cannibal The Musical
>>13444191
King stone > fusion reactor
>>13444124
;_;
>>13441037
>That's one of the four animes I've never seen.
How cute.
There is literally nothing in Pacific Rim that is similar to Evangelion that isn't featured in other mecha works.
Fuck the Eva fanbase.
>>13447704
All those other mecha works stole it from Eva. Don't you know? Eva invented mecha.I'm being sarcastic here since I know some idiots will take that seriously.But seriously, fuck the people that think Eva actually invented anything.
>>13431217
Damn that's a good one.
>>13447704
We know. I'm assuming it's just trolls pretending to be normalfags.
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>>13446254
>>13444124
NEVER EVER
What's the status of the anime?
I heard Obari was involved
>>13445687
he really does, desu. i knewa guy in high school when it came out, used pacific rim as a background, he wrote it off as an eva rip off. its stupid how some people dont know jack shit.
>>13448310
>desu
no
stop
>>13448388
you're a kek, senpai
>>13448019
>>13446254
>>13444124
He is getting his comic at least
>>13448388
It is a word filter for t b h
>>13448619
woah filters are back?
baka desu senpai
>>13448654
hahaha that's great
sage for 2x
>>13448654
What got filtered into senpai?
>>13448678
f a m I think senpai.
What the hell's baka
>>13448696
I don't know, I can assume it is baka or smdh
>>13448709
YATA!
It is s m h
>>13448709
they are word filtering the black twitter talk? Cool lets check
senpai = f a m
desu = t b h
baka = s m h
>>13448722
this isnt just for /m/ right?
>>13448722
kek= c u c k
>>13448756
Just checked it's on /v/ too. I assume it's on all boards.
Ooh, I wonder of there is more.
idgf
bbl
afk
>>13448764
Ooh good one.
>>13448660
>>13448678
>>13448696
>>13448709
>>13448714
>>13448722
>>13448756
>>13448764
>>13448776
>>13448783
I guess you guys never visit other boards baka senpai desu kek
>>13448820
Are there robots on other boards?
>>13448820
With how shit /m/ is now, I shudder to think of how bad it's on other boards.
>>13448820
It's pretty great browsing through /sp/ and just going through a tirade of weeb.
>>13448820
well i don't want to make another thread on another board just to figure this out. and yeah, /m/ is kinda my homeboard
>>13448822
I think there's robots on /r9k/, but they don't do anything cool, just make shrieking noises.
So the second movie is gonna have jaegers piloted with a single pilot assited by a kaiju brain right? Then at the end of the movie, either the brain gets damage or it goes berserk and has to shut off so the main two characters have to co-pilot like the good old days.
That and maybe a kickass berserk scene where a pilot succumbs to kaiju instinct and goes on a rampage. Might be cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93X_65NSO4o
so raleigh just died
>>13451997
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93X_65NSO4o
Lolwut
>>13448820
>>13448764
yeah, it's pretty much here and occasionally /ck/
>kek is a filter
but I just want to say kek
;_;
>>13452032
>/ck/
Favorite food combo to eat while watching mechshit. GO!
>>13452038
if I'm seriously watching then just water or beer and paying attention to the show
more often though I'll set up shop in the kitchen, chat on some stream/synchtube thing, make lots of little snacks like small burgers, tendies/nuggies, perogis whatever weird thing I got from Aldi, beer or bloody marys
>>13452049
>tendies
k e k
Probably gotta go with Vanilla Coke with a Hershey's Cookies & Cream chocolate bar myself.The Vanilla Coke tastes like Coke used to taste before that big shuffle 7-8 or so years ago. It was about the time Dr. Pepper switched to the '23' marketing to mask that they were changing their formula. Coke products didn't really change, but the texture and taste went to shit. Coke is way to syrupy now, but Vanilla Coke nails it.
sage for not '/m/'
>>13452072
>didn't really change marketing
that should read.
>>13452038
i eat chips all the damn time. sometimes ill eat some small tomatoes like popcorn. idk seriously.
>>13431182
>Still no images of puma real
Fuck you, del toro, I want my fucking Jaeger!
>>13431182
Eh...
Guys, I know Pacific Rim gives us all boners, but can we stop acting like it was a good movie?
Because it wasnt.
From the terrible start info-dump, to the dry characters whose struggles we weren't given a good reason to related, to a frankly retarded plot with artificial attempts at raising the stakes through ad-hoc bullshit, Pacific Rim is a great idea which got shat on by execution.
>>13453623
Eh...
Guys, I know trolling gives us all boners, but can we stop acting like it was a good activity?
Because it wasnt.
From the terrible start attempt, to the dry bait whose struggles we weren't given a good reason to believe, to a frankly retarded posts with artificial attempts at raising the rage through ad-hoc bullshit, trolling is a bad idea which got shat on by execution.
>>13453623
Except that was the best possible way to do an expo-dump.
>I have to relate to the characters to enjoy it
>>>tumblr
>I watch for the plot
"Film is to important to be left in the hands of writers"
>artificial
Yes, the whole concept of a motion picture concedes that it's artificial
>Pacific Rim is a great idea which got shat on by execution
>>>FILM 1001
You aren't fitting in, try this on /tv/, response will be much more favorable to you there.
>>13452008
Amazing
>>13453644
See, this is exactly what I mean. Rather than trying to reject the points as to why Pacific Rim was a bad movie, you try to meme yourself out. I went to watch Pacific rim three times, nigga, because I want more of the stuff. But itself wasn't all that great and letting Del Taco know that so we don't keep getting what was, for him, a subpar movie is important.
>>13453647
>Except that was the best possible way to do an expo-dump.
That's terrible logic if I ever saw it. That's like saying shooting yourself in the foot is the best possible way to shoot yourself. What is worse is that it's not even true. A debriefing, some news reporter talking about the anniversary of the attack on TV, literally anything else would have been better than having some dude talk to the screen for minutes.
>I have to relate to the characters to enjoy it
>>>tumblr
Of course I do, because if they die or decided to do a sacrifice for the rest I have a reason to be give a shit rather than just nod my head and wonder when something I care about will happen.
>"Film is to important to be left in the hands of writers"
Shitty quotes don't make any difference to the fact there are big issues with PR.
>You aren't fitting in, try this on /tv/, response will be much more favorable to you there.
>Go to /m/
>shit on something they like
>cause you are trying to fit in
I think you might be retarded, son.
>>13453684
>Of course I do,
>Shitty quotes don't make any difference to the fact there are big issues with PR.
Spoken like someone who knows next to nothing about film/movies/flicks.
Hence >>>/tv/
And maybe you don't realize this (probably because you don't lurk), but there has been an increasing trend of dislike towards Pacific Rim, even in this thread.
>>13453684
See, this is exactly what I mean. Rather than trying to discuss Pacific Rim, you try to state inflammatory obviously shallow opinions as absolute fact. I went to watch Pacific rim three times, nigga, because I love the stuff. But your trolling itself wasn't all that great and letting you know that so we don't keep getting shit threads what was, for you, a subpar troll is important.
>>13453701
I don't know shit about movies because I find using quotes as a shitty response to what I stated? Cool beans.
>increasing trend means the board admits issues with the movie
>rather than the greater amount of fellating that is occurring
>>13453684
I'm just gonna throw it out there that relating to characters is not required to find them sympathetic, entertaining, or otherwise become invested in their story.
>>13453808
I can imagine you will provide a single example of it to make the point, or are you one of those retards that thinks relatable means "they are exactly like me."
>>13453840
Look, if a character isn't intelligent, nihilistic, and has anything less than a wicked sense of humor, I can't watch it because since it doesn't pander to my superior intellectualism, I find the whole charade pointedly demeaning.
>person tries to derail thread
>make them successful by telling them how futile they're derailing attempts are
>>13453910
>thread gets bumped
>anon posts webms
No problems here really
>>13453914
i like your attitude
>>13453914
>>13453930
Gipsy will never beat you up
just die in my sleep already
( ._.) ( ;_;)
>>13453950
>>13453684
>literally anything else would have been better than having some dude talk to the screen for minutes.
Do you have ADHD or something? I actually liked exposition they gave at the start. It was a good way to immerse you into the setting and plot without having to set things up from the beginning.
>>13453983
>do something that has been decried in movies, films, theater, books, and every other media for generations because it always makes most people tune off because they end up not giving a shit
>well, I like it so that means it's ok
>>13454008
>what is a prologue
Everything handles exposition in different ways. Just because you have ADHD doesn't mean that it bothers everyone.
>>13454021
Most definitely not an infodump?
>>13454035
There is nothing inherently wrong with dumping info. Sure it may not be "elegant," but in the confines of a movie it makes sense (and happens all the time anyway). Pacific Rim did it at the beginning to get it out of the way and that's fine.
>>13454047
No, it isn't. Info dumps are a terrible thing to do and any competent content creator will tell you doing infodumps is a last resort thing you engage in when you can't do it properly. I can keep listing even more reason why it's wrong, if you want. The "show don't tell" maxim doesn't stop just at prose, nigga.
>>13448660
desu senpai thats absurd baka
>>13454071
It may've been awhile since you saw the movie, but it shows a lot. Narration isn't a bad thing, and if you think it is Bizet, Shakespeare, and a whole host of other historical auteurs would like to bite their thumbs at you.
By chance, have you not read the Illiad?
>>13454146
>The infodump showed a lot
>he compares going "hey, guys, here all the story we couldn't bother to show you" with the works of Shakespeare and Bizet
>Asks me if I've never read the Iliad
Well, I know you have, so here:
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.1.i.html
I want you to count the lines that it takes to reach the story, and I want you to see how the actual info is introduced in later books.
Dont' worry, the Illiad is a good read.
>>13445362
>So much of the movie is generic Top Gun filler
Is that a bad thing? Top Gun is the greatest movie ever made after all.
>>13454194
>top gun
>not the wicker man
>>13454172
Roughly 10...out of 15,000+.
Still doesn't change the fact that even some of the best works of fiction use talking heads.
>>13454214
It's 174 words, or five sentence, you dyscalculia suffer idiot.
110% chance if the movie did what you wanted and just showed monsters coming out of the ocean and military failing to kill them with no words you'd complain that they didn't explain what was going on.
>>13445362
>A second one would only be good if they actually go full anime
Oh yeah. For real.
It should be about a teenager who accidentally finds an empty Jaeger and turns out that he is a better pilot than all those trained veterans and accomplishes more than they ever did.
He should be socially retarded or even autistic and all the hot girls would just fall for him anyway.
The protagonist would speak like a retard and often just throw out idiotic half-finished sentences e.g. "This guy... in such a place..."
There would also be a rival Kaiju who is far more intelligent and dangerous than the rest who would appear several times during the story. He'd obviously be unique in appearance, maybe humanoid or with scars or metallic grafts or red skin.
Several times throughout the film, the protagonist would come close to losing, but each time he would think about his friends and it would give him unimaginable power to quickly finish the fight that looked unwinnable mere seconds ago.
Oh and there would also be secret equipment. Like the protag is in a pinch and forgets to think about his friends but then the Jaeger control dudes say "I think it's time to use IT" "Surely you don't mean you want to try THAT in actual battle" "We don't have a choice! We're using THE ITEM"
Fuck yeah anon that would be supah cool!
>>13454766
This was some really really top notch bait, but you didn't stick the landing.
5/8 for sheer effort
I really wished pacific rim ended with Yancy ejecting Mako from cockpit, taking full solo control of the gypsy danger and then plunging the core of the gypsy danger through the worm hole destroying the final boss and sacrificing his life for the continuation of the human race. I dont care if that would lead to normal movie goers getting upset that there is no happy ending. They basically established it at the very start of the movie that he has the ability to pilot Jaeger by himself so why not use it. I think the ending would have alot more hype if it ended with Yancy defeating Slattern by himself taking the full brunt of the piloting system, somehow locking himself onto Slattern, i dont know maybe using the Dangers sword to pierce both the unit and Slatterns main frame and body . Then plunging himself, the Gypsy danger and Slattern through the portal and activating the nuclear core and winning the fight.
He has to force mako to stop piloting the danger tho and the units self destruct can only be activated on board the mech.
>>13431182
More fights. I hated how they spent so much time introducing other jeagers, only to have them die like bitches in an instant. Also more varied combat, stuff like gypsy's chain sword. I think when people complain about the plot, they're talking about how its character driven instead of setting. There's an interesting setting to be explored, instead we got charlie day goes to honk kong.
言ってる事はよく解らないが日本ではパシフィックリムは数百年後にファフナーみたいな世界になっていそう
>>13455664
Fafner = kuso
>>13447694
fag probably hasn't even seen ginguiser.
>>13448836
>mfw my anime reaction image folder is used almost only on /sp/
>>13452038
I drink Worcester sauce all the time, including when watching /m/ shit, so there's that.
>>13448722
testing
desu senpai baka
