[ SECRET POST #2715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Tales of Innocence]


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03.
[Transamerica]


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04.
[Final Fantasy VIII]


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05.
[Interview with the Vampire]


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06.
[Andrew Lloyd Webber]


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07.
[Critical Miss]


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08.
[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]


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09.
[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]


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10.
[Pacific Rim]


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11.
[Star Trek TNG]


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12.
[Homestuck]


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13.
[The Man From Nowhere]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really get what the big deal was, either. It had cool special effects and concepts and a few good actors, but the rest of it was pretty meh and full of clichés.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that was the point, though? That it was supposed to have all these mecha and giant monsters clichés as sort of like a nod to the classics?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Del Toro is a big geek who grew up on monsters and mecha, the movie is his love letter to Godzilla/Big O/Neon Genesis/every awesome robot kaiju cliche ever penned. It's a niche market, I guess, but it was perfect for what it was.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't talking about the mecha and kaiju clichés, more the characters. Obviously that works for some people, but it didn't work for me.

[(Anonymous)]

A few good actors who mysteriously forgot how to act, almost as if Del Toro was directing them to be bad to add to this overall tongue-in-cheek feel that is awfully convenient for the stans to be able to bring up.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not tongue in cheek. It's like the least tongue-in-cheek, most straightforward movie ever. That's what's so fucking brilliant about it. It's a movie about giant robots hitting giant monsters. Everything else is in service to it. All the characters have to do is provide enough emotional grounding so that there are stakes when the giant monsters fight the giant robots. And it provides that - usually in quick gestures through physical action, almost sketching it, so it doesn't take much time and they can get back to the fighting. But we don't need to have 20 minutes of the main character angsting about his deep pain and Refusing The Call just so we can hit all the beats from a screenplay guide. It does show us Mako's backstory, and the rivalry between the main character and his hotblooded rival, and the comedy scientists, and all that. It's a fundamentally simple story but it's one that works when paired with great action scenes. You don't need the, you know, layers of doubt and carefully worked-out character flaws, or knowing subversion, to make a good movie. That stuff is not necessary.

Pacific Rim is not winking at anything. It is not a genre homage. It is not a knowing subversion. It is a kaiju movie. One that's fast paced, visually well-made and appealing and beautiful, and one that contains great, viscerally affecting, titanic fight scenes. It is nothing else and it never tries for a second to be. And that's why it's great.

[maverickz3r0]

I saw it recently, and this is basically why I loved it so much. It's just so...straightforward.