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⌈ Secret Post #2410 ⌋

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[CSI: New York]

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[Pride and Prejudice (2005)]

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[Tripping Over You]

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[Almost Human]

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[Orange is the New Black]

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[Molly Quin/Alexis Castle from ABC's Castle]

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[VSauce]

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[Sherlock Hound]

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[The Leviathan Series]

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[Welcome to Night vale]

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[Gina Torres, Wonder Woman]

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&...I have no idea why it's taken tumblr by storm besides Mako and cool visuals. What about you, did you like it?

2013 has been extremely disappointing in film, but this was the second best movie i've seen.

Nowhere near enough monster-punching, and the writing was terribad, and the characters were painfully generic, but... I liked it. It still had some monster punching.

In the same boat. I loved the action and there was lots, but I could go for some more of that.

Yeah, I did really enjoy the opening and often sighed happily through it, but when we had the slower bit that were also non-jaegar related, it was kind of...typical? Expected? I don't know!

I do need that theme that played every twenty minutes downloaded.

Re: So I Finally Saw Pacific Rim...

(Anonymous) - 2013-08-09 02:38 (UTC) - Expand

so you like it but you don't know why tumblr likes it?

I dunno...to be honest, I think I don't like the "Superpowered people/ those with great abilities team up and work together" idea, because for whatever reason, it annoyed me so deeply in The Avengers last summer.

But people praised it for that. "Working together is more important than being the best" is a great moral, but you can be damn sure that one person tried to go it alone when the Kaiju first attacked and got their ass handed to them, even looking past the problems with the first jaegers so why not team up. It had a kind of 'necessity' feeling instead of 'for the good of the people'.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-08-09 01:59 (UTC) - Expand

Hmmm... a social media platform more suited for visuals full of nerdy fangirls just waiting for an ass-kicking female character to identify with? No idea why this movie would be trending there. Let me think about.

Considering tumblr [and fandom as a whole] has a habit of ignoring female characters to the point of almost excluding them [even ass-kicking ones], I can see where the confusion would be from. No need to get sarcastic about it.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-08-09 00:36 (UTC) - Expand

&...I have no idea why it's taken tumblr by storm besides Mako and cool visuals.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-08-08 23:48 (UTC) - Expand

I liked it but I had serious misgivings going in so it probably seemed a lot better than what I imagined it so I actually had a pretty positive experience.

I've said this like 5 times on here before

but at the end of the day, I liked it because I like robot movies, and it was a viscerally effective robot movie that was mostly about the things that made me like robot movies in the first place. It was made with a real sense of joy. It didn't do any of the tiring bullshit that I am so bored with and try to focus on how angsty the main characters were, or anything. It was about people in a tough spot, doing things they felt were important bravely and well, in ways that looked fucking awesome and were thrilling.

...welp. That sold me my fellow anon.

I liked it. I thought it was loads of fun but, yeah, it wasn't the deepest of films. I was expecting character development like something out of District 9 or Moon but I just got an updated version of Godzilla meets Robotech. Still, I am not complaining about those two things because I loved those two things.

But I think it's blown up over tumblr because it was such an outline of a movie. Like they gave you all of these interesting looking characters like The Russian Pilots and Choi but with almost no background. Because of this, the fans can take it upon themselves to fill in the blanks. Like coloring book. And they have taken that to heart. Like someone gave them a sandbox and they went to town building castles.

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ariakas - 2013-08-09 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

Allow me to make a list of the things I liked:

1.) Robots
2.) Punching
3.) Monsters

Seriously, though, I liked that it was unapologetically ridiculous. It was an homage to kaiju, giant robot and big ridiculous action films and tropes without mocking the subject matter. The plot wasn't very complicated. It's earnestness and well-executed simplicity made it fun. Neither was it overly dark or pessimistic, further making it a joy to watch.

I liked it because of the world-building. The setting very clearly contained so many more stories than just the one we saw, and the world gave the sense of being lived-in and real. I kept getting glimpses of things that I wanted to know more about, but without having the feeling that the writers just tacked on bits randomly and without thought -- it felt like there WAS more to know. It felt... immersive.

Which is probably why fandom is so in love with the movie, tbh; tantalizing hints and unexplored possibilities are fic writers' bread and butter.

Why did I like it?

1) A male lead with a modest amount of emotional intelligence who can take explicit criticism from a woman.

2) Male and female leads who can disagree with each other without getting into slap-slap-kiss-kiss territory.

3) A character who knows when to disagree with authority and when to be quiet.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-08-09 00:46 (UTC) - Expand

I liked Mako, Newt, Stacker, and the Russians, but overall, it wasn't a good film.

Everything else I didn't care for. Also, Charlie Hunnam can't act. I was annoyed I had to put up with him for the entire film.

I loved it but mainly because it was so ridiculous and just ran away with it, like it didn't try to be anything other than what it was which I really enjoyed. And really I just love monster movies a whole lot so I jump all over them when they appear in cinemas.

Plus it had Idris Elba and adorable Kaiju science bros.

This is pretty much how I feel. It was fun to sit in front of for two hours, but I don't get the big deal?

Maybe 2012 was too amazing in film. There were a shocking number of good films last year.

Mhhh, I liked it because my expectations were really, really low. I was expecting a Transformers knock-off and was given a delightful popcorn flick that wasn't as full of "AMERICA FUCK YEAH" than expected. Also, there was no fucking "hero gets the girl" lovestory.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-08-09 01:51 (UTC) - Expand

Fuck yes I liked it @_________@ I don't particularily care about the characters, although Mako was cool. Still have difficulties telling the 3 blond boys apart.

BUT

I LOVED the music, I love the CGI, I loved the artistic layout of the scenes, the colours, the sheer amount of DETAIL that went into the world building. I love how over dramatic the fights were, the sheer scale that was shown through the noise and the movements and the sword that made me laugh and the wall going thorugh half of sydney (haha suck it Opera house). The detail was AMAZING. When the jaeger and kaiju clashed my heart would jump with the music.
I've bought the art book too and holy shit this is a really well designed art book. The detail in the movies is reflected in the book, it's mocked up to be like...like and information port folio with loose info sheets throughout, interactable ID cards with QR, information on the making of.

For me, the movie was pure art. It was all about the visuals and sounds. It was sitting down and just appreciating something for it's detail, the colours and placements of things. Like when gorilla!kaiju clambered all over cars and you could just see it's weight with each shift. The movie was artistic to the extreme, and I really really appreciate all the details and how LARGE everything was. It took an old, silly theme like giant monsters attacking Kaiju and it built it into an amazing, opera..operatic(?) experience for me.

It was gorgeous.

I think it's taken tumblr by storm because it was, well, fun...and pretty. It was a lighthearted seasonal movie and sometimes people really appreciate just watching something to appreciate the visual and aesthetics. Sure it might not be for you, but that doesn't mean countless others cannot enjoy it. It was guilt free, unadulterated fun.

Kinda rude yo. You want to know why people like it, but automatically discount two of the reasons.

People like it. It's okay that you didn't, but you don't need to shit on people for liking it. So what if their reason is Mako, visuals, wacky scientists or because it's robots? Honestly, the amount of people claiming they "don't know why tumblr likes it" so much is stupid. They like it because they liked it, for many reasons or a single reason. Get over it

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morieris - 2013-08-09 11:28 (UTC) - Expand

It was the kind of movie where Gipsy Danger could hit a kaiju in the face with an oil tanker while "fuck yeah!!" rock guitars wailed. All you need to know, really.

Because it was fun

I liked the soundtrack!

Other than that it's like... I felt it would've been good if there was more plottage and character development, and less fight scenes. It would've worked well as a TV show IMO; I felt like the plot was kind of crammed into a two-hour time slot and I would've enjoyed it more if things could have taken more time to develop.

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