2012-07-07, 16:07 | Link #21 | |
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2012-07-07, 16:48 | Link #22 |
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I really dislike the suits the pilots are seen wearing in advanced shots. They're bulky, unattractive and look like ME rip-offs. That's not to say I wanted the sheer suits that 70s manga/anime mecha pilots wore, but since we already have to accept the implausibility of a 100 meter tall robot, the least the creative design dept could do is give us some fun suits for the pilots to wear (in other words, why try and make the suits 'realistic' when the entire concept is about as unrealistic as you can get?).
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2012-07-08, 13:52 | Link #23 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Oh, the horror of mangled physics!!! Well, looks like it might be a fun spectacle and we'll just have to see... there have been far too few movies worth seeing on the big screen in quite a while (I've gotten pretty brutal in what I consider "worth the big screen pay out rather than wait for the DVD" analysis).
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2012-07-15, 01:11 | Link #24 | |
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San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Pacific Rim Trailer Description and Q&A Factoids
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Apparently, the entire staff's going on a media blackout for the movie until the end of the year though, so any more news till December is unlikely
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2012-07-17, 11:28 | Link #29 |
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Pacific Rim Panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNp5wwVGyI&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKDTIsousyY&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjibkLOgm4&feature=plcp Part 1 ends just before they're about to show the movie footage.
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2012-07-20, 01:40 | Link #30 |
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I gotta say, I am pretty excited for this movie. I got some issues with the mecha, specifically how they're piloted, and their height. But I'll get past it once I see them in action I'm sure.
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2012-07-21, 00:54 | Link #33 |
Absolute Haruhist!
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Actually in a practical stand point, if you want to build humanoid mecha, building them huge is better than building them the same size as planes and tanks.
If humanoid mecha are the same size as our current weapons of war, they'll just be completely outclassed in their capabilities. They'll not have strong enough defenses, not as aerodynamic as planes and are just upright targets for tanks. You might as well build a gigantic mecha that has countless guns, super strong armour and can swat planes out of the sky and stomp on tanks.
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2012-07-21, 04:27 | Link #35 |
Where's the monoeye?
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I'm more of a Real Robot genere fan. I like my mecha to be about 15-18 meters in height. But that's me. The height don't bother me as much as the piloting does though. I prefer rugged controls like foot peddals and joysticks to mind linking. At this point, I'm more interested in the Kaiju than mecha.
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2012-09-01, 05:53 | Link #37 | |
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It might work in space though. Key word: might. But a man can dream! Also, if it was any other director I'd be highly doubtful of this being any good. Also something to note is that this probably the first original (not based on a prior source material) sci-action epic to be made since Avatar. Will be refreshing. EDIT: found this teaser: Doesn't really show anything though. |
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2012-09-01, 08:24 | Link #38 | ||
Sensei, aishite imasu
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15-18 meter tall super robots tend to bug me for another reason. Being about the size of actual modern fighter aircraft, you're left wondering whats intuitively superior about a *real* robot compared to a squadron of fighter planes armed with 2000 pound bomb laser guided smart bombs. I prefer my robots to be small and practical tactical mechs, or absolutely ludicrous big. Quote:
...oh wait. Prometheus was a thing. (sigh). Though I think we know what method the monsters will be using to attack earth from.
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2012-09-01, 14:21 | Link #39 | |
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That's why the largest and heaviest creatures on earth are located in the ocean because the effects of gravity is less there. On Earth, there's no way you'd be able to operate such a massive 2 legged mech without straining or destroying its hydraulics. But like Vexx said it's a damn movie so we throw that stuff out the window |
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2012-09-01, 16:19 | Link #40 | |
Sensei, aishite imasu
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At the point you break that threshold there's really no reason to not just go all out.
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