rodneyfaile
Sr Member
You owe me a Kaiju brain!
Eh.......everyone complains about the two scientists. It was Perlman who took ME out of the movie. Way overboard. I like the guy, but he's on my list of actors who are a sign of a bad movie. Anthony Zerbe being another (Steel Dawn, Matrix Rev., Star Trek Ins.)
Well, for a "Go-bots vs Godzilla" movie it was okay. I'm not really into giant mechs but me and my bowl of popcorn took it for what it was and had a good time. The only problem was that the entire movie is almost an exact rip off of an episode of Dexter's Laboratory. Even the monsters are the EXACT axe-headed monsters Dexter fought and defeated in 7 minutes.
Well, Voltron was a giant mech, beating up monsters, long before Dexter, did it. And Guiron was a knife-headed kaiju from back in the ToHo Godzilla/Gamera days.-Fred
Yeah... don't you know you're only allowed to express positive opinions of movies on this site? http://www.therpf.com/images/styles/smilies/behave.pngNice trolling.
I watched this on Netflix.
The action was fun, but I felt it was...hmm....I guess "uneven" is the best word.
On the one hand, I wanted a lot more back story, character exploration, character development, etc.
On the other, I felt like that ate up a lot of time that could've been used to showcase the Jaegers vs. Kaiju more. Of the four surviving Jaegers in the film, you really only get to see two do any serious fighting. The Crimson Whatever (Permanent Assurance?) three-armed one got taken out in a heartbeat. The old but reliable one was just old and knocked out fast. I mean, I fully expected the non-name crews to get taken out, but I thought after spending time showing us how cool these Jaegers were, they'd actually...y'know...use them. Instead, they threw a few punches, then got munched.
I will say that this film perfectly captured my reactions to similar concepts in sci-fi, particularly the sequence where Gypsy Danger first uses the sword arm. "Deploy sword!" "WHAT?! What sword?! You're only deploying it NOW?! Why the hell didn't you just stab or slice the sucker to begin with?!" Which was a lot like my responses to watching Voltron as a kid. "Why do they always 'form blazing sword' after trying to punch the monster for an hour? Why not just spot the monster, form the sword, and slice it in half from the start?!"
Who knows, I was wondering the same thing, why spend all that time and effort punching the thing to death when you have a nifty sword to slice it with? For that matter, you have to wonder why no one thought of mounting heavy weapons on the Jaegers, those things should be able to carry at least a 120mm tank gun as a small rifle or maybe even as a pistol or SMG, just modify to be carried in the hands of a Jaeger with auto-loading capability. Why rely solely on punching these stupid kaiju to death when you could easily mount all sorts of nasty weapons on the Jaegers?
Did Luke and the rebels really need to fly 500 miles through a trench when they could have gone directly to the exhaust port?
No, but it makes for a more exciting scene.
Why punch me to death?
Because it makes for better entertainment and an exciting climax to the fight.
A lot of films do this.
Did Luke and the rebels really need to fly 500 miles through a trench when they could have gone directly to the exhaust port?
No, but it makes for a more exciting scene.
Why punch me to death?
Because it makes for better entertainment and an exciting climax to the fight.
A lot of films do this.
Did Luke and the rebels really need to fly 500 miles through a trench when they could have gone directly to the exhaust port?
No, but it makes for a more exciting scene.