I’ve mostly been bored with Guillermo Del Toro’s post-Pan’s Labyrinth output, and the guy makes like 12 movies a year so it can be hard to keep up (he has EIGHTEEN in development credits on IMDB)… BUT, having seen this latest trailer for Pacific Rim… well, I’m listening. I’d sort of tuned out all the viral marketing crap for it (because viral marketing always feels like two ad guys jerking each other off), but things might have been different if they’d simply told me it was about ROBOT JOX FIGHTING GODZILLA. (Man, who knew Robot Jox would go on to become so influential, huh?) It’s hard to impress people with scale anymore, now that we’ve all seen the Eiffel Tower get destroyed in six trillion Roland Emmerich trailers, but I must say, I was impressed by the scale of this one. Or maybe it was the robots fighting sea monsters that did it. You know what? I might be overthinking this. Opens July 12.
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It’s nice to see GlaDOS getting work.
O/U on the number of pilots she’s released deadly neuro-toxin upon?
As long as no one incinerates her morality core, we’re good.
seriously, there is no way I can watch this movie and not just want to go home and play Portal instead.
“Assume the battle escort position, or you will miss the battle. You, Monster.”
More like Robot Jax, Amirite?!
I’ll just see myself out.
No, no…that was a passable pun.
I needed to be said.
I have no particular affection for giant robots or giant monsters, but I am all for this.
Especially if there’s scene where Charlie Day goes all Charlie Kelly and starts yelling at sea monsters like they’re rats.
Charlie Day is in this?! Double sold!
His robot is called “Nightman” or GTFO.
Nah, the giant monster with cat eyes will be code-named “Nightman,” and it will fight a bright-yellow, top-hat wearing robot.
Charlie is Day Man, fighter of the Night Man
You had me at ‘Stringer Bell and Jax Teller put on giant robot suits and fight Godzilla’.
I mean…what more do you want?
Kate Upton?
I would totally see a movie where giant robots fight Kate Upton.
Meh…but I do like the impression I get that the giant monster is based on one of those Japanese monsters from Gamera vs. Guiron (the knife-headed one, see [www.netflixjunkie.com]).
I would still like to have seen the giant-robot suits designed to look like Johnny Sokko’s Giant Robot and Gigantor.
BRAHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Indeed Vince, “Robot Jox vs. Godzilla” is spot on. They even included the same “synchronized hand punch” shot that Robot Jox used in its trailer along with a different, but similar, rocket-powered punch. I guess Del Toro has a soft spot in his heart for the works of Joe Haldeman and Stuart Gordon. Or maybe he just had a thing for that skinny chick from Robot Jox who later appeared in the last season of In Living Color.
Holy shit. You really liked that movie.
Indeed I do.
Crash and burn.
We can LIVE!
You’re next ACHILLES!
The two things I remember from that movie. Four-legged robot. Texas man vs. Japanese mechanic. “Like hell. I won Campachea from them!”
I kill you already!
In here…
Rocket elbows! Nice to see them getting some play over rocket hands.
I’m the only one seeing Evangelion all up in this bitch?
Hopefully 90% of the movie isn’t a bunch of weird sexual tension.
Yeah totally, glad someone mentioned it
This movie is the result of a threesome between Big O, an Angel, and Godzilla.
Either that or Guillermo Del Toro just finished watching the three of them.
Now that Robot Jox is getting its deserved recognition, it’s about time someone brings back Gymkata.
“The Thrill of Gymnastics, The Kill of Karate!” That’d be amazing. The Village of the Crazies, the sad lonely flag ninjas, the conveniently placed pommel horses and uneven bars, that flick is a classic.
Gymkata really is a lost masterpiece of WTF cinema. I have a VHS copy with spanish subtitles that I assume will be worth billions of dollars some day.
Fuck and yes.
0:19 of Gymkata… the old “potato sack” takedown. Good luck any bad guy ever. Ripe for a remake. Do you think the rights holders would be balsy enough to take action if we just went ahead and made the sequel without an option?
Am I allowed to bring action figures to the theatre and yell “KaBLOOOOM!” every time a punch is being thrown?
If this movie had come out when I was 7 I would still be in a coma.
Never thought Sons of Anarchy would hook up with Portal.
With a side of Luther and It’s Always Sunny. Needless to say, I will watch the shit out of this.
Look, you could probably call this movie “Rocket-Powered Monster Punch”, and I’d probably be there at a midnight show.
Godzilla vs. Mechwarrior Godzilla.
Well played!
I better see some RoBro Walkin out of Hunnam
Robot Nose flares or gtfo.
This looks like shit. More fake-looking CGI jumping robot bullshit. What the fuck is everyone else seeing?
Currently, I’m seeing an embittered, angry husk of an Internet commenter, incapable of joy and childlike wonder. Also, rocket punches.
Cheezits, you have won the Internet for the day. Take the rest of the week off, you’ve earned it.
Yes good use of the personal attack against a stranger you don’t agree with.
Seriously though I don’t really see what all the fuss is about this trailer. I ain’t particularly angry or embittered but haha ‘childlike wonder’ I don’t know about that…. I still think this looks like shit.
Giant robots versus C’Thulu sea monsters with Stringer Bell runnin the show? YUP
WHERE’S WALL-E STRING?!
Holy hell, that’s good.
Jax is finally going to get to the bottom of something, the ocean!
BRO SWIM!
Not til he gets proof that the sea monsters are behind it!
So the tagline for this is: “You’re Welcome for the Boner,” right?
Or, you’re welcome for the moist gash. Equality, brosis.
So you were bored by Hellboy II? That’s the only thing he’s directed between Pan’s Labyrinth and this, and that was in 2008. Of course you are spot on in terms of his films as producer; the man needs to stop putting his name on any shit that passes by his door. Splice was great, though.
Well, yes, I was.
Yes, but you hate everything.
When will you two stop fighting and realize you love each other? WHEN?!
Hellboy II tried to be too many things at the same time and wound up being not a lot of anything. The villian and his sister were neat though.
Agree with the Saltster on this one. Del Toro is a producer at large but with a body like that what do you expect. I’m pretty sure his production credits are just due to the fact that he follows Kraft Services wherever they go, then he realizes he’s on another movie set and people start asking him questions so he acts like he meant to be there.
… Apparently Ron Perlman is playing a character named Hannibal Chow.
Odds on him getting eaten?
To me this is the Real Steel sequel the world has been waiting for. And the trailer did give me a semi.
Further confirmation of the Robot Jox connection: [i.imgur.com]
Damn straight. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Charlie Hunnam’s character was named Achilles.
(Man, who knew Robot Jox would go on to become so influential, huh?)
Ummm, EVERYONE WHO EVER FUCKING SAW IT?!?!?!?!?!
This.
No idea what Robot Jox is. But this looks rad on it’s own.
Am I the only person bothered by Charlie Hunnam’s terrible American accent.
They have Idris Elba, the brit who can actually do a really good American accent without constantly dropping it when he has to act some sort of emotion, speaking with his real accent. Yet Hunnam had to play a role with an American accent?
I love me some Robot Jox, so I can get down with that piece of it, but seriously…do they explain at any point why there happen to be a bunch of giant fighting robots on standby?
It’s to help us feel safe. You need them on that fence.
At least we’ll always have mecha pelvic thrusting: [i49.tinypic.com]
Glorious.
Besides the brief comment from Mechakisc,
WHY HAS NO ONE ELSE COMPARED THIS TO BEING A LIVE ACTION BIG O, HE FRICKING ROCKET PUNCHED THE THING!!!! AM I THAT BIG OF A NERD?!
(Please, please take that last question as a rhetorical one.)
Well, I saw some darkness, then some rain, then some more darkness, then some people running in the rain, then nighttime, and some Spielberg Flashlights, and rain. And then Optimus Prime fell on his ass.
I think I saw Matthew Broderick and Hank Azaria in there somewhere.
I like when the pilot punches his own palm like a catcher getting ready for a fastball. In reality, that’s a robo no-no. I’m valuing each robo fist at around $1b dollars including R&D and shipping. Trust me, you don’t want those fists going anywhere near each other. Is there still time to get a twitter-generated edit request campaign going before they ship this gem?