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| The Booklet (2013) |
Back in 2013, in the lead-up to PacRim, I made booklets.
Twenty-one pages of quotes, excerpts, links, review fragments, praise, argument, defence, excitement and evidence, all gathered under the title Pacific Rim: Smart Mainstream Art With Heart.
I dated it 10 July 2013, just as the film was arriving, and the purpose was right there on the first page: I wanted to make a polished compendium of the film’s reception, print it, hand it out, and keep it for posterity.
That sentence now feels like a time capsule from another version of me. But it also feels completely recognisable.
I was not simply excited that Pacific Rim existed. I wanted to advocate for it. I wanted to prove that people were wrong to dismiss it as empty spectacle or as another noisy robot film. I wanted to gather the language around it, preserve the serious responses, and show that critics, writers, fans, artists and ordinary viewers were seeing something in it that was earnest, huge, emotional and beautifully made.
So I printed the thing, then I handed copies to random members of the public. Which is insane, obviously.
But in hindsight, it was kinda beautiful.
There is something very 2013 about it, and something much older than 2013 too.
It belongs to a pre-feed instinct, a zine instinct, a pamphlet instinct, a “please understand this thing I love” instinct.
I was not trying to monetise it. I was not trying to build a platform. I was not trying to perform expertise for an algorithm.
I had seen something that moved me, and I wanted to carry proof of that feeling into the physical world.
The booklet is earnest to the point of embarrassment, but that embarrassment is also part of its value.
It shows me exactly where I was.
It shows the moment Pacific Rim stopped being just a film I liked and became a world I wanted to protect, explain, expand and share.
The JaegerDesignTeam stuff came from that same place. The Ahab Jenova sketches, the custom Jaeger roster, the lost Kaiju names, the arguments about tone and sincerity and design and mythology: all of it was downstream from the same original impact.
I loved the film so much that I made paperwork.
That is probably the most Pacific Rim thing about the whole story.
(before you dive in, watch this. You’re welcome)
Extracted text from the uploaded PDF
PACIFIC RIM
Smart Mainstream Art With Heart
The following document is a compendium of quotes from reviews of the motion picture, Pacific Rim. Beneath these are Links to all of the reviews quoted, as well as my personal opinion on the reception this film has had so far. I will be making a polished, cleanly-formatted compendium of the reviews themselves in separate documents, which will then be printed off, handed out and stored for posterity.
Albert Chessa
10/07/13
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PACIFIC RIM is the story of humanity nearing what seems to be it’s end.
Coastal cities are under constant threat by the Kaiju; fierce, colossal beasts whose emergence from a Rift in the pacific ocean changed life on earth forever.
20 years later, mankind’s battle is almost at an end. The Jaeger Program, mankind’s internationally-funded military technology development response, is at the end of it’s days.
The Jaegers, colossal mechanical titans designed to repel Kaiju attacks with minimal, prolonged wholesale destruction and human casualties, number only four now, where once there were dozens.
Resigned to their fate, the remaining populated areas of earth have begun construction of enormous walls, no longer believing the Jaegers are able to defend them in the face mounting Kaiju attacks - of such numbers and increasing size that any hope for prolonged survival has all but faded.
As the fear of mankind’s impending extinction spreads, the remnants of The Jaeger Program - a handful of pilots, from Russia, China, Australia and America - choose to mount one final, desperate attack which could end the Kaiju scourge once and for all.
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‘I’d strongly argue that Pacific Rim is one of the more memorable, distinctive action releases in recent years.’
ROTTEN TOMATOES
83%
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‘Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Is an Eccentric and Emotional Thrill.’
HITFLIX
★★★★
Character is front and centre, even as robots kick the hell out of giant monsters.
There is an earnest, straightforward voice to the storytelling, reminiscent of the films of the early ’40s.
This is not a movie that gives in to the typical Hollywood wisdom that an intimate relationship between a man and a woman has to also be a romantic one: in fact, the film is ultimately about the relationship between Raleigh and Mako, pilots of the Jaeger Gipsy Danger - It is not a love story in a conventional sense, but of a relationship of perfect trust: two beings united for something bigger.
I know what it looks like when someone lays eyes on a movie that rewires them.
I’ve seen that look in the mirror after screenings of films like “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and “Lawrence Of Arabia.”
My boys are hooked on “Pacific Rim,” and I can’t blame them at all.
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‘The emotion felt between the characters is truly sincere.’
StraightOuttaTrenton (Tumblr)
★★★★
The film is an adrenaline shot to the heart that keeps you going and leaves you exhilarated.
You’re in the hands of a master of cinema and the film is impeccably paced - It doesn’t leave with the feeling that it’s going on for too long or that it felt rushed.
The screenplay is sharp, thankfully not relying on too many clichés we see in most movies (mainstream or independent).
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‘Epic, Ambitious & Accessible.’
THE VERGE
★★★★
Like some of the most iconic sci-fi blockbusters, Pacific Rim also has the advantage of appealing, archetypal characters and a story that’s both viscerally and emotionally engaging.
Max Martini and Robert Kazinsky play the father-and-son pilots of Striker Eureka, the Australian Jaeger, whose generational contentiousness conceals the importance of deep-rooted connections within a world largely defined by loss.
The relationships between the characters reinforce deeper themes within the film — about parents and children, loss and redemption, and the intangible bonds that form between the unlikeliest people.
This is the sort of film you go to in order to watch giant monsters fight giant robots, and then incidentally stay for all of that character development and thematic complexity.
the beauty and straightforwardness is deceptive: the simplicity of the film’s bruising physicality hooking you into its more sophisticated underpinnings.
one of the most satisfying movies of the summer — and one of the best of Guillermo Del Toro’s career — which creates not just a new world, but one whose mythology actually deserves a universe.
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‘A Better And Smarter-Than-Average Humans Vs. Monsters Spectacular.’
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
★★★★
Unlike so many similar crash-bang action spectaculars, this one feels lean and muscular rather than bloated or padded; the action is always coherent and dramatically pointed rather than just splashed on the screen for its own sake.
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‘Monsters And Robots In A Near-Perfect Spectacle.’
TWITCHFILM
★★★★
There’s a laser-like purpose to the film: a seriousness that never drops into being sacrosanct or self-parodic. It’s a film that doesn’t need to be ironic or self-effacing to be terrifically effective. It’s a film that needs, and provides in ways no film ever has, the spectacle of monsters battling giant robots. Because of this simplicity of purpose and elegance of execution, it’s all kind of marvellous, and on that level, as a spectacle free from dogma or expectation, revelling in that simplicity of purpose and beauty of execution, Pacific Rim is near-perfect.
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’Beautiful, Sobering, Thrilling.
A profoundly epic story that also manages to stay profoundly human.’
BADASSDIGEST
★★★★★
Guillermo del Toro has achieved a feat of world-building unseen on movie screens since the original Star Wars.
This is a rich, full, detailed universe that lives at the very corner of the frame.
Pacific Rim is set in the kind of fully realised world where you believe if the camera went down a different corridor or street, you would find a rich story populated with fascinating characters.
There are sequences in Pacific Rim that have the same depth of construction as the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Star Wars, that have the sense of a place that existed before the camera turned on and will continue existing after our heroes have moved along.
If that was all Pacific Rim offered it would stand as a Star Wars for a new generation. But it has more than that.
It’s the rare modern blockbuster that does big scale action correctly.
Every punch has momentum, every impact has weight, every step of the Jaegers and the Kaiju is felt.
The action is clear, understandable and constantly thrilling - and the stakes are always palpable and high.
This is a movie designed frame by frame to make kids explode with excitement and imagination, and it’s a movie that will reactivate that purity in even old fogies.
Pacific Rim makes you feel like a kid, not because it’s stupid (it isn’t) or because it’s silly (it can be, but in the right way) but because it will fill you with the sort of awe and joy you had when you first saw the Millennium Falcon show up out of nowhere at the Death Star.
While humanity is in dire straits in Pacific Rim this isn’t some sort of Nolan-esque meditation on the futility of heroism or the failings of men - it’s a movie about triumph and hope and overcoming all odds. And for the ten year olds, it’s about how little people can stand up to even the biggest monsters.
Pacific Rim is a movie that leaves you wanting more; it’s the rare modern movie that will send you looking for supplemental material so you can experience more of the world.
Some will complain about a lack of complexity in Raleigh, but I found his basic decency and heroism refreshing. In a movie landscape where the heroes refuse the call every single time, where they need a personal revenge motivator to become heroes, where they have feet of clay and are constantly unsure of themselves, Raleigh is the rare hero doing it because it has to be done.
Played with ultimate badass ferocity by Idris Elba, Pentecost is the driving force that keeps the Jaeger program together, is the tough leader who keeps the multinational pilot crew moving forward and is the driven tactician behind the last ditch effort to save the world.
His character is filled with complexity, from his strange personal vulnerability to his relationship with Mako Mori, his assistant who is also the perfect companion to Drift with Raleigh in Gipsy Danger.
Elba brings many shades to Pentecost, some of which he gets across with only a look while alone in an elevator.
Rinko Kikuchi is Mori, whose childhood experience in kaiju-devastated Tokyo presents the movie’s single most jaw-dropping sequence.
Guillermo del Toro understands the scale with which he’s working and this sequence, where young Mori is chased down city streets by a twenty-story tall monster, smacks you with that scale. It’s also an emotionally shattering bit of filmmaking, the moment where you most understand the human toll of the wanton destruction wreaked by the Kaiju. It’s Pacific Rim in a nutshell: beautiful, sobering, thrilling.
I wanted more of everything - more of the characters, more of the world, more of the monsters and more of the Jaegers.
This is a movie about teamwork, about sacrifice and about getting past the bullsh*t to do something important and difficult. It’s a rousing movie about the way human beings can set their mind to something and accomplish it.
Yeah, we’ve f**ked up. Yeah, we’ve made mistakes.
But we’ve also done incredible things, performed impossible feats and tamed some of the very forces of nature. When we’re at our worst we can be destructive, divisive and horrible. When we’re at our best we can change the course of the world with our will.
Pacific Rim is a movie about that is, thrillingly, upliftingly about that.
And it also has giant mechs punching the shit out of giant monsters.
This is what blockbuster movies should be.
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‘The Ultimate Blockbuster Movie.’
ARTSHUB
★★★★
Affection drips from Guillermo del Toro’s graceful awareness of genre, infecting not just the ample frays between primal extraterrestrials and punishing robots, but the wealth of lavishness that furnishes a world predicated upon their existence.
Cognisant of the successes and mis-steps of its forebears, the film never loses the sense of wonder that ensures its spectacle is more than just a feast of glorious 3D CGI, nor does it allow the thrilling action and intricate aesthetics to overwhelm the human element.
Amidst the enchanting thrashing of towering entities in an inherently lived-in world, it is the tale of people escaping their plight as pawns that immerses in the awe-inspiring but never outlandish antics.
Pacific Rim’s technical achievements are as plentiful as its narrative is precise, propelled by handsomely-photographed, rousingly-scored set-piece choreography and streamlined, subtly-edited plotting; however, the immense scale is always grounded in an offering that, for all its size and sheen, values the details.
Perhaps the one it champions the most is sincerity, the feature’s beasts-versus-machine-brawn clash concerned with the impacts of advancement and the extremes of endeavour as much as the importance of entertaining rather than angling for a franchise.
Indeed, in Del Toro’s earnestness and sheer pursuit of unashamed enjoyment, Pacific Rim becomes the ultimate blockbuster monster movie.
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‘Pacific Rim is steeped in affection and sincerity.’
TOTALFILM
★★★★
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‘The Most Exhilarating American Action Movie Since The Matrix.’
CRAVEONLINE
8/10
If nothing else, it’s refreshing to see a big budget action movie that’s more interested in ideas than pandering set pieces, and that somehow manages to make those set pieces sing nevertheless.
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‘Breathtaking Action. A Spellbinding Treat.’
DIGITALSPY
★★★
Evokes the same sense of awe and dread experienced through young eyes as Pan’s Labyrinth.
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‘Pacific Rim hits it’s mark with a Killer Blow.’
DENOFGEEK
★★★★
Production designer Carol Spier brings an engaging 1940s air to the sets and costumes; the weathered metal and hand-painted graphics on the Jaegers recall the markings of World War II bombers, giving a pleasing sense of lived-in depth to Del Toro’s world. The scratched, battered robots have a lumbering majesty, while the monsters possess a palpable sense of weight and strength.
The idea of ‘The Drift’ - the mind meld required to pilot the Jaegers in which intimate memories are laid bare - is a compelling concept.
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’A highly engrossing piece of action cinema.
The most fun you’ll have all Summer.’
beautifully detailed, wonderfully shot and tremendously exciting.
SCIFINOW
★★★★
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‘Huge scale entertainment with guts and heart.’
SFX-UK
★★★½
These are Robots you’ll be cheering for. It never feels like cartoon fighting either, with glances inside the practical Jaeger cockpit in the midst of the ocean-borne battles.
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’For An Entire Generation That Sees Pacific Rim With Their Families,
This Will Be The Beginning of Something Huge In Their Lives.’
AINTITCOOL
★★★★★
…There’s a process in the film called DRIFTING.
It’s where the two or three pilots of the Jaegers fuse their minds with the operating system of the machine.
Their actions become as one – and in that space they share everything with one another. They can hide nothing and everything that person has experienced is shared.
This is a story about a set of brothers, a father and a daughter, a father and son, a man and wife and a pair of chaste burgeoning almost-lovers, but definite soul mates. It’s a story about a little girl terrified with everything taken away from her, but finding a life that will leave her afraid of nothing ever again. It’s the story about a man that had an experience so hard he never wanted to feel again. Another story is about a man who has to stand strong even as his body is failing him.
And that’s just the Jaeger pilots.
We don’t have that yet, but its coming relatively soon. Instead, we have movies.
These beautiful, stunning and fascinating shared realities, where after we see them, we as a whole can discuss what we just experienced together.
After watching PACIFIC RIM, one friend told me that they had an experience with a kid that have left them chatting excitedly for two hours. These two have been trying to connect, but this film gave them that common ground.
This is a movie that we’ve been dreaming of since we were growing up.
When I saw EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, that film launched a dreamscape that changed my life.
When those WALKERS showed up, that was a fixed point in my life. ILM had done something to make my eyes open larger than they’ve ever felt they’ve opened before.
The great visual effects films enhance the language of our dreams. When I read comics, novels or watched animated tales – I dreamt of the most amazing fully produced VFX spectacles.
As time has passed, we get jaded to a repetition of types of imagery.
PACIFIC RIM is truly the most refreshing, family-suited monster sci-fi adventure story told with great characters played wonderfully on the most spectacular sets that I have seen.
All the kids that came to the screening were just blown away and individually all had to tell me it was the best film they’d ever seen. I TOTALLY KNOW THE FEELING.
When he asks Raleigh how he wants to die, building a wall or in a Jaeger fighting these things… well, it’s something he’s asking himself too.
I love the idea that we could RAMP up a Giant Mech Warrior defence and assault program.
Because I do believe in our collective powers to overcome any manner of problem we have before us. I’m an optimist.
Sure, there’s a lot to get angry about every day, but if you focus on what science is starting to bring us – a lot of those fears turn to a genuine hope for humanity, despite a whole lot of publicised stupidity in the world.
This story is about those that are dedicated to not simply ignore the very real threats to our way of life, but the engineers, the scientists, the technicians, ground teams, the folks that get the job done.
Even if its on the shady side, there’s a real triumph of the adventurous human spirit in this movie. It tells you that you can aspire and conquer.
Guillermo builds all the relationships in this film beautifully.
The attention to detail here is just unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
I found the film awe-inspiring, my eyes were often saucers drinking in the sights that I just can not believe were made.
There are moments that made the entire audience gasp & clap.
Friends with kids have had theirs talking about the movie endlessly tonight.
It makes me smile. For me a film that can make a kid dream and engage is something genuinely heroic. It’s so cool to me.
Meanwhile with other friends we’d talk about the film being the greatest power stance with soul we’ve ever seen in a theatre.
You know when you see your favourite band just rock and you feel that energy transferred.
This movie is a master artist just unleashed and the immediate reaction after the entire audience sat through the credits and the last frame passed was a voice in back saying,
“AGAIN!”
followed by laughter, agreement and then people stood up and turned to their friends, family and the GREAT MOVIE VIBE was beaming through the room, out into the lobby and outside.
As friends and family walked back to their cars it was just one of those nights.
A perfect movie. It is exactly what I hoped it’d be.
Like STAR WARS, the original, the one that became A NEW HOPE, the story is whole and complete.
This is a finished tale, but as I allow my mind to drift with the PACIFIC RIM narrative… I am positive I see the partnership of Raleigh Beckett and Mako Mori as just beginning.
I love this like I did LORD OF THE RINGS and the later HARRY POTTER flicks. But it kicks more ass than those. I haven’t had the absolute movie glow I have right now since I seriously saw those great classics as they hit.
Man, Guillermo – you beautiful maestro. I can’t wait to see the kids that grow up with this in their lives. What a f***ing movie! WOW.
This is gonna be the best. Go see PACIFIC RIM with people you love to see movies with. Need an AMAZING night at the movies and a dinner afterwards?
Here’s your Film!
I saw PACIFIC RIM on July 7th. I get on a plane in 11 hours. A TransAtlantic one. If anything horrible were to occur, that’s ONE HELL OF A LAST FILM.
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‘Go and See it As Soon As Possible.’
FRUITLESSPURSUITS
★★★★
Pacific Rim has copped some unfair flack in the lead up to its release. Labelled as yet another Transformers style abomination and just as easily dismissed, it has flown under the radar this blockbuster season. While we’ve all clamoured for Iron Man, Man of Steel or Star Trek, we’ve ignored the only truly original film in the bunch. In an era of sequels, reboots and remakes Pacific Rim is wholly original.
Pacific Rim never tries to be something it isn’t. It’s a true action blockbuster that never insults your intelligence like a lot of it’s ilk tends to do. Don’t wait for this on BluRay. It deserves the loud, big screen and 3D big screen treatment like no other film has before.
Go and see it as soon as possible.
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‘A fresh, dynamic, incredibly realistic world you’ve never seen before.’
3NEWS
★★★★
Pacific Rim feels like an entirely fresh beast, and that’s because it is.
This is a new story with characters directly from Guillermo Del Toro’s head.
It’s the opposite of Transformers, where the action was like a close-up of a dishwasher rolling down a hill. Each battle in Pacific Rim is clear, and takes place in distinct environments.
When the humans move around to operate the jaegers, it feels as though they’re operating in a very real world. This is nice counterpoint to the incredibly CG-driven world that big scale action usually takes place in.
This isn’t a sci-fi film adapted from a book. It’s not an action film based on a board game. Or a comic. It’s not a reboot. It’s fresh, and that’s what makes it awesome.
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‘One of the more Intelligent Science Fiction Movies In Recent Memory.’
FLICKERINGMYTH
★★★★
Even with all that negativity before its release, Pacific Rim has come out as the best of this year’s summer blockbusters.
It chooses its plot points carefully - in fact, this this is one of the more intelligent science fiction movies of recent memory (with Inception being the last port of call).
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‘Pacific Rim Is Outrageously Badass.’
ERIK DAVIS, MOVIES.COM
★★★★★
Unlike Transformers (which people are comparing Pacific Rim to based only on its trailers), the epic action on display here is gorgeous, riveting and cheer worthy.
You can actually see what’s happening, and feel its biggest moments pulsating through your wild, childlike imagination. You’ll feed off its adrenaline, and damn will it feel good.
This movie doesn’t try to show you what it’d be like in our world if monsters arrived tomorrow. This movie shows you what it’d be like if monsters arrived in our world years ago, and it picks up right at that point where our backs are against the wall and there’s very little hope left.
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‘Pacific Rim is a film that will only get better and better every time you watch it.’
GEEKENSTEIN
★★★★★
It’s to mechs as Jurassic Park was to dinosaurs.
The entire movie reminds me of that time I tried shrooms and couldn’t tell the difference between real life and my imagination for an hour and a half.
Live-acting and computer generated monstrosities were intertwined with such a precision level of detail, I felt like my eyes were seeing the world for the very first time – and it was love at first sight.
The visual effects in Pacific Rim raises the bar of what I previously thought were possible without sacrificing the integrity of the film.
Leaving the theatre, you will feel moved by the film and compelled to see it as many times as your wallet will allow.
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s epic homage to classic-era monster movies is a triumph of consummate design and old school romanticism.’
LITTLEWHITELIES
★★★★★
From the heavy proliferation of pistons, flywheels and giant whirring cogs in its early exposition scenes to its overall affirmation that human engineering can be used to achieve against-the-odds marvels, the film is that rare thing: a blockbuster in which all traces of cynicism and snark have been expunged in favour of a doe-eyed sincerity which roots the film – surely as its director intended – deep into the classical era.
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‘Nothing I have ever watched even comes close to the spectacle that is Pacific Rim.’
FATMOVIEGUY
★★★★★
Both the Kaiju and Jaegers look amazingly lifelike. I’m going to predict it now, but my money is on Pacific Rim winning an Oscar for visual effects.
They are really that impressive.
Another refreshing aspect is that the movie had zero product placement. The Jaegers could have easily been sponsored by Pepsi or Sony. The streets of Hong Kong could have been littered with bright neon advertisements for Nokia and Samsung cell phones. But there was none.
A masterpiece of epic proportions that every monster movie after will be compared to, Pacific Rim has set the bar so high that it is now the cinematic standard for future endeavours in the genre.
I cannot emphasise how awesomely fun this movie is.
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‘This film is going to take the U.S. culture by storm.’
JOE MARINO
★★★★★
Lots of people seem to be worried that it’s not a name brand and it seems too reminiscent of Transformers. But for me, “Pacific Rim” is about to change everything.
Throughout the whole movie, I just sat there going “This is how I felt while watching Dark Knight and Inception.” That feeling of HOOOOLLLY SH****T this is something we’ve never seen in live-action before.
I had my jaw dropped a good 90% of the time.
Nno one in the cast provided a weak link in the bunch. I do hope Hunnam gets a leading man boost with this. But of course, the fights and the designs are what will blow people away. I’ve NEVER seen battles like this that felt so terrifying and immersive. Each batter felt 1000% times more gripping and real than Transformers.
Every monster design was just WOOOAH on the imposing factor - and the film managed to do a GREAT job at making the Jaegers the ultimate underdogs by making them hold their own in a fight… but never enough to make us believe they’re safe.
Ultimately, I can hardly catch my breath, even 24 hours later. Del Toro just owned Bay on giant robot fights like Nolan owned Schumacher on Batman.
This is going to go down as something special…this is what Transformers and Godzilla WISH they could be.
People won’t be happy with Bay-like blockbusters anymore with a ton of quick robots beating the crap out of each other : Substance of awesome will now be required, and I for one can’t wait to see what masterpieces we end up seeing now because of “Pacific Rim” opening the doors for imagination.
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‘It’s Time For A Movie Night!’
HARLEYANDJOKER
★★★★½
This is a must see and I suggest you take the preteens/teenagers along with you. We had a couple teenage girls with us and they were amply pleased with the movie. We all know that girls are a really tough crowd to please. The harsh dance of battle bursts and splashes on the screen and even has you flinching…
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‘Miraculous Entertainment from a Master Craftsman.’
THE TELEGRAPH
★★★★★
That guilelessness is the root of Pacific Rim’s charm.
Whatever our ages, del Toro’s miraculous entertainment boosts us all up to its gleeful point of view.
At first, watching Pacific Rim feels like rediscovering a favourite childhood cartoon – but del Toro has flooded the project with such affection and artistry that, rather than smiling nostalgically, you find yourself enchanted all over again.
The twist is that for once, here is a blockbuster that is not based on a cartoon, comic book, or anything else: it sprung from an idea by Travis Beacham, the film’s screenwriter, and then came to fruition in del Toro’s fecund brain.
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KANYE WEST
(Yeezus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy)
I saw a pre-screening of Pacific Rim yesterday and it’s easily one of my favourite films of all time. This is not another ‘Robot’ movie. Guillermo del Toro is a master.
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SETH GREEN
(Family Guy)
Saw Pacific Rim. So. Freaking. Awesome.
I’m guessing anyone saying it’s not hasn’t actually seen it.
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NEIL GAIMAN
(Coraline, Sandman)
A perfect monsters vs robots film.
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GRANT IMAHARA
(Mythbusters)
Guys, Pacific Rim was awesome. Both ‘adult’ Grant and my nine-year-old Grant loved it! I could watch Jaeger battles ALL DAY LONG.
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RZA
(Wu Tang Clan)
Pacific Rim was good. Visually Astonishing, Imaginative Action.
My Son say’s it was Awesome.
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HIDEO KOJIMA
(Metal Gear Series)
I have never imagined that I would be fortunate enough to see a film like this in my life. The emotional rush I had inside me was the same kind I had when I felt the outer space of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, and when I touched the dinosaur in ‘Jurassic Park’.
Animation and special effects movies and shows, that I loved in my childhood days - they all truly exist in the screen. Director Guillermo Del Toro offers this spectacular vision of massive Kaijus and Robots in Pacific Rim.
This film is not simply one to be respected, but most importantly, it let’s us dream of the future of entertainment movies.
Pacific Rim is the ultimate Otaku film that all of us have been waiting for. Who are you, if you are Japanese and won’t watch this?
I hope you would accept this inspirational love letter that has travelled across the Pacific, written by Director Guillermo Del Toro.
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EMMA WATSON
(Harry Potter)
Guillermo’s new dilm is out soon. Beautiful special effects, huge scope, BIG battles. Wish I could fight like Mako.
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Links
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/8/4501378/pacific-rim-review
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My Opinion
I want to feel mankind’s uncertainty, it’s trepidation in it’s attempt to defend itself with this seemingly crazy idea which ends up being the most powerful of all: a bond of simple, being-to-being love. I believe, at the heart of the film - and that’s saying something, since the spectacle is purported centrepiece - will be the concept of The Drift: the self-sharing and personal growth that comes from the confrontation of trauma, acceptance of the past, truly being in the present, and a resolution and passion for the future.
