Pacific Rim: The Biggest Giant Monster Movie Ever Made!

[MouthForWar]

[MouthForWar]

I know a lot of you people being sticks in the mud are saying the kaiju look generic, but I love Knifehead.

What was the last Godzilla villain that looked that cool?

[O.Supreme]

[MouthForWar]

[DerGolem]

[MouthForWar]

But the studios would never back those movies if they didn't think they had a huge mass market to appeal to.

They're the ones footing the money and deciding when and why a movie is getting made. And directors like QT and GDT know how to play ball with them and meet the needs of a studio in making a product that will be ready for mass consumption.

And Pacific Rim's script was floating around long before GDT ever came on board (Travis Beachem created this property, not GDT), so it would have been made with or without him. He polished the final script and his name is making the movie marketable, but Pacific Rim isn't his creation.

Just because a director only chooses films they personally want to do doesn't mean those movies aren't being made for a mass market. Of course, most auteurs with clout like GDT or QT won't make a movie unless it appeals to them. But the studios who allow them to make those films are only letting them because they sell to the biggest markets in the world and they make them money. Without those studios, there would be no Pacific Rim or Django Unchained. These aren't tiny little indie films like the stuff someone like David Lynch or David Cronenberg make. Those guys don't often work in Hollywood and their films usually aren't designed to appeal to a giant audience. Tarnatino and GDT are auteurs who pick stuff they're passionate about, but their movies aren't being made for a handful of people like Cronenberg or Lynch's films are. They are giant blockbusters that are made for everybody.

I mean, Joss Whedon is a really careful guy when it comes to picking projects and he's a nerdy fanboy also, but when he made the Avengers, he wasn't making it for comic book fans. He was making it for everybody. And it worked, hence why its the third biggest movie of all time.

If Hellboy wasn't made for a mass market, you wouldn't have the love story or the John Myers character... these are BOTH things (not from the comic) that del Toro AND the movie's producers even ADMIT were included to appeal to the widest audience they could reach. GDT knows he's not making artsy stuff here, he knows he's in the realm of the blockbuster. There's nothing wrong with that, but even he admits that his bigger budget American movies are meant for a bigger audience than his artsier foreign films, which are aimed towards the smaller, arthouse market. He says this in almost every DVD commentary he's ever given. He works in both totally different realms, which is a huge testament to his adaptability as a film maker. So saying that GDT is just making Pacific Rim for kaiju/anime fans or Tarantino only makes movies for spaghetti western fans or whatever just isn't true. These guys make movies for everybody, those niche groups included.

[DerGolem]

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

I didn't know the thing about the fight choreographer, that's definitely good news. Scott Pilgrim had great looking fights.

[DerGolem]

[Hybrid Gojira]

Knifehead looks awesome. I'm pretty sure this was one of the images from a trailer.

[Outkaster]

Two more stills:

[DerGolem]

[BrollySupersj]

That's a good shot of Knifehead. NECA can show off images of their figure now, hopefully. Out of the box as well.

[DerGolem]

[BrollySupersj]

Hey that's the art that was used in the promotional image with the hammer head and crocodile kaiju.

[king_ghidorah]

Knifehead doesn't really look all that much like Guiron now that I've gotten a better look at him.

[MouthForWar]

[king_ghidorah]

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

[MekaGojira3k]

[BrollySupersj]

I had my issues with the Jaegers in the beginning. But I have looked past the issues now. I freaking love em.

[Alpha OTS]

I so want to love this movie. I hope it doesn't disappoint.

[MekaGojira3k]

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