Pacific Rim: The Biggest Giant Monster Movie Ever Made!

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[quote]In Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi epic Pacific Rim, everything is big. The monsters. The soundstage. Even the Jaegers have to be operated by two people. But apparently, the epic feats of the cast and crew extended beyond the set, according to Robert Kazinsky, who plays Chuck Hansen in the film.

EW caught up with the English actor at Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards on Saturday in Los Angeles, where he told us about his most taxing day on the Toronto set.

“We were on the way to work one day at 5 a.m. in the morning and we got into a crash. A taxi ran a red light and T-boned me, [co-star] Max Martini and our driver. Both cars got completely destroyed,â€

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[MekaGojira3k]

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[jellydonut25]

[MouthForWar]

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Ahhhh... you guy's have made me change my mind. Everything about this movie looks terribile.

The macross/patlabor looking robots look like crap.

Seeing strange looking, enormous monsters smash through buildings and crush things under foot and claw doesn't cause a response conditioned since childhood where my brain becomes flooded with endorphins.

For the clunky toy robot looking one that honestly looks like it was assembled by Ultraseven villains I'm left with a feeling I can only describe as ... blasé.

Seeing the enormous bases where the giant robots are kept, serviced, and launched rendered incredibly faithfully from pretty much ever anime, kaiju and tokusatsu but with a level of detail possible with $100 mil+ special effects leaves me feeling cold and empty, like an abandoned Soviet tank in the Siberian tundra.

The fact that the kaiju have energy weapons and toxic saliva stirs no primal emotions within me.

The fact that this movie is full of monsters and that there's a quadrupedal one, a flying creature, one like the stone ape from the Herculoids, and a more reserved reptilian one doesn't comport with my age-old love of films filled with lots of different kinds of monsters. Nope, not one bit.

The vibrant color schemes and exaggerated, expressionistic landscapes (for both natural and man-made environments) doesn't generally conform to my visual preferences at all.

It's clear that this film was made for one reason and one reason only: to come so close to being about everything I love about everything only to intentionally fall short of my impossible standards!

GOOD DAY SIR!

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[kiryugoji04]

I'm reading this thread and I literally cannot even.

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[MekaGojira3k]

Here's some examples of things I like and fairly recent (2000s)
Mecha design

[jellydonut25]

Some of those (top one, bottom couple) resemble pac rim mecha quite a bit. And some (scorpion tail) are just preposterous.

I hear ppl say ALL. THE. TIME. that the olden times were their favorites. Then when someone does a homage to that, they say its stupid and not modern enough and there aren't any scorpion tails or physically impossible designs or robots with oddly suspiciously large cod pieces.

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