Pacific Rim (2 Blu-Ray)

Great watch

I bought the special edition dvd to watch this kaiju film for the first time. Not seeing PR in the cinema was lucky, as my first impression was that it's a leave-your-brain-at-home, cheesy, campy, kid's movie. There's no great nudity, sex scenes or swearing in it. However, after watching the film a few times and seeing the bonus content on disc two, I've come to appreciate the making of it. If you're a builder of robots you'll know that giant mechs are implausible because of the weight-to-power problem: The heavier and massive the robot mech is, the bigger and stronger the servo motors you'll need to move it. Bigger motors means added weight, so you'll need stronger servos to move the added weight, and so on until the weight-to-power ratio becomes a losing game. The kaiju genre is Japanese, but there's scant representation of Japan here, except a token Asian girl (played by the stunning Rinko Kikuchi), but her role is played down and somewhat putdown by her overly angry, stupidly yelling, Western counterparts. The acting is over-the-top dramatic and the tension between characters is so forced and artificial that it seems like a parody of the genre. There's a couple of Australians (still Westerners!) whose dialogue is incomprehensible (without English subtitles on) that they might as well be speaking a strange foreign language. Incidentially, I'm not sure why they've portrayed a harmful neural interface ('drift' as they've called it) since the mech is obviously slaved to the driver's physical movements like a puppet through an analogue haptic suit and not controlled via their brain. In the bonus content, the concept artists say they've looked at big, real world excavation machinery as reference for scale, but we don't get the scope or scale here like we do in Cloverfield (which is a kaiju-inspired film) or Gareth Edward's Monsters (and also his Godzilla film), each of which seem to have better CGI renders and physics (it could also be about camera angles and pov?). The artists should have looked at the life-sized Gundam kinetic statue in Yokohama, or even the Liberty statue on Liberty Island, from ground level for more appropriate scale references. Strangely, Gillermo has applied this annoying lens fog or 'haze' over every scene that typically low budget films use to hide cheap and awful visual effects and CGI (so, essentially Gillermo has made a mega expensive movie look like a low budget one!). Anyway, if you're a rabid fan of Michael Bay-tarded films, you'll be a big fan of this cheddar; there's lots of fighting, big explosions, cgi to beat the band, and virtually no plot or character development to get you thinking. I won't hold my breath that the sequel, Uprising, is any better. If you actually want to see a dexterous mechsuit, look up Hacksmith's Aliens Powerloader videos on youtube, it doesn't walk (it rolls on catipillar tracks) but it's the closest thing yet to a real life mech suit.

its good

How many movies have we seen in which the 'Golden Gate Bridge' isdestroyed ? ....well, I haven't got an answer, however seems to meit occurs during just about every disaster movie....and yes, if butbriefly 'Pacific Rim' joins that ''elite'' club.The Film....Over-sized alien beings 'The Kaijus' begin to arrive onearth arriving through a porthole below the waves of the 'Pacific'Five major cities are destroyed before the military are able to combatthe new enemy.The invasion continues, man has to come up with a monster of their own....Giant Robots called 'Jaegers' controlled to do battle by two pilotson board.However, it seems this may not be enough to stop the 'Kaijus' coming,the 'Jaegers' program seems too be failing, the world is on the vergeof defeat.A former pilot is teamed up with an unlikely co-pilot to operate anoutdated 'Jaeger' to do battle.This may well be man's last stand ahead of an ''almost'' certain alienvictory bringing about the end of human existence.The visual effects which are indeed impressive make the movie well worthwatching,The 2D and 3D imagery will almost certainly keep the film alive for viewingpleasure.Great picture and sound quality throughout.A 3-Disc set which includes the usual commentary.........'Disk three' is allabout 'Special Features' with hours of content which includes,,,featurettesproviding in-depth looks at 'Kaijus' ....along with a look at 'Sets' 'Stunts''Sounds' 'Effects' and the Mythology of making the film....and so much more.

So here's the thing. My friends saw this a few months ago and they all told me it was terrible. I watched Youtube reviews and read Cracked.com articles on how bad it was.So I watched this one night when I wanted to see a crappy film about giant monsters fighting giant robots.And you know what? I thought it was great!From what I've read/been told I'm wondering if the theatrical version was somehow edited to remove vital parts. My friends (At great length) told me about all the plot holes and silly things that just don't make sense, and the articles and reviews highlighted all the crazy things about the story.I never saw them. Admittedly there's a few tiny bits that you have to accept as being part of the film, but on the whole this is FAR better than all the Transformers films (and anything else made by Bay), better than most of the 'alien invasion blockbusters' I've seen in the past few years (Skyline, Battle LA, etc.) I'd say this is up there with Independence Day. So I've no idea why it got so much hate from people that I would have thought should have loved it.Anyway, If you're even slightly interested by the idea of robots fighting aliens in a post-alien invasion world, then give it a shot!

Totally great pure action Built Robots to go against Monsters but the best the how they’ve built these robots was that’s they have 2 or 3 people inside the robot to go against the Monsters if you are looking to watch ‘Pacific Rim’ make sure you got some food & a drink next to you as this movie is absolutely great & you will not wanna miss a bit of it at all i mean from START TO END.