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Offline RandalThor

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Pacific Rim
« on: July 17, 2013, 04:15:07 PM »
Go see it! That is an order!

Seriously, it is great fun and the imagery/scale is awesome. (Not saying it is perfect, just worth seeing in the theater.) I will be going to see it again.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2013, 07:39:50 AM »
Thanks, I was wondering how it was.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2013, 03:12:55 PM »
I am going to see it again tomorrow - this time in IMAX 3D. I very rarely do that.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2013, 07:51:22 PM »
Interesting... from the commercials I was thinking would be a big special effects extravaganza with little to no in depth plot.  Not that that's always terrible, but I never come running out of those screaming "You've got to see that!"
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2013, 09:09:24 PM »
Yeah, that. Up to now what I've been hearing is, "like watching your 4-year-old's bathtub battle between a transformer and a rubber dinosaur."
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2013, 12:52:42 AM »
See, for that I'll just turn on one of the old (really old) Godzilla movies.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2013, 07:37:03 AM »
I was hearing that the director did Pacific Rim basically as a tribute to those. Supposedly what he was trying for was what those movies could have been had the scriptwriters' budget and the effects been available.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing, either. I think it would be cool if you could go back and find out what kind of movie those guys wanted, as opposed to what it was possible for them to produce.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2013, 11:42:28 AM »
I think I'll still wait for it on Blue-Ray and watch it on my 60 inch widescreen theater system at home.

I just do not like going to the theaters anymore unless I go for the very first show of the day so as to avoid those nasty sticky floors and sometimes a wet seat.

If I go to see it on the IMAX theater here, I will go.  Nothing beats those screens.  But with these 20+ screen complexes, the theater screens just do not seem as big as when I went back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

However, thanks for the reviews.  I was wondering if it would be worth purchasing on BR (when comes available).

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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2013, 01:04:06 PM »
Quote from: arakish on July 19, 2013, 11:42:28 AM
I think I'll still wait for it on Blue-Ray and watch it on my 60 inch widescreen theater system at home.
Even since I picked up a really wide screen (I think it's 57") I find we rarely go to the theater anymore.  That "big screen" just isn't as impressive these days... and I don't have to pay $5 for a 12oz coke.
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2013, 09:36:08 AM »
Fun movie, with very good special effects. Draw heavily upon japanimation mecha (Evangelion comes to mind). The monsters' fleas are a good idea. :)
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Re: Pacific Rim
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2013, 09:57:25 AM »
Quote from: Cory Magel on July 19, 2013, 12:52:42 AM
See, for that I'll just turn on one of the old (really old) Godzilla movies.

Or the transformer station fight scene from Crank II.... :o
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