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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:53 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:55 pm
by GORDON
A Thursday/midnight screening may be in order... but my kid really wants to see it too so I will prolly wait and see it with him.
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 3:02 pm
by Leisher
Kids ruin everything.
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:13 pm
by GORDON
Girl kids ruin everything. Boy kids want to go see giant robot vs. monster movies with you, and you are glad for his company because it is awesome to have a giant robot vs monster movie buddy.
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:12 pm
by Leisher
GORDON wrote:Girl kids ruin everything. Boy kids want to go see giant robot vs. monster movies with you, and you are glad for his company because it is awesome to have a giant robot vs monster movie buddy.
Girl kids ruin everything. Boy kids want to go see giant robot vs. monster movies with you, and you are glad for his company because it is awesome to have a giant robot vs monster movie buddy.
Girl kids can be your buddy for the movie or stay home.
Meanwhile, if you want to see a movie with friends that the boy wants to see, you have to abandon the boy because your adult friends don't want to see a 4 p.m. show. The boy kid gets all hurt if you abandon him. Then he grows up to kill you in your sleep.
If this actually occurs, I'm so showing this to the reporters and getting on the news.
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:57 pm
by GORDON
Friday at 2pm at the ghetto theater if anyone local wants to play hooky from work.
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:50 pm
by Leisher
I'm working alone tomorrow, and have a few meetings, so I can't skip out.
Racist.
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:55 pm
by GORDON
It isn't playing til 4 in the better parts of town, so my hand is forced.
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:12 pm
by Leisher
Just because it's the only theater in town that minorities are allowed to go to doesn't mean it's "ghetto".
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:35 pm
by GORDON
lol
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:00 am
by Malcolm
2. there are two guys per mech so they can use two actors.
Del Toro's <s>kind of</s> rather stupid reasoning for making giant robots only operable my multiple pilots:
In the film, a Jaeger's neural load is too much for a single pilot to handle alone, meaning they must first be psychically linked to another pilot—a concept called "Drifting". When pilots Drift, they quickly gain intimate knowledge of each other's virtues, fears, and defects, and have no choice but to accept them; del Toro found this concept's melodramatic potential compelling. The director expressed his intention that the empathy metaphors extend to real life: "The pilots' smaller stories actually make a bigger point, which is that we're all together in the same robot [in life]... Either we get along or we die. I didn't want this to be a recruitment ad or anything jingoistic. The idea of the movie is just for us to trust each other, to cross over barriers of color, sex, beliefs, whatever, and just stick together."
Anyone who's ever run a three-legged race knows what a pain in the ass it is to coordinate the physical movements of two people. I'm trying to figure out what it's like to do that mentally with two or three. Most people have a hard enough time agreeing on the same restaurant. However, aside from that plot point, giant monster + giant robots = something I'll be seeing eventually.
Metal Gear dude likes it. Surprise, surprise.
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:18 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:Just because it's the only theater in town that minorities are allowed to go to doesn't mean it's "ghetto".
The automated ticket kiosks are out of order.
Animals.
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:21 pm
by Malcolm
You have automated ticket kiosks? What kind of high society, fancy pants cinema do you attend? We've still got clunky, slow dumb-ass high schoolers in our, uh, manual kiosks.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:32 pm
by GORDON
The poors in this part of town must treat them like urination stumps or something since they managed to break them all.
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:33 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:The poors in this part of town must treat them like urination stumps or something since they managed to break them all.
You're saying your high schoolers unionized after they got tired of being pissed on?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:40 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:33 pm
by Malcolm
Beat this weekend by Despicable Me 2 and Grown Ups 2. The first one, I kind of understand because families simply buy more tickets. The second one is absurd. Keep in mind these are the U.S. numbers. I expect a movie about giant robots and monsters to kick ass over in Asia. Still needs $100M to break even worldwide.
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:26 pm
by Leisher
Malcolm wrote:You have automated ticket kiosks? What kind of high society, fancy pants cinema do you attend? We've still got clunky, slow dumb-ass high schoolers in our, uh, manual kiosks.
This is the "ghetto" theater Gordon speaks of...
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:19 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:Malcolm wrote:You have automated ticket kiosks? What kind of high society, fancy pants cinema do you attend? We've still got clunky, slow dumb-ass high schoolers in our, uh, manual kiosks.
This is the "ghetto" theater Gordon speaks of...
Half way through the film a couple dazzling urbanites directly behind us had a 4 minute conversation about what one would get the other from the snack bar, in conversational volume levels.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:45 am
by GORDON
I have been digesting this film for a couple days.
1. It was giant monsters vs. giant robots... therefore, awesome.
2. My expectations were super high, based on trailers. I think unrealistically and unfairly high, in retrospect. That sounds like I am apologizing for it, but I am not, I am just admitting it isn't the best movie I have ever seen (Aliens). A great one, though.
3. Earlier in this thread I mentioned that I hoped there wasn't any stupid character development, because it would take away time from giant monsters fighting giant robots. Well, there was lots of character development time, obviously, so I didn't get my 120 solid minutes of combat which would have left me numb 25 minutes in. I was hoping for a reenactment of something like the last 90 minutes before The Alamo fell, or something. Just combat and strategy and nonstop action. The movie is NEARLY Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor what with the asian-chick-with-daddy-issues stuff.
4. 75% of the awesomest scenes were in the trailers, or were at least hinted at strong enough to spoiler what happened (looking at you, Ship Bat). I get it, though.... they needed massive hype to get butts in seats, because the advertising budget seemed pretty low. I never saw a TV spot until about 10 days before the movie opened, opposed to the Thor 2 trailers I have been seeing at the movies 9 months ahead of time (I think that's the movie I am thinking of... been seeing trailers for SOME movie almost a year out). The movie everyone already knows about already gets hyped like crazy, the one that needs attention is an advertising afterthought.
5. I'm certainly getting the blu ray when it is released. I'm probably going to see it in theaters again with the kid. So add that to the projected returns on the flick. Another $40 from me.
6. I have seen lots of Japanese monster movies, and a few anime movies, and I suggest you stay out of the Sea of Japan because the entire country is going to see this and collectively, spontaneously ejaculate and the ocean around that island will run white with semen. Then they will worship this movie as a god. Unless it has already opened and bombed... I haven't researched. I just base this on this is pretty much the best Japanese godzilla-like flick ever, EVER made. I assume those are popular in japan.
7. So, final recommendation, everyone in this crowd needs to go see it in the theater, both to show interest for a sequel, and because you probably won't hate it.