Pacific Rim films

[Alien³]

We are now currently living in a time where there's a movie out in theaters that's about giant robots vs giant monsters and its MINDBLOWING!

Someone pinch me.

[SiL]

I thought Power Rangers was the shit when I was little.

[Cal427eb]

[SiL]

Hell yeah Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

[Alien³]

I baggsie Dragonzord!

[Twin Drive Sigma Aquarion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US6DJnk4z6Q

Maybe they'll have a Bootleg Jaeger next movie. (watch as nobody gets what I am referencing )

[SiL]

We get where MMPR comes from, dude.

[Twin Drive Sigma Aquarion]

Actually I was referencing a sentai crossover movie when I mentioned bootleg. (still not a bad idea for a PR sequel; heh, PR meaning either Power Rangers or Pacific Rim)

[Gilfryd]

Del Toro was totally channeling the silly War of the Gargantuas rather than the somber super serious tones of Godzilla.

Gargantuas is just as earnest and sincere as Godzilla... it's just about two mutant Frankenstein brothers beating the hell out of one another. Despite featuring towering monsters none of the Honda films talk down to anyone.

I suppose so, but it's an anime. So, I leave most logic at the front door with that. 

If you can do it with animation why not live action? The only "cheese" is that which you bring with you. I love how tangible these films are, it's something slowing edging away with movies these days.

And the monsters in Pacific Rim are obviously cartoon CGI. So what.

They were designed around the fact that they were mo capped from a guy in a suit, del toro had said he still wanted that feel.

There's no motion capture in Pac Rim. It's all key frame. It's more akin to stop motion, only done in the computer. Likening it to anything cheap, easy or fast is disrespectful to the people that work hard on this, especially in a film with a world as thought out as Pacific Rim's.

[Cal427eb]

I suppose so, but it's an anime. So, I leave most logic at the front door with that. 

If you can do it with animation why not live action? The only "cheese" is that which you bring with you. I love how tangible these films are, it's something slowing edging away with movies these days.

You don't treat live action and animation the same way. You just don't.

[Gilfryd]

Brad Bird would disagree.

[Cal427eb]

Well, then Brad Bird is wrong.

[KNIGHT]

Brad Bird would disagree.

Well, then Brad Bird is wrong.

Truly the most compelling of arguments.

[SiL]

There's no motion capture in Pac Rim. It's all key frame. It's more akin to stop motion, only done in the computer. Likening it to anything cheap, easy or fast is disrespectful to the people that work hard on this, especially in a film with a world as thought out as Pacific Rim's.

How are either methods listed -- suitmation or motion-capture -- cheap, easy, or fast? They all require skill and ingenuity to pull off properly.

[Cal427eb]

Brad Bird would disagree.

Well, then Brad Bird is wrong.

Truly the most compelling of arguments.

There wasn't anything else to be said.