Pacific Rim films

[Magegg]

I just read the Pacific Rim sequel is confirmed, it will be a crossover with Prometheus and be titled "Evangelion".

Cause no one has made that joke before.

I don't care if someone said it before, I didn't copy from anyone.

[Samayel]

TV spot #4.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=105217

Edit: small pic from the upcoming art book.

Spoiler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/samayel777/kaiju/Kaiju3_zpse17e6f13.jpg

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[OmegaZilla]

Motherfrak... that book WILL be mine.

[Samayel]

Kool eh? Pre-ordered mine from Amazon.

Apparently it includes a couple of posters and a few other bits and peices.

[Sylizar]

I need it.

[Requiem28]

TV spot #4.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=105217

Edit: small pic from the upcoming art book.

Spoiler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/samayel777/kaiju/Kaiju3_zpse17e6f13.jpg

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THOSE MAQUETTES.

I will definately be picking up NECA's figures though.

[Dovahkiin]

Sweet. I will most likely purchase the book.

[Xenomorphine]

Edit: small pic from the upcoming art book.

Spoiler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/samayel777/kaiju/Kaiju3_zpse17e6f13.jpg

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Mehhh... While the robots-versus-monsters-with-a-really-big-budget concept is cool, I've yet to see a single creature design from this film which has impressed me. Was hoping to see something really special by now, but they're all kind of generic. And, considering the director's other films, the lack of those Lovecraftian aesthetics kind of surprises me.

Not saying it's going to be a bad movie or anything. Just that this aspect of it frustrates me.

[NotSafeZone]

I'm pretty sure Del Toro said at one point he'd be keeping the Lovecraft influence out on this outing; add to it that this film's enemies were advertised as kaiju since day one, and the end result is that you were really only setting yourself up for disappointment if you were expecting the likes of a Shoggoth.

[Blacklabel]

The Kaiju in this are meant to invoke the "man in suit aesthetic"... so no far out stuff.

[Cvalda]

The Kaiju in this are meant to invoke the "man in suit aesthetic"...

...so naturally they were all done in CGI

[NotSafeZone]

Implying that the "man in suit aesthetic" can only be accomplished with a man in a suit...

[scarhunter92]

Just some pics of Kojima and Del Toro that the former posted on Twitter:

[Xenomorphine]

The Kaiju in this are meant to invoke the "man in suit aesthetic"... so no far out stuff.

You can have a guy in a suit and still have the suit look spectacularly inhuman. Especially for the head. The two film series this site is about prove that. Hell, look at the practical designs ADI did for 'The Thing' prequel - lots of man-in-suit stuff!

Why you would deliberately want to go down the 'generic humanoid monster' route, when the point of this is to do it with the kind of budget and techniques which weren't available in the fifties and sixties...  I dunno', seems like a contradiction/wasted opportunity to me.

[SiL]

You can have a guy in a suit and still have the suit look spectacularly inhuman. Especially for the head. The two film series this site is about prove that.

Not really The Predator really is just a guy with no nose or ears and a messed up mouth. Well executed, sure, but spectacularly inhuman is difficult to argue when the actor's own eyes are used for the creature's. The Alien's head might be inhuman, but the rest of it is basically a dude who got thrown up on by a car. Beautifully artistically done, of course, but still unquestionably a dude in a suit.

Hell, look at the practical designs ADI did for 'The Thing' prequel - lots of man-in-suit stuff!

Most of which required extensive CGI additions or rig removals anyway.