No I have more than enough to judge this as being shit. Throwing around the term Kaiju is enough for me to hate it. Everything else shown is only confirmation.
Why does the term Kaiju bother you? If anything it's a sign of the filmakers actually having knowledge of the Kaiju Eiga as a whole instead of generic American monster name.And for a kaiju fan like me that's a great thing. Again we don't know if it'll be a bomb or not. It's way too early to tell. Wait for the film to be released then judge it but not before.
Uh huh. And based on what evidence exactly? Some suit props, partial mech design and an unfinished CG set shot from a magazine? That's far from being confirmed as shit, and only proves to show how narrowminded you are. They aren't just "throwing" around the Kaiju term either. There's a legitimate reason for calling them that, since not only is Japan close to the crevice from which the monsters emerge from but that a good deal of the movie appears to take place there as well.
You all misunderstand. It's not the term I object too, but the genre. I hate Kaiju movies, all of them. I never seen one that wasn't offensively awful. And I'm hardly narrow minded. i just have the gift of knowing what I won't like from a text description alone. I've yet to be wrong.
I realize there are people who don't enjoy Japanese monster movies at all but I'm curious to know which ones you have seen. Maybe the problem is not in premise but in execution? You could have the worst sounding story on paper but in action it could prove quite nice. In previous Japanese monster movies they were limited by budget, writing and so forth. Guliermo Del Toro is not a bad director so I have faith that this could turn out well. And by the way, it doesn't matter whether you have some "gift" of knowing or not knowing. It will always be narrowmindedness until the person actually sees the film or whatever for themselves. Hell, at least wait for the trailers!
Once? Try all the fucking time. You see I have zero confidence in Del Toro. Especially after that heap of shit Pan's Labyrinth. I'm still not sure how he's pulled off Hellboy. What ever Showa films Space got the rights too. At least a dozen. The only ones I can remember are Godzilla (the US edit), Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
Pan's Labyrinth wasn't that bad. I thought Hellboy 2 was his best movie. The fuck? And what makes you actually think Pacific Rim is going to be in the same league as those? The whole point is to pay homage to those old monster movies while at the same time giving it a modern feel and making it accessible to audiences. This is not going to be a Son of Godzilla.
So you think Pacific Rim is going to be about some guy in a leather monster suit destroying all the toys? And of all Godzilla movies, you haven't seen Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack?
Nothing really Earth-shattering, but the viral marketing campaign for PR has started. Viral Marketing Kicks Off for Pacific Rim - ComingSoon.net
