I saw that, and am considering picking it up even though I bought it on release day already. Amazon might always price-match too; they did last year on a ton of movie deals from a bunch of different stores.
Wait a sec, I thought the Kaiju were being mind-controlled/piloted by the precursors the whole time, in the same manner the humans pilot/mind-control the Jaegers? Because if we do get rouge Kaiju, broken off from the hive mind, then wouldn't they just live free, going along their own business? Or have the Kaiju always been evil creatures hellbent on eradicating humanity?
I don't think either of those are true. The kaiju are autonomous weapons. They have no intrinsic desires other than what the Precursors gave them, but they aren't being piloted like drones.
The Kaiju are individuals, programmed to do a job, linked via a hive mind. They're not controled or pilotted, they're given orders and carry them out. An individual Kaiju still has a personality and can think for itself, they're just all connected and bred for a single goal.
Humans control Jaegers by directly connecting with them. The Precursors 'control' the Kaiju by instructing them remotely via the hive mind, and it's not so much as outright control as it is simply pointing a ravenous monster in the right direction. Give a Kaiju a basic command, a simple pointer, and it'll go do that. Tell it to destroy a city, it'll level the whole place. But what is a Kaiju's business, other than destroying things? They're not true animals, they're genetically modified bioweapons designed for the sole purpose of wiping out whole other species. Even if cut off from the hive mind, I imagine a rogue Kaiju will simply fall back onto the basic command of genocide. Of course; they were built that way.
My nerd boner just struck the International Space Station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnfB7wDw8s
Holy shit that was awesome. "Tendo, Slattern's escaped. Recruit a team of rangers with compliance and fighting skills."
Well...I was apprehensive about this video...but it actually lodged a few valid complaints about the movie.
Indeed. I really... and I mean REALLY don't like CinemaSins because a lot of the time he tries too hard but this one I'm actually decently okay with, even though a good chunk of the "sins" are able to be explained.
I used to think EWW was kind of funny, but it was around the fourth time something was mentioned that was factually incorrect I couldn't take them seriously anymore. When reviewers criticise stuff for mistakes (like science or shit) that aren't mistakes it really just kills my opinion of them. There's no reason to amke a mistake like that when you're making a review since you cna look it up if it's something factual.
That was by far the worst EWW I've ever seen. Those complaints were entirely half-assed. I can come up with answers for more than half of those, including the Crimson Typhoon thing.
I remember being said in this thread that the kaiju feared the Percursors and were doing this out of worship/fear. Also, trying to build a Shatterdome next to the reach, in the middle of the pacific ocean sounds ******ed.
I saw someone ask why Mako swam over to Raleigh, since she'd like totes get irradiated from all that radiation Striker Eureka shit out when it exploded all over Slattern's slattern face. And I wonder; how small do they think the Pacific Ocean is? How small must it be for a nuke at the bottom of it to irradiate the entire span of it? HOW SMALL?!?! I love this film so much. It provokes the most ditzy wee comments
Since I already used the "shipment of fail" joke, I'm going to use something else to describe this gif. Wild Kaiju appears! Gypsy Danger used Boat Sword! It's super effective!
