Saw it and loved it. Especially Newt. (Was that his name? The professor with glasses.) I also loved Ron Perlman's character (I forgot his name also..)  It was awesome for what it was - an over the top mecha movie.  I hope we see more mecha movies in the future! I'll definitely be buying this one when the DVD comes out.

Saw it last night.

The Jeager vs Kaiju action was unbelievably good. Jaw-dropping. Eyes popping out of head.

Lots of anime references, but nothing too blatant. You can tell that del Toro is aware of all the popular mecha series.

The human characters were pretty standard and could have been lifted out of any alien invasion movie. The dialog was nothing special.

Charlie Day (from Always Sunny In Philadelphia) was funny. I'm pretty sure he huffed a bag of glue before he Drifted with the Kaiju brain.

In summary, if you want to see robots punching monsters, this movie will more than satisfy you. It is the best robots-punching-monsters movie ever made.

I had a coworker say 'I don't get it, Transformers was way cooler looking.'



I wonder if that whole extra hour will be put in a director's cut? This is becoming an interesting trend in film where every movie gets a 'director's cut' when it's released for home. I think it makes studios push harder for that perfect 1:45 min movie regardless of the vision of the director. On one hand, some director's need that. On the other...

Giovanna wrote:

I had a coworker say 'I don't get it, Transformers was way cooler looking.'

I know that feel. Many of these went to watch Grown Ups 2 too.

Truly, there are worse people than Shiori.

Giovanna wrote:

I wonder if that whole extra hour will be put in a director's cut? This is becoming an interesting trend in film where every movie gets a 'director's cut' when it's released for home. I think it makes studios push harder for that perfect 1:45 min movie regardless of the vision of the director. On one hand, some director's need that. On the other...

del Toro said he was going to add deleted scenes, no director's cut, sadly. But that's the only thing that's been confirmed so far. Maybe, just maybe, he'll do a Director's Cut in the BD/DVD release if there's enough demand and the movie does well in theaters.

Just saw it with OITL!  She says she very much enjoyed Live Action Gurren Genesis Titan. 

I did too.  I went in with a very low bar, and the movie easily cleared it with the power of its back-mounted rocket thrusters.  Easily the worst movie I've seen in years, but in a good way.  Highlights: we are all so manly that we scowl so much it hurts so we scowl more; swords are always better than plasma cannons; of course the main character's Japanese fangirl is the only compliant character in the movie; the source of my evil is my golden shoes; gravity pulls harder on fish than on water; how many poor families could have been fed by the amount of money it cost to create one frame of this explosion; oh god this is the best explosion ever.

Don't forget the score which is heavy on concerto for symphony orchestra and buzzsaw guitar (played by soloist Tom Morello).

Here's a track:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAr5dF0IMg

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