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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZ-u457Igo


That robot just used a ship as a bat, hype is through the roof.

Okay, that trailer definitely started with the words "Kaiju - Category 3".

Am excite.

Any bets on seeing some daikaiju showing up later in the movie?

Holy gak I'm excited for this.

Yeah, this one I've been waiting for for a while now.

Looks more and more promising!

Flying Kaiju to.
I am excited. A live action Kaiju movie that isnt people in suits

While I am happy to see people excited about a movie, I can't help but feel this is the "Battleship" of 2013. If it were the only big budget CGI spectacular of the summer then maybe, MAYBE it would do well. However with all the superhero films coming out I expect that a film about giant robots fighting giant monsters will quickly disappear from screens.

I didnt mind Battleship but no way is this glorious work going to quickly fade from spotlight. Millions I tells ya, millions

A big budget love letter to kaiju film with Guillermo del Toro at the helm will be nothing like Battleship, for a myriad of reasons, one instant one is that I had no interest in seeing Battleship at all but I will be there on opening day for this. If more than four other people go to see it that will already be more than Battleship.

Breotan wrote:While I am happy to see people excited about a movie, I can't help but feel this is the "Battleship" of 2013. If it were the only big budget CGI spectacular of the summer then maybe, MAYBE it would do well. However with all the superhero films coming out I expect that a film about giant robots fighting giant monsters will quickly disappear from screens.

Battleship was painful because, well, everything. It reeked of desperation, which was even apparent in its advertising.

Guillermo Del Toro, on the other hand, has a phenomal track record and I'll watch just about anything he directs.

 azazel the cat wrote:

Breotan wrote:While I am happy to see people excited about a movie, I can't help but feel this is the "Battleship" of 2013. If it were the only big budget CGI spectacular of the summer then maybe, MAYBE it would do well. However with all the superhero films coming out I expect that a film about giant robots fighting giant monsters will quickly disappear from screens.

Battleship was painful because, well, everything. It reeked of desperation, which was even apparent in its advertising.

Guillermo Del Toro, on the other hand, has a phenomal track record and I'll watch just about anything he directs.

Eh I liked the movie. If only because I have a soft spot for big gun ships and think aircraft carriers are totally lame.

So it's Independence Day mashed up with Robot Jox, eh?

 Seaward wrote:
So it's Independence Day mashed up with Robot Jox, eh?

Try Megas XLR meets Team America: World Police and Godzilla during a drunken threesome.

Seaward wrote:So it's Independence Day mashed up with Robot Jox, eh?

I sure hope so.

 Kain wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

Breotan wrote:While I am happy to see people excited about a movie, I can't help but feel this is the "Battleship" of 2013. If it were the only big budget CGI spectacular of the summer then maybe, MAYBE it would do well. However with all the superhero films coming out I expect that a film about giant robots fighting giant monsters will quickly disappear from screens.

Battleship was painful because, well, everything. It reeked of desperation, which was even apparent in its advertising.

Guillermo Del Toro, on the other hand, has a phenomal track record and I'll watch just about anything he directs.

Eh I liked the movie. If only because I have a soft spot for big gun ships and think aircraft carriers are totally lame.

I will admit, the montage scene and the opening battle scene with the titular battleship and the WWII vets was pretty awesome. But ships that moved by literally skipping over water? Laaaaaaame.

As for the trailer, it took all I had to not yell out 'KAAAAIIIIJJJUUUUU BAAATTTARRRUUU!' in a terrible accent during it. Which would have been really awkward in a public library.

I hate to be that guy...

But that ship totally would have snapped in half when he brought it up to ready that swing.

The level of awesome in this trailer is beyond expression. I can't wait.

djones520 wrote:I hate to be that guy...

But that ship totally would have snapped in half when he brought it up to ready that swing.

Nah, I had trouble with that bit too; even in the context of a movie about aliens that needed sunglasses.

I saw "Rodan" at ~2:08 and Ron Perlman at ~1:45. These are good indications.

 azazel the cat wrote:

djones520 wrote:I hate to be that guy...

But that ship totally would have snapped in half when he brought it up to ready that swing.

Nah, I had trouble with that bit too; even in the context of a movie about aliens that needed sunglasses.

The Robot's shear epicness caused a small aura of physics defying goodness to envelope the ship, its all good.

Ok I will be that guy and say....it would be amazing that at the end of the movie after the big finale fight, the robot looks out to the sea and sees the silhouette of... another monster, but somethings different about this one... more dinosaur like, wait its shooting blue fire out of its mouth....END.

If you look around there are stat cards with kill counts for the different countries' mechs. Apparently Japan has the worst mech, and Australia owns everyone.

 AduroT wrote:
If you look around there are stat cards with kill counts for the different countries' mechs. Apparently Japan has the worst mech, and Australia owns everyone.

Well of course. Haven't you seen Iron Sky? We had the biggest ship to I believe...

motyak wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
If you look around there are stat cards with kill counts for the different countries' mechs. Apparently Japan has the worst mech, and Australia owns everyone.

Well of course. Haven't you seen Iron Sky? We had the biggest ship to I believe...

I couldn't sit through Iron Sky. It had the potential to be incredible -like, Sky Captain levels of incredible- and instead it struggled for funding so much it became a low-brow comedy. I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing, it was like seeing a wake where everyone defiled the corpse.

 azazel the cat wrote:

motyak wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
If you look around there are stat cards with kill counts for the different countries' mechs. Apparently Japan has the worst mech, and Australia owns everyone.

Well of course. Haven't you seen Iron Sky? We had the biggest ship to I believe...

I couldn't sit through Iron Sky. It had the potential to be incredible -like, Sky Captain levels of incredible- and instead it struggled for funding so much it became a low-brow comedy. I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing, it was like seeing a wake where everyone defiled the corpse.

It was meant to be serious at one point? If I had been hoping for it to be sky captain I would have been disappointing as well. I went expecting nazi's from the moon and a poor sarah palin impersonation, and that's what I got.

2 things

Battleship was an awesome movie!

This trailer makes me want to see a robotech retelling!!

Would love to see the SDF-1 in live action format.


GG

motyak wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

motyak wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
If you look around there are stat cards with kill counts for the different countries' mechs. Apparently Japan has the worst mech, and Australia owns everyone.

Well of course. Haven't you seen Iron Sky? We had the biggest ship to I believe...

I couldn't sit through Iron Sky. It had the potential to be incredible -like, Sky Captain levels of incredible- and instead it struggled for funding so much it became a low-brow comedy. I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing, it was like seeing a wake where everyone defiled the corpse.

It was meant to be serious at one point? If I had been hoping for it to be sky captain I would have been disappointing as well. I went expecting nazi's from the moon and a poor sarah palin impersonation, and that's what I got.

This is the original trailer, and I seem to remember reading a blurb about the bird at the end being added only to emphasize that the film wasn't a glorification of Nazis, after the first trailer was cut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJAw_BtM2g

But yeah, the film was started long before Sarah Palin had even been heard of outside of Alaska. I don't think the "comedic" (I use that term very loosely here) tone really told hold until wreck-a-movie became involved in the production.

Ok so i admit i wasn't the hugest fan of this movie when i first heard of it. But after an interesting discussion about it over at /tg/ a while back and this new trailer i am actually starting to look forward to it. I still think the duel pilots is a stupid idea though.

Yes. The dual pilots is the part I don't like so far.

Yeah, that's a little weird and unnecessary. If they wanted pilot interaction they should have made them remote controlled so the pilots are in the same facility.

hmm, don't get it. Why do you need two pilots doing the same thing? That would be like two pilots trying to fly the same plane at the same time...in combat. I'm sure they will explain it somehow.

Looks ok, just weary of these big budget movie by committee deals. They are entertaining when you are 10, but don't age well. I know Independence day made a lot of movie and some people love explosion porn, but could we please write good stories with the explosion porn. Seriously, Independence day makes my head hurt the story is just that bad.