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I shall reserve judgement. I was actually looking forward to going and seeing the Transformers based off the trailers, but then I talked to people that saw the movies...
Wat? Trans-dimensional portal in the pacific ocean? Wat?
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Veteran Sergeant wrote:In the grim darkness of the far future, the guy with a rifle is the weakest man on the battlefield, left to quake in terror, hoping the two or three shots he gets do the job before somebody runs screaming across the battlefield to hit him with an energized stick.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Ok im gonna put my self in the crosshairs here and this looks absoloutely terrible. It looks like someones gone and read to many HFY posts on /tg/ and thought, "yeah im gonna take this and this and this and cram it all into one movie".
I love aliens, i love giant mechs, i also love seeing cities getting destroyed. This just smacks of though to me. Can't wait for all the cliched dialouge and bad monologues and those guys in the white armoued suit thingys what where they doing? Synched dance dance revoloution? Spare me please.
Also did anyone else notice the computery voice that sounded like it was Glados from Portal??
Knowing (and loving) Guillermo del Toro, this film will undoubtedly be full of subtext about either human nature or insanity.
I never really imagined del Toro doing something like this, but it looks like it will be good.
Snrub wrote: Ok im gonna put my self in the crosshairs here and this looks absoloutely terrible.
I agree, it does look absolutely terrible.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Snrub wrote: Synched dance dance revoloution? Spare me please.
I agree with you there. Either have the multiple pilots perform different duties (like Jinki! Extend, where one pilot drives the legs, and the other pilot operates the arms and weapons) or just use one pilot. Having two pilots side by side doing the same movements looks goofy.
The general idea (Giant aliens attack! Humans build giant mecha to stop the giant aliens!) is great. The more specific idea (The giant mecha are losing! Only a washed out pilot, a newbie and an obsolete mecha can save us now!) less so.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis
I'm a fan of Guillermo del Toro, but this looks just plain stupid.
"Sir, we have a problem. When we deployed our fighter jets to attack the giant alien beasts they flew in really close to fire their machine guns and crashed into the aliens."
"Why didn't they fire missiles from range? Why didn't we just fire gakloads of high explosive, direct fire rockets from helicopters from a few hundred metres away? What about a single cruise missile with a high yield weapon?"
"None of those things are option, sir, because this is a stupid, stupid movie."
"So now we've decided to pretend our vast array of standard weaponry doesn't exist, what do we do?"
"Sir, we build giant remote controlled robots, and then have the robots punch the aliens to death."
"My, God this movie is even worse than my agent warned me about."
I'm really god damned bored with this Hollywood convention that the only thing that can defeat a stupid cliche is an even stupider cliche. What I want to see is some goofball alien/demon menace show up on Earth, and us blow it to pieces with the incredibly effective military hardware we've evolved over the last few hundred years. I mean, if nothing else, we are damn good at building weapons of death. Lets celebrate that.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
There is nothing wrong with a glorious return to giant monsters vs robots. Movies that embrace their niche to the fullest are very enjoyable for what they are.
I second the terribly obvious statement that this film will be better than the Transformers movies. Thanks for pointing this out! I can't wait to see it.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Screw it, Robot Jox was one of favorite movies as a kid, maybe this'll be nostalgic.
The best part? If they make action figures, maybe they'll make good Knights on a budget for 40K!
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
Have only a few Dakka members ever seen a del Toro movie? They are many things, including Oscar-nominated, but certainly not stupid. You are usually guaranteed brilliant monster designs, actual characterization and several shots of intense cinematic beauty. Even Blade II, his worst film, had some incredible compositions.
Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone are exceptional movies. There is a reason he was tapped to make the Hobbit films by Peter Jackson. Until he moved on of his own accord.
Snrub wrote: Ok im gonna put my self in the crosshairs here and this looks absoloutely terrible. It looks like someones gone and read to many HFY posts on /tg/ and thought, "yeah im gonna take this and this and this and cram it all into one movie".
I love aliens, i love giant mechs, i also love seeing cities getting destroyed. This just smacks of though to me.
Have you never seen a Godzilla (American version doesn't count) or Gamera movie?
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
>Raptors Lead the Way < 
though to me. Can't wait for all the cliched dialouge and bad monologues and those guys in the white armoued suit thingys what where they doing? Synched dance dance revoloution? Spare me please.
Hive Fleet Aquarius 2-1-0
