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Nice pick with Goya. Evangelion?
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I had to look up Evangelion, but yeah, totally. Voltron was kind of a placeholder for all of that kind of stuff.
My take on the film is that it’s basically just one of the oldest stories we have—hero in arm — with techne, with cooperation — defeats a reptillian Other.
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St George and the Dragon was definitely the medieval version of robots vs reptiles. Re Pacific Rim my ears are still ringing from the deafening noise of the cinema. (Seriously I must have been about two inches from one of the speakers). But I loved it. A great example of how a good director can take a story which, as you’ve pointed out, has been told countless times and make it compelling not just as a visual feast. The Top Gun style pilot-pilot testosterone-fueled antagonism was a bit silly and the Australian accents were heinous but I wish all Hollywood doomsday blockbusters were this entertaining.
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Pacific Rim has a place of dishonor as the worst movie I have seen since Meet Joe Black. I disliked Joe Black worse because I wasted a beautiful sunny winter afternoon in Santa Monica and Brad Pitt was consigned to yet another insipid role. With PR I was embarrassed that I had persuaded my companion to drive us 50 mies to the strip mall called Lake City and to pay over $17 bucks each for us for a few good 3D effects. Give me Mothra vs Godzilla in B&W. The dialog set a new ‘standard’ for cliche. There was no real character development – what you saw in the first shot was what you got. It had the obligatory ‘defy authority to win the battle’, much to the prurient delight of 13 year old boys every where. The battle scenes were too repetitious (aren’t they always?). Even though I watch very few teenager movies, I could tell from the setup for each shot what the story line was going to be. Didn’t even give me nightmares. It even had the mandatory romantic ending, though the story teller resisted having the principles kiss so that the boys kids could go ‘ugh’ and the girl kids go, ‘oooh, he’s so cute’. Unfortunately for our showing there was one other audience member – a 90 year old man who might have seen this one because it was loud enough. These kinds of movies, Star Wars included, do a disservice to people with heroic tendencies because they make it all seem like you could try that at home in your spare time. Very good fight choreography, not quite believable, but isn’t that usually the case, also. I felt jealous of all the smiling and laughing people coming out of Parents 2 from the auditorium next door. They said it was an awful movie, but funny as hell. PR was for me that special kind of hell – boring. And I consider myself easily amused and quick to escape into fantasy. What a waste of my time, fine talent, and Hollywood bucks – I hope it crashes and burns quicker than Gatsby.
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