![]() ![]() I’m a pretty peaceful guy, but there’s something childishly cheerful about giant robots and giant monsters bashing each other up with all the grace of a bar fight. What follows is a glorious 2 hours of considerable violence and mayhem. This wall proves ineffective, of course, and Stacker Pentecost gathers his last 4 remaining Jaegers into a base in Hong Kong called Shatterdome, in an effort to block the portal and end the menace permanently. The Jaegers fight valiantly against the steady rush of these Kaijus, until funding for the program is stopped in favor of a gigantic wall being built all around the Pacific Rim. Your friendly neighborhood Kaiju, just to give you some perspective The Jaegers are essentially giant robots that require two human pilots, and pack a lot of punch inside their steel bodies. Thus the Jaeger (that’s German for hunter) program is created, led by the cheerfully named general Stacker Pentecost (A very sincere Idris Elba). After normal military weapons have been tried and declared unsuccessful against them, a scientist stumbles upon the idea of building giant robots to fight these monsters. From there, giant creatures called Kaijus emerge and immediately get busy renovating the skylines of the Pacific Rim cities. The story goes like this: A breach opens under the Pacific Ocean, thus creating a passage to the Earth’s core. Admittedly, when both your good guys and bad guys are the size of skyscraper blocks and have friends of similar dimensions, you have a distinct advantage over the likes of Superman, the Hulk and even Godzilla. Well, as far as smashing things are concerned, few movies would come even close to Pacific Rim. I had called it a “how-to-destroy-buildings-by-throwing-people-at-them instruction video” in my article. Anyway, talking of smashing things, it seems I owe an apology to the makers of Man of Steel. However, mentioning only those two names would be an injustice to the director. Guillermo del Toro is not a stranger to the grab ’em, smash ’em genre, his previous offerings being the two Hellboy movies. I mean, this is a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, for god’s sake. You should be fine, so long as you don’t try to take things too seriously. Yes, that about sums it up for Pacific Rim. I realised, in no small amazement, that she was actually watching the mayhem on the screen with rapt attention, and a smile. As I turned to her from my seat and started whispering an abject apology for dragging her along, she impatiently gestured for me to shut up. However, about 15 mins into the movie I began mentally preparing myself for being single once again. So when I first suggested to her that we should go and see Pacific Rim, she shot me a look that clearly said,”You’re pushing your luck.” I eventually managed to convince her, citing quite a few reviews that said that the movie was good. My girlfriend likes to see movies that have some substance and require an intellect higher than that of an average 12-year-old. ![]()
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