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Post by Paladin on Jan 24, 2018 18:18:34 GMT -5
The Uprising is two months away!
I like all the visuals but I HATE the music they're using in these trailers. The instrumental stuff from the first film still holds up really well...
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Post by Deinonychus on Mar 20, 2018 21:14:22 GMT -5
Keeping my fingers crossed that all the atmosphere and style of the first movie has't been sucked out of the sequel to make it a Transformers clone. Either way...Chinese brick maker Sluban is apparently gifting the world with these: Makes me ashamed that I've never attempted to build Cherno Alpha from the first movie out of bricks.
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Post by Gojitron on Mar 25, 2018 21:23:28 GMT -5
I enjoyed it. Different atmosphere than the first one, but I liked that it didn't try to duplicate. Pretty impressed with this being the first directing gig for Steven S. DeKnight, I've enjoyed his body of work as writer and showrunner on Spartacus and Daredevil. Final battle took place in broad daylight and it was pretty well choreographed. A few cast members from the first film came back. One made an early exit and there was a logical twist with one of the others. No explanation as to what happened to Charlie Hunnam's character. The final kaiju was pretty neat. I liked it much more than the last few Transformers movies. John Boyega is no Idris Elba but he did a good job. If you liked the first one I'd say its worth a matinee.
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Post by Deinonychus on Mar 26, 2018 13:09:03 GMT -5
I liked it just fine. It was good, go see it. That being said, yeah, I didn't love it on an emotional and spiritual level like I did the first one, but it wasn't a terrible diaper fire like a Transformers movie. As long as you just go with it and enjoy the ride, it's a mostly fun, visually interesting movie with some good parts, some uninspiring parts, and some great parts. Also, I could see this as being one I warm-up to upon repeated viewings. The absence Del Toro's style is readily apparent, which results in the movie having an almost generic feel. There's no real atmosphere to speak of, and most scenes take place in bright IMAX-compatible daylight. If anything, I'd compare it to Battleship (which I also liked just fine). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MINOR SPOILERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> At the beginning of the final fight, when the Jaegers were being air-dropped from outside Mega-Tokyo, the bright clear day, cityscape, and vast fields leading to Mt. Fuji put me in mind of a Power Rangers fight. I was really impressed by the not-so-nanobots that swarmed and stapled the three Kaiju into one big Kaiju. Nanoassemblers are pretty common in a lot of the stuff I read, so seeing that same concept play out on a macro-scale struck me as clever. I also really liked the mutating Kaiju Drones. While the whole thing seems a little far-fetched (how do you hide or instantly create that much biomass?) the result was pretty fun to see on-screen.
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