I thought it was pretty good as well. Also kind of depressing. We now live in a world of alternate facts where knowing math and trajectory and independent verification of the math means basically nothing. People believe what they want to believe right up until reality smashes into their beliefs at which point it is too late. Depressing. Given that sad reality the movie did a reasonably good job with the humor though.
Definitely don’t want to watch “The Social dilemma” too close to this one or you just might believe that we are indeed doomed.
This movie may not be terribly original and deep, but it is made with a lot of care and attention to detail. The future tech looks used and gritty in a way reminiscent of the original Star Wars trilogy. For the most part, the laws of physics are not broken so blatantly as to be distracting. The Jaegers (mechs) take time to build momentum and hit things with satisfying impact. Japanese woodblock art like The Great Wave off Kanagawa was referenced for the sea battles in this movie and you can tell. This film is a labor of love for Guillermo del Toro and I think that it transcends its genre. It’s such a shame it never got a sequel…
Sp5it, I also enjoy most, but not all, of Mads Mikkelsen’s movies, The Hunt among them. Men and Chicken, Adam’s Apples, The Door… and recently Riders of Justice.
…are you saying you don’t consider Pacific Rim: Uprising a sequel…or you didn’t know about it? I’ll agree it’s nowhere near as good… Wheres my g’damn shoe!!
Saw Dont Look Up a couple days ago, seemed like Idiocracy meets Armageddon, but nowhere as good as either one.
Saw Finch last night. Sad but very good IMO.
Good assessment. I thought the acting was really good, but the story is muddled. This movie tries to be a dark comedy, but at times loses the comedy and you think you’re in a serious movie again. Then you’re hit with the camp & comedy once more.
It’s also a disturbing parallel to climate change. Instead of an asteroid about to slam into Earth at high speed, it’s a very slow moving “storm.” And really, while SOME people (like Leonardo di Caprio) are trying to do something about it, there are too many people who think it’s a hoax (for being human induced, that we can do something about it) or that it’s inevitable and we have to “adjust” our way of life. Not enough people are taking it seriously. That “adjustment” is going to be a human culling event. Seriously. This is the kind of thing where ecosystems die. Rainforests dry up. Glaciers melt completely at the poles in summer. Sea levels rise. Temps go up. Food stocks dwindle…
Sir David Attenborough - A Life in On Our Planet. This great man has been in direct touch with our ecologies across the globe for over half a century. He has witnessed, first hand, the changes happening. And it’s not good. We are losing biodiversity faster than you can imagine. And without that? Ecosystems collapse. That is a direct impact on the food supply. And weather. People worried about keeping their profiteering going are like watchmen on the deck of the Titanic just “expecting” the ship will drift past the iceberg and miss it. That’s not going to happen.
Man what a movie. Love all of the director’s films I’ve seen, and plan to watch Alps tomorrow.
He always make movies that are uncomfortable, keeps you on the edge. I like that.
I have a media player for the movies I have, and it groups certain titles together, all the regular Resident Evils are in one group (icon). All the animated ones are in another group (icon). It did this by itself, not me. This movie ended up by itself, which irritated me, so I added it to the regular movie group.
Then I watched it.
I removed it from the group.
If you want to watch a bad zombie movie that happens to use names from a really good well-known franchise, go ahead and see it.
I’d say they started over with a new concept, and the concept isn’t that good.