Author Topic: ~ Pacific Rim ~ [Spoilers] (Read 26896 times)

Fiero · « **Reply #30 on:** May 18, 2016, 07:32:43 AM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2016, 01:47:33 AM

Pacific Rim? Or a pacific rim? Two completely different things there. Thank goodness for capitalization.

Considering I only know her from the one thing, this is not enough to dissuade me. Of course, I like her in that one thing but still.

*checks IMDB and remembers he is not up to date on Doctor Who*

B E C K · « **Reply #31 on:** May 19, 2016, 01:28:55 AM »

I saw enough Matt Smith Who to put me off entirely. Nothing against Peter Capaldi. Also, Jenna Coleman has a face I want to punch. So I'm just staying away from Doctor Who. Oh, yeah, and I hate the Ponds. There's that, too.

B E C K · « **Reply #32 on:** Jun 09, 2016, 03:08:22 AM »

Holy Pop Rocks. They just casted Finn as Pentecost's son:
http://deadline.com/2016/06/john-boyega-pacific-rim-sequel-star-wars-the-force-awakens-1201767756/

In the comments, some people are all "but why did they cast him when black people don't sell well in China." Um, but what about the guy whose son he's playing? You know, the black guy from the first movie? I want them to get Idris Elba back though. Like, bullshit something: he and that punk kid didn't die in the explosion, they were transported to another dimension. Or whatever.

Rama · « **Reply #33 on:** Jun 09, 2016, 08:08:22 AM »

I did not care for this guy too much in TFA, but maybe that was just the script that made him out that way. Have to wait and see.

B E C K · « **Reply #34 on:** Jun 10, 2016, 11:43:11 AM »

Yeah, I hear ya. If he's actually awesome in PRII, then we'll know for certain he got a bad hand in TFA.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #35 on:** Jun 11, 2016, 04:17:04 PM »

I actually thought he did a good job in TFA. It's not like he had much to work with, and he was a one-note part in most of it as a coward headed for the...RIM of the galaxy.

B E C K · « **Reply #36 on:** Jun 11, 2016, 07:11:38 PM »

The toilet rim of the galaxy?

joe · « **Reply #37 on:** Jun 12, 2016, 01:24:27 AM »

I really like Idris Elbow. Seems like a real classy gent. Looking forward to Dark Tower!

B E C K · « **Reply #38 on:** Jun 13, 2016, 05:31:07 AM »

He doesn't need to be James Bond but I need Sexy Secret Agent Idris Elba now. I also need Cool Space Bounty Hunter Idris Elba.

Rama · « **Reply #39 on:** Jun 14, 2016, 11:24:49 PM »

Idris Elba is Boba Fett?

B E C K · « **Reply #40 on:** Jun 16, 2016, 05:53:41 AM »

Cooler than him and better with teh ladies.

Rama · « **Reply #41 on:** Jun 16, 2016, 05:38:24 PM »

I know...but Idris is still a close second.

B E C K · « **Reply #42 on:** Jun 17, 2016, 02:08:42 AM »

No, you've reversed them, you fool.

Rama · « **Reply #43 on:** Jun 17, 2016, 10:23:42 AM »

I did?

B E C K · « **Reply #44 on:** Jun 18, 2016, 03:43:09 AM »

Boba Fett has become increasingly uncool with every appearance. Oops, time to die stupidly. Oops, cluttered backstory time. And now a film due out in 2020 which will probably leave him with all the dignity of a watered-logged rat.

Quote from: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Star-Wars-Boba-Fett-Movie-Has-Run-Some-Problems-42742.html

"Lucasfilm wants Boba Fett to remain menacing and scary but we have to make him the hero of the film and it is a real challenge."

They want to make Boba Fett into fucking Maleficent. No, you don't have to make him a hero. That's not why anybody likes Boba Fett. You stupid, stupid fucks. Quit doing this stupid shit. You did it to Maleficent. You're doing it to Cruella. And now Boba Fett. They weren't the hero in the films that made them popular. Stop being idiots about this.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/3642388 <-- Rumor mill says the film might take place after Jedi. So it kinda sounds like they thinking of doing "The Bounty Hunter Wars." And by 'doing,' I mean poorly ripping off. Other sites say potentially origin story (bleh) or even one in between A New Hope and Empire. In other words, they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

I'm willing to bet that Fett will have his helmet off for most of the film as if we actually cared to see Boba Fett without his iconic helmet. Oh, oh, and now that he's the subject of his own movie, I'm also willing to bet the guy they cast to play him will look more like Michael Fassbender than Temuera Morrison despite him being a Jango clone.

joe · « **Reply #45 on:** Jun 18, 2016, 04:45:36 PM »

They're giving Cruella the Maleficent treatment? How?! She makes clothing out of puppies!

B E C K · « **Reply #46 on:** Jun 19, 2016, 05:12:42 AM »

Starring Emma Stone as Cruella. I shit you not. They should've gotten Emma Roberts and had a scene in the movie where Cruella cuts line for a cronut and then beats up Quicksilver.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3558554/Disney-announces-Jungle-Book-Maleficent-sequels.html

Also in that link... Maleficent II. Because we needed a sequel to that. This is the second coming of the watering-down of the Disney brand, right in line with when everything was getting a direct-to-DVD sequel.

joe · « **Reply #47 on:** Jun 19, 2016, 07:23:25 PM »

I mean, I get that the "evil female" or whatever was a trope in classic Disney fare, and that they're trying to make reparations now, as if it were even necessary, but... some women actually are bad sometimes, you know? Women are just people, and all people have the capacity for evil, right? This is beyond ridiculous.

Snotty Emma Roberts got called out for attempted line-cutting? GOOD.

B E C K · « **Reply #48 on:** Jun 21, 2016, 03:48:14 PM »

I don't think it's so much "reparations" as much as it is trying to squeeze out as many dimes from their IP as possible. Most of the iconic villains are women: Maleficent, Cruella, Ursula the sea witch, the evil queen from Snow White, the wicked stepmother. Those bitches have endured. But Disney doesn't seem to want to accept the crooked appeal of villains. Even something like Wreck It Ralph, they went out of their way to tell us that villains were actually good all along. Not to mention Disney still suffers from backwards-itis. Calling it now: Cruella's evil because of a man.

joe · « **Reply #49 on:** Jun 21, 2016, 04:48:07 PM »

Sharlto Copley is an enigmatic fashion maven who invites her out for cocktails and then roofies her martini so that he can steal her designs for the upcoming gala.

Just call me Joe "Hollywood" Rammstein.

B E C K · « **Reply #50 on:** Jun 21, 2016, 05:40:09 PM »

What if I just call you Joely Woodstein?

Rama · « **Reply #51 on:** Jun 22, 2016, 09:46:48 AM »

Yeah. Jews run Hollywood so I good "stein" at the end of your name could only help.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #52 on:** Jun 22, 2016, 09:52:59 PM »

Quote from: B E C K on Jun 21, 2016, 03:48:14 PM

Calling it now: Cruella's evil because she's a man.

Fixed. Though that may be even less correct in this day and age.

B E C K · « **Reply #53 on:** Jun 23, 2016, 03:50:37 PM »

Yeah. The "evil transsexual" trope is tired anyway. Besides, this is Disney, not Laika.

B E C K · « **Reply #54 on:** Jul 06, 2016, 03:27:18 AM »

Urgh, my interest in this sequel just nosedived again: http://www.jobsnhire.com/articles/44478/20160705/charlie-hunnam-scott-eastwood-pacific-rim-2.htm

Scott Eastwood? Okay, (1) a Pac Rim sequel really needs Charlie, Rinko, Aussie dude, and Aussie dude's dog. I want to see them again. (2) If you can't get Charlie, don't replace Charlie with someone else playing Raleigh. (3) If you can't get Charlie, at least bring back the others and have the movie center on Rinko. (4) If you can't get anyone, I don't know why you'd even bother. (5) Don't you dare make this about the scientists a.k.a. the worst part of the film. (6) If you need a new character, don't bring in yet another white guy. Why can't he be a Chinese guy or from some other country or ethnicity not as represented. It was weird enough that the majority of the pilots/operators/whatever were white people. (7) If you insist on bringing in another white guy, don't bring in fricken Eastwood for Christ's sake. Can we at least get Matt Bomer or Matt Mullins or someone like that? (8) Why can't the new character be a woman? (9) I'd rather the movie be about Idris and the other guy who died getting out of the other dimension. Like, they didn't die after all or something freaky like that. I'd really just prefer an asspull in comparison to what's on the table right now.

B E C K · « **Reply #55 on:** Jul 06, 2016, 03:30:44 AM »

(10) Or here's something: Cast a bunch of old people as the surviving characters and REALLY throw it into the future. Finn can play Pentecost's grandson or other distant relative instead.

joe · « **Reply #56 on:** Jul 06, 2016, 05:30:11 AM »

Are the writers going to pull a Ron Perlman resurrection out of their asses for this?

B E C K · « **Reply #57 on:** Jul 06, 2016, 08:52:58 AM »

joe · « **Reply #58 on:** Jul 06, 2016, 10:08:59 PM »

Jesus Christ. Now I feel silly.

Guess I should watch credits.

B E C K · « **Reply #59 on:** Jul 07, 2016, 01:27:28 AM »

I wouldn't mind Perlman's character and his gang getting a bigger part in another Pac Rim movie. But those scientists. I hated them. And I just know any potential Pac Rim sequel will give those damn scientists a meatier part because teh humor. YUCK.

Author Topic: ~** Pacific Rim **~ [Spoilers] (Read 26896 times)

Author Topic: ~ Pacific Rim ~ [Spoilers] (Read 26896 times)