tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post611025150692163125..comments2024-03-24T20:15:00.996-04:00Comments on Critic After Dark: Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro), Antoine Doinel films (Francois Truffaut), The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls), Wagon Master (John Ford)Noel Verahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-51026118477971705282013-10-15T10:56:09.286-04:002013-10-15T10:56:09.286-04:00I'll cop to Del Toro's line and say it'...I'll cop to Del Toro's line and say it's more a band of fighters doing a job--they're not called general or colonel but ranger and marshal, they're more overequipped park rangers out to handle dangerous animals, and so on. Lame, I suppose, but I've generally stopped seeing the military as a single great evil in the general scheme of things(sexist and racist and capable of serious abuse, yes). Big corporations, now that's a different matter. Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-44071950753513764182013-10-14T17:01:40.286-04:002013-10-14T17:01:40.286-04:00Noel,
what do you think about the politics of the...Noel, <br />what do you think about the politics of the film? I'm not sure what to think, in spite of Del Toro's words. I can't avoid to find it militarist in the figure of the militar who really knows what to do in the moment of truth opposite to the inept civilian authorities who want to cut military budget.<br />Great blog,Igorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00502444963437145050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-63434224938817532602013-08-23T02:03:44.476-04:002013-08-23T02:03:44.476-04:00This is fantastic!This is fantastic!Ramonahttp://bestrecumbentexercisebikes.us/2013/08/15/warm-up/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-55062450130229304452013-07-24T15:13:04.548-04:002013-07-24T15:13:04.548-04:00Well there's incoherent and there's incohe...Well there's incoherent and there's incoherent. I submit this is a little close in but as clear as say a Fosse dance sequence; while Bay isn't capable of a single coherent, continuous line of thought in his head. Throughout his entire career.<br /><br />Generic? I don't know; it's del Toro's childhood, thrown on the big screen. It doesn't even have mass appeal, as I pointed out possibly because it doesn't follow the Bay style of dramaturgy (all about the boy and his toy), instead saving the big moments and hero lighting and angles for the veterans (Elba, Perlman). And the toys & reptiles.<br /><br />But yeah del Toro's done better.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-69793523980302804132013-07-24T00:09:37.055-04:002013-07-24T00:09:37.055-04:00I sure wish Del Toro had chosen to pull the "...I sure wish Del Toro had chosen to pull the "camera" back during the Kaiju/Jaeger battles, to give a better sense of space and size. For the most part, given how most of the fights took place in the murky rain, or underwater, when they locked up, I didn't have much more luck making out what they were doing to one another than I did with the giant robots in those bloody Bay movies.<br /><br />As it stands, lots of flashing lights and a pummeling score, and probably the most generic movie Guillermo's ever made. I hope he goes smaller next time.JCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-17062293606539080642013-07-19T23:34:33.090-04:002013-07-19T23:34:33.090-04:00On anime, you're the expert.On anime, you're the expert.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690266.post-84433964941306534762013-07-17T12:19:27.708-04:002013-07-17T12:19:27.708-04:00In my review of Pacific Rim, couldn't help but...In my review of Pacific Rim, couldn't help but point out two - or make it four - tributes to Japanese Super Robots. The undersea origin of the Kaiju recalls Getter Robot while the control method of the Jaegers recalls Daimos through The Five Star Stories. In one part where the Jaeger whips out its chain sword and cleaves the airborne Kaiju, I had to restrain myself from screaming "Volll-tessss Faaai-vaaaaaah!!!!"<br /><br />For more, click this link:<br />http://mozzathemoviezz.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/review-pacific-rim/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com