Cinepals - PACIFIC RIM Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

Jaby & Steph enjoy watching Pacific Rim, a thrilling sci-fi action film where giant robots, piloted by human pilots, battle colossal monsters known as Kaiju to save humanity from annihilation. This film stars: Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy & King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Idris Elba (Luther & Thor: Ragnarok), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel & The Brothers Bloom), Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia & Horrible Bosses), and Ron Perlman (Hellboy & Drive).   SOCIAL MEDIA: ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals   ~STEPH SABRAW~ Instagram: @StephSabraw YouTube: @TheWhirlGirls

Senna. We're watching Pacific Rim today. Full disclosure, I saw it once in 2013 while it was in theaters. Steph has not seen it yet. The first one or the second one, we're going to go on this journey together. I don't remember the film all that well. I just remember bodaciousness. Just awesomeness.

It's like grand scope fight scenes and... Boom, boom. Rara. Here we go. We have your position. The choppers are on their way. Just hang on. Do you copy, guys?

That's so cute! Technically, they've already been inside each other's. Yeah, that's true. I mean, I think the implication is there's nothing sexual about drifting at all. Yeah. But there is tension between them. Right. I quite enjoyed that.

I've so much about the movie I did not remember. Yeah. I didn't remember who dies, that's for sure. Like, Idris Elba, getting back in the Alph and all that stuff. I'd say good 80% of this film, not there. So I was able to enjoy this, for the most part, pretty fresh. I was surprised at what you were able to pick up on, but I guess you're right. It's like, if you're studying writing and whatnot, you can kind of see those beats coming.

Right. How is your first Pacific Grim job? That was so fun. I really liked it. Yeah. Yeah, I just think it looked fabulous, but that's not surprising. It was fab. It was super fab because of Guillermo del Toro.

He's just such a master at the visuals. The characters were fun, very character. You know, like the Rob Roman, the Charlie Day, like, just upped it all the way. But I kind of like that campy vibe that they had going on. Yes. It was definitely a tone that they went with, and it worked for me. And I like the story overall. I thought there was some cool.

It needed a lot of exposition, but I wasn't bothered by it because I thought it was interesting. Charlie Hunnam, he's definitely got Luke. He's got a look that is great for camera. accent kind of threw me for half the film and then I had to just sort of get used to it. Overall, like you said, the film is just fun and I thought it just, Eldridge Elba is always great in the leader position. Rinko Kikuchi as Mako, I thought they did her dirty. They didn't give her much to do in the film. It's like half the film, she's just referenced off camera. Mako, Mako, Mako, stay cool, Mako, Mako, stay alert, Mako, look out. I'm like, we don't even get to look

at Mako for most of the film. I know. But the visual effects is on point, the action is on point. The physics is on point. Like, I love the, I love the movement, you know. It's one of my complaints about the recent Godzilla films, and people have, like, told me their perspective on why it is justified to be that way, but it's still like, this sort of set the bar for me of what huge things should look like in movies, in terms of, like, the scope of it. There's just like this, I don't know how to explain it, you know.

I know what you mean. It gives that sense of, like, things being larger than life. I believe I enjoyed this way more than I did the first time, which is interesting. I think as I get older, I'm able to enjoy things more. Charlie Day, I remember when I first watched it, I did not like him in the movie. And then I'm watching him now. I'm like, he was really good. I'm really enjoying him in this role this time around.

Certainly a lot more than his counterpart, Byrne Gorman. Oh, God, Leah, yeah. Yeah, I know that wasn't interesting. They were, I liked them both. But, yeah, I thought that was a fun role for Charlie Day because he is who you put into movies. if you want to make things funny. But I thought that he still had a grounded care. It was not grounded, but there was some grounded character choices in that.

I could imagine a doctor in this post-apocalyptic world just being like on 10, 24-7, because what else do they have to do? Seeing lawyers and doctors on Instagram and TikTok today, I'm like, it feels like he fits really well. You know what I mean? Like, his character has actually aged very well. Yeah. Considering what I feel like I see online with people who are supposed to be professionals and they just have like that sort of, you know, quirky personality.

Yeah, totally, totally. So they did a nice job of, like, making us feel the stakes in the film. You know, it's like you said, it's a can be film, but there's still this sense of the underdogness of it all that it never lets you forget. It's like just the size of it And then every time there's a battle There's like major consequences You know

Major. Yeah, like the damage is crazy Yeah, I mean we lost people every round Every round throughout the entire movie I agree Mocko's character was really cool But I'm like why isn't she talking more? Yeah Because it's not like she's a quiet person I felt like they set her up to be

Have like attitude And really want to be out there But then it's like why aren't you talking? Yeah, yeah. So, but But then when she did talk, I liked it. I liked her character a lot. I thought their chemistry was really on point.

I also liked the music, too. It was very epic. Yeah, the music was awesome. The only time I noticed the music not working for me was when it said Pacific Rim. That was one, because it's just nothing memorable about the beat there. Okay.

It was just like whatever. At the end, after they realized that both of them were alive, it was on Herk Handsome, whatever his name is. Hercules Hanson. And then the music's beat, It just felt very cliche. I think there's no other way you can really do it, though. Yeah.

It's sort of like the relief that everyone feels together. Right. And so those are the only two instances where the music stood out to me is a little bit strange. But other than that, the music, like you said, it worked very well. Yeah, but it looked so good. I'm doing the Transformer franchise, and I'm seeing all the comments being like, this was revolutionary for its time. I remember when I was growing up, it looked like insane and it still does.

When I was watching, I was like, wow. This movie looks so cool, too. I know it came out after, but it's still in that. same vibe to me. I just re-watched the first Transformers film. I bought the whole box set on 4K Blu-ray, and so I really just wanted the first one, but it's like, hey, you just get the whole thing.

Yeah. So watching it again, you know, like I said, as I get older, I have different things that I appreciate about movies. And I actually appreciate that film even more now than when I did when I first saw it. And I'm like, oh, it's like the effects still hold up.

Totally. There are things that I appreciate about the movie that I feel like, you know, because it's Michael Bay, a lot of like the highfaluton, critics sort of wrote that off yeah but if if nothing else the effects were baller yeah um and i think that toe to toe the effects and transformers is probably better than the effects here but these still hold up like these the effects here are very very strong right you know yeah that's what i mean

it's like for that movie to get all the hype you know one of the highest grossing films of all time and franchises and then you have this movie that i didn't watch but i just think it looks so good and it's just cool to see. Yeah. I think that, you know, this has all the elements of something that can, like, remain timeless and classic. I just wish that they did a better job with some of the character work in the movie. Like, the feeling, I haven't seen Armageddon in years, but I remember.

And you witnessed it with Kristen. Oh, yeah. That scene where Ben Affleck has to say goodbye to Bruce Willis, when I was a kid, it wrecked me. Like, the way Kristen got wrecked, I got wrecked as a kid. And so I wanted to feel that more here when my... Mocko had to say goodbye to Idris Elba, and I came, I'd say, like, within a fifth of that. Yeah. And that might be being generous, you know, I could feel something.

I totally agree. Yeah, it's like, it has something to do with the underdevelopment of Mocko or, like, just the lack of presence on her part. Because we did get her backstory. We got everything she went through and her bond with Adris Elba, but she just sort of is not super present throughout the film. She's just there kind of in the background, you know? I know, it's like, did she come in after for shoots? Yeah, I would have loved to see more of either flashbacks of them growing up to being raised by him or current day conversations where they're like show that they're basically father-daughter. Yeah, because there was there's really nothing.

There's no in between, right? It's like, you see Idris Elba as the angelic guy who saves her and then that's it. And then there's, and then there are grownups together. There's like no in between that I feel like we missed out on a lot there that could have helped. And it could have given you breathers in between all the frenzy that's going on in the film. But that said, it was a tight film. I think that there was like no wasted moments in this movie. Yeah.