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Watch: Awesome Con Footage from del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' Online
by Alex Billington
April 29, 2013
Source: YouTube
Go big or go extinct! For those who weren't lucky enough to attend either WonderCon or CinemaCon this year, Warner Bros has decided to unleash the sizzle reel of footage from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim seen at both of those Cons to the general public. A lot of the footage we've seen in trailers before, a lot we haven't, but this also gives us the insanely awesome shot of a Jaeger hitting a Kaiju with a freakin' boat. Charlie Day makes an appearance along with Idris Elba and Ron Perlman, plus the two leads Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi. This looks so so so awesome, it's going to be a hell of a summer of movies!
Here's the WonderCon/CinemaCon footage for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, uploaded to YouTube:
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) is directing Pacific Rim from a script by Travis Beacham. The film follows a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi), who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger, a massive robot designed to fight legions of monstrous creatures known as Kaiju, which started rising from the sea years ago. They stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse. The film also stars Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day and Clifton Collins Jr. Warner Bros will release Pacific Rim in theaters in 3D on July 12th. See the full trailer.
58 Comments
1
Ok. Now im sold. Thanks.
Danimal on Apr 29, 2013
2
Agreed, looks like the popcorn movie of 2013!!!
David Banner on Apr 30, 2013
3
Yikes this looks like a crapfest,
Loser on Apr 29, 2013
4
I agree, but I must admit this does look better than the previous trailer(s)
Tester on Apr 29, 2013
5
Dude are you crazy.....that robot just used an oil tanker as a weapon, what more do you need here? This isnt an educational film or some social commentary, this looks like good old fashioned eye candy
Cody W on Apr 29, 2013
6
This looks kind of gay and cheesy.
Sal on Apr 29, 2013
7
which to some people means absolutely awesome, I'm in
Robertsssss on Apr 29, 2013
8
You must have erected looking at the monsters...eww!! BTW the music reminded me of Bourne.....looks good.
Pal on Apr 30, 2013
9
F/U/C/K YES!
DAVIDPD on Apr 29, 2013
10
This looks spectacular. It looks like it has the largest scale of anything opening this summer, and visually it looks very vibrant and unique.
Chris Groves on Apr 29, 2013
11
This looks terrible. The robots look bad. The scale of the metal texture isn't right. Looks like cheap miniatures. The colors are atrocious. And I hate the token Asian female with white boy crap.
HMC on Apr 29, 2013
13
Bay`s movies actually seems high brow compared to this trailer, Bay sure needs to dumb his movies down to get to this level 🙂
Loser on Apr 29, 2013
14
For as long as transformers 2 exists your comment will never have any bearing.
Jon Odishaw on Apr 29, 2013
15
Even Transformers 2 looks high brow compared to this
Loser on Apr 29, 2013
16
Wow. Whatever it is you're smoking, you need to get that over to North Korea and get them so high they stop being able to think straight too.
Thexn on Apr 29, 2013
17
I'm trying to form coherent words to convey my excitement. It's not working.
Brady on Apr 29, 2013
18
I am sure the plot will be awefull I hope they only spend like 10 min on plot then 110 min of robots fighting monsters. I would like to understand why the robot requires 2 pilots doing synchronized dancing to work.
Brian Sleider on Apr 29, 2013
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It requires two pilots because it is controlled through a neural link tot he pilots. The Jaeger is such a huge piece of machinery that the neural pulse would be too much for a single person to handle efficiently, so two pilots are used to split the strain. Trailers for blockbusters aren't meant to show off exposition and character development.
Chris Groves on Apr 29, 2013
20
Yeh that only leads me more down the "shitty plot" road. So we will have unnecessary strife between those 2 pilots, weren't they male and female? So worthless sexual tension I'm sure. Hope I am wrong but doubt I will be.
Brian Sleider on Apr 29, 2013
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Well, I'm sure it'll hit a lot of usual notes, but in a different way. These people likely won't do the 'oh, I hate you, you are hard to work with, wait, now we work better together, and I love you'. The two pilots of a Jeager 'mind-meld' and so they get to TRULY know each other on a rather deep level very quickly(they experience each other's memories and can immediately understand deep seeded motivations that you would never discover just by knowing someone) and the idea of a deep understanding and a romantic relationship budding from that actually makes sense. Imagine bypassing all of the typical BS interplay...and being able to know someone, their true self, almost immediately through this method of co-piloting(there is a reason many of the pilots are siblings, and I believe one is a husband-wife combo and another is a father-son) and connecting with someone(or not) on a much deeper level than otherwise possible.
Chris Groves on Apr 29, 2013
22
You say all that, yet my spidy sense still tells me to beware the "I love you, I hate you now, I LOVE YOU AGAIN WE ROCK" typical arc for romance. No one want to watch this movie for plot. And if some one does..I do not even know. Really they could do a text roll of " why the aliens are there and what the robots are and go full action from there. I fear what could be a top notch popcorn flick will end up taking it self too seriously and sucking up 45 min of screen time that could be more robot and monsters fighting. AGAIN I hope I am wrong.
Brian Sleider on Apr 30, 2013
23
Do you know of Del Toro's resume? He may not ALWAYS make films that are quite as great at Pan's Labyrinth...but I would say that he pretty much never forgets about character or story. He never seems to handle characters in a terrible way. I don't believe we have to worry about a lack of action in this film...the 'Battle for Hong Kong' alone takes up nearly 2 reels according to Del Toro, that translates to roughly nearly 20 minutes of screen time.
Chris Groves on Apr 30, 2013
24
Hellboy 2 in the making =/ my expectations have plummeted. I call a flop coming.
Jim Rome on Apr 29, 2013
25
Nice to see Jim Rome is still a jerk even when it comes to movies...
Chris Groves on Apr 29, 2013
26
Last I heard Americans are able to express their opinions freely. I don't see why you are uptight about this. If you love the movie then good. Im sure there is someone out there who disagreed with a movie you probably loved. I guess next time I hear of the last name Groves, I see that family name as hot tempered and in need of anger management pills. Just sayin..... seesh!!
'Murica on Apr 30, 2013
27
It was a joke. Maybe I'm not the one who needs anger management pills?
Chris Groves on Apr 30, 2013
28
strong name to post content ratio.
si1ver on May 1, 2013
29
How the fuck are people complaining? This gave me a massive fucking erection
Jon Odishaw on Apr 29, 2013
30
The chick next to you gives me a massive fucking erection.
pepe on Apr 29, 2013
32
Dumb.
yhuufuhihilh on Apr 29, 2013
36
am going to be sitting in the premier seats with my hot dog an pop-corn grinning like a 5 year old on Skittles when this opens....
tonker on Apr 29, 2013
38
After seeing Oblivion, all of this night stuff seems like a cheap dodge. I know it;s cut fast, but I really couldn't get a sense of what anything looked like. The framing is all so tight it just looks like pieces of stuff. My kids will like it.
Greedo on Apr 29, 2013
40
It sure looked like him.
mistermysteryguest on Apr 29, 2013
41
Agree, 10 bucks say that character is based on JJ 🙂
David Banner on Apr 30, 2013
42
Forget Iron Man 3, I'll rather go watch this!!
Tony Stark on Apr 29, 2013
44
Go watch your depressing documentaries all those who had shitty childhoods. Let the rest of us enjoy a kickass monster movie from the king of creatures in movies today.
krackow!!! on Apr 29, 2013
45
FUCKING AWESOME! I think i just JIMP!
jimmy on Apr 29, 2013
46
Holy fucking shit! That was awesome.
guest@gmail.com on Apr 29, 2013
48
Although this looks awesome, but this is totally ripped off from the Monsterpacolypse series , and I mean everything, I have the comics to prove it! But I'm still going to see this on opening day!Go DelToro!
jah p on Apr 29, 2013
51
Holy Helsinki! I'm in!
Thexn on Apr 29, 2013
52
Looks like a weak script smothered in a lot of noisy confusing visual effects. I guess if I was 12 years old I would like this.
mistermysteryguest on Apr 29, 2013
53
If you had testicles you would like this.
Jim Dawkins on Apr 30, 2013
54
Pure eye candy, can't wait!
Zack Payne on Apr 30, 2013
56
Yay, new transformers!
DavideCoppola on Apr 30, 2013
57
well...I have goosebumps.
RobotProphet on Apr 30, 2013
58
Is it just me, or does Charlie Day kinda look like JJ Abrams in that trailer?
JBrotsis on Apr 30, 2013
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