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Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 1:29 pm
(I don't know if it goes here or not so if it need to be moved then move it)
Anybody seen Pacific Rim, I loved it, it was SO AWESOME but SO DUM in every sense of the word.
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 2:11 pm
I'm waiting for the porn version.
They wont even have to change the title.
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 3:25 pm
It had lovely visuals, but the story was pretty rubbish... not that it had much of a story.
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 4:41 pm
Two hours I'll never get back, but my youngest loved it.
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Nothing wring with scooping your brain out for a few hours every now and then...
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 17, 2013 at 8:28 pm
(November 17, 2013 at 4:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Don't think I'll be watching....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc
The truth is that trailer is so right, is so dumb but so awesome. Just don't think about it.
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 18, 2013 at 10:58 am
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(November 18, 2013 at 6:17 am)Esquilax Wrote: To be honest, Pacific Rim hits every last one of my "the child in me would flip the fuck out if..." buttons, so I don't even care how dumb it is. The genuine, rational human in me is aware of its faults, but I can't bring myself to care. 
It's one of my favorite movies, just because of that fact.
It is a film that's says Screw logic and physics, it looks cool.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Pacific Rim
November 18, 2013 at 11:51 am
(November 17, 2013 at 6:24 pm)StuW Wrote: Nothing wring with scooping your brain out for a few hours every now and then...
Pretty much this. Action films are tough to enjoy if you're trying to make sense of the story or plot. Much easier to enjoy if you're just sitting there going "oooh, explosion..."
My dad took me to see
Godzilla versus Megalon back in 1976 or 1977 or thereabouts. It was the one where Godzilla and his robot buddy fight giant monsters. It was corny as hell, but to an eight-year-old it was pure monster-movie heaven. Pacific Rim brought back some of that. I enjoyed it immensely.
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