{"id":4386,"date":"2021-11-06T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:11:45","slug":"film-pacific-rim-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: Pacific Rim, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Looking for movies on Prime I saw Pacific Rim<\/em>. It\u2019s not at all the kind of thing I\u2019d normally want to watch. I\u2019m not a fan of Guillermo del Toro, at least not what I\u2019ve seen by him. And modern sci-fi\/monster movies? Naaah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But call it my woman\u2019s intuition, or whatever, I thought let\u2019s try it. It is<\/em> as dumb as I worried it might be. And it is<\/em> like a Playstation Game turned into a movie. Another modern trend I\u2019m not very keen on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, in its favour, first it\u2019s just good silly old fashioned matinee movie fun. Second, it\u2019s visually stunning enough to make up for its dumb-ass silliness. Too many modern movies like this rely on visuals, and do that quite well, but still fail as films \u2018cause they\u2019re so awful in just about every way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Impressive CGI tech!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This suffers from some of the most egregious of the faults of so much modern film entertainment, with the boneheaded reduction of human culture to a muscle bound masculinity that\u2019s apparently totally unaffected by any form of post-Enlightenment waves of awareness, from Feminism to Woke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But ironically it\u2019s not regressive, so much as hyper-modern. It\u2019s a complete and bizarre paradox of our times. A form of ultra-contemporary moron-ism, that attempts to shroud itself in anything from allusions to religion (Stacker Pentecost<\/em>!? A scientist called Gottlieb, German for \u2018God-love\u2019!?*) to cyber-spirituality (the whole \u2018drift\u2019 thing\u2019). And it\u2019s incredibly infantile <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t say exactly why, but in this particular instance I just let my inner child enjoy the spectacle of the film. And that\u2019s ultimately what it is. A spectacle for children (whatever their actual age). And a fairly fun one at that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ludicrous monsters, neon, rain\u2026 stupid but fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* God-Love\u2019s \u2018other half\u2019 – mind-meld in \u2018the Drift\u2019! – is Newton; so science and religion can resolve their troublesome real world issues in the dark and watery neon-lit imaginarium of cinematic CGI!!! Nuts\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for movies on Prime I saw Pacific Rim. It\u2019s not at all the kind of thing I\u2019d normally want to watch. I\u2019m not a fan of Guillermo del Toro, at least not what I\u2019ve seen by him. And modern sci-fi\/monster movies? Naaah! But call it my woman\u2019s intuition, or whatever, I thought let\u2019s try … <\/p>\n

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