On the surface, "Pacific Rim" tells a story about big robots and fighting monsters, but in fact this plot is like a witch's cauldron, used to vent Guillermo del Toro's feelings about himself, movies and himself. Favourites flooded with enthusiasm, because the chubby Mexican had been soaked in wait and disappointment for five years before that.
After the 2008 film "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army", Del Toro's job was to shoot "The Hobbit", a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings", and he spent a lot of energy on it, but also because he was very different. The film style with Peter Jackson has left a considerable number of "Lord of the Rings" fans dissatisfied with the appointment. Del Toro has been criticized as early as when he announced that he will be director of "The Hobbit". He vented his outrage in various fantasy forums—thinking he shouldn't have "shoved" Hellboy comic book writer Michael Angolano into the concept panel. They finally got their wish. Because of the financial problems of MGM, the film's co-production company, New Line Cinema was unable to shoot "The Hobbit" alone. The shooting date was delayed again and again. After wasting two full years in New Zealand, del Toro returned to smoky Los Angeles in dismay to find his next project to save himself from boredom.
Coincidentally, when James Cameron asked him if he was interested in making Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness" into a movie, and if possible, he wanted to be a producer on the project, Del Toro's answer "Certainly, I've been taking notes and outlines for this story for almost fifteen years, of course" As for Cameron, his Avatar just made almost a billion dollars, it's obviously a match made in heaven, del Toro has been thinking about it for years The project I thought about at night seems to be a dream come true. So he threw himself into it once again, several months of preparatory work was quickly completed, the storyboard and site survey were basically over, and the confirmed star was Tom Cruise (who was very interested in Lovecraft). So incredible and so jarring when the name is tied to a pure Cthulhu movie). At this time, however, Destiny sneered at the Mexicans again, and the studio finally refused to pay, as if they suddenly woke up at the last minute and found that they were spending money on an R-rated movie that could not attract teenage and child audiences. The $200 million approach is "extremely unwise."
Although the haze did not dissipate, del Toro still did not give up, because another person took his broken heart back again, and he was Thomas Tull, CEO and founder of Legendary Films , and Del Toro in "Monster Movies". The strong chemistry between the two actually led Warners to spend $190 million to let them do a whole new type of summer business. The blockbuster - "Big Robot VS Big Monster", although investors have doubts about this bizarre project, but in the summer vacation full of comics and sequels (this year, too), this can be regarded as very original. Entertainment products, and the "Nolan Batman Trilogy" has died down, and Warners also needs a new IP to continue to make money every day. It was Del Toro who was finally able to vent his five-year-old passion for shooting. His inspirations were wild and unbridled, and all kinds of whimsy were just waiting for him, more and more quickly.
He designed intricate Tudor-era coats and stacking masks for the monster scavenger who only appears for a few seconds in the film; he spared no expense to build a mech operating room with a full hydraulic lift platform, and the design team designed There were 41 monsters in total, although only 9 ended up appearing in the film. Del Toro even dubbed three of the monsters to be re-processed by the mixer, usually with his impromptu, nonsense "Oh. Oh, I should lose weight, I'm so heavy, I shouldn't have eaten the last pilot..." It's a throwback spree on the established robotics of the golden sci-fi era, and at the same time "del Toro" The blowout of a single aesthetic style with no semicolon - human beings are entrenched in their last fortress, the cyberpunk capital of Hong Kong, Kowloon Walled City and Chungking Mansions are directly replaced by a giant monster skull carved. The temple, where they live and fight, the dazzling Japanese giant mecha wields the iron fist of wrath, slamming the other-space monsters that are pressing step by step, rendered by light and shadow like Caravaggio's. The oil painting, although like other summer blockbusters, Pacific Rim has no textual significance, the impact of its visual performance is unprecedented - the audience has not seen such an original aesthetic in a long time entertainment movies, and will still hold a firm place in people's minds for a long time. Financially, however, the film was a complete failure. The final global box office was only 410 million US dollars. It completed a director with a strong desire for expression. Due to the violent release of the inner motivation accumulated by long-term idleness, "Soul of Otaku" burned to the brightest moment, and then immediately turned to ashes, "Pacific Rim" has almost nothing except the mouth (virtual) tablet (name).
That's why the sequel came to us in this way after a long five years. Like other sequels, it was born because of money, and it became a bit boring because of the too simple pursuit of money. All the pictures of "Pacific Rim - Uprising" are telling the audience that the sky was dark in that film 5 years ago, and the heavy dieselpunk mechs of the mobile mountain style are gone, and now all the mechs After being "upgraded", he became slender with slender limbs, a slender figure, and his movements were as agile as a light Nijinsky.
This is not to say that "Huan Lei" cannot bring you excellent viewing effects, but you must know that the excitement of watching a wrestling match and the pleasure of watching martial arts performances are exactly two completely different experiences. People who are addicted to the former are likely to Indifferent to the latter. Or it is impossible to draw a conclusion on this at all, but this is no longer a movie related to "Pacific Rim", it more arouses the nostalgia of "ancestors", because those familiar names - Dangerous Vagabond, Cherno Alpha, Eureka Raiders, Storm Crimson, at the end of the sequel film, what gathered around my memory were their voices and faces, after all, "Pacific Rim" once made me sincerely believe in those unreasonable things. fantasy - if I am lucky enough to be a "Skull" pilot, then I can really do anything: reach out a huge hand to catch the falling sky, in the rampant Leviathan and Behemoth You can also stand still in front of you.
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