Comments on: Watch: First Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro’s Monster Mash ‘Pacific Rim’

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Isn't this just Evangelion?

By: DHE

DHE — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

holy shit was that GLaDOS in the intercom.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Cant really believe the last trailers i saw. "After Earth; Oblivion and Pacific Rim ".
Whats happening with Shymalan and Del Toro ? Bad CGI, bad stories, bad taste. No heart, no passion.

By: wes

wes — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Looks dumb. That is all.

By: jon

jon — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

GDT does Transformers. I'll skip it.

By: Art

Art — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

I remember seeing a Playlist's reader comment on how refreshing that the new Superman trailer really worked because it had operatic and dramatic music and didn't include the Inception-esque BHWAAANNN!!! And now this…

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Good lord this looks stupid

By: Oogle monster

Oogle monster — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Gotta agree with my bud Rob below. Looks like Transformers on drugs (wtf?!) and why oh WHY must every action film since Inception contain the BRAAAAAM sound in its trailer? BE ORIGINAL PEOPLE!

By: ali

ali — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Please no more robots.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Seriously though the line between the trailer for Battleship and this trailer is so thin it's almost nonexistent. If Del Toro's name wasn't attached nobody would even give this a second glance.

By: AConcernedReader

AConcernedReader — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Dear THE PLAYLIST,

Can I please make a suggestion to both you and your readers? … Oh, I can!? Nice. Ok, so let's see here… *ahem* Would you all kindly donate your eyeballs to blind people so that they can put them to good use. If this is the type of stuff that SyFy has been producing in the past couple of years, well then "Holy Shit! I need to order me some cable."

Thank you kindly,
A concerned reader

By: themoviebot

themoviebot — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

Raimi, Del Toro, Brad Bird, Nolan, Fincher (if he does Star Wars), and that's just for starters…..men in their artistic prime reduced to playing with $200 million action figures and ROARING and STOMPING like the club of sell-out simps they have become. Whatever gets the supermodels and keys to China. The only "tentpole" director doing it right is Blomkamp.

Blame the rise of Snyder and Legendary. This prolonged, pathetic era in Hollywood-gone-Globalism too shall pass. (We'll all be dead.) What's really lame is how big a PASS these directors are given by so-called critics and culture writers. Thankfully…we still have Tarantino to remind us, "Slavery, BAD!" "Nazis, BAD!"

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

A Mighty Morphing Power Rangers sequel….? who knew…

By: mattyd

mattyd — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:04 +0000

what a cool soundtrack for that trailer. truly original.

By: Apollo9000

Apollo9000 — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

The trail does scream "generic summer blockbuster flick".
Del Toro's name does not. Thus, people will remain optimistic.

The irony of putting down the medium of film with repeated put downs of the medium of comic books is amusingly annoying.
Why point out Hollywood's ignorance with ignorant comments?

The biting of Inception's theme has to stop. Ditto for the quick fade outs as not to show too much.

All that said, it's just a trailer. No true way of knowing how good the film will be.

By: sadie

sadie — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

Those can't be the locked VFX, right? Why release a trailer this early for an FX laden film if the FX aren't up to snuff? Weird.

By: kitcon

kitcon — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

So far it doesn't look like del Toro's giving the usual robot – apocalyptic storyline the same weirdly imaginative twists he gave Alice w/ Pain's Labyrinth. But its just a trailer.

By: Glass

Glass — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

Those rockets firing behind the mecha's elbow to propel the punch into the monster's face? Fucking awesome.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

And people were jizzing themselves over this before the trailer even appeared while trashing Man Of Steel. At least the Superman trailer looked different both in tone and mood. If GDT name didn't appear at the end I could have mistaken it with a Michael Bay film. What's original about that?

By: moviegeek

moviegeek — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

I can't believe this was the reason why Del Toro couldn't direct the Hobbit…
It seems very derivative

By: PIKE

PIKE — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

Reminds me of all the battle scenes with the huge creatures in the B.P.R.D. comics by Mignola, Arcudi and Davis. It really has a Mignola/Lovecraft-on steroids feel to it, which I like.
Too bad the designs are kinda lame. Humanoid monsters with cliche dinosaur-roars versus Transformers. I was hoping it would all look a bit more original. Hopefully they will fix the CGI, because this is very shabby.

By: achilles

achilles — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

robot jox

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

Oh pleaseeeeeee, spare me.

By: nechoplex

nechoplex — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:34:03 +0000

The effects look like the SyFy Channel? I would disagree with that. The whole thing looks really badass and awesome. Yeah, there's no plot presented here but as spectacle it looks like it will hit the mark.