Comments | dudski: IT'S A LOVE STORY MAKO JUST SAY YES

dudski

IT'S A LOVE STORY MAKO JUST SAY YES

Jul 21, 2013 15:19

SO HERE'S THE THING: Pacific Rim has all of the FUCK YEAH PERFECT EXECUTION OF A JOYFUL FUN SUMMER ACTION MOVIE excitement of Iron Man or STXI [all three of which were situations where AS I WAS WATCHING I could already see myself in the distant future relaxing on the couch and popping the DVD in for the billionth time], but on top of that it's also ( Read more... )

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ladymercury_10 July 22 2013, 02:56:50 UTC

Ahh I am maybe beginning to see why everyone is so excited about this movie. (I haven't seen it.)

dudski July 22 2013, 03:01:35 UTC

Everyone was freaking out about it for days before I saw it, and I thought I was prepared to enjoy it, but I was nowhere near prepared for how MUCH I'd enjoy it. I saw it on Wednesday and then I saw it again on Thursday and then on Friday I went to Barnes and Nobles and bought the prequel graphic novel and the novelization and then I just weeped internally about all of it all weekend. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME.

ladymercury_10 July 22 2013, 03:10:01 UTC

Hahaha wow. I had like no desire to see this movie but everyone's stories may slowly be convincing me.

hongkongaton July 22 2013, 03:06:30 UTC

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dudski July 22 2013, 03:34:47 UTC

OKAY SO I READ THAT PART and basically it's just gossip at the Wall, like HEY THAT DUDE USED TO PILOT A JAEGER AND THEN HE CRASHED ONE AND THEY FIRED HIM, so it seems like they keep some pilots sufficiently out of the spotlight? It makes sense that being stationed at Sitka they wouldn't be as prominent as like, Herc and Chuck taking down that one in Sydney. From the profile of Gipsy Danger in the book it looks like Raleigh and Yancy took down kaiju in places like LA and Manila that would have been bigger deals, but maybe since the last one was so out of the way they were able to keep him away from the media ( ... )

disco_vendetta July 22 2013, 19:26:43 UTC

RALEIGH BECKET. JAEGER PILOTING GOLDEN RETRIEVER BOYF AND THE CLINGIEST MOTHERFUCKER YOU'LL EVER MEET. I love the COMPLETE DISCONNECT between Raleigh when he has a copilot vs when he doesn't. START OF MOVIE, RALEIGH HAS A COPILOT: Bouncing off the walls when he and Yancy get deployed at 2AM, fucking THRILLED with everything he's doing and everything he is, HAPPY AND EXCITED AND GRATEFUL AND AWED TO BE HERE. TALKING ABOUT FIGHTING HURRICANES LIKE THEY'RE A THING YOU CAN PUNCH IN THE FACE. HIGH FIVES AND GRINS AND CARELESS ARMS THROWN AROUND SHOULDERS ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY. And then five years later, he's quit the PPDC and he's working on the wall, and HE'S SO SELF-CONTAINED. He doesn't look at his coworkers, he doesn't talk to them, he doesn't touch them. After he brings Gipsy Danger to shore and collapses, we literally don't hear Raleigh say a word until he greets Pentecost. HE'S STANDOFFISH, HE'S UNENTHUSIASTIC, HE'S RELUCTANT TO EVEN BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ... until the moment when he sees Mako for the first time and the ( ... )

dudski July 22 2013, 22:51:33 UTC

IN THE BOOK THAT DUDE KEEPS TALKING TO RALEIGH AND ALL RALEIGH WANTS IS FOR HIM TO SHUT UP, BECAUSE FIVE-YEAR-GAP RALEIGH DOESN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH ANYBODY BECAUSE NOBODY IS YANCY SO WHY EVEN BOTHER.

AND THEN MAKO MORI HANDED HIM AN UMBRELLA.

AND THEN SHE PUT IT INSIDE A JAEGER AND GAVE IT TO RALEIGH BECKET.Man, think about Mako heading up the restoration of Gipsy Danger and exploring the wreckage before they started cleaning her up and making her operational again and finding like, whatever Raleigh and Yancy's Jaeger equivalent of the receipts and hoodies and shoes in my car would be. LIKE, THERE'S SOME CONTROL PANEL SOMEWHERE THAT RALEIGH TOOK A SHARPIE TO, ADDING WORDS TO MAKE THE LABELS ON THE BUTTONS INTO SOMETHING DIRTY, and somewhere that they kept track of all their Kaiju kills, and somewhere that Yancy stuck up souvenirs from every city they saved and letters from kids thanking them for their service, AND GIPSY DANGER'S A FUCKING SHAMBLES AND MAKO'S SUPPOSED TO CLEAR THE SPACE OUT COMPLETELY BUT SHE WALKS AROUND AND SHE ( ... )

profshallowness July 22 2013, 20:32:22 UTC

Really keen analysis of where Raleigh was at at the start of the movie. Here via you being insightful at disco_vendetta's lj.

dudski July 22 2013, 22:34:42 UTC

Thank you!

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dudski July 22 2013, 20:55:35 UTC

I SORT OF DON'T LIKE YOUR TONE BUT ALSO, YES, I AM HAPPY, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE AND NOW I'LL NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT THRILLED.

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dudski July 22 2013, 21:16:17 UTC

I had heard enough to know I'd like it but also I HAD NO IDEA. NOBODY COULD EVER HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THIS.