Weekly reading/watching meme

Jul 19, 2013 11:50

Still no books. Like I maybe read three Cavafy poems. Went to see Pacific Rim, which was very exciting but also disappointing. Part of that is me: I have watched a scientific amount of This Sort Of Thing, can call the reveals before they show up, so as far as I was concerned all that could be hurried along in favour of some non-predictable ( Read more... )

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pere_chan July 19 2013, 17:21:46 UTC
Then you're left explaining to your friends after the Fantasia Film Fest matinee showing that no, actually, in the manga those pilot teams that LITERALLY HAD NO LINES were really cool personalities and had their own backstory chapters and everything.

In Hollywood I've seen the opposite happen: fascinating world makes semi-exciting film, a TV (live-action or animated) series is commissioned to cash in on the popularity and ends up being surprisingly awesome. See: Batman, Starship Troopers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Maybe it's wishful thinking?

I have not seen the film yet, but everything about Mako visually is making me want to go back to doing manga-style fanart.

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petronia July 22 2013, 14:39:16 UTC
Ha yeah, bring on the tie-ins. XD

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one_if_by_land July 20 2013, 01:14:35 UTC
YES TO EVERYTHING you said about pacific rim, especially how del toro shot two movies and had to edit down to one - he said as much in an interview, that he had to cut out over a hour's worth of material that would've shown more of characters' backstories. I went into the movie expecting epic monster vs robot battles, and I wasn't disappointed, so I guess I can't complain much. better dialogue and story-framing would've pushed pacific rim out of the genre bin and into solidly great filmwork territory, though. :

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applegnat July 22 2013, 09:28:55 UTC
In fact, I kind of suspect Del Toro worldbuilt for a 24-ep TV series, wrote for a 6-ep OAV, shot the equivalent of two movies, then edited it down to a Hollywood-acceptable one.

That seems like an amazingly accurate diagnosis of the problems with this film. What a job he must have had having to contain all of that, and what a pity he had to. I really enjoyed this film in spite of all that, though.

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