[polishgenius]

Trailer is up.

I am so hyped for this.

I am so hyped for this.

[QuickTidal]

LOVE the look. Very Del Toro...Very cogniscent of its origins in the Godzilla and Anime genre's...and still the robots actually look like they were built with science in mind (like that shot of the fist flying forward on thrusters to give it the impact it would require)

I'm with PG, SO hyped for this!

[QuickTidal]

Also, I hope everyone realizes that Del Toro and Valve are mutual fans...so that robotic voice that sounds like GLaDOS from PORTAL and PORTAL 2....is in fact GLaDOS...they put her into the film specifically, same voice actress and modulation.

Checklist:

Del Toro

Idris Elba

Rinko Kiuchi

Giant fucking robots

Giant fucking Lovecraftian monsters from another dimension

Idris Elba

AND fucking GLaDOS from PORTAL 1 and 2 as the defense force's AI.

The win is absolutely DRIPPING off this film!

[polishgenius]

What I'm loving is the real sense of mass and heft about both the monsters and the robots.

Also that Idris motherfucking Elba is getting a potential-superstar starring role.

[QuickTidal]

polishgenius, on 13 December 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

What I'm loving is the real sense of mass and heft about both the monsters and the robots.

Also that Idris motherfucking Elba is getting a potential-superstar starring role.

Absolutely, and the little we hear of that speech? E-P-I-C!

Of course, I'd watch Elba in literally anything, that man is one of the best actors on the planet. He deserves more starring roles.

I request that he is either the next Doctor. I'd be SO behind that.

[polishgenius]

QuickTidal, on 13 December 2012 - 02:18 AM, said:

I request that he is either the next Doctor. I'd be SO behind that.

That's the one downside of this movie - if it's massively successful (and let's be honest, it's going to earn all the money) it pretty much kills any chance of Idris Elba ever being the Doctor stone dead.

[worry]

I heard he was gonna be the next Austin Powers.

[polishgenius]

worrywort, on 13 December 2012 - 02:39 AM, said:

I heard he was gonna be the next Austin Powers.

No can do, he's way too tall.

[A Demon Llama!]

Damn what is this? It looks so over the top and ridiculous that it might actually be good. With the GLADOS voice and the mention of a portal I was half expecting portal guns to be shot around and used in over the top awesome physics defying action.

[Silencer]

A Demon Llama!, on 13 December 2012 - 03:53 AM, said:

Damn what is this? It looks so over the top and ridiculous that it might actually be good. With the GLADOS voice and the mention of a portal I was half expecting portal guns to be shot around and used in over the top awesome physics defying action.

There's absolutely nothing to rule out the combat AI that sounds exactly like GLaDOS from being responsible for said portal under the ocean, you know...>.>

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

What is the backstory for this?

[Aptorian]

Okay, it seems I have to be the voice of opposition here. Having not read or heard anything about this movie before seeing the trailer, I am a bit confused. Why are we building giant robots to fight monsters again? Are they immune to explosive damage or high velocity impact? Why are we not just firing tomahawk missiles at the things until they are a mountain of extra dimensional meat? If they are immune to the quite violent impact of a detonating explosive then why would it work to build a a robot to punch it if kinetic force does nothing to stop it?

I mean, sure, who doesn't want to watch a giant mech pummeling a giant monster, but I would like some context. Maybe if mankind had advanced to a point where we were living inside computers and building giant automated robots to serve us was already a thing it would make sense, but the level of technology that is implied in the production of these things is turn of the next century sort of stuff if not even later.

[worry]

Aptorius, on 13 December 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

Okay, it seems I have to be the voice of opposition here.

My heavens! I think I may faint from utmost surprise.

[Primateus]

I shall watch this movie because, like Apt said, who wouldn't want to watch giant mechs pummeling giant monsters?

[Silencer]

Aptorius, on 13 December 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

Okay, it seems I have to be the voice of opposition here. Having not read or heard anything about this movie before seeing the trailer, I am a bit confused. Why are we building giant robots to fight monsters again? Are they immune to explosive damage or high velocity impact? Why are we not just firing tomahawk missiles at the things until they are a mountain of extra dimensional meat? If they are immune to the quite violent impact of a detonating explosive then why would it work to build a a robot to punch it if kinetic force does nothing to stop it?

I mean, sure, who doesn't want to watch a giant mech pummeling a giant monster, but I would like some context. Maybe if mankind had advanced to a point where we were living inside computers and building giant automated robots to serve us was already a thing it would make sense, but the level of technology that is implied in the production of these things is turn of the next century sort of stuff if not even later.

Don't go bringing your "logic" into my giant mecha action film, dammit!

Your willing suspension of disbelief may need to be bumped a few notches for this one, mate. But hey, who knows, perhaps the monsters have sophisticated (natural) point-defence systems which make missiles ineffective, and nobody thought to try railguns yet? Or perhaps the aliens have, I dunno, a psychic shield of some kind which can only be penetrated by something being moved by human consciousness? BOOM. Problem solved. The aliens just have AT-fields. *shrug*

There are plenty of possibilities. I don't recall Independence Day explaining why the aliens couldn't be brought down by nukes until the movie actually showed, so I don't see why you expect this one to have context for the giant mecha already established at the first freaking trailer...>.>

[Illuyankas]

Aptorius, on 13 December 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

Okay, it seems I have to be the voice of opposition here. Having not read or heard anything about this movie before seeing the trailer, I am a bit confused. Why are we building giant robots to fight monsters again? Are they immune to explosive damage or high velocity impact? Why are we not just firing tomahawk missiles at the things until they are a mountain of extra dimensional meat? If they are immune to the quite violent impact of a detonating explosive then why would it work to build a a robot to punch it if kinetic force does nothing to stop it?

I mean, sure, who doesn't want to watch a giant mech pummeling a giant monster, but I would like some context. Maybe if mankind had advanced to a point where we were living inside computers and building giant automated robots to serve us was already a thing it would make sense, but the level of technology that is implied in the production of these things is turn of the next century sort of stuff if not even later.

You were fine with the bloody fridge in the fourth Indiana Jones movie and robot testicles and racism in Transformers 2, yet this is what bothers you? You have so much wrong with you it's unreal.

[Illuyankas]

Oh, and if halfbaked rationale is what you're after, the rift they're coming from is in an ocean trench, so someone wanted a remote amphibious submersible with legs and ROCKET FISTS

[QuickTidal]

Illuyankas, on 13 December 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

Oh, and if halfbaked rationale is what you're after, the rift they're coming from is in an ocean trench, so someone wanted a remote amphibious submersible with legs and ROCKET FISTS

Assuming that it is waterproofed and that there is a way to ignite it, then this is easily possible. A rocket requires no outside oxygen to operate.

[amphibian]

Illuyankas, on 13 December 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:

You were fine with the bloody fridge in the fourth Indiana Jones movie and robot testicles and racism in Transformers 2, yet this is what bothers you? You have so much wrong with you it's unreal.

It's Apt - the man with the most erratic tastes and hang-ups I've ever encountered in my twenty-seven years on this planet. There's only one of this unique beastie though.

[QuickTidal]

Yeah, I think that we can pretty much bank these days on Apt having the opposite tastes in film and TV to everyone else, due to all the crack he smokes and how there is a lump of coal where his heart and imagination are located.