Charlie Hunnam & Rinko Kikuchi – Pacific Rim LA Premiere (July 9th 2013)
A+ EXCELLENT USE OF FIST BUMP WOULD WATCH AGAIN
Charlie Hunnam & Rinko Kikuchi – Pacific Rim LA Premiere (July 9th 2013)
A+ EXCELLENT USE OF FIST BUMP WOULD WATCH AGAIN
WHY THEY SO CUTE.
GODDAMN. My “I’m not really a shipper” reputation is just getting ravaged these days.
NOW KISS
okay so i havenât really talked in detail yet about how what iâm most glad about with newt and hermann is what they entail w/r/t disability
hermann is very obviously disabled in the film, the first shot we see of him (itâs not actually the fight in the lift!! you can see him and newt arguing over a crate outside as the camera pans past them) heâs using his cane, and he maintains doing so throughout the filmâ when bad things happen, newt has to slow down a couple of times to let hermann catch up (which, btw, truly made me love him, because do you know how often people do that in real life to me, NOT MANY) like he is un-fucking-mistakeably disabled, and you know what? it matters, yeah, because when the worldâs fucking ending he canât run that fast, but it also doesnât, because his worth in the shatterdome is predicated on the fact that he, like newt, is basically a weapon all by himself
and then novel canon cements newt as neuroatypical â âborderline manic personalityâ, so probably bipolar â so like, weâre talking about someone who would probably never be allowed to be a jaeger pilot, because speaking as someone who shares a brain with bipolar disorder, i would not want to mind-meld with someone and then operate heavy machinery. newt, like hermann, would not have worth in most action movies of this type. like, yeah, maybe theyâd get to be comic relief and get to contribute some minor ~~~science thing~~~ of importance, but they wouldnât be the focus. they wouldnât be the motherfuckinâ heroes.Â
BUT IN THIS FILM, THEY ARE. of course, theyâre not the heroes alone, but they get to do this terrifying amazing glorious thing, this thing theyâre not even trained for, and the information they gather at great personal and mental and emotional and physical cost SAVES THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE FROM EXTINCTION
also, theyâre not punished for anything, and the moment where they come together to form a literal left brain/right brain organism is a lovely one. lots of films like this would take the TEACH THE NON-HEROES A LESSON!!! ARROGANCE IS BAD!!! but nooooope. actual scientist rockstars who mind-meld an alien and predict a double event with a chalkboard. theyâre scared and physically small and âweakâ and theyâre allowed to be all of these things, frightened and vulnerable and bleeding, and we arenât supposed to respect them any less for having such human reactions, for having the reactions of the untrained in a war zone.
in this movie, a guy who walks with a cane and may well have done so since birth and a guy who clearly spends at least some of his time talking to himself at 3am while obsessively eating cereal and spinning through the emotional gamut like heâs a catherine wheel got to save the world, and you know what, other summer blockbusters try
JAEGER
It’s nice to have that periodic reminder that I’m not the only kid whose dad used “disappointed.”
The Dissapointed Talk fucked me up for AGES, MAN.
tlaloc4kids said: Iâm really behind on the times with this movie and I just barely saw the trailer butâŠ1) is that GLaDOSâ voice and 2) is there more of it?
YESSSSS. Ellen McLain voices the mecha AI and it’s awesommmmmmmmme. GDT got permission from Valve and everything.
They ended up using a slightly different tonal effect in the film, but you can still tell it’s Ellen McLain. :D
IT WAS AWESOME.
THERE WASN’T QUITE A ROCKET PUNCH, BUT I’LL TAKE IT.
I made my blog extra classy for Pacific Rim weekend.
TIME TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1997
ON GEOCITIES, TO BE SPECIFIC
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