Pacific Rim

[Dolemite]

And now it turns out that McClain isn't actually doing the GlaDOS voice in the movie.

Wait, what? Please explain...when did that change?

*EDIT* She actually IS doing the voice, but with fewer GLaDOS filters. No big deal. Del Toro even got Valve's permission to use her.

[Jimmy Carter]

Based on the trailer, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Aside from the special effects (which look amazing) the movie had two things going for it: Idris Elba and Ellen McClain's voice. And now it turns out that McClain isn't actually doing the GlaDOS voice in the movie.

So we have no reason to assume this is going to be good.

This is exactly how I feel. I saw the trailer when I went to see The Hobbit, and I was entirely underwhelmed.

[sleeve]

Wait, what? Please explain...when did that change?

*EDIT* She actually IS doing the voice, but with fewer GLaDOS filters. No big deal. Del Toro even got Valve's permission to use her.

Don't get me wrong. I have high hopes for this movie.

I just don't assume on faith that it's gonna be any good.

Also, I think Ellen McClain is overrated. I much prefer Terri Brosius:

[MechDeus]

It will be good in the worst ways.

[Dolemite]

Don't get me wrong. I have high hopes for this movie.

I just don't assume on faith that it's gonna be any good.

Also, I think Ellen McClain is overrated. I much prefer Terri Brosius:

Ah, good ol' SHODAN...

Man, I want System Shock 3 in the worst way. For realz.

[AaronChance]

Sounds like the typical Del Toro movie to me. He plays a shell game with the visuals to keep you from noticing the crappy dialogue.

[FuryFox]

But is it bad bad or good bad? If it's corny dialogue of people running around giving stupid pep speeches and being all nationalist or whatever then that's what I would want from this anyway.
The people I've seen hate on it so far have all been in the crowd of where they're too cool for it because it openly displays its homages.

No, that shit sucks. 'Good Bad' is so much more a factor of creators having a big scope or interesting idea that they can't competently or practically achieve. Just making things trite and easily digestible hardly constitutes an homage.

The coolest thing this movie could do, like someone else mentioned, is have the robots created to defend become the new greatest threat. Fleshing out, even in some abstract or fantastic way, the motivations of the monsters would be a great service to a story like this...bad guys are always more interesting because they're the catalysts, the heroes so frequently just react to someone else's plans/ambitions.

[YellerDog]

Get ready for Evangelion Sans Message: The Movie

[MechDeus]

Just making things trite and easily digestible hardly constitutes an homage.

That's not at all what I was talking about when I mentioned homages; I was referring to things like the Big O-style arm attack. There were a lot of people on media sites like the earlier YouTube trailers linked where they were complaining about the movie for having monsters rise up from the deep, the GLaDOS voice, and so on.

[FuryFox]

Gotcha. I was commenting more on the nationalist speeches and Independence Day structure. I don't see why someone would complain about the monsters and robots if the rest of the story was strong, but I can see the subject being an easy out for criticism if the handling is needlessly puerile.

My concern is that monsters, robots, and punches aren't interesting merely by inclusion.