Wolverine VS RED 2 VS Pacific Rim
Movies
aren’t exactly my cup of tea, but ever since danny started making fun of my
movie choices (I chose 28 weeks later over 28 days later, he’s been bugging me
ever since), I have been working on my so called “taste” in big theater
cinemas. Although it does depend on what type of genre people usually prefer,
there are those kinds of movies that fit into everyone’s taste. I will try to
cover that later in the blog.
Fortunately
for me, the movie theaters are a flush with action packed movies and thus, I have
had the opportunity to avoid embarrassment of people knowing I am a shit head when
it comes to Horror movies. Pacific Rim, had monsters but hey, you could fight
them. Ghosts no, they go through you, they try to act all ninja and its kinda
hard trying to know exactly how to counter one. If I do see a ghost, I will
probably faint right then and there so I probably don’t have to worry about it.
Hollywood
seems to flirt around the concept of how world is going to come to its very knees by
alien invasion and how a few individuals end up saving the world. The world I mean,
by saving the US. It’s always either Washington D.C or New York City that gets
destroyed and that’s it. Pacific Rim though, had streets of Hong Kong all mashed
up, skyscrapers falling down and Chinese people running which was a pleasant
change from the usual.
Character
wise, I thought Ron Perlman did a good job filling in the role of Hannibal
Chau, a Kaiju (the monsters from outer space which come through a portal in the
pacific) body parts smuggler, gets later eaten by one of the baby Kaiju’s only
to survive later and say “where’s my shoe?”, Charlie Day looked like he was
high throughout the screening who played Dr Newton, a crazy scientist who mind
bridges with Kaiju brain to figure out what their next plot would be and so
forth. It was interesting to see Asians starting to gain prominence in
supporting role with Rinko Kikuchi coming in as Mako Mori, one of the “pilots”
of the Robots aka the Jaegars. Idris Elba
acting style never changes. If you have taken time to watch Prometheus and seen
his acting there, its basically copy and paste over here. I liked the line
where get’s pissed off and says “One, don’t ever touch me again, and Two, don’t
ever touch me again”
Overall,
the visual effects and the characters synchronize quite well to produce a
decent movie. There were some predictable moments but I thought the idea that
Monsters came in through a portal in the Pacific and not from the bloody sky
was refreshing. One disappointing thing to note was there was absolutely no
kissing scene, only hugging. There was a lot of those fake human bonding stuff
going on but absolutely no kissing. What a waste of time. But if you do have
time to waste, I think it’s worth the buck. (I still need to transfer your
money boss, will have them out by today)
There
was this rumor back in January that Hugh Jackman was in Nepal and that nobody
did really care that he was there. Apparently he was in one of those rural
parts probably getting lost and getting his hair all worked up like Sadhu
Babas. That’s basically how his latest movie “Wolverine” begins anyways, inside
a jungle in Canada with Sadhu Baba Hair style.
Again,
it was interesting to see more Asian’s being involved. Rila Fukushima plays the
role of Yukio, an adopted but highly trained girl who acts as the “body guard”
of Wolverine, Tao Okamoto in supporting role of Mariko who acts as the
granddaughter of the Tycoon Yashida played by Hal Yamanouchhi. But the whole movie, as the title suggests,
was about Wolverine and about Hugh Jackman and that’s about it.
What
about RED2? I don’t know. I talked to some people who have watched it just
because there’s a Korean actor (guy from IRIS and G.I.Joe), and there were mix
comments. Most of them said it was far worse than RED, so I will just wait for
a good copy to come out in kickass.
You are right, if you have time to waste, Pacific Rim = Wasted Time.
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