it is in my head and it will not leave

[muladhara]

So you know how I watched Pacific Rim, and I was all kind of, "OK, this is a film. It is a trope pile-up of a film, but it is a film"?

Yeah.

Since then, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I'm listening to the soundtrack right now (for the first time, actually. I think I like the soundtrack better than the film because while the soundtrack is also a trope pile-up, it makes me gleeful).

I mean, it is the driving force behind the idea I'm currently noodling about with, in hopes it will turn into a full-blown story (it better, because DAMN I ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH THEMES FOR IT!) but even so. I keep reading stuff about it (this link, about the film being primarily visual is amazing because YES ACTUALLY I AGREE), looking things up about it, reblogging stuff about it (damn, the colour schemes are AWESOME).

Also while I'm here, I'd like to note that, while conversing with my mum about it, I told her that Mako and Pentecost were the main characters. Nothing anyone can say will change my mind and, while I'm not dismissive of Raleigh at all (for it is about him as well), I think he's an important character, but he's not a main one. I was honestly surprised to discover that he is actually (apparently) the main character because that's not how I saw it at all.

Comments

[zerenitia]

I don't care if it's trope pile-up or not, Pacific Rim was one of my favourite movies! It was like I stepped backwards into the 80's-90's-ish area where even if the movies were basically all the same we all seemed to enjoy them because THEY WERE AWESOME.

That and I insist that Michael Bay must watch that movie and learn from it. Movie about giant, fighting robots should = movie about giant, fighting robots. Not movie = we're just using the giant, fighting robots to lure you into the theatre so we can bore you for 2 hours with Shia LaBeouf's shitty love story with the hot chick who's only there to be hot. And then one giant, fighting robot fight happens near the end just so we can still call it "Transformers".

[muladhara]

Neither do I, to be honest, but it kind of bugged me that you could see a lot of them coming a mile off (I believe this is deliberate on del Toro's part, though) and...I don't know. I think it might have gone better had I watched it at the cinema and I hadn't had to contend with my mum interrupting a lot, and people visiting the house! (The climax was essentially wrecked because of that - I got the last 30 or so minutes uninterrupted, but any tension there might have been was ruined because the film got paused for half an hour at that point).

I'm actually about to give it another go now. No distractions, just me and the film in a darkened room :D

Yeeeah, see, I don't know anything about the Transformers films, but I actively avoided them because I didn't want my childhood ruined (I loved them when I was a young 'un, which is why I shouldn't be surprised to learn that I do like humongous mecha). But I'm honestly not surprised that that's how those films turned out to be (I have not heard anything positive about Michael Bay, tbh).