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by caitlinmorton » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:35 am
I feel that I have to point out to TheOnes that the film still had a cohesive story and were it to have all the things you wanted, it would have easily been at least three hours long. That would be fine, except the pacing for the first hour as it is felt like two, and thus the film would have likely seriously dragged. The thing is, you still need the monsters and the battles, since the story is about the pacific coastlines under seige, and upping the ante by making them come more and more frequently gives the films its stakes.
I also agree fully with whoever made the point about technology in the future not being something we could understand, as in theory it doesn't exist yet, or if it does we probably don't know about it because its early stages.
I agree that setting the first landing of the Kaiju in present day and the main events of the film in 2025 (remember they skipped ahead five years after the first battle) is far fetched technology-wise, and even ten years later would have been better.
Because of this, I have no problems with the oxygen question (I too remember the many times they mentioned it throughout the film), and can attribute most technological questions to that (they are robots, yes, but they are robots built to fight Kaiju IN WATER, and thus presumably are built accordingly, and also to be under water in order to give the best possible chance of survival to its pilots should the Jaeger be knocked down and submerged, if nothing else), but as to why the water displacement doesn't cause a tsunami, I do still have that question.
My friend and I were asking each other questions about the film on the escalator down afterwards and the man next to us told us we were reading too much into it. I got the feeling he wasn't thrilled with it and didn't want us to waste our time more than he didn't want us to ask questions. We ignored him and continued asking questions because no matter how you feel about a film, asking questions is healthy. We're about two months away from having a Masters in the subject also, so its kind of our job to learn from other films in order to be successful at making our own.
I enjoyed the film much more than expected, it was not a great film by any means, the acting was at times laughable (Charlie Hunnam's Newcastle came through whenever he said the word "thought", which was quite often) and the script was awful, but the story was cohesive and it worked, the CGI was good, and it was definitely a new take on aliens.
Good to see a healthy debate though, as you both had valid points.
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