To Fight Monsters We Created Monsters |
Ooh my God this trailer looks amazing. I've been following this film loosely as its the project Guillermo del Toro decided to make after walking away from The Hobbit and up until seeing this trailer I thought he'd made a big mistake. But with the recent interest in the Monster movie genre with films such as Troll Hunter, The Host(2006) and Cloverfield I thought Guillermo del Toro could be the man to change the fortunes of this ill-fated genre and after watching the trailer today I'd say he has. Now as any good movie fan will tell you never judge a movie by its trailer as they can cut the best half hour of the film into a decent trailer and leave out the other hour and a half of utter crap, but looking at the man's previous offerings (Pan's Labyrinth, Blade II and both of the Hellboy films) and taking a leap of faith I feel this will be a good movie (especially for Sci-fi and monster movie fans) but it also has the potential to be a great movie if handled correctly.
This movie is a homage to the Kaiju genre, which is the Japanese monster movie genre to me and you made up of films such as Godzilla, Mothra and countless others. To me this movie is also homaging the other big Japanese genre of giant fighting robots, basically think Power Rangers and Transformers but controlled by being connected to the pilots brain, this is more an anime genre in Japan and is quiet common with series such as Evangelion, Ghost in the shell, Gundam and Macross. But like I said Power Rangers (or Super Sentai the series that each season of Power Rangers is based on) and Transformers are prehaps the best known western examples of this genre.
Check out the trailer below and if thats not working here's a link to it: http://youtu.be/K-ZcqwvQbas
Anyway I guess I should maybe talk a little bit about the trailer and what I liked about it, can I just say the whole thing? Ok I love the CGI design of the Mecha ((giant fighting robots)called Jaegers in this movie) and the monster (he looks like a cross between Godzilla and a shark). The fights between the Mecha and the monsters just look amazing and the human cast look to be top notch with Idris Elba stealing the show for me. So depending on how the next trailer looks I'll be there to see this film as soon as it comes out.
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