NBC Sets Oklahoma Tornado Benefit Concert For May 29
Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Honors ‘Les …
‘Fast & Furious 6′ Opens $53.4M Overseas …
SHOCKER: Tom Cruise Exits ‘Man From …
A+E Rebuild: BBC’s Jana Bennett To Run Bio And LMN …
RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Hannibal’ Hits Low, …
‘Katie’ Shakeup: Rachel Miskowiec Replaces …
Hammond On Cannes: French Hero Jerry Lewis On His Return To …
Cannes: Another Jewelry Heist? $2.6M Necklace Missing After …
Hammond On Cannes: Leo DiCaprio’s Moon Trip Tops …
Specialty B.O. Preview: ‘Before Midnight’, …
2012-2013 Season Network Rankings: CBS Sweeps In Final …
Full 2012-2013 TV Season Series Rankings
TOLDJA! Paramount Pocketing $190M From Disney For Marvel …
‘Good Morning America’ Hits 19-Year Viewership …
MGM Buys ‘Modern Family’ Producer Ben …
‘Fashion Police’ Writers Chant On Picket Lines: …
Universal Makes Seven-Figure Deal For ‘The School For …
Steven Soderbergh Will Interrupt Retirement To Direct And …
Cannes: EOne Announces Itself As Player In U.S. …
Will LIN TV Stations Go Dark On Time Warner Cable?
This vision of San Francisco under seige in Pacific Rim uses a string of TV news reports to reveal brief glimpses of giant Kaiju aliens. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day head the cast. Warner Bros opens Guillermo Del Toro‘s latest movie on July 12, 2013.
Loading ... Loading ...
Saw a screening of this picture. Hot MESS!!! Makes no sense. Aliens/Robots look very amateurish. Legendary is already cutting its loss. Another failure brought to you by the team of Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni.
Pretty sure if you saw a cut this far out that the film still has a ways to go before it’s finished… but way to be objective and brag at the same time.
Some Deadline commenters love to bring the hate. Some like to hint they are industry insiders. Some combine the two elements into one super-annoying package.
What utter, utter nonsense. Even for a Deadline comment this is asinine.
Let me guess. You’re another wanna-be script writing nobody who managed to get hold of the very early draft of the Pacific Rim script that was going around the net a few months ago?
You have written three dozen scripts featuring giant robots that are currently gathering dust on shelves and propping up awkward coffee tables and thus you’re lashing out at this.
And while I personally haven’t heard anything so negative about the film if Del Toro can’t get giant robots fighting monsters right no one can.
ANOTHER failure by Tull and Jashni? Oh, you mean those jackasses who gave us DARK KNIGHT, 300, THE HANGOVER and a dozen other box office mega smashes that were actually worth watching? Hey man, I’m a player-hater too so I feel you, I do, but I use that to fuel my work and work that much harder. Also, if you saw an early cut that means that you’re in some way connected to the film, filmmakers or studio and coming on here in a public forum trashing it after an early peak is a betrayal of trust and further evidence that you’re a first rate jackass. When I go see this, and I will, I’m buying two tickets: one for me and one for you… the empty seat will feel more welcomed than it did at the RNC.
Please, please stop using that term HOT MESS..so 2010.
Isn’t an EARLY screening just quick cuts? Is it not premature to call this bad?..ah yes.
I’m with Doom. It looks like they asked a class of high school students (no offence to high school students) how to film and cut together a trailer. They’ve applied the same fake static effect to multiple clips, it all looks really staged, and it makes the film feel cheap. Really doesn’t do a good job of selling me, and I’m a fan of Del Toro’s work.
Another failure?
HAHAHAH Legendary is arguably the most successful production company in Hollywood. You are the perfect example of someone with a failing career that takes to anonymous commenting to vindictively trash projects without consequences. Pathetic.
Wow. If that gave me a headache I can’t image actually going to the movie. Was that an ad or a warning? Pass.
Needs more needless fast cutting and flickering
Lame. Why on earth would Warner Brothers make this movie instead of Godzilla? This is basically Cloverfield 2. What’s the point?
Unfortunately, I was thinking the same thing (re: Cloverfield 2). However, this is from Del Toro, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and wait to see it before judging it too harshly.
yeah, cloverfield 2 minus the hand held camera and plus some robots and oh yeah more monsters.
Should’ve made godzilla oh wait they ARE making Godzilla so you’re stupid.
It’s not another stupid found footage movie. The movie is a big monster action movie where monsters have invaded from a hole to another dimension in the pacific and humanity uses giant robots called Jaegers to fight them. They are not doing this in the style of Cloverfield. Check your facts.
This is hardly a Warner Bros. production. No one at Warner Bros. had anything to do with this and will continue to distance themselves from it as it gets closer to release. This turd will be the Battleship of next summer that is the first fully funded production from the “creative” geniuses at Legendary. Tommy and his vampiric henchman Jonny would like everyone to believe they were the sole reason The Dark Knight and The Hangover had any success. No one at Warner Bros. respects them and I have a feeling they will relish in the failure of this lame attempt at creating a fanboy franchise.
Terrible faux scrambling effects. Couldn’t even pay attention to the glimpses of footage because the same awful scrambling effect was used twenty times in a row.
Audiences love giant monsters they can’t get enough of them. The more giant monsters we give them the more money we make. And by adding giant robots we double our box office. We should call this the Giant Monsters vs. the Giant Robots. Pacific Rim is a stupid title. Change it. Right away. I expect this picture to be a big hit if it’s not if we lose money on this if Legendary loses money then somebody will be fired and it won’t be me.
Come on, people? It’s a viral campaign. It’s supposed to be a frantic fractured news report. That’s why it’s shaky and looks like home video. The actual movie isn’t shot like that.
@Doom, you are so full of crap. Apparently you’re the only person in the world who has seen a screening because you appear to be the only person talking about it. ILM and Legacy Effects are creating the visual and practical effects for the movie, so I seriously doubt they look amateurish. And if they do, maybe that’s because it’s early in the process. Which doesn’t really matter because I don’t believe for a second that you’ve actually seen the film.
This actually isn’t a trailer, it’s a video for the movie’s viral marketing. It’s not going to be in a found footage format like Cloverfield 2.
It looks like the trailer to an expensive TV show that will be cancelled after one season.
That might be the worst trailer I’ve ever seen.
All it did was make me want to put in my DVD of Ray Harryhausen’s “It Came From Beneath The Sea” and enjoy a film the Golden Age of cameras with tripods.
Ah, those were the days!
Isn’t it amazing how, with all the technological advancements in filmmaking and special effects in this digital age, no one can capture the essence of Harryhausen’s brilliance, and his films still fill me with a sense of awe, unlike Hollywood’s latest offerings.
Cloverfield sequel?
Looks terrible.
I take it you are aware that this is a Guillermo Del Toro film? You know, the guy that made Hellboy and Cronos and Pans Labyrinth and is a visual genius, who has never let you down with a film. Who has adored Japanese monster cinema his whole life and has finally got the chance to put his own vision on film. Yet based on 54 seconds of a viral marketing campaign that he almost certainly had nothing to do with you’re already trashing the movie?
Personally I couldn’t be more excited for it. Anyone who isn’t is (a) not a true genre fan, and (b) can fuck off.
this is a great posr
Shitty people on Deadline ragging on a 54 second clip. Such full lives. How can I be cool like you?
Acquire some taste.
That was ridiculous and pointless. In this day and age, ANYONE with an iPhone could take ten times better video than that during a crisis. And before you say that stress leads to absurdly shaky camera shots like that, just look at footage from battles in Syria taken by people on the ground: you can TOTALLY see what’s going on.
Now I realize this is part of a viral campaign. The problem is, it’s a HORRIBLE part of a viral campaign, and the fans know a cure: don’t watch and prevent the spread by telling friends to avoid it like the plague.
That is it. I am never watching TPN HD ever again. Their signal is just so 1970′s TV set. And what are all of those San Fransiscans doing awake at 9am in the morning on Sunday? I’d think they’d all be nursing their Saturday night fever hangovers. I found myself confused in that I was watching live TV and then the footage wasn’t live? Then it went back live again. Who is running TPN HD anyway? Rupert Murdock?
Jeff Zucker actually.
First off,it’s a viral campaign folks…the movie doesn’t open until July 2013.Legendary/WB/deltoro are using transmedia to make the public aware of the film.the official trailer is 2 weeks away .the film will be ready in the first quarter of 2013.there is nothing else like this movie out there.sure there have been godzilla like flick and robot flicks but nothing in a long while with this amount of support and talent.after this movie opens there will be plenty of knockoffs.I’ve seen the teaser trailer several times that premiered last summer and i can tell you for a fact it looks fantastic.This isn’t Cloverfield.This isn’t a found footage film,so don’t let this viral vid be a representation of what the film is.
That was awful. They obviously don’t have the effects ready, so they tried to hide it, but it was just a mess. I know it’s a monster movie, but it shouldn’t seem as fake as a Godzilla movie from 40 years ago.
News teams must have some terrible camera teams if they can’t even point the camera directly at a 300 foot high monster.
IT’S NOT A TRAILER! IT’S NOT FOOTAGE FROM THE MOVIE! IT’S A VIRAL MARKETING CLIP. I love how snarky everyone feels they need to be on this site. Absurd.
It’s not a trailer, dopes. It’s part of a viral campaign. The trailer comes in two weeks. Check the website.
What does that mean? If it’s part of a viral campaign, shouldn’t it’s job be to get your intrigued and/or excited about the movie?
Instead, it looks like something put together on the cheap, trying to make it seem “real” (via these news clips), but failing at that because the cuts, distortion, and voice-over are all so obviously fake.
Exactly. For some reason filmmakers think that ‘found footage’ of a scary event should be almost impossible to make out. If you’re filming Big Foot or a UFO, sure…that’s true, since YOU AREN’T REALLY LOOKING AT BIG FOOT OR A UFO AND IF THE CAMERA PAUSED FOR 1/2 A SECOND, THE VIEWER WOULD REALIZE THAT. Perhaps that’s the point of this absurd campaign: none of the visual effects are done yet, so let’s not pause the camera for more than 1/8 of second, otherwise the viewer would be able to make out the bad/incomplete effects.
The tone of this is funny. I like it. Sounds interesting.
Looks like a 16-year old’s idea of “cinema.”
COme on guys! It’s not the actual movie. It’s not a trailer… It’s just… You know… The very first images they chose to hit us with as part of their marketing campaign. And just because this is a big old hot mess of failure, don’t judge it. They didn’t put it out there for anyone to judge. It just… IS. Like, okay so it exists but maybe we weren’t supposed to like it. Maybe it’s a genius campaign designed to LOWER our expectations. That way, when the actual movie comes out no one will want to see it, but then people will hear about it and go see it anyway. I mean, they don’t spend millions on these marketing campaigns (viral or otherwise) to actually make it look good. Why would they do that? The marketing doesn’t need to be good. The movie speaks for itself right? Or something…
Uh, pretty sure these aren’t the first images.. that would have been the big comicon presentation.. and the images of the actors in the suits.