https://cliqueclack.com/p/pacific-rim-review/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 https://cliqueclack.com/p/pacific-rim-review/#comment-44342 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:24:41 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=11309#comment-44342 Also the monster designs were always interesting and at times genuinely terrifying. And then we get amazingly badass moments like when one of the robots uses a freighter to beat the shit out of one of the kaiju. Because if you’re going to make a movie like this, you better have a freighter used like a 2X4.

]]> https://cliqueclack.com/p/pacific-rim-review/#comment-44341 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:21:22 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=11309#comment-44341 It certainly used particular tropes leaning towards cliches (I just started whispering “He’s a hotshot who doesn’t play by the rules, but he’s the best we’ve got!” “I’m retired, but they need me for ONE LAST MISSON.” oh and I just started referring to the younger Australian as “Iceman”), but they did the best version of those tropes. I was really pleased with it overall.

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