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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:03 pm Post subject: Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) |
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I’m delighted that a sequel has finally been made, but the changes in the production team (the writers and the director) might mean this one won’t feel as good as the last one — which felt so good it was like a Christmas morning in 1958, with Santa Claus leaving so many sci-fi toys under the tree that the living room floor looked like a toy store showroom!
The movie is scheduled for a March 2018 release. Here’s Wikipedia’s brief plot synopsis.
10 years after the Battle of the Breach, the oceans have become restless once again, but the Jaeger program has evolved into the next generation for the PPDC. However, something has reopened the Breach for the Kaiju and a Jaeger has gone rogue. Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, rises up to stand against the evolved Kaiju and the rogue Jaeger to prevent humanity's extinction and preserve his father’s legacy.
This description certainly gives us some nice clues as to what the story might include. The “next generation” of the giant robots might be able to fly around, although that sort of misses the point of massive robots that can walk any damn where they want. Still, a formation of giant flying robots headed into combat makes a jaw-dropping mental image.
A “rogue Jaeger” could go either way — like a giant robot fighting with the nasty “evolved Kaiju” (which promises a few robot vs robot battles when the good guys arrive), or a giant robot that fights the Kaiju for personal reasons in the middle of cities, without regard for the loss of life and or the property damage.
Here’s the trailer for the upcoming movie. I promise I wrote the comments above before I watched it, just for fun . . . so I’ll let you judge if my predictions were right or wrong.
___ Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) Teaser Trailer #1
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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IMDB has 20 trivia items for this movie.
Frankly here’s the only one I found interesting.
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~ Guillermo del Toro stepped down as director in order to direct The Shape of Water (2017) instead, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Note from me: Frankly I thought The Shape of Water was lousy. A woman falls in love a fish-man and swims off with him in the end.
This ain't exactly Casablanca, folks . . .  _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Bud Brewster wrote: | Note from me: Frankly I thought The Shape of Water was lousy. A woman falls in love a fish-man and swims off with him in the end.
This ain't exactly Casablanca, folks . . .  |
You're right Bud, it's not "Casablanca...It's "Splash", with the genders reversed!
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador

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Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, A LOVE STORY _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Krel wrote: | You're right Bud, it's not "Casablanca...It's "Splash", with the genders reversed!
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Ah, but in Splash we have the lovely Daryl Hannah making it possible for her and Tom Hanks to hug and kiss whenever they're underwater . . . and they can do a whole lot more just by visiting a nice beach on a tropical island so that Miss Hannah's legs (et cetera) miraculously appear.
However, the lady in The Shape of Water won't have the kind of love life any of us would envy . . .  _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador

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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 3:41 am Post subject: |
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However...Think about how fish have sex....
The male releases his sperm into the water as the female releases her eggs into the same water...
Somehow some of them combine to produce a zygoe that is a fertilized egg that will grow to be a "fry" or a real fish.
I don't know about you....BUT THAT JUST DOESN'T WORK!! _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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That "somehow" in your description is certainly intriguing!
After, I'm absolutely amazed by the fact that human sperm swim up the Tunnel of Love and find the Ultimate Easter Egg all by themselves, and then the egg locks out all the losers of this microscopic swim meet so it doesn't get gang banged by a few thousand randy tadpoles!
But those brave little fishy sperm "somehow" find the love-sick fish eggs in the open ocean, and they turn them into heroic "zygoes" that are like embryos who aren't even full-fledged fish yet!
Jeff Goldblum was right. Life finds a way!  _________________ ____________
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