They probably have to look up their mutual facebook friends to remember how they know her
April 9, 2018
6:33 am
Okay I actually liked PacRim 2 a lot, but I can’t stop thinking about this scene, it was so bizarre. They kept acting like this character was close friends with them but like… she had no personality, history, or apparent narrative purpose outside of maybe standing between John Boyega and Scott Eastwood to no-homo their characters while they flirted with each other?
She felt like the person who insists you went to high school together and you don’t want to admit you don’t remember them at all so you just play along.
“And I love you too, Random Citizen!”
Just watched that again yesterday. Underrated if you ask me.
Me, talking to the Game Master: I need to talk to someone & find out what’s going on. “Greetings, Generic Townsperson #32.”
:D
I had several such random events in my job at a bookstore. People thanking me for helping out searching for a title – but I’m not a salesperson, I’m IT. Random people looking into my office, saying things like “That helped me a lot! Keep up the good work!”, “Hi! Just wanted to return the favor!” or “Your tip was top!”. Or the occasional person who shrieks at my sight and runs away. No way I’m mistaking for anyone else in that store because I’m bigger, fatter and more sarcastic as the rest and have a quite unique face with a funny comic villain mustache. I get the shrieking and running away but not the thanking part.
do you have a sickeningly sweet co-worker who works sales? maybe they’re trying to “brighten your day” by asking the people they help to thank you instead.
Nah. They usually only see my practical effect when I’m not around to fix their blunders. Something like me does not have friends in sales. Just imagine the intranet of the company as a giant spiderweb and that big hairy spider sitting in the corner is me. With a funny mustache and less than eight legs.
Pacific Rim 2 is the only film I’ve seen in the cinema, that WHILE I WAS WATCHING IT, thought “This feels like 45 minutes of content was cut”.
That girl, and any backstory/character development was just one of them.
I’ve been familiar with the idea of characters having an unknown / unremembered / unrevealed history before…I’m not only a player of cinematic video games, but I’m also an old-school RP gamer since the early 80’s. If you want to try a good video game where you don’t even know *your* character’s struggles with not knowing their own history, try Planescape: Torment (based on the AD&D Forgotten Realms genre).
The game starts when you wake up in the morgue…Literally not even knowing as much as your own name. You still know how to talk, you can move around with the kind of familiarity of how your body works, but that’s it. The rest of the game is trying to figure out everything else. You even meet & interact with people that you’ve known before but you literally don’t remember them! Their attitude & opinion of *you* can change according to the way you interact with them *now* & even later in the game as you continue playing.
The great thing about that game is the outcome of the game depends on how you play the character…You actually determine what kind of personality your character becomes even as you learn the character’s forgotten history. The game takes full use of the AD&D Character Alignment system & the game progresses along different pathways according to how your behavior (your Alignment) is played…You can change Alignments if you change the way you, the player, play the character.
Not really a whole lot of video games take this into account…At best, they have a few different (but similar) pathway in the plot that’s still only a few points off from being railroaded into a mostly linear path. Planescape provides not only an overarching storyline for the entire game, but there’s a lot of subplots that all include a lot of pathways to play each subplot. You can control what kind of “personal history” your character develops into & how it fits in with the overall character’s “forgotten” history prior to starting the game.
In the old-school tabletop RP games it works much the same way, as your character’s Alignment can change according to how you play the character’s personality.
You are so right about Planescape Torment. Such a great game
Good old times with Morte… *Sigh!* Thanks for the reminder. and to those who don’t know that pearl of computer single player RPG : It’s always at a fair price on GOG.
With newer computers being as they are though, an older game like that might need an emulator like DOSBox or something to play it. I don’t recall for certain if Planescape: Torment (specifically) needs it, but a lot of older games do.
I’m going to be watching it later today, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that role.
Really weird. The movie even commented on it immediately afterwards.
And she had what, 3 or 4 scenes in total before this one.
…Is Nate wiping Jake’s cheek in that last panel? I can’t tell if its a shrug or he’s also wiping the kiss off, so to speak.
It’s a shrug, I didn’t have much time to make this.
I think its better with the implied wiping, just saying.
Yeah, it’s one of the old standby Coelasquid postures for sure.
Well, don’t ask me…I’m just a generic, mostly-unknown reader here…
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Jake flirted with her when they arrived, Nate did a little too… honestly I got serious poly vibes. As, well, Jake liking Lambert was *not* subtle.
I legit started using the phrase about well they are clearly drift compatible.
Honestly it felt like Nate was low key dating her but not wanting it to be a big thing because military installation and the drama with that being her making a point of inviting jake in if he brings her partner back for a good time.
Oh good, I wasn’t the only one getting those vibes. “He’s hot. And sexy.”
“Oh yeah, hey…When we come back, let’s celebrate our victory with a threesome.” (speaking under my breath) “Whoever the hell you are, you’re still cute.”
UGH, I’m just so disappointed that they managed to kill my interest in this movie completely. After seeing the first one, there was nothing I wanted more than a sequel, but little by little they managed to chip away at that wanting.
The world deserved a Pacific Rim 2 with Rinko Kikuchi’s Mako Mori taking center stage.
respectfully disagree. Pacific Rim 2 was so much better than the first one. Drift compatibility was pointless filler, I’m glad they got rid of it as much as they did.
I came to see robots fight with monsters. Pacific Rim 2 gave me just that.
Did it though? You don’t really get any Kaiju until near the end and the fights are a huge downgrade from the ones in the first movie. Plus the lighting in the first movie complimented the glow in the dark looks of the Kaiju while in this one they had a barely noticeable glow in the daytime.
The funny thing with drift compatibility is that they actually showed it as necessary to operating the Jaegers unlike the first movie where pilots keep managing to pilot the Jaegers without the co-pilot
In all cases it was shown that it only worked because the pilots in question were so single-minded in their goals that they were willing to risk permanent brain damage in doing so. And in one case, resulted in chronic nosebleeds for the rest of his life. They also showed that single-pilot Jaegers are much less responsive, slower, and in general less effective.
The fights were so much better in PR1, though. There the robots had mass. They punched something, and it was a 5-second process that ended with a blow that you could feel. Uprising, they fought like a martial arts flick. Fast movements, spins, even fencing. Which is fine for humans, but fundamentally doesn’t work for skyscraper-sized robots. It wasn’t a bad movie, but they definitely missed some of what made the first one great.
“Drift compatibility was pointless filler”
Wh-Bh- IT WAS THE MAIN THING EVERYONE TALKED ABOUT FOR LIKE A YEAR.
The world deserved a Pacific Rim that was actually like the first one. Where the story wasn’t like a Japanese live action flick and same for the action. Everything felt fake and off. Del Toro understood the source material and improved it for live action. This killed the series.
There is a reason Japanese live action is very niche.
What source material? Beyond the general idea of being inspired by Japanese media.
I’d say “source material” refers to the ideas fueling the script. Kaiju, giant robots, and the other general narrative threads.
I dunno, it sounds like the argument was being made in the assumption that the movie was based off of an existing property or genre. Maybe genre, but it still doesn’t quite fit as “source material”.
Pretty sure there is a base material, like a comic or a novel or something. A youtuber I like named Mr. H goes over various Kaiju stuff a lot. He also covers Godzilla and Judge Dredd stuff and a bunch of other things like that.
That’s the point of the joke. I the first scene with they set her up as the cliche female protagonist; the one you know is going to portrayed as overly tough but really is just there as romantic interest, and hey there is always the love triangle.
So like the rest of the parodical jokes in the movie they just go with it. She literally has no character, except this imagined love triangle. Leaving Amara as the actual female protagonist who doesn’t even have to worry about bringing up love interests
I kinda glossed over that and focused on the parts where giant robots punched other giant robots and monsters. Honestly, the only names I can recall are of the robots, not a single character.
So people keep using the word “good” in the vicinity of PacRim2 and Ready Player One, and it keeps giving me this painful twinge somewhere behind my eyeballs. It’s like a physical manifestation of “I’m curious but I ALREADY feel like I’m going to regret this”
You gotta realize that, nowadays, there’s multiple flavours of ‘good’. There’s “I don’t regret paying to see this in theatres, because it was a big, flashy spectacle and I had a good time” good, there’s “It made me think, and had a deep and compelling narrative” good, and there’s “It was true to the tone and feel of the IP it was based on” good, among others. Most movies focus on ONE of them- and if they do that part well, they generally get excused for failing or being lackluster at the rest.
I did a review of this (where I agree with Coelasquid’s twitter on this scene). My summary was:
Final review: It’s fun to watch. It’s no “Shape of Water” but, seriously, it’s giant mechs fighting alien monsters. What do you expect? I’m uncertain why people were expecting Schindler’s List. If you want to see a movie where you just want to have fun and can turn off your brain (or pull the stick out of your ass), this is a good fun popcorn movie. If you want deep characterization or a plot that provokes any form of thought (and, in some cases, contradict the previous movie) , you’re going to want to give this one a pass.
What I told my parents: “It has the same effect on your brain as taking pot. Except I won’t have to worry about failing a drug test and the high ends exactly at 2 hours.”
The what do you expect excuse has been used too many times to justify bad movies such as Transformers. Just because something has giant monsters or robots does not mean it should be lacking in most if not all other areas. The first movie with Del Toro got this.
I personally found that the Transformers series was only hindered by its occasional use of sophomoric humor. “Oiling” on a guy, dogs humping each other, Wheelie humping Mikaela, Devastator’s nads…
The action was good. The story was dumb in the right ways (until Age of Extinction). But this is highly subjective.
Nonetheless, Pacific Rim was a MUCH better movie.
This is EXACTLY why I loved the first PacRim and why I have such apprehensions about the sequel. The other plot lines were a little campy but they didn’t get in the way of watching Godzilla get suplexed. This one feels like it’s an excuse to put as many kaiju and jagers on the screen as possible to maximize merch potential.
Transformers is hot garbage because the main pull (giant robots punching each other) is ruined by bad choreography and motion blur. The obnoxious subplots are just insult to injury. Pacific Rim is GORGEOUS to look at and revels in the spectacle. The helicopters with spotlights that help everybody see what’s going on? Literally added as an afterthought to help the AUDIENCE see.
“It’s X what do you expect” is only a valid argument if the filmmakers have put proper effort to make “X” the best it can be.
I liked Ready Player One a lot more then I thought I would!! I’ve watched it twice already! PR2 wasn’t bad but it really didn’t live up to the first one.
Wait! I pulled that prank! I (with help from someone who did go to school with her) walked up to a woman in the mall and talked about having English class with her in high school.
“I sat two seats behind you.”
Nothing like a rousing game of gaslighting to keep strangers questioning their sanity.
Yeah, Uprising was good, but the original was so much better. I think her character was an attempt to add more female chars after complaints about how the only women in PR were Mako and the Russian pilot. They missed that they already had Amara and Victoria, they just needed to focus on their relationship more.
(also, until I checked the IMDB a few moments ago I was convinced that the white dude in this was either Raleigh Becket or Chuck Hansen from Pacific Rim. How has this series managed to cast 3 white dudes with absolutely no discernible differences in their personality or appearance?)
I’d have been worried if it was Chuck since he died in the first movie… but yeah he was pretty damn bland
dont we all have a moment when we meet with someone that you end asking yourself who is that?
My brain is malfunctioning and I can’t keep switching between seeing a guy with a thick upper lip or a guy with a tiny mouth yelling with his small tongue showing.
Lol, I see it! Also, oh, stop: she didn’t have much time to make this. I for one am continually amazed at Coela’s ability to keep putting things up for us no matter what monkey-wrench life throws at her that would make anyone else fail.
Oh well, I didn’t mean it as a critique, that’s why I mentioned it’s just my brain malfunctioning. I’ve honestly always admired her determination to update and keep quality top tier. I’ve followed many a webcom and this is one is the only I’ve met impeccably constant, even with broken bones!
To echo the sentiments of other comments, the movie felt like it was a compilation movie a tv series we never saw. In some other universe there’s a 13 episode Pacific Rim Uprising TV Show but only the edited for theaters version made it to ours.
Oohh, I saw the movie in 4DX, there are only 2 in the US, and I work away from one of them. Dr. Strange was absolutely amazing in 4dx
Haha, I assumed I didn’t know her because she might have had a role in pt1 (only saw 2 lol)
Yeah, I’m reminded of the romances in Bloodsport and Top Gun. In both movies they were pretty much making gay love-stories about gay macho guys, but because it was the 80’s they had to desperately add in a woman to prevent it being obvious. Even though in both films the male leads have way more sexual chemistry with the other men.
Yeah, she was weird. I enjoyed the movie but I feel like there was a lot they could have done better. The kids being the big damn heroes in the end was great, I loved that, but other than a few scenes, they didn’t have much character development. They could have really added a lot there.
I’m very happy it wasn’t a two and a half hour movie (it was generally nicely taut) but yeah does leave some things undeveloped.
At least it didn’t go all Pearl Harbor with a love triangle instead of the robots, though.
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Feels more like a parody of forced relationships in movies.
This, along with a lot of other weird aspects of the film, was the product of Chinese influence on the production.
The first movie was popular, but didn’t do well enough for the studios to want to pony up the cash to make a sequel with Guillermo del Torro. But it turns out Pacific Rim did really well in China, and that there were Chinese investors willing to fund a sequel – provided that certain changes were made, and certain restrictions followed.
Hence this weird character. She really does literally exist purely to undercut potential homo-eroticism, which is a big no-no in Chinese films. They couldn’t allow two male characters to share a kiss, but they could just manage to squeak by with an indirect kiss transmitted by a female character.
am I the only one who thinks that scott’s “whatever” gesture in the last panel makes it look like he’s wiping the kiss off of john’s cheek with his thumb? XD
She is in a Poly Relationship, and has Face Blindness people all over the base get the same treatment and are just as confused. She is just around them more often.
I think my biggest problem with Pacific Rim 2 is me. Its like the older I get the louder this voice in the back of my head gets that screams about civilian body counts.
There is a scene where they say “All civilians are underground you are free to engage”. Bullshit they are, you see how fast those pod drove into the ground there are dozens if not hundreds of people laying in the street maimed by the safety shelter. If you honestly expected that we were going to get attacked by the Precursors again then why do I need to run to a shelter pod down the street and not into the nearest building or subway station.
I loved the movie, it was a great popcorn movie but I spent the entire time thinking this is bullshit that ice is never going to hold, what is with all the sliding, why are the only named characters to die Asian.
Big question, why is your special sword move a sliding slice to the torso? like you just slid under his swords so you attack the ribs rather then stab it in the groin or cut off one of its legs at the knee?
I loved the idea about how you only need to drift if you have a big Jaeger, but if the subplot to this film was that the little guy can help then why didn’t Gypsy Avenger just Fastball Special Scrapper into the end monster’s mouth and let it blast the brain from the inside?
This movie was… Something… Usually whenever I go to watch movies like this, where I’m in just for the fun of it and don’t want to even care for the plot and such, I kind of shut down my brain to all the weird stuff to happens… But this movie, even for the clichés of the giant robot fighting genre was trying to be just ride high on a rainbow road for the moon and the went full drift on the way down crashing over an orphanage filled with the cliché heroes of said genre… I felt like half the movie was missing with how random the cuts where, and it just ends without saying anything, just a (and I can’t belive I’m saying this) half-assed attempt at setting a future movie that in all honestly don’t think would fly… Did I enjoy the movie? Yeah, but in all honesty it was even less than what I was originally expecting… And my expectations where low from the get go…
So, you’re saying that she ‘drifts’ in and out of your conversations? Maybe she’s just trying to demonstrate how ‘compatible’ she is with you.
Must be an army groupie…
The technical term is ‘camp follower’.
Hah! Good one.
Couple of things:
Newt – I (and my daughter who likes this stuff) was genuinely creeped out when Newt drifted with his Kaiju brain. I guess we just have an issue with kaijusexuals. Call us intolerant. However, in the end, he made a really good bad guy, although I cannot fathom how that guy found him in that huge city.
Mega-Kaiju – the previews seemed to indicate that the creature did a Transformers style combine, which had me extremely worried. But Newt using his bots to sew them together made much more sense. My only question is why he didn;t just use them to swarm the jaegers? Would have made much more sense. Probably fodder for one of the “How it should have ended” youtube videos.
I HATED the premise that the kaiju were all trying to get to Mt. Fuji. That just struck me as a dumb and lazy retcon. If the kaiju were all heading there, then why go through Manilla, San Francisco, Seattle, or ALASKA!!! Made absolutely no sense to me and tbh, nearly ruined a relatively good movie.
This confused me for so long until i watched Pacific Rim.
Even now I’m confused.