Pacific Rim

[Simond]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/306421-pacific-rim-2-set-for-april-7-2017#/slide/1

Previously teased earlier this month when director Guillermo del Toro revealed that he was writing a script for the film with Zak Penn, Legendary Pictures and Universal Studios have revealed that Pacific Rim 2 will debut in 3D and IMAX 3D  theaters on April 7, 2017.

"The characters I love will return," del Toro told BuzzFeed in a statement. "Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau – but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we’re ready to have a blast."

In addition, del Toro and Legendary debuted a video in which he announced not only the forthcoming sequel but an animated series and a continuation of the Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero prequel graphic novel.

 

[Riggswolfe]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/306421-pacific-rim-2-set-for-april-7-2017#/slide/1

Previously teased earlier this month when director Guillermo del Toro revealed that he was writing a script for the film with Zak Penn, Legendary Pictures and Universal Studios have revealed that Pacific Rim 2 will debut in 3D and IMAX 3D  theaters on April 7, 2017.

"The characters I love will return," del Toro told BuzzFeed in a statement. "Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau – but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we’re ready to have a blast."

In addition, del Toro and Legendary debuted a video in which he announced not only the forthcoming sequel but an animated series and a continuation of the Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero prequel graphic novel.

 

I quite enjoyed that movie when I watched it on Cable a couple of weeks ago. That said, I don't remember a single character name from the movie.

[Merusk]

The characters were secondary, anyway. You were only supposed to enjoy monsters & robots duking it out.  Which is why doing all the fights in rain and darkness was the worst part of the movie.

But we had that whole discussion pages and pages ago.

[Abagadro]

I think part of that was that theaters keep their bulbs too low and/or 3d darkens it. I watched it on TV the other day and it was much less murky in those scenes and I don't exactly have my tv on a high brightness setting.

[SurfD]

I think part of that was that theaters keep their bulbs too low and/or 3d darkens it. I watched it on TV the other day and it was much less murky in those scenes and I don't exactly have my tv on a high brightness setting.

Yeah, standard digital projection still has a ways to go to catch up with celluloid film projection in many regards.  Image brightness with 3d projection being a major one, since most 3d systems have to deal with both the 3D Filter and the Glases acting to reduce the precieved brightness of the image.  You really have to crank the bulb brightness up on a Digital 3D movie to make them look the same way a normal movie would.   That's why I try to watch most of my major 3D movies in IMAX, since IMAX Digital 3D uses dual projectors for Image projection, as well as using a more powerful bulb in general.  But then, IMAX 3D does have its own idiosyncrasies to deal with.

[jgsugden]

I have a very nice 55 incher from Samsung (2014 top of the line) and it still looked too dark and murky to me when I flicked by to watch a couple battle scenes on HBO.  Regardless, I'm not going to be too excited unless they spend a bit more energy developing characters that I want to follow... if I want to see robots fight hideous monsters, I'll just go visit my WASP of a mom and beast of a dad.