Guillermo del Toro’s
Pacific Rim and its sequel film are nonsensical smackdowns inspired by classic tokusatsu stories and giant-robot anime. They’re premised on an endless conflict between giant military-owned robots called Jaegers and equally enormous monsters called kaiju. Both movies featured paper-thin plots, designed to bring these two forces to blows.
Once the creatures and mecha are locked in combat, the films provide a fun spectacle filled with cheesy lines and campy
Power Rangers-esque villains. The films gleefully center on cliché action-movie lines like “Today we are cancelling the apocalypse.” Main characters can be sacrificed at a moment’s notice, as long as their deaths read as heroic.
Pacific Rim: The Black has released a new, and presumably final trailer ahead of its big premiere on Netflix. Pacific Rim s film franchise might currently be at a standstill for now if recent updates are to be believed, but at least it s not marking an end for the franchise overall. Because of [.]
Pacific Rim: The Black Releases New Posters and Stills
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Pacific Rim helped breathe new life into kaiju flicks upon its debut, and its legacy continues to influence the genre today. Right now, the series promises to live on all thanks to Netflix and its plans to adapt the franchise in an anime.
Pacific Rim: The Black. The streaming service uploaded four new posters for the anime with each one featuring a different monster. It seems these are the kaiju that plunged Australia into chaos within the show, so fans better get used to seeing them.
Of course, that was not all. Netflix went on to release a poster that showcases the Jaeger used in