This blogger is about a day late and a million and a half plays late for posting Del Toro’s latest trailer for his upcoming mecha versus monster movie: Pacific Rim. There was a chance that this post could gain some cred by saying; “Yup! That really is GLAdOS, the AI from Portal”… but everyone knows that too.
The actress and opera singer Ellen McLain does have a role in the movie – as another AI.
Not bad, not bad at all!
Many of Geek Native’s readers will watch this trailer and think “Evangelion”. I don’t think that’s unfair. The movie feels very similar. As one person tweeted; “So, Pacific Rim is like Evangelion but without the whiny kids? Count me in.”
I think Del Toro’s designs for the alien monsters will be superb but I think the mechs will be just as good. The trailer does seem to show mankind fighting back against the beasts. From what I understand of the plot that’s a bit misleading. The movie picks up with mankind on the verge of defeat.
