Guillermo del Toro's Kaiju Vs. Robots Movie

I assume this will be the final nail in the coffin for The Mountains of Madness.

this is exactly what i've been thinking profound sadness

I think at the core of his inability to get At the Mountains of Madness made, which I would love to see happen, is what plagues most Hollywood movies these days; massive budgets, which equal massive expectations of financial success for the studios.

GDT wanted 150 million to make Mountains of Madness, and even with Tom Cruise as the lead to help attract audiences, HPL is not mainstream. Sure, it can be a great film without audiences needing to know it's an HPL novella, but studios want more assurances these days for that kind of budget. For Pacific Rim, the studio can bank on shit-loads of licensing deals for merchandise before the film is even shot so they can make up some of the budget. Hey, I'd love to see Lego sets of "The Elder Things" and the Antartic city but that level of licensing wouldn't happen with Mountains of Madness. ; )

District 9's Neill Blomkamp had a budget of $30 million and it looked incredible AND made huge profits.
I have to believe GDT can drastically bring his budget down if he really wants to make Mountains of madness.
He's worked with shoestring budgets in the past to get the movies he really wants to make made, I'm sure he can do it again.

I had no idea Guillermo Del Toro was asking 150 million for "Mountains of Madness" or that Tom Cruise was attached to the project. It seems like a story you could do for far less and that probably help make it more true to the book(Good point about District 9 Ralph). I was disappointed when the film was canned but would rather wait for a Tom Cruise free version.

Back to Pacific Rim...My girlfriend and I saw it last week and had a blast. We both went in expecting a Giant Monsters Vs. Huge Robots and the film delivered just that. We both would like a sequel to happen but if this is all we get that's fine.

Saw it this weekend and it's just another movie to support my opinion that GdT is vastly over-rated.

When I hear "Giant Robots vs. Giant Monsters" I don't care who's behind it, I assume all substance and story has been burned to death with no remorse. And I'm OK with that.

This! I hope they make more.

I hope they make more.

Me too ! And judging from the overseas box office, it will happen. China gave it the highest grossing WB single day box office at 9 mil, and its done over $140 mil as of last weekend overseas, plus $80 mil domestic = sequel

I hope they make more.

Me too ! And judging from the overseas box office, it will happen. China gave it the highest grossing WB single day box office at 9 mil, and its done over $140 mil as of last weekend overseas, plus $80 mil domestic = sequel

I hope so. Im tired of comic book movies.

http://www.teefury.com/

The teefury shirt for the next 24 hours is pacific rim robots versus godzilla monsters.

Pretty cool.

Bonus points for "real" kaiju!

I hope they make more.

Me too ! And judging from the overseas box office, it will happen. China gave it the highest grossing WB single day box office at 9 mil, and its done over $140 mil as of last weekend overseas, plus $80 mil domestic = sequel

They've already discussed a sequel. The humans use the drift to tap deeper into the minds of kaiju and use them as weapons against other kaiju. Supposedly, of course.

http://www.teefury.com/

The teefury shirt for the next 24 hours is pacific rim robots versus godzilla monsters.

Pretty cool.

Got 'em. Thx for the heads-up.

http://www.teefury.com/

The teefury shirt for the next 24 hours is pacific rim robots versus godzilla monsters.

Pretty cool.

Both are great! Got one of each

I hope they make more.

Me too ! And judging from the overseas box office, it will happen. China gave it the highest grossing WB single day box office at 9 mil, and its done over $140 mil as of last weekend overseas, plus $80 mil domestic = sequel

They've already discussed a sequel. The humans use the drift to tap deeper into the minds of kaiju and use them as weapons against other kaiju. Supposedly, of course.

That makes me happy

toy shopping with del toro

^ Thanks for posting Michael ! I freaking love Guillermo. The look on his face in the store when he's holding all his boxes of toys is priceless. I think we can all relate

This makes me love the movie even more. Thanks so much for posting.
How he would not let go of the Baltan?! So cute!

I want to see his two houses (!) full of monsters!

^ The Criterion version of Guillermo's film 'Cronos' has a mindblowing tour of his 'Bleak House'. Here's a snippet...

that toy shop video is totally worth it...thx.

^ The Criterion version of Guillermo's film 'Cronos' has a mindblowing tour of his 'Bleak House'. Here's a snippet...

Awesome. Thanks!

Don't think this has been posted yet, but I'm sure I'm not the only one this will make all giggly:
Pacific Rim (Fan-Made Trailer) in TOHO Godzilla style 「パシフィック・リム 東宝ゴジラ的予告編」

I really liked Pacific Rim.
Anybody go out and by the NECA toys?
I'm looking forward to the 18" Gypsy Danger.
I wonder how many Jaegers and Kaiju they will produce.
So far there is Series 1 and 2.

PR gets the classic Toho kaiju poster treatment.

PR gets the classic Toho kaiju poster treatment.

why?

Why..What? Quit trolling and editing your posts.

FUY4RVHED;GRJ

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classic toho with pac rim font not good enough? quit editing your posters?
???

Anyway... good quality downloads of this have popped up over the past couple of days. I guess iTunes released it early or something? I'll be buying the DVD anyway so I don't feel bad talking about this haha.. Good viewing for this weekend!!