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Pacific Rim: Jaegerbomb Edition
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Original Release Date:
2013
Original Running Time:
131
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Fanedit Running Time:
98
Time Cut:
33
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Brief Synopsis:
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
Pacific Rim is one of the best and most memorable films from Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy), and is easily the best 'monsters vs. giant robots' movie to date. However, as imaginative as Del Toro's film is, it suffers from a flawed and distracting subplot involving a pair of over-the-top scientists. This cut removes the superfluos material to keep the movie focused on the Jaegers, their pilots and their Kaiju nemesis.
Pacific Rim is one of the best and most memorable films from Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy), and is easily the best 'monsters vs. giant robots' movie to date. However, as imaginative as Del Toro's film is, it suffers from a flawed and distracting subplot involving a pair of over-the-top scientists. This cut removes the superfluos material to keep the movie focused on the Jaegers, their pilots and their Kaiju nemesis.
Intention:
I really loved this movie when I first saw it; it's everything a great time at the movies should be, something that's all too lacking in today's cinema. The core storyline was pretty good involving a washed up Jaeger pilot coming back to combat giant sea-monsters and destroy their portal into the world. However, the movie suffered from a long, complicated second storyline involving organ harvesting and bad humor which was really not crucial to the plot. By excising this subplot, the narrative flows much better and is more straightforward and serious. This is Pacific Rim as I prefer it, and hopefully you'll enjoy it too.
Special Thanks:
Original cover art by Richard Davies from cromeyellow.com/blurrpy. Additional art by Marie Bergeron and Peter Gutierrez from cromeyellow.com. Thanks to everyone on fanedit.org for supporting this project.
Release Information:
Digital
Editing Details:
Adobe Premiere Pro CC to edit Pacific Rim Blu-Ray
Cuts and Additions:
1. After the prologue, removed unimpressive title card and replaced with recut and reordered sequence from end credits along with Ramin Djawadi's theme to form opening credits.
2. Removed introduction of Dr Gottlieb and Dr Geizler in the elevator
3. Cut scene of Gottlieb and Geizler arguing in lab
4. Cut Chuck bullying Raleigh in the cafeteria ( In a movie full of giant monsters, we don't need a high school bully)
5. Cut Geizler's kaiju mind meld
6. Cut Stacker interviewing Geizler post-mind meld
7. Cut Geizler's Hannibal Chau briefing by Stacker
8. Brought the second flashback of Mako (which happens later during a conversation between Raleigh and Stacker in the original) forward to happen during the initial drift, so that the entire childhood trauma sequence flows as one scene
9. Cut unnecessary fistfight between Chuck and Raleigh (Jaeger-Kaiju fistfight later is more interesting)
10. Cut everyone avoiding Mako and Raleigh in the highschool cafeteria
11. Cut Hannibal Chau's introduction
12. Cut Hannibal Chau's monologue before the first battle. I left brief shots of a rainy and quiet Hong Kong night in to contrast the noisy battle at sea.
13. Cut Geizler running on the street to avoid the kaiju destroying Hong Kong
14. Shortened the bunker sequence to have Geizler trip and fall during a rumble. In this version, Charlie Day's character is a random pedestrian who is almost eaten by the kaiju. not some mystical mind-melder. The motivation for the kaiju to come out of the rift is not to look for Geizler, but to destroy humanity. This was just a bad subplot that was excised.
15. Cut Hannibal Chau and Geizler being attacked by the baby kaiju (this sequence was probably done for humor-- didn't really work)
16. Cut Geizler's and Gottlieb's second mind meld
17. Removed Gottlieb and Geizler from the final bridge scenes. Gottlieb can be seen in the background in most scenes but has no lines. Geizler is removed from as many frames as possible or blurred out when in the background to avoid recognition from the bunker scene.
18. Removed the 'genetic link' subplot where the scientists tell the crew they need to take a kaiju with them to the breach. Raleigh's line "You guys better be right" replaced with music and sfx tracks.
19. Cut the play-by-play commentary the bridge crew give after Gipsy Danger crosses the breach (ie. "He's giving her oxygen" while Raleigh gives Mako O2; "He's doing this.." etc. We can see what's going on and don't need a running commentary). The only bit I kept was when they say Raleigh ejected Mako out of the Jaeger because the hologram was cool.
20. Cut the "is-he-dead" suspense at the end
21. Cut the Hannibal Chau teaser at the end
2. Removed introduction of Dr Gottlieb and Dr Geizler in the elevator
3. Cut scene of Gottlieb and Geizler arguing in lab
4. Cut Chuck bullying Raleigh in the cafeteria ( In a movie full of giant monsters, we don't need a high school bully)
5. Cut Geizler's kaiju mind meld
6. Cut Stacker interviewing Geizler post-mind meld
7. Cut Geizler's Hannibal Chau briefing by Stacker
8. Brought the second flashback of Mako (which happens later during a conversation between Raleigh and Stacker in the original) forward to happen during the initial drift, so that the entire childhood trauma sequence flows as one scene
9. Cut unnecessary fistfight between Chuck and Raleigh (Jaeger-Kaiju fistfight later is more interesting)
10. Cut everyone avoiding Mako and Raleigh in the highschool cafeteria
11. Cut Hannibal Chau's introduction
12. Cut Hannibal Chau's monologue before the first battle. I left brief shots of a rainy and quiet Hong Kong night in to contrast the noisy battle at sea.
13. Cut Geizler running on the street to avoid the kaiju destroying Hong Kong
14. Shortened the bunker sequence to have Geizler trip and fall during a rumble. In this version, Charlie Day's character is a random pedestrian who is almost eaten by the kaiju. not some mystical mind-melder. The motivation for the kaiju to come out of the rift is not to look for Geizler, but to destroy humanity. This was just a bad subplot that was excised.
15. Cut Hannibal Chau and Geizler being attacked by the baby kaiju (this sequence was probably done for humor-- didn't really work)
16. Cut Geizler's and Gottlieb's second mind meld
17. Removed Gottlieb and Geizler from the final bridge scenes. Gottlieb can be seen in the background in most scenes but has no lines. Geizler is removed from as many frames as possible or blurred out when in the background to avoid recognition from the bunker scene.
18. Removed the 'genetic link' subplot where the scientists tell the crew they need to take a kaiju with them to the breach. Raleigh's line "You guys better be right" replaced with music and sfx tracks.
19. Cut the play-by-play commentary the bridge crew give after Gipsy Danger crosses the breach (ie. "He's giving her oxygen" while Raleigh gives Mako O2; "He's doing this.." etc. We can see what's going on and don't need a running commentary). The only bit I kept was when they say Raleigh ejected Mako out of the Jaeger because the hologram was cool.
20. Cut the "is-he-dead" suspense at the end
21. Cut the Hannibal Chau teaser at the end
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User reviews
13 reviews
Overall rating
9.5
Audio/Video Quality
9.7(13)
Audio Editing
9.5(13)
Visual Editing
9.7(13)
Narrative
9.1(13)
Enjoyment
9.4(13)
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
So I'm a massive Pacific Rim fan, to the point where I can actually enjoy the sequel as a dumb cash grab that still has good action. However, even for people who don't already love the film, this is a masterpiece. There are a couple of things I'd like to see stay in the film, such as keeping more of Gottlieb, but this has absolutely replaced the original for me and has made me put this at the bottom of my planned edits, to make sure that my skills are worthy of this edit.
The key change to this film is that Gottlieb and Newton's research subplot has been cut out entirely and so the focus has been tightened onto the pilots and their relationships with the machines as well as each other. This also helps to give the radiation's effects on Pentecost the chance to be seen, still not as much as I'd like but I don't think there are any other scenes (either deleted or cut) to give this more screentime.
I'm very new to the scene, but even so the technical quality seems absolutely perfect.
The key change to this film is that Gottlieb and Newton's research subplot has been cut out entirely and so the focus has been tightened onto the pilots and their relationships with the machines as well as each other. This also helps to give the radiation's effects on Pentecost the chance to be seen, still not as much as I'd like but I don't think there are any other scenes (either deleted or cut) to give this more screentime.
I'm very new to the scene, but even so the technical quality seems absolutely perfect.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
O
Overall rating
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
9.0
Enjoyment
10.0
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
F
Overall rating
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
9.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Gargantuan mechas battling gargantuan monsters—these are the ingredients for Awesome Sauce, except for what felt like a gargantuan theatrical run time. (I fell asleep watching the original version, but in my defense, I had just escaped three weeks of sleepless torment by the Porcupine People, bastards one and all.)
In comes Ranger Kris with his nuclear-powered buzz saw, and gone is more than half an hour of bloat, leaving a lean popcorn flick that's, by gosh, even popcornier. I would have preferred even more slicing, including the already thin father-pilot-son-pilot subplot. Also, some judicious cutting could have eliminated the telecommunication between the Shatterdome control room and the pilots who crossed over to the kaiju dimension, because really, you don't want Facebook to know what you're doing over there.
The addition of the faneditor's name at the start and end of the movie was notable for being stylish and bold, as it should be in a movie of this sort. Image quality was superb except for the credits, which were juddery as hell. But fuck, who cares about the credits? Because there be monsters and robots to behold.
This is the kind of movie I would have fapped to in my childhood. As soon as I take over the Porcupine People's time machine, I'm going back to deliver this fanedit to my six-year-old self, who probably won't know what to do with the USB stick. Guess I've got a to haul a flat screen, too.
In comes Ranger Kris with his nuclear-powered buzz saw, and gone is more than half an hour of bloat, leaving a lean popcorn flick that's, by gosh, even popcornier. I would have preferred even more slicing, including the already thin father-pilot-son-pilot subplot. Also, some judicious cutting could have eliminated the telecommunication between the Shatterdome control room and the pilots who crossed over to the kaiju dimension, because really, you don't want Facebook to know what you're doing over there.
The addition of the faneditor's name at the start and end of the movie was notable for being stylish and bold, as it should be in a movie of this sort. Image quality was superb except for the credits, which were juddery as hell. But fuck, who cares about the credits? Because there be monsters and robots to behold.
This is the kind of movie I would have fapped to in my childhood. As soon as I take over the Porcupine People's time machine, I'm going back to deliver this fanedit to my six-year-old self, who probably won't know what to do with the USB stick. Guess I've got a to haul a flat screen, too.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
S
Overall rating
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
9.0
Audio Editing
9.0
Visual Editing
9.0
Narrative
8.0
Enjoyment
9.0
Thank you RangerKris! :]X
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
A
Overall rating
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
9.0
Audio Editing
8.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Loved it!
The pace is great and no time wasted on mediocre humor. The cuts have left a few inconsistencies, blood on Raleigh's face after Mako's meltdown in the Jaeger for example and no real explanation of the mean looks between Raleigh and Rob, sorry I mean Chuck. But this doesn't really detract from the action.
I agree that the bunker scene seemed out of place, no explanation of why everyone backed away from him and why the Kaiju would be trying to get him, I feel it could have been cut with no detriment to the story.
The video quality was excellent but the audio seemed a bit overblown in a few places earlier in the movie, both on my tablet and on my PC.
Overall though a good edit and one I'll return to in the future.
The pace is great and no time wasted on mediocre humor. The cuts have left a few inconsistencies, blood on Raleigh's face after Mako's meltdown in the Jaeger for example and no real explanation of the mean looks between Raleigh and Rob, sorry I mean Chuck. But this doesn't really detract from the action.
I agree that the bunker scene seemed out of place, no explanation of why everyone backed away from him and why the Kaiju would be trying to get him, I feel it could have been cut with no detriment to the story.
The video quality was excellent but the audio seemed a bit overblown in a few places earlier in the movie, both on my tablet and on my PC.
Overall though a good edit and one I'll return to in the future.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
S