The Spoileriffic Pacific Rim Open Thread

[jhameia]

BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!

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Please DO click and read and reply if you want to talk about ERRTHING in the movie.

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Comments

Re: Hannibal Chau

[jhameia]

Hannibal is def not a character we should care about tho; they set him up to be an untrustworthy asshole from the start, which would've been resolved only by a twist whereby he proves himself trustworthy and thus redeemed, therefore someone we can respect, OR he meets his comeuppance, and we def got the latter. He was a "just for gags" type character except without the emotional investment one might have in the NerdBros.

Re: Hannibal Chau

[nyarlathotep]

Perelman actually said that he was playing the character as a larger-than-life — even the stinger scene (during the credits) of him slicing himself out of the kaiju was supposed to indicate that he was supposed to be a Magnificent Bastard.

Perelman couldn’t pull it off. He just seemed small and petty and more than a little annoying.

Re: Hannibal Chau

[jhameia]

Haha yeah, he doesn't really seem larger-than-life to me either, but he was a lot of laughs.