Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
Warm, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
Our read · Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Pacific Rim
What watching it is actually like.
“You want giant robots punching kaiju with neon Saturday-morning energy.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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