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Mechanical Monsters: Movie Analysis

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Alex Smith
Samantha Frye
ENG 102
18 February 2015
Mechanical Monsters Wondering what a war between humans and sea creatures is not often something a person thinks about on a daily basis, but with more robotic movies being released every year, including more robots themselves being built to take a part on earth, there was bound to eventually be a film with human controlling robots in war against deadly sea creatures. If film watchers were eventually expecting such happenings, Guillermo Del Toro’s action-packed Pacific Rim, Produced July 12 of 2013, is the perfect example. The portrayals in the movie are very well input and give great interest in the movie. Even for a girl the film was seemingly interesting with constant action and no downtime whatsoever. The scientific film, released in 2013, is about monstrous sea creatures multiple times larger than Godzilla, known as the Kaiju, that destroy some of the largest cities of the world while taking the lives of thousands of people. Massive, almost defenseless robots known as Jaegers (German for hunter), are created and run by two pilots …show more content…

If one is actually following the story line intently you inadvertently pay more attention to the details of the film. Pacific Rim captures the imagination with its impeccable graphics and never ending action scenes that keep you entertained throughout the films entirety. There have been many films released in the past several years and that are still being released today that involve battles between man-made machines and people against giant creatures of earth and also alien creatures such as, Cowboys and Aliens (2011), The Avengers (2012), Avatar (2009), Godzilla (2014), and many more. While these films are similar to Pacific Rim in areas, this Guillermo Del Toro film has exceeded the expectations for a Sci-Fi film

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