@dougfunk15: If you paid a bit of attention in the Quick Look, you would have known that Jeff's issue was not that "the primitives talk funny", it's that "the primitives talk the way high-society western people imagine primitives talk."
I mean, Jeff directly said that the "Me Tarzan, ook ook" dialogue MIGHT work when a "tribal" is trying to speak their non-Native language (and then, it only works if you're living in the 1920s) but it's just lazy and immature when everyone is speaking the same damn language.
On Topic: I could get on board for Far Cry: Pokemon Beastmaster. Not at full price, because it's "just" another Far Cry game, but the animal interactions, setting, and "sticks banging on other stocks" soundtrack seem pretty neat.
Hey Ubisoft, remember when Far Cry 1 was about mad-scientists and genetically mutated supersoldiers and "tri-gen" monsters? Why can't we get a modern Far Cry like that?
I'm view it from the opposite angle. Language was not at all the same 12,000 years ago. Words likely had one simple form and meaning; you had to string them together to make sense, along with plenty of physical mimicry. This is sells speech like that to me. Just like subtitling in general has to convey meaning instead of perfect translations.
@humanity: I agree, but the characters annoyed the shit out of me. I just could not look past the dialogue. I don't know man, Transformers was a lot better experience for me, the first one.
@humanity: I am mostly talking about that female and her relationship with Idris Elba character. I am just venting, that's all.
One can easily get the wrong impression from Pacific Rim, especially if the action sequences don't sell it completely. It is a self-aware, hyper-dramatized action film that takes one extra step in all directions. The action, the speeches, the comic relief, the caricatures-- Ron Perlman's character must've been created through a group effort working out of the expression: campy menace.
Like B-movies, if you miss the overarching point, the film falls flat. Your negative opinion is warranted and Pacific Rim remains awesome.
These actors need just slightly less valium. And then they need some better sound production, instead of having all voices sound like they are in the same spot, being projected at the same volume, etc.
@ds9143:I see Jeff as someone with very specific tastes in video games. There is no room for niceties. Forget clothing opinions in nicer wrapping. Jeff states his intent clearly, something that forces the others to swing harder with their own opinions.
Here's what I picture Jeff as, but the picture is of a caricature without nuance. Jeff does concede his vehement claims at times.
Rahf's comments