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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

The thing that's such I love in this movie is the sense of scale here, which is something, oddly enough I don't consider much when I watch giant monster movies, but there was just something beautiful about how heavy the mechs felt, like every time they moved it felt like that scene in Jurassic Park when we first see the Brachiosauruses, just this majestic feeling of awe. Or, as someone who grew up on the Showa Era Godzilla films, it was almost like watching those again in a completely new way, it carried that spirit of old Tokusatsu with it, and that's how I've come to understand why that made this move so good.

Yeah, the sheer scale and weight of the Jaegars and Kaiju was definitely emphasized alot more in the first movie, though me personally I just took everything moving at a faster pace in the second one as just a result of the technology advancing. It felt kinda like comparing old school Gundam to modern Gundam in that sense.

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And you know what? I actually have nothing against you enjoying Uprising. In fact, I'm almost glad that there are people who can find it in themselves to enjoy things commonly seen in negative light (look at me, I like the 1998 Godzilla and the Star Wars Prequels).

I too enjoy the Star Wars prequels. They're not like, top tier cinema or anything, but I enjoyed them for that they were.

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My issue with Uprising happens to be the tone, where the first felt like a true love letter to Kaiju and Mecha fans, keeping a somewhat serious tone and adding interesting flair to this kind of story, and some really great cinematography. While Uprising feels like a parody of said things, unable to really understand why Kaiju and Mecha are so beloved. Sure, there's the lack of weight to the Jaegers, sure, the plot feels like what people think the genre is about, and sure it is very much a Hollywood Franchise Bait movie, and there are things I can appreciate, like the Kaiju and Jeager designs, or the one that looks based off Ultraman, and the Kaiju Drones are a neat concept, but it just didn't work out for me. And yet despite how much I'm not a fan of this movie, there are movies that are lower on my list of bad movies, and also because I don't hold grudges that often.

Yeah, the balancing of the tone could've definitely been handled better. I think what helped in my particular case is that, while I do feel a handful of the humor was ill-timed, I've seen way worse when it comes to that sort of thing? Heck, at the very least none of the jokes outright annoyed me in Uprising, like how the humor in, say, Far From Home did(hot take I know).

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For something wholesome, though I'm afraid I can't find a video of it, there was an interview Guiellermo Del Torro did in Japan, and Pigmon shows up and he got really excited and was asking the interviewer to take a picture of him and Pigmon, saying "He's my favorite!" it's really sweet, and funny how he's also a huge Ultraman fan.

That's adorable! I can definitely see why people classify these movies under the Toku banner after having seen them! And I hope that The Black only leans more into that.