Pacific Rim 4K UHD (2013)

[AreaFive]

I ordered this yesterday and was shocked to see it arrive with y-seal shrink wrap and a slip which somehow arrived without even a crushed corner despite being in a thin plastic mailer. I've clearly used all my good Amazon luck for the year

[TitusTroy]

I finally bought this disc today...I wanted a full screen 4k HDR demo disc

[Juan127]

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

I finally bought this disc today...I wanted a full screen 4k HDR demo disc

Finally is an understatement lol

Def a top 5 disc to demo.

[levcore]

The 3D in this movie is amazing but I'd love to see the 4K disc one day, I have the sequel on both formats.

[tcripe]

Watched this on my brand new OLED yesterday and my jaw literally hit the floor.

[Juan127]

Originally Posted by tcripe

Watched this on my brand new OLED yesterday and my jaw literally hit the floor.

Hell yea!

[Scarriere]

I've seen this movie enough times that I didn't feel the need to upgrade to 4K.
But the positive comments here made me order it moments ago. And it seems like it's a bit over priced.
Dang it you guys.

[ewsjr]

You won't be sorry.

[KubrickKurasawa]

Not many movies I'd rather watch over Jurassic Park 1, Godzilla, The Transformers, but this is the one to watch if you ask me. It's Brute Force Entertainment and Good Nostalgic A/V Feast for the Eyes and Ears.

4K = a 9 .... 3-D = a 10
Audio = a 9 hits over 5-8MBps consistently. Quick sloppy math but that's 600kbps-1MBps per channel roughly all the way through this movie on a 7.1 set up LOL Hope you spent 200.00 or more per speaker and sub I wish I could spend more, and get a more powerful receiver ... but times are tight for now. Plus it gives me a reason to move that volume dial to at least 50% power. If I was home alone probably be at 80% right now LOL. Great Mix such good clean dialog...Nothing like TENET LOL.

[Dark City Denizen]

I have both the 4K & 3D editions & each is as good as the other, just in different ways. They nailed both formats for this movie.

[Scarriere]

Originally Posted by ewsjr

You won't be sorry.

I sure the heck ain't!
I watched this last night...fn WOW!!

Originally Posted by KubrickKurasawa

Not many movies I'd rather watch over Jurassic Park 1, Godzilla, The Transformers, but this is the one to watch if you ask me. It's Brute Force Entertainment and Good Nostalgic A/V Feast for the Eyes and Ears.

4K = a 9 .... 3-D = a 10
Audio = a 9 hits over 5-8MBps consistently. Quick sloppy math but that's 600kbps-1MBps per channel roughly all the way through this movie on a 7.1 set up LOL Hope you spent 200.00 or more per speaker and sub I wish I could spend more, and get a more powerful receiver ... but times are tight for now. Plus it gives me a reason to move that volume dial to at least 50% power. If I was home alone probably be at 80% right now LOL. Great Mix such good clean dialog...Nothing like TENET LOL.

Feast for the eyes and ears is a great analogy!

This movie is reference!

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by Dark City Denizen

I have both the 4K & 3D editions & each is as good as the other, just in different ways. They nailed both formats for this movie.

Like what you like
For me 3D on a 100+ inch 1080p home projector hid the cgi better. Hence 10

People in 4K foreground and those 1080p buildings look blurrier and it's an easy tell. Just look at the cover building LOL I love this movie.



But if you don't know the back drops cgi it wouldn't matter. But I grew up on Rampage for the NES and Arcade LOL It's a game made by Midway before Mortal Kombat series. Terrible looking buildings in the background LOL

[Dark City Denizen]

Originally Posted by KubrickKurasawa

Like what you like
For me 3D on a 100+ inch 1080p home projector hid the cgi better. Hence 10

People in 4K foreground and those 1080p buildings look blurrier and it's an easy tell. Just look at the cover building LOL I love this movie.



But if you don't know the back drops cgi it wouldn't matter. But I grew up on Rampage for the NES and Arcade LOL It's a game made by Midway before Mortal Kombat series. Terrible looking buildings in the background LOL

& I like the size of your TV, Sir. 100”, shit. One day. One day.

[Azuride]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

I ordered this yesterday and was shocked to see it arrive with y-seal shrink wrap and a slip which somehow arrived without even a crushed corner despite being in a thin plastic mailer. I've clearly used all my good Amazon luck for the year

Same. Ordered Pacific Rim 4k from Amazon when it restocked a few weeks ago ( still in stock, now at a better price than I paid for ) and it arrived last night with immaculate slipcover and the shrinkwrap.

Very satisfied with UPS not destroying the slip during the shipping process. I'll watch the movie tomorrow evening. Haven't seen the film since theaters in 2013.

tl;dr Amazon selling 4K Pacific Rim at decent price, with slipcover. In case anyone is interested.

[cheez avenger]

Finally got around to watching this on 4K disc and this is one of the holy grails of the format. Looked and sounded phenomenal.

[Joqqe]

It sure is a great (re)watch after binging Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[KubrickKurasawa]

10 year anniversary edition?

[rogbngp]

What a treat for the eyes it is to watch Pacific Rim via 4K disk on an OLED TV. It looks absolutely sensational. If ever there was a movie that shines on home theater I would say roughly twenty story tall robots duking it out with kaiju is hard to top.

Story-wise this movie is so much fun. It’s fun fantasy. There’s no reason to read anything into it, but I seem to be unable to resist doing that…

The story does intersect with some real world UAP phenomena and lore regarding how the kaiju access our planet. It reminds me of USOs and the concept of interdimensional portals which seems to be getting increasingly serious attention as actual military intelligence and military industrial complex whistelblowers are increasingly coming forward.

The idea of a hostile species of ETs coming to earth to terraform it and exhaust its resources is not at all fanciful from the vantage of how Darwinism has worked out on this planet. We all hope that any NHI that can make it here will have evolved past animalistic drive energies and territorialism. But if we are to use earth as the one concrete example of biological evolution that we have, then the odds of that are extremely poor, frankly. (Granted, on the other hand a sample size of just one planet is obviously too small.) So to whatever extent such a concern as decidedly dominant and/or hostile ETs coming here to basically end the current human control of the planet—or even to exterminate us—could theoretically have a reality base, a movie like this offers an escapist fantasy to help assuage that sort of worry.

There are of course many skeptics of the subject and understandably so. Many people don’t believe in UAPs and NHI to begin with. It looks to me as though most skeptics lump UAP/NHI in broadly with paranormal phenomena being simply the human brain playing tricks on us. But consistently in recent polling the majority of Americans now say they think it more likely that there is something in actual physical reality going on that the government is keeping secret.

An interesting side note to this is that per Jungian theory fantasies like kaiju lore arise unconsciously at the collective cultural level but there is some sort of real world problem that the fantasy symbolism is attempting to address.

Starting with Godzilla there is of course a reality base to fears about misuse of nuclear power technology, and all the catastrophically bad things that can go wrong with that. Similar to that, another possible interpretation is that kaiju represent the existential threat to the environment from rampant industrialization and technological advancement gone wild (beyond just nuclear, to pollution resulting in irreversible climate change). These actually are not necessarily mutually exclusive with the fear of what happens if ETs do eventually show up unmistakably—and if and when that happens will they be monsters? Both can simultaneously be at work in the collective psyche imho.

Anyway, to return to the movie itself, it’s just flat out good cheesy fun. It’s a pure popcorn flick. Charlie Hunam as Raleigh reminds me of a young Steve McQueen. Rinko Kikichi almost steals the show as Maki. The acting by the two leads is for the most part understated and very relatable. The other characters throughout the movie are much more heavily stylized and exaggerated. I’m fine with that overall, and can go along for the ride. But for me it can be just a smidge distracting when characters are blatantly cartoonish. But again, it all pretty much works in this movie at the end of the day. And the extravagant visuals—the Jaegers and the kaiju—are the true star of the show anyway.

[JudgeJuryExecutioner]

I totally agree. The Blu-Ray was good. But the 4K version brings it up a few notches and looks spectacular on my Samsung S90C.

[emailking]

The Kaiju come from the sea in these movies so UAPs have nothing to do with it. The Kaiju are also pretty unambiguous.