If you aren’t already sufficiently excited for Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ — a film, nay, an experience about giant robots fighting equally as giant monsters — a handful of glowing tweets from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima aren’t likely to change your mind on it.
If you’re like me and everything about this movie just screams awesome to you, then I suggest reading what Kojima had to say about the film. It’s spoiler free, and he somehow manages to find a way to make me even more excited to see it. July 12th really can’t come soon enough.
Dear twitter friends, The followings are my comment regarding "Pacific Rim". Luckily I was allowed to tweet in public by WB.
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
I have never imagined that I would be fortunate enough to see a film like this in my life.
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
The emotional rush I had inside me was the same kind I had when I felt the outer space via "2001: A Space Odyssey" and….
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
and when I had touched the dinosaur in "Jurassic Park". Animation and special effects movies and shows that I loved in my childhood days –
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
they all truly exist in the screen. Director Guillermo del Toro offers this spectacular vision of massive kaijus and robots in PACIFIC RIM.
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
This film is not simply a film to be respected, but most importantly, it let us dream the future of entertainment movies.
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
Pacific Rim is the ultimate otaku film that all of us had always been waiting for. Who are you, if you are Japanese and won't watch this?
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
I hope you would accept this inspirational love letter that had traveled across the Pacific, written by Director Guillermo del Toro.
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) July 5, 2013
Who plans on seeing this when it opens next week?
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