There's an interview somewhere, but it is stated by del torro that it is TWO ppl that control one mech/robot, basically they have neural linked gel or whatever, and one guy controls the right and one guy controls the left side, and they sync together, so 2 guys one mech bad joke in, and we're done with it.
the reason why i believe some of us are interested in this movie, is that even tho it is in the genre of "giant robo" it brings us back to our "80's" sensibilities, where most of us watch afternoon re-runs of godzilla on tv and couldn't get enough of it. Or for even some younger (kids of the 90's) they're back to watching the power rangers again and they have that awesome feeling of just sitting in front of the tube, yea that sense when we called it a tube, it was that long ago.
For most of us, who now have 92in movie projector's at home and 7.1 sound, we can't just pop in any old "giant robo" movie to give us that feeling... ever, we grew up, we're waiting.
like many have said,
bay has raped our childhoods of transformers, the mechs/robots are horrible and at many points unwatchable, not only to mention that for a 2hr movie, we only get 10-15minutes of mechs anyway?
and before bay, we had the america godzilla, ugh... I remember watching gattaca in 1997 and the trailer for a destruction movie popped up and then you just saw godzilla open his eyes, i think that was the first time i showed a gasp to my then gf (wife now), and this was 6 years after i saw my last godzilla movie at 12 or so, so it was like... wow an american made gozilla!, then i saw the movie =(
then cloverfield... wtf! it was a socialite movie that was 99% shaky cam
i think for us that liked this genre when we grew up and we're just expecting someone to give it the "reboot" or revitalizing that we need from it. Just like how spiderman 1 or 2 rebooted comic book heroes into acceptance (i mean the font is on the ps3!) or even later on, batman begins, we are all looking for our giant robo reboot.
i don't ever remember watching a trailer twice, much less 5x and going...
wtf
glados!
jax teller!
black heimdall
robots that don't suck!
and monsters that look great!
i think when we all saw the trailer and heard glados, we knew del toro was not fcking around. (he specifically got her, the voice actress to do it, she only ever does valve stuff)
