>Why cant America make good mecha movies
because it's a stupid genre. Outside of "the Iron Giant" which weird sci fi/dram/kids movie/tear jerker/masterpiece.
Everyone realizes the idea of building giant robots for combat is inherently moronic, they are the least practical solution possible.
what about that duck tales episode or movie where the science guy built the giant excavator mechs and the dog brothers stole them to get into the vault
that one was awesome I loved to rewatch it
I haven't seen it.
Maybe a purely construction/excavation mech could be viable, idk. It's hard to imagine how it could outperform a more purpose built machine like bulldozer, backhoe, etc.
The issue is very hard to get robots to walk like humans and balance, couple that with thousands of tons of armor and weapons and it's an impossibility.
All an enemy has to do take a mech down is shoot there legs, it's just stupidly vulnerable.
We like them because they are literally human shaped machines standing out in the open, no protection, saying "come at me bro" that's not how wars are fought.
>I haven't seen iron giant
You should drop whatever you're doing, leave work, abandon your children, leave your car on the highway, etc. and go watch that shit.
It's definitely one of the best movies made in the 50 years, it's on my top ten list. It's rare you hear anyone on Cinemaphile say anything but praise for it.
indeed it did. third movie deserved props for finding room for both satire without compromising the gorilla mechs and playing SOME of Heinlein's ideas straight. unfortunately had an atrocious budget that was seemingly spent on the fun propaganda theme
I'd argue that nobody really makes good mecha movies. Mech's are cool in a vacuum. But mech's in themselves don't make a particularly interesting subject matter beyond the action.
Pacific Rim is bad exactly because 'giant robots woah cool' by itself doesn't make a good movie.
Because mechs/mecha is inherent to Japan and Japanese culture. An American mech movie would just be downstream from what's already so well-established in Japanese media. It's their form. We just do our own stupid version of it sometimes, like Godzilla, or kung fu.
Because large American studios don't know how to handle either end of the spectrum of the mech genre. They have no idea what they're doing. Michael Bay was unironically the only guy to even get close, and that was closer to a Godzilla kaiju type of thing than actual mecha.
>Because large American studios don't know how to handle either end of the spectrum of the mech genre. They have no idea what they're doing.
I got an idea for a book setting to turn into a movie series.. with mechs.. but even with ready made instructions, american studios probably couldn't deliver this year and age
Pacific Rim, at least the first one, is good, you are just a tasteless pleb.
>pacific rim
>good
>thinking anyone respects your opinion when you're a sam hyde fan
it's total fricking garbage mate
iron giant was kino
rimming
It's "Pacific Rimjob" actually.
>Why cant America make good mecha movies
because it's a stupid genre. Outside of "the Iron Giant" which weird sci fi/dram/kids movie/tear jerker/masterpiece.
Everyone realizes the idea of building giant robots for combat is inherently moronic, they are the least practical solution possible.
what about that duck tales episode or movie where the science guy built the giant excavator mechs and the dog brothers stole them to get into the vault
that one was awesome I loved to rewatch it
I haven't seen it.
Maybe a purely construction/excavation mech could be viable, idk. It's hard to imagine how it could outperform a more purpose built machine like bulldozer, backhoe, etc.
The issue is very hard to get robots to walk like humans and balance, couple that with thousands of tons of armor and weapons and it's an impossibility.
All an enemy has to do take a mech down is shoot there legs, it's just stupidly vulnerable.
We like them because they are literally human shaped machines standing out in the open, no protection, saying "come at me bro" that's not how wars are fought.
I know I'm here to dunk on mechvirgins I'm just saying that one was cool cause I haven't seen iron giant
>I haven't seen iron giant
You should drop whatever you're doing, leave work, abandon your children, leave your car on the highway, etc. and go watch that shit.
It's definitely one of the best movies made in the 50 years, it's on my top ten list. It's rare you hear anyone on Cinemaphile say anything but praise for it.
We missed out when Paul Verhoeven didn't put power armor in Starship Troopers.
They have power armor in the third one i think
indeed it did. third movie deserved props for finding room for both satire without compromising the gorilla mechs and playing SOME of Heinlein's ideas straight. unfortunately had an atrocious budget that was seemingly spent on the fun propaganda theme
Same reason why Japan can’t either
It’s an inherently a dumb premise
>an inherently a
GOOD MORNING SIRS!
I'd argue that nobody really makes good mecha movies. Mech's are cool in a vacuum. But mech's in themselves don't make a particularly interesting subject matter beyond the action.
Pacific Rim is bad exactly because 'giant robots woah cool' by itself doesn't make a good movie.
Pacific Rim is kino tho not bad
Frick you and your merimuttmecha movies, leave the chinks alone
mechvirgins bow to tankchads
Gasaraki and Titanfall beg to differ
I cried like a little b***h BT-7274 died
>tfw there will never be a commercially available MG BT-7274 model kit
>he missed out on JoyToy's bad boy phase when all they made was BT toys
>inb4 but I want a model not toys
>mecha
>good
pick one and only one
Because mechs/mecha is inherent to Japan and Japanese culture. An American mech movie would just be downstream from what's already so well-established in Japanese media. It's their form. We just do our own stupid version of it sometimes, like Godzilla, or kung fu.
>good mecha movies
no such thing exists or will ever exist.
Pacific Rim Uprising was better, and I don't care if the homosexual nerds and incels disagree.
Aliens and Avatar
>but they don't exclusively focus on mechs!
Shut up weeb they have mechs in them.
OP screenshot is from Gasaraki, in case anyones wondering
Why can't the Japanese?
>>Why cant America make good mecha movies
>proceeds to post one of the more mediocre mecha animes from nippon
its not that bad
Because large American studios don't know how to handle either end of the spectrum of the mech genre. They have no idea what they're doing. Michael Bay was unironically the only guy to even get close, and that was closer to a Godzilla kaiju type of thing than actual mecha.
>Because large American studios don't know how to handle either end of the spectrum of the mech genre. They have no idea what they're doing.
I got an idea for a book setting to turn into a movie series.. with mechs.. but even with ready made instructions, american studios probably couldn't deliver this year and age
Pacific Rim (and Bayformers, as another anon pointed out) will be the best you get. Accept it. Unless you also want to count Ready Player One kek.