{"id":13275,"date":"2013-07-07T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=13275"},"modified":"2013-07-07T19:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:13:37","slug":"pacific-rim-the-money-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/07\/pacific-rim-the-money-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Rim: &#8220;The Money Shot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the bizarre (though sadly predictable) rash of internet naysayers who seem intent on burying Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s <em>Pacific Rim<\/em> before it even premieres, I am so looking forward to this. The following video shows you, at least in part, why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube x0G6mXiA33Y]<\/p>\n<p>As for those who insist on comparing it to <em>Transformers<\/em>, try to get some sort of historical perspective before you open your digital mouth and make a complete ass of yourself. Read an article on Japanese mecha, for example!<\/p>\n<p>And incidentally, <em>Pacific Rim<\/em> isn&#8217;t <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/em> any more than <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/em> is <em>Gundam.<\/em> Or <em>High Noon<\/em> is <em>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/em>. Or <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> is <em>Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pacific-rim-monster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13278\" alt=\"pacific-rim monster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pacific-rim-monster.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pacific-rim-monster.jpg 969w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pacific-rim-monster-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the bizarre (though sadly predictable) rash of internet naysayers who seem intent on burying Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s Pacific Rim before it even premieres, I am so looking forward to this. The following video shows you, at least in part, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/07\/pacific-rim-the-money-shot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,44,56],"tags":[1419,881,410,1430,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}