Pacific Rim yay!

[gwyn]

I saw Pacific Rim finally last week, and I just loved it. Not that there aren't all kinds of problems with it (the skience, oy, and the skientists, oy with a side of vey), and things that bugged me, but overall, I really loved it. A lot of that has to do with the fact that Idris Elba and Max Martini. And Idris Elba and Max Martini frequently wandering around in the frame together; in fact, it seemed like Max was always at Idris's side for major portions of the character stuff and I couldn't be happier about that. What DID they do when they went in that room together while Chuck and Raleigh were fighting like dumbasses?

I see on Tumblr that there seems to be a slight interest in the two Hot Dads. I can really get behind this. I can't even tell you how happy I was when I found out that Max was playing one of the Jaeger pilots; I figured it'd be a teeny tiny role, but it turned out to be a decent sized role and he was so good, and so hot, and man, I would kill a person for those aweswome boots he wore.

However, if there's a Hot Dads fandom, I can't seem to find any fic for said hot dads. I would even happily take some fic for Raleigh and Mako if it treats Mako with respect. But it seems like everything I can find already at AO3 is crossovers, and I really generally do not enjoy crossovers. If there was a crossover with something I cared about, maybe, but I mean, I liked the characters in the actual movie, so...

I fucking hate trying to search on AO3. It's just such a fucking nightmare. There seems to be pages of fic already, but I can't winnow out the crossovers. They don't seem to be tagged as crossovers, anyway. It leaves me feeling frustrated and ragey. So, anyone got any good PR fic to rec, that isn't a crossover, and bonus points if it involves Stacker or Herc, or both?

I'm glad I didn't see it in 3D, because I think I would have had a big headache. It was so dark. And I did that thing afterward where I was all "Why didn't they do... And why did they do... And that didn't make sense when they..." and the friend I saw it with was all, "Stop doing that! Just enjoy it for being a big dumb fun movie!" I'm sad that it's done less well at the North American box office, but I do hope that the Asian releases will see its profits soar. They could really have used a good sound engineer, though. I think I missed half the dialog behind all the noise. I always expect more on the tech side from del Toro.

I will be excited to get this one on DVD, though. Hopefully there will be some actual lines for the Crimson Typhoon crew, and the Russians in a director's cut. I loved them both even with what little we saw of them. It was interesting for me because as a twin, I could really grok what they were talking about in terms of connecting minds, and the way the pilots needed to be with each other. And what it feels like to lose the person you're connected to. That really affected me way more than I expected. I will be curious to see what they might have cut out of the movie's theatrical release.

Comments

[arduinna]

I'm not really looking for fic for this movie so haven't read any, and therefore can't rec any. But! This should get you to nothing-but-Pacific Rim stories, at least until someone writes a crossover/fusion with something new.

(The admittedly slightly annoying trick is to exclude fandom names, or at least key bits of them -- I exclude everything I can see on the first drop-down list of fandoms in the filter, then sort & filter on that that, and then expand the list again and exclude the next batch in the "search within tags" box. Rinse, lather, repeat, till there's nothing left but the base fandom. It's easier with Pacific Rim than with Avengers, at least, since there aren't 9 canonical possibilities that could all mean Avengers, so you have to exclude one damn fandom at a time...)

[gwyn]

Ah, thank you, that hits the spot. And I did spot that X had a story before I bailed, so at least there is one thing that I KNOW will be wonderful and exactly what I want. YOu are so smart, I should just ask you questions now instead of posting.

[klia]

Haven't read it yet, but X just posted a story.

[gwyn]

I saw that just when I was going to give up in exasperation -- I am so happy! I know it'll be great.

[fiercynn]

I've been hearing so many good things about PR, I need to see in stat! And yeah, AO3 is frustrating in that you can't exclude tags from your searches, ugh. Good luck finding fic? D:

[gwyn]

Oh, it's just so much fun. I mean, yeah, there is a LOT of stuff you have to handwave or accept that it makes some kind of weird sense, and there are some political/race/gender stuff that makes you grit your teeth, but honestly, they're fairly small compared to any other movie in this genre. Plus it is filled with hot people in cool pilot suits and that goes a long way for me.

[raine]

I'll write what you want - just let me know if you want more than "two hot dads", as in, plot. :)

(Me, write more Pacific Rim fic? Such a hardship.)

[gwyn]

Hah! Well, you know, I haven't given any thought to a plot beyond the thing I'm considering writing, but I get so tired of writing what I want to read because I'm usually in such a small fandom or like a pairing no one else does. Two hot dads together is enough -- I liked some of the comments i'd seen on Tumblr where they were basically saying that the Jaeger the two of them should pilot would be called Hot Dads or things of that nature, and I just laughed and laughed. They really should pilot together -- I'm in the camp of refusing to believe that anyone died.

[raine]

Hope you like what I wrote: http://archiveofourown.org/works/902774

[gwyn]

I sure did!!!! Now if I can just finish my own...it's turning into a magnum opus of missing scenes, and I feel like I'm never gonna finish it.

[raine]

Yay! and yay, more fic! If you need a cheerleader or a beta or just someone to squee over PR with, let me know - I'd be happy to help.

[joatamon]

I have nothing coherent to say except HELLO MAX MARTINI you beautiful singularity of hoyay you. I feel you on the Max Martini front, is all *g*

[gwyn]

I KNOW RIGHT? What is it about him? He just seems to bounce from hoyay project to hoyay project. It must have something to do with all that testosterone that he exudes or something... He's almost always playing military guys or law enforcement, and maybe there's just this macho, dangerous, brave motherfucker pheromonal thing he gives off. It's like, Herc Hansen? More like Herc Handsome, baby! (I can't wait to see him play the Navy SEAL leader in Captain Phillips later this year.)

[joatamon]

Nnnnnggh he's playing a SEAL? My body was not ready for that.

Max Martini + Scott Foley in the Unit. I still think about that sometimes. A lot.

And even his cameo as Steve's ex-partner in Hawaii Five-0 practically set Alex O'Loughlin alight. It has to be the testosterone, you're right, because seriously, the dude has chemistry with the set dressing, let alone the other dudes in the cast. Unf.

[gwyn]

Yeah, you never see his face in the trailer, but at the end of it you hear his voice going, "Captain Phillips, can you hear me?" a couple times. His sexay, sexay voice that makes weird feeling curl through my lower abdomen.

I didn't watch H5-0 but I will definitely look up that episode because right now I'm trying to watch as much stuff as I can with him, it helps me with inspiration for my PR story. The other day I was talking to someone about what I thought was kind of a fandom of one for his appearance on Numb3rs, and she mentioned how people are still writing stories with his character, and I went and looked and wow, yeah, whereas for a couple years ago mine was one of like three stories, there are now quite a few. Guy just inspires the hoyay.

[joatamon]

I watched the Captain Phillips trailer as soon as you mentioned the movie and I was all whereishewhereishewhereishe and then THE VOICE. Humina.

Since you mentioned Numb3rs, I realised that I mixed the two up - he definitely lights up Rob Morrow as his ex-partner in Numb3rs (boy howdie) - I can't actually remember what part he plays in H50!? But I have a strong, strong feeling it was exactly the same. The man has pheremones and you can't hold him back *g*

(And now I need to go and read all the Don/Coop fic, geez. There was never enough Unit fic for me, either. Why doesn't all the fic feature this dude? C'mon fandom: MAX MARTINI. As much hoyay as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker combined. And that's saying something :D)

Max Martini

[raine]

The H50 ep he appears in is Ep 9 of season 1; he plays a Navy SEAL, ex-partner of Steve McGarrett, and it's easily one of the slashiest eps I'd seen on TV to that point. There's a partial clip of the ep here, just the opening scene: http://youtu.be/up5wzpAosDE