Pacific Rim

[Gorn Captain]

Same here.
Still looking for Vasquez as well.
Bought Drake and Hudson when they came out, though.

I don't see many of the 18" Jaegers on Ebay. Might have to do some hunting...

[Hector]

I want the 18" NECA Jaeger.
Due to the lukewarm box office, it'll probably be the only one they make.
I need one to fight my Shogun Warriors...

I might get it too...I smell collector's item...I mean, one figure, limited release, it's bound to shoot up in price over time.

Kinda like Hot Toys Aliens' Marine Vasquez...was not expected to be a hot item, Ripley was, but now, collectors ignore Ripley, and go crazy for Vasquez.

I had a chance to buy two when it first came out, Vasquez was selling for only $75 back then, now she goes for well over $400...I blew it...now I'm looking for one, but don't wanna pay that much, looking for a loose Hot Toys Vasquez in the $200 range, lol.

[Gorn Captain]

I want the 18" NECA Jaeger.
Due to the lukewarm box office, it'll probably be the only one they make.
I need one to fight my Shogun Warriors...

[Hector]

Just saw it, chose to go see Pacific Rim over the Lone Ranger...glad I did, it was fun, a throwback to Ultraman, Jet Jaguar, and Space Giants, sure, not overly thought provoking, but Guillermo del Toro sure knows how to entertain.

I'd go see a sequel.

[huedell]

Not my thing... reallllly stupid fun (except for Perlman and the two scientist characters who I thought were genuinely more interesting than everyone else) but I did see it, anyway (got drug there).... and when I was leaving the theatre, I didn't feel too stupid for going. I felt worse during the last Batman and Die Hard installments, actually.

[Sideshow Spock]

Finally saw it a couple nites ago.. sure it was cornball and very thin in the character department, but it was also very damn cool. A couple days later I find myself still very enthused by it, which is more than I can say for any of the comic/scifi films I saw this summer..

[ctc]

>It's odd that the film hasn't done better in the US.

Not enough Batman.

Don C.

[Gorn Captain]

The only thing that bothered me were the two very stereotype scientist, very much acting the part.
Could have done without that, or at least in a toned down version.

It's odd that the film hasn't done better in the US. The big final battles are all fought by American and Australian Jaegers. The Russian and Japanese ones get wiped out pretty early on.
I still think audiences suffer from Transformer fatigue...

[kingdom warrior]

^^^^^ yeah that's pretty badazz!!

[mazinz]

Very surprised no one has posted this here yet.
This makes the film look even that much better!

[Bruce Banner]

Pacific Rim certainly under-performed at the US box office , but is doing much better overseas.
And it has yet to open in several territories, including Japan.
So there's still hope for a sequel.

From Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE… UPDATED: I’ve just learned that momentum is building for a Pacific Rim sequel based on the international box office for the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros summer tentpole. The latest development is the 3D sci-fi actioner’s Wednesday opening in China to a record-breaking $9M from an estimated 5,700 digital 3D screens, 117 digital 3D IMAX screens, and 22 China Giant Screen sites. That’s a new high for any Warner Bros release and 23% bigger than for any Harry Potter film including 3D Harry Potter 7B. Pacific Rim grossed a huge 70% of the Top Five market share there. This is after the pic broke through to become the #1 film internationally on July 19-21 as it rolled out into less than half the global territories. Pacific Rim releases in Spain, Brazil and Japan on August 9th. The result is that screenwriter Travis Beacham (who had the original idea which also resulted in Legendary’s homegrown graphic novel) and co-scribe/director Guillermo del Toro’s film will likely have a sequel. No one is yet saying this movie is going to turn a profit due to the high cost of its Industrial Light & Magic CGI which sent the budget to $180M-$220M. Unfortunately, U.S. theatrical sales are not expected to exceed $100M all in so overseas coin was crucial. But international was always a big part of Pacific Rim‘s strategy in a crowded summer marketplace. Through Tuesday, the pic’s foreign cume is $144.7M from 52 territories and its worldwide total is $229M. As I’ve said before, Legendary’s mega-financier Thomas Tull has the luxury of mining this marginal outcome into a franchise. Warner Bros underwrote 25% of the film and receives the global distribution fees.

[ctc]

>Not on a $200,000,000 budget.

Maybe not YET; but it's only a matter of time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAOQcpnS8x4&feature=related

Anyhoo; I kinda think the huge budgets aren't that important, except as a boasting point. You get to a level of diminishing returns once things reach a certain point.

>I really didnt have much fun at this at all.

I got a bunch of friends who're long time, HARDCORE giant robot fans and they all loved it. So, what would you have liked more of from the film?

Don C.

[4NDR01D]

>since forever I've been waiting for a movie like this that took the subject matter seriously

There's like, 50 years of Japanese stuff to that effect....

Don C.

Not on a $200,000,000 budget.

[ctc]

>since forever I've been waiting for a movie like this that took the subject matter seriously

There's like, 50 years of Japanese stuff to that effect....

Don C.

[4NDR01D]

Just got back form it. I can't even comment on it. I stared at a movie screen for 90 minutes, something was happening, but I'm not sure what. It was dark and screechy and loud and it rained the entire movie. There was a lot of water. The script was something a film school student would come up with. It was Top Gun meets Robo Jocks with monsters and a far cry from what del Toro did with Pan's Labyrinth. Ron Perlman was entertaining. That's about it. I honestly don't know what I just watched.

Geez, I agree with this completely. Surprise that nobody else has shared these sentiments. I try really hard to go into a movie with no expectations, but I'll admit they were pretty high for this one. Del Toro directing a giant robot vs monster movie? how could it miss? However, I really didnt have much fun at this at all.

First off, I'll just say it, I didn't find a huge difference between this and something Michael Bay would do. In fact I thought it had quite a bit of a Walchoski Brothers feel to it for a lot of the movie. It was nerve gratingly loud, with seizure inducing neon flashes and filled with a bazillion edits. At no time do I recall the camera resting on the monster. I want to be able to see it, to take it in and be able to study the features. If I hadn't seen all the creature designs on Simon (Spiderzero) Lee's Facebook page, I'd barely , if at all, remember what the creatures/monsters looked like.

And, to be honest, I was disappointed in the creature design itself a quite a bit. I was expecting more originality. I preferred the Forrest Elemental and Samuel (the subway monster) from Hellboy by far over anything they came up with for Pacific Rim. I also thought the fight scenes with those monsters were much better than anything in Pacific Rim.

Yes, there was water. a lot of water. Did any significant fight sequence happen out of the water? Was it ever not raining? Does having the battle in the ocean not make the scale of the Jaegers and monsters seem moot?

Did people really love these characters? I don't think I could be more indifferent to them aside for Perlman and Day.

I dunno. I just didn't think it was that great. And it's weird because, since forever I've been waiting for a movie like this that took the subject matter seriously, that wasn't trying to make a campy, poke fun at monsters and robots type of film. But I just didn't think it was really very fun.