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>Maybe the (crap) Transformers movies had a negative effect on people, and they decided to skip Pacific Rim?
Nah; people like the same old same old. Everyone complains about "Hollywood is SO out of ideas" but they STILL lose fluids HUGE when a new film with a familiar character is announced. "I hope they get *inser popular actor* to play him! AND *insert popular director* to make it!" You'd need a major breakthrough, or a product REAL similar to what folks already know to have a non-tie-in hit.
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I went solely for mindless [sic] fun and the art direction/design. Fun was had and the design work was derivative but killer… however the narrative flaws, really predictable character bits and western-hero ending were too hard to ignore. I'm putting it in the "such potential" genre... whereby the stage was set for impressive wowness, but alas, it's 2013 and we are mess, both in and out of the theater.
Related, I was also hoping for an alternate version of destructOpron; namely suburbia in the middle of a bright sunny day. Yes, I want to see monsters in all their monstery goodness destroy bad urban planning and lots of stucco.
As you can imagine, I'm let down a lot by Hollywood.
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There are members here who are not on FB: I hope you don't mind if I post your review here for those members to read
Review by by knight errant00 – PACIFIC RIM
When I was a kid, I was terrified of monsters. Maybe because of a stray comment from a babysitter or from a mom trying to keep a three-year-old in his room for a nap, maybe from just who I was. But I was sure there were fanged, furred, horned, scaly, or spiky things that waited in the dark or downstairs or wherever I couldn’t see immediately what was ahead.
Perhaps that’s what drew me so strongly to heroic figures when I was little -- the idea of a powerful, capable champion who could stand up to the monsters I saw in the dark corners irresistible to me.
Director Guillermo Del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM, then, is a natural for me to love.
Let’s start with the obvious; if you’re looking for character arcs and nuanced dialogue demonstrating hidden pain and feeling or a too-human tale of personal failings, just stop here. This is a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, and if you’re not in on that premise, nothing else will sell you on this film. Go on, the rest of us have a rip-roaring, all-out awesome spectacle of coastal destruction and heroism to watch. And did I mention the giant robots and giant monsters?
The premise of PACIFIC RIM is simple: for years, giant monsters called kaiju have been emerging from another world through a portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to attack our planet. The governments of the world have set aside their differences to institute the jaeger program, where nations build impossibly giant 200-foot-tall armored robots to fight the kaiju when they appear and force them back from coastal cities and into the sea before destroying them. So far, the program’s been a success. But as the kaiju attacks have grown more frequent and the kaiju themselves increasingly larger and stronger, the world’s leaders -- without any sense of history or France’s Maginot Line -- have opted instead to focus on construction of enormous “peace walls” along the Pacific coasts to keep the monsters at bay. Of course, the jaeger pilots and their commanders know better, and it becomes a race for them to stop the kaiju attacks before the jaeger program is defunded and the world’s safety left to the coastal walls.
PACIFIC RIM’s action is fast, furious, and *huge*. It’s spectacular in scale and full of those moments when the whole audience actually cheers out loud for the heroic fighters protecting the cities in their massive, armored colossuses. It’s fun, and it’s as much about friendship, family, honor, and duty as it is fighting monsters, making it a great movie to take the kids to (only one scene of a young girl who finds herself alone in the streets as the sole survivor of a kaiju attack that still isn’t over might be troubling to very young or sensitive children).
It’s the most fun I’ve had at the movies in a long time. And don’t wait for the DVD -- the scale of PACIFIC RIM demands you see it on the biggest screen you can see it on. (unless you don’t like giant robots vs. giant monster movies. In which case, why are you still reading this?). Go for the fun. Go to see the heroes take on the giant monsters for us. Like they did for us when we were kids.Comment
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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.Comment
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>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....
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>Not on a $200,000,000 budget.
Maybe not YET; but it's only a matter of time:
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?
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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.PUNY HUMANS!Comment
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Very surprised no one has posted this here yet.
This makes the film look even that much better!
"What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hells Angels is currently unclear,"
Starroid Raiders Dagon wrote "No Dime Store Monster left behind"Comment
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^^^^^ yeah that's pretty badazz!!Comment
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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....
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