Spoiler She barely spoken a word the entire movie and like Raliegh she is damage goods because the kaiju wiped out her entire family and being left alone kinda scarred her for life.
gonna check this one out on Wednesday. expectations are not so high, for i'm not thrilled in seeing cgi robots fight cgi monsters.
Spoiler It was what I expected it to be, popcorn flick with giant monsters fighting giant robots. I LOLed at the part where the monster burst through the giant wall they were building... You can tell where the funds were allocated in the movie, CGI was impressive. The acting...not so much. Better actors and sharper writing would've done the movie a lot more justice. Was hoping for an Independence Day, tried to avoid a Transformers, it was somewhere in between. Does anyone know why the Hong Kong Kaiju was chasing the little biologist dude? It tried to lick him or something and then Gipsy Danger showed up but that part didn't make any sense to me.
Yeah I get what you're saying but it's a free screening so i'll give it a chance. At worst case scenario i'll still enjoy bashing this turd
Me personally, I wouldn't. I much prefer this at a regular high quality screen, imax is too big with so many things happening at once being right in your face, it's hard to see what was going on at times.
Spoiler The Kaiju thought it was just one of their own species because remember when Charlie Day was experimenting with the Kaiju brain and transmitted himself into thinking like one? I guess he had a little Kaiju in him when his eyes was all fuct up?
I've read the 3D is ok but not great since it was a post conversion job, so I'm kind of leaning toward a regular showing.
Watched it last night. The plot and character development were pretty mediocre, but the action was incredible. Come in expecting a mindless action movie and you'll come out impressed.
The true star was Idris Elba which was as expected. That "Ending Apocalypse" speech was one of the GOAT of speeches. I jump out of my seat when I saw the Hellboy actor haha forgot he was in the movie. Though, I thought Charlie Day seemed so out of place. Could have just used the one doctor. The movie was solid. I feel like I got my money's worth watching it in 2D. Best movie since star trek My summer rankings so far 1. Star Trek 2. Pacific Rim 3. Despicable me 2 4. Iron man 3 29. MAN of ****
Not a GDT fan but i did enjoy this movie. I dont know why they waited so long to pull out their sword. Couldve handled those cat 2 and 3 with ease with that bad boy. You should definitely watch if you like mech awesomeness and nonstop action. 3.5/5
Saw the midnight showing, 2D Liked it, giving it 7.5 out of 10 I did like it. HOWEVER. That score is based almost entirely upon the spectacle on display, and not due to the story. The effects were not only the best thing about the movie, they were among the best ever seen on film, and certainly the best 'giant this vs giant that' effects I have ever seen. The acting was fine, everybody did well with what they were given to do. But having primarily B-level actors (or no-name actors) in major roles does give the movie a 'B-movie' feel. All in all, it was an amazing movie. So why isn't my score higher? Because of the 'story' and characterizations. It was so odd, I just don't get it. Did Del Toro write this himself? Here's what bothered me, story first (maybe some of this will fall under the heading of 'directing' instead of story, but I am lumping them together): Spoiler The setup to the story of the movie felt extremely rushed. What should have been the entire first third of the movie was essentially a short prologue before the opening credit: Wow, the planet got attacked by other-dimensional monsters appearing from a rift in the ocean's floor. Wow, we got devastated over and over again by these things, until we decided to build giant war machines to fight the monsters. Wow, we finally figured out how to beat them with these giant machines, and the pilots are like rocks stars. Uh oh, wow, the giant monsters have evolved and our tried-and-true tactics suddenly no longer work, and oh yeah, our hero loses his brother in a tragic beat-down at the hands of one of these evolved beasts. All of that, BEFORE THE OPENING CREDITS, in a very quick sort of montage. The problem I have with this is, it didn't give us any time to learn these characters, no time for us to care about the lost brother, no time to truly absorb the danger presented by these monsters, no time to appreciate the awe and spectacle of the 'Jaegers'. No, just bam bam bam, and then leap ahead 5 years. I almost get the sensation that this was an edited and tacked-on beginning sequence, which may have been much longer, but a studio may have forced cuts for time, or maybe they ran into budget problems, I don't know. It was just really.. odd. But from that point, it was as though they had the standard 'checklist' of 'Hero's Journey' items and plot points which needed to be done, and were adhered to so strictly and predictably and without ANY deviation, everything which occurred was almost completely predictable (more on that in a bit). Underdog hero suffers a terrible setback and loss? Check. Years of aimless wandering, hiding in plain sight, working menial jobs just to pass the days? Check. Underdog damaged hero called back into active duty in desperate times? Check. Underdog hero has to fight to earn the respect of those currently in the group? Check. Gruff, grizzled commander/veteran in charge of everything? check. Underdog hero surprises everyone in battle and instantly earns the respect of peers who previously rejected him? Check. One last desperate mission to win the battle once and for all? Check. Last once-and-for-all mission goes awry and turns into a sure-fire suicide mission? Check. Odds become clearly insurmountable? Check. Secondary main character(s) die? Check. Underdog hero improvises a way to accomplish the mission anyway? Check. The no-doubt-it's-a-suicide-mission suddenly having magical escape pods for the hero and his partner? Check. Sending a nuclear bomb through a portal of some kind into the heart of the enemy world, thus obliterating the enemy and winning the war? Check. Oh yes, check check check. I think it's a law that all movies have to end that way now. Hero appears to have not actually survived his miraculous escape, but then wakes up and gives a clever quip, to let his sweetie (and us) know he did live after all? Check. Now I am not hating on it, ok? I said I liked it. But this was not a story, it was just a formula. Literally ANYONE with this formula in hand could have written this movie. This is why I wondered if Del Toro wrote it himself. It was SO derivative, I almost could not believe it. It was such a rehash of Independance Day/Avengers/Oblivion/Star Wars/whatever other movie you have seen, it borders on plagiarism. Granted, there was the slightly more interesting stuff with Charlie Day playing the Jeff Goldblum part and figuring out exactly how to actually GET the nuclear bomb into position to win the war, but there was never any doubt that he would solve the mystery just in the nick of time, which he did. Now, using a formula to make a movie is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes, oh yes it is, such as when watching a movie like Eragon. But if you want your formula to make for a good movie, then lacking any real innovation in STORY, then instead you must have superior.. ..CHARACTERS. And, no. Raleigh, the underdog hero, is about as well-developed a character as there is in the movie. We know he has had big setbacks and a tragic loss, but does anyone doubt he will win in the end? His 'arc' happens mostly in the prologue - he is young and cocky, we know he is a 'scrapper' (which we later learn apparently means trained kung-fu Master, but whatever), we see him lose a fight and lose his brother while still mentally-connected to him in the 'drift' between pilots... and then the rest of the movie hits. By then, he has already changed; he is bitter, lost, and resigned to his fate. He doesn't particularly want to come back to fight, but Idris Elba yells at him, so he comes back after all. Then there is Idris Elba's character, Commander I-don't-remember-his-actual-name. He is gruff and grim. Surly even. Why? we don't know. He just is. We do eventually learn he is sick, maybe dying, maybe something about being too close to a reactor or flying a Jaeger solo, they don't really tell us exactly. But just deal with it, he is mean, surly, and gruff. That's his character. BUT, he does have a soft spot for the Japanese girl.. ..Marko? Mako? Not quite sure, different characters pronounce it differently throughout the movie. she is, well, timid, shy, smart, and infatuated with Raleigh for some reason. She may even be on love with him, even though they had never met. Why? Don't know, they don't tell us. She says she 'studied' him. Ok. But that's it, that's her character. Oh but she is also a trained kung-fu Master. And she HAPPENS to be 'drift-compatible' with Raleigh.. (the Force is strong with this one..) And then the other characters. There is Arrogant prick hotshot who plays the Val Kilmer role from Top Gun. There is the techie guru guy in the control room, last played by Simon Pegg in the Mission Impossible movies. There is the father of the arrogant jerk hotshot, seems like a nice guy. He walks a dog a lot, and they are Australian. Charlie Day and the weirdo guy from Dark Knight Rises are there, but they are just cartoon nut jobs who argue and disagree a lot, but in the end they reveal their true loving brotherly feelings for each other, and save the day. Charlie Day's character actually probably has the most to do in the movie, the most change from beginning to end. And, this being a Del Toro movie, Ron Perlman is there for a while, and gets to be very weird and mean and a bit funny. All of these characters could have been fun, and maybe even deep. Marko/Mako had some pretty cool early childhood memories, and that was an interesting scene, but those bits were few and far between. Instead, they are mainly just caricatures of characters, they are just *there*. And ok, I know it soundslike I am hating, but I am not, I am mainly nit-picking here. I said I liked it. I just wish that something had been given to explain or motivate these characters to do what they do, to show us why they are who they are, so we can care about them, so we can worry about them But with the combination of pure formula story and cardboard characters, there was almost zero dramatic tension, despite the enormous end-of-the-world stakes on the line. Does anybody doubt the humans will win when watching the movie? No. However, I do have one angry complaint: The other 'Jaegers'. The marketing people for this movie have been spending months showing us all these different awesome 'mechs, even giving them cool names, showing us blueprints, etc. Even the movie itself SAYS how cool the other Jaegers are. They TELL us how awesome their moves are, how powerful they are. But do we get to actually SEE them do their thing? Do we get to have some payoff for these months of anticipation of seeing ALL of these mechs do their thing? No. When the time comes, two of them just basically die instantly. Nothing. No awesome bada$$ mech beat-downs. This is the same thing which pissed me off about that movie Priest - they showed us this team of awesome motorcycle-riding bada$$ kung-fu vampire-hunting Priests.. and when the time comes for them to lay the smack down, they just die instantly. They were essentially extras in the movie. Same thing here. We have the three-man team from Japan, supposedly awesome. We have the super-tough man and woman team from Russia. And they fight for like 30 seconds, but lose so easily, it makes one wonder how they could have ever won a fight at all. HATE HATE HATE this kind of movie making. ATTENTION MOVIE MAKERS! LET US SEE THE BADA$$ES BRING THE BOOM BEFORE THEY DIE. For crying out loud, is that so hard? The Japanese dudes, play some hoops together, and we see them, but they never speak (so they didn't have to get paid as much, we get it, but dayum, same crap as in Priest). Yeah that one pissed me off. So anyway, what was the icing on the cake? As is typical with movies these days, especially with these kinds of movies, it is wise to stay after the end credits begin, because there just might be a little extra there. Remember I mentioned predictable? As the credits begin to roll, I said to myself, ok, here is where we see a funny last shot of Ron Perlman escaping from the belly of the baby beast that swallowed him earlier, by cutting his way out. I kid you not, that is what I said to myself. Kind of joking to myself, kind of 'Haha, wouldn't it be funny if..' And then, right there, not 30 seconds into the final credits, there it was, EXACTLY as I imagined it might be. Now I'm no genius, but even I know that if a guy like me can predict even these little beats, then that is probably not a good thing. Was it funny? yeah, it was funny. It was just so ridiculously predictable. To me, the movie kind of felt like a really awesome tech demo. We see lots of awesome shots of giant monsters and giant mechs. We do. But the story? Well, it just really felt to me like there was a much more interesting story somewhere, maybe left on the cutting-room floor, I don't know. And on that note.. Um, what? What the hell are you talking about? ***ty CGI? Where? You can't just SAY things like that without giving an example, or else you are just talking out your a$$. The CGI in this was as flawless as has ever been seen. You want crappy CGI, go watch XMen Origins Wolverine. That was some embarrassingly bad crap CGI. Not Pacific Rim. I call shenanigans. Anyway, like I said way back, overall, 7.5 out of 10. Do NOT go in expecting a great story or great characters. They are not there. Do go in expecting to see some awesome giant stuff fighting, and you will enjoy it.
Enjoyed the movie. Nothing mindblowing but a fun summer monster film, especially for those of us with nostalgia for the mecha/monster genre. I agree with Nero that the whole "background/pre-opening-credit" section feels like odd exposition lumped together. There are also plot hole questions that I have, but whatever. Idris Elba is great in it. The "cancelling the apocalypse" speech would be good to pump up the crowd in a sports arena (maybe when the home team is facing elimination in the playoffs?).
For me the best movie of the summer. (I don't have opinions on star trek as i haven't seen it) The action scenes are amazing and the visuals are beautiful. The movie has a good story and it knows it's identity and executes its plot points very well. I saw it in regular 2-D so i have no opinons on the 3-D. All in all i felt it was an 8 bucks well spent (matinee)
