I freaking loved it. This is a movie that knew what it was. It's not heady sci-fi. It's not Citizen Kane. It's giant robots fighting giant monsters, and it's AWESOME! It's not an intelligent movie nor does it try to be, but it's an intelligently made movie. And that is a breath of fresh air compared to typical Hollywood garbage. For people complaining how cliche or awful the dialogue/story was, please compare to Battleship, any Transformers movie, and basically any other summer action blockbuster. This movie, unlike typical action garbage, has style. It knows what it's doing, and it doesn't have f'ing shaky cam keeping me from seeing the fights. 9/10. Will see again and again.
While I largely agree with you, I don't find the fact that the action/concept being better than Transformers and other action-scifi movies is an excuse to have crappy characters, predictable dialogue, and other tropes. That being said, in the pantheon of summer 'blow s--- up' movies, you could do a lot worse.
The first Transformers was better. Also, comparing Pacific Rim to crappy movies doesn't make it any less of a crappy movie. It tried to do so many things that it ended up doing nothing.
Went to see this movie at 10 p.m. on Friday. It was really incredibly dumb, but that didn't bother me too badly. I was really disappointed by the robot action. They had 50 years worth of anime and comic books to rip off, and what they came up with was pretty weak, IMO. I was really hoping for way more over-the-top, cartoony action. Can we at least get a flying robot? Some eye lasers? Anything? It took them that long to break out the SWORD? These pilots are supposed to be incredible fighters and their robots are worse boxers that freaking Rocky. I never saw the ending, which I'm sure was just brilliant, because some kid pulled the fire alarm in the theater. Sirens went off and a voice came over the speakers saying, "This is an emergency!" People ****ing flew out of that place, as you can imagine. Recent mass shootings + disaster movie angst cleared that place out in no time, and of course there was no fire or lunatic. We didn't even bother asking for our money back.
I have to agree with some of this. The cgi and fight scenes could have been better but I still had fun. Some gundam or other mechanime action with sabers would have done wonders. The whole fist to fist combat looked wierd .
I fell asleep in the beginning, second time I do this (fast 6). Watched it in 3d at the greenspoint cinema. That theater is nice and still hasn't disappointed me. I wonder if there's a big difference from the IMAX one.
Say what??? Fight choreography ok. But if there is one thing this movie nailed perfectly, it's the CGI. Absolutely stunning detail.
The CG was done well, but there's a reason a lot of the fight scenes took place in the water/pouring rain. Makes it way, wayyy easier to fudge stuff artistically and also cuts down a big part of the load on the animators (since you only have to show stuff from the waist up, if that).
There may be a sequel yet: international box office has been brisk http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pacificrim.htm http://www.themarysue.com/pacific-rim-international-box-office/
How is this compared to Transformer 3? I liked T1, because it was new. T2 was just ok. T3 had too many mindless action that actually made me fall asleep, did not like.
So happy to see that, if there's one big blockbuster that's deserving it's this, hope it continues to rack in the cash overseas. I personally don't hate the Transformer movies like some people but Pacific Rim is so much more fun, just in general.
I really enjoyed it in IMAX 3D, but the visuals were the main drawing point. Not sure that I would watch it again on TV, but I would go watch it again on IMAX 3D without hesitation.
While not surprising it is cleaning house overseas, it is surprising they're going with a sequel, because if you factor in the marketing budget, this movie bombed.
Pacific Rim is better than anything Bay has ever done in his entire career. Not to say I didn't enjoy T1. T2 and T3 I don't think I'm missing much probably the same ******* thing in the first movie.
Well Prometheus did $400 worldwide on a lower budget and that was considered a minor flop with no sequel likely. Not gonna hold my breath on a Pacific Rim sequel.
Actually a Prometheus sequel is still on track, just moving slowly. That said even if Pacific Rim gets the nod it would be several years from now it seems; Del Toro looks to be pretty busy.
