I've never understood this attitude towards action movies. Predictable is what you get. Explosions, fights, lame plots. The spectacle is the fun part. Anything over and above the formula is gravy (Matrix, Scott Pilgrim).
^Yup. I was geeked out over Pacific Rim because the action scenes and set pieces was a Hollywood mech movie done right. The plot holes and fake science created the set pieces. It was pretty much a real action cartoon, so I relaxed and enjoyed it for what it was. It was a good break given all the failures Hollywood has done with licensed works of people's childhood: comic book adaptations (more often than not), video games, toys like Transformers/GI Joe, so I'm looking forward to what new things the sequel might bring.
I feel like Del Toro shouldn't direct the films, he should be hired as the creative director/monster design guy by a better director on films.
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I can't say that I've ever made it through the movie from beginning to end, it's just a little off, but I do stop to watch pieces every once in a while so it's one of those after midnight movies for me to fill some time. Seems to work in small clips, but not as a whole movie. And that's how it entertains. Not sure what a second will bring to the puzzle, but I will likely stop in for a look see.
I think pacific rim was the greatest movie idea ever. Who needs bombs when we can fight hand to hand? Then they threw in a foxy little Asian girl. Best. Movie. Ever.
Or possibly have Charlie Sheen controlling a stumbling, drug-addled robot that won't stop saying "winning" even when he is clearly losing to the kaiju.
