Pacific Rim

[Veho]

And now for something completely different:

How many people a day would a Kaiju have to eat to survive. Turns out, a fairly manageable number.

 

[Danny600kill]

Looks promising , I think I will have to give this a watch some time soon , I do love me some robot fighting action and from what people have said it's a good watch

 

[Ethevion]

And now for something completely different:

How many people a day would a Kaiju have to eat to survive. Turns out, a fairly manageable number.

That was an interesting article.

It'll take a while for them to eat us, but it'll take them much less time to run through out cities and simply crush us all to death.

 

[mrgone]

Evangelion VS. Godzilla

me too, but
godzilla vs evangelion

 

[Gahars]

The middle dragged a bit too much, and two of the mechs seem to get killed off with little fanfare whatsoever. These are my faults with the movie.

Everything else? Pure, unadulterated bliss. I haven't had so much fun in the theater in such a long time. Pacific Rim really does live up to the hype - it's such a shame that the rest of America just doesn't care.

Adam Sandler, you are history's greatest monster.

 

[blaisedinsd]

Waiting for DVD to see this move is a big mistake. Immediately go find the largest screen you can and watch this. I seen it in Imax 3D and RPX (2D) now and the 3D is actually really good and adds to the experience (but the RPX screen was bigger than lieMax screen).

If you have any sembelance of an inner child in you this movie will blow you away. This is the best summer blockbuster I have seen in a long time, I struggle to come up with a movie I enjoyed more. The effects are amazing and the action is incredible and the characters, while you could call them cliche, work well. It is very much like an anime as far as the characters. If you know any 8-14 year old boys buy them a ticket and take them to see this. This movie just has way too much awesome in it. And I thought it was going to be lame going in.

The only complaint I have is that the climax can't can't quite hold up to what comes before it but it is good none the less, just not the high point of the film. The characters, especially the scientist threw me for a bit....yeah they are over the top, but once I understood that is what they were going for and that is the type of movie this was supposed to be I sort of started to love and enjoy their characters.

The only way you can't enjoy this is basically if you are a snob who think you are too good to take pleasure in this type of awesomeness. If your inner child is dead and you hate it go in to mourning for the loss of that part of yourself, you have my sympathy.

I bought the prequel graphic novel and seriously have the urge to go buy figures and toys. The story is very complete, this could be the final film in a trilogy even, but PLEASE give us sequels or prequels or whatever.

 

[Ethevion]

I didn't really mind the middle of the movie. I enjoyed most of it.
What I noticed about this movie compared to most other action movies is it doesn't have the random love scene that kinda comes out of nowhere. Random sex scenes can be a plus in some movies, but this movie went perfectly fine without it.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I didn't really mind the middle of the movie. I enjoyed most of it.
What I noticed about this movie compared to most other action movies is it doesn't have the random love scene that kinda comes out of nowhere. Random sex scenes can be a plus in some movies, but this movie went perfectly fine without it.

del Toro did state that while it wasn't specifically geared for a younger audience he wanted the move to be as accessible to a younger audience as it is to an older one. He wanted to bring the mecha and kaiju genres to another generation.

The movie is also a solid PG-13 and it's a very good rating for the movie since it keeps it A) accessible and B) light. Not grim and dark like an R-rated version would be.

Apparently some people are comparing this to Star Wars and I can see some parallels, especially in terms of tone. Like the original trilogy Star Wars had its dark elements, but it was still generally accessible. I watched Star Wars when I was pretty damn young and you still see like limbs get cut off and people dying and stuff like that. Same here. On your point of romance, I mean the romantic payoffs in Star Wars are... a kiss? It keeps things light. The characters themselves are also generally light (admittedly they're a bit more delved into in Star Wars but that also has an entire expanded universe around it and more movies and more fans and more years to really look into the characters).

While I don't think it'll make as big an impact as Star Wars I can definitely see it being a sorta "Star Wars-esque" film in terms of its appeal and just being what it is: a fun movie. One that's not stupid but doesn't try to be smart, one that's just well made and a labor of love.

A sequel is in the works and while it'll never reach Star Wars levels of success I think it'll make as big an impact on a cult following as Star Wars has for the general culture.

 

[blaisedinsd]

del Toro did state that while it wasn't specifically geared for a younger audience he wanted the move to be as accessible to a younger audience as it is to an older one. He wanted to bring the mecha and kaiju genres to another generation.

The movie is also a solid PG-13 and it's a very good rating for the movie since it keeps it A) accessible and B) light. Not grim and dark like an R-rated version would be.

Apparently some people are comparing this to Star Wars and I can see some parallels, especially in terms of tone. Like the original trilogy Star Wars had its dark elements, but it was still generally accessible. I watched Star Wars when I was pretty damn young and you still see like limbs get cut off and people dying and stuff like that. Same here. On your point of romance, I mean the romantic payoffs in Star Wars are... a kiss? It keeps things light. The characters themselves are also generally light (admittedly they're a bit more delved into in Star Wars but that also has an entire expanded universe around it and more movies and more fans and more years to really look into the characters).

While I don't think it'll make as big an impact as Star Wars I can definitely see it being a sorta "Star Wars-esque" film in terms of its appeal and just being what it is: a fun movie. One that's not stupid but doesn't try to be smart, one that's just well made and a labor of love.

A sequel is in the works and while it'll never reach Star Wars levels of success I think it'll make as big an impact on a cult following as Star Wars has for the general culture.

Really what has reached a Star Wars level of success besides Star Wars?

I definitely feel the comparison though, the emotions the movie gave me were very similar to seeing Star Wars when I was young. The characters and mythology are not on the same level but the coolness level probably is. The production design on Pacific Rim is amazing.

 

[Veho]

A sequel is in the works

But it's under a huge question mark because the box office results aren't good (although it has yet to premiere in Asia), so for now it's only wishful thinking


I wonder if the Chinese or Japanese version will have some additional footage. Some pandering to the Chinese audience with 5 additional minutes of Crimson Typhoon *cough*IronMan3*cough* or something.


And now... Giant robots VS alien monsters, you say?

 

[Enchilada]

I think that those Kaiju (monsters) are too damn scary for the kids, especialy when you watch it in the cinema (3D, huge screen, loud sound).

 

[Mushkin]

it's a good fun movie

 

[chyyran]

You have to watch it in IMAX to do it any justice. It was absolutely beautiful.

 

[dgwillia]

Loved it in Imax 3D. Probably the best movie I have seen in 3D ever, by the time I get halfway through most other 3D movies, my eyes are either burning or I'm wondering "Why the hell did this movie even have 3D".

I can't think of any other movie I have seen in a long time where I actually had my jaw drop multiple times. Some of the best robot fighting I have seen too, all of the action scenes in Transformers were so fast that if you blinked you missed em.

 

[EzekielRage]

To me this was the best film of this year so far. Fantastic!

 

[Nathan Drake]

Okay, so, for one:

Spoiler

I was totally waiting for Godzilla to rise out of the ocean at the end as some, final, special Kaiju to ravage the coast of Japan. With all the Jaeger's gone and the program ended, it could have totally worked.

As for the movie, it was decent. If you think it's cinematic gold, well, movie taste is subjective. I thought the story had a hard time finding a focus where the characters were concerned, and frankly, it had a hard time really making memorable characters. I don't remember the name of anybody in that movie. I couldn't recollect names 30 minutes after the movie. What didn't help that was that the story seems to start focusing on the younger brother, then as soon as we meet the female lead, boom, the story redirects to be just about entirely about her, her life, and her desires. Although it added depth to a couple of the characters, by the end, you had no reason to care about the male lead. Not one. The comedy bits, although fun, were almost just too silly at times. I respect that as a movie, Pacific Rim wasn't trying to take itself too seriously, but there's a limit to how much comedy should be inserted in a movie that's supposed to be action based before it actually starts hurting more than helping. Charlie Day should not be one of the single most memorable things about that film.

As far as the robot fights go, they were good. Giant robots fighting near prehistoric dinosaur-looking monsters. The action was solid. It was a little disappointing how easily certain Jaegers went down, while others seemed to be somehow substantially better/more resilient despite age, use, and construction. I really liked watching the fights though. It was worth the time at the movies.

Part of me does want to recommend seeing this in theaters, but if you have a decent discounted theater near you (the type that gets stuff end of the line), I'd probably wait on that if big robots aren't really your thing. Otherwise, go ahead and get to the theaters before it's relegated to smaller screens. For $8 or so, I'd say it's worth it.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

I would like to see a good fighting game made out of this, maybe a really jazzed up 3D isometric version of King of Monsters.... That would be pretty cool and fun.

 

[blaisedinsd]

Mr. Drake, If this movie is merely decent than I don't know what film you think has more awesome in it.

Disagree on your criticisms. It is not a dramatic character movie but I think the characters were very colorful. How can you not remember incredible names like Stacker Pentecost and Hercules Hanson? I thought the story was very focused and hope for an expanded directors cut, you could sense traces of more stuff that was cut out but I liked that the movie wasn't 3 hous long. The story hurdles along at a very fast pace.

I am not a huge anime fan at all but the characters and story are very much that type of thing and works fabulously on that level. You want citizen Kane out of this?

I don't know what movie has better fights in it. The soundtrack was awesome.

I can think of Another movie that benefits more from IMAX than this one. I seen it 3 times now. I know when I watch it at home I will be waxing nostalgic from the epicness of seeing this in imAx.

 

[BORTZ]

 

[blaisedinsd]

I am reading that this movie is crushing the Box Office in China, #1 three weeks in a row, over 100 Million, has made more in China than the USA. (it looks to have a shot at 400 million foreign + domesitc)

This is good news, the movie is profitable and is looking really good as far as getting a sequel.