Review: Pacific Rim
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Also Godzilla better step it up next year, the bar has been raised. |
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Yes mine is on the wall. I have another for a friend who wanted that IMAX poster. |
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Or as the gentlemen behind me in the theater said during the preview, "What the fuck is a kay-joo?" Bad title, and a marketing campaign that did absolutely nothing to sell the movie to the larger audience it needed to be successful. The trailer I saw was largely incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't familiar already with the sci fi/Japanese themes in it. Not to invite the usual anti-Warner Bros harangues, but I am surprised they would make such an obvious mistake promoting a big film. On the other hand, Disney let legal tangles inspire them to call a movie "John Carter" and market it similarly badly. But Del Toro could have given any title he wanted to P Rim, there was no need to settle on a clunker. And since the OP invites this comparison: Independence Day. Pacific Rim. One title is epic, the other is septic. |
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I'm not interested in this film at all. Hopefully Hollywood stops making rubbish like this and instead makes something appealing to me (more grim and gritty- less fanboy nonsense) | ||
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I wouldn't call it a straight bomb. The movie is making monster dough outside the US and hasn't even hit Japan or China YET. Movie's gonna make a profit. |
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I left the theater wanting a little Gipsy Danger to fight my Godzilla figures. And I wanted a t-shirt. Even if the movie didn't do well in the US it should have been merchandising gold. Del Toro fails on that mark. He is so controlling over the products that hardly any were made. Only three figures released before the movie? They should have had a whole line of Jaegars and Kaiju in the 6" range on shelves months ago. I guess NECO is to blame for the lack of tees, bags, and all the other low dollar items that should be at stores. And not just Hot Topic. |
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Zechs the film is pretty much 50/50. | ||
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is this movie good? maybe just barely. but is this movie fun? oh HELLS yes. I felt like a 9-year-old kid watching Godzilla on the Sunday afternoon movie on TV again, only this movie was about a million times better-looking. my buddy and I who went to see it Wednesday semi-MST3K'd it for most of the movie (oh look that's just like Top Gun. oh look they pulled that scene almost straight from Armageddon. oh look...), but it wasn't in a bad way, it was more like "oh look, that's just like Top Gun...only with giant fucking robots fighting giant fucking monsters!!!!!" we had a fucking blast. it will not win any awards. it probably won't make enough money to justify a sequel or earn del Toro any more HUGE budgets anytime soon. but it is more than well worth the $10 to go see it in the theater if you are or ever have been 13 years old and/or ever loved giant monster disaster movies. just a helluva fun movie if you're willing to turn off your brain and just be entertained. |
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It just hit 100 million this week globally and still hasn't opened in other areas of the world. |
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Though I would understand how some might not find it appealing (it was a notch too brodude for me), I don't see how it is incomprehensible. Giant monsters vs. giant robots. Is it really that hard to understand? King Kong and Beast from 20,000 Fathoms preceded Godzilla. Though giant robots weren't as popular in Western culture as in Japan, they do exist. |
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Maybe not. However, technically there were some nice effects. |
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I only saw one trailer, but IMO bad editing and choice of shots did not give the action the sense of scale it should have. A giant robot is cool, sure, but a close up of part of a giant robot does not give you the same dynamics. It was a shitty trailer in that it didn't communicate well to the larger audience. Monster movies used to be popular 50 years ago, sure, but they were still a niche market. Are you seriously comparing it to King Kong, or the conditions to how movies were made and marketed in back then? I can't take you seriously, I'm afraid. This isn't 1933 and movies are promoted quite differently today, to a different audience, under different viewing conditions. No one told people they needed to "turn off their brains" to enjoy a movie, for starters. |
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