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I'm willing to bet this is at least a little true since I always see people comparing the two movies. Which strikes me as odd as beyond "Has giant monsters", the movies really could not be more different.
Yeah but I don't think movie makers really think that way. All that matters to them is that they have 2 movies from the same genre and how well they did. Both films were produced by the same studio as well, so it's a lot easier for Legendary to be persuaded to pursue a sequel to Pacific Rim than it is to persuade two separate studios. It's also pretty well known some of the heads at Legendary are childhood fans of giant monster movies which is in part why Pacific Rim and Godzilla were made by them in the first place.
Kind of a perfect storm kind of thing I guess. As Sebster shows above, Hollywood will shrug off movies and movie ideas at bad numbers pretty easy, so you kind of need a perfect storm for a film with less than desired performance in the US market to get a sequel.
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Flashman wrote: Not sure they can top a giant robot dragging an oil tanker down a street before clobbering a monster around the head with it, but hey, I'm in
I vote they go the Dead Rising route; oil tankers with tanks duck tapped to them and saw blades nailed to the tanks. On fire.
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Flashman wrote: Not sure they can top a giant robot dragging an oil tanker down a street before clobbering a monster around the head with it, but hey, I'm in
I vote they go the Dead Rising route; oil tankers with tanks duck tapped to them and saw blades nailed to the tanks. On fire.
Why not, sounds like fun.
In the meantime, here is a reminder of 2013's greatest cinematic moment...
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Frazzled wrote: I'd put Pacific RIm in the terrible category as well. While the special effects were decent
*Plot was absolutely horrific, childish, and...boring.
*Acting was both leaden and stupid.
*Incredible plot holes that kept popping up for no real reason.
I have to side with Frazzled here. I walked away from Pacific Rim feeling like I'd just watched a Michael Bay film, complete with loud noises, explosions and giant robots.
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Frazzled wrote: I'd put Pacific RIm in the terrible category as well. While the special effects were decent
*Plot was absolutely horrific, childish, and...boring.
*Acting was both leaden and stupid.
*Incredible plot holes that kept popping up for no real reason.
I have to side with Frazzled here. I walked away from Pacific Rim feeling like I'd just watched a Michael Bay film, complete with loud noises, explosions and giant robots.
Putting aside film quality, Pacific Rim and say... Transformers are edited in a totally different style. Michael Bay favours a more frenetic approach which many complain makes it difficult to focus on the action. In Pacific Rim, the shots are much longer and so when Gypsy Danger drags that oil tanker down the street, you get to soak it up a bit more.
Frazzled wrote: I'd put Pacific RIm in the terrible category as well. While the special effects were decent
*Plot was absolutely horrific, childish, and...boring.
*Acting was both leaden and stupid.
*Incredible plot holes that kept popping up for no real reason.
I have to side with Frazzled here. I walked away from Pacific Rim feeling like I'd just watched a Michael Bay film, complete with loud noises, explosions and giant robots.
Yes. It was rather exactly like a Michael Bay movie, other than the ability to keep a consistent tone. Yes, other than the ability to keep a consistent tone it was exactly like a Michael Bay movie, well and it kind of lacked the rampant racism. So, yeah other than the consistent tone and lack of racism, it was exactly like a Michael Bay movie well ok, it kind of lacked his trademark sexism. OK. Other than the lack of sexism, racism and inconsistent tone it was exactly like a Michael Bay... well, other than the clean visuals, distinct mechanical designs, comprehensible fight choreography and visual world building but that's it. Really, it was JUST like a Michael Bay film other than not being sexist, not being racist, having a consistent tone, using clean visuals and comprehensible fight direction, and doing a lot of world building it was exactly like a Michael Bay film, I mean like with less product placement and less bathroom humor.
So yeah. It was pretty much like a Michael Bay film. I mean apart from the fact it had no sexism, no racism, no bathroom humor, less product placement, a consistent tone, a lot of world building, clean visuals, comprehensible fight direction, distinct mechanical designs it was identical to a Michael Film and all those are like really super minor, don't why even know why I'd mention them really. I can't say I was anything but shocked not to see his name in the credits. It really had all his hallmarks, you know except none of them.
Frazzled wrote: I'd put Pacific RIm in the terrible category as well. While the special effects were decent
*Plot was absolutely horrific, childish, and...boring.
*Acting was both leaden and stupid.
*Incredible plot holes that kept popping up for no real reason.
I have to side with Frazzled here. I walked away from Pacific Rim feeling like I'd just watched a Michael Bay film, complete with loud noises, explosions and giant robots.
I like Bad Boys anyway but this made Bad Boys look like Shakespeare.
Flashman wrote: Not sure they can top a giant robot dragging an oil tanker down a street before clobbering a monster around the head with it, but hey, I'm in
I vote they go the Dead Rising route; oil tankers with tanks duck tapped to them and saw blades nailed to the tanks. On fire.
Personally I would call Pacific Rim the "Awesomest Dumb Movie Ever" and I definitely want to see the sequel.
My real issue with it as a film is that the middle section is not only the best part of the movie, but the only part that saves the other two sections. The opening of the movie was completely blarg for me. Like, 40 minutes of introductions and stage setting in a film where no amount of rationalizing is going to make Giant Robots anything but Rule of Cool, so stop trying to justify it so much (though the whole "lets build a giant wall" thing was such a dumber idea that giant robots punching monsters to death seems completely rational in comparison). The ending was just... God the ending...
But I still want more robots beating giant monsters. Maybe this time we can get a little more action out the B-List robots before they die.
creeping-deth87 wrote: Godzilla was incredibly boring, Pacific Rim wasn't. Very excited for the sequel.
Godzilla was one of the most forgettable, dull movies I've ever seen. Pacific Rim, however, was amazing and so, so much fun. The only other time I've had that much fun was when I saw The Avengers for the first time.
Needless to say, I'm pretty stoked for the sequel. I'm hoping we'll get to see more of that mysterious creator race that engineered the Kaiju and opened the Rift.
In the meantime, here is a reminder of 2013's greatest cinematic moment...
The fact he had infinitely more effective double-swords available to him at this point in the movie, and failed to know they existed due to his ignorance while the fate of humanity was at stake makes this one of the stupidest and worst cinematic moments of 2013 for anyone who is not a feeble-minded child.
Pacific Rim was a trash movie... Poorly written, poorly acted, and all around stupid concepts and a failure of legitimate execution of the robots. If Michael bay didn't ruin the transformers franchise with garbage, Pacific Rim might be the worst giant-robot movie of the past 20 years.
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I just couldn't enjoy Pacific Rim because of the terrible, terrible plot. I lost all interest when the movie seriously wanted to tell me that mankind's solution to the giant killer aliens was a big wall. Come on.
Flashman wrote: Not sure they can top a giant robot dragging an oil tanker down a street before clobbering a monster around the head with it, but hey, I'm in
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Despite the fact that it has giant robots I never saw the appeal. The two people controlling the one suit thing just seemed stupid, I could understand if they were perhaps operating different parts but they appear to need to do things in tandem.
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Flashman wrote: Not sure they can top a giant robot dragging an oil tanker down a street before clobbering a monster around the head with it, but hey, I'm in
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