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I rest my case. This is a quote from what probably is my favorite review of that film.
Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, “Grown Ups 2” is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making “Ow! My Balls!” seem like a plausible future project.
Ouch.
That really sucks.
Still, it's doing pretty well in Europe and Canada, and it will soon be released in Japan and China, so it's too early to write it off yet. I imagine it will do pretty well in Japan-they are the gods of robots and monsters after all.
Incidentally, Go Nagai (Creator of Mazinger Z) and Hideaki Anno (creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion) absolutely loved Pacific Rim.
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I rest my case. This is a quote from what probably is my favorite review of that film.
Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, “Grown Ups 2” is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making “Ow! My Balls!” seem like a plausible future project.
Is your case a crappy comedy is preferred over giant monsters? Maybe all that says is that not that many people want to see a movie about giant rubber er computer monsters and robots.
Besides. Godzilla would kick all their asses...
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I think the coolest thing about Pacific Rim was the gigantic, hydraulic set to represent Gipsy Danger's cockpit, because Del Toro didn't want something as dumb as his actors "pretending" to react to hits, ala Star Trek. Screw the money, being on sets like that is one of the things that makes me the most jealous of Hollywood actors.
Pacific Rim was a damn good movie in the technical sense. Awesome innovative sets, no friggin' shaky cam in the fight scenes, no quick cuts to disguise lack of cool action, etc.
Transformers fight scenes are like watching metal objects being dumped into a blender, with a random "hawt girl" staying perfectly clean and slo-mo running though it all.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
I rest my case. This is a quote from what probably is my favorite review of that film.
Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, “Grown Ups 2” is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making “Ow! My Balls!” seem like a plausible future project.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Balls of Fury is an awful film that I loved. I shouldn't, and I hate myself a little for it. I would never say it is a good film, but I have some weird affinity for it that escapes me.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Yeah, I enjoyed bits and pieces of it, but overall, Balls of Fury was something worth dodging. It also wished it had Jack Black in it.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Ben Stiller is good in any role that property makes use of his particular crazy. Zoolander and Dodgeball both let him go off the rails in a constructive way. In most of his movies, doing his weird gak goes counter to the character.
Same for Will Farrell. The script has to perfectly fit his weirdness or it sucks.
To get it vaguely back on topic, I would absolutely love to see a comic giant robot movie featuring Will Ferrell training a team of underdog robot sport competitors. Especially if he was the sassy AI, rejecting various candidates.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
A lot of films these days seem to break even or turn a good portion of their profit off of DVD/Blu Ray/Digital purchases, so it wouldn't surprise me if that played a part when all was said and done, but the merchandise seems pretty strong too. Toys/action figures, I've heard praise for the graphic novel and art book, the sound track is pretty awesome, etc.
Even if they aren't necessary, it probably won't hurt either.
Given the movie was basically carried entirely by the foreign markets if we do get a sequel I wonder if we'll see a lot more out of the international teams, given american film audiences proved they have no taste.
Something struck me immediately from Whembly's link about the possibility of a sequel; though it wasn't the focus of the piece:
The expensive film has underperformed significantly here in the States - I believe this is due, in no small part, to a heinously mis-conceived ad campaign which did little to adequately convey the true flavor of the picture. In fact, I’ve encountered a number of people who were actually TURNED OFF by PACIFIC RIM’s trailers and promos. That’s a hard battle to fight, and one bitch of an uphill climb.
Shenanigans, tomfoolery, and lies.
I've seen a fair bit of the trailers and advertising for Pacific Rim, and they aren't misleading in the least (contrast with The Fountain if you want to see that in action).
I liked Pacific Rim a great deal, and would love to see a sequel, but I'm not going to pretend that it's failure to become a blockbuster is for a reason other than it being a niche movie with a limited larger audience.
Anyway, as of this writing, it's pulled in $227 million total (I've actually had this tab open for nearly 3 weeks). Although we don't know what the marketing budget is, I think a fair estimate is around $70 million, so it still hasn't quite made back what it cost to make. That being said, China is a huge market, we don't know what the toys and other merchandising bring it... I still think a sequel is unlikely by conventional wisdom; but stranger things have happened, such as... well, Grown Ups 2.
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Ouze wrote:Something struck me immediately from Whembly's link about the possibility of a sequel; though it wasn't the focus of the piece:
The expensive film has underperformed significantly here in the States - I believe this is due, in no small part, to a heinously mis-conceived ad campaign which did little to adequately convey the true flavor of the picture. In fact, I’ve encountered a number of people who were actually TURNED OFF by PACIFIC RIM’s trailers and promos. That’s a hard battle to fight, and one bitch of an uphill climb.
Shenanigans, tomfoolery, and lies.
I've seen a fair bit of the trailers and advertising for Pacific Rim, and they aren't misleading in the least (contrast with The Fountain if you want to see that in action).
Just for clarification as there is more than one movie titled The Fountain: are you referring to the movie where the conquistador loses his head and becomes a transcendental Buddhist who gets reincarnated as a pharmaceutical scientist?
azazel the cat wrote: Just for clarification as there is more than one movie titled The Fountain: are you referring to the movie where the conquistador loses his head and becomes a transcendental Buddhist who gets reincarnated as a pharmaceutical scientist?
Yes. In my experience, that is tied for the most misleading trailer I have ever seen for a film.
So, if you watch that trailer, what is your takeway? That it's a movie about a conquistador who discovers the fountain of youth, lives forever, and tries to regain his lost love, right?
Yeah, that's not actually what it's about. Spoilers for the ending.
Spoiler:
It's actually about a scientist guy who is coming to terms with his wife's dying of some disease. The first part is a story she wrote that goes nowhere, and the second one is a hallucination he has is about a space hare krishna flaying around in a bubble with a tree.
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The second most misleading movie preview, possible tied? Executive Decision. The trailer and posters for this movie make it look like an action movie starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal, when in fact, Steven Seagal is only in the movie for about 5 minutes.
Anyway, back on-topic, my wife still has not seen Pacific Rim, so I may take her to a 3D showing today.
lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
Ouze wrote:The second most misleading movie preview, possible tied? Executive Decision. The trailer and posters for this movie make it look like an action movie starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal, when in fact, Steven Seagal is only in the movie for about 5 minutes.
To be fair, that's intentional, for the same reason the principle character dies halfway through Psycho (I hate to compare the two, however).
Ouze wrote:The second most misleading movie preview, possible tied? Executive Decision. The trailer and posters for this movie make it look like an action movie starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal, when in fact, Steven Seagal is only in the movie for about 5 minutes.
To be fair, that's intentional, for the same reason the principle character dies halfway through Psycho (I hate to compare the two, however).
Then how about Drew Barrymore in Scream?
Spoiler:
It is probably a little more analogous because both Seagal and her are offed fairly quickly whereas Hitchcock made us take some time and get to knew Janet Leigh.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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