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Negative reviews: "Pacific Rim is like a souped-up, longer and crazier version of Power Rangers."

Pacific Rim/Kaiju fans: "Pacific Rim is like a souped-up, longer and crazier version of Power Rangers!!!"
 
Maninthemirror said:
Shit its going to be close! Come on!

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Only in America. Worldwide PacRim is kicking GU2's ass.

I'm glad some of the critics like it. I was internally bracing myself for 50% even though I loved the film. I'm far and away not the general audience for this film.
 
CFK said:
It seems to be getting better reception than I was expecting, it'll be hilarious if it ends up higher than MoS.

The Power Rangers comparisons don't seem like a real negative to me.
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To be fair it is pretty hard to be worse than MoS. To be honest the Farci review makes it sound like the kind of movie I would have wanted a new Superman film to resemble.
 
CFK said:
I feel this is a movie that could lend itself to an animated series. Or would that be too similar to other stuff out there?
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What other stuff, though? Western wise, there aren't any animated shows that feature giant robots right now. The last one was Sym-Bionic Titan, and that only crashed because the higher ups weren't able to get any merchandise out.
 
phazedplasma said:
So do the trailers do a good job of not revealing all the cool stuff?
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From late last week:

Sent said:
I have returned from a screening. The movie was great! Everything I wanted. Heart racing action and scale. You are put directly into a crisis situation and the characters all work well. As Del Toro says it's an adventure movie. It's not mindless action.

Anyone who is hyped for this will love it. I guarantee it. While i was hyped for Man of Steel and left a little disappointed...here not so! I only got to see it in a regular RealD 3D screen and have booked opening day IMAX. See it on the biggest screen you can.

The trailers and TV spots haven't shown ANYTHING at all. I have no idea how they kept so much hidden.
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SpeedySwaf said:
What other stuff, though? Western wise, there aren't any animated shows that feature giant robots right now. The last one was Sym-Bionic Titan, and that only crashed because the higher ups weren't able to get any merchandise out.
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I don't know. Wasn't Evangelion kind of similar? Honest question, I have never seen the show.

Maninthemirror said:
RT up to 79!!! With 28 reviews
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Don't get your hopes up for RT. It's not very important anyways.

harSon said:
Yeah, I haven't seen the movie, but judging from the screenplay, the previews don't spoiler much at all.
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Where did you find the screenplay?
 
RT's not important for me, but it is important to some other people I know (my dad, since he's more likely to watch Supes than a monster movie). If a high percentage helps this movie at the box office, then that's even better.

This looks like my blockbuster of the year, so.
 
Dragoon En Regalia said:
RT's not important for me, but it is important to some other people I know (my dad, since he's more likely to watch Supes than a monster movie). If a high percentage helps this movie at the box office, then that's even better.

This looks like my blockbuster of the year, so.
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I'm the same on both counts. Neither of my parents will see this unless it garners positive reviews.
 
CFK said:
I don't know. Wasn't Evangelion kind of similar? Honest question, I have never seen the show.
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Similar, yes, but it's not on TV anymore. The closest thing we have to a "giant robot" TV show outside of Japan is Transformers Prime, and that's wrapping up in a few weeks (though reruns will probably be running a while yet).

Don't get your hopes up for RT. It's not very important anyways.
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An RT score won't mean the difference between success and failure, but if the trend holds, a good score would at least imply good word-of-mouth, which can only help the movie.
 
samn said:
Perhaps they understand that entirely and still think it's a bad film that's difficult to enjoy?

You saw this excuse with the Transformers movies. 'Don't critics understand, it's not SUPPOSED to be any good!'
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I think what the rationale is supposed to be is "This film is trying to excel at something that movie critics often don't value as much", aka action.

The problem with applying that argument to Transformers has always been that the action in those films often sucks. It uses too many shaky cams, quick shots, and a bunch of extras we don't care about that all look the same. There are a few decent action scenes (the one with Prime on the highway is great), but you can't really defend Transformers for its action scenes like you can a movies like Fast and Furious 6 or (Hopefully) Pacific Rim.
 
Guzim said:
There still aren't any showings listed for the two theaters I go to :/
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Should be soon, a bunch of theaters in my area updated their thursday night shows in the past hour. By tomorrow night all theaters should have updated on fandango. One theater I go to is having 13 shows thursday night!

I want it to hit 80 on RT, please please please!
 
witness said:
Should be soon, a bunch of theaters in my area updated their thursday night shows in the past hour. By tomorrow night all theaters should have updated on fandango. One theater I go to is having 13 shows thursday night!

I want it to hit 80 on RT, please please please!
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One of my theatres just updated to have 7:00 showings on Thursday. Whatever happened to midnight releases at midnight?

Anyone have suggestions on how to ensure you get the IMAX3D print?
 
Salamando said:
One of my theatres just updated to have 7:00 showings on Thursday. Whatever happened to midnight releases at midnight?

Anyone have suggestions on how to ensure you get the IMAX3D print?
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A lot of theaters don't like them now because of what happened when TDKR came out a year ago. They prefer to start them earlier now at 7-10pm (with security or a cop there), but a few still do midnights.
 
Hoping to see this either Friday or when I see my dad this weekend. Will have to float the idea with him to see what he thinks.

And yeah, my nearby theater is doing a 7:00 PM showing as well the day before.
 
Even if this is terrible(which I don't think it will be) i'd still id still want it to be extremely successful if just to help the mech genre of anything(games,movies,cartoons,toys)

maybe someone out there would try to get Gundam back to being big in the US like it was back in 1999/2000.
I remember when you could go to a toysrus and they had an entire isle of model kits.
 
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