I just saw this a few hours ago and the battle scenes are amazing. If you're looking for epic mech vs monster stuff I don't think you will be disappointed. It was exactly what I wanted from it really.
I’m very proud of the 3D conversion and it’s my preferred version of seeing the movie, the 3D. People that have the bad taste of sloppy conversions to 3D should see the movie and see what I think is a really careful conversion and how something can be really good in 3D..
Do you need to see the movie in RD3D on Thursday at a Regal theater to get the Shinkawa poster? Will they still be given out this weekend? I've read that they're available for the entire opening weekend, but I just want to be sure.
Just come back from seeing had a massive amount of fun with this
loved the movie iffy dialogue aside , such a beautiful movie also
also the main theme is catchy as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DABGdvCOs4
I saw an early screening of Pacific Rim in Imax 3D tonight. I won the tickets through cinemaclock. I thought I'd give some overall impressions I had of the movie.
First, I should say that I've been mostly disappointed in the summer blockbusters I've seen this year. Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel were very disappointing, whereas Star Trek Into Darkness was just a fine movie with one terrific performance. My favourite movie of this summer so far is probably Mud. So obviously, if you loved most of the major blockbusters my opinion probably won't mean much to you. As for Guillermo Del Toro's work, I hated the original Hellboy, but enjoyed the sequel and absolutely adored Pan's Labyrinth. In fact, Pan's Labyrinth was so good, I will always give Del Toro's work a chance.
I will say that while I enjoyed myself at the movie, I was similarly disappointed in the film as a whole. I just expect much more out of a Guillermo Del Toro film.
The film begins with a major plot dump which put immediately put a bad taste in my mouth. The AV Club (I read it tonight after returning home from the movie, along with the Village Voice review) stated they enjoyed that it skipped the origin story, but personally, I felt that the information provided in the summary of events that lead to today to be quite interesting and sounded like it could have made a good movie by itself. I think the film could have trusted that its viewers could have been dropped into this world without being exposed to voice over dialogue explaining all of those events and just be fine learning about the world through dialogue. In fact, Evangelion 1.0 shows that we can be dropped into the middle of the conflict and be just fine. Perhaps of it was handled better I would not have minded this so much, The Incredible Hulk showed it can be done well (I love the newspaper clippings at the beginning if that film). This is just a small issue that I'm over blowing, but I typed it all out, so I'm leaving it here.
Where the film excels is in the design of the monsters and the Jaegers, and the choreography of the fights. They are very fun to watch. There were two cutesy moments during the fight which I felt were out of place in the film, but were not too distracting. Only during the final sequence did I have any issues with the battles, and it had to do with the players on screen looking much too similar, and I felt this could have been avoided based on all the work that went into many of the other designs.
Where the film falls utterly flat is in its attempt to make us care about any of the characters. They were pretty much action movie clichés. In fact, outside of two of the main characters, I couldn't remember any of the characters names. And when (light spoiler)
people inevitably die during the film, I certainly did not feel any emotions other than waiting for the action to resume
The plot is pretty basic but works and the dialogue is uninspired.
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Overall it was a fun summer flick and was more entertaining than many of its big budget compatriots, but it left a lot to be desire. Batman Begins/The Dark Knight this is not. I have no doubt that if I was a boy I'd probably love it and want to get a hold of the action figures immediately.
My girlfriend came out of this in 4DX. She said " It was really fun. But I was shocked, I though this would be a kid movie. But it is brutal, they fight so desperatly. Story is very deep and thick. No shalow "
also, because of 4DX and all the water fights, she was soaked after the movie.
Paper thin characters, dumb action, and a plot that isn't much beyond ROBOTS FIGHT MONSTERS.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
If I want to put on my hur dur analyse-the-characters critics hat I could walk away angry, but the movie is so matter-of-fact and to-the-point I just don't care. Yes, there's character drama, and it's all two dimensional, but the simplicity helps drive the film. Two dimensional characters piloting three dimensional robots fighting fourth dimensional monsters.
Where turds like Transformers spend 30-40 minutes padding 2D characters into melodramatic shit you get bored because it's not interesting. Pacific Rim is dumb, but the bluntness just means less time spent on awfulness and more time spent on awesome. People say how they feel, on the spot. Scientists explain shit in 30 seconds, and the next scene is that shit getting done. IM SAD. ANGER. WE NEED THIS. GOT IT. ROBOT PUNCH MONSTER WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Go in to have pure, distilled fun or stay home and watch something else.
Paper thin characters, dumb action, and a plot that isn't much beyond ROBOTS FIGHT MONSTERS.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
If I want to put on my hur dur analyse-the-characters critics hat I could walk away angry, but the movie is so matter-of-fact and to-the-point I just don't care. Yes, there's character drama, and it's all two dimensional, but the simplicity helps drive the film. Two dimensional characters piloting three dimensional robots fighting fourth dimensional monsters.
Where turds like Transformers spend 30-40 minutes padding 2D characters into melodramatic shit you get bored because it's not interesting. Pacific Rim is dumb, but the bluntness just means less time spent on awfulness and more time spent on awesome. People say how they feel, on the spot. Scientists explain shit in 30 seconds, and the next scene is that shit getting done. IM SAD. ANGER. WE NEED THIS. GOT IT. ROBOT PUNCH MONSTER WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Go in to have pure, distilled fun or stay home and watch something else.
Paper thin characters, dumb action, and a plot that isn't much beyond ROBOTS FIGHT MONSTERS.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
If I want to put on my hur dur analyse-the-characters critics hat I could walk away angry, but the movie is so matter-of-fact and to-the-point I just don't care. Yes, there's character drama, and it's all two dimensional, but the simplicity helps drive the film. Two dimensional characters piloting three dimensional robots fighting fourth dimensional monsters.
Where turds like Transformers spend 30-40 minutes padding 2D characters into melodramatic shit you get bored because it's not interesting. Pacific Rim is dumb, but the bluntness just means less time spent on awfulness and more time spent on awesome. People say how they feel, on the spot. Scientists explain shit in 30 seconds, and the next scene is that shit getting done. IM SAD. ANGER. WE NEED THIS. GOT IT. ROBOT PUNCH MONSTER WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Go in to have pure, distilled fun or stay home and watch something else.
My girlfriend came out of this in 4DX. She said " It was really fun. But I was shocked, I though this would be a kid movie. But it is brutal, they fight so desperatly. Story is very deep and thick. No shalow "
also, because of 4DX and all the water fights, she was soaked after the movie.
Paper thin characters, dumb action, and a plot that isn't much beyond ROBOTS FIGHT MONSTERS.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
If I want to put on my hur dur analyse-the-characters critics hat I could walk away angry, but the movie is so matter-of-fact and to-the-point I just don't care. Yes, there's character drama, and it's all two dimensional, but the simplicity helps drive the film. Two dimensional characters piloting three dimensional robots fighting fourth dimensional monsters.
Where turds like Transformers spend 30-40 minutes padding 2D characters into melodramatic shit you get bored because it's not interesting. Pacific Rim is dumb, but the bluntness just means less time spent on awfulness and more time spent on awesome. People say how they feel, on the spot. Scientists explain shit in 30 seconds, and the next scene is that shit getting done. IM SAD. ANGER. WE NEED THIS. GOT IT. ROBOT PUNCH MONSTER WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Go in to have pure, distilled fun or stay home and watch something else.
I was going to find evilores post to say this but yours fits the bill as well. This post is just so incredibly misleading that i'm honestly left wondering if i saw the same movie. This was exactly the same as transformers in that respect. Probably 70-80% of the movie was just fucking around listening to these boring ass characters ramble on about shit i didn't care about.
All i wanted was for the movie to skip to the god damn fights and i felt like falling asleep waiting for them. After that first fight it felt like an hour before any decent action happened.
The movie was predictable, boring and one dimensional. It wasn't as bad as transformers but i wouldn't put it far in front. I hate talking about 'GAF hype' but man i feel so disappointed. So much hype and i can't help but feel let down.
I was going to find evilores post to say this but yours fits the bill as well. This post is just so incredibly misleading that i'm honestly left wondering if i saw the same movie. This was exactly the same as transformers in that respect. Probably 70-80% of the movie was just fucking around listening to these boring ass characters ramble on about shit i didn't care about.
All i wanted was for the movie to skip to the god damn fights and i felt like falling asleep waiting for them. After that first fight it felt like an hour before any decent action happened.
The movie was predictable, boring and one dimensional. It wasn't as bad as transformers but i wouldn't put it far in front. I hate talking about 'GAF hype' but man i feel so disappointed. So much hype and i can't help but feel let down.
I can't help but feel you're a little off on this. I just came from seeing it and it felt to me like the movie was practically all action. Robot action. People action. Monster action. The plot that is there serves it's purpose well as exposition for the fight scenes or gags. I really liked it.
I was going to find evilores post to say this but yours fits the bill as well. This post is just so incredibly misleading that i'm honestly left wondering if i saw the same movie. This was exactly the same as transformers in that respect. Probably 70-80% of the movie was just fucking around listening to these boring ass characters ramble on about shit i didn't care about.
I agree there was plenty of talking, but it was simplistic and to the point and that's what I was getting at. Transformers is a bloated catastrophe of excruciatingly bad characters and bad dialogue stretched out far beyond its limits in a desperate effort to force you into caring. Everything is over-explained with dumb, uninterested pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo. Everyone in Pacific Rim is two dimension but I never felt it lingered on this. Relationships and drama were easy one notes there to drive the plot forward in a way that made sense beyond literally "here's two hours of back-to-back robots fighting monsters with no explanation". The characterisation was dumb but the kinda dumb I still enjoyed watching, as it was a necessary component to construct a narrative but never got in the way of the story it was telling.
Everything seemed to be said or done for a reason, and not because "okay we need character drama". Everything was a hook into the development of the next scene. And that I liked.
I can't help but feel you're a little off on this. I just came from seeing it and it felt to me like the movie was practically all action. Robot action. People action. Monster action. The plot that is there serves it's purpose well as exposition for the fight scenes or gags. I really liked it.
I would like to know the actual amount of time the movie spends with robots fighting in the movie. It couldn't be anymore than 20-30 minutes or so. The rest of the movie was a bore. Human action? Everything with the humans on screen was tripe.
I agree there was plenty of talking, but it was simplistic and to the point and that's what I was getting at. Transformers is a bloated catastrophe of excruciatingly bad characters and bad dialogue stretched out far beyond its limits in a desperate effort to force you into caring. Everything is over-explained with dumb, uninterested pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo. Everyone in Pacific Rim is two dimension but I never felt it lingered on this. Relationships and drama were easy one notes there to drive the plot forward in a way that made sense beyond literally "here's two hours of back-to-back robots fighting monsters with no explanation". The characterisation was dumb but the kinda dumb I still enjoyed watching, as it was a necessary component to construct a narrative but never got in the way of the story it was telling.
Everything seemed to be said or done for a reason, and not because "okay we need character drama". Everything was a hook into the development of the next scene. And that I liked.
I just couldn't disagree more. They forced the relationships and drama just as much as transformers. I don't care if was one note, it still took up just as much screen time. I can put up with a movie having a dumb as fuck plot and paper thin characters but at least give me a little more action if i'm going to dredge through that.
I mean i guess i get what you are saying. The stuff that was happening on screen sort of played into what was happening but it was so dumb, predictable and boring that it was no better to me.
I agree there was plenty of talking, but it was simplistic and to the point and that's what I was getting at. Transformers is a bloated catastrophe of excruciatingly bad characters and bad dialogue stretched out far beyond its limits in a desperate effort to force you into caring. Everything is over-explained with dumb, uninterested pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo. Everyone in Pacific Rim is two dimension but I never felt it lingered on this. Relationships and drama were easy one notes there to drive the plot forward in a way that made sense beyond literally "here's two hours of back-to-back robots fighting monsters with no explanation". The characterisation was dumb but the kinda dumb I still enjoyed watching, as it was a necessary component to construct a narrative but never got in the way of the story it was telling.
Everything seemed to be said or done for a reason, and not because "okay we need character drama". Everything was a hook into the development of the next scene. And that I liked.
Wait is that guy telling the truth that there are only 20 minutes of robot fights in this 130 minute movie?
Well that certainly puts a damper on things and it paints a picture that is almost the complete opposite of what the hype builders have been portraying.
I think I'm gonna wait until a couple of my friends see the movie first and then ask for their opinion.
Wait is that guy telling the truth that there are only 20 minutes of robot fights in this 130 minute movie?
Well that certainly puts a damper on things and it paints a picture that is almost the complete opposite of what the hype builders have been portraying.
I think I'm gonna wait until a couple of my friends see the movie first and then ask for their opinion.
Ashamed to say that I've still not seen this - however happy to say that it's been sent out on Blu Ray to me via Lovefilm and will be waiting for me when I get home.
Holy shit, that is a catchy main theme. I just listened to it three times, and I love it.
Had a friend who saw this at a pre-screening two days ago. He wouldn't spoil anything for me, but he said it was the best movie he'd seen all year. "Better" as in most enjoyable, entertaining, and just all around solid. Better than IM3 better than MoS. It won't win any oscars for acting or anything, but the cast does fantastic. The dialogue has cheese but just the right amount of it. The action was spectacular yet intelligent, things happened for a reason and the action wasn't just mindless Michael Bay crap. He said it also had a very military feel to it, much like BSG in a way. He said it was this year's Avengers, but maybe even better.
High praise from my friend who is normally very picky and critical, surprised me.
I'd also like to add I went with three other people (two housemates, their friend). All three didn't even know the film existed until I mentioned it a couple of days ago. None of them had seen a trailer. We were all originally going to see Man of Steel until they last minute decided to switch to Pacific Rim, mostly based on the mixed-to-negative reception of Man of Steel.
All three loved it, both my housemate and her boyfriend saying "Why are people talking about superman and not that? You're the only person who has mentioned it to us."
I'd also like to add I went with three other people (two housemates, their friend). All three didn't even know the film existed until I mentioned it a couple of days ago. None of them had seen a trailer. We were all originally going to see Man of Steel until they last minute decided to switch to Pacific Rim, mostly based on the mixed-to-negative reception of Man of Steel.
All three loved it, both my housemate and her boyfriend saying "Why are people talking about superman and not that? You're the only person who has mentioned it to us."
all three loved it, both my housemate and her boyfriend saying "Why are people talking about superman and not that? You're the only person who has mentioned it to us."
This is good to hear. Of the 4 of us going tomorrow night I'm the only one who has been all over everything. The others might have seen a trailer or two but thats it. None of us are analyse art direction and lighting kind of guys and our reviews of things tend to be "it's great".
I'd also like to add I went with three other people (two housemates, their friend). All three didn't even know the film existed until I mentioned it a couple of days ago. None of them had seen a trailer. We were all originally going to see Man of Steel until they last minute decided to switch to Pacific Rim, mostly based on the mixed-to-negative reception of Man of Steel.
All three loved it, both my housemate and her boyfriend saying "Why are people talking about superman and not that? You're the only person who has mentioned it to us."
This is the exact opposite of what happened with me. We went into superman expecting it to suck and ended up really liking it. We went into this expecting something decent and boy were we wrong.
This is the exact opposite of what happened with me. We went into superman expecting it to suck and ended up really liking it. We went into this expecting something decent and boy were we wrong.
Maybe we're exactly the same person but existing in parallel dimensions with ever so slight differences, and NeoGAF is acting as some kind of quantum nexus for our interaction.
Maybe we're exactly the same person but existing in parallel dimensions with ever so slight differences, and NeoGAF is acting as some kind of quantum nexus for our interaction.
