Deadline: Pacific Rim sequel likely
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A decent International take (which is a constantly growing market) and licensing deals will convince the suits to go forward. When you have licensing potential even shitty earning movies get greenlit because its more about keeping the more lucrative licensing deals going. Pacific Rim has two VERY lucrative licensing deals in place right now
Anyone not realizing that does not understand how these things work, similar reason to why CARS 2 was pushed forward. The merchandising deal Disney had with Mattel was worth way more so the box office was irrelavant even though it was high overseas. Its the same reason we are seeing PLANES from the world of CARS nwo
Wiktor
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You're forgetting about Justice League Dark.
Hours Left
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Cool. I haven't seen it yet, but I've only heard good things.
NYCmetsfan
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Nice! Really excited I was worried this would be a one off.
Miles Quaritch
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Good news, but I can't help but wonder what a sequel would be based around considering the ending of the first movie.
Mecha Kaijus.
Kaiju Master empire is probably huge so they'll be back I reckon.
Count Dookkake
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Yeah, they blew up the Death Star. Luke can go home.
AdventureRacing
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Um that's pretty damn easy to explain. Don't forget they have invaded other planets and even tried to do it to earth twice. What makes you think that they can't just make another portal?
Miles Quaritch
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Yeah, I expect they are scattered all over the place and will try again,
but if they use another portal, it's not exactly going to make for a thrilling sequel, unless they change some of the facts we know about how the portals work.
Well it's not really the same. Unless they change a lot of the stuff that we know to be true in the sequel.
That's fair enough, but it doesn't exactly make for a good movie.
They know how to destroy them at this point, so it's hardly going to be make for a thrilling sequel. Perhaps I'm just over thinking it and they'll take in a very different direction.
Count Dookkake
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It's the same.
There is so much room for sequels.
Also, the bolded is basically how it is done well.
fuck Kaiju, just 1:1 copy the plot of G Gundam
good to go, and we might get a lumberjack Canada Jaeger out of it
Miles Quaritch
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Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm probably just over thinking it at this point. Very happy we're getting a sequel though.
Hell yeah! I'd be down for that.
Femmeworth
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Justifying a sequel narrative-wise will be super easy.
If Earth can be found/invaded by one alien species, it stands to reason that another can.
I like GdT so I'm happy the movie is a success overseas, but really, this was a good looking, but ultimately very disappointing movie. Threadbare plot, cardboard characters. It looked great but it was a bore to sit through. I'd rather see GdT making movies like The Devil's Backbone or Pan's Labyrinth than tripe like Pacific Rim.
The film should only be watched if you like giant monsters and robots. Otherwise you're going for the wrong reasons.
Coyote Tango 2.0 please. And bring back Crimson, when the Kaiju battle is over the two of them can duke it out. lol.
Pacific Rim has a poor script even by bad mecha anime standards
IdreamofHIME
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No offence, but the sequel should not be released in American cinemas. USA failed the test.
What complete nonsense. I simply expect better from a film maker with a vision.
imo he fulfilled that vision. I too enjoyed his past work but I didn't go in with the same expectations because I knew exactly what this film was striving for.
rhophiehalul78
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I hope the sequel brings more Jaegers and more Kaijus 
You know tons of people claim how deep and philosophical Evangelion is, without realising that it needed them three full length films to cover the story. Pacific Rim is what it is, Sunday morning cartoon esque characters and story which are likeable as well as serviceable for what they were aiming for and never insults the audience like many other summer blockbusters.
I find it strange how people still judge a movie solely by its script. If the script was all that mattered, we wouldn't be watching movies, we'd be listening to radio dramas.
It's no wonder John Carpenter's The Thing was critically panned on release; people were whining that the characters weren't developed enough in the dialogue and didn't pay attention to the shit that actually worked. Pacific Rim is no The Thing, but people are criticizing the wrong parts of it.
It's no wonder John Carpenter's The Thing was critically panned on release; people were whining that the characters weren't developed enough in the dialogue and didn't pay attention to the shit that actually worked. Pacific Rim is no The Thing, but people are criticizing the wrong parts of it.
Comparisons with Evangelion make no sense. It's like comparing The Terminator to 2001: A Space Odyssey because they both have homicidal computers.
I don't have a problem with criticizing the pacing, because that's an actual issue with what the film is supposed to be. I thought the Alaska scene was fantastic and the pacing didn't suffer that much because it opened up the movie, but I can still understand why someone would be annoyed with the pacing.
I have a problem with going "The characters are 2-dimensional archetypes!" and "It's dumb!" as if those are the biggest issues with the film. It's like the New York Times review where some idiot complained how the Thing didn't have "drama".
EDIT: Also, The Thing got nominated for a Razzie for its musical score by Ennio fucking Morricone. Were film critics just braindead in 1982?
There were no comparisons made in the first place.
That guy said Pacific Rim has bad script even by bad mecha anime standards so what I brought up was a good mecha anime and just descried how having an extremely lengthy and detailed script would not really work for something like Pacific Rim.
The Smoking Bun
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They shouldn't even bother releasing the sequel in USA because apparently American's have an allergy to awesome. Enjoy your baseball and Adam Sandler comedies. The rest of the world is watching robots battle monsters.
I am glad the movie is making more money but honestly speaking, the film was kinda bad.
The mechas and kijus were cool but the fight scenes were so close-up that you couldn't really see much.
It was the equivalent of shaky cam fight scenes that plague a lot of movies today.
And then there was the terrible acting.
I think they could have done so much more with the concept but maybe that's what sequels are for.
The mechas and kijus were cool but the fight scenes were so close-up that you couldn't really see much.
It was the equivalent of shaky cam fight scenes that plague a lot of movies today.
And then there was the terrible acting.
I think they could have done so much more with the concept but maybe that's what sequels are for.
Femmeworth
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The Thing does a far, far better job of distracting you from the more dubious elements. Pacific Rim kind of shoves them in your face for ~3/4 of the film.
UnluckyKate
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the fight scene were the most clear I've seen in a long time actually... clear, wide shots
It was so shitty. The overacting and constant yelling and grunts (as pointed out by numerous others) like they were VAs for anime/cartoons fucking KILLED the movie for me.
Hell, even the flashback sequences killed me due to the annoying sounds coming from the actor's mouths. I'm thinking to myself "Who THE FUCK DOES/SAYS THAT? STFU!"
fredrancour
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With regards to the shaky cam criticism:I feel like we watched different movies. This was one of the first films in years where Ihave actually felt like fight scenes were shot clearly. Its been a recurring bit of praise both online and with my real life friends
If Pacific Rim has a problem in the fight scenes, it's that there were too many close-ups. The camera was barely ever shaky outside of the cockpit.
"Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's - a virtually storyless feature composed of lots of laboratoryconcocted special effects, with the actors used merely as props to be hacked, slashed, disemboweled and decapitated, finally to be eaten and then regurgitated as - guess what? - more laboratory-concocted special effects."
"Like all such movies that don't trust themselves to keep an audience interested by legitimate dramatic means, ''The Thing'' shows us too much of ''the thing'' too soon, so that it has no place to go. It plods in circles from one mock-horror effect to the next."
Well yeah, it's The Thing. It's a really good movie. Still, you had critics saying shit like this.
"Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's - a virtually storyless feature composed of lots of laboratoryconcocted special effects, with the actors used merely as props to be hacked, slashed, disemboweled and decapitated, finally to be eaten and then regurgitated as - guess what? - more laboratory-concocted special effects."
"Like all such movies that don't trust themselves to keep an audience interested by legitimate dramatic means, ''The Thing'' shows us too much of ''the thing'' too soon, so that it has no place to go. It plods in circles from one mock-horror effect to the next."
People strapped in a giant swaying and bucking machine with water getting sprayed into their faces tend to do that.
Mr. Pointy
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Thank you Based China.
Femmeworth
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The cinematography is clear in that sense, but the lighting/particle effects obfuscate the imagery somewhat. They just couldn't have one major battle take place during the daytime with clear weather conditions. :\
I never saw the particle effects or lighting as a problem; the kaiju and jaegers have big, clear shapes that aren't easily lost. It's like the T. rex in Jurassic Park. It's only when we get close-ups that those distinct shapes become harder to see.
I did hear the lighting is a problem in 3D for the final fight
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Femmeworth
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It's easy to get a general sense of what is happening, but it's harder to make out the finer details.
Femmeworth
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If they don't get Yoji Shinkawa to design a Jaeger for a sequel, I will be disappointed. Let him do Gipsy Danger 2.0 or whatever the lead mecha is. *salivates at the thought*
this this THIS PLZ
AdventureRacing
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That doesn't explain the shitty acting for the rest of the movie.
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