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[timetokill]

Oh yeah, I saw it this morning, I should report on it.

FUCKING AMAZING.

I went in only having seen one brief trailer. This film made me feel like a kid again. I thought pretty much everything was perfect. There was nothing that came in and slapped me with stupidity. No character went and did anything completely retarded.

There were a lot of cliched/archetype characters, but I honestly thought it was perfect for this movie. It felt good to root for characters without reservation. It felt great to see them fight some big fucking monsters using some big fucking mechs.

All around fantastic film and one of my favorites of the year. So glad I saw it in IMAX 3D.

 

[JB1981]

Spoiler

The UN didn't know about the nuke plan. Their current plan of defense were the walls. It's literally all in the movie.

Plot was perfect for this kind of movie. I loved it.

I though the movie said

Spoiler

fed goverment would continue to fund the Jaeger project for 8 more months anyway.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Pacific Rim tracking under $40 mil for the weekend.

 

[Messofanego]

[*]The soundtrack! The main theme/riff was so 80's reminiscent. So good! This track in particular is ace.

The heavy rock in the theme music is so ace! Would make for great opening intro music for a Gundam or big robot cartoon.

 

[Joe]

Tom Morello composed and plays guitar in the main theme.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Man the soundtrack just doesn't hold up after seeing it in theaters.
even my favorite track going into it "Cancelling the Apocalypse" just sounded so much better in the movie.
dat bass.

 

[Blablurn]

Pacific Rim tracking under $40 mil for the weekend.

Hopefully it will have some legs!

 

[DBT85]

Saw it, loved it, impressions in the spoiler thread.

 

[witness]

T-Minus 2 hours, so excited.

 

[Messofanego]

Tom Morello composed and plays guitar in the main theme.

Oh really? No wonder it's so good.

 

[Wilbur]

Haven't seen it yet but I'd be interested in knowing if the people hating on the wooden acting and dialogue also hate Fast Five/Six and can't overlook it for the incredible action scenes?

 

[kurahador]

Haven't seen it yet but I'd be interested in knowing if the people hating on the wooden acting and dialogue also hate Fast Five/Six and can't overlook it for the incredible action scenes?

Those movie works because it's a sequel though, and the characterization in 4-6 surpassed 1-3 by a wide margin which helps making you care for the characters.

 

[Wilbur]

Those movie works because it's a sequel though, and the characterization in 4-6 surpassed 1-3 by a wide margin which helps making you care for the characters.

Wouldn't say it's because of that. I haven't seen 3 and 4, and I haven't seen 1 and 2 for about 8 years and I dislike them both. Was forced to go see 5 and loved it immensely. Loved 6 as well. They work because they're genuinely fun action movies, well directed, and executed fantastically when it comes to the action

 

[David H Wong]

It bombed:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/pac...ustralia-and-begins-baffling-global-roll-out/

Opened in third place with $37 million. This is a film that probably cost around $300 million with marketing costs (budget rumored to be as high as 220, 80 is being conservative with marketing).

Still pretty good for a giant monster movie.

 

[David H Wong]

Another way to put it is it made $10 million less than Grown Ups 2.

 

[Cheebo]

It bombed:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/pac...ustralia-and-begins-baffling-global-roll-out/

Opened in third place with $37 million. This is a film that probably cost around $300 million with marketing costs (budget rumored to be as high as 220, 80 is being conservative with marketing).

Still pretty good for a giant monster movie.

Good for a cheap japanese Godzilla monster movie. Not good for this massive budget.

This really really sucks. Studios will never give Del Toro his 100 mil + budgeted At the Mountains of Madness EVER now. Nor will they want to to take chaces on non-franchise movies.

 

[DBT85]

Looking agian at RT, people seem to be enjoying it with a rating of 88% from 48,000 votes and an average score of 4.4/5. Hopefully that will encourage others to go.

TBH, I'm pleased it was made and that I got to see it at all.

 

[Fafalada]

Thumbs up for me.

Haven't seen it yet but I'd be interested in knowing if the people hating on the wooden acting and dialogue also hate Fast Five/Six and can't overlook it for the incredible action scenes?

I've hated the first FF enough to never watch the sequels. That said, I do feel Pacific Rim weak point was some of the acting (leads most notably).

 

[TheWraith]

It bombed:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/pac...ustralia-and-begins-baffling-global-roll-out/

Opened in third place with $37 million. This is a film that probably cost around $300 million with marketing costs (budget rumored to be as high as 220, 80 is being conservative with marketing).

Still pretty good for a giant monster movie.

It didnt "bomb", 37M is higher then it was tracking and was #1 in ALL asian markets. In the deadline article itself it mentions its not a bomb per se. So not so fast.

 

[Cheebo]

It didnt "bomb", 37M is higher then it was tracking and was #1 in ALL asian markets. In the deadline article itself it mentions its not a bomb per se. So not so fast.

37 is barely above the 30-35 it was tracking at though. And it is not doing well in the non-asian markets. It bombed in Australia. There is no way to call this a success. It won't make money theatrically.

 

[Wilbur]

I've hated the first FF enough to never watch the sequels. That said, I do feel Pacific Rim weak point was some of the acting (leads most notably).

I implore you watch 5 and 6. Like I say I haven't seen 3 and 4, couldn't remember a thing about the first two. Expected to hate it. Loved 5. 6 was just as good.

 

[TheWraith]

37 is barely above the 30-35 it was tracking at though. And it is not doing well in the non-asian markets. It bombed in Australia. There is no way to call this a success. It won't make money theatrically.

Read the full article.

 

[Gorillaz]

Saw it last night it was
Corny
Cliche
Cheesy
Predictable

And I loved it. There was seriously a charm it all had that just worked. New standard set for mech movies yall

edit: the movie will have long legs sale wise via word of mouth

 

[shira]

It bombed:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/pac...ustralia-and-begins-baffling-global-roll-out/

Opened in third place with $37 million. This is a film that probably cost around $300 million with marketing costs (budget rumored to be as high as 220, 80 is being conservative with marketing).

Still pretty good for a giant monster movie.

Eurghh, IGN mentioned del Toro was paying for friendly reviewers to attend special screenings. Dat "marketing" budget.

 

[faridmon]

It was bad. The fights wer good, but it was a bad movie. Everything else about it was the worst thing I have ever seen in a cinema.

If it wasn't for Luther, I would have said Idris Alba is one of the worse actors out there.

 

[mxgt]

It was bad. The fights wer good, but it was a bad movie. Everything else about it was the worst thing I have ever seen in a cinema.

Damn, you must have only seen great movies in the cinema because I can think of 3 other blockbusters this year alone I saw that are significantly worse than this

If it wasn't for Luther, I would have said Idris Alba is one of the worse actors out there.

Of all the actors in this movie to complain about, it's Elba? he's the only one that actually half decent, only held back by the awful script

 

[Auto_aim1]

Guess I'll go and watch it tomorrow. I didn't have a lot of interest in this movie, but some of the impressions here have been good.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Got the theme song stuck in my head. I'm okay with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuhWD4mjUY

 

[jett]

It wasn't too bad of a bomba. If it has good worth of mouth(it probably won't), it could climb to 100 mill domestic, maybe has a chance of grossing 300~ mill worldwide. Eh. It's not a Speed Racer-caliber megaton bomb.

Spoiler

Speed Racer was much better though.

 

[Mengy]

^^^ It's the fact that you have to sit through excruciatingly stupid sequences with the actors trying to play along with some terrible script just to get to the cool looking monster and robot fights. After 30 minutes of simply dreaded "character development" I just couldn't stand it anymore.



It's not even a matter of being serious, it's about not being able to stand how fucking horrible the acting in this movie was. I'm sure I missed the best part but I was tired as shit and couldn't stand it anymore. My friends agreed with me and we are all gamers/nerds/what have you.

See, I don't understand this. Sure the acting wasn't academy award stuff, but it was honestly much better than I expected. It was better than the acting in MoS IMHO, as I actually cared about the characters in PR. I learned about their pasts, what makes them tick, they all had distinct personalities and the movie stayed true to each of them in a respectful manner.

I simply don't see your point of view at all. But then I saw the whole movie too, not just the beginning of it...

 

[faridmon]

Damn, you must have only seen great movies in the cinema because I can think of 3 other blockbusters this year alone I saw that are significantly worse than this



Of all the actors in this movie to complain about, it's Elba? he's the only one that actually half decent, only held back by the awful script

Script is what turned Alba into this mediocre actor just because the expectations I had for him, since the others are already bad actors.

And I did see disappointing movies and bad movies this year. Apart from those gigantic fights, everything about it was worse, yes.

 

[DigitalOp]

I'm in the theater now.!

9:15 showing, getting hype!! Imax 3D Middle Seats like a boss

Theater isn't super full but they're are definitely people here!! Can't wait!!!

 

[joedan]

Weird casting with the Aussie pilot looking exactly like the main character.

So true. I couldn't tell them apart. lol.

 

[Minigo]

time to accept that this type of movies are made for a niche group of people and Japanese people in this case.
Be gratefull you got this, Sandler 1 - Del Toro 0

 

[Jenga]

It had a great opening act. Like, a seriously strong first act, it was completely great. Then as soon as the

Spoiler

kaiju drift happens

, all of a sudden the baddie's intent is established and the movie devolves into standard action cliche.

If this wasn't a Del Toro film it'd just be a straight by-the-book action movie. The action scenes are worth every dollar, but in all seriousness they waste so much time building up action character backstory that either goes nowhere or could already be guessed, the movie is actually a bit too long by the end.

B.

 

[UnluckyKate]

I'm still into that huge ass HK scene. It was brutal and epic in such a way, i can't remember such a long and good scene in recent memory. So powerfull. So creative in so many ways, such an emotional rollercoaster.

Also about the the scientists :

Spoiler

he mentioned the dinosaurs :
- Did he implied the dinosaurs were Kaijus that exctinted because of the atmosphere not suiting them ? So he implies they try to colonozise us but died on the long run
- Or did he implied they tried at dinosaur age but got their ass kicked back then by Trex ?

 

[Fafalada]

Apart from those gigantic fights, everything about it was worse, yes.

Care to elaborate on it in some detail? I agree acting was weak (the female lead in particular), but that's hardly "everything", and again there were movies this year alone that were similar acting wise (After Earth comes to mind).

 

[ashecitism]

I'm still into that huge ass HK scene. It was brutal and epic in such a way, i can't remember such a long and good scene in recent memory. So powerfull. So creative in so many ways, such an emotional rollercoaster.

Also about the the scientists :

Spoiler

he mentioned the dinosaurs :
- Did he implied the dinosaurs were Kaijus that exctinted because of the atmosphere not suiting them ? So he implies they try to colonozise us but died on the long run
- Or did he implied they tried at dinosaur age but got their ass kicked back then by Trex ?

The first. At leats in the dub over here they said that.

 

[rSpooky]

Also about the the scientists :

Spoiler

he mentioned the dinosaurs :
- Did he implied the dinosaurs were Kaijus that exctinted because of the atmosphere not suiting them ? So he implies they try to colonozise us but died on the long run
- Or did he implied they tried at dinosaur age but got their ass kicked back then by Trex ?

I wondering that as well. Especially since both options could work in the context.

 

[kazebyaka]

I'm still into that huge ass HK scene. It was brutal and epic in such a way, i can't remember such a long and good scene in recent memory. So powerfull. So creative in so many ways, such an emotional rollercoaster.

Also about the the scientists :

Spoiler

he mentioned the dinosaurs :
- Did he implied the dinosaurs were Kaijus that exctinted because of the atmosphere not suiting them ? So he implies they try to colonozise us but died on the long run
- Or did he implied they tried at dinosaur age but got their ass kicked back then by Trex ?

Spoiler

they implied that kaijus visited the arth in the age of dinosaurs, but the atmosphere was too clean and undamaged for them back then.

 

[Mengy]

See this is a the type of huge stretch that needs to be made to even make sense of some of the plot choices in Pacific Rim. I'm not trying to say that isn't possible

Spoiler

but all that needed to be done was a simple explanation given of why the government didn't object the Jäger nuke plan, or even a mention of what the hell they were doing to stop this high threat of the Kaiju. It felt like the only ones fighting them were the Jäger. The script was just so lazily written.

Can we just agree that the plot was horrible? It's 4:00 AM here and I'm running on two Energy drinks (had a exam at 9 AM yesterday). Maybe convulted wasn't the best choice of words to describe the plot, my bad.

All I know is that coming off of Hellboy 1 and 2, Pacific Rim is a disappointment. And let us not even mention Pans Labyrinth.

No, I don't agree. The plot was simplistic and basic, but very serviceable and to be honest better than I expected for a movie like this. And you seem to have tuned out or missed many key elements of said story, for whatever reasons. Maybe you were bored, maybe you were texting, but the movie is straightforward, easy to follow, and doesn't really leave many plot lines hanging. You just didn't "get" it. And you are trying way to hard to not like the movie, it's like no explanation will ever satisfy you, no matter how many people explain it to you.

I like the story and script, more than I thought I would. So no, I won't agree with you.

 

[witness]

Holy crap, there's a lot of people here for a 9:45am show, imax. Very surprised. So excited!

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Saw it last night in imax 3d. Thought it was fantastic. Not fifteen minutes into the movie and my fiancee says comments on the terrible acting. The main guy was pretty bad. I never saw him in the tv show he was in. Was he that bad in it?

Fight scenes were great though. Unlike the transformers movies, I could actually see what was happening.

Oh and the sound. Wow! Bass was ridiculous. And music was great too.

A+

 

[Zeus Molecules]

This movie was amazing!!! I think I might buy the book tie in I heard they were making

 

[Maninthemirror]

Dont trust the weekend estimate by nikki from
Deadline.com as she is pulling those out of her ass. The only accurate estimate is the friday number

 

[Currygan]

grossing as much as predicted, although this is one of those movies with a strong international market appeal, which I hope will save it. Best summer blockbuster of 2013 along with STID

 

[Haines]

loved it, my theatre was 3/4 way full maybe?

maybe this movie will have legs. i couldnt believe the line up for grown ups 2. i guess the movie industry has tricked people into thinking that stuff is good?

 

[kurahador]

Dem kaiju's howling gave chills man.

I need more movies with quality like this in life.

 

[Skiesofwonder]

No, I don't agree. The plot was simplistic and basic, but very serviceable and to be honest better than I expected for a movie like this. And you seem to have tuned out or missed many key elements of said story, for whatever reasons. Maybe you were bored, maybe you were texting, but the movie is straightforward, easy to follow, and doesn't really leave many plot lines hanging. You just didn't "get" it. And you are trying way to hard to not like the movie, it's like no explanation will ever satisfy you, no matter how many people explain it to you.

I like the story and script, more than I thought I would. So no, I won't agree with you.

I'm sorry but I wanted more then a five mintue opening trying to explain how everything worked and then leaving the audience member to try and piece everything together during the drama scenesw.Yes it did get boring in between the great action scenes with the cookie cutter plot development and mostly horrible acting. Maybe I did miss a few things (as you and others have pointed that out) while I was rolling my eyes at the ridiculousness of it and I apologize for that. Maybe with a second viewing everything will start to piece together. But when I can follow stuff like Inception without blinking an eye and yet here I am questioning your giant mech Kaiju movie, then something went wrong. Personally I think a lot of you are trying way to hard to piece stuff together and make a coherent plot of Pacific Rim with most of the plot seemed to be poorly thrown together to just get robots from point A to point B so they could blow shit Some may be fine with that, I'm not.

I didn't spend $36 to actively try and dislike Pacfic Rim. I just didn't like it. Sorry.

 

[Replicant]

Hmmm, I don't know. I didn't really enjoy it.

The action was fine but the plot was lacking and the characters were kind of annoying. Why did they make Elba over-emphasizing each word?

I will have to see it again with a friend later on next week so maybe my opinion would change by then.