Movie: Pacific Rim (July 12, 2013)

[BurtReynolds]

so I thought this was pretty spectacular. it's nice to finally see a blockbuster that isn't directed by a coked out moron with too much money. it's simple and goofy but not stupid, and not lazy. looks gorgeous too. fun movie.

[Self]

I gotta tell ya, after seeing the trailer, I did not expect that kind of review from Burt Fucking Reynolds. If theplatypus and Harry Lime like it, I might just part with 50 bucks to see this with my sons.

[BurtReynolds]

I gotta tell ya, after seeing the trailer, I did not expect that kind of review from Burt Fucking Reynolds. If theplatypus and Harry Lime like it, I might just part with 50 bucks to see this with my sons.

oh man. This movie made my week. I expected to be bored out of my mind. It throws so much exposition at you in the first five minutes I was thinking "here we go again", but after that it just rolls.

[E.H. Ruddock]

This movie was excellent. What a fun time.

[spike]

were there motorcycles?

[BurtReynolds]

were there motorcycles?

sadly, no.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The creatures were awesome.

[Orpheus]

Add me to the "loved it" list. It was a big blockbuster so it had to begin and end a certain way, but I thought the meat of the movie was great. Charlie Day and Idris Elba acting together is something I never thought I'd see.

[Harry Lime]

The next on my list. I'm seeing it in a few days.

[KevinCostner]

Meh.

[Whitey McTeeth]

Is the main character's name Pacific Jim?

[Whitey McTeeth]

You would think they would of just called it "Pacific Jim" to make it less confusing.

[AndySlash]

i had no clue about this movie until a couple weeks ago when a friend sent out an email asking if any of us wanted to go see it. he included some of the credit info in the email and i saw del toro's name attached so i figured 'why not?'.

then i saw the trailer.

no shit, that was my exact reaction to the trailer. that may say something about me in and of itself, but it was definitely that scene that actually sold me on the movie and made me excited to see it.

we saw it friday and it was everything i had hoped it would be, but not more. it's definitely cliche, stereotypical, summer blockbuster fare. you know what's going to happen well before it does. but it was a hell of a lot of fun. it reminded me of watching independence day when it opened way back when, not having any real idea of what the movie was going to be beyond 'aliens invade earth', but having a great time watching it and enjoying the incredible effects. pacific rim deserves to be seen on a nice screen with good sound- i can't imagine the experience would be the same if you couldn't really soak in the presentation.

and for the poster who wanted a big summer movie without a love story- here you go!

[E.H. Ruddock]

Saw this again because my wife wanted to see it after my stepson and I came home talking it up. She is a middle of the road type of movie goer in that she doesn't do the romantic comedies, likes action flicks but not over the top cheesy stuff. Her genre of choice would probably be intense drama flicks or witty comedy flicks. All that being said, she loved this movie. She said the two things that stood out for her were that judging by the previews, this looked like it was going to be so cheesy it would be funny. She said she was pleasantly surprised at how 'not cheesy' it was. Also, she enjoyed the fact that there wasn't a blockbuster-type actor in there who would have made any of the lead roles a typecast role, such as Cruise, Smith, etc. She wasn't distracted by the actors and that made the flow of the movie better for her.

[harmless]

Meh.

This is priceless. Just had to say that.

[Harry Lime]

The most expensive cheese ever made.

It was ok, but nothing special.

[VinylGuy]

The most expensive cheese ever made.

It was ok, but nothing special.

im really turned off by those trailers.

[McParadigm]

The most expensive cheese ever made.

It was ok, but nothing special.

im really turned off by those trailers.

I agree with both of these statements. It was fun cheese...Japanese cartoons about robots mixed with 80's action flick and post-Independence Day "EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD" mentality. Fun cheese...a nice and enjoyable little "in the moment" thrill ride, and then you just forget about it and move on.

I almost didn't see it because of the trailers. They just seemed way too into the spectacle of it for my blood. But now I understand something about this movie: they were very limited in what they could show, because they had to be careful not to reveal that the emotional core of this movie is made up of the worst collection of actors ever to carry a hundred million dollar picture on their shoulders. The main guy would stand out as terrible if he had a 2 second spot in a cell phone commercial. The girl was sometimes so bad it was like watching somebody make fun of Asian women (but not in the same way that Asian porn achieves exactly the same end). So, if you look back at the trailers and featurettes, you'll note in hindsight that they're almost exclusively packed with dialog by the "Am I Louis Gossett Jr as a Brit, or what?" program chief guy. There's a reason for this...any scene involving emotional acting by the main characters was so jaw-droppingly, unintentionally hilarious that it made the movie worth watching just for that.

This was an example of good CGI...entire fight scenes were nothing but CGI footage, but it always felt real and like something was at stake. They even used the CGI to help make it feel reasonable that the main heroes would have to trash a city in order to save as many people as they could (goddamn it Man of Steel).

Also, it's a really, really good thing that the quirky scientist subplot was in there, or it would have started to feel way too high school sulky. Especially with the Iceman character in there. Subtract those two goofballs, and everything they did/said, and you would have found yourself yelling "Stop fucking whining about shit and get in the fucking robot!"

A couple of times, I couldn't stop myself....when the guy would say the Asian girl's name, I would whisper "Polo" into the darkness of the theater.

[harmless]

The most expensive cheese ever made.

It was ok, but nothing special.

im really turned off by those trailers.

I still need convincing this is more than a Michael Bay movie.

[Jorge]

The most expensive cheese ever made.

It was ok, but nothing special.

im really turned off by those trailers.

I still need convincing this is more than a Michael Bay movie.

Just look at the director's history. That should be all the convincing you need.

I still haven't seen this yet, but I really want to.