Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim!!!

[furystorm]

My dinner selection, prior to screening, was pretty much made for me...

 

[Deckard]

Next time bring some Transformer figures to Red Lobster and you can skip the movie altogeather.

 

[Biojex]

Next time bring some Transformer figures to Red Lobster and you can skip the movie altogeather.

All the Kaiju wanted were some of those delicious butter biscuits!

 

[jye4ever]

My dinner selection, prior to screening, was pretty much made for me...

Next time bring some Transformer figures to Red Lobster and you can skip the movie altogeather.

 

[batfan08]

All the Kaiju wanted were some of those delicious butter biscuits!

You fuhgawt to mention tha most impohtint paht: the gahlic. Youse can nevah fuhget the gahlic!

 

[FQRizzo]

Sitting here in the theater with 15 minutes left. Only four people so far...

 

[furystorm]

Seated!!!

 

[furystorm]

It was Outback Steakhouse!

My theater is packed.

 

[FQRizzo]

It was Outback Steakhouse!

My theater is packed.

I envy you. My theater consists of 6-7 creepy old dudes.

 

[ironwez20]

I envy you. My theater consists of 6-7 creepy old dudes.

Are they offering you a cupcake and a glass of wine?

 

[Sithlord1975]

My thoughts. Not great

Sigh. here we go.

I dunno. I was just....underwhelmed. Just...empty expression on my face. Was not pumped up, was not excited, I was not - wow I need to see that again.

Ok some dumb nitpicks, but it still drove me crazy:

OK, in this day and age, and especially the future. You are telling me, you can't create REMOTE controlled robots to do the fighting??
You have to risk human lives because apparently you need real people mind connected to control it? It can't just be remote controlled like...um just about everything these days lol

Or how about just using nukes on them. One pops up? Fire a nuke at it. That won't do it? But giant robots wrestling and slugging in the face will?

OK, ok those are - "Hey it's just a fun movie, check your reality at the door, and enjoy it for what it is." But I couldn't help it. The whole movie.

Other issues:
The scientists. Annoying and silly. Didn't get it or the humor.
The one guy is just annoying as hell. And "Igor"? Really? really??

All this scientific equipment and using an old fashioned air bellow on the machine...WTF...lol

Character development and story. OK they tried. But I still wasn't buying it. Still acted and done way better then a BAY movie, but still. Like movies like this, it's just hard to try to make me "care" about these people or what's happening. It all happens too fast and too brief. Yet if you take too much time making it that kind of movie, then people would just complain it's boring and not enough action. Hard to strike that balance in this genre, I know.
Wasn't horrible and the acting was pretty good (minus the scientists), and I liked the lead guy.

Visuals were great, top notch. Very cool. But did bother me a bit it was always dark, raining, underwater. Wanted a few day time shots and stuff. But overall satisfied with visuals.

3D. Once again 3D fails me and makes just wish it would go away. Another useless use of it. It was better than MOS, but that's still not saying much. Could have done without.

I was just not overly blown away. That will be the only time I see this on the big screen. Made it to MOS three times, before I exhausted of that movie. It won't happen here. Blu Ray will be purchased.

This sound harsh, but it's not. I don't hate the movie. I did like it.
7 out of 10 for me.

 

[FQRizzo]

Are they offering you a cupcake and a glass of wine?

Not yet. It's a 2 hour 11 minute movie.

 

[jye4ever]

My thoughts. Not great

Sigh. here we go.

I dunno. I was just....underwhelmed. Just...empty expression on my face. Was not pumped up, was not excited, I was not - wow I need to see that again.

Ok some dumb nitpicks, but it still drove me crazy:

OK, in this day and age, and especially the future. You are telling me, you can't create REMOTE controlled robots to do the fighting??
You have to risk human lives because apparently you need real people mind connected to control it? It can't just be remote controlled like...um just about everything these days lol

Or how about just using nukes on them. One pops up? Fire a nuke at it. That won't do it? But giant robots wrestling and slugging in the face will?

OK, ok those are - "Hey it's just a fun movie, check your reality at the door, and enjoy it for what it is." But I couldn't help it. The whole movie.

Other issues:
The scientists. Annoying and silly. Didn't get it or the humor.
The one guy is just annoying as hell. And "Igor"? Really? really??

All this scientific equipment and using an old fashioned air bellow on the machine...WTF...lol

Character development and story. OK they tried. But I still wasn't buying it. Still acted and done way better then a BAY movie, but still. Like movies like this, it's just hard to try to make me "care" about these people or what's happening. It all happens too fast and too brief. Yet if you take too much time making it that kind of movie, then people would just complain it's boring and not enough action. Hard to strike that balance in this genre, I know.
Wasn't horrible and the acting was pretty good (minus the scientists), and I liked the lead guy.

Visuals were great, top notch. Very cool. But did bother me a bit it was always dark, raining, underwater. Wanted a few day time shots and stuff. But overall satisfied with visuals.

3D. Once again 3D fails me and makes just wish it would go away. Another useless use of it. It was better than MOS, but that's still not saying much. Could have done without.

I was just not overly blown away. That will be the only time I see this on the big screen. Made it to MOS three times, before I exhausted of that movie. It won't happen here. Blu Ray will be purchased.

This sound harsh, but it's not. I don't hate the movie. I did like it.
7 out of 10 for me.

Da first.

 

[jye4ever]

So, did anyone notice the Blade 2/3 references.

Haven't seen it mentioned.

 

[gagaliya]

Saw it, not very good. Expected a lot more from Guillermo.

The good:
1) The giant robot fight scenes are well done and exciting, you dont see that on the big screen often.

2) The giant robots are cool

3) Did i mention giant robots are cool?

4) Characters are not completely 1 dimensional, nothing too deep or interesting either though.

5) The japanese girl is hot

The bad:
1) Many of the dialogs were horrible...

2) The movie is way too predictable and average. I know they are going to kill off certain robots so the hero can save the day, but jesus at least make those robots who are suppose to be insanely powerful put up a decent fight not just getting ripped apart on que especially they were suppose to the best of the best and killed many monsters. Also give the pilots of those robots some background story instead of just use them as crash dummies.

Then the one they want to keep alive somehow doesnt die after taking 100x more beatings.

3) The whole charlie guy scientist side mission was completely retarded and adds nothing but cheapen the whole movie. I know they are trying to add some humor, but those 2 guys belong in the 3 stoogies movie.

4) Storyline is pretty boring, no surprise, no twist, i already knew how it is going to end half way through movie.

Bottomline, still go watch it because giant robots fight alone is worth the ticket, but cant help but feel disappointed.

 

[The Josh]

Movies solid. Enjoyed it enough to get it on blu but it didn't blow me away. I will say the robots and monsters were pretty darn cool. The 3D was impressive I thought.

 

[Sithlord1975]

Da first.

I wanted to LOVE this, but I didn't. Was just "ok".
Truly the inner 14 year old in Del Toro came out and he had fun with it and made the movie he dreamed about as a kid. And maybe that's where the audience is geared more towards. It had some good stuff in it and performances and top notch visuals, but just felt empty and shallow for me.

For those that loved it and it's "epic" and best movie of the summer, great. Just wasn't for me.

And if you're laughing because you think I'm here just to troll it, or trash it "just because", you're wrong. I've been fired up for this and on this thread pumped for the last few days.
And this is just the outcome. Not his best. Love Hellboy 1 and 2 and Pan's way more than this.

 

[Sithlord1975]

Saw it, not very good. Expected a lot more from Guillermo.

The good:
1) The giant robot fight scenes are well done and exciting, you dont see that on the big screen often.

2) The giant robots are cool

3) Did i mention giant robots are cool?

4) Characters are not completely 1 dimensional, nothing too deep or interesting either though.

5) The japanese girl is hot

The bad:
1) Many of the dialogs were horrible...

2) The movie is way too predictable and average. I know they are going to kill off certain robots so the hero can save the day, but jesus at least make those robots who are suppose to be insanely powerful put up a decent fight not just getting ripped apart on que especially they were suppose to the best of the best and killed many monsters. Also give the pilots of those robots some background story instead of just use them as crash dummies.

Then the one they want to keep alive somehow doesnt die after taking 100x more beatings.

3) The whole charlie guy scientist side mission was completely retarded and adds nothing but cheapen the whole movie. I know they are trying to add some humor, but those 2 guys belong in the 3 stoogies movie.

4) Storyline is pretty boring, no surprise, no twist, i already knew how it is going to end half way through movie.

Bottomline, still go watch it because giant robots fight alone is worth the ticket, but cant help but feel disappointed.

Summed up my review pretty much too.
I'm sure we won't be alone.

 

[jye4ever]

Saw it, not very good. Expected a lot more from Guillermo.

The good:
1) The giant robot fight scenes are well done and exciting, you dont see that on the big screen often.

2) The giant robots are cool

3) Did i mention giant robots are cool?

4) Characters are not completely 1 dimensional, nothing too deep or interesting either though.

5) The japanese girl is hot

The bad:
1) Many of the dialogs were horrible...

2) The movie is way too predictable and average. I know they are going to kill off certain robots so the hero can save the day, but jesus at least make those robots who are suppose to be insanely powerful put up a decent fight not just getting ripped apart on que especially they were suppose to the best of the best and killed many monsters. Also give the pilots of those robots some background story instead of just use them as crash dummies.

Then the one they want to keep alive somehow doesnt die after taking 100x more beatings.

3) The whole charlie guy scientist side mission was completely retarded and adds nothing but cheapen the whole movie. I know they are trying to add some humor, but those 2 guys belong in the 3 stoogies movie.

4) Storyline is pretty boring, no surprise, no twist, i already knew how it is going to end half way through movie.

Bottomline, still go watch it because giant robots fight alone is worth the ticket, but cant help but feel disappointed.

Da second.

 

[Darth Waller]

I thought it was pretty damn good. I'll see it in 3D next time.