Pacific Rim: Uprising - March 23, 2018

[JAWS]

What a piece of crap makes the first one look like an oscar winner.

The plot was embarrassing.

DO NOT GO SEE THIS just for the battles it’s not worth it.

Jye and I have officially Role reversed!

Remember when you would give films like the latest Transfomers films a pass and I wouldn't

I found this film to be just fine.

Having said that my expectations could not have gotten any lower. My wife guilted me into going because she was taking a bunch of kids.. I was going to skip this all together.

I am also not a huge fan of the original. I thought it took itself a tad too seriously and thought that because it was so serious the Charlie Day and Ron Perlmen parts seemed out of place and I love me some Charlie Day... Actually I watched this film this weekend and found the Pearlmen and Day parts to be my fav parts character wise.

This new film seemed to have less jokes but at the same time did not take itself too seriously. They also did not seem to try and make this film Uber Cool like the trailers had me believing.

Don't get me wrong its not great but in some ways I liked it as much as the original.

I thought this had the better climax as Part 1 had the awful underwater fight scene.

Only part I really hated where the Kaiju infected Drones... Thought that was just stupid and would have preferred some real Kaiju action. This scene almost took me out of the movie all together.

Oh and the way the three monsters were turned into one. Thought that was dumb also.

If you are a huge fan the original I would avoid this as it has none of the feel or look of that one. Its not as well made by a long shot.

I thought the cast was fine and John Boyega was better and more interesting in this then the SW films..

I have read lots of complaints about Scott Eastwood's acting.. Personally I cant help but like him because he looks so much like his dad. I thought Charlie Day's part was wasted. I was also shocked that I did not hate all the kids.. But again there was a lack of goofy jokes that films like Transformers and ID4 have in it that helped me not hate it.

My wife thought it was fine and my 12 year old who thought he was going to hate it thought it was much better then the clips and trailers had him believe. He really wished there where more Monsters and I have to agree with him there. The rest of the kids (3 of them) enjoyed it as well.


Anyways I may have to count my blessing and never watch this again as I am sure I there is no way I will enjoy it as much as I just did

 

[chewblacca]

I was curious to see this but I think I'll wait till it hits cable next week.

 

[JAWS]

I was curious to see this but I think I'll wait till it hits cable next week.

Probably the smart thing to do.

 

[jye4ever]

It’s my Kong of 2018 lol

Although the action set piece at the end was better executed than Kong’s by a long shot.

 

[JAWS]

It’s my Kong of 2018 lol

Although the action set piece at the end was better executed than Kong’s by a long shot.

Yes.. And I remember how I felt about Kong after I watched it again.. So I am just going to avoid watching this again so I will always remember it as a fun time at the movies

 

[crows]

It’s my Kong of 2018 lol

Although the action set piece at the end was better executed than Kong’s by a long shot.

BUUUUUUUUULLLLLL--------------

no way man, NO WAY. at least the jungle in kong was nice to see and at least they were exploring and at least they met the natives and the crazy old guy
At least they showed the animals in kong a lot more

Pacific rim might have had the same structure than Kong I will give you that, yes. same boring structure.
BUT... BUUUT, BUT!!!!!

But this movie is missing even aesthetically pleasing sets and scenes... we spend most of the time in this movie looking at ugly bunkers and badly cgi training scenes and ugly sleeping facilities.
Then we get more ugly bunkers and ugly looking labs...
Im not here to defend kong, at all. but come on bro... .COME ON..... this movie is ugly to look at. the sets are ugly. the actors are ugly. the plot is ugly. the cgi is ugly

AT LEAST Kong had GOOD CGI.

 

[More Battle Damage]

I loved the scale of the fight scenes. Trillions of CG dollars in damages. The plot was non existent, but it was fighting robot porn, so I was OK with that. Will get the Blu Ray

 

[crows]

I loved the scale of the fight scenes. Trillions of CG dollars in damages. The plot was non existent, but it was fighting robot porn, so I was OK with that. Will get the Blu Ray

yeah.... two crappy Transformers-like fights and wait one hour between fights. that sounds GREAT

I went to see Kaiju.... I needed more Kaiju. they basically made a crappy version of transformers for the first half

 

[Biojex]

Finally saw this yesterday. I liked it!

Liked
Boyega was good. I think he's a better fit in a film like this rather than Star Wars. He was dumb but also kind of charming. I'm glad they didn't go too far into making him the annoying egotistical archetype in this.
Amara was probably the best member of the cast. At first I thought I was going to hate her. Her first scene is a bit rough on the acting, but she found her place.
Everyone else did their part. Charlie Day was at least entertaining. His twist didn't even bother me because he still acted like Charlie Day instead of trying to be an intimidating mustache twirler.

Spoiler

And a silly human being disguised as an alien or being controlled by one is pretty great nod to several Godzilla films, so on a certain level, I had appreciation for it

The visuals as far as the robot/kaiju stuff. I've mentioned before here, it all gave me Ultraman vibes which I dig. I didn't mind the Robot on Robot fights because I enjoy the Jaegers as much as I enjoy the Kaiju. At one point I just told my brain, "this is a live action Gundam movie so shut up and just enjoy it!". So that was kewl. I didn't even care about robots doing judo kicks at that point. In fact I thought the physics/weight of the robots was done pretty well. When a robot went flying, it landed convincingly with a nice heft to it. The only time I got pulled out by the physics was when they were fighting on the big ice lake. I thought it was a bit odd that these giant ass, mega ton robots weren't breaking the ice with every step but ONLY when they themselves wanted it to... did the ice break

The Kaiju: I wanted more kaiju...but I always want more Kaiju... and it's par the course for kaiju movies to save a bulk of the monster action for the last half hour or so. Watch any Godzilla movie and this is the case more often than not. So I was use to it. I looooooved the final battle of the film. Every single second of it. I didn't even mind the young pilots because I realized they actually got more character development than any of the expendable pilots in the first film...they also lasted longer I loved the brutality of the Final Kaiju, especially when he picked up the Jaeger in it's mouth and tore it limb from limb It's design was also great and I need a toy of it

The Drones! I didn't think I was going to like them when I saw them in the trailer but they gave me huge Evangelion vibes! Particularly when an Eva goes Berserk. So I was into it. I actually wish we got to see the bigger Jaeger go "berserk" I feel like that would have been a nice changeup to make that fight a little more interesting.



Didn't like or didn't care about

The plot. It was typical though. Monster is going to do THIS so stop it from doing THAT.
The score. Boring. The only time my ears perked up was when the first films theme kicked in.
Eastwood. He was pretty Lulz. I'm glad he didn't get too many speeches
The pilot suits. They looked cheap. I also hated the helmets. It was like they were saving effects money and also trying to keep the actors comfortable by not keeping a visor in front of their face. I just thought it was dumb how the holographic visor would go over their face and then become completely invisible. It just made the helmets look dumb.

Spoiler

The offing of Mako. It was pretty obvious to me that all they were doing was swapping out the Japanese model for the Chinese model to appeal to the chinese market because it's more lucrative. Mako should of been the one to pilot Scrapper at the end and not this lady who we've spent the whole movie being annoyed with. Doesn't a Chinese company own Legendary pictures now? That's probably a reason too

All in all I enjoyed the movie. I know most won't and I could tell my friend i went to see it with hated it, he was so restless There was also only one other guy in the theater, an older gent. At one point, I heard him mutter to himself "I'm not going to miss anything" as he got up to go to the bathroom


One plot point I wished they expanded on in this film was the idea of the pregnant Kaiju from the first movie. That seemed like something with that could be important. I guess it was just another way to get more kaiju into the world...who knows.

 

[crows]

Finally saw this yesterday. I liked it!

Liked
Boyega was good. I think he's a better fit in a film like this rather than Star Wars. He was dumb but also kind of charming. I'm glad they didn't go too far into making him the annoying egotistical archetype in this.
Amara was probably the best member of the cast. At first I thought I was going to hate her. Her first scene is a bit rough on the acting, but she found her place.
Everyone else did their part. Charlie Day was at least entertaining. His twist didn't even bother me because he still acted like Charlie Day instead of trying to be an intimidating mustache twirler.

Spoiler

And a silly human being disguised as an alien or being controlled by one is pretty great nod to several Godzilla films, so on a certain level, I had appreciation for it

The visuals as far as the robot/kaiju stuff. I've mentioned before here, it all gave me Ultraman vibes which I dig. I didn't mind the Robot on Robot fights because I enjoy the Jaegers as much as I enjoy the Kaiju. At one point I just told my brain, "this is a live action Gundam movie so shut up and just enjoy it!". So that was kewl. I didn't even care about robots doing judo kicks at that point. In fact I thought the physics/weight of the robots was done pretty well. When a robot went flying, it landed convincingly with a nice heft to it. The only time I got pulled out by the physics was when they were fighting on the big ice lake. I thought it was a bit odd that these giant ass, mega ton robots weren't breaking the ice with every step but ONLY when they themselves wanted it to... did the ice break

The Kaiju: I wanted more kaiju...but I always want more Kaiju... and it's par the course for kaiju movies to save a bulk of the monster action for the last half hour or so. Watch any Godzilla movie and this is the case more often than not. So I was use to it. I looooooved the final battle of the film. Every single second of it. I didn't even mind the young pilots because I realized they actually got more character development than any of the expendable pilots in the first film...they also lasted longer I loved the brutality of the Final Kaiju, especially when he picked up the Jaeger in it's mouth and tore it limb from limb It's design was also great and I need a toy of it

The Drones! I didn't think I was going to like them when I saw them in the trailer but they gave me huge Evangelion vibes! Particularly when an Eva goes Berserk. So I was into it. I actually wish we got to see the bigger Jaeger go "berserk" I feel like that would have been a nice changeup to make that fight a little more interesting.



Didn't like or didn't care about

The plot. It was typical though. Monster is going to do THIS so stop it from doing THAT.
The score. Boring. The only time my ears perked up was when the first films theme kicked in.
Eastwood. He was pretty Lulz. I'm glad he didn't get too many speeches
The pilot suits. They looked cheap. I also hated the helmets. It was like they were saving effects money and also trying to keep the actors comfortable by not keeping a visor in front of their face. I just thought it was dumb how the holographic visor would go over their face and then become completely invisible. It just made the helmets look dumb.

Spoiler

The offing of Mako. It was pretty obvious to me that all they were doing was swapping out the Japanese model for the Chinese model to appeal to the chinese market because it's more lucrative. Mako should of been the one to pilot Scrapper at the end and not this lady who we've spent the whole movie being annoyed with. Doesn't a Chinese company own Legendary pictures now? That's probably a reason too

All in all I enjoyed the movie. I know most won't and I could tell my friend i went to see it with hated it, he was so restless There was also only one other guy in the theater, an older gent. At one point, I heard him mutter to himself "I'm not going to miss anything" as he got up to go to the bathroom


One plot point I wished they expanded on in this film was the idea of the pregnant Kaiju from the first movie. That seemed like something with that could be important. I guess it was just another way to get more kaiju into the world...who knows.

I would have liked it if there was more action. if they didnt have like one hour between action scenes. good review thank you

 

[guyver1]

All the reviews still seem the same.

praise on Boyega

great action

subpar plot

Is it worth all the merchandise hype

 

[Shawpaw]

All the reviews still seem the same.

praise on Boyega

great action

subpar plot

Is it worth all the merchandise hype

I cancelled my PO of SHF Gypsy Avenger.

 

[crows]

All the reviews still seem the same.

praise on Boyega

great action

subpar plot

Is it worth all the merchandise hype

the jaegers look cool
you just dont care about them. they will make cool toys for sure.

the Kaiju show up at the end and kinda look the same. they didnt change much from the first movie. but now since all 4 show up at once you dont really care about them

the suits on the pilots look ridiculous so any figures from that will look trash.

 

[guyver1]

the jaegers look cool
you just dont care about them. they will make cool toys for sure.

the Kaiju show up at the end and kinda look the same. they didnt change much from the first movie. but now since all 4 show up at once you dont really care about them

the suits on the pilots look ridiculous so any figures from that will look trash.

So let's face it the concept itself was not enough to make it memorable sounds like. It's another one of those sequels that kind of jumped the Shark because the original was so fresh and took everybody by surprise with a big following.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Great...

 

[crows]

So let's face it the concept itself was not enough to make it memorable sounds like. It's another one of those sequels that kind of jumped the Shark because the original was so fresh and took everybody by surprise with a big following.

this movie finally proves once and for all how amazing Guillermo is as a director and it proves that a good director will elevate any story as simple as it is.
the story of the first one is not even that complicated or even that memorable. but the direction and visuals made it as great as it is.

The sequel is almost like taking an episode of power rangers and giving it a 150 million budget. even the final fight feels like power rangers the show. (the robots dont feel like robots but feel like people inside suits, the robots dont have any weight. they really feel like costumes)

They could have done some really cool things with the concept, the movie could have been a prequel of the first attacks with Boyega playing a younger Stacker.
I would watch that.

this story could have been great if they cut out like 50 minutes of plot. or added at least 2 more fights. Guillermo del toro could have definitely made this movie amazing but the new director ruined it.

 

[guyver1]

I guess they will make the mark with the blu ray sales instead

 

[jye4ever]

crows nailed it.

I didn’t feel like I was experiencing giant anything they all felt like Iron Man or Raiden from MGS and the highrises didn’t help as much as they should’ve and I think that was because of their speed and agility.

I don’t know don’t get me wrong i’m not saying it was all crap because the 3rd act battle was very exhilarating, cool and bad ass at parts.

 

[guyver1]

I wonder if they should make a live action Gundam film instead

 

[crows]

crows nailed it.

I didn’t feel like I was experiencing giant anything they all felt like Iron Man or Raiden from MGS and the highrises didn’t help as much as they should’ve and I think that was because of their speed and agility.

I don’t know don’t get me wrong i’m not saying it was all crap because the 3rd act battle was very exhilarating, cool and bad ass at parts.

the final battle almost felt like the original pacific rim... almost. but the crappy acting, the sunlight and the men in suits physics kinda ruined it.

in the original movie they felt heavy. they felt real. like giant tanks. they moved slower and each step they made felt heavy and slow.
the destruction of the city felt real. the buildings being destroyed looked real.

In this one when buildings fall it really looked like power rangers. and the one jaeger running and stepping on a building and kicking the kaiju and then doing a flip just felt like a video game. even the destruction felt fake.

even if they wanted a daylight movie they could have had a little bit of clouds or make it darker. but this movie's sunlight made everything look super fake. I dont even think they got the shadows of the Jaegers right. the daylight fights were awful.

The only fight that looked good was with the evil Jaeger in the snow because the set felt real. the snow added realism to the fight.