Box Office: ‘Pacific’ on the Rim of Disappointment Stateside, Beat By ‘Grown Ups,’ ‘Despicable Me’ S - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;41444209]I enjoyed it because I went to it knowing what it was and why it was. I wasn't expecting something that it couldn't deliver. Back when they first announced it, he talked about how he drew a lot of inspiration from things like Japanese monster and robot movies and shows and such, and that he wanted to really just make a movie about giant robots and city destroying monsters. It delivered exactly what I expected from it with cool fights and cool monsters and such.[/QUOTE] Ugh the movie was amazing, the CGI was so good you were could imagine that you were fucking witnessing this in real life. That's all it wanted to deliver, whose the asshole who wants it to deliver more?

[QUOTE=Fuzzwaddle;41443610]I wish Adam Sandler was still as good as he was in Happy Gilmore[/QUOTE] He was never good. I watched Happy Gilmore recently after not seeing it for like 12 years. It's a shit movie with the same stupid crap that comes with every Adam Sandler movie. It was just the first one.

[QUOTE=JoshJosh117;41444223]By "not always right" do you mean "don't always share the same opinion as the majority of viewers"? I find myself agreeing with the critics more often in cases like these. I don't really trust the mainstream audience's consensus for the best taste in film.[/QUOTE] I usually see myself disagreeing with critics, whether its movies, games, etc. Ive stopped listening to critics for both lately. You could say being wrong and not having the same opinion is the same thing, when these critics main goal is to give proper reviews and ratings

i dont understand why people say the story was awful, it seemed pretty alright to me. the whole aspect of [sp]the monsters not fighting because of their own reasons, but just going under orders directly from another alien race, and just being cloned constantly over and over basically meaning the attacks would NEVER stop[/sp] seemed cool to me. and even then, its a monster movie. who the hell goes to a monster movie for the story? ive heard "love story" as well. what the hell? that doesnt really happen at all until the VERY end of the film. the slightest bit you get early on is [sp]a woman looking back at a dude as they go to sleep or something[/sp]

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;41443408]Looks like we won't be seen any more giant mecha movies for the next decade.[/QUOTE] To be honest transformers has already killed all hope for the genre a while ago.

[QUOTE=Furnost;41444385]i dont understand why people say the story was awful, it seemed pretty alright to me. and even then, its a monster movie. who the hell goes to a monster movie for the story? ive heard "love story" as well. what the hell? that doesnt really happen at all until the VERY end of the film. the slightest bit you get early on is [sp]a woman looking back at a dude as they go to sleep or something[/sp][/QUOTE] It was never about love directly until the very end, the rest of the "love story" is just simply character development that isn't about love.

[QUOTE=FordLord;41444343]I usually see myself disagreeing with critics, whether its movies, games, etc. Ive stopped listening to critics for both lately. [B]You could say being wrong and not having the same opinion is the same thing[/B], when these critics main goal is to give proper reviews and ratings[/QUOTE] Except that's a terrible mindset. Someone having a different opinion than you doesn't mean they're wrong, it means they have different tastes and opinions. A critics job is to give their opinion on a movie, not yours. Saying they're opinion is wrong because it differs with yours implies that you value yourself and your opinions much higher than anybody who disagrees with you.

I blame my local theatre for part of this. They decided to show Grown Up 2 every 10 minutes, yet Pacific Rim every 2 hours.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;41443359]Isn't this movie just 100% hype from children and manchildren going "giant robots wooooo".[/QUOTE] Yes and that's what makes it great.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;41443359]Isn't this movie just 100% hype from children and manchildren going "giant robots wooooo".[/QUOTE] What's the problem with that? Why you call the enjoyment of action childish is beyond me, that is the opposite of the truth.

[QUOTE=Frisk;41444459]Except that's a terrible mindset. Someone having a different opinion than you doesn't mean they're wrong, it means they have different tastes and opinions. A critics job is to give their opinion on a movie, not yours. Saying they're opinion is wrong because it differs with yours implies that you value yourself and your opinions much higher than anybody who disagrees with you.[/QUOTE] In the listed cases, the critics opinions differs from the majority of viewers. Id say that theyre doing something wrong when their own site members disagree with them

Again, you're missing the entire point of reviews. The reason people pay attention to critics is for THEIR opinion, not for the opinion of the general audience. If you want to know what the general public thinks of a movie, avoid review sites and stick to box office figures.

[QUOTE=Frisk;41444732]Again, you're missing the entire point of reviews. The reason people pay attention to critics is for THEIR opinion, not for the opinion of the general audience. If you want to know what the general public thinks of a movie, avoid review sites and stick to box office figures.[/QUOTE] But the typical "BUT POPULAR =/= GOOD" as if their singular opinion is all that matters, not taking into account the fact that if their opinion is shown to be contrary to the box office figures that maybe they have no place to be forcing their opinions.

Nobody is forcing anybody to pay attention to any critics opinion. If you don't like somebody's opinions or reviews, then you can just ignore them. It really isn't that hard.

[QUOTE=Take yo;41443615]um charlie hunnam is cool, have u seen sons of anarchy?[/QUOTE] Yeah but here's the thing: He plays that same character in every single thing he does. He's a good looking guy so he'll always have an option for a charismatic lead, but fuck me, there really is only two tricks in his bag, Charlie british accent and charlie american accent.

[quote]$180,000,000[/quote] was Pacific Rim's budget holy mother of fuck that's a lot for a movie that is about robots killing aliens, with dubstep in the background

Marketing issue? Never even heard of this movie until now.

[QUOTE=SatansSin;41444885]was Pacific Rim's budget holy mother of fuck that's a lot for a movie that is about robots killing aliens, with dubstep in the background[/QUOTE] I didn't hear any dubstep in the film? And they used actual proper sets for loads of the human interaction stuff like the mechanics in the head of the jaegers which is cool as heck.

[QUOTE=SatansSin;41444885]was Pacific Rim's budget holy mother of fuck that's a lot for a movie that is about robots killing aliens, with dubstep in the background[/QUOTE] Dubstep is expensive to license. The licensing fee goes up for every wub used in the film.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they didn't use any dubstep in the film.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41443562]Pacific Rim looked [I]horrible,[/I] so that's no surprise. I mean, I'm pretty hip to robots and monsters and whatnot, but the movie didn't seem to have anything else going for it. The trailers displayed a poorly written mess, and the fact that it's starring [I]Charlie flippin' Hunnam[/I] doesn't inspire much confidence. Pacific Rim seems like nothing more than a gimmicky, patronizing money grab, as far as I'm concerned! It's like the director just Googled "nerd culture" and crammed as much shit together in one movie as he could to bring people to the theaters.[/QUOTE] Ellen McLain did the AI

I really like the way this one guy in an article puts it. I don't remember the exact phrase but he says that Grown Ups 2 is a family movie, and that Pacific Rim has a really nerdy theme, and that it's sad that people would rather pick a "safe" option rather than try something like PR.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;41444950]Yeah, I'm pretty sure they didn't use any dubstep in the film.[/QUOTE] But it was in the trailer! And we all know that those 15 second clips sum up the entire film!

I don't want to watch [I]Pacific Rim[/I] because giant robot fights aren't something I enjoy.

The plot itself wasn't really bad, it was just kind of boring and felt like it was mostly to lead up to the next fight. I feel the films world has a lot of room for exploration but they didn't really use that to there advantage. Hopefully it does well in Japan and some animation studios will sign up to OVAs starring some of the other Jaegars.

both of those two movies are aimed at the entire family, got more advertising and (despicable me anyway) is rather good, this isn't really much of a surprise

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;41445711]I don't want to watch [I]Pacific Rim[/I] because giant robot fights aren't something I enjoy.[/QUOTE] I'm so sorry to break this to you, but I'm afraid you're dead on the inside.

Goddamnit, this just means more shitty formula sequels for the foreign market and gullible Americans to eat up. Original IPs are dead in Hollywood.

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;41445028]Ellen McLain did the AI[/QUOTE] She didn't sound like GLaDOS much, and the closest she got to snarking was a canned "Would you like to try again?" [editline]13th July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=xianlee;41443592]Pacific Rim looks more like one of those movies where 'It was good, but I wouldn't pay money to see it at the cinema'[/QUOTE] I'd say you really ought to see it in theaters because the size and scale is really big. Great moviegoing experience.

[QUOTE=dass;41443587]Critics are always dead inside.[/QUOTE] Apparently not these ones.