Pacific Rim was BAD just BAD. The plot-line was overly predictable. The acting was nothing special.
I saw it in the cinema but I was actually bored. Boohoo so his brother died in a war. *beep* happens grow up. Lots of people die in wars. If everyone who lost someone in a war went into hiding well it would be over pretty quickly. Also the second the "hot female" came into picture it was obvious what would happen.
Is the reason that something gets good ratings not simply because people enjoy it?
shareThe plot was overly predictable?
1) From the first few minutes you couldn't tell if there was a story about resistance fight, or winning it all, or just some origin story.
2) After few minutes, we knew that it was about stopping the invasion, but didn't know if it would be like Two Towers - just one battle victory that COULD potentially turn the tide- or if it would be a compete win.
3) We didn't know what role would scientist have. If they come up with some sort of biological stopping agent that would kill all Kayju, or make some new adjustments to robots... or discover a way to seal the breach.
4) When it became apparent that the nuke will play a role in victory, there still was a doubt. They could do it like in Stargate, try to "bury" the breach. Or destroy it as they would.
Besides, you clearly don't understand what plot means. And failed to connect to the film and characters.
It was explained, that the mind drift is something serious, mental connection. So when his brother died, it was not just like he lost a brother. It was like him literally dying. He was still connected to him, so all the fear, anxiety of Yancy's death, he felt like he was the one dying. That is some pretty serious shit. Dunno who I would react and I generally don't get scared a lot.
When the girl was introduced, everybody knew she would become important character in the plot, possibly romantic partner. But this is not pretty woman, characters, their interactions and motivations are not THE PLOT. This is something you have failed to understand.
i don't think acting is what people watch this for, and that's understandable
it was always going to be about the fight scenes between the monsters and the robots and frankly they could have been done better, most of it consisted of them just throwing each other around
so many movies, so little time
I liked the Independence Day vibe it had. Like that movie, it was quite absurd and made little sense, but it was a lot of fun.
shareThe director is a well respected independent film director. I think many of his fans have voted this up.
shareI love this movie and I had never even heard of Guillermo Del Toro before I watched this movie, and I'm sure there are many other people out there who are the same as me.
I judge movies based on their quality and entertainment value and various other aspects about the movie itself, I don't care about who the director is or who the actors are, if I like a movie then I like it, regardless of who the director or actors are.
And you said it yourself that Guillermo is a respected 'independent movie' director, and this movie is not a independent film at all, this is a big budget sci-fi action movie, and very different to most of Guillermo's other works, and cost much more money to make and produce than all of his other works, this movie also made much more money than any other movie by Guillermo.
Many people love this movie, it made over $400 million in the box office worldwide and was a huge hit in home video sales...I doubt most of these people who bought the dvds and watched this movie in the theaters were paying for this movie just because it's a Guillermo movie, most people probably didn't even know him before they watched this movie.
I think it is a six out of ten film. His fans probably bumped it up to a seven, by putting thousands of tens into the mix, when even in their esteemed opinion they probably should have at best voted it a eight.
shareIt's an entertaining movie. Especially in 3d the fight sequences were amazing. It's not the most developed movie story, or character wise, but I think it works pretty well at being a giant robot vs monsters movie.
shareAgree completely and I love this kind of scifi but its not even that.
Just millions of cg dollars and poor acting no story and below average acting.
I was very disappointed Idris is usually quite good but he was just there.
The new kid from tv was weak as to be expected from a tv actor.
There is not dept no feeling just big stuff hitting other stuff and somehow even that isnt fun.
This actually drags on and feels way to long how much more could they screw up?
The 7 rating is new used to be like 5 must have just been another big hit to IQ recently.
Both 50s and 2000 war of the worlds are far better even with very little action, proof substance beats flare to people who can think.