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Review: Pacific Rim
Imagine a tank. Now imagine that tank is shaped like a human being. Now imagine that tank is as tall as a skyscraper, and it’s used to beat down giant monsters in the kind of fights that shake the streets, shatter buildings and use oceanliners as baseball bats. That is Pacific Rim, the ultimate ode to giant robots and monster movies of old. And considering my childhood love of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, and my own desire to someday pilot a Megazord, I was definitely looking forward to Pacific Rim – and I was not disappointed.
Pacific Rim is the kind of summer spectacle movie that people should be lining up to see. It’s the kind of movie that demands a bigger IMAX screen, because the action is both huge and hugely entertaining. The human characters could have used a little more fleshing out, but the size and scope of the film do not disappoint.
Movie Rating: 8/10 – Very Good.
Sadly, the Adam Sandler film Grown Ups 2 somehow captivated audiences more this past weekend than Pacific Rim. This is the world we live in. A crappy, crummy, by-the-numbers, lazy Sandler fart-joke-fest made more money than an original, high-octane movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters. Do I need to repeat that? Giant robots fighting giant monsters. In big, bombastic slugfests! It’s the Megazord fighting Godzilla! It’s every childhood joy of mine coming to fun, exciting life on the big screen. What more could humanity possibly want from its movies?
That little children around the world aren’t bugging their parents for Gipsy Danger toys right now is a crime against humanity.
Take it from a big geek like me, the robot/monster fights in Pacific Rim are exactly what we hoped they would be – though they almost all take place at night…in the rain…and while standing waist-deep in the water. I guess sometimes filmmakers have to do what they can to hide the CGI. But I won’t hold it against them. The fights are big, brutal and highly entertaining. And unlike Man of Steel, the CGI was not just a big mess of explosions and mindless destruction. These were unique, cool-looking beings, and their actions were easy to follow and understand. Pacific Rim is big CGI done right.
If only the human characters were as awesome as the giant, asskicking robots.
Join me after the jump for my full review of Pacific Rim. And beware, there will be some SPOILERS.
Apocalypse Cancelled This Friday
Less than a week until Pacific Rim debuts and they cranked out yet another trailer! Good for them.
I’ve been posting these trailers right along, even though they’re all mostly the same footage and dialogue. But each one has been fun. And they haven’t dulled my excitement any. I’ll definitely be seeing Pacific Rim this weekend. How about you?
So is the Apocalypse Cancelled or Not?
Inexplicably, there’s yet another Pacific Rim trailer! I’m not complaining, mind you, but how many of these are they going to make?
I guess projections for Pacific Rim just aren’t good so far. Why is that? How can anybody predict how well or how poorly the movie is going to do? I’m fired up and pumped for this film. I’m going to be there opening weekend! I want to see giant robots fighting giant monsters, gosh darn it! But I guess some people aren’t? You’d think with all these trailers they would have at least thrown in some kind of romantic subplot, right? Isn’t Hollywood cynical enough to think they need to appease women by throwing in a romantic subplot? Maybe a human falls in love with a monster. It could happen!
I Support All Things Pacific Rim and Idris Elba
Apparently Pacific Rim is still coming out with new trailers. And like I predicted the last time I posted a trailer, each and every one of them has feature star Idris Elba’s big line: “We are canceling the Apocalypse!” Now it seems the trailers love that line so much, they’ve built an entire trailer around it.
It’s a great line, sure, but now when I actually see it in the movie, it’s not going to have any effect on me because I’ve been oversaturated with cancelled Apocalypses.
Hopefully There is More Than Just One Line of Idris Elba Dialogue in Pacific Rim
OK, so the ‘cancelling the Apocalypse’ line is pretty damn amazing, but every single Pacific Rim trailer has used it as the hook! By the time the movie comes out, it’s going to lose all meaning!
Not that it’s going to deter me from seeing this awesome movie. But knowing there are some other cool lines of dialogue in the film would make it more exciting. I’m just saying.
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