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| Those are ridiculous comparisons and you know it. by Mischief Maker 05/27/2016, 5:23pm PDT | ||||
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fabio wrote: People were in a vengeful mood with Costner after he was the one actor to phone in his performance in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, a movie that should have been a classic. How sad is it when you get out-acted by Christian Slater, fer cryin' out loud? Pacific Rim even stunk in the action department. Every scene was dark with water spray covering the majority of action. Again, why couldn't the actual movie be the news clips where we got to see brief seconds of a much more interesting daylight fight? Because the CGI was more convincing in night scenes than daytime, probably. Also, did you miss the whole battle scene taking place in brightly-lit downtown Hong Kong? If you think there should have been even more giant robot fights, I heartily agree. Again, like most godzilla movies, the entire point of the talking people scenes is to pad the running time between the action setpieces. How much time passed between the opening fight and the 2nd (aka the "real climax")? An hour? 80 minutes? Jesus what a dog shit boring slog. 80 minutes of the dud protagonist learning to love again, dealing with PTSD, dealing with cancer, dealing with budget cuts, and wacky unfunny scientist hijinks. They couldn't fill that time with anything remotely interesting? Practice bouts with the asshole Australian robot team? Satiric talk show interviews as teased in the news clips? Whoops, already blew the satire quota on the hamfisted immigrants/wall commentary. Yeah, your story idea is better, I agree. However... Shit plot, shit action: Matrix sequels, Star Wars prequels, Transformers, Pacific Rim Terrible comparisons. Everything story-wise in Pacific Rim was related to Giant Robots punching giant monsters. The conflicts between the characters were all about how to best go about having the giant robots punch said giant monsters. Were the performances weak and the stories uninteresting? Fair enough, but it told a complete and cohesive story, which for the standards of Godzilla movies is damn near miraculous. Unlike the Matrix sequels, character motivations and the ultimate goal were crystal clear from the get-go. Unlike the Star Wars prequels, there were clear protagonists and antagonists and there were actual lives at stake in the conflict. Unlike Transformers, there were no robot-themed pee and fart jokes, nor any other attempts to be the poor-man's American Pie as played by a slumming Cohen Brothers cast that has nothing to do with the central conflict. |
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