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Post by ZombieElvis on Jul 12, 2013 0:55:37 GMT -5
I really hope Pacific Rim does well. I'm planing to see it in IMAX this weekend and if its as good as I hope I'm gonna see it again with friends next week.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 12, 2013 1:40:05 GMT -5
Pacific Rim has a 72% Fresh on RT right now.
Can't see the film till next week though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2013 18:41:53 GMT -5
From Box Office Mojo. A small sigh of relief is perhaps in play...
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Post by Arrow on Jul 13, 2013 18:08:38 GMT -5
Said this in the PR thread And it's funny seeing how people are getting upset online that people are seeing Grown Ups 2 instead of this movie I don't have it in me to get upset about these kinds of things, but having seen the GU2 trailers there's a part of me that would be happy to see that movie fail. That has nothing to do with Pacific Rim, and comes from a general wish to see quality and hard-work succeed and mediocrity and laziness fail. In any case, I'm not going to get upset at who sees another inane Adam Sandler comedy. It's their money. I'd just like to see Pacific Rim succeed because there's obviously been a lot of effort put into making the film, and it was directed from someone who clearly enjoyed doing it.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 13, 2013 18:13:01 GMT -5
Said this in the PR thread And it's funny seeing how people are getting upset online that people are seeing Grown Ups 2 instead of this movie I don't have it in me to get upset about these kinds of things, but having seen the GU2 trailers there's a part of me that would be happy to see that movie fail. That has nothing to do with Pacific Rim, and comes from a general wish to see quality and hard-work succeed and mediocrity and laziness fail. In any case, I'm not going to get upset at who sees another inane Adam Sandler comedy. It's their money. I'd just like to see Pacific Rim succeed because there's obviously been a lot of effort put into making the film, and it was directed from someone who clearly enjoyed doing it. Pretty much. That's more or less where most of the anger is coming from to begin with, an original IP summer blockbuster that is a clear love letter to its genre and from the critics is quality is getting beaten by a seemingly lazy and crappy sequel.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 13, 2013 18:26:55 GMT -5
When you start wishing harm on people that's when you lost it Well yeah but that is something that happens internet wide.
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 13, 2013 22:12:06 GMT -5
All I know is no movie's trailer has ever left me feeling as apathetic as Pacific Rim's did.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jul 13, 2013 22:17:25 GMT -5
All I know is no movie's trailer has ever left me feeling as apathetic as Pacific Rim's did. Right there with you. The movie itself was about the same. It's looking like Grown Ups and Despicable Me is going to be the battle for first this weekend.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jul 13, 2013 22:22:37 GMT -5
Saw this the other day the movies may not be any good but the trailers for the TF Movies make u want to see the movie I think that's a big talent of Michael Bay and his crew. Even people that hate him to his very core end up going to see the movie just because of how damned cool they make it look.
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Post by the2ndevil on Jul 13, 2013 22:34:12 GMT -5
The biggest thing that annoyed me with the trailer is it was hyper focused on the battles, and showed nothing about any characters. Say what you about the Transformers movies, but their trailers made it clear there was actual characters within them.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 13, 2013 22:41:43 GMT -5
Maybe they should have let Bay cut the trailer for them lol If they did it would be nothing but explosions, and considering Pacific Rim has, at least from what I have read, some resemblance of an actual story(full of holes as it may be), and actually has character development, that probably wouldn't be the best kind of trailer for the film.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 13, 2013 22:53:57 GMT -5
If u believe the box office so far it didn't work out for them Which is sad, really. Basically says no one should dare to do an actual story in a summer movie unless it is an animated film or a comic book film. All other attempts seemed doomed to fail.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 22:56:48 GMT -5
All I know is no movie's trailer has ever left me feeling as apathetic as Pacific Rim's did. This the concept is good. But the whole battle scenes they shown are in dark battles with both the robots and monsters looking like robot barf in which I can't tell which one is which and when they show inside the robots it's in a dark room where everyone is wearing tron looking suits with blue screens and blue lights so I can't tell who the characters are. It just looks way over produced. I'm sure the visuals are good in the movie but the trailer doesn't sell on it that I rather wait till inseenit for free when it comes out on DVD.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 22:59:30 GMT -5
The sad thing is I'm more likely going to be dragged into seeing Grown Ups 2. I didn't hate the first one too much and I already know what I'm stepping into when I see the movie and the expectations.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jul 14, 2013 0:36:43 GMT -5
If u believe the box office so far it didn't work out for them Which is sad, really. Basically says no one should dare to do an actual story in a summer movie unless it is an animated film or a comic book film. All other attempts seemed doomed to fail. Uh....guy? The story in Pacific Rim is as generic as it gets and the characters are cliched cardboard cutouts and it borrows most of it's ideas from other stuff. Hardly original. Let's calm down.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 14, 2013 8:41:21 GMT -5
Which is sad, really. Basically says no one should dare to do an actual story in a summer movie unless it is an animated film or a comic book film. All other attempts seemed doomed to fail. Uh....guy? The story in Pacific Rim is as generic as it gets and the characters are cliched cardboard cutouts and it borrows most of it's ideas from other stuff. Hardly original. Let's calm down. Not what I have been reading from the rest of the web or from reviews.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 9:47:45 GMT -5
Which is sad, really. Basically says no one should dare to do an actual story in a summer movie unless it is an animated film or a comic book film. All other attempts seemed doomed to fail. Uh....guy? The story in Pacific Rim is as generic as it gets and the characters are cliched cardboard cutouts and it borrows most of it's ideas from other stuff. Hardly original. Let's calm down. But it's still one of the few movies this summer that's actually original. Not a sequel. Not a prequel. Not a remake. Not a reboot. Not based on a toy. Not based on a board game. Not turning genre icons into a CW emo drama. Not cast with trendy no-talent stars. The reason why we're a little angry is because it's once again letting the system win. Then again, I think Pacific Rim will be a movie talked about for years. It really sounds like the next Scott Pilgrim. For better or worse.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jul 14, 2013 10:56:16 GMT -5
Uh....guy? The story in Pacific Rim is as generic as it gets and the characters are cliched cardboard cutouts and it borrows most of it's ideas from other stuff. Hardly original. Let's calm down. But it's still one of the few movies this summer that's actually original. Not a sequel. Not a prequel. Not a remake. Not a reboot. Not based on a toy. Not based on a board game. Not turning genre icons into a CW emo drama. Not cast with trendy no-talent stars. The reason why we're a little angry is because it's once again letting the system win. Then again, I think Pacific Rim will be a movie talked about for years. It really sounds like the next Scott Pilgrim. For better or worse. Oh lord. Can we slow it with the bashing of people and acting like certain opinions are better than others? Maybe the marketing didn't click with audiences. It's some 'fighting the system' thing. Audiences didn't care all that much about the silly robot vs. monsters movie. It's not the end of the world. Maybe they should've tried to make the movie more appealing in their ad campaign. They were trying to sell a concept most of the time and not an actual movie or story. "Hey! Robots fighting monsters! That'd be cool right?" Ideas are nice but I'm not paying 8 bucks minimum for an idea. No matter how original (not really the case here) I need to see that there's some sort of story to it and that was barely touched. Most reactions about the trailers that weren't from geeks and the internet set were generally 'Uh...ok?' and 'I forgot about the trailer immediately after it ended.' Can't really blame the audience all that much.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 14, 2013 11:02:00 GMT -5
Said this in the PR thread And it's funny seeing how people are getting upset online that people are seeing Grown Ups 2 instead of this movie For the life of me, I will never understand that. Who cares what other people find entertaining? Do the people that like Grown Ups 2 get pissed off that I went to see Frances Ha?
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 14, 2013 13:26:25 GMT -5
1 1 Despicable Me 2 Uni. $44,754,000 -46.4% 4,003 +6 $11,180 $229,237,000 $76 2 2 N Grown Ups 2 Sony $42,500,000 - 3,491 - $12,174 $42,500,000 $80 1 3 N Pacific Rim WB $38,300,000 - 3,275 - $11,695 $38,300,000 $190 1 4 3 The Heat Fox $14,000,000 -43.5% 3,128 -56 $4,476 $112,363,000 $43 3 5 2 The Lone Ranger BV $11,140,000 -61.9% 3,904 - $2,853 $71,101,000 $215 2 6 4 Monsters University BV $10,621,000 -46.1% 3,142 -597 $3,380 $237,760,000 - 4 7 5 World War Z Par. $9,430,000 -48.8% 3,003 -313 $3,140 $177,087,000 $190 4 8 6 White House Down Sony $6,150,000 -54.4% 2,566 -656 $2,397 $62,963,000 $150 3 9 8 Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain LG/S $5,000,000 -50.2% 892 +16 $5,605 $26,378,000 - 2 10 7 Man of Steel WB $4,825,000 -57.7% 2,150 -755 $2,244 $280,995,000 $225 5 PR only "lost" to DM2 by $6.3 million and to Grown Ups 2 by $4.2 million. So it wasn't like it got its ass kicked or it had a Scott Pilgrim reception. Those three films basically split the majority of the bucks this weekend.
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