07-19-2013, 03:20 PM
I saw Pacific Rim too, the fighting and visuals were really amazingly awesome in every way possible.
THAT BEING SAID: The story was pretty predictable, a lot of the acting was pretty bad, Idris Elba had four different accents over the course of the movie, and it had so many cliches in it.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie and loved the fighting and the action and it was obvious that they were focusing on it more than the story, I just wished that is wasn't so damn choppy.
The one thing that I did like is that they actually explained a few things really quickly in ways that made sense as opposed to either dragging them out or completely ignoring them. Like when I saw the helicopters for the first time I didn't get why they would be there except for movie lighting purposes, but then one of the pilots just quickly asks if the choppers had a visual on the Kaiju, little stuff like that and the two-pilot system is a really nice touch.
The movie itself aside, I also had the greatest movie-theater experience ever when I went to see it. The ticket guy messed up our tickets (I went to see it with my dad) so we got to see it in 3D for the price of 2D (normally I hate 3D, but it was done really well in this movie), we had the entire theater to ourselves, I got a free poster from the premiere because they had a bunch of spares leftover (Here's what it looks like), and after the movie I realized that I dropped my wallet when I tried to find some change to play a quick round of Mortal Kombat, and the guy just turned on all of the lights in the theater room so I could look for it.
Great camping trip.
THAT BEING SAID: The story was pretty predictable, a lot of the acting was pretty bad, Idris Elba had four different accents over the course of the movie, and it had so many cliches in it.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie and loved the fighting and the action and it was obvious that they were focusing on it more than the story, I just wished that is wasn't so damn choppy.
The one thing that I did like is that they actually explained a few things really quickly in ways that made sense as opposed to either dragging them out or completely ignoring them. Like when I saw the helicopters for the first time I didn't get why they would be there except for movie lighting purposes, but then one of the pilots just quickly asks if the choppers had a visual on the Kaiju, little stuff like that and the two-pilot system is a really nice touch.
The movie itself aside, I also had the greatest movie-theater experience ever when I went to see it. The ticket guy messed up our tickets (I went to see it with my dad) so we got to see it in 3D for the price of 2D (normally I hate 3D, but it was done really well in this movie), we had the entire theater to ourselves, I got a free poster from the premiere because they had a bunch of spares leftover (Here's what it looks like), and after the movie I realized that I dropped my wallet when I tried to find some change to play a quick round of Mortal Kombat, and the guy just turned on all of the lights in the theater room so I could look for it.
Great camping trip.