"Pacific Rim" - What Did You Think?

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Guillermo Del Toro's $200 million monster movie "Pacific Rim" is now playing in theaters. If you already had the chance to see it, I want to know what you thought. Write your mini-reviews in a reply below.

On RottenTomatoes, "Pacific Rim" has a decent 72% fresh rating, with most critics agreeing that the film is "awesome" and the kind of movie that needs to be seen in theaters, in IMAX, and in 3D. While almost everyone believes it's entertaining and ambitions, there are plenty of critics who found the movie predictable and lacking in the story department.

"Pacific Rim" performed well on Thursday and Friday, but will struggle to compete with Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups 2," which has been trashed by critics (7% fresh rating). According to early predictions, "Pacific Rim" may earn as much as $50 million during the weekend, which means that it will need to have a strong overseas performance to become profitable.

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"Pacific Rim" is a Massive Box Office Flop



After the Thursday and Friday results, many thought that Guillermo Del Toro's "Pacific Rim" sci-fi film would be able to earn at least $50 million, which unfortunately would still not be enough to put the $200 million film on track to becoming profitable.

Now that the weekend results are in, it turns out that "Pacific Rim" performed worse than expected. The movie grossed only $38.3 million domestically, which means that it will heavily rely on international markets to break even. But those markets weren't interested in "Pacific Rim" either. The film grossed only $54 million overseas, much less than expected.

"Pacific Rim," which has a decent 72% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes, took third place at the box office, losing to Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups" sequel which landed in second place with $42.5 million. Since the comedy cost only $80 million to make, "Grown Ups 2" is already on its way to become a hit.

"Grown Ups 2," which has a 7% fresh rating, actually opened better than the first film ($40.2 million), which went on to become the highest-grossing Sandler movie with $271 million.

First place once again went to "Despicable Me 2," which earned an additional $44.7 million to bring its worldwide total to $472 million after only 12 days of release.

On the specialty side, Michael B. Jordan's "Fruitvale Station" was released at the same time as the verdict was made in the George Zimmerman case. As a result the movie grossed $377,285 from only seven theaters for an amazing per-screen average of $53,898, the third best of the year. "Fruitvale Station" has a 90% fresh rating.

[Mike Powers]

Giant robots hold no interest to me.

[Marq]

Giant robots hold no interest to me.

To you or the American public, apparently.

Everyone here at ILM was like, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat."

[Alex Smiley]

I blame the economy. I wanted to see it, but having no money makes it difficult lol

[Strike]

It was a fantastic movie.

I mean, I was hype enough as it was before Hideo Kojima (the guy behind the Metal Gear series) praised it immensely. Definitely worth a look, it's a shame that it's going the John Carter route in terms of the box office.

[Marq]

Just made a Jaeger.

[! JDM The Professional !]

Visually it was amazing.  The storyline was shit and acting was very sub par. If you're spending 200mill on a movie,  get good actors.

[Goldferg]

Having now seen it I can honestly call it the best Neon Genesis Evangelion film never made.

Seriously though, it's a frickin' love affair to old school Godzilla style movies and mecha anime. And as someone who appreciates both of those I loved it.

[Jon]

Visually it was amazing.  The storyline was shit and acting was very sub par. If you're spending 200mill on a movie,  get good actors.

[GM Franchise]

I looked past the bad acting for the fight scenes but then again I'm a big Godzilla fan, lol.

[Stoner]

Seriously though, it's a frickin' love affair to old school Godzilla style movies and mecha anime. And as someone who appreciates both of those I loved it.

This plus the fact that GLaDOS's voice is in the movie means I need to see it immediately.

[Ty]

Visually it was amazing.  The storyline was shit and acting was very sub par. If you're spending 200mill on a movie,  get good actors.

Agreed


If you are able to submerse yourself and suspend reality a lot, its a great movie. Its even funner to rip apart

[Jonny Worldbeater]

Interesting article about the movie and the concept of visual storytelling.

[! JDM The Professional !]

Interesting article about the movie and the concept of visual storytelling.

This is actually a great article. Gives good perspective on the movie. I think most people went into the film (as I did) expecting some usual del toro dialog full of awesomeness,  but he took a completely different path. The dialog still sucks ass, but the visual storytelling rocked. It's a real shame they couldn't do more with the acting of the characters though.