"Pacific Rim" -- don't know why this movie wasn't more of a hit, 'cause it's quite GOOD!

[revdorothyl]

I was glad I finally made the time to see "Pacific Rim" this afternoon, 'cause it was a very effective and affecting giant-monsters-from-the-deep-vs-family-piloted-giant-robots flick!

And that's something I NEVER expected to see myself write! :)

Seriously, if it's still playing inb your city, or is about to open in your local second-run budget theater, and if you've not yet seen it, DO make the effort to watch this on the big screen. It's got more emotional depth and character development than you'd expect, from the previews, and it's ALSO very funny and almost heart-stoppingly scary at times.

(Oh, and don't leave before you've seen the bit at the end of the closing credits. Ron Perlman rules!)

After sitting through the first showing of "Pacific Rim" this afternoon, there wasn't another film starting that I really wanted to see, so I contented myself with watching the last hour of "The Wolverine" all over again (it stands up well to repeated viewing, I must say!), and then caught the second and last showing of "Pacific Rim" all the way through again, in order to enjoy any bits I might have missed the first time through.

It was still fun and watchable the second time through on the same day, so I'm giving it two thumbs up!

Comments

[kerrykhat.livejournal.com]

I came home from seeing it a few weeks ago and had this overload of feelings. I love everybody in that Shatterdome

But especially Mako. ♥

[revdorothyl.livejournal.com]

Yep, Mako and Marshall Pentecost were my clear favorites (for instance, that look exchanged between child-Mako and younger Pentecost when he emerged from his Jaeger after saving her life? Priceless, and so moving!), but I enjoyed most of the other characters quite a lot as well!

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Awesome moment!

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it a great deal. It was fun and visually stunning. I particularly liked that the commander (I forget his actual rank) was an actual leader, not some figurehead to be run over by the maverick main character. I really liked the geek twosome. :)

[revdorothyl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, NOBODY messes with Marshal Stacker Pentecost, with his command presence AND ability to go to the mat when it counts most. Plus, how interesting is it that he's named for a religious festival and gets to say lines like, "Today, we are canceling the Apocalypse!"?

And now that I've finally seen the movie, I've been getting a kick out of reading all the "Pacific Rim" fanfic, especially jedibuttercup's BtVS/PR crossover collection, Canceling the Apocalypse (http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29413/jedibuttercup+Canceling+the+Apocalypse.htm), which has Marshal Pentecost as the last, kick-ass scion of an old Watcher family and Buffy and Faith as co-pilots of a specially constructed Slayer Jaeger. :)

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Pacific Rim has generated a great deal of fanfic, hasn't it.

"Today, we are canceling the Apocalypse!" has to be one of the greatest lines. His St. Crispin's Day speech was short, to the point and thoroughly enjoyable.