I'm not sure why guys aren't excited to see this movie. I can understand women not wanting to see it. But come on guys! Huge monsters and giant robots. How is that not a movie that will take you back to your childhood when you wished you could go and find Monster Island or thought the big snake at the zoo was the best animal there? This movie has a budget of $200 million. Grown Ups 2 has like a budget of (I think) a hundred dollars. Pacific Rim is filled with epic battles made for IMAX glory. Grown Ups 2 is just a running gag of fat man fall down jokes. Sigh.
I can see my son loving this movie. He will probably insist on seeing it. I would watch it too. It reminded me of Godzilla only much improved with high tech robots and stuff…
ReplyDelete(Yesterday, I had a comment for your post, but my power went off (and also the internet). So I lost my comment..*grumble*.)
If that happens, we can both go out and smack around anyone who gave money to Grown Ups 2.
ReplyDeleteDidn't watch Under the Dome until yesterday afternoon. It gets one more shot with me. What is it with King and his characters? It's like with the movie The Mist - people do not turn crazy that fast.
Grown Ups 2 beating out Pacific Rim would make no sense to me, unless they stopped promoting PR months ago.
ReplyDeleteMike, I remember I first heard about this movie from you months ago and since I've paid attention every time I come across it on the net.
ReplyDeleteAs to Grown Ups 2 doing better, you do know there is no accounting for taste, right?
You mean WHEN it happens, lol. But even I am planning to see Pacific Rim. I've even toyed with the idea of seeing it in IMAX 3D whatever. So come on, guys, get off your asses.
ReplyDeleteI feel like Pacific Rim missed the mark a bit on the advertising. I think they aimed it too much towards the anime crowd and not enough to the mainstreamers, you know?
ReplyDeleteAnd i wanted to address what Alex said in his comment. Under the Dome is like 1000 pages. In the book, no one goes crazy fast unless they were already crazy or ill. But they go fast in the movies because they have to compress the book into a shorter medium
It's hard to imagine anything worse than sitting through Grown Ups 2. Seriously I'd probably end it all.
ReplyDeleteConsidering Del Torro has such a loyal following (and fans of the transformers films who need their fix of giant robots), I think Pacific Rim will be safe. I know I'm going! :)
ReplyDeleteWell, if it makes you feel better, I have plans to see it opening weekend with some buddies.
ReplyDeleteYou are probably the only person to ever put Honey Boo Boo in the same sentence as Schindler's List. A questionable honor.
ReplyDeletei think it suffers a little from Transformers-itis. Looks too reliant on the robots. The whole anime mecha thing has never really worked outside of Japan.
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I dont' ever recall their being a Grown ups 1
ReplyDeleteThat poster is freaky!
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. Grown Ups 1 was a stupid idea. And now there's a sequel?
ReplyDeleteI won't be seeing Pacific Rim, but it has to be better than Grown Ups. Seriously!
Love the big monsters! Godzilla, always a fav, and when they brought him to NY - loved it!
ReplyDeleteWill have to see this in the theater, and hey what's with the "I understand why girls wouldn't see it?" Unfair!
Like I said monsters, love them, and the bigger the better. Zombies, now that's a whole other story. :)