Pacific Rim

[keg in kc]

Pretty fun flash game: http://jaegercombatsimulator.pacificrimmovie.com/

[Deberg_1990]

Can't believe reviews for this are still embargoed? You would think WB would want to get the word out early its a good flick. If you read between the lines on some of the tweets, you can tell the geeks were ecstatic about it, yet can't publish their full reviews yet. WTF WB?

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Can't believe reviews for this are still embargoed? You would think WB would want to get the word out early its a good flick. If you read between the lines on some of the tweets, you can tell the geeks were ecstatic about it, yet can't publish their full reviews yet. WTF WB?

They did the same thing for Man of Steel.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

They did the same thing for Man of Steel.

Yea, but that was an already established property and awareness was high. This, not so much.....

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, but that was an already established property and awareness was high. This, not so much.....

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

Yea, I hope it does too. I'd hate to see this flop, but who's knows? I think it has limited family, older adults and female appeal. My son and I are excited for it though.....

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

I think this film will do surprisingly well, at least this weekend. And I think "Grown Ups 2" is going to go directly into the shitter.

"Pacific Rim" has no sci-fi OR action/adventure competition at the moment, since "Lone Ranger" tanked. With kids' films currently ruling the B.O. ("Monsters U.", "Despicable Me 2"), the adults who haven't seen anything since "Man Of Steel" and "Iron Man 3" will come out for this film.

"Grown Ups 2", on the other hand, will suffer from following other comedies these past weeks which have done well ("The Heat", "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain", "This Is The End").

Next week is a different story, though. "Pacific Rim", in its second week out, will face stiff competition across the board: an action-adventure ("Red 2"), a sci-fi film ("R.I.P.D."), a horror film ("The Conjuring"), and another kids' film ("Turbo"). That will suck a lot of audience away, especially "R.I.P.D.", so how far "Pacific Rim" drops will be a true indicator of how well it's going to do overall.

I have no idea what the production budget was, though. They seem to be keeping that hush-hush for the moment. If the thing had a bloated production budget it might have a problem recouping. I think a disappointing take would be $100M, a realistic take would be $200M, and a good take would be $250M. Again, though, like "Man Of Steel" and "STID", the overseas haul will make quite a difference and this film has great overseas potential.

[keg in kc]

Everything I've heard about the film is that there's a lot more to it than kaiju fighting jaegars. Unfortunately I think the way that they've marketed it so far makes it look like it might have limited family and female appeal. We'll see if they do anything to change that perception in the next week.

(Of course I also think it's a misperception that females aren't drawn to science fiction. Many aren't. But many are.)

[Setsuna]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Everything I've heard about the film is that there's a lot more to it than kaiju fighting jaegars. Unfortunately I think the way that they've marketed it so far makes it look like it might have limited family and female appeal. We'll see if they do anything to change that perception in the next week.

(Of course I also think it's a misperception that females aren't drawn to science fiction. Many aren't. But many are.)

I've never heard of such an expression.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Everything I've heard about the film is that there's a lot more to it than kaiju fighting jaegars. Unfortunately I think the way that they've marketed it so far makes it look like it might have limited family and female appeal. We'll see if they do anything to change that perception in the next week.

(Of course I also think it's a misperception that females aren't drawn to science fiction. Many aren't. But many are.)

Interested in seeing how Pacific Rim alter the standard kaiju movie formula reagarding the actual kaiju. You know the old; kaiju introduced, first large entecounter with kaiju, final major battle of kaiju. Basically the same formula since the original Godzilla.

[keg in kc]

Reviews are hitting: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pacific_rim_2013/

75% fresh right now. It's reading a lot like the Man of Steel reactions. Geek reviewers love it. "Film" reviewers not as much.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Reviews are hitting: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pacific_rim_2013/

75% fresh right now. It's reading a lot like the Man of Steel reactions. Geek reviewers love it. "Film" reviewers not as much.

Kewl, Loved man of steel so I can go see this and expect greatness.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Reviews are hitting: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pacific_rim_2013/

75% fresh right now. It's reading a lot like the Man of Steel reactions. Geek reviewers love it. "Film" reviewers not as much.

Good to hear so far...i just hope it isnt bad.

I also use metacritic.com as a review site but dont entirely depend on them to see a movie.

[Great Expectations]

Rotten Tomatoes is going the way of imdb with their reviews. It isn't that bad yet, but it definitely isn't as good/reliable as it was 3 years ago. What are some other review sites that are available?

[Deberg_1990]

Geek reviewers go way over the top sometimes....."it's life changing".


I expect it to be a fun ride though......I like Del Toro a lot.