Pacific Rim is a bad movie.
It is a bad movie in the same way that Big Trouble in Little China is a bad movie.
They knew they were not making an epic, tour-de-force for the academy or the ages. They were making a movie where it's all right to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And you don't have to skimp on the bubblegum. So, instead of trying to drown us in acting and story and emotional morass they gave us giant robots beating the crap out of giant monsters. The only thing that was missing was a red, convertable 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. Oh, and the main character should have been so big he could only be made out of win. And named "Harold." And the chick should have been a redhead.
Because she digs giant robots.
It is a bad movie in the same way that Big Trouble in Little China is a bad movie.
They knew they were not making an epic, tour-de-force for the academy or the ages. They were making a movie where it's all right to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And you don't have to skimp on the bubblegum. So, instead of trying to drown us in acting and story and emotional morass they gave us giant robots beating the crap out of giant monsters. The only thing that was missing was a red, convertable 1970 Plymouth Barracuda. Oh, and the main character should have been so big he could only be made out of win. And named "Harold." And the chick should have been a redhead.
Because she digs giant robots.