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#1186738
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Last movie seen
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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

A pretty fun ride. It’s not quite as good as the first but I commend them for staying true to the spirit of the original. The only thing that really drags it down is their reliance on the kid genius trope toward the beginning. Thankfully it’s not overdone and the rest of the film carries its own weight. Hopefully Guillermo will return if they decide to do a third entry.

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#1186469
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Movies Seen In Theaters From Before You Were Born
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I’ve gotten to see a few. It’s always great when I get the chance:

  • Gojira
  • Back to the Future
  • Blade Runner
  • Ghostbusters
  • Labyrinth
  • West Side Story

There’s probably a few I’m forgetting. But my dream theatrical experience is to see the original 3D presentation of Creature From the Black Lagoon. If I ever catch wind of them doing it again I will go out of my way to drive out to wherever it may be.

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#1186440
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Pacific Rim (2013)

A fun film. Gorgeous visuals and great fight scenes. It gets bogged down a bit by the needlessly convoluted drift concept and the decision to set the film 12 years into the Kaiju war. But the main plot is decent and the character writing is solid. I wonder if del Toro had hoped they could turn the first 12 years into an animated series. It would certainly lend itself to that. In any case, I hope the sequel can live up to the visuals and character moments from the first.

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#1185609
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DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

My opinion is that the joke is funny, not that the film is bad. I don’t have an opinion of the film, though I do think the twelve year shoot is inherently pretentious if it isn’t good.

That’s a dumb thing to think. If it isn’t good it’s not pretension, it’s just a failed experiment.

Yeah. Whereas A Wrinkle in Time was both pretentious and a failed experiment. 😉

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#1183392
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The Scifi Films and Television of 2018
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DominicCobb said:

“Everything” is a little hyperbolic

Not really. The script was horrible. The story was a jumbled mess and the characters are hollow shells of their original novel counterparts. The dialog is some of the worst I’ve heard in years. The performances were near universally awful. The only decent one was by Chris Pine and he’s barely in the film. The special effects are terrible, the designs are cartoonish and the compositing is some of the worst I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture. The costumes were laughably bad, they and this film look like a TV special.

I have never walked out on a film before but I almost did halfway through this. The only reason I didn’t was that my theater won’t refund you if you’ve watched more than a half hour.