Pacific Rim - Part 6

[Octoberist]

It's just.. sad to me. the post release responses to Pacific Rim, Dredd, Scott Pilgrim, etc, etc are proof that genre fans will never be satisfied. You have del Toro making a $200 mil movie SPECIFICALLY for the fanboy/girl demographic and it's still not good enough. It NEEDS a sequel. The fact this movie got made in this day and age is close to miraculous, and its biggest supporters are foaming at the mouth to convince everyone else why a sequel NEEDS to happen. I really don't understand it.

It's the culture that we live in. Everyone made this happen. The studio system and the audience. Geeks and fanboys. It has some merit.

 

[bullets]

It's just.. sad to me. the post release responses to Pacific Rim, Dredd, Scott Pilgrim, etc, etc are proof that genre fans will never be satisfied. You have del Toro making a $200 mil movie SPECIFICALLY for the fanboy/girl demographic and it's still not good enough. It NEEDS a sequel. The fact this movie got made in this day and age is close to miraculous, and its biggest supporters are foaming at the mouth to convince everyone else why a sequel NEEDS to happen. I really don't understand it.

I loved Pacfic Rim , but I'm not clamoring for a sequel. Of course I wouldn't mind if they made another. However I'd rather see Del Toro move onto his other projects. I thought Scott Pilgrim was a standalone feature andDredd 2 sounds the most appealing out of the films you mentioned.

 

[Liam_H]

Is there really anything wrong with wanting sequels to movies you enjoyed.

Interpreting numbers in a misleading way is a different matter.

 

[Sawyer]

It's not a movie that feels like it demands a sequel.

Then again, neither are 75% of movies that end up getting sequels, so.

 

[bullets]

If it has Hunger Games style DVD sales I could see a sequel being considered.

EDIT: The movie had no cliff hangers, it ended so I don't get the sequel thing either. I get rooting on it's success because you enjoyed the film and like the story but there really is nothing left unsaid.

I think Pacific Rim will be a cult classic, if that makes sense.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Exactly. It was written as a self contained story. All this sequel talk from del Toro was in response to the ball cupping from people interviewing him, foretelling of the movie's guaranteed success.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Is there really anything wrong with wanting sequels to movies you enjoyed.

Interpreting numbers in a misleading way is a different matter.

I didn't say want, I said need. Just do a check on Twitter for "Pacific Rim sequel" and you'll see what I mean. You see very little "i hope it gets a sequel" or "i want a sequel" and a whole lot of "THIS MOVIE NEEDS AND DESERVES A SEQUEL AND IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT YOU HAD A TERRIBLE CHILDHOOD"

That behavior really doesn't help people's perception of this demographic

 

[Liam_H]

Hyperbole exists everywhere. If people were on this board constantly being that obnoxiously blind I would be annoyed too.

 

[mclay18]

Although if expectations are defied, and this movie does get a sequel... it will be more of a miracle than the first one by comparison.

But the legalities of who would release it is still unclear. I know Legendary Pictures financed 75% of it, WB financed the rest and did the P&A campaign. Would WB have to pass on it before Legendary could take it to Universal? WB's name is first on the copyright notice at the end of the film, not Legendary's.

 

[Poni_Boy]

^ that's my assumption. WB has to pass before another studio can pick it up.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Hyperbole exists everywhere. If people were on this board constantly being that obnoxiously blind I would be annoyed too.

The difference is you have to actually search out messageboards. Twitter is a public forum. For so many journalists, bloggers, etc to continuously make statements like that where everyone can see makes them the mouthpieces for the fanbase.

 

[Liam_H]

Then I guess it helps that I don't pay attention to most of that. I see the numbers and I know enough to know what they mean.

Sequel not happening, what it keeps bringing in is just to make things look better or less of a flop/disappointment.

 

[Octoberist]

At this point, just let Pacific Rim be one film. It's an inherently expensive to do a sequel anyway due to the effects, unlike let's say a 'Dredd' sequel.

 

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OVERSEAS: 'Pacific Rim' Opens to $9M in China

on July 31, 2013
The Hollywood Reporter is quoting a $9 million opening day for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim in China. It's a huge number for Warner Bros., marking the highest single-day performance in the territory in the studio's history. Pacific Rim now moves up to second place among the biggest non-Chinese openings of the year, pushing Fast 6 down to third place days after the Vin Diesel movie shattered opening day records for Universal in the market.

 

[BrollySupersj]

I'm still on board for prequel stuff. Travis Beacham did say another graphic novel is coming, and that the pilots of Tacit Ronin would be the focus. But I hope more will be done.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I think Pacific Rim will be a cult classic, if that makes sense.

I wouldn't be surprised if it became one.

 

[dark_b]

It's the culture that we live in. Everyone made this happen. The studio system and the audience. Geeks and fanboys. It has some merit.

i agree with you. i so agree.

 

[dark_b]

impossible to know when a movie will become a cult classic. it has everything to do what kind of movies new generations like. PR and scott pilgrim ? i think not.

 

[Octoberist]

i agree with you. i so agree.

That's why I think Speilberg's theory of implosion is plausable. While he's being too dramatic about it, think about our economy. Just like that, Hollywood could be a bubble ready to burst. We've created this vacuum within the industry and someone, that means the studios, have to figure something out before something happens.

That's why I'm glad Warner Bros cut the budget on 'Man from UNCLE' to 75 million, which is reasonable for the first film in an unproven potential franchise.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yup spending $100+ million on something like Man from UNCLE is absurd. Look at The A-Team and how poorly that did.

I still think the movie was poorly marketed.

 

[Destructus86]

YES!!! I knew Asia wouldn't let us down.

 

[redhawk23]

Exactly. It was written as a self contained story. All this sequel talk from del Toro was in response to the ball cupping from people interviewing him, foretelling of the movie's guaranteed success.

I'm willing to take him and Beecham at their word that they have some ideas on where to take it if the opportunity arose or if WB/Legendary demanded it.

The possibility for a franchise was always on the table.

 

[redhawk23]

impossible to know when a movie will become a cult classic. it has everything to do what kind of movies new generations like. PR and scott pilgrim ? i think not.

Scott Pilgrim actually continues to play in midnight shows and such. It will likely continue to be better looked upon outside of the context of late-Aughts Michael Cera fatigue. From what I've seen, it is well liked by those who bothered to actually see it rather than writing it off out of hand.

 

[redhawk23]

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/op...ium=facebook&utm_campaign=film+school+rejects This article takes offense to repurposing the metaphorical value of Kaiju.

 

[Rorschach2012]

This movie was so unbearably awful, boring, badly written, badly acted in between the mediocre action sequences. I give it a zero. Worst movie I've seen in a long time, I wanted to leave in the first ten minutes