A look back at Guillermo Del Toro and Travis Beacham’s 2013 kaiju vs mecha film Pacific Rim and the short-lived franchise it spawned. What were its influences? Where did it succeed or fail? Why was Pacific Rim: Uprising such doodoo? All this and a ranking of the series’ mechs and kaiju!
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Sources:
https://the-artifice.com/pacific-rim-anime-influence/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130512184641/http://pacificrimbook.com/content/uploads/PacificRimSpread1.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCODo5NeJVU
https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific_Rim_2
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/why-guillermo-del-toro-did-not-direct-pacific-rim-sequel#:~:text=What%20were%20Guillermo%20del%20Toro’s,planet%20through%20any%20means%20necessary.
https://www.syfy.com/guillermo-del-toro-shares-his-idea-for-pacific-rim-2
https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/63167
What would you want for the Pacific Rim franchise if it ever continued?
What killed pacific rim was that you don't need extra movies, a show and toys.
It was a great movie in and on itself.
Adam Sandler killed the franchise by releasing Grown Ups 2 on the same weekend with Pacific Rim
I saw this film in theaters at the age of 4. Liked but it was too loud for my ears. Watched it when it came to blu ray and still remain a die hard fan of it to this day. One of the best movies ever made. Legendary got me addicted to kaiju films
I have not heard a load of pretentious, self-important DRIVEL in almost a decade.
THUMBS DOWN.
The first movie was pretty good, with great characters, well-developed, believable robots, horrifying monsters and a truly scary villain race. The second movie killed it for me forever. Poor character development all around, dumb robots, garbage monsters and pathetic villain.
it ended when someone made a POS ripoff and called it a sequel
I guess I'm the only one who loved Uprising. I'll never understand the universal hatred towards that movie. I thought it was fuckin awesome. The only real complaint I ever heard was that it had a bunch of kids in it. But then everybody loved Ghostbusters Afterlife which had a bunch of kids.
Whatever! I give up! Back in the 80s everybody loved the movies that I loved. These days everybody hates everything.
I don't understand, it is a stand-alone movie. Why you called it franchise?
Second movie of Pacific Rim would be nice, it's a shame we never got one
it can still be saved. Fast and the Furious survived 2 Fast 2 Furious.
The protagonists of Pac Rim Uprising:
Rebel guy, son of a great man
A random traumatized kid
Me: hmmm…….
(Also where was Raleigh, to which I found the scheduling conflict and etc)
Mako fuxking dies: mothaf-
To cope? Watched videos roasting PacRim Uprising
Obsidian Fury had 'lava chainsaws' and that ridicilous part is they tacked it onto the Gipy avenger (disrespectfully, I don't like the movie anyway), they had plasma chainsaws which should hotter and although it was fiction, they still had their own science of pacific rim.
What do you mean franchise, there was only one pacific rim movie. Would be a shame if they ruined it by making another total failure. Thank god they didn't
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I remember the movie came out when I was in high school and I was so excited to see it in theaters. It’s not a perfect film but it sure is a fun one.
The first Pacific Rim was great, the second one sucked. The first one felt like it was made for adults, the second one felt like a transformers movie made for kids and teenagers.
Man I LOVE this movie….. wish it could have kept the momentum of the first movie…
And let’s not forget to mention that killer soundtrack to the original Pacific Rim.
You can’t make a universe with specific rules, and then break those rules IMMEDIATELY
The child actors and childish script killed the 2nd one … truth
The kaiju of our times are Stupid, Shortsighted Hollywood Executives and their Woke Writers. The Giant Robot/Kaiju genre is one of sincerity – sincerity in the way it seeks to encapsulate the eternal, allegorical conflict between the Us vs the Great Terror, unadulterated by political baggage (such as all the woke nonsense that Disney perpetrated to its end).
Hollywood couldn't accept the success of Pacific Rim. To their idiot executives, it wasn't woke enough. They wanted their inane Marvel superhero woke comedies.Without their political blubber, it couldn't possibly be a good movie. So ironic considering how their holy mission to champion woke agenda is so full of insincerity. The one scene in Pacific Rim when little Mako finds renewed hope upon seeing Pentecost coming out of his jaeger is worth more than all the fake heroics of Marvel movies.
With the success of Godzilla Minus One, I can only hope hollywood wakes up from their ignorant stupor and get another team of sincerity (if they cannot get Guillermo, bless him) to make a proper sequel.
The cash grab is what killed the franchise.