I have seen this move plenty of times and it never gets old. It is visually very appealing, and very action packed. Something about big monsters fighting big mechs makes for a great movie in my opinion. It is directed Del Toro, which is why I watched it, it feels nothing like a Del Toro movie. This genre of movie is recreated many times in things such as Battleship and Rampage, and yet I think Pacific Rim does it the best. It is a great movie to watch when you are bored, and it will keep you smiling and entertained the whole time. It has a sequel, which I also think is pretty good, but it is nothing compared to this one. I will state this again, this movie is basically just big monster fighting big mech, which you should never be able to make a whole movie about, and I think it does a brilliant job at it. I really like the Idea that the mechs are unable to be controlled by only one person, and that the people have to be compatible. This forces a sort of relationship and make the movie have more depth than just fighting. This is, however, a very common thing in mech movies/animes, and is reused in a lot of things, so I would take off a little for this, although I really like it. Overall I think it is a great movie, it will not help me with my 5-page paper at all, which is why I also watch a different movie this week, but it was a great re-watch. I would give it a solid 9/10 as I have seen it so many times, and it is still good.
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If this movie had come out without me having read the book, this would be probably the best movie I watched this year. Sadly, I have the knowledge of reading the book beforehand, and it really messed the movie up for me. Don't get me wrong, the movie followed the book accurately and included every single plot point that would have stuck out to you if you read the book a year or two ago. I read the book 6 months ago, and it was the best book I read in the past, probably, 4 years, not counting the times I have re-read books that I absolutely love. This obviously did not help with how I liked the movie. The movie portrayed things in a slightly different way than I felt they should have been portrayed. Things, like the love between Snow and Lucy, differed a little. It felt natural and true in the book, while it felt more forced and rushed in the movie. You also didn't see some of the characters get developed as much as they were in the movie. They completely cut out one largish part of the book also, it didn't really affect the ending of the book so it was alright to take out, but it was still part of the book and a decent amount of time is spent on it in the book. Realistically, they did everything to could have in a movie that was only 2 hours and 40 minutes, and should have been at least 6 hours. Realistically, they would have done this book in two 3-hour movies, but I understand why they didn't. I feel like the book is really easy to split up into two parts also, as the book really has two different stories in it. Overall the movie was great, probably the best of the Hunger Games movies, but it did not live up to my excessively high hopes, and it left me disappointed. If I had not read the book it would have been a 9/10, but since I did, it is a solid 5/10. |
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