American audiences (and international audiences as well) have the most interest in previously established properties. They want sequels, prequels, comic book adaptations, TV series rebooted as movies and tween book series adaptations. If they had just called it "Pacific Rim Part 2", people would...
Even if I've seen a movie in IMAX that wasn't great (like the latest Die Hard), I've still been very happy with the presentation. However, there's only two examples that I have seen where I would highly recommend spending the extra money for IMAX and that was Titanic and Pacific Rim. Both movies...
Absolutely. However, I'm not wondering why people didn't see some experimental art film. I'm wondering why they couldn't take a 'chance' on seeing a movie with a shit ton of destruction, fighting and special effects. Even that kind of movie now needs to be a property that people are familiar with.
Man, that's depressing. Once again, Hollywood is right to keep working with existing properties because it's the only thing that the public will go and see.
Just saw it and it's probably my favorite action movie of the summer. As I said earlier, this isn't even my type of movie but I still had a blast. I can understand the criticism about some of the action being shot too tight but I didn't think it had any major negative effect on the movie. I...
^ That's a shame only because, while it's clearly draws inspiration from other movies, I was hoping that something that's apparently so chuck full of carnage might be able to get moviegoers to watch something that wasn't an existing property. I guess to get the public to see a movie now, it has...