That's how it should be. Del Toro actually creates movies for the fun of making them and not just making a profit. Pacific Rim is an example of that.
Exactly. Pacific Rim didn't do bad at the box office. It did well internationally, and decently here domestically. It didn't make the money it should have made domestically, but it wasn't a bomb like The Expendables 3 for example. Del Toro and Legendary Pictures had high aspirations for a sequel based on strong reviews from critics and audiences as well as the box office, but Warner Bros said no. Now that Legendary Pictures is partnered with Universal, Universal signed off on the sequel and Pacific Rim 2 is slated for April 7th, 2017.
I've never seen anything bad from Del Toro and he's an extremely versatile filmmaker, ranging from fantasy to action to adventure and now to horror.
OMG THERE IS A SEQUEL!!!!!?!?! I'm definitely excited. I just think Pacific Rim is great because it's unique and it was made out of love. Have you seen Pacific Rim?
Yup. I'm extremely excited now that Universal picked up the distribution rights. Del Toro has stated that there's going to be bigger things in the sequel, especially in terms of scope, so I'm definitely excited. I saw it a year ago on my birthday and had a huge blast in the theater. Felt like a little kid watching it too. It was my top film of the summer (The Wolverine came in close!) and I'm strangely the only one of my friends to have enjoyed it thoroughly. After the disappointment that was this year's Godzilla, I went home and watched Pacific Rim and had a jolly good time. Both films are monster films at it's core, but Pacific Rim is better developed, fleshed out, handled and much more memorable than Godzilla was.
Now I can't answer that because I haven't seen Godzilla but I read your review regarding the role of Bryan Cranston and that's really stupid what they did with that character.
Pacific Rim is well developed and memorable. I mean it was original! It was all about what Del Toro wanted and he just really made the movie with passion which is really cool.
Godzilla will hopefully improve with the sequels. I blame the script, it went through something like 4 rewrites during production. It tried to balance out human drama and monster battles but was just done completely wrong. It's better than the 1998 film, but it's still disappointing. I'm actually quite shocked that the original Japanese production company, Toho enjoyed it.
I actually read an article once (I can't remember for the life of me where!) that said Toho as a company is only concerned with the portrayal of Gojira himself as far as their approval of one of his films. They understand the humans in each film are there to provide structure to the narrative, but realize that the big draw is Godzilla and whatever monster/monsters he happens to be fighting. If his appearance fits their criteria, they love it.
