Pacific Rim Beaten by Adam Sandler at Box Office

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

Oh lol, and let me guess, they are killed off like 15 minutes into the film because Russians make great casualties.

My ex told me the other day she was invited to watch this film by an acquaintance of hers. I thought inviting a girl you fancy to watch a huge mecha drama is a very adorable thing to do so I said go for it. Hope she does.

They and the Chinese pilots barely get any lines. Plus the Russians are of course monstrous ubermensches (Sasha being played by 5'9" Heather Doerksen and Aleksis by 7' wrestler Robert Maillet). I will give for having the central characters being comprised of two Aussies, a Brit, a Japanese woman, and ONE American...but at the end of the day the American is the main character.

Anyway, hopefully this has legs. Apparently it's been kicking ass in Asia. I would like to see a sequel if just to see what other Jaeger designs they could come up with.

 

[Anachronism]

WHAT.

This makes me sad. I won't deny that Pacific Rim had plenty of problems - overall I was a bit disappointed by it if I'm honest - but the Hong Kong battle alone is worth the price of admission. The only big summer blockbuster this year that's an original IP and it's beaten by goddamn Grown Ups 2?

If the sequel does happen, I think Gipsy Danger should casually step on Adam Sandler at some point.

Actually, if we were to get another Pacific Rim film, I would say a prequel would fit much better than a sequel.

True enough. Given the ending, it's kind of hard to see how they'd do a follow-up. I wasn't expecting it to wrap itself up quite so thoroughly, since I assumed that WB would want to turn this into a new franchise. Still, the mid-credits scene, which must be a parody of the usual credits sequel tease, was an excellent joke. Del Toro has actually discussed the possibility of a sequel as well, and what we might see in it. Potentially interesting stuff.

Spoiler

"The main idea that we're bouncing off is the fact that Newt drifted with a Kaiju brain, and all Kaiju brains are connected. We say that. They are like a hive mentality. So, you know, draw your own conclusions."

 

[Slaanesh]

All of this rage is absolutely hilarious. Was it this bad when the Expendables beat out Scott Pilgrim?

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Ugh, more master geek race nonsense. It's worse than master PC race.

News flash; some people have different preferences.

Personally I prefer the light hearted tone from films like Grown Ups and Despicable Me. I wouldn't want to go and see their crappy sequels at the cinema though.

Actually, Despicable Me 2 makes the list of sequels that are actually better than the original.

I saw it yesterday and I have to say it is better than the first.

Well that's good news. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll probably go and watch it before it goes to DVD.

 

[Laser Priest]

I like all of the people shouting about how "disgusting" this is or how they've lost their faith in humanity.

Because people would rather watch a shitty movie. OH NO, SOCIETY IS COLLAPSING. WE ARE ALL DOOMED BECAUSE PEOPLE STILL THINK ADAM SANDLER IS FUNNY FOR SOME REASON.

Seriously, every Sandler movie to come out in the last... many years has looked utterly awful, but I can't say this movie looked great either. And certainly, choosing one over the other isn't going to destroy humanity as a whole, as half of the people here seem to be saying. Obviously the only way not to destroy us all is to see neither.

 

[Irridium]

Grown Ups 2 beat Pacific Rim.

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Fulbert]

I like all of the people shouting about how "disgusting" this is or how they've lost their faith in humanity.

Because people would rather watch a shitty movie. OH NO, SOCIETY IS COLLAPSING. WE ARE ALL DOOMED BECAUSE PEOPLE STILL THINK ADAM SANDLER IS FUNNY FOR SOME REASON.

Seriously, every Sandler movie to come out in the last... many years has looked utterly awful, but I can't say this movie looked great either. And certainly, choosing one over the other isn't going to destroy humanity as a whole, as half of the people here seem to be saying. Obviously the only way not to destroy us all is to see neither.

It's more a case of "people seem to like what I don't more than what I do, and therefore society is doomed."

 

[Riff Moonraker]

I hated hearing this... I felt like the movie deserved way better for its opening. I took my oldest son to see it and we absolutely LOVED it!

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

Moviebob said it once; when someone refers to the average moviegoer, what they're talking about is

So. . .yeah. . ."HAHAHA FAT MAN FALL DOWN COS HE'S FAT AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

 

[wooty]

Goes to show you just how many mindless morons and kids inhabit the earth.

I intend to boost the UK's sales at least by seeing it again this weekend, and then next weekend at the IMAX.

 

[Mumorpuger]

Oh me oh my... I can't wait to see Movie Bob rip this factoid apart on Tuesday... We finally get an awesome movie and people go and see freaking Grownup 2 instead?! This is why we end up with shitty movies...

If you want a preview, you can go look up his stuff around the time Scott Pilgrim/The Expendables came out.


Personally, I thought Scott Pilgrim sucked due to Michael Cera. MovieBob thought differently.

 

[the7ofswords]

And THIS, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why we can't have nice things!

EDIT: Ha! You beat me to that one.

Grown Ups 2 beat Pacific Rim.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Still true, though.

 

[Vrach]

But... to watch it I'd have to go outside...

I'm still looking forward to watch it and I guess this is mainly because the mainstream didn't know about this enough. Being beaten by Despicable Me 2 isn't really a shame but Grown Ups 2? Really??? Did they buy their own tickets like some music companies bought their own cds?

But on the other hand, how can they not release it at the same time everywhere? Even in huge markets like Germany we have to wait one week. While I don't need to see it right away, I fear some people may resort to watching those horrible pirate versions.

And waiting one week is basically nothing. They are waiting until Semptember 12th in Greece! Is this some kind of joke? By then everyone will have pirated it.

Movies generally don't get pirated until the DVD releases. Unless a reviewer copy gets out (and that's quite rare), all they can pirate until then are the shitty cam videos and not many people are happy to watch that (not saying some people don't, but most of the pirates wait for a decent DVD rip). So it's more or less safe for 3 months, which beats out even that Greek release.

Also, consider the notion not everyone's into giant mecha robots and stuff. Personally, I'm not and when I saw the trailer for Pacific Rim, my thought wasn't "oh sweet", but "meh, boring action crap with giant robots". No offense to anyone - I understand why you'd appreciate it, but it's just not my cup of tea. I might still give it a look thanks to all the positive reviews, but even if I decided to, I'd need to find someone to go with and I don't know a single person who's into it either (and I know a bunch of geeks and non-geeks who like geek movies)

 

[mitchell271]

Oh... oh god. That's terrible news! I can understand Despicable Me 2 beating it because it's a family movie and the first one was great but Adam Sandler's latest schlock movie beating it is pathetic. Did everyone forget his last movie, Jack and Jill? And how it got nearly all the Razzies last year?

And people wonder why I'm bitter.

 

[CaptainThom]

To be honest i don't care for Pacific Rim but Adam Sandler's movies are awful.

 

[Piorn]

Pacific Rim is not even out here in germany!
We'll even it out!

 

[COMaestro]

I saw Pacific Rim yesterday and it was a fun movie. Not necessarily "good", but definitely fun. I don't think it deserves to be the #1 movie in America (or the world) or anything like that, but for all that is holy, it should be doing better than Grown Ups 2. When I heard there was a sequel being made, I couldn't believe it. I didn't even know the first one made enough money to justify a sequel.

I adored Despicable Me once I saw it, though, so I fully expected the sequel to do well.

 

[Darren716]

I knew this was going to happen but it doesn't make me any less depressed about it happening. It baffles me that people will pay money to watch Adam Sandler make poop/piss/fart jokes for an hour and a half. Last year I was at a friends house for a movie night and they had rented Jack and Jill, I didn't laugh once and expressed my distaste with it afterwards but they just said I don't like any movies. No I enjoy a ton of movies I just don't enjoy horribly made ones. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see Pacific Rim over the weekend but I'm going tonight with some friends and hopefully I'll enjoy it.

One final thing watch the first 2 minutes of the following video (embedding isn't working for me again) in order to see the reason why Grown Ups 2 got first place at the box office. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9QbhTvoDUk

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

I dunno i think it's got a decent chance of making it's money over a longer run the people at the studio had to know it was probably gonna go down this way.

It's not like they did a Dredd with it and release it at a limited number of cinemas in 3D only i mean they must have been huffing glue to think that was a winning strategy.

 

[TAGM]

On the subject of Grown Ups 2:
I actually had the chance to go into an American cinema - in Downtown Disney in Florida, no less! - To see Monsters University (Good as always for a Pixar movie) and Heat (Pretty good, yeah.)
Grown Ups 2 ads came up both times, and there was some pretty heavy laughter both times - the second time more then the first, probably because kids were in the audience of the first film and didn't get the jokes.
Me, I was busy flipping middle fingers at the screen over the stupid "Oh har har look a bunch of gay guys are cleaning a car this is very uncomfortable for the main character!" shit, but I won't deny that people - normal semi-upper-middle-I-dunno-really class people (They can afford to get to Downtown Disney, people, that says SOMETHING about their income) were laughing.
Were there some Pacific Rim adverts there too? Maybe, I can't remember. They sort of got lost in the shuffle, along with World War Z and such.
Maybe that's the issue there - the adverts are getting a bit too over-saturated with gritty fighty si-fi movies, and your average movie goer can't remember which was the one with the robots and which were the ones with the zombies. (Hell, my own mother couldn't tell there even WERE Zombies in World War Z, she thought it was a World War type film!) Oh, but they can remember that one with Chris Rock and Adam Sandler in it! That looked pretty funny, lets go see that.

Then again, I could just be forgetting it because I didn't take it seriously because the name "Pacific Rim" sounds like it belongs in a porno movie more then a mecha-suit one.
Hey, I was on a three week vacation, people! You can't expect me to do that proper thinking crap ALL the time.

Still, I'm not going to panic and proclaim this the death of all good movies ever because the L.C.D. is ruining EVERYTHING and so on. We've had 3 transformer movies, and now we're getting this, which is apparently another transformer movie under a different name - for better and worse. This stuff isn't dying out anytime soon, by the looks of things.