Pacific Rim: Uprising

[DannyBeane]

[BrollySupersj]

[Henry88]

[lhb412]

[MouthForWar]

[emeGoji]

[Henry88]

[msweets13]

I don't know... I think Jelly is right. A sequel would be really tough and probably not necessary. The real reason most of us want this movie to do well is for the possibility of other kaiju films. Granted, we're getting Godzilla next year, but the reason I want Pacific Rim to do well is to show studios that audiences are willing to go to ORIGINAL kaiju films with no name-recognition. But, as feared, it failed. So even if Godzilla does amazingly well, the likelihood of other studios doing their own original kaiju films are next to none and that makes me very sad.

[Zack Metoyer]

This doesn't necessarily mark the end of a kaiju film resurrection, it just means they need to get their budgets under control and get more creative from here on out. As the Japanese have learned to do for decades. I think there's enough interest here to move foreword, provided PR manages to break even, if they can work more sensibly.

[msweets13]

In today's Hollywood climate, who knows if that's doable. But it seems as though the frequency of megabudget flops is increasing a bit (I.e. John Carter, Lone Ranger, Battleship, White House Down, etc.). So maybe it will change...but probably not.

[jellydonut25]

[Henry88]

[msweets13]

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

[MekaGojira3k]

[MouthForWar]

[Berean]

[Gman2887]

[Pkmatrix]

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

[O.Supreme]

If you look in the original PR thread I love this film, just wanted to preface that before my next statement.

If you agree with most that the Green Lantern Film from 2011 was a huge failure, here is a sad reality check-- PR had roughly the same budget and made less in its first week

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pa ... antern.htm

Still GL made a profit (barely) when you include its final World Wide gross. If PR fails to make 200M overall I seriously doubt a sequel will be possible.

I just think we as fans have to come to realize that we really are a small group. The film was nearly perfect for us. But general movie going audiances apparently just aren't that interested. I thought this film would include a big draw from the Transformers/Superhero film fans, but apparently not. It really does baffle my mind, but it is a sad reality, an Inconvenient Truth if you will, we have to live with for now. I'm just glad we're getting Godzilla next year, and we'll see how that goes.

[DerGolem]

I too don't have much hope that we will see a sequel. To me PACIFIC RIM is going down in the annals of monster movie history as something akin to Joe Dante's PIRANHA. A perfectly good and serviceable monster movie in it's own right with a lot of talented people working on it but something that most folks have never seen nor heard of because it was overshadowed by the film that made it possible: JAWS.

In the case of PACIFIC RIM that film is TRANSFORMERS (only TF is nowhere near as good as JAWS and I feel bad even making that comparison). PACIFIC RIM would never have gotten made if Bay's TRANSFORMERS trilogy (soon to be a tetralogy) wasn't a huge success but that boon also turned out to be it's greatest detriment since the general public dismissed RIM as merely being a TRANSFORMERS knock-off and didn't show up for it.

If this was the 90s I'd least be able to look forward to a PACIFIC RIM animated series, but those don't really exist anymore. Like the sci-fi movie biz children's action animation has been almost totally monopolized by superheroes. Maybe del Toro should have called up Genndy Tartakovsky before making PACIFIC RIM and ask him how well things went with his love-letter to super robots and kaiju on Cartoon Network....

Right now I think the best we can hope for is that maybe IDW picks up the license to do PACIFIC RIM comics.

With stuff already coming out of SDCC for GODZILLA '14 I'm starting to get a little excited for that film. Everything I've seen of LP's "Godzilla Encounter" exhibit has given me a lot more faith in this film then anything else. It will be interesting to see how that movie does, and what PACIFIC RIM poor box office returns mean for it, let alone how it will do in the box office.

There was an article on Salon.com today calling PACIFIC RIM a "dinosaur," a throwback to a bygone era of sci-fi movie making (the 50s/60s) when kaiju movies actually did business at the box office. They said this was simultaneously the film's greatest strength and it's greatest weakness. It was great for those who still love those films (us) but bad because everyone else seems to have moved on.

[jellydonut25]

Piranha has a sequel...and ripoffs...and remakes...

[DerGolem]

[jellydonut25]