Pacific Rim: The Biggest Giant Monster Movie Ever Made!

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[klen7]

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[Gman2887]

Very nice. It would also be nice if Pacific Rim did hit $100 million domestically. It's only $3 million away. (Feh... only...)

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[jellydonut25]

This movie was horribly marketed. I look at something like Elysium, which yes has Matt Damon, but otherwise roughly half the marketability of Pacific Rim and wonder how they managed to pull off a MUCH better advertising campaign...

I mean, something like Pacific Rim should have been doing the Iron Man/Superman thing and SELLING ITSELF OUT: PacRim Happy Meals, PacRim Subway deals, PacRim Pepsi products, PacRim guest spots and tie-ins on various reality/live TV shows...

I mean, imagine my surprise watching Ink Master and seeing them run the first half of the show about Elysium because apparently Matt Damon has a bar code tattooed on him during the movie or something, and then the artists all had to do bar codes.

Why couldn't PacRim do a tie-in with something like one of those makeup shows, or hell Top Chef? Show some extended clip then tell the chefs they all have to make a dish inspired by the pacific rim, and whether they choose to incorporate ideas from the movie like "I made a giant-sized portion" or something or if they just wanted to do dishes from the Pacific Rim area of the world is up to them.

To me, it's mind-boggling that an R-rated film has more tie-ins than a PG-13 blockbuster...

[sachiel]

Pacific Rim will now go down as being the biggest monster movie ever made that couldn't make a buck to break even and make a profit! Its a darn shame too that Japan failed to recognize the brilliance of this Tokusatsu inspired movie. I think it has a lot to do with bad PR/Marketing and the fact that the Japanese movie going public is not very interested in seeing anything with giant monsters or robots anymore on screen. Not to mention Japanese in general don't seem to dig going to the movie theatres as much as they used to.

China however, seems to be a growing market where people have money to blow and spend and what to watch big Hollywood CGI blockbusters for shear spectacle and excitement! A lot of these guys grew up on farms and rural areas and are just beginning to get used to big city life, becoming exposed to the luxury of watching a big CGI blockbuster on the big screen in a nice theatre.

I liken it to the Japanese watching import movies during the 1980s and 1990s.

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