Originally posted by VirginiaR:
Yes, Mouse, but is the plot well constructed or even believable? Do the characters pull in the audience's sympathy or are they even likeable? On top of that, how was the acting? Is there dialogue that one can hear over the roar of big huge monster machines and if it is, is it so horrible, that you wish you couldn't hear it? <<As a writer that aspect is especially annoying.>> I saw the preview and wasn't impressed, frankly, I was *BORED*. I wouldn't even put it on my "save" list on Netflix. (The Lone Ranger I might because of the actors and out of love of the old TV show, but frankly, I wasn't impressed by it's preview either. Another remake which makes fun of the original instead of paying it homage, which just insults the original fanbase.) A fight scene for fight scene sake isn't enough for me. There needs to be more than S-FX for me to plunk down $10+ (not to mention more $$ for a babysitter) to go see a film in the theatre.
To answer your questions....
Yes. Yes. Good. Yes. Go see it.
The plot is (again, IMO) extremely well done (which I was not expecting at all from this kind of film). There is a lot of fighting and crashing and loud noises, but as far as I recall it didn't interfere with any major dialogue. Acting was far better than I thought it would be as well. I am *not* a fan of robot/alien/whatever-Michael-Bay-can-crank-out kind of movies (in fact I only barely tolerated the first Transformers movie). But with these types of what I label "guy movies" usually there is either no acting, or the little bit of acting there is cannot be described, due to how cheesy it is. There's not really any moments I can recall standing out as cheesy or stupid (though I may have missed some). That said, it wasn't all a serious "war" movie either, with some comedic aspects involved-- Charlie Day had provided some much needed comic relief at times. The previews flat out SUCKED. That I will give you. In fact, I didn't see one preview that made me say "hey, that movie looks awesome!" I actually didn't want to see it until several different people from my school started talking about how good it was (one of my teachers knows a visual fx artist that worked on this and a few other summer hits and even he said Pacific Rim is the one movie to see this summer). Also, I can count it as two and a half hours of "research" time for my homework.
Which leaves me about 28 hours of homework time left...
