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INTEREST: Metal Gear's Shinkawa Draws Pacific Rim Poster & Japan's Creators Laud Film

Also, please, please, PLEASE let this movie beat Grown Ups 2 at the box office. Please.

So it joins the ranks of Snakes on a Plane and Serenity in the "just because it got hyped on the internet doesn't mean anyone actually cares about it, or more specifically, the actual general population" category? Seems to be a reminder not to rely on fickle internet-goers for profit.

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Also, please, please, PLEASE let this movie beat Grown Ups 2 at the box office. Please.

I did my part to try and put this movie above Grown Ups 2. We failed in that fight, doubly so as this movie was extremely lackluster. If I were ever to see Del Toro I'd ask him for my 10 bucks back and an explanation as to how this movie ended up being so lackluster.

I can't believe that this movie had a $180,000,000+ budget. It wouldn't surprise me if this movie were made as a money-laundering effort as that HUGE amount of money was clearly not spent on procuring quality actors for the whole cast, writers or SFX. If memory serves Uwe Boll has used his legendarily bad films as vehicles to lessen tax impacts. Perhaps Del Toro wanted to try his hand at that.

I really doubt Legendary was thinking about the internet audience when they spent over a 100 million on this movie. They were probably thinking of the general audience that goes and sees Transformers.

Pacfic Rim was not the internet meme machine that Snakes on a Plane was. It just got the same level of talk of any high profile summer blockbuster.

How can the most incredibly impressive FX ILM has ever done along with an excellent audio mix be considered lackluster? And what exactly was wrong with the casts performance? They did an excellent job and had much better performances than would be found in any Michael Bay movie...

I've seen quite a few articles talking about it's 'internet hype failing to live up at the box office'. I mean, think about it, even people on this site were talking about it because "it might pave the way for anime movies!" or whatever. Not many Hollywood movies get that kind of discussion. No one here was saying Man of Steel would pave the way for a proper Dragonball Z movie despite being about city-destroying action.

Of course people here were talking about it. It's a giant robot movie, and giant robots are a huge part of anime for a certain audience.

I'm sure there was talk on the internet and hype. There's hype on the internet for any obvious nerd attractive movie. But you said it's falling into the ranks of Snakes on the Plain. That's wrong

Titan: You entire criticism boils down to it not being "HONTO SUGOI NIHON SHINEMA". Please just stop.

Also what the fudge does Sentai have to do with PR? Jesus you're not even making sense at this point

So in addition to poor debating skills you apparently also have poor reading skills

And Man of Steel is an action movie with people flying around blasting and punching each other, which is also a huge part of anime for a certain audience.

All three movies are movies that had lots of hype on the internet yet bombed at the box office despite the 'loud' cries of the internet supporting it. How is that statement wrong, exactly?