curl-6 said:
As someone who owns all 28 Godzilla films and another dozen or so assorted giant monster movies like Gamera, I loved Pacific Rim. I don't see how it goes against the mythos at all; its kaiju were city-destroying behemoths all but impervious to conventional weaponry, and controlled by alien invaders; classic giant monster material. |
What I mean by destrying mythos is that it goes aganist what Giant monster movies are usually used for. Giant monster comes to town destroys everything! Humans can do nothing but then they hatch a plan to stop the monster and done.
Pacific RIm went aganist that and had the humans fight back and win aganist muiltiple monsters! The only way they can make any hoplessness was by making the monsters a collective hive and then make monsters that are apperently very strong. Pacific Rim acted more like a superhero movie moreso then a gaint monster film. Sure it had giant monsters but the main charectaers acted like superheros. Just like in The Avengers had all the heros killing baddies that came from a portal that Loki opened Pacific Rim basically did that part of the movie. It just did it with giant monsters. That is something you really do not see in the older giant monster films.
But hey if that's what you like then the people who made this did their job. However to people like me who wants a movie more like the classics, this was a dissappointment. Something like Cloverfield was more inline with what I want and was done in an interesting way.
