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What a coincidence... first time in this thread, and I just saw Pacific Rim for the first time on DVD. Bought it for $5 actually. It was awesome! It looked great. I'd say this was the best looking giant monster movie I've ever seen (and I've seen most all of them). I usually prefer any type of media for a monster over CG, but the CG monsters didn't bother me at all, they had a good organic feel within the film.

The story was fun, and there was enough depth to carry the film. I cared just enough about the characters. The story and characters were cliché and didn't have much depth, but that's OK. It was no Matrix; but I don't want to see a film with the depth of The Matrix every time anyway.

Originally Posted by hammerfan

Pacific Rim

It was like watching Jax play rock 'em sock 'em robots. Even Clay was there. It was a good monster movie. But I wasn't jazzed about it like I get with Godzilla.

Indeed. As a Godzilla film aficionado, there's usually a lot of myth, symbolism, spirirt and tradition that go into the craft; which I feel runs down the center of the suspension of disbelief. Pacific Rim doesn't have that. I'm looking forward to the new 2014 Godzilla film.

Couple interesting things from wiki about it:

At WonderCon 2013, Guillermo del Toro expressed enthusiasm for a potential crossover between Godzilla and del Toro's Pacific Rim—another Legendary Pictures kaiju film—but stressed that no such plans are in place.[106] In an interview at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con, Edwards expressed an interest in making a sequel that uses the "Monster Island" concept used in Destroy All Monsters.

In August 2004, Yoshimitsu Banno, who had directed 1971's Godzilla vs. Hedorah, announced that he had secured the rights from Toho to make a Godzilla IMAX 3D short film at his Advanced Audiovisual Productions (AAP) production company. The film was tentatively titled Godzilla 3D to the Max, and was to be a remake of the Godzilla vs. Hedorah story.[23] In 2005, Banno and producer Kenji Okuhira added American Peter Anderson, ASC 3-D as the cinematographer, visual effects supervisor and as a co-producer on the project.[23] In 2007 through Anderson, American producer Brian Rogers was introduced to Okuhira and Banno and he was added to the project. In 2007, also through Anderson, Kerner Optical then came on board to develop the technology and to produce the 3-D film.[23] And with Kerner's backing, in the Fall of 2007 the team met with Toho in Tokyo where they re-negotiated this production to then be released as a feature length 3-D theatrical production.[23]

In 2008, with Kerner facing financial troubles, Rogers, Anderson and the then-proposed director Keith Melton met with Legendary Pictures where the production was pitched as a 3-D theatrical film. In 2009, it was "green-lighted" (approved) by Legendary to go to production.[24] From the AAP production team, Banno and Okuhira would remain on the project as executive producers and Rogers as a producer.

Would have be great to see a big remake of Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (Hedora). There will be a new modern Godzilla origin tory, and it will otherwise be the real Godzilla, but other than that, don't know about the plot. I hope the aspect of Hedora will still be there, but who knows.