Man of Steel vs Pacific Rim
Two of the best contemporary visual directors in the world set out to make the ultimate summer blockbuster. Which film was more entertaining? Which film had a better story, characters, and pacing? Which film had the better visuals and music score? If you had the chance to see only one of them again, which would you choose?
MOS for sure. Pacific Rim has great effects for sure but I think they are less impressive because most of the movie was primarily CGI and blue screens. There wasn't nearly as much CGI integration with real locations and live acting. I don't mean to take anything away from Pacific rim but MOS was just vastly more impressive to me.
IDK about that. MoS may have had more dialogue, but a good portion of it was exposition, and I feel the characters in Pacific Rim were better developed. It's extremely difficult to compare visuals as both films were amazing, but I think PR had a more substantial and better paced story along with more relatable characters to go along with the spectacular action. I also found myself fully engaged throughout PR, whereas I found myself looking at my watch at some points during MoS.
Difficult to say for me. I went in to MoS with high expectations and was disappointed and I went into PR with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. They both had great action in their own ways. Both had great visual flair. MoS had the far better music score and in fact has easily the best orchestral score of the year so far. Both had average plots with nothing exceptional. Unfortunately they both fall down on characterization. Neither of them had anyone I cared about at all. MoS suffered because all its characters were essentially the same. Grim faced, morose types. PR suffered cos it had the most awful cliches for characters ever. The Russian guy was clearly just Zangeif from street fighter. Both had sub-par acting which was surprising given some of talent in both films. Some people are quick to say that Russell Crowe was good in MoS. He wasn't. Just putting on the Maximus voice again doesn't mean it's a Maximus performance. He was wooden in it. Charlie Hunnam is one of the worst actors ever especially for accents but he fits his character in Sons of Anarchy well so it works. I've never seen him fit any other character well. Iris Eldba seems to be a hit and miss depending on the character and realism. He is truly brilliant as Stringer Bell and Luther but it horrendous in PR. The whole 'cancelling the apocalypse' speech is dreadful. Don't know whether it was the star wars prequel effect that makes great actors seen awful cos of excessive green screen but whatever it was he was terrible.
If I had to choose which I preferred it'd be man of steel. If I had to go see one again it'd be Pacific Rim cos I saw MoS twice anyway.
IMO the wait & hype to MOS was worth it. I enjoyed the movie but there was several inconsistent directions with the story that did nag me, especially portraying Clark as a child that never rebelled or questioned against his upbringing. There's no emotional residual of watching his father die knowing he could've saved him...
Overall there really was no WOW factor for me...it was just simply good to see Supes on the big screen again.
Whereas Pacific Rim was simply an epic & simple story of monsters vs robots. It didn't try to be anything more than a fun ride.
I enjoyed it however my 7 yr old son did start to get bored towards the end. His reasoning was, "We've already seen the monsters & robots fight...do we have to stay & watch another fight?"
Originally posted by Kazenji
^ I had the same problem with it too....regarding Evangelionfair enough if other people like it.
I'm just saying my local video shop has a huge anime section & I'm forever looking at all the titles & series & wondering which would grab me.
I just find that whether it's Ninja Scroll or a sci-fi series, it's always the same blood & guts ripping apart & bloody tentacles.
Always goddam tentacles.