Giant monster creatures from the sea, large robots piloted by two heroes to save all of humanity, epic battles and lots of destruction…. If you haven’t guessed it, I’m talking about Pacific Rim. A wonderfully flashy futuristic movie without a lot of depth in the story line department… But still good.
So it’s crazy to say that they are going to make a part two? I mean, I am happy with this, being a girl who grew up watching the old Godzilla movies with my mom. (she was a huge fan of the delayed voice over films starring one radioactive giant lizard) So yes, they should always have more giant robot/monster movies in Hollywood. But the shocker comes from this movie, after not making it as big as one would expect, planning a sequel. Still sounds great to me, and my son will be even more happy. (I raised him to love the Godzilla movies as well, so the legacy continues)
Unfortunately though it doesn’t seem we will be getting back one of the main characters from the film, Mr. Charlie Hunnam, who played old washed-up pilot Raleigh Becket from the first one. This seems odd since he was one of two pilots who managed the Jaegers that won the battle against the Kaiju in the first movie, so you would think he should be somewhere in the second one right? (I mean didn’t they kill the other pilot? Soooo, ya how about we get one of our main heroes back? Then again they may just use the chick…) But according to an interview he gave to Yahoo at ComicCon, he was involved in the sequel at first, but not anymore due to some scheduling issues and apparently “non-creative” conflicts…. Too bad really, he was pretty good looking as well so there goes some of the eye candy 😉
Well regardless of who comes back, I still can’t wait for the sequel to come. As I have mentioned above, I come from a family who loves the giant monster movies and will see this one too, one way or another. ^_^
It will definitely be exciting to see a sequel to this movie. As you said, it didn’t have a lot of depth in the story department but what it did have it delivered well and with just enough spectacle to be amazing.
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