Pacific Rim is a big step back for the giant mech vs big monster genre as well as great different looking films made by Guillermo Del Toro.
Sure, the script and character do not speak masterpiece, but given the massive scale of the must see in IMAX film, over films that have also failed critically such as Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and Star Trek: Into Darkness, one can only, I don't know, completely lose faith in humanity as we get swallowed by giant monsters. Do movie goers really not know any more what kind of films are worth watching during the summer?
Was it a Hollywoodization or whitewashing of the giant mecha genre? Probably not, as many fans note the nostalgia of the genre to other childhood kaiju films. Notably Godzilla.
Fans complained specifically how "Pacific Rim was like Power Rangers."
Now, I did not see any of Haim Saban's handy work, notably this. However, the franchise not being in the ultra realistic genre we supposedly hold today is an unfortunate delay for Power Rangers fans.
Power Rangers however is a 20 year long brand. Pacific Rim had a ton of marketing issues. Power Rangers has tons of conventions, fan sites, etc.. Guillermo Del Toro's problem was that the film was made was too quickly without knowledge of this possibly new franchise. Too much of a risk to pull off. Maybe a DVD anime release should have came first like a Gotham Knight or Animatrix.
The Power Rangers movie drew fans in. Power Rangers' adaptation of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Super Megaforce may bring fans back in as well.
Could we use JJ Abrams and Michael Bay to get people into Power Rangers? (I can imagine all the fans speculating a naked Kimberly now!)
Joss Whedon would be more fair. Albeit, Disney and Power Rangers have yet to pull off anything good besides RPM. He hired Anna Hutchinson for Cabin in the Woods. Avengers got ate up doing nothing remotely interesting besides have Tony Stark talk to a flawed Loki, which was really just Kenneth Branagh's fault setting up. I would not enjoy it from a movie stand point much like I did not with the original film, which just copied Day of the Dumpster with a rushed ending with a character I could care less about.
If you do not believe me,
Jason David Frank's line at New York Comic Con 2013 was huge all four days.
Note to self: Take a picture of the line next time.
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