sienamystic | Pacific Rim

Apparently I finally timed things at the local Blockbuster (yes, we have one and yes, I occasionally use it) to be able to pick up a copy of Pacific Rim. I wasn't entirely sure what the movie experience would be, since the movie has been all over my Tumblr so I saw all the obsessive fan focus before seeing the movie for myself. If I hadn't stumbled over something that said so, I'd never have realized, for example, that the Russian team has about four lines and the Chinese triplets about two - after seeing fanart and elaborate headcanons, I'd normally have assumed that they made up a slightly bigger portion of the movie than being primarily in the background of scenes as they were.

I'm glad I saw the movie, and enjoyed it, barring the simple fact that the dialogue was scraped from the bottom of the Action Cliche barrel. There's sparse, and then there's this movie. It was kind of cartoony, really. I was reminded of my childhood afternoons watching Voltron. (I was never a big Godzilla fan, but of course the rubber monster trashing cities thing is familiar.) All in all, the action was a lot of fun, the people were pretty, I could have watched Mako and Raleigh spar for another three hours, and it definitely filled all my Robot Hitting Monster needs for the near future.