I saw the movie in theaters with my father and I thought the fight scenes were great but everything else was cheese.

Sigh, I thought this thread got buried :( Atleast you guys are talking about movies :P
The trailer that 'resurrected' this thread : laughable, weak and sad.
Pacific Rim? Ok-ish. Great Effects, but a nonsensical story & setting. Parts of the film reminded me of Independence Day. Now don't shoot me, but I absolutely love that movie! Maybe you can't figure out a way to create and upload a virus to UFOs, but that's because you're not Jeff Goldblum!!
so so much cheese...

It's one of my brother's favorite films. The third time he went to watch it in a theatre, he insisted I come along. We both have mechanical backgrounds, and we're telepathic in the sense that a shared event can trigger entire mental conversations between us that don't actually take place. So we sat there in silence and argued the whole time.

I enjoyed it.

He bought the Blu-Ray version soon afterwards and was pretty annoyed by it. The film experience didn't scale well at all; the sound was unsatisfying.

So whether you should watch it depends on the venue, I guess.

Pacific Rim was awesome! It was like a videogame: The movie.

Saw it just now and wow the rain really ruins the fight so much for me aswell as the fights all close ups and also the main protaginist was worse than I first thought, he is so white and interchangable he might as well be the actor who played Robocop 2014 for all I know :P

It's a movie that
a) you go to see in a cinema or on a big screen in general
b) you don't think about the story. A good story or characters have never been its intention.

Its too bad the majority of the film focuses on the characters rather than the fights. The whole Martial Arts Training scene with Asian girl and the Protaginist was cringeworthy and unnecessary.

Most of the film was cringeworthy. You should have cringed - better yet, laughed like I did - and carried on. It's not supposed to be taken seriously in any way.

If there will be sequal I hope the can make the fights, monsters, and robots better and stop talking about the characters go Samurai Jack on this movie please.

How is this thread still alive? o_o

Not nearly as good as The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo), by Pier Paolo Pasolini. An oftentimes overlooked director who, by the way, also puts Scorsese to shame.

We talk about movies and hang out here now. Wanna join us?

It's like a scorched battlefield, calm and quiet as it's considered cursed by the locals.

I think this is one of the greatest responses I have ever read to a thread like this.

I tip my hat to you, good sir.

Haven't seen it, but the cast is good, and it's an adaptation of Kazantzakis, who kinda rules (also wrote "Zorba the Greek", and "Captain Michalis / Liberty or Death"). So I wouldn't be surprised it to be a rather good film, even if I have little interest for that specific theme.