Saw this film three times:

1. Dolby Digital 2D
2. Dolby Atmos 2D
3. IMAX 3D

And among these three times, the Dolby Atmos 2D version was undoubtedly the best way to experience it.

I think the reason that Leatherback and Otachi got the most screen time is that was the first battle after the drift with the kaiju brain,so the kaiju learned about the jaegers and evolved.I personally like Leatherback and Trespasser.

I want to go see it in a theater that has the new d-box seats.Saw it once in Imax 3d.Only problem was my glasses kept fogging.Other then that the 3d was really well done.

It's the same people(Legendary) doing the new Godzilla.

Which just gets me more excited that Godzilla will be at least good.

Just saw it earlier this afternoon and my thoughts are almost nothing but positive. The only real "problem" with the film and this could have just been my theater, is that the narration at the beginning and quite a bit of the dialogue throughout was inaudible. It's someone turned the vocals down and everything else up.

The movie itself however? Brilliant. Del Toro and his team have crafted an incredible universe for these characters to inhabit. It really feels like the ultimate nitty gritty version of Gundam/Eva/Macross/Sentai/Other mecha shows grounded into a harsh reality. The technology is strong but archaic compared to what we've come to expect from our usual mechanized heroes, which makes it all the more believable.

The bit about the dinosaurs having been even more primitive Kaiju was a stroke of awesome as well. Showing us that our world has been visited in this way more than once, now it's just more easily inhabitable. The creatures/aliens in the other universe/dimension were measly when compared to the beasts they could create but often times those with great power to wield have none of their own. The Kaiju were a bit generic but they served their purpose well.

The characters mostly sold me as well. Mako, Raleigh, and Stacker for sure. While the Aussie team felt to be forced stereotypes I did love the Striker Eureka and their dog mascot :p However let it be said that Ron Pearlman and Charlie Day added absolutely nothing to this film. Literally anyone could have played those roles. Charlier Day especially was just someone saying lines, I didn't believe he was who he was supposed to be. By the main trio of characters were rich and deep. And while the mecha designs were a bit strange they were fun and very grounded in reality. They were sensible, not over the top. Just as I would expect them to be if something like this actually happened.

Miss Kikuchi's performance was probably my favorite. It was fantastic to see an actual native Japanese speaker play a major role in a summer blockbuster type film. And it's always great to see more strong female leads. She did a great job of selling me on Mako, especially with the ties to Stacker that she had as a child.

Overall I have to say that the movie totally sold me on it's premise and characters. I know that it's $40 million opening weekend may leave the sequel in question but I'd love to see another film. Though after detonating the Danger on the other side I really don't see where it could go from here as far as sequels go. Though they could set it further in the future.

That line about Dinosaurs get's mixed up because of the lightning fast delivery. He's not saying that the Dinosaurs were Kaiju, that the last attempt was during Dinosaur times, but the atmosphere was too oxygen rich back then, so when humans happened to pop up and fuck the air we breathe they suddenly had a much "nicer" home to take that'd be easier to terraform.

Which blew my freaking mind that a Hollywood action movie managed to include an environmental message that was... SUBTLE? *world ends*

Also Charlie and Ron added nothing to the film what? Those two were awesome and added humour without being slapstick idiots. Perlman in particular was great, and fuck Charlie Day's charatcer was, like, pivitol in discovering how the Kaiju work.

Yes the characters were. The actors could have been anyone though. When I see Charlie Day all I can think of is him in an apartment sleeping with Danny Devito and eating cat food. Admittedly I love It's Always Sunny. But he is the absolute wrong actor for this role. None of his lines sounded believable in the slightest.

I'd say this is where we agree to disagree, but no way, Charlie Day was awesome. He brought energy to the role and made the character more than just a stereotypical nerd. They needed someone like Charlie Day or else the dynamic between him and his stuffy counterpart wouldn't have worked.

While I'm sure there's other people who could have done it, that's not to say they didn't work. Ron Perlman, I mean he just made the character memorable. If they just got some dude to play that he would've been forgettable. You need people who can take a character and elevate it, that's why they cast certain actors and not just whoever shows up first.

After I got home the other night after seeing it, a lightbulb went off in that the dual pilot system of the Jaegers reminded me a little bit of W. It's not super direct, just the idea.

W, huh? EKUU-STOR-REEM!