[ljacone]

I don't know about smelly food, but NOISY food. Just open the damn bag before the show starts, stop trying to do it quietly during the show because we can hear you inching the damn thing open.

[MnemonicSyntax]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Honestly, I'm blaming Bay.
Why?
Because a friend summed up the Transformers comparison perfectly. "The last 3 giant robot films I saw were total crap. I think I can skip this one."

It's not that some are thinking it's another Transformers movie, it's that some are thinking it's going to suck, like the Transformers movies.

This doesn't make sense though. Transformers did extremely well in the box offices. Based off that alone, your friend should go see it. Not the other way around.

Yeah, people can think Transformers sucks and compare that to parallels for Pacific Rim, but those are closed minded people. Much like the people who insult our fandom because we have grown ups in brightly colored spandex fighting rubber monsters while their own genre also has grown ups in brightly colored spandex fighting occasional rubber monsters or you know, giant clouds, which is even worse. Or fighting other grown ups in brightly colored spandex but all the while it's okay because they wear their underwear outside of their costumes.

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Originally Posted by Locke

The sad thing is, as nerd became mainstream, all the bad parts of being a nerd became mainstream as well.

Michael Bay's Transformers films may be bad adaptations which is frustrating but as far as blockbuster films go, they did their job in both entertaining the masses and making millions but as all the elitism that comes with nerdom has crossed over into the popular culture, so people hate films like Transformers, Battleship etc etc before they've actually seen them because that is the cool thing to do. And then otherwise fairly terrible popcorn flicks, like say The Avengers, become huge because the nerds deem it okay to like that popcorn flick.

I never thought we'd come to a point in cinema history where we'd have to remind mainstream audiences that liking a film just because it's fun is okay to do.

Bingo. It's very okay to leave your brain at the door in these sort of films. I did it with Transformers and found them all enjoyable.

There's just no real place for giant robots that don't transform in Western culture though, as sad as it is.

[Crown Athlete]

As someone who grew up with 80's action movies I can tell you the Transformers movies are terrible examples of popcorn entertainment.

[MnemonicSyntax]

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Originally Posted by Crown Athlete

As someone who grew up with 80's action movies I can tell you the Transformers movies are terrible examples of popcorn entertainment.

I grew up with 80's action movies too. It's a matter of taste. Leave your brain at the door, enjoy it for what it is. No problem.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

I grew up with 80's action movies too. It's a matter of taste. Leave your brain at the door, enjoy it for what it is. No problem.

I can leave my brain at the door.
That doesn't make every movie excusable.

[Locke]

Yeah but leaving your brain at the door is kind of the point of the multiplex, yeah you can complain, but cerebral, intellectually stimulating films just don't sell on the same scale as something like Transformers and maybe the world would be a better place otherwise, but these places only exist to make money.

If you want thought provoking cinema, don't go to your multiplex go to your art house theatre.

[Matrixbeast]

I'm not saying I can't enjoy a popcorn flick or that they can't be fun. It's why I liked Amazing Spider-Man and the Godzilla franchise as a whole.

I'm just saying that it doesn't make every movie worth watching.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I'm not saying I can't enjoy a popcorn flick or that they can't be fun. It's why I liked Amazing Spider-Man and the Godzilla franchise as a whole.

I'm just saying that it doesn't make every movie worth watching.

Oh of course not, not every film in the cinema is worth watching of course but the money Transformers made speaks for itself. No matter how much the internet tries to make it cool to hate, the figures are there to say otherwise.

[SPLIT LIP]

I just wish I could see this movie already so I can form my OWN opinion of it instead of listening to what all these other people whom I don't care about affect my excitement for better or worse.

I still wish movies just came out on Blu-ray/DVD. Theatres and pre-screenings and critic reviews and all this just gets in the way of the movie itself.

[MnemonicSyntax]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I can leave my brain at the door.
That doesn't make every movie excusable.

I didn't say it did. But the irony is that you guys want Pacific Rim to do well, yet leaving your brain at the door is mandatory for a flick like this.

Especially if you want people outside our fandom to actually like or enjoy this. So far, I've seen people in our fandom going because it's "giant robots" and to support that. There's no real reason for people who aren't in our fandom to see it otherwise.

Hell, I'm not even interested in seeing it.