Poll: Pacific Rim vs The Avengers

[TakerFoxx]

As long as you were being considerate I guess, though I still question why you wouldn't just leave at that point. Hell, I walked out on Prometheus.

I don't like walking out of films unless I find them morally repugnant. Even when they're complete garbage, I usually stay to see just how much worse they can get (see: The Invisible). If I'm going to be ranting about something later, I want to at least have all my bases covered!

And I didn't hate Pacific Rim. I even kind of liked some of the fight scenes. I just found it to be massively disappointing in light of all the hype. Worth renting to pass away an afternoon with your buddies? Sure. But not much more than that.

 

[Bertylicious]

I really enjoyed Pacific Rim, it is a great film, but The Avengers is on another level. It's a classic of modern cinema and I have no doubt will be a contender for film of the decade.

 

[Alleged_Alec]

Avengers. I liked Pacific Rim as well, but the dudebro qualities of the movie started to grate my nerves near the end.

 

[Jeyl]

Avengers. I liked the story better, the casting was excellent and everyone has their moments. Plus, it didn't have the "ALWAYS SHOUTING" Charlie Day. He literally ruined the movie for me. At least Jar Jar has an indoor voice.

 

[Alcamonic]

I found The Avengers to be kinda average. All around meh, but nothing really bad.
Pacific Rim on the other hand... the parts in it that was good was really good. But the bad parts in it was really (really!) bad! I mean, "my nuclear reactor core robot is clearly analogue, fo sho General!", who came up with that crap?

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

While I really enjoyed Pacific Rim, I spent too much of the film asking, "Why'd they do that? Why didn't they just start out by doing X?" for my taste. Yes, suspension of disbelief is required for any movie like these, but Avengers had established its universe in all the previous Marvel films, so I didn't have so much second guessing going on. Also, the dialogue and action of Avengers is more consistent than Pacific Rim.

Win: Avengers.

 

[kasperbbs]

Pacific rim. It was something that i haven't really seen in a live action piece and it had some epic moments. As for avengers, yeah i liked it, but i have already seen a bunch of marvel movies which makes it feel like it's just more of the same and i was never a big fan of all that superhero comic thing to begin with.

 

[Laughing Man]

Avengers takes it by a mile, the movie has very little down time, by that I mean action or interaction between characters that isn't interesting and on top of that it is the culmination of a seriously risky movie to do something that had never been seen before. On top of that the action in the Avengers is better, more consistent and has far less WTF moments than Pacific Rims (i.e the sword that is a one hit kill but only gets used once they are a good 10 minutes in to the battle.)

Pacific Rim has some good action moments but the characters are utterly throw awayable, literally if ANY of them had died would I have cared, no, do I care if their is a sequel, no. It was an all right movie, nothing more. If it had spent less time building the will they pilot together and the reasons behind why the Marshall didn;t want his daughter to pilot a Jaeger and made the action a little more consistent rather than one short scene at the start, one long scene in the middle and then a short scene at the end I still doubt it would come close to beating The Avengers, put it this way Thor 2 was better than Pacific Rim, Iron Man 3 wasn't though.

Oh and The Avengers has this scene in it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7UuN1XZ1y4

which still gives me goosebumps with just how awesome it is.

 

[Luminous Chroma]

I saw Avengers twice in theaters and bought the Blu-Ray.

Pacific Rim bored me so much that I pulled out my cellphone and started reading Puella Magi Madoka Magica fanfiction through the climax.

Easiest poll I've had in a while.

Dude, seriously? Keep your stupid phone turned off while you're in a theater. The light bothers people, even if they don't have the nerve to say anything. If you're that bored, go into the lobby and hang out until the movie ends. Otherwise, please refrain from being so rude.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

This is a complicated decision. As a straight movie, Pacific Rim is my favorite (and which one I voted for). But, The Avengers means more to me, because of what it represents. The Avengers was something I'd been looking forward to for years, while Pacific Rim was something I've had plenty of, but never with this kind of quality, budget, or finesse. The Avengers was good, but relied on the movies that came before it, while Pacific Rim just relies on a simple idea, and both pull it off excellently. At least everyone in Pacific Rim actually feels like they belong, though, even if they're only there for about two minutes of screentime before squishy watery demise (spoilers!), while in the Avengers we have two effective characters, one giant green monster, and three exceptionally nimble but otherwise normal humans who are severely out of place trying to fight off an entire airborne alien invasion.

 

[pspman45]

when I first saw the trailer for Pacific Rim, it looked totally awful
When I saw the CGI Mechs and heard something about saving a city of two million people, I realized that I was being fed 80's-esque cheese with awesome visuals for a big robot monster throw down, I had my tickets for the release weekend
I saw it, then saw it again the next day
I'm honestly upset that a lot of people I knew didn't seem to like it, Its easily my favorite movie I've seen this year
The Avengers was still pretty good, but I felt like the whole "buddy team up" thing was a little weak since Tony Stark did like everything plot-wise, and Captain America and Thor didn't do much while Hulk smashed everything in sight

 

[TakerFoxx]

Dude, seriously? Keep your stupid phone turned off while you're in a theater. The light bothers people, even if they don't have the nerve to say anything. If you're that bored, go into the lobby and hang out until the movie ends. Otherwise, please refrain from being so rude.

=sigh=

Okay, time to copy/paste my reply from when someone already said the same thing. Come on man, it was only a few posts down.

"The theater was nearly empty, I was shielding the light with my very heavy jacket, there was no one on either side of me, and a great big wall behind me. If there was a chance of someone seeing me, of course I wouldn't have. But the only way someone could have seen the light was if they were going out of their way to look over my shoulder."

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Not even a contest for me. The Avengers was a 2,5-hour nerdgasm from beginning to end with great and fun characters and villain, while Pacific Rim was merely dumb fun.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

That's actually really hard. I don't have a particularly high opinion of either and also a very good opinion of both in different ways. The Avengers' main good thing for me is the dialogue between superheroes working together for the first time and having to reconcile their differences, and there were some epic moments and good one-liners. Pacific Rim's main good thing is completely the opposite, the dialogue was some of the least inspired shit I've ever heard, and the characters are similar, but the action was top notch. Both had forgettable uninteresting plots (generic bad guy's bringing his army gotta close the portal vs generic colonist alien race are sending their beasts gotta close the portal). Pacific Rim pulls ahead with music, Australians and mecha.

 

[00slash00]

Never saw Pacific Rim (I kept trying to get my friend to see it with me but he wasn't feeling it). I just saw Avengers a few weeks ago and I was disappointed. It wasn't bad but it was the same situation as Bioshock Infinite, The Last of Us, and KotOR. Massively over hyped. I expected to be completely blown away, after the way people talked about it. I thought it was good, but no better than any of the super hero movies that lead up to it

 

[Tono Makt]

Pacific Rim, hands down. I could go into detail why, but I'm not up to debating with the unholy alliance of Browncoats and Marvel Fanboys who tend to take any criticism of the Avengers as simply trolling them. Boils down to The Avengers taking me entirely out of the movie in the first scene so I spent the entire rest of the movie noting all of the flaws and Pacific Rim not coming close to doing that until they tried to insert the idea of the Kaiju being Dinosaurs. And since the Dinosaurs thing was a single line and the Avengers had the entire opening scene, it was far easier to ignore that one line while in the theatre than it was to ignore the entire first scene in The Avengers.

 

[deathbydeath]

The Avengers was simply better, even if it was rather safe and predictable (fusing movie franchises together like that is relatively new for movies but not risky at all). The biggest problem with Pacific Rim was that it was too big for its own good. If they had added an extra hour/hour and a half to the running time the film could stretch its legs and not rush everything. The fact that most moviegoing audiences can't handle any film longer than two hours really irritates me and can't be good for the industry if PR is any indicator. Most everyone I know won't deny that The Hobbit was about as perfect as films get, but wont go and see the second because it'll probably be an hour longer than most movies.

Also people give RDJ waay too much credit. He's good at what he does, although what he does is one very specific type of acting and he does it way. The reliance on his acting has made conceptually good scenes fail in execution because I've already seen it before.

EDIT: Oh, Avengers also fucked up Hawkeye bad. Boo.

 

[neoontime]

I never saw the avengers but Pacific Rim was one of the most disappointing movies I ever seen. Not only was I disappointed by the crappy character development, the action scenes were all too short and forgettable, like the characters, and then there's that thing about the sword. Maybe it was something with the time frame but still, I expected at least really good action or and awesome story.

Either way,since I haven't seen avengers I can't say which is better, but I would guess even if it had less big-budget action, it would somehow be better put together.