Pacific Rim or Man of Steel

THIS..

reeve fanboys piss me off cuz those movies fking sucked, oh reeve superman could time travel but yet they get mad cuz mos had that Dna shyt

I choose the one with the most potential. Pacific Rim is a breakthrough to the giant monster genre, which I'm all for, and I look forward to becoming a devoted fan to the genre now that it enters the playing field.

However, DC and Marvel has an incredible structure, their material on Superman alone is enough to make them difficult to overlook, even when comparing to something superior.

They can go toe to toe on whatever that's the most promising, creative design there is in recent years, and that's because they're beyond those comparison.

DC and Marvel have characters that can stomp a superior design, due to having so many variation, and great depth, and other creative approach to their character. This kind of support made their character in a sense, perfect.

Man of Steel took greater risks that didn't didn't pay off while Pacific Rim used a more tested and true method but polished it up the best they could. I'd vote Pacific Rim.

Man of Steel had some great visuals, but it failed at telling the story it was attempting to. Pacific Rim, while "simpler" in it's plot (debatable) told it's story perfectly and more fluidly. I also liked the character arcs in PR better, as Clark Kent's, while taking up a bit of screentime, was confusing and missed it's mark. The one's in PR were simple, but substantial and perfect for the story.

Like I said, I feel Pacific Rim was far more successful at just being what it is. MoS feels like a disjointed mess that is trying to explore several concepts but hitting upon neither.

Same can be said about the actors and characters in Man of Steel. Even Russel Crowe didn't bring much to the table. Costner's Pa Kent was clearly a low point of the film. Unlike MoS, however, the characters in PR had character arcs and backstories that were actually likable and plausible. Only person with a plausible backstory in MoS was Zod IMO. Everybody else had about as much characterization and emotion as a plank of wood. As generic as the characters in PR were, at least they showed some emotion and were actually enjoyable to watch(and in the case of Hunham and Mako, I'll forgive their subdued performance because the characters themselves were brooding by nature)

Man of Steel, I had man tears 3 times during that movie. Havent seen Pacific Rim thought, will see it this week.

Man of Steel was a disappointing

@chibi_cute: maybe because it was about Clark Kent and not about those other people? Sure they could have done a better job fleshing him out, it was still enjoyable. If you like PR more, it's alright, it's a good movie too, even with the generic characterization. But now we can't even get a goddamn proper Superman sequel to give Clark some characterization, because of the awful shoehorning of Batman.

Ok, seriously MOS had way better acting, story and special effects. PR can't touch it. Period

What are you kidding me? special effects? LOL. the tornado scene is one of the most worst special effects ive seen this year.. Pacific rim had the best special effects this year.

Pacific Rim just didn't do it for me. I understand why people love it and that's great for them, but the spectacle just didn't deliver any real excitement for me.

On the other hand, I absolutely loved Man of Steel, so my pick should be obvious.

@Chibi_cute, No I'm not kidding you, PR took the typical CGI route for monsters, have you seriously ever seen Superman one, two, three or 4 and compared it to MOS? The tornado scene didn't look bad, and I've seen far better CGI then PR. Cloverfield had far better. Let's put it this way, I know tons of people who were looking forward to PR and came out disappointed....where as MOS they weren't disappointed. The only people I've encountered to not like MOS are A. Superman haters or B. Have poor taste in movies.

I enjoyed Man of Steel a lot more

Pacific Rim was fun, haven't seen MOS yet.

What typical route of CGI are you talking about? Pacific rim had the top notch special effects than any film this year.The director combined animatronics and cgi in order for it to look a sense of scale.Clover field had far better CGI than pacific rim? clearly you are either trolling or desperately delusional thats some serious BS you are talking about .Funny its like the opposite majority of the people ive encountered who were utterly dissapointed were supes fans and they were greatly displeased of what snyder had done to the character..MOS was a pretentious film lets face the reality while pacific rim didn't to be for what it was a robot vs monsters movie.

@chibi_cute:

Ok, water for example looked weird at times, realistically speaking those machines wouldn't be moving that fast given the construction. And while I still feel MOS had better CGI, MOS did much better in every other way from box office to acting to story. I'm all for animatronics, but I'm saying outside of that the main gripe a lot of people had with it was the generic actors, storyline that's been done to death already(monsters with humans fighting them) No, not trolling just saying the little monsters that came out of Cloverfield monster looked as good as anything in PR(even though the monster looked awkward as hell)

Well, those fans don't know what they're talking about. I've been following Superman forever, and am not a kid. Some people that went out of their way to "hate" on it were those people stuck in one generation of Superman being this uber godly, all knowing being that never kills...yet forget he's killed TONS of times in the comics because it was either that or let many humans, innocent people, aliens etc die over many archs. More people loved MOS then hated it, the main issue that people on here had was "omg he killed zod" yet forget what Zod planned to do, ohh only kill everyone on Earth(but sure, let's just ignore that) Snyder did a great job, people need to deal with it already that this is Superman in 2013, not 1940 and that sometimes heroes have hard choices to make. That's what made Snyder's and Smallville's Superman awesome, they weren't so "over confident" and forget Superman was RAISED human by the kents...despite him being kryptonian. It's about him embracing and accepting why he's there and why he was sent there.

MOS was far better then PR any day, as someone else said best film all year as far as I'm concerned. You seem to be judging just based on "CGI" alone which even if PR had better(which is very debatable) that doesn't make a movie alone, you have to account for everything else acting, choreography, storyline, developed characters which PR seriously lacked.

well to each is own..

but On rotten tomatoes.

MOS 56%

PR 72 %

Clearly you're not the majority.

@ chibi_cute, To each his own indeed. I am in majority of people that matter in this case(the general public), and rotten tomatoes is garbage. They also shat on curse of chucky which everyone in the horror genre loved, including bloodydisgusting who's specialty is horror films...and most CP fans loved it as much since the first two films, nuff said. That among many other "reviews" they post that are very questionable but not even going to get into those since that's off topic. This guy explains it best...they hated Transformers 2, which was easily one of the better movies that year.

I don't go by someone else's view anyway in IGN's case or RT, they're biased and just get paid for their opinions. It's box office numbers, reception by the fans overall/general public that count and THAT majority says MOS was far better then PR. Example, majority on here clearly agree with me as the poll shows and general comic fans(which are the real people who count, not snot nosed critics who happen to get paid for their reviews) Because that's the only difference, and half the time these "professional reviewers" aren't even true fans of the characters, movies they review. It's just a job to them, they see movie, watch movie, review it. That's it, completely ignoring what fans want half the time and what the character's backstory is about.

That being said, enjoy PR. I didn't hate it, just enjoyed MOS a lot more.

Watched both movies twice, and liked man of steel much more. I didn't find PR all that interesting. The same not-funny girl and a tough captain, and all that. Though the catagory 5 kaiju rising was something that made me hold my breath..

Don't really get why everyone says MOS had better actors, it's like they all studied trees or something they were all wooden as heck. Russel Crowe in particular. Not saying PR's were much better but it's a little rich criticizing one film for something when the other had the exact same problem.

And LOL at MOS having better special effects. The Jaeger vs Kaiju fights were some of the most visually impressive scenes I ever saw. Only maybe the Transformer movies impressed me more.

MOS's fights were good but a little boring. It was just punch after punch, there wasn't really any progression or escalation, I don't think Superman showed any battle damage at all. PR on the other hand had you holding your breath. The Kaiju were well capable of destroying the Jaegers and you never knew who was coming out best in the battles. The final battle at the breach was incredibly tense when the two Cat 4's were circling, loved it.

All around I liked MOS but Pacific Rim hit the heights for me.

MOS actors weren't wooden, the movie had award winning calibur actors...compared to PR which sucked in comparison. I can't see how MOS fights were boring, punching someone throw 10 skyscrapers multiple blocks in a huge city? pfftt yeah, far from boring...

Good point.

TRANSFORMERS 2 IS EASILY THE BEST MOVIE OF THAT YEAR,? OHH GOD. FACEPALM.

My thoughts exactly.. it boggles my mind why they said MOS is better especially in special effects. WHAT? do these guys knew anything about special effects.?

I'm sensing bias from the majority since this is a comicbook forum.

@chibi_cute: please read more carefully next time, I said ONE of the better movies that year, not THE best....facepalm ;-)

The arguing here is fruitless - between trolls or actual fans: Neither is going to make any concessions on what film they like more so what's the point? We could make comparisons all day or take jabs at either film but no one here is going to reach a consensus here. Just click on the option and don't feed the trolls.

Here's the issue champ. You can't approach an argument telling me how 'we didn't' do this or that - because you aren't them or in any collusion with them. Jumping in to talk for them and goad me into arguing with you isn't something I'm going to entertain. Especially against a non-argument that consists of trying to say MOS would be the movie it was if Superman didn't fly on screen.

Feel free to shoot for dramatics, I'm likely not going to respond anyways.

@omgomgwtfwtf: The point is, I thought MOS was fantastic. If you didn't that's alright.

Cliches to those of us who haven't seen the original Kaiju Flicks are still just cliches. And I shouldn't have to see a entire dead franchise of movies just to get this one.

@herokiller12344: good point. Lol I get a kick out of those who hate on something for merely being better. As far as im concerned sounds like some superman haters dont like the way this topic is voted. I agree, mos was great.

Pacific Rim by miles.While I like the Man Of Steel it's just a revamped version of the 1st and 2nd Superman movies.Pacific Rim has way more originality and love for the genre it tributes.

Not even a contest. Pacific Rim all the way.

Man of Steel hands down

Man of Steel taking the lead.

Preferred giant robots vs. giant monsters.

Pacific Rim was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Man of Steel was just meh.

MOS was light years better and a great revision of Superman saga. PR was just a generic monster movie. *yawn*

Man of Steel, whooooooooohooo

MOS. Both movies are EPIC no doubt about it.

Mos

Man Of Steel, it was actually like.. At all good.

I thought Pacific Rim was slightly cheesy.

Enjoyed Pacific Rim better, but both were meh movies. MOS was just the mehest out of the mehness.

Star Trek was better than both combined!

*Dusts off brass knuckles*

I forgot about Star Trek, probably still go MOS more lol but Kahn was a great villian. Zod and Kahn by far the best villians last year lol. Screw little Loki lol

I must be in the minority that hated Pacific Rim. I thought it was an awful movie.

this,

and this

Loki is a fangirl attraction!

@rouflex: lol yeah no doubt, one of my friends who's a huge marvel fan even said "why does loki look emo?" lol

@vaeternus:

I didnt like the fact that they killed Zod, i almost voted for Pacific rim... As for Star Trek, i saw it but i dont remember a thing about it xD (Maybe i wasnt looking at it and i was doing other things... i should rewatch it)... Wolverine and Iron man 3 was a waste of my time.

@rouflex: Yeah I agree on Marvel films this year were junk overall.

The Zod thing I didn't mind but I know had lots of debate. PR wasn't bad but just a typical monster movie to me, it's like Godzilla, Gamara, Cloverfield etc have done it million times already so I was like blah with it. Star Trek was good but really only if you're a Trekkie fan or into good space, sci fi movies. I kind of stopped taking Loki seriously when Hulk ragdolled him lol.