Ten reasons Pacific Rim had a poor opening weekend in Japan ($3 million)

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Japanese don't like Kaiju movies. They only made them for export.Gojiro

Gojira and friendThey've had giant robots battling aliens up to here, thank you very much.

Yanks piloting Gundam-like mecha is Japan's worst nightmare.


Character names sound ridiculous in Japanese (oops! they sound ridiculous in every language).


First reports declared it Gainax's weakest-ever reboot of
Neon Genesis Evangelion.


white house go boomNo scenes of the White House being blown up.


Film did good in China -- too good.China


Actors were too old to be believable as child pilots -- not one had blue hair.

Japanese audiences turned off by American habit of dropping atomic bombs on everything.


mako cam-tasticTook so long to open in Japan, the Japanese all had time to watch the cam copy off the Internet.

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