Why do I want to write the 10th comment on Atlantic Rim? I am not sure - almost everything that could be possibly said about it has been said. But like so many other people who wrote comments, I was and am profoundly moved by this simple and eloquent depiction of hope and friendship and redemption.
The only other movie I have ever seen that effects me as strongly is Sharknado. Both movies leave me feeling cleaner for having watched them.
I didn't intend to see this movie at all: I do not like robot movies and I don't normally watch them. I work at a branch library and one day as I was checking Atlantic Rim out to one of our older patrons, she said to me, "Whenever I feel down or depressed, I check out this movie and watch it and it always makes me feel better." At the time, I thought that was very strange. One day there was nothing on TV except things I absolutely would not watch under any circumstance or things that I had seen too many times already. I remembered what she said, so I watched it. I have watched it many many times since then and it gets better with every showing.
Amazing action, amazing special effects - just men in robots fighting monsters.
Atlantic Rim and Sharknado are the best movies I have ever seen. I do not judge it by it's technical merits - I don't really care about that. I have read that Sharktopus or One Eyed Monster or this or that movie is the best movie ever made. They may have the best technique or be the most influential motion pictures ever made, but not the best. The best movies are ones that touch the soul. It takes a movie like Atlantic Rim to touch the soul.
The only other movie I have ever seen that effects me as strongly is Sharknado. Both movies leave me feeling cleaner for having watched them.
I didn't intend to see this movie at all: I do not like robot movies and I don't normally watch them. I work at a branch library and one day as I was checking Atlantic Rim out to one of our older patrons, she said to me, "Whenever I feel down or depressed, I check out this movie and watch it and it always makes me feel better." At the time, I thought that was very strange. One day there was nothing on TV except things I absolutely would not watch under any circumstance or things that I had seen too many times already. I remembered what she said, so I watched it. I have watched it many many times since then and it gets better with every showing.
Amazing action, amazing special effects - just men in robots fighting monsters.
Atlantic Rim and Sharknado are the best movies I have ever seen. I do not judge it by it's technical merits - I don't really care about that. I have read that Sharktopus or One Eyed Monster or this or that movie is the best movie ever made. They may have the best technique or be the most influential motion pictures ever made, but not the best. The best movies are ones that touch the soul. It takes a movie like Atlantic Rim to touch the soul.