Is it worth suffering through Grown Ups 2 to watch Pacific Rim?

Why go to the theater to watch a movie you don't like? Save up for something you actually like!

Grown Ups 2 has a resounding 7% on Rotten Tomatoes right now.

Considering the last one garnered 10%, take that as you will.

Couldn't you just skip Grown ups 2?

if it's a drive in, couldn't you just, like, play with your phone/3ds/vita or something until pacific rim comes on?

I would just nap, play a game, or something til Pacific rim starts.

Pacific Rim is good and dumb, a hell of a lot better than any Transformers movie; could have been better but still one of the best movies of the summer.

While you have a sunscreen (is that what they are called? Sunshield?) on the windshield so you don't have to even see it in your peripheral vision.

No need to force yourself to watch it, just skip it and wait for pacific rim, so you can see that aswome action....

As I said in the first couple words of my post it's a drive in not a theater. You have to watch one then the other.

Joy...

Not if you want a good spot. You need to get there early to find a good place to park and since the movie plays first you kind of need to sit through it to see the good one.

Ya that's a good idea. I will just bring my Vita and play that while I wait.

yea just saw pacific rim today was fucking awesome.

i agree with what animasta said, just go on your phone or play a handheld while its going on.

Quick question. Do you have to be in the car to keep the spot? If so you could park your car, put some blow up dolls (or manikins ) dressed up as you in the front seat. Then have a buddy pick you up and drive around\hang out and go back to you car for Pacific Rim. That might be too much work, just go with the Vita thing.

@crusader8463: I've been to a drive-in only once, so I've forgotten how they're run.

@monkeyman04: They don't go around checking or anything, so I guess you could. The vita option is much better though. Now I just gotta find where I left that dam thing.

Paying for a ticket for both movies means you're supporting Grown Ups 2, albeit unwillingly. Can you by any chance go see Pacific Rim at a regular theater?

I'd say do not give a single penny to Grown Ups 2.

Find some hotty and instead of watching Grown Ups just get BIZ-AY

Then when Pacific Rim comes on you're good to go.

This is a good point. Even if you manage to solve this problem, the world will still be worse off for your actions.

Just don't do it. Don't give Grown Ups 2 the financial support it doesn't deserve.

I don't get the hate for Grown Ups, it's not that bad.

Go to a regular theater.

Grown Ups 2 looks like a holocaust of comedy. I can't imagine Pacific Rim being good enough to sit through that. Can't you just go to a normal theater?

grr, what you doing in here Owen?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20687809,00.html

One of the last movies I saw at a drive in was Ang Lee's The Hulk. It was a very dark film and was hard to see on the screen. Would Pacific Rim be similar?

If you go you're supporting a terrible movie. If you don't go your local drive-in will go out of business. Choose.

@milkman: @hunkulese: I have a rule of never going to a Theater unless it's both the latest showing they offer and a school night to minimize the chances of kids/teens being in there. Literally every time I have not abided by this rule I have had a terrible experience and the movie was ruined by annoying kids that would never shut up the entire movie. Given that it's summer break I don't go to theaters.

man 7% on rotten tomatoes? Is it at least so bad that it becomes funny?

Yeah do it

Give this a read?

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/grownups2.html

What's so special about this movie whose poster reminds me of Transformers and G.I. Joe?

@crusader8463: yeah just play your vita til rim starts.

@jouseldelka said:

What's so special about this movie whose poster reminds me of Transformers and G.I. Joe?

Unlike transformers and GI Joe it doesn't suck? The action is awesome, there is some actual character development, the special effects are ridiculously good, the acting is pretty solid considering this is a summer action movie, it has Idris Elba, he makes speeches and stuff. Unlike the other two movies Hideo Kojima likes it?

Basically take Evangelion and remove all the emo crap and BS ending, add in a dash of the schlocky but good parts of Robot Jocks, and steal transformers special effects.... you end up with something sort of close to Pacific Rim.

@jouseldelka said:

What's so special about this movie whose poster reminds me of Transformers and G.I. Joe?

There's more posters

There needs to be a worldwide boycott on Adam Sandler. Man just needs to stop. Please just stop.

Giving any amount of money to Grown Ups 2 is a goddamn travesty. People who willingly give money for that money are literally everything that is wrong with this country.

That being said, giving money to Pacific Rim is pretty fucking awesome, so you just might come out ahead on the Karma aspects. But still, goddamn, fuck all non-90s Adam Sandler movies.

@joey: Those posters are friggin awesome. Sucks that we only ever get that transformers looking crap here in North America. If you could get those posters with the movie logo removed I would get them framed on my wall.

And of course my vehicle broke yesterday so I'm not going to be able to go anywhere any time soon. :(

I would suffer through the worst adam sandler movie to see Pacific Rim. Just occupy your time with something else until the real event starts.

It makes me so sad knowing that Grown Ups 2 will probably do leagues better financially than Pacific Rim.

Oh...I get it. The point is not about the "sit through" part but the "give money to Grown Ups 2" part.

In that case, I'd say don't do it.

The nice thing about a drive through is you can bring friends and talk without being a bother to others. So just bring some friends along, talk about shit, maybe drink a beer or two (you'll be clear by the end of pacific rim) and make fun of grown ups 2 while it's on.

wow, it just reads like random things happen in the movie and there's no semblance of a plot whatsoever. did it have writers??

@joey and that poster is ten kinds of buttfuggin' awesome :)

Do drive-ins still have crappy door mounted speakers? I'd rather experience PR in a theater with good sound, myself.

Don't do it man, don't do it.

Don't go to a drive-in theater. Half the experience is the SOUND, and crappy drive-in theater sound can't come close to a proper theater's sound system.