Uh, because it looks like a cut-rate evangelion, which may touch on sci-fi themes, but will likely have as much depth or substance as a WWF show?
Well, to be accurate, it looks like a Western-made kaiju/tokusatsu movie with enormously high production values made by an acclaimed director. Which shouldn't come as a surprise, since that's exactly what it is.
As for resembling Evangelion -- aside from the pilot-synchronization thing, which probably is meant as a direct Eva reference, it mostly doesn't. There's no evidence of rampant slapdash religious/occult iconography, no psychologically abused children, or conspicuously cross-shaped explosions (which is sorta a shame...).
As for substance, it's a giant monster movie! While it's true some of the genre *did* address more serious issues --the original Godzilla is kinda a weirdly haunting elegy for Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Smog Monster was about the dangers of pollution-- mostly they don't.
As for resembling the WWF... yes, it does. Par for the course. I've always thought of kaiju movies as "the kind of professional wrestling I like". Do you really expect 200 ft tall monsters and the robots who fight them to sit around discussing their lives like in
My Dinner With Andre? Although I would absolutely pay to see
that movie in the theaters.
Kaiju films aren't for everyone, but if you grew up with them, you probably think Pacific Rim looks pretty good.
Have you considered corrective lenses or perhaps LASIK?
Me? I totally psyched. Especially since it's such an outlandish project: a big-budget giant monster movie made by an Academy Award & Palm D'or nominated, BAFTA-winning director. The fact it got made is stranger than fiction...
