7 Films With Terrible Stories That Were Saved By Great Directing

4) Pacific Rim

Out of all the movies in this list, Pacific Rim takes the cake for having the single most cringeworthy story. Logline: Giant robots attack the giant monsters from another world that were sent to destroy us. If that’s not the least innovative story to “grace” our screens this year, then I don’t know what is. What was even more disgusting was the god-awful dialogue: I’m not sure how many times I can hear someone scream, “Mako!” But I digress, this isn’t about the writing. Really, not much else needs to be said about the story, since, you know, there wasn’t really much of one.

But then you get the rave reviews that all say one thing: who cares that there was no story, it was entertaining as hell! I’m not sure about you, but a giant robot using a ship as a weapon was pretty damn awesome. It was such a throwback to the cartoons of old that it was hard not to enjoy the explosive fights that usually ended up with either a Jaeger or a Kaiju revealing another asset of their system that had the audience cheering.

What director Guillermo del Toro did behind the camera more than made up for the lack of story and ensured that audiences would be having way too much fun to even realize how thin the narrative was.

Don’t believe me? Just watch the video above.