It was Pacific Rim, but regardless of director (loved Pan's Labyrinth), this movie is clearly catering to the Michael Bay mindless action crowd which, while having fans of all ages, generally are targeted at teenagers. Maybe that's disputable? Personally I don't think so... Also, it's not so much that people loved the trailer, more that it was 3000 comments of people explaining how much they "just came", and not a single critical voice. I really doubt that would be the case on HN if it had been submitted/allowed here.

Yeah, HN probably wouldn't have gushing, juvenile, and repetitive comments, one after another like reddit did.

But still, the movies that are gushed about here are so typical and mainstream and many times mirror imdb's top movies that it really makes any case of trying to use movie opinions to show HN as better than Reddit rather silly.

The trailer was for Ender's Game. Considering the demographic of Reddit and the significance of that book to many in that demographic (including me), it is no surprise that the post was so popular.

I am not 17. I am 38.

I must have missed the mecha robots and godzillas in Ender's Game! Got no beef with that book, rather enjoyed it. The book was not about mindless action, so it's not the kind of movie I was talking about.

Ok. Then I missed the post you're talking about. My apologies. Nothing to see here....