YES! Go ahead and do it! I met Tony personally at a job interview and almost got hired. Better you should do his Ymir than his monitor lizard version of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. I didn't see the point to that one. Killed the dinosaur awesomeness. We've got lizards. We don't have dinosaurs.
Someone did a nice B20KF in Lightwave on Youtube. When I shared it on Facebook I got hostility from purists.
I agree about Pacific Rim.
Even though the non-stop action of current films is bad, I remembered being a kid in the '50s and being BORED waiting and waiting for the movie to start, and quit the military stock footage, old men talking in wood paneled offices, and dull exposition- a problem I did *not* have with THEM! when I was 5. Good script, well-paced. Some movies know how to build up to the action, some don't.