I actually thought the two pilots thing was cool and kept the interactions between characters during action scenes from devolving into Top Gun, just dudes shouting at speakers an shit. They also explained it pretty well at the beginning of the movie, it’s too mentally draining on one person to run the robots, hence the need for two of them and was a rather decent plot drivin plot point. I mean it’s no more nonsensical then the idea of fighting giant monsters with giant robots which is a pretty nonsensical thing to do from the get go.
Just seems like a nit picky thing to complain about to me.
Well, when that occured with Mako and Raleigh, it’s justified in that he knows what to do from second nature via being a veteran pilot(over a decade!), and Mako doesn’t; he’s helping her catch up, as she does lag behind a little bit(rewatch, it’s subtle, but it’s there, until the sword becomes relevant). Remember, that was the 1st time she piloted a Jaeger for real!
Also, this is one mother of an homage movie to the tokusatsu/giant monster and kaiju genre, of COURSE attacks must be called.
The 100 billion cost is EXACTLY my point more than anything else. The more they move and the more damage they take, the more expensive to repair and maintain, so while ‘punching the shit out a fake godzilla’ might be semi-effective, my goal would be to find something to end the fight as QUICKLY and efficiently as possible…and trying to Roy Jones those things sounds like a losing battle over time (as we saw).
But alas don’t get me twisted, I enjoyed the shit out of the fighting and the concept. I’m about to go box diving to try and find my copy when I get home so I cna watch the 3D joint. It’s just that if I was in that world with any level of ‘power’ or ‘influence’, these battles would be more long range and footsy based.
And I still want that “Keep Calm And Cancel The Apocolypse” on a hat…
Ok I might as well just post my huge rant about how much I hated Pacific Rim here. It WOULD have been a great movie, but then they had to go fucking ruin it with the same old bullshit “OH MY GOD WHITE HERO SAVIOR COMES AND THE ASIAN GIRL THROWS HERSELF ON HIS DICK” garbage that hollywood keeps spewing. The scene where they first meet she’s already raping him with her eyes. There’s the scene where the white guy has to show how much better at asian culture he is by beating the japanese chick at kendo or whatever the fuck it was they were doing. Then to add insult to injury, the hong kong team gets murder/pwned by teh monsters, and its up to the white people to come save them. oh and the russian team get pwned too, because technically russia is part of europe and asia, but its ok, HERE COMES THE WHITE PEOPLE TO SAVE THE DAY. oh and OF COURSE the black guy dies. i’m just shocked that there wasn’t a gratuitous sex scene between asian girl and white guy that they show in every single white savior movie.
F- I can only hope they keep that racist garbage to a minimum in the sequel. The monster fighting was good but everything else about the movie was crap.
On the former, I did catch that, but I feel they could have done similar things while in different suits. That said, if the mind sync thing was the film’s greatest flaw, I’d have no real issue.
Attacks being called, I got nothing against… but they were called like in one scene, as a means for Raleigh to show the ropes to Mako (who he’s been mind-synced with for a while now), and then never again.
Yeah, it’s made pretty clear. Single pilot = dead body, and Jaeger damaged from falling over itself.
Like here:
Death by stress-induced seizure.
Agreed, but something to keep in mind is that Jaegers are made by single countries, so, say for instance, with Romeo Blue, this guy in my avatar, as seen here:
The Jaegers are more than merely weapons. They are the pillars that the majority of the world’s populace looks to when a Kaiju attacks, i.e., when all else fails.
Kind of like DC/Marvel heroes.
It’s a morale thing, too. Before differences/tensions were set aside, as exposited on in the prologue, they showed a few shots of riots going on.
People are scared!
Guess who and what shows up to assuage that fear?
The titans we built to stand as our finest.
Side note, mentally add in the metallic clank when that piston-actuated(like an extender-punch, Cherno did it later in the movie) blow connects(which also happened to kill Hardship, that kaiju, then and there; it sounded excruciating.
You gotta consider things past just the fighting, really; which would be more hype to the common people so that they feel more secure, a Kaiju getting returned to dust by gunfire from a distance, or that?
It’s VERY important to keep the general populace calm in the wake of a cosmic horror story being reality(dead serious, think about it; without the Jaegers, we’d be as nothing!, Dayum, Precursors.), and what better way than clearly depicting that when the time comes, our enemy dies horribly when we will it?
AP raises a good point, movie is bullshit, they let a black dude lead humanitys last defence lol, I mean seriously common to fuck now, a nigga in charge of humanitys last line? I dunno why i didnt catch on to this betrayal of common sense sooner
u lucky bastards, I was slaving away at work all day, reading all this fail, and just fucking planning…biding my time, if you will.
LET’S BEGIN!!!
count the punches. Notice how many fucking non punch weapons they gave Gundam’s?
They’re giant mech’s built to save mankind. What kind of ass backwards plan was “give them hardly any offensive weapons, we’ll just let them get RIGHT NEXT to the giant death monsters that are wiping out cities, and punch them until they’re dead.”???
It was stated that the first one was taken out with jet’s and bombs and tanks. Took 6 days, mind you. This was with weapon designed to fight smaller objects. It was shown in the movie that they DID make bigger missiles and guns and swords that could kill Kaiju. So why EVER would your #1 strategy be “rush headfirst towards the animal”???
They were losing a lot of Jaeger’s in straight up fist fights. Enough that they were down to like 4 by the end, which got promptly fucked up because they were using fisticuff’s. I’d rather sit 500 feet back, and shoot something to death, wasting several million in bullets, missiles, and so on, instead of losing a 100 billion dollar robot in a fist fight. These weren’t gladiator fights. This was the end of the fucking world.
Kaiju Blue was taken care of by Hannibal Chau. Every bit of a Kaiju was taken by Chau and his mafia. They all actually had uses. This was mentioned in the movie.
what fucking movie did you watch?
That sure looks like he exploded the living fuck out of it. Not ash.
I liked the general idea of using two pilots, the problem like you said was that it wasn’t explored AT ALL. You get like one scene of buddy in Mako’s head, and the general plotline of how horrible it was to have his brother die while connected. Which really was never brought up again.
And like other’s have stated, if they share memories and mind’s, why are they calling out every fucking attack, and why are some buttons only available to some people? “Vent the coolant!!!” ummm, why the fuck can’t you?
that’s been said already, come up with something better, and at least one fucking example or original thought of your own
Who in their right mind would tell the last living black guy on Earth “no”. Especially when he single handedly piloted a Jaeger and killed a Kaiju doing it. The entire world came to him and even they weren’t ballsy enough to say ‘fuck you you’re done’ they were “we’re probably fucked anyways, so we’re gonna pay you till we inevitably die, have what’s left of the Jaeger’s and may God have mercy on us all.”
I am shocked he didn’t beat the shit out of the shitty hero who’s name isn’t worth googling, and declared Mako his. “Fuck you, she ain’t my daughter. I FOUND HER! SHE MINE! Now gimme 20 pushups in real life and as a giant robot.”
Keep in mind that the last few Kaiju that got sent through, all died via sword or gun. They evolved zero defence for this, with the exception of the last guy to get shot up, he needed extra bullets to slow him down, but they were shooting him in the fucking shoulder and armpits. Aliens send their big bads, and he fucking cuts one in got damn half with the sword. Why didn’t every fucking Jaeger not have that sword? Nope, gonna punch you for 30 minutes instead, I should be safe the entire time, ignoring the countless other pilots who died because the monster got within punching distance and pushed their shit in.
Fix the logical fallacies in the movie, and I’m 100% on board. The rest of you can continue praising Godzilla Jr’s Rave: the Movie.
Not at all because I love Gundam, and I love crazy robot shit, but this movie wasn’t trying to be Gundam AT ALL, you could tell it wasn’t trying to be Gundam from the damn trailers. This movie has a lot more in common with Robot shows like Evangelion then it does Gundam. They where trying to treat the Robots with some semblance of realism (Like Eva), something Gundam gave up on in it’s very first season.
This is why i said this movie may not be for you. They aren’t going to fix what you don’t like. It’s a movie trying to portray giant robots in a realistic fashion, when what you want is Gundam/Macross/TTGL/GoGaiGar. You’re most likely not going to get it as those are not really the inspiration for this movie outside of really superficial stuff like name calling attacks.
