Come to think of it, it would’ve been nice to see Jaeger sniper-type specialists for long-range. It could work considering you have to have 2 minds for a Jaeger, a trained sniper and spotter working together in one machine body sounds amazing. Hell, add a few built specifically for underwater combat with great swimming speed, and some anti-submarine missiles to counter or match Kaiju of that specific type.
Another thing, why didn’t they have drop points for quickly resupplying the Jaegers with more ammo and making on-site repairs? I know funding was cut and they were on their last legs in the movie, but did they have these kinds of things setup before that point?
Do or did any of the bases housing the Jaegers have weapons of any kind? Like the kind of weapons most modern warships have, especially for long-range weaponry when the Jaegers out on the battlefield need emergency support.
I’m no military expert or anything, but watching past mech-anime and some military movies has me bringing up this stuff in my head.
Building on the sniper idea, i would love to see a Hit n Run type Jaeger (ala Kampfer from MS G). Can you imagine a squad of slightly smaller but vastly more agile and heavy firepower taking down a kaiju or three.
Sadly, even though it should have probably already made enough to get a sequel made, most likely it will take a minute for it to actually come out and given Del Toro I mean just shy of probably 6 years. It will probably be worth it but unless he makes an exception because of his love for giant robots I can’t see it anytime soon.
plot was atrocious, but the movie was stunning and very fun. 7/10, would watch again fo sho. the writing is just so super weak plot wise. like 2/10 bad. visually great, but the mechs needed more weapons rather then just be big things that punch stuff, since obviously the kaijus are faster and stronger then them, so even a 20 story tall mech has to still play it smart and try to reduce a kaiju from getting into a wrestling match with him.
first 15 minutes were better then the entire wolverine movie, and i still think man of steel is better. to each its own, but man of steel was bout that life. niggas just love to hate on superman. i get it.
simple things that wouldve made the plot better
[details=Spoiler]1) the kaiju once they come through the breach appear in random places across the globe. the fact that they all came from that one breach made everything else make less sense. all the humans would have to do is focus all their fire power and monitoring in that one area until they figure out how to bypass what was preventing them from sending bombs through the breach. just leave some huge bombs and detonate and replace them after every kaiju comes through, or one of many different things that dont make it that hard to defend a single point of entry.
yeah, it makes very little sense that the jaegers werent armed to the t with everything from flare attacks to sound attacks, heavy artillery machine guns, spiked knuckles, multiple blades, or even a fucking battle sword. the plasma gun seemed to be really powerful but it wasnt their go to weapon at the start of the fight which made no sense, and there was no explanation for it, like it drains the battery fast and is a last ditch weapon, or whatever. didnt seem to effect the mach 3, cause he unloaded on that one kaiju and went on about his business.
it just woulda been better if the kaijus once coming through the breach would rip space time in random spots on earth and come through it (its a movie you dont have to explain why), making it harder to react to them with any type of decent time, and it woulda made the end plot a little better as they try to capture one and take it back to the original breach to breakthrough, then we coulda had my nigga the marshall not die in such a sucka ass way, and he coulda stayed up top and alive fighting the kaijus on earth, while sons of anarchy and pretty asian girl went to go handle their business at the original breach.
then oh snap on their way to the original breach with a captured kaiju, maybe the biologist, newt, found a way to create something to inject into it and put knock it out temporarily, but when they get to the original breach, oh shit a new category 5 kaiju manifested, the knocked out one wakes up, its two on 1, and the only way for the plan to work is for them to dive in with the kaiju and hope they can escape using their pods, and that they get lucky and come back through the ocean floor and not the top of a volcano or something.
see, bam, i just made the movie that much better by twisting the plot just a tad, and giving the jaegers more weapons. was that so hard[/details]
lol, did you read what i typed. i said the spots being random woulda gave more to the plot then the breach being the single point of entry to attack/defend, which they didnt, which made things stupid plot wise imo.
You know watching the Russian duo shit the bed over a water breach, you figured they would’ve gave jaeger pilots underwater helmets or at least something. I mean only most of your fights seem to take place in the ocean, what are the chances of water getting in right???
haha yeah, that was pretty silly. like you had no redundancies at all for the possibility of a water breach? i was kinda shocked there were no emergency eject pods or whatever until the end. like, youre just gonna go down swinging and die rather then eject in hopes you can live to fight another day.
oh, and the building of the wall was fucking stupid too. i cant believe that was even bothered to be written into the script. the fucking wall wasnt even taller then the damn monsters. HAHA, and no redundancies, so once you breached the first layer of the wall, well, that was it. i mean again, the plot for the movie is a solid 1 or 2 out of ten. its really bad.
It doesn’t even matter. They were screwed and severely damaged by that point. Damned lv3 acid spit, i was mad salty when i saw them taken out like that.
Nah, they were a a Jaeger-based weapon system mounted in Striker Eureka. Probably the most effective weapon against the Kaiju besides those obsidian-steel alloy swords(Death swords lol). Both were basically instant death in the hypest of ways.
if all they did was bomb the breach upon emergence of a kaiju they probably wouldn’t have figured out that they needed kaiju DNA to cross over. I know what you’re saying but it just would be a waste of ammo
I think they addressed the absurdity of the wall on purpose when they showed the Kaiju waltz through the Aussie wall of life on the TV; one worker even said “Why they hell are we even building this thing??!” It’s just another lame half ass plan cooked up by bureaucrats to distract the population with false hope as they and the other elites take the Jaeger money and bounce three hundred miles inland. GGPO, poor people LOL! (It’s not like they don’t do this type of thing in real life or anything.)
As for the Russian’s lack of underwater gear. They’re Russian… they tend to cut corners when it comes to the safety of their soldiers and pilots. Same with the Chinese.
