Comments on: Movie Review: Pacific Rim (2013) https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-pacific-rim-2013-2/ nerdy news for fangirls and fanboys Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: Iain McNally https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-pacific-rim-2013-2/#comment-30632 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:15:56 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=16867#comment-30632 Didn’t they say that that each country DID pool their resources to make the Jaegers? Weren’t they all different versions/marks hence the major differences?

From a storytelling point of point of view they were all different to make it easy to see at a glance who’s fighting (think of the silhouettes in Team Fortress 2).

As for remote control, if they’d done that there’d be no tension and Drama as there’d be no risk to the Jaeger pilots. Del Toro built the Jaeger cockpits and pilot rigs so that you the audience could tie the fighting action to the human pilots inside (also he seems to like blasting actors with thousands of litres of water).

Sure they could have made things a little more technically correct, but it would have been a MUCH less fun movie ;)

]]> By: Szilard Barany https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-pacific-rim-2013-2/#comment-30246 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:55:56 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=16867#comment-30246 I was a tad disappointed, First, it was not science fiction, just fiction. Del Toro scarified too much brains for visuals. You summarized the problems fairly well in one of the last paragraphs, but there is more. Let’s accept for a moment that a jaeger is the best way to fight kaijus; but then how come that they developed so many different ones? It would have been much cheaper for humanity to mass produce one (or two) different models per generation, than each country pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into their own jaegers. Why could not the jaegers be remote controlled if the communication works even through portals? Etc., etc. The whole movie is just a decoration around a few fights which are the 2013 version of Mortal Kombat or something more weird Japan-only console game. At least there should have been a glorious self-sacrifice at the end, but no, Raleigh did not know when is the appropriate time to die. And then they send 15 choppers to rescue 2 people, but wait, the coppers do not stop for them…
I am now really happy that Del Toro eventually did not direct the Hobbit. I can’t imagine how it would have turned out, but surely I would have liked much less than PJ’s rendering.
BTW, the my favourite element in Pacific Rim was the jaeger AI voice for obvious reasons. I mean, I think with Portals.

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