Pacific Rim: Giant Monsters, Robots, and You
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Published 2023-07-31
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Ah, the awesome giant robot movie that totally deserved a sequel. A real shame they never made one.
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This movie was amazing, shame it never got a sequel.
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The actress who played Mako as a child had difficulty pronouncing del Toro's name, so she called him "Totoro-san," and del Toro was completely cool with it. This has barely anything to do with the movie itself, but it's such an adorable tidbit that someone had to mention it.
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I'd argue Raleigh is actually more unique than you give him credit for. In so many movies these macho men insist on standing above their female peers, but he at every turn uplifts and believes in Mako, even when she doesn't herself. And he insists that she deserves respect. It's a breath of fresh air.
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Pacific Rim is responsible for one of my favorite childhood memories where 5 minutes in my dad turned to me in the theater and said “this is the coolest movie I’ve ever seen” and he was right.
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The way the robots feel so large and bulky yet have realistic agility necessary to fight giant monsters is genuinely perfect design. They move just fast enough to win fights but not too fast to be human.
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One behind the scenes thing I absolutely loved was the actress for child Mako who was a very young Japanese girl and had trouble saying and remembering Del Toros name so she called him 'Totoro-san'
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The fact that everything in the cockpits aside from the holographic displays was a physical set was an amazing touch to this film. The pair who played the pilots for Cherno Alpha had hundreds of gallons of water sprayed on them for the shot. Del Toro himself said they built torture chambers as set pieces.
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Fun fact: The reason the Kaiju in Hong Kong did so well against Cherno, Crimson, and Stryker is because due to Charlie’s drift with the Kaiju brain the Precursors were able to specifically design the Kaiju to counter the Jeagers. The reason they didn’t do as well against Gipsy is because Charlie and by extension the Precursors didn’t know it’s capabilities at that point.
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When I went to see Pacific Rim in theaters with my father, we went with a common goal: Watch giant robots fighting giant monsters. Critics panned it, said the plot was bad. We didn't care. We paid for giant robots fighting giant monsters, and we got giant robots fighting giant monsters. Still happy about it to this day.
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To me the most memorable part is the beginning, when they step into the mechs for the first time. The sheer scale of the machinery slotting into place. Blew my little mind
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Pacific Rim was my all time favourite movie. I'm really excited when they announce that there will be a sequel for this movie, I've been waiting for almost 10 years now, it really is such a shame they never made one 😥
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Fun fact: Go Nagai, the guy who created the first real mecha anime ever (and also Devilman) absolutely loved this movie.
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Fun fact: Gypsy Danger was designed to not only look like a WWII bomber, another reminder of when we beat them Nahtzees, but it was also modeled after a freaking cowboy, too lol.
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Lmao i watched this at my 9th or 10th birthday party and all i remember was we were all pretending to be kaiju and jaeger and someone ended up getting hit with a folding chair💀💀💀
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Ten minutes into the movie, my wife goes "This is such a guy movie I feel hair growing on my chest." We both loved it.
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Genuinely goated movie, so sad they never made a sequel. Loved the always sunny references
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The shot with Gispy Danger walking up to Otachi dragging along an entire oil freighter as improvised club is genuinely one of my favourite shots in cinema.
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I was a teenage boy when this movie came out, I was the exact demographic they were going for. I loved this movie when i was younger and i still do now, I used to just listen to the pacific rim theme while gaming or doing anything at all
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the fact that every shot is done as if it was taken from an actual camera/helicopter in universe is such cool attention to detail, little things like that are things that the sequel just failed to even remotely consider
