“Today, we are rescheduling the apocalypse!”
How’s a week from tuesday for everyone?
Tuesdays aren’t good. That’s when I have my spinning class. How’s Thursday?
There is an issue of Wired with an article on the physics (or not) or Pacific Rim.
This is a serious “turn of brain to enjoy” movie.
However, anything in here less stupid than programming a virus for an alien computer on a Mac. 
Don’t forget #3: Nitpicking “plot holes” that were actually explained in the text of the film, but you were so busy patting yourself on the back for your genius discovery of what the idiot writers overlooked that you missed the scene entirely. Which friend moriah has been demonstrating for us in marvelous capacity.
Yes, I’ll admit that my two categories of nitpicks were limited to ones where the nitpicker isn’t simply wrong.
If I were adding a third category it would be nitpicks based on the idea that if it isn’t explicitly stated as true then it can’t be assumed regardless of how reasonable or rational it is. “And apparently in the crazy world of the Brady Bunch the alimentary canal does not terminate with excretory orifices since we never saw them go to the bathroom!”
A fourth (and why should I not amend my own list which I initially stated as definitively two items long) would be Nitpicks Rejecting Shorthand So As Not to Bore the Audience. “In that scene where Jack McCoy received a call telling him all of the details of an appeal ruling, including a line by line reading of the 45 page appendix, we didn’t have to stare at him listening on the phone nearly long enough to actually have conveyed that information.” Or, in sitcom dining rooms why does everybody only sit at the three sides of the table not closest to the camera?"
Oh, no! You’re going to hurt my feelings!!
Pacific Rim Nuclear Technology:
LOL, aren’t you precious. Revealing that a movie whose entire purpose is to translate the giant robot vs. monster trope onto the big screen… has other tropes in it. Simply astonishing.
We look forward to more of your insightful water-is-wet style discoveries!
. . . I would have written that Gipsy Danger was off-line at the time of the EMP, and so none of her critical systems were affected. But they didn’t ask me to help with the screenplay.
And not ‘Glen’. Not anymore.
Yes, I am precious. Like a beautiful little girl. Who is the only one to survive a disaster. And be singled out by a thirty story monster who suddenly has a hankering to kill one tiny humanoid instead of wiping out hundreds of thousands more in the next town.
You’ve never watched a dog get fixated on a fly, have you?
Secondly - that was as seen thru her eyes/memory of the event - not neccisarily the ‘reality’ of what happened that day… many people think/feel that the ‘monster was after them specifically’ when reality is the monster was just looking for a place to sit down and pick the crap out of his toes.
I have seen this movie twice, once in 3D and once in IMAX 3D - loved it both times. However, the one nagging question I have is this:
Why did the Kaiju rip open the underground shelter and stick it’s glowing multi-tentacle flower-like thingy in and wave it over the head of that guy from Horrible Bosses, only to pull it back out and turn away? What was the point of that?
I know, I know, Gypsy Danger is coming up behind to take batting practice with a ship, but I did not get the impression at all that the Kaiju was disrupted whilst doing whatever the hell it was doing with it’s super fancy tongue-like thingy.
I took it to show that his ‘slide’ worked with the critters - it may have originaly just wanted to find him (wasn’t attacking, but looking for) and then, as you say, it had to go deal with Gypsy Danger - it’s also possible it turned to ‘protect’ its new little buddy.
I don’t really want to justify your silly little nitpicking, but I am starting to doubt you actually even watched the film.
Forgetting even that the scene in question was a stylised memory of Mako’s from when she was a child and so of course would focus on her, how did you miss that the Kaiju repeatedly focused on those single tiny humanoids?
The Kaiju that attacked Gypsy Danger originally stopped its approach on Anchorage to attack one little fishing boat.
The flying Kaiju spent its whole time in Hong Kong looking for one, specific, tiny little humanoid.
The Leatherback seemed very interested in the two tiny humanoids standing on top of Striker Eureka with flareguns.
Are you sure you didn’t watch Robot Jox instead by accident?
It was obvious that his slide worked, and it was equally obvious that it was after him - but why?
I just didn’t get the impression that it was Gypsy Danger that caused the Kaiju to retract. I guess it’s becoming clear to me that this was the intent, but I think it was poorly executed. Bad editing?
Otachi pulled its glowtongue away, and then the scene cut to Gipsy Danger approaching. So it’s strongly implied that’s why Otachi didn’t eat the nebbish. Although I wonder if it’s left ambiguous to keep the alien motivations mysterious.
I downloaded the soundtrack. I hadn’t noticed before the recurrent deep bass horn in the main theme that matches Gipsy Danger’s attack horn; nice touch. Some of the other themes are amusing – there’s a part with a Russian chorus during the Shatterdome theme, for example.
what I was trying to say was that ‘because’ the slide worked the kaiju had a ‘connection’ with him and was looking for him - just not as someone to squash. It (the Kaiju) felt a connection to him based on the slide.
I got the impression that it was a subplot that got cut. The black market dealer made a big deal of the fact that the slide goes two ways. When he said that, I assumed this meant the Kaiju would have learned as much about us as we learned about them. That’s why the last few were so devastating versus the Jaegers, because they learned what they were from that connection. (Hey, we learned you’re weak to electric, so, take this!) But you know, that would have been actual logical plotting.
So, rather, that whole subplot got shifted to just going after Charlie simply because, “Hey, you hacked us!”
But then again, the whole movie could have be shortcircuited by a giant robot auto punching machine / meat grinder parked over the portal.
I was certain we were going to discover that the kaiju were also, basically, jaegers–piloted by the aliens–and that the “brain” section which had always dissolved too quickly before they hacked through to it didn’t contain a brain at all but a pair of aliens. I felt like the slide subplot was leading to some such “we’re not so different” twist, and then when they detected a heartbeat while inside the dead kaiju I thought I had nailed it.
But nope.
Del Toro specifically portrayed the aliens as The Enemy. I don’t think he wanted any moral ambiguity or shades of gray. They’re the Bad Guys, and that’s it. Had the kaiju been jaegers of a different color, that would’ve brought back that whole “just like us” dynamic which was refreshingly missing.