[Movies] Pacific Rim (Now out!)

[IllegallySane]

I'll be honest...I saw the preview of this movie when going to see the new Superman Movie, and I thought the whole, "We need two pilots for one mech!" thing was utterly stupid. I was actually liking the entire preview until I saw that, it just seemed like, from the preview, a silly plot device so that the main character can save the day.

I also hope they don't cheap out on the "Giant Robots vs Monsters" scenes like the new Star Trek movie did with Space Battles. That was so disappointing.

Agreed, the "two pilots" thing was a very convenient plot device. and it was also a incredibly thinly veiled metaphor.

"It's hard, to be connected to someone for so long, and then to have them just suddenly gone. I'm not sure if I will be able to connect with anybody else" - More or less a word for word quote regarding the linking process.

The in-movie explanation worked for me when you think about it.

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It's not the mech just reading your movements, you ARE the mech; your mind is hooked up to the mech's computers in order to make controlling the mech's movements much easier. The pilots would be bombarded with loads of information because everything happening in to the mech is fed into their brains instantly. Not having a second person to share the strain leads to information overload and explains earlier pilots getting nosebleeds and possibly mental trauma. If you ever tried to cram hard for an exam, it should be like that but much worse.

Also, I have a theory in that having a 2nd pilot also acts as insurance or as a backup. If one of them starts freaking out or is unconscious, you have the other one to snap them out of it or try to take control of the Jaegar themselves. Remember, even at a 99% rate of success even that can be too low a success rate. If you have 2 pilots, that 1% chance of failure becomes 0.01% chance of failure. It's obviously not entirely true for Jaegers when all the pilots tend to die at once, but hopefully you get the idea. Or if you want another comparison, the 2nd pilot is the wingman.

Also I can't help but think this movie came out of the project to make an evangelion movie that hollywood had.

Describing Pacific Rim as an American Evangelion movie sounds just about right, with way less angsty characters and a lack of a depressed director (which is pretty true considering the director for NGE was battling with depression when making the whole series).

[byakugan]

Describing Pacific Rim as an American Evangelion movie sounds just about right, with way less angsty characters and a lack of a depressed director (which is pretty true considering the director for NGE was battling with depression when making the whole series).

I agree. I'm pretty this is what came out after they analized evangelion and got rid of the elements that would make it harder to sell like the religious elements and the personality disorders.

And also, I didnt know anything about the Japanese Jeager, but you pretend to tell me the japanese made a mecha and didn't name it Gundam+ something? I mean Mecha is a genre because of Gundam, heck they event got a real sized Gundam statue. If there's PR2 let there be a Gundam Freedom

[Luxeraph]

Guess that universe works like pretty much all zombie universes(i.e. they never had the type of media we had about said stuff).