Us in the Godzilla fan base (who basically include all other Kaiju media as our entertainment, Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, Pacific Rim, You name it) also agree with this fact I also don't understand why we wouldn't, Because there isn't one?...
You know what Pacific Rim needs? A prequel movie. Seeing the older models and lower categories of Kaiju and Jaegers fight whilst building the world and adding onto the series in a way that can’t fail.
Yeah, they tried an animated spin-off with "Black", but its rather strange they didn't make another live action entry. Too much respect for the legacy of the franchise I guess.
Jks aside there was some good ideas in uprising, it's just that they executed them wrong or just fucked them up entirely. For example November Ajax was good, had good movement and felt heavy like the first movie, obsidian fury was a really good concept and trying to get some Yeager Vs Yeager action with it , The drones being corrupted was a good idea too. I also think the same one was a good idea too (I think the name of it is scraplet) if only it wasn't made from a little girl from scraps. They had good ideas they just fucked it up (as I said before)
@lancesimounes.rivera i see so its supposed to be a joke. I was so confused why people were saying it didnt have a sequel. But I agree it was so bad it didnt even feel like it was a sequel to pacific rim 1
I think it was more than underrated. It was ahead of its time! It did make alot of money, sure, but back then, giant monsters weren't big like now, and i was so mad that this movie was beaten in the usa box office by none other than Grown Ups 2! And Pacific Rim released 2 days earlier than grown ups, which made my jaw drop harder back then!
@@rp-lopez I agree because black in my opinion brought back what made jaegers and kaiju special cause when you compare bothe and analyze you see when the pilots move their arms in the cockpit the Jaegers own arm has like a lag response so it moves a a little after the pilots movements because of its size and the pilots actually struggle to move the Jaeger for alittle bit before they get used to being bonded together with a 100ft machine
0:25 this is the most relatable thing I've heard in a while. I walked exactly like the yaeger did, and when i swim i imagine myself as the Kaiju, dive deep into the pool
One of the best things Pacific Rim has to offer is that it is a stand alone movie. No cheap badly written sequel to scrape profit. Just one and one only
0:24 Bro, I don't think anyone who has seen the movie EVER stops walking like a Jaeger in the shallow end of the pool. I'm 20 years old, I saw the movie one year ago. I STILL DO IT!
"it's giant robots vs giant monsters; it's exactly what you expect, but not how your expecting" my elevator pitch to get people to see the movie. it's such a shame there was never a sequel
@@HeyYouFromThatGame yet it was nice and felt way better written and had emotion unlike Uprising! (also a movie about Australia's fall would have been epic with like 14 Yeager's going against 16 Kaiju would slap!)
I loved the weightiness and heft that they conveyed with the Yaegers. It wasn't Transformers, it wasnt Gundam where they were zipping all over the place. They felt massive.
Absolutely right but in gundam you can ear the mechanics of the robot as well, and the mobile suit are smaller than the jeager so they don't have the same of mobility
@@joemama5055 Mobile suits, and most japanese mecha, are based on fighter jets, that's why they're shown as fast and nimble. A gundam is about as tall as the length of a fighter jet, a jeager is 4 times larger.
The Transformers don't zip around either unless they're actually nimble like Bumblebee, Arcee, or Jazz. In the Bayverse, can always feel the weight of Optimus, Megatron, or Sentinel Prime to only name a few. (In G1 though, yeah they do zip around… especially the city-sized Transformers called Titans like Metroplex or Trypticon 😅.)
I think that the Jaegers started dying because the precursors started finding the weakness to each and every Jaeger. That’s why leatherback and otochi beat the other jaegers and not gipsy. And when gipsy entered the anti verse we see them starting to send in knife heads because that’s the Kaiju that destroyed gipsy originally.
yeah, Newton had accidentally leaked the schematics for Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon when he first drifted with a Kaiju brain, as it's a two-way connection, both parties got information. That's why they knew exactly where to aim for once they fought (Leatherback punching Eureka's connpod, Otachi grabbing & crushing Typhoons, etc)
Ok 1 don't be ashamed you walked in the pool like a Yeager because I still do that to this day. And 2 another reason that Gypsy lost the fight to knifehead is because knifehead was the first Kaiju to display intelligence when it played dead.
That's the thing. The Kaiju were getting smarter, bigger, stronger, faster, more agile, and much more dangerous that most of the Jaegers had been destroyed or discontinued.
Gipsy's fall led to the fall of the Jaeger program, with most of the mk 1s getting wiped out in the following years, leading to the movies situation, with pentecost selling kaiju organs to stay active.
pacific rim is my comfort movie, its just something about watching massive robots fight massive monsters, it makes my brain tingle. I can't wait for when they decide to release a sequel
Mako is the perfect example of a good strong female character, she has flaws, actual emotions, heart, and she doesn’t make the male characters look like fools, she compliments Raleigh’s character seamlessly, and none of it feels forced, but she still can kick ass and be a badass. Like when she went toe-to-toe with Raleigh in the trials, she didn’t just beat him every time effortlessly, they were on even ground but it still showed they had strengths and weaknesses over the other without being too overbearing about it
@@cosmosyn2514 All for some girlboss Chinese woman with little characters and a super talented white nerd girl who could build a Jaegar with scarps because Tony Stark did it before.
@@RomeoBlueMK.1 they cool too tbh, but i wish we saw more, you got that american yager in ur pfp, but did ya know the precursors took alot from what they leaned from the first move yeagers and applied it. Gypsys chest reactor and a better beam, more an energy beam then gypsys, crimson typhoons ability to rotate its chest(But faster), and striker eureka's missle launchers in the shoulders(smaller but much faster to fire and prep) maybe the the stronger hand/arms with the spikes comes from cherno, idk i dont see much cherno in it. But i found it to be the best detail in the movie in my oppinion. Edit i know romeos name, i just was making a name out of it plz no angy.
@@Hydr0fisher wait I thought that scientist guy made obsidian fury? Oh I forgot he got possessed by the precursors Also please don't hate by me calling him a "scientist", I haven't watched PR in a long time.
5:18 I never noticed that was the reason, despite watching the movie over 20 times. I just figured the Category 3 Kaijus were just much stronger than the Jaegers of the time could handle, except for a few specific teams of pilots (the ones we see in Hong Kong) 🤔.
The fact is gipsy still killed that kaiju with half a head, so the precursors had no reason to conclude that it's a weak spot as it was still operational. Just the fact the kaijus were getting bigger overall was probably what wiped most jaegers
@@joey_f4ke238 I mean, they could have figured out it was a weakness considering that Gipsy is struggling a lot more compared to the beginning of the fight.
No other film has ever come close to the sense of scale that Pacific Rim has. Even some of the more recent Godzilla movies, as good as they are, don’t quite achieve the same effect. I think what makes PR work so well is they really nailed the MASS of the creatures/jaegers and how that affects their inertia. Massive objects take a lot of energy and power to get moving and just as much to stop, and they got it so right.
Yeah, the lighting, the camera angles, the creaking machine sounds, so much more. All became constants reminders of these things weight. PR2 and most other mech films fail this. They have a thousand ton mech moving like ninjas
We can't forget Ramin Djawadi's score, greatest main theme ever, truly brought the world to life (and another bit of connective tissue with the first Iron Man)
2 minutes into the video, I thought it was gonna talk about the music by Ramin Djawadi, and go “You know what else has music by Ramin Djawadi? Iron Ma-“
We need a "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" style prequel series chronicling the whole prologue of the first film. Trespasser's attack could be a whole episode, the other pre-Jaeger kaiju attacks could be another, and the process of beginning the Jaeger Program's neural load problems, the first Jaeger Brawler Yukon's victory against Karloff, the story of the Kaidonovskys and Cherno Alpha at the peak of their career, and Raleigh and Yancy's first victory against a kaiju could all be one episode each.
Sure, but without the actual unlikable cast, slow pace, no kaijus for 99%, no moaning, no cheating, no teleporting etc etc. (Yes, I still hate that monarch show after being so hyped for it)
Favorite movie right here. This beast is just so well put together and the magnitude, speed, strength, mechanics, sounds, etc of the Jaegers and Kaiju were absolutely convincing to me.
Dude just the moment when Gipsy adjusts its grip on the boat is so real. Everything is so heavy and unwieldy. I loved the mark 3s we got to see. Honestly the best class of Jaeger overall. Would’ve loved a prequel instead of the spinoff movie or Netflix anime. Neither one did the world justice. This is the film that got me into Kaiju and giant robots, which in turn got me into Project Nemesis, a series of novels by Jeremy Robinson, which are freaking amazing. When real creative types go for these giant and bombastic stories, they really hit. It’s all the soulless Hollywood executives that make people think that giant monsters vs robots is so shallow and stupid. I genuinely wrote two different essays in college, one about Pacific Rim and one about Project Nemesis, diving into how much symbolism and intelligent commentary there was in what seems like such surface level storytelling.
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro is heading up one there isn't a release date yet but it's called Pacific Rim: Cataclysm from what I've seen it's about them going into the Anteverse and finishing the Kaiju for good
Pacific Rim seems to be a film that gets better with age. It was met with mostly positively reception back in the day, but I remember a certain air of "but it could have been way better" surrounding it. The fanbase and receptions has only grown stronger since it came out. And it becomes absolutely revelatory once you become a massive kaiju and tokusatsu fan. I was hyped for it back in 2013. I had just started getting Godzilla films and this came right at the crest of my initial love for the big G. But I remember feeling just a bit disappointed in the film at the time for reasons I honestly don't remember. I think, then, I found it too tropey or too corny in the character department. The MCU was hot off the heels of The Avengers. They were the new Top Dog and their brand of character making in blockbuster movies was now the default. So the characters in PR, at the time, felt out dated and old hat. Now they're actually refreshing. I do think Charlie Hunnam is a little miscast here, but not drastically so. He just feels a bit out of step from the rest of the cast. But what makes it work overall is that Raleigh is a very earnest, very sincere character. He's not a snarky quip machine or an anti-hero with an attitude and chip on his shoulder. His tragedy informs his character but doesn't DEFINE his character. He's positive, supportive, level-headed, and good-hearted. That's what struck me most upon my most rewatch watch - Raleigh is just a good boy, lol. With time as and I explored the kaiju and tokusatu genres more deeply, Pacific Rim got better and better. And even separating it from that influence, it's a better film on its own terms than I think people give it credit for. It juggles a lot characters and relationships very well in a tight 2hrs. It manages to convey all kinds of great themes without ever once losing its sense of pace of narrative flow or delving into navel gazing. The theme of human connection - of the duo, the power couple - is all over this film. Friends, brothers, strangers who share a deep connection being a perfect match, a perfect team. While the Kaiju are technically organic creatures, they have no soul. They are cold, singular monsters with no purpose outside of conquest. The Jaeger should be these mechanical monstrosities but they exude personality and humanity because that is what, literally, drives them. Despite the action centering around the humans using giant robots to beat the shit of off giant monsters, the key to human victory is all about the mind - how to understand it, to push it to its limits, to trust in others. And come on, this movie probably has the best kaiju action ever put to film.
I would like to introduce you to Halo: Forward Unto Dawn. It was low budget promotional material for Halo 4, and at release, most people hated it. However, with the meddling of paramount, it has become halos number one film
Between Pacific Rim and Godzilla Minus One, Kaiju movies have had some fantastic movies that were too good for what the international audience appriciates at the box office. Sure, Godzilla Minus One made over a hundred million dollars. But it's criminally under appriciated by the public.
This movie and Edge of Tommorow are the few Sci-Fi movies that I can watch repeatedly without getting bored. The amount of details and love that was given from these two movies is just outstanding.
Pacific Rim: One of the only giant monster movies where the human characters on the ground serve a purpose in the story instead of only being an excuse to save on the CGI budget. Unique in its ability to convey the proper magnitude and weight of the Jaegers and the Kaiju. Memorable for letting us see ALL of the action that we came for, and not just bits and pieces of a fight.
im still coming back to rewatch the hong kong battle. The jeagers look so realistic, metallic and heavy just like u would imagine the physics would work in real life.
My boyfriend showed me this movie about a year ago when we first got together, I have been hooked and I feel like I could say the entire movie line by line with how much I've watched it...
What i personally love about this movie is how heavy every movement feels, every punch, every step, everything feels heavy. As you say, you can hear the steel and the machinery of the Jaeger during the fights if you're good at listening, those aren't anime mechas that are silent as wind and agile as a ballette dancer, those are 1000tons or something like that of pure unrefined machinery that's controlled by two minds of two persons at the same time, every step has to be thought carefully and my god Del Toro nailed it
I remember going to one of the largest IMAX theaters in the US to see this (AMC Lincoln Square) for my birthday (i was 15) and being absolutely blown away. That will always be one of my favorite movie theater experiences.
This is literally the exact thoughts I've been having in the back of my head for years. Thank you so much, the mechanical aesthetic is so often ruined. Although sry but the head theory isn't entirely true, it's that the Precursors send waves of improved kaijus, with each wave they get better and stronger.
Unlike other kaiju movies that it will take soo much time just to see the kaijus for 1.1 seconds while pacific rim will always show the robots and other monsters for a good amount of time and show their powers and other cool things
I think there is a place for both types of Kaiju movies to be honest. Stuff like pacific rim, which is all fun and fighting, exactly what you want out of a monster movie, and stuff like Godzilla 2014 which is more horror-adjacent and keeps G-money himself out of the shot often to make the scene when he finally appears all that much more climactic and powerful. I do think we need more of the former however.
if i recall, reason that gypsy danger wasn't something the precursers got data on from the mental link is that it was Mako who worked on it, instead of the scientist dude, she added the sword, she improved the plasma canon, i believe even that it was her that decided to get it fixed from it's broken wreck state, it was her project not something the scientist dude was involved with, he probably didn't even know it was good to go, hence why it took the kaiju by surprise too
I still remember the day I watched this movie. Me and my friends were going to watch The wolverine but it was too packed (opening night) so we decided to sneak in Pacific Rim Imax 3d. First time watching in IMAX and it was super loud (no complaints!), I remember the intro set a fearful tone to the Kaijus these giant unbeatable monsters that wrecked havoc. Then they introduced the jaegers and the first opening punch @0:01, holy shit! I was sucked in, 10/10
I love how incredibly grounded this movie is. Every shot feels like it's from the perspective of actual humans. Even the aerial shots feel like they're taken from a helicopter.
The best way I can describe this movie is a gateway drug (at least for me) If it wasn't for this *masterpiece* crafted by one of the gods of cinema Guillermo del Toro, I probably wouldn't be the batshit insane Godzilla fan I am now. This movie is peak and *always* will be peak! I cannot believe it's been almost 11 years since it arrived on the scene, time flies man... And also 0:30 Brother I don't think anyone will, We all did it. It's a rite of passage.
My favorite movie reviewer, Movie Bob, said to go watch Pacific Rim. Don't ask questions, just go support something this amazing and new and fresh and not a sequel. I did and I gasped in theaters. "IT HAS WINGS?" I loved it so much! And he wasn't wrong about the other Godzilla films. Godzilla Minus One is my favorite of the Godzilla movies. He also said to go watch Everything Everyewhere All At Once and it took my breath away too.
The whole subplot about building a wall (which I argue was a blatant "take that" at Donald Trump and border security efforts) is really stupid though. Everybody who loves this movie glosses over that.
dude, this breakdown of exactly why the Kaijus started winning everything else in this vid were awesome. I had never realized those details and coincidences. Well done!
Everytime I see Pacific Rim praise a smile comes on my face I have seen this movie too many times and still cannot stop watching all of its positive reviews lol
You know, with how this one ended, we didn’t need a sequel. Maybe stuff to flesh out the world or tell stories about what happened before, but nothing more.
I love this movie, I like the main character, All those monsters are great and The special effects are cool. I like the soundtrack, It's amazing. Thank you very much for sharing this video with us, You have good taste.
SO glad they never made a sequel to this absolute classic. I have probably watched it over ten times now which is 10 times more than I watch most other movies. I absolutely love this film.
Back when i was kid like 7 years old after i watch the movie every time when my family go to the beach 0:25 i always do this walk when im approaching into the shore with my voice singing the theme song of pacific rim, and that's how impactful this movie to me its always have a special place in my heart
I remember when the trailer came out, and my dad and I were so excited because it had been so long since a giant kajiu movie looked good. We love Godzilla, and when we watched the trailer, it just gave us Godzilla vibes, and we saw it the day it came out and loved it. Then, a few years later, the new one came out, and we will never talk about it.
I absolutely love this movie. The cgi and animation is just incredible, they did such a good job with it. It looks better than 95% of films coming out these days. I still rewatch it every year or two.
As a fellow person who wrestles my siblings whenever i'm near the shallow end of the pool, your not the only one! [seriously though i used a pool floaty like it was a tanker boat]
You just made the movie even better. this is the first time I heard about the precursor knowing the weakness of the jaeger is because of newt. You earned my sub.
This film needs a true sequel, with the same visuals and sense of scale. The way del toro brought these colossal machines to life has always been mesmerising to me and I was so disappointed to see uprising be turned into a power rangers film
As a kid, this is the first movie i watched and i am not ashamed to say that im a 58 year old man and i still watch this, even my wife asks why i love this movie so much and all i just say is "you wont understand how this movie carried my childhood"
This is coming from a die hard PR fan. This is a great video,love the ending,and I cant believe you only have 47 subs...wow. but a couple things: Knifehead was not the first category 3. and your theory (or atleast what I think that it was) is just somewhat common knowledge in the PR community. Its so awesome to see PR videos in 2024 that arent from the community which is pretty much dead. Have a good day!
NGL, the film is truly a masterpiece, you can feel the weight, the punch and the sheer intensity of the battle! Masterpiece always stands alone. Absolute cinema!
I remember watching this video 6 months ago and going FERAL after realising it was your first and I had to wait to watch more of your content. I'm so glad I found this again because the quality of the content you put out is hardly matched and you talk about things I really loved
Brother the theories you just displayed are amazing... I have been a pacific rim diehard fan since I watched the movie as a kid. It's my favorite movie of all time. Thank you for giving use these amazing theories.
I love the fact that the Pacific Rim Fanbase just accpeted and agreed that there's no sequel
Us in the Godzilla fan base (who basically include all other Kaiju media as our entertainment, Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, Pacific Rim, You name it) also agree with this fact
I also don't understand why we wouldn't, Because there isn't one?...
@@CrazeTheZillaexcept Pacific Rim The Black...
@@gojiralegendary4009 eh, ig kinda in a way
Pacifc Rim: The Black is somehow still the only piece of Pacific Rim media outside the movie
What agreement? Can't say I've heard of a sequel, either... 👀
Pacific Rim is a stand alone film with no sequel 😎☝
Yes, because there is no sequel i don't get why people talk about their being one..
@@raider1_163 Same I mean there is some fan made stuff but yea nothing cannon
Yeah. I will never understand why people keep saying that there is a sequal with John Boyega in it.
There’s literally pacific rim 2
Pacific rim2:trash
You know what Pacific Rim needs? A prequel movie. Seeing the older models and lower categories of Kaiju and Jaegers fight whilst building the world and adding onto the series in a way that can’t fail.
Too bad it never got another movie at all 😔
same, I want to see the first jaegers.
@@victorykingpin3674such a shame they never continued with another movie. At least we got a cool anime thingy
I believe that Raleigh and his brother would be deserving of a prequel as well as Mako.
Pacific Rim Comics is the prequel you're looking for.
I really am suprised they didn't make a sequel. But i guess it's better to have a "one and done" rather then tainting the legacy
Yeah, they tried an animated spin-off with "Black", but its rather strange they didn't make another live action entry.
Too much respect for the legacy of the franchise I guess.
The anime was ok. There was clearly a lack of bugged for the animation, but i liked the story. I do hope they are going to make a sequel @mackybell14
We didn’t talk about Uprising…..
@@MichaeltheweebWatching atlas destroyer malfunction every 5 seconds 🗿
Jks aside there was some good ideas in uprising, it's just that they executed them wrong or just fucked them up entirely. For example November Ajax was good, had good movement and felt heavy like the first movie, obsidian fury was a really good concept and trying to get some Yeager Vs Yeager action with it , The drones being corrupted was a good idea too. I also think the same one was a good idea too (I think the name of it is scraplet) if only it wasn't made from a little girl from scraps. They had good ideas they just fucked it up (as I said before)
0:30 is the realest thing ever, i still cant walk normally in water
Frr 😫
*insert pacific rim theme*
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN
SAME 💀
Same bro
FR
this is the best stand alone movie that never had a sequel
why are people in the comments saying it has no sequel? didnt they have pacific rim uprising?
@@Nicolas-ol7jl its so bad everyone wants to erase it from existence
@lancesimounes.rivera i see so its supposed to be a joke. I was so confused why people were saying it didnt have a sequel. But I agree it was so bad it didnt even feel like it was a sequel to pacific rim 1
Criminally underrated movie. The fact that they couldn’t build on this universe is crazy.
They did make the show Pacific Rim The Black which is actually quite good in my opinion and a way better addition to the universe than Uprising
@@rp-lopez better edition than what? Never heard of this “uprising”.
*You’d do well to remember that*
I think it was more than underrated. It was ahead of its time! It did make alot of money, sure, but back then, giant monsters weren't big like now, and i was so mad that this movie was beaten in the usa box office by none other than Grown Ups 2!
And Pacific Rim released 2 days earlier than grown ups, which made my jaw drop harder back then!
@@DoomofOlympus you know..."uprising", a movie so forgettable that...wait, what was I talking about?
@@rp-lopez I agree because black in my opinion brought back what made jaegers and kaiju special cause when you compare bothe and analyze you see when the pilots move their arms in the cockpit the Jaegers own arm has like a lag response so it moves a a little after the pilots movements because of its size and the pilots actually struggle to move the Jaeger for alittle bit before they get used to being bonded together with a 100ft machine
The fact that this movie has better graphics than most movies now lmao
That's the Del Toro difference. Dude actually treated CGI like an important and valuable artform instead of a cost-cutting measure.
Kong shock face:
What cgi with a soul looks like:
@@CatWithAOpinion 🤓
@@lazyvoid7107 my fault bro😔
0:25 this is the most relatable thing I've heard in a while. I walked exactly like the yaeger did, and when i swim i imagine myself as the Kaiju, dive deep into the pool
Bro finally found some weirdos like me😂
while humming the background music
100% guilty of doing this too
I cant relate no more
Yeah guilty as charged
“As a kid, I couldn’t walk in the shallow end of the pool without imagining myself as a Jaeger.” Holy shit did we all have the same childhood
2nd grade me never left 😂
Yes
Made us feel so cool
Can relate
so true
"And then a rocket turned on at the elbow to punch harder."-🔥✍️🗿
🤣most realistic part of the movie to be fair 🤷♂
Eureka uses momentum to hit hard, Gipsy uses fucking rocket engine
bro think he mortal kombat x triborg
As a physicist I can confirm
Rockets go fast.
Fast =Punch harder.
BIG O!!
3:31 NAH you did him dirty lmaoo
I was looking for a comment like this before I made my own 😂
One of the best things Pacific Rim has to offer is that it is a stand alone movie. No cheap badly written sequel to scrape profit. Just one and one only
only if DelToro comes back to direct
0:24 Bro, I don't think anyone who has seen the movie EVER stops walking like a Jaeger in the shallow end of the pool. I'm 20 years old, I saw the movie one year ago. I STILL DO IT!
Bruv I'm 22, saw the movie when i was 13. Been doing that for 9 years now. Can never go back, and i love it.
I still do it too
I'm 27 and still do it. That will never leave us.
Saw this movie in theaters; I walked like a jaeger then, I’ll walk like a jaeger forever.
Great minds truly think alike lol
I come back to this movie every 1-2.5 months and it never fails to get me giddy
"it's giant robots vs giant monsters; it's exactly what you expect, but not how your expecting" my elevator pitch to get people to see the movie. it's such a shame there was never a sequel
There was with pacific rim the black witch was good but I was expecting a live action movie
@@That-one-guy891 I mean, black displays more on the life of people if the Kaijus won, it's like a what-if I guess. Basically a spin-off
@@HeyYouFromThatGame yet it was nice and felt way better written and had emotion unlike Uprising!
(also a movie about Australia's fall would have been epic with like 14 Yeager's going against 16 Kaiju would slap!)
@@AarushParashar-q8d yeah! Unfortunately some people doesn't want to watch it because they don't want to be a "weeb"
I loved the weightiness and heft that they conveyed with the Yaegers. It wasn't Transformers, it wasnt Gundam where they were zipping all over the place. They felt massive.
Absolutely right but in gundam you can ear the mechanics of the robot as well, and the mobile suit are smaller than the jeager so they don't have the same of mobility
@@joemama5055 Mobile suits, and most japanese mecha, are based on fighter jets, that's why they're shown as fast and nimble. A gundam is about as tall as the length of a fighter jet, a jeager is 4 times larger.
@@joemama5055 if you watch the outliers like 8th MS teams, maybe. otherwise the gundams move like it's a guy wearing a suit 95% of the time.
@@vm_duc You've clearly never watched the original Gundam movie 🧐. The kid struggles the whole movie to pilot it.
The Transformers don't zip around either unless they're actually nimble like Bumblebee, Arcee, or Jazz. In the Bayverse, can always feel the weight of Optimus, Megatron, or Sentinel Prime to only name a few. (In G1 though, yeah they do zip around… especially the city-sized Transformers called Titans like Metroplex or Trypticon 😅.)
5:22 lost the fight? Last I recall it wasn’t knifehead walking back to shore.
Gypsy Danger still got trashed, had the head/cockpit weakness exposed, and that defeat was the beginning of the end. It was a pyrrhic victory.
knifehead number #37
I think that the Jaegers started dying because the precursors started finding the weakness to each and every Jaeger. That’s why leatherback and otochi beat the other jaegers and not gipsy. And when gipsy entered the anti verse we see them starting to send in knife heads because that’s the Kaiju that destroyed gipsy originally.
Yeah and cus they’re also A lot bigger kaijus than when jeagers were on killstreaks
yeah, Newton had accidentally leaked the schematics for Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon when he first drifted with a Kaiju brain, as it's a two-way connection, both parties got information. That's why they knew exactly where to aim for once they fought (Leatherback punching Eureka's connpod, Otachi grabbing & crushing Typhoons, etc)
After gipsy defeat tge preccussors realized the head is every weakness of any jaeger
They’re all like, “well it worked last time, send 20”
Nah they became more intelligent compared to the dumb ones before
Ok 1 don't be ashamed you walked in the pool like a Yeager because I still do that to this day. And 2 another reason that Gypsy lost the fight to knifehead is because knifehead was the first Kaiju to display intelligence when it played dead.
who doesn't do that after watching pacific rim
That's the thing. The Kaiju were getting smarter, bigger, stronger, faster, more agile, and much more dangerous that most of the Jaegers had been destroyed or discontinued.
We all did.
It wash away your fear of the water/ocean
It really do
i 100% can never walk in the water me and my dad both go in walking like yagers bo regrets
Gipsy's fall led to the fall of the Jaeger program, with most of the mk 1s getting wiped out in the following years, leading to the movies situation, with pentecost selling kaiju organs to stay active.
pacific rim is my comfort movie, its just something about watching massive robots fight massive monsters, it makes my brain tingle. I can't wait for when they decide to release a sequel
Mako is the perfect example of a good strong female character, she has flaws, actual emotions, heart, and she doesn’t make the male characters look like fools, she compliments Raleigh’s character seamlessly, and none of it feels forced, but she still can kick ass and be a badass. Like when she went toe-to-toe with Raleigh in the trials, she didn’t just beat him every time effortlessly, they were on even ground but it still showed they had strengths and weaknesses over the other without being too overbearing about it
Both female characters in this film are strong and badass - Mako, as you said, but also Sasha K.
>genuinely well written strong female character
>killed unceremoniously in ""sequel""
:(
I bet the fans would love to see her killed in the sequel.
@@cosmosyn2514 All for some girlboss Chinese woman with little characters and a super talented white nerd girl who could build a Jaegar with scarps because Tony Stark did it before.
She failed the very test for strong female characters that was named after her lmao (the Mako Mori test)@@cosmosyn2514
All jokes aside there is one thing uprising did good job at, obsidian fury.
I found the kaiju drones kinda cool as well
@@RomeoBlueMK.1 they cool too tbh, but i wish we saw more, you got that american yager in ur pfp, but did ya know the precursors took alot from what they leaned from the first move yeagers and applied it. Gypsys chest reactor and a better beam, more an energy beam then gypsys, crimson typhoons ability to rotate its chest(But faster), and striker eureka's missle launchers in the shoulders(smaller but much faster to fire and prep) maybe the the stronger hand/arms with the spikes comes from cherno, idk i dont see much cherno in it. But i found it to be the best detail in the movie in my oppinion.
Edit i know romeos name, i just was making a name out of it plz no angy.
@@Hydr0fisher wait I thought that scientist guy made obsidian fury?
Oh I forgot he got possessed by the precursors
Also please don't hate by me calling him a "scientist", I haven't watched PR in a long time.
@@Pacson1 heheh
I would like obsidian fury is the reason mako died so as much as i want to like him i just can’t.
5:18 I never noticed that was the reason, despite watching the movie over 20 times. I just figured the Category 3 Kaijus were just much stronger than the Jaegers of the time could handle, except for a few specific teams of pilots (the ones we see in Hong Kong) 🤔.
Yeah the thing is that this is technically a war.
And wars have arms races. The kaiju started winning that arms race and thus the war
The fact is gipsy still killed that kaiju with half a head, so the precursors had no reason to conclude that it's a weak spot as it was still operational. Just the fact the kaijus were getting bigger overall was probably what wiped most jaegers
@@joey_f4ke238 I mean, they could have figured out it was a weakness considering that Gipsy is struggling a lot more compared to the beginning of the fight.
No other film has ever come close to the sense of scale that Pacific Rim has. Even some of the more recent Godzilla movies, as good as they are, don’t quite achieve the same effect. I think what makes PR work so well is they really nailed the MASS of the creatures/jaegers and how that affects their inertia. Massive objects take a lot of energy and power to get moving and just as much to stop, and they got it so right.
Only G14 really did that
KOTM wasn't too bad for that either
Yeah, the lighting, the camera angles, the creaking machine sounds, so much more. All became constants reminders of these things weight. PR2 and most other mech films fail this. They have a thousand ton mech moving like ninjas
@@ricksanchez7889 50/50, Ghidorah flying came off more a floating especially compared to the male muto. Way Too many close ups and shaky cam.
Godzilla 2014 also has a great sense of scale, everytime godzilla comes on screen you can feel how big and heavy he is
We can't forget Ramin Djawadi's score, greatest main theme ever, truly brought the world to life (and another bit of connective tissue with the first Iron Man)
Pacific Rim is as stand alone film as Shrek is a trilogy, we were very lucky that neither of these franchises got any bad sequels.
2 minutes into the video, I thought it was gonna talk about the music by Ramin Djawadi, and go “You know what else has music by Ramin Djawadi? Iron Ma-“
_AC/DC Riff_
Westworld
We need a "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" style prequel series chronicling the whole prologue of the first film. Trespasser's attack could be a whole episode, the other pre-Jaeger kaiju attacks could be another, and the process of beginning the Jaeger Program's neural load problems, the first Jaeger Brawler Yukon's victory against Karloff, the story of the Kaidonovskys and Cherno Alpha at the peak of their career, and Raleigh and Yancy's first victory against a kaiju could all be one episode each.
We were suppose go get a prequel animated series called pacific rim steel warriors but was scrapped later down the line
THIS!!! Would be insane and a worthy way to continue the franchise
Sure, but without the actual unlikable cast, slow pace, no kaijus for 99%, no moaning, no cheating, no teleporting etc etc.
(Yes, I still hate that monarch show after being so hyped for it)
Legacy of Monsters was a snore fest.
@@Elvewizzy.Such a God awful show
Favorite movie right here. This beast is just so well put together and the magnitude, speed, strength, mechanics, sounds, etc of the Jaegers and Kaiju were absolutely convincing to me.
Pacific Rim was so good! Too bad it never got a sequel…
UmMmMm actually there’s uprising
@@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0it’s sarcasm buddy
Only a spinoff Pacific Rim black
@@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0that doesn’t exist
@@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0 whats uprising a new movie? huh weird
Dude just the moment when Gipsy adjusts its grip on the boat is so real. Everything is so heavy and unwieldy. I loved the mark 3s we got to see. Honestly the best class of Jaeger overall. Would’ve loved a prequel instead of the spinoff movie or Netflix anime. Neither one did the world justice. This is the film that got me into Kaiju and giant robots, which in turn got me into Project Nemesis, a series of novels by Jeremy Robinson, which are freaking amazing. When real creative types go for these giant and bombastic stories, they really hit. It’s all the soulless Hollywood executives that make people think that giant monsters vs robots is so shallow and stupid. I genuinely wrote two different essays in college, one about Pacific Rim and one about Project Nemesis, diving into how much symbolism and intelligent commentary there was in what seems like such surface level storytelling.
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro is heading up one there isn't a release date yet but it's called Pacific Rim: Cataclysm from what I've seen it's about them going into the Anteverse and finishing the Kaiju for good
@@Neil_Nuneznope Guillermo del toro said he lost interest in the series, there won’t be a 3rd one
idk man I feel like the netflix anime is pretty good (compared to uprising, but that's a low bar) but that's just me
6:12 that cut is so smooth
Pacific Rim seems to be a film that gets better with age. It was met with mostly positively reception back in the day, but I remember a certain air of "but it could have been way better" surrounding it. The fanbase and receptions has only grown stronger since it came out.
And it becomes absolutely revelatory once you become a massive kaiju and tokusatsu fan.
I was hyped for it back in 2013. I had just started getting Godzilla films and this came right at the crest of my initial love for the big G. But I remember feeling just a bit disappointed in the film at the time for reasons I honestly don't remember.
I think, then, I found it too tropey or too corny in the character department. The MCU was hot off the heels of The Avengers. They were the new Top Dog and their brand of character making in blockbuster movies was now the default. So the characters in PR, at the time, felt out dated and old hat.
Now they're actually refreshing. I do think Charlie Hunnam is a little miscast here, but not drastically so. He just feels a bit out of step from the rest of the cast. But what makes it work overall is that Raleigh is a very earnest, very sincere character. He's not a snarky quip machine or an anti-hero with an attitude and chip on his shoulder. His tragedy informs his character but doesn't DEFINE his character.
He's positive, supportive, level-headed, and good-hearted. That's what struck me most upon my most rewatch watch - Raleigh is just a good boy, lol.
With time as and I explored the kaiju and tokusatu genres more deeply, Pacific Rim got better and better. And even separating it from that influence, it's a better film on its own terms than I think people give it credit for.
It juggles a lot characters and relationships very well in a tight 2hrs. It manages to convey all kinds of great themes without ever once losing its sense of pace of narrative flow or delving into navel gazing. The theme of human connection - of the duo, the power couple - is all over this film. Friends, brothers, strangers who share a deep connection being a perfect match, a perfect team.
While the Kaiju are technically organic creatures, they have no soul. They are cold, singular monsters with no purpose outside of conquest. The Jaeger should be these mechanical monstrosities but they exude personality and humanity because that is what, literally, drives them.
Despite the action centering around the humans using giant robots to beat the shit of off giant monsters, the key to human victory is all about the mind - how to understand it, to push it to its limits, to trust in others.
And come on, this movie probably has the best kaiju action ever put to film.
That is so well written wtf
@@FilmJunk1e Want something well written, i gotchu
Cheese.
@@Hydr0fisher DUDE you just blew my mind. Absolutely incredible!
Dang. This is stated excellently, wish more people could see this
I would like to introduce you to Halo: Forward Unto Dawn. It was low budget promotional material for Halo 4, and at release, most people hated it. However, with the meddling of paramount, it has become halos number one film
A decade of great monster fighting
Now imagine if this movie got a sequel or better yet..two!
Between Pacific Rim and Godzilla Minus One, Kaiju movies have had some fantastic movies that were too good for what the international audience appriciates at the box office. Sure, Godzilla Minus One made over a hundred million dollars. But it's criminally under appriciated by the public.
3:31 Never gets old
Edit: 3:45 too, those memes you add just make it loads better
This movie and Edge of Tommorow are the few Sci-Fi movies that I can watch repeatedly without getting bored. The amount of details and love that was given from these two movies is just outstanding.
Edge of tomorrow also ironically one of the best adaption of a Japanese LN to live action out of all the shit live adapation we been getting lol.
Bro edge of tomorrow is so rewatchable its insane, everytime i saw airing i stop to see and still do
I love the fact that the Pacific Rim Fanbase just accpeted and agreed that "analogic" is a great concept
Pacific Rim: One of the only giant monster movies where the human characters on the ground serve a purpose in the story instead of only being an excuse to save on the CGI budget. Unique in its ability to convey the proper magnitude and weight of the Jaegers and the Kaiju. Memorable for letting us see ALL of the action that we came for, and not just bits and pieces of a fight.
im still coming back to rewatch the hong kong battle. The jeagers look so realistic, metallic and heavy just like u would imagine the physics would work in real life.
I loved Mako's backstory about her getting separated from everyone and having a kaiju chase her. It's so frightening.
This film is criminally underrated, easily one of the best films of 2013, we don’t talk about the sequel
If the sequel was BETTER or it was Maelstorm (Yes, the scrapped one) then we would talk about it
What sequel?
What’s so bad about The Black?
There's no sequel
It had a sequel? /j
My boyfriend showed me this movie about a year ago when we first got together, I have been hooked and I feel like I could say the entire movie line by line with how much I've watched it...
What i personally love about this movie is how heavy every movement feels, every punch, every step, everything feels heavy.
As you say, you can hear the steel and the machinery of the Jaeger during the fights if you're good at listening, those aren't anime mechas that are silent as wind and agile as a ballette dancer, those are 1000tons or something like that of pure unrefined machinery that's controlled by two minds of two persons at the same time, every step has to be thought carefully and my god Del Toro nailed it
I remember going to one of the largest IMAX theaters in the US to see this (AMC Lincoln Square) for my birthday (i was 15) and being absolutely blown away. That will always be one of my favorite movie theater experiences.
This is literally the exact thoughts I've been having in the back of my head for years. Thank you so much, the mechanical aesthetic is so often ruined.
Although sry but the head theory isn't entirely true, it's that the Precursors send waves of improved kaijus, with each wave they get better and stronger.
Unlike other kaiju movies that it will take soo much time just to see the kaijus for 1.1 seconds while pacific rim will always show the robots and other monsters for a good amount of time and show their powers and other cool things
GVK and GXK:
I think there is a place for both types of Kaiju movies to be honest. Stuff like pacific rim, which is all fun and fighting, exactly what you want out of a monster movie, and stuff like Godzilla 2014 which is more horror-adjacent and keeps G-money himself out of the shot often to make the scene when he finally appears all that much more climactic and powerful. I do think we need more of the former however.
@@Sanguinius876 good reasoning tho
if i recall, reason that gypsy danger wasn't something the precursers got data on from the mental link is that it was Mako who worked on it, instead of the scientist dude, she added the sword, she improved the plasma canon, i believe even that it was her that decided to get it fixed from it's broken wreck state, it was her project not something the scientist dude was involved with, he probably didn't even know it was good to go, hence why it took the kaiju by surprise too
The indepth analysis and insight into the plot is impressive. I actually learnt more lore about my favourite movie. Great work.
“I’d imagine myslef as a jaeger, don’t make fun of me”
I STILL DO
Watching this on IMAX in Universal Studios AMC was the best movie experience ever.
Lucky I did get to see minus 1 in a dolby atmos theater was badass
It's wild we never got a sequel to this master piece
I still remember the day I watched this movie. Me and my friends were going to watch The wolverine but it was too packed (opening night) so we decided to sneak in Pacific Rim Imax 3d. First time watching in IMAX and it was super loud (no complaints!), I remember the intro set a fearful tone to the Kaijus these giant unbeatable monsters that wrecked havoc. Then they introduced the jaegers and the first opening punch @0:01, holy shit! I was sucked in, 10/10
Pacific rim is the best man... sad that there is no sequel to it
Wow that's a great analysis! Very convincing!
Greatest Kaiju verse of all time✅
I love how incredibly grounded this movie is. Every shot feels like it's from the perspective of actual humans. Even the aerial shots feel like they're taken from a helicopter.
The fact this is your first video on this channel is insane you're very talented
It makes me so damn happy to know theres a lot of other people who give this movie the love it very much deserves
The best way I can describe this movie is a gateway drug (at least for me)
If it wasn't for this *masterpiece* crafted by one of the gods of cinema Guillermo del Toro, I probably wouldn't be the batshit insane Godzilla fan I am now.
This movie is peak and *always* will be peak!
I cannot believe it's been almost 11 years since it arrived on the scene, time flies man...
And also 0:30 Brother I don't think anyone will, We all did it. It's a rite of passage.
My favorite movie reviewer, Movie Bob, said to go watch Pacific Rim. Don't ask questions, just go support something this amazing and new and fresh and not a sequel. I did and I gasped in theaters. "IT HAS WINGS?" I loved it so much!
And he wasn't wrong about the other Godzilla films. Godzilla Minus One is my favorite of the Godzilla movies. He also said to go watch Everything Everyewhere All At Once and it took my breath away too.
Wait… did someone just quote Victor turner here? Are we talking about communitas and luminosity? xD
The whole subplot about building a wall (which I argue was a blatant "take that" at Donald Trump and border security efforts) is really stupid though. Everybody who loves this movie glosses over that.
The dub at 3:46 had me screaming. Bravo. I haven't laughed this much in a long time.
dude, this breakdown of exactly why the Kaijus started winning everything else in this vid were awesome. I had never realized those details and coincidences. Well done!
Everytime I see Pacific Rim praise a smile comes on my face
I have seen this movie too many times and still cannot stop watching all of its positive reviews lol
Great video and only 1 minute in. Subscribed.
It's really sad that they didn't make a sequel of this masterpiece.... 😔😔😔😔😔
You know, with how this one ended, we didn’t need a sequel. Maybe stuff to flesh out the world or tell stories about what happened before, but nothing more.
@@animeotaku307 A prequel would be nice, maybe about the first Jaeger ever built?
This dude just made Pacific Rim so much better
I love this movie, I like the main character, All those monsters are great and The special effects are cool. I like the soundtrack, It's amazing. Thank you very much for sharing this video with us, You have good taste.
For a movie made in 2014, it has some serious levels of CGI making it WAY ahead of its time hence it never gets old
SO glad they never made a sequel to this absolute classic. I have probably watched it over ten times now which is 10 times more than I watch most other movies. I absolutely love this film.
The sequel in question? Uprising? or the Scrapped one called Maelstorm?
Back when i was kid like 7 years old after i watch the movie every time when my family go to the beach 0:25 i always do this walk when im approaching into the shore with my voice singing the theme song of pacific rim, and that's how impactful this movie to me its always have a special place in my heart
I remember when the trailer came out, and my dad and I were so excited because it had been so long since a giant kajiu movie looked good. We love Godzilla, and when we watched the trailer, it just gave us Godzilla vibes, and we saw it the day it came out and loved it. Then, a few years later, the new one came out, and we will never talk about it.
This movie truly deserves a sequel ❤😂
A good one
watching this just blew my mind on details i never knew myself
This was very well made and edited, you explained whats great with pacific rim and that cool.
Cant wait for this channel to get popular
Great! Now we just need "Pacific Rim 2 the movie that no one remembers"
what are you talking about there is no sequel.
@@joseocasio3740the black wasn’t that bad granted it got… *weird* but it was still enjoyable
I absolutely love this movie. The cgi and animation is just incredible, they did such a good job with it. It looks better than 95% of films coming out these days. I still rewatch it every year or two.
0:21 You could see the strain it took to hold his sword up to cut the monster. Amazing detail!
This came out when I was in high school. This was truly an incredible movie for its time.
one of the great single movies no prequels no sequels good stuff
Probably one of the most underrated movies of all time, still holds up well today
0:27 Your spitting straight facts
As a fellow person who wrestles my siblings whenever i'm near the shallow end of the pool, your not the only one! [seriously though i used a pool floaty like it was a tanker boat]
this movie was so great that somebody literally made a fan fiction sequel of this movie
can't wait to see if they make a sequel out of this
You just made the movie even better. this is the first time I heard about the precursor knowing the weakness of the jaeger is because of newt. You earned my sub.
This film needs a true sequel, with the same visuals and sense of scale. The way del toro brought these colossal machines to life has always been mesmerising to me and I was so disappointed to see uprising be turned into a power rangers film
You failed to mention the stellar soundtrack! it was amazing!!!
Watched this when I was 12 and it's still my favorite movie of all time, it inspired me to create stories about that concept
#8:30
I absolutly agree. thank god this movie never got a sequel. such an awesome movie by its own.
As a kid, this is the first movie i watched and i am not ashamed to say that im a 58 year old man and i still watch this, even my wife asks why i love this movie so much and all i just say is "you wont understand how this movie carried my childhood"
This is coming from a die hard PR fan.
This is a great video,love the ending,and I cant believe you only have 47 subs...wow.
but a couple things:
Knifehead was not the first category 3.
and your theory (or atleast what I think that it was) is just somewhat common knowledge in the PR community.
Its so awesome to see PR videos in 2024 that arent from the community which is pretty much dead. Have a good day!
everyone thought gypsy was dead too, till it was time to rise again
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NGL, the film is truly a masterpiece, you can feel the weight, the punch and the sheer intensity of the battle!
Masterpiece always stands alone. Absolute cinema!
I remember watching it for the first time and thinking to myself "This is single most epic movie I have ever watched"
Ok this is cool and all but why is the happy birthday song jazz rendition playing in the background 1:30
someone finally noticed! Yeah I edited that part of the video during my birthday lol
Its been 11 years and this great movie still has no sequel
I remember watching this video 6 months ago and going FERAL after realising it was your first and I had to wait to watch more of your content. I'm so glad I found this again because the quality of the content you put out is hardly matched and you talk about things I really loved
3:32 You did NOT 😂😂😂
He did ……
@@KaleleUere HE DID NOT!!! 🤯🤯🤯
@@pommy_the_mimic HE DIDNT 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
we dont say the forbidden name here.
Pacific Rim and no more
Brother the theories you just displayed are amazing... I have been a pacific rim diehard fan since I watched the movie as a kid. It's my favorite movie of all time. Thank you for giving use these amazing theories.
I remember the first time I watched Pacific Rim, I couldn't believe nobody told me it had a sequel. Silly me, it didn't have a sequel!
0:55 iron man jumpscare
1:52 second iron man jumpscare