Was that enough?
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:13 am
Is it because we're selling a show that we have to insult the intellect? Do the special effects serve the story, or is it the other way around? By corollary, do the brains of Pacific Rim fans rule the eyes, or has someone once again upset the local hierarchy?
The poster: Even if the robot is about to give up its lunch, there is still time for you to turn around.
The film opens with various images accompanied by a voiceover giving us a little bit of phone number list history, because the events we are about to follow take place a few years in the future. This is an opportunity to take stock of what led us to the events of the film: in the present day, the city of San Francisco had a bit of a surprise when it woke up one morning, because it was very bothered to find a sort of giant monster weighing several thousand tons doing pull-ups on the Golden Bridge. If the inhabitants were a little grumpy at first when they saw that the monsters that came out of nowhere were not respecting public property, they were even more so when the beast, probably excited by the smell of firecrackers and the sight of American Apparel shirts, decided to raze the city. As the voiceover learnedly explains, the monster had time to go 50 kilometers inland, razing everything in its path, before missiles and shells finally mashed its face.
A few months later, it was Asia's turn to see the emergence of a new monster with little knowledge of urban planning, and once again, knocking it out took a bit of work. Eventually, when another thing of the same caliber emerged from the depths of the Pacific with the ambition of mating with the nearest buildings, scientists began to wonder where they could have come from and whether we would have to deal with more of them, a question they perhaps should have asked themselves earlier, for example at the first appearance, but oh well, as far as I'm concerned.
This is how this race was named the " Kaiju " (pronounced Kaille-djou), and it was discovered that it came from a strange fault that appeared in the depths of the Pacific, leading to a parallel dimension, no less. A fault that resisted all possible and imaginable bombardments, and that nothing could cross to explore the other side. Since the war could not be ended simply by closing the fault, all the countries of the world, united in the face of this new threat, came together to try to find a new weapon in this conflict. I imagine that the conversation must have been interesting.
The poster: Even if the robot is about to give up its lunch, there is still time for you to turn around.
The film opens with various images accompanied by a voiceover giving us a little bit of phone number list history, because the events we are about to follow take place a few years in the future. This is an opportunity to take stock of what led us to the events of the film: in the present day, the city of San Francisco had a bit of a surprise when it woke up one morning, because it was very bothered to find a sort of giant monster weighing several thousand tons doing pull-ups on the Golden Bridge. If the inhabitants were a little grumpy at first when they saw that the monsters that came out of nowhere were not respecting public property, they were even more so when the beast, probably excited by the smell of firecrackers and the sight of American Apparel shirts, decided to raze the city. As the voiceover learnedly explains, the monster had time to go 50 kilometers inland, razing everything in its path, before missiles and shells finally mashed its face.
A few months later, it was Asia's turn to see the emergence of a new monster with little knowledge of urban planning, and once again, knocking it out took a bit of work. Eventually, when another thing of the same caliber emerged from the depths of the Pacific with the ambition of mating with the nearest buildings, scientists began to wonder where they could have come from and whether we would have to deal with more of them, a question they perhaps should have asked themselves earlier, for example at the first appearance, but oh well, as far as I'm concerned.
This is how this race was named the " Kaiju " (pronounced Kaille-djou), and it was discovered that it came from a strange fault that appeared in the depths of the Pacific, leading to a parallel dimension, no less. A fault that resisted all possible and imaginable bombardments, and that nothing could cross to explore the other side. Since the war could not be ended simply by closing the fault, all the countries of the world, united in the face of this new threat, came together to try to find a new weapon in this conflict. I imagine that the conversation must have been interesting.