"This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science!'*

[bending_sickle]

so i watched pacific rim

it was dubbed so i missed out on a few things like what the fuck was the war clock? and also on voices and accents and yeah.

my favourite part of it was the music.

my second favourite part was how the scientists weren’t reduced to bumbling idiots who ruined everything and got everything wrong. yay science \o/ (and okay, i ended up watching the movie mainly for the adorable scientist of win.)

familiar faces were also awesome. i admit i squealed at santiago segura and cursed the dubbing. also true blood’s warlow, hi-ya. torchwood’s owen, how you doin’? also hellboy dude, you awesome.

the 3d was lovely and everything was pretty.

the rest i liked. not loved, but it was entertaining.

although i knew the bro was going to be fridged like the second they suited up and were all ~our mind-melding be special~ and i wonder who the hell allowed a dog to go roaming around a top-shop military base.

the monsters made me angry on a biologist-level. for a vast number of reasons:

• they were dinosaurs way back when my ass. THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. like, NONE. that would only make sense if dinosuars were some bizarre evolutionarily isolated event and we were like yo we don’t know where these came from or where they evolved to or what dude which OH RIGHT, BIRDS. also, as a message to the audience, it sucks. do you know how happy that would make creationsist or whateversts who’d be all it weren’t no evolution it were aliens? (no, seriously, there’s creationists funding cryptozoological expeditions because they somehow think finding bigfoot or the chupacabra will somehow invalidate evolution. they be straw-clutchers.)


• also as for the whole thing where they’re genetic clones but not…actually…clones??? as in totally different, physically? i can’t even.


• and just the whole general lumping together of adaptation and evolution (and learning, dude, learning) like no, no, they are not the same thing, they don’t work in the same time period, they are not interchangeable thing just left science crying in a corner.


• also the whole sea monster with wings dude. it’s like the monsters in pitch black. evolution don’t work that way? you either devote your body to swimming underwater or you fly, you don’t magically get both because bodies don’t do that. but no, they can totally hang out underwater at bone-crushing pressure depths and also frolic at the top of the water and walk around hong kong on crab-legs and then fly if they want to.


• and they’re viviparous okay cool fine whatever just roll with it. with lungs. and placentas.


• and oh yeah acid and electric boom. i can’t even.


• (also the whole thing of the monster trying to find the once-brain-linked scientist, just, what? it only makes sense if all the monsters are brain-linked. i mean, one person doesn’t know if another person’s brain-linked to a third, right? so why would a monster? unless hivemind?)


• the glowing was cool, though, and totally with the whole ~creatures from the ocean depths~ thing. points for that.

eta: also correct me if i’m wrong but…there were only two women in the movie? and they don’t talk to each other? and yet they are totally awesome and not sexy lamps (with or without a post-its).

* Hiroshi Yamamoto, MM9

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Movie Science is beyond your puny mortal understanding! They CLONEVOLVAPTED from DINOBIRDASAURS who live in WATERMOSPHERES in ANOTHER DIMENSION and WHY MUST YOU BE SO SCIENCY?!?!?

Besides, Hellboy. 'nuff said. Hellboy with PIMP SHOES.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I think I've deciphered the movie's message:



Considering the movie experience started with a trailer for Riddick with its own variety of you make no seeeeense monsters, I should've gagged the Science Brain right from the get go. Still love the movies though.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There is always time to not science.

Riddick movies might have riddickulous, but that doesn't mean they're not funtastic. Same with giant nonsciency monster movies.

Also, sure, there were few women in the film, but they were still awesome. Hell, the Russian woman had like three lines of dialogue and some contemptuous sneers, and she was still the boss.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

The Riddick movies are awesome.

The Russian lady was awesome, but I couldn't unsee the Russian guy as Zangief (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangief). This might have made everything more awesome.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Zangief loves crushing men's skulls between his thighs like sparrows' eggs. How can you not respect that?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I counted four women by including the woman in the Hong Kong bunker/shelter who was all "Hey, let's break the tension by becoming a dangerous mob!" towards Hapless Scientist Guy, and Ron Perlman's bald henchwoman. You could argue that an equally good movie could have been made if those two plus the Russian pilot and Mako had been our four main characters, and I would not disagree as long as you still allowed Idris Elba to chew his scenery.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's still slim pickings, but I'm not complaining on account of Mako being awesome. And Idris Elba is always allowed - nay, required - to chew scenery :D