Pacific Rim

A Thing I’ve Watched 03/2026: Pacific Rim

del Toro’s take on a Kaiju-vs-Jaeger-movie (read: “del Toro’s take on Evangelion”) was an absolute insane joy to watch.
It has giant monsters, giant mechas piloted by pairs of pilots, giant monsters fistfighting with giant mechas, a properly weird couple of scientists, and so much excellence in filmmaking. It has also a whole bunch of Personal Drama(tm) fitting neatly into everything else, because balance is important.

Go watch, on the biggest screen you can find.

A Poster for Pacific Rim. It shows one of the Jaegers, the Gipsy Danger, prominently in the foreground, stepping through coastal waters. In the waters behind it are two other units, and a fourth one being lifted in by helicopters. The vague outline of a city is visible in the background, a in the front an already small fishing boat is dwarfed by the towering Jaeger.

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