I'm so glad they didn't do this for 2 reasons. 1st it would have been really out of place and would have instantly ripped me out of the experience and 2nd I'm so sick to death of those games being referenced, they're great games but the references got old so fast.
I guess? But personally I didn't go into this movie expecting a decent plot or characters or anything BUT giant robots fighting giant monsters. It was pure, unadulterated wacky pie-in-the-face violence and anything else is the appreciated but unnecessary side of vanilla ice cream. And GLaDOS, even if its just a split second blurp on a computer screen, or she says "Ready for testing." or something would have been the equally unnecessary but equally appreciated sprinkle of sugar.
It takes a little paying attention, but the scientists hint at why they were taken down so quickly. When they were talking about the waves of monsters that are coming though, they say the first batch were the "wrecking crew" for the most part, sent to soften up resistance. The next batch were the actual shock troops, creatures built for combat. They'd never faced those types (creatures with EMP, acid ranged attacks, etc...) before.
I know, they were so cool too. Then again, I saw it coming. The entire movie was just stocked to the brim with cliches and predictable moments. It was entertaining, though.
One got taken down because they were ambushed by the second Kaiju. The other because of the acid attack (which no one had seen yet). Essentially, both were taken by surprise. Yes they were cannon fodder but I'd hardly say they were bad pilots.
As far as RotK. First fight, ambushed at night. Understandable that they'd have heavier casualties. Second fight, Ring Wraiths are there (widely known to inspire terror and panic). Third fight, rallied behind their soon to be king after an awesome speech and ready to embrace death for a greater cause. They do very well and buy Frodo the time he needs. Nothing shitty about them IMO.
The way I saw it was that the two just got surprised, and the main characters were only able to win later because they had already seen what the two category 4s could do and were ready for it.
That said, I would still have liked to see those two machines get more action. Maybe have them put up more of a fight, one of them die and the other get disabled by the EMP like the Australians, and then have the remaining one go down in the final battle? That would give them more screentime and things to do without adding much to the run time.
I'm sorry if there are a bunch of spelling errors; there's an ad blocking almost my entire text box.
Well they did mention that the Russian Jaeger was a Mark-1 so that puts them at a slight disadvantage, but that really doesn't explain the Chinese with their Mark-4 couldn't have fared better.
I do (partially) agree with the complaints about Pacific Rim. I was really looking forward to a giant fight at the end where the four remaining giant robots got into fisticuffs with a bunch of giant monsters.
However, I do disagree that it was a cheap way to do it. The film made it explicitly clear that what the two Kaiju did was something they had never seen before in their lives. They were adapting and figuring out the easiest way to kill us.
Red robot got tag-teamed and was directly attacked at where the pilots were.
Giant hammer robot got acid to the face, something that the Kaiju had never done (and is an incredibly effective tactic for obvious reasons)
Speed robot got EMPed, again, something the creatures had never done before.
The main robot was able to fight the Kaiju one on one, so it didn't have to worry about the tag-teaming that Red Robot dealt with (and when he did get tag-teamed later, he got his ass handed to him). He was aware of the acid spit so he was able to avoid it and tore out the acid thingy to neutralize that problem. Lastly, the EMP didn't affect him.
But I do agree with the general gripe you are expressing; plot armor [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotArmor]. Also, I apologize in advance now for it is with almost certainty that I just ruined someone's productivity today by linking to TV Tropes...
On Pacific Rim itself:
Not nearly enough giant robots punching monsters in the face.
From all the reviews and whatnot, it sounded kind of like the movie Crank [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1] where the only time someone is not getting beat up or shot is when the main character is banging someone.
That's kind of what I expected here (with giant robots of course and probably less banging since it was PG-13). It was a good movie but I think it's getting way more praise than it really should be getting...
Plot Armor I can forgive somewhat if it is used in a practical or sensible way but I have a hard time forgiving cannon fodder characters. If it shows that a majority of the soldiers or characters slack off during their training or something than I see how cannon fodder extras/characters comes into play.
I agree that there wasn't enough monsters vs. robots fighting. Now that we know Del Toro can do a movie like this we know he can pry make a Neon Genesis Evangelion film.
Yeah I get what you mean, I got a feeling of "THAT'S IT?!" when they died, besides the chinese 3 armed Jaeger looked freaking awesome, so it was rather disappointing when they died but the hit was direct, I was more disappointed with the russians, since their window breaks because of the acid and then they drown, I thought they could have escaped, you know use the escape pods or something, but the fil was still awesome though.
Random thing I found out after seeing it yesterday, that Russian Jager's cockpit was in the torso, not the head like the thers, and hence it didn't have escape pods. Because apparently Russians don't like survival.
Eh, their cockpit definetely flooded before they died, so drown/crushed, does it really matter? Point was that their Jager didn't have escpae pods even if had the time.
1. They were still alive "screaming". 2. They were still attached to the machine, I do not know how easy it is to take off the machine while on your back underwater. 3. They died from the gorilla monster crushing the cockpit in his hand and causing an explosion at the same time, no way they had a chance to escape.
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