This is my favourite Pacific Rim trailer so far; not least
because we get to go through most of Stacker Pentecost’s (Idris Elba) awesomely
Cheesy, or cheesily awesome, do or die speech.
“When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started
rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume
humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special
type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are
controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural
bridge.
Time to ramble on...
So we have Giant human piloted Mecha (Robots) called Jaegers
(Jaeger being German for hunter). Each Jaeger need 2 pilots who have to share memories
to work in Synch; except for the Chinese Jaeger (which looks the coolest with
its three (or four?) arms and spinning blades) which has three pilots, who happen to be
triplets – see below.)
They are defending the planet from the Kaiju (Giant monsters)
from another dimension. (Kaiju being Japanese for monster; well technically
Kaiju means strange beast / creature and even though Kaiju is commonly known to
mean monster, these creatures, like Godzilla are ‘Daikaiju’, as in 'giant
strange beast / monster'.)
This is extremely, very, astonishingly cool, but it
isn’t something that people in “western countries” are used to seeing on the
big screen. Even if you count King Kong as a DaiKaiju (he’s too small really)
There’s still really just a handful of films, and mostly from the 50s & 60s
where everything was a metaphor for communism; as opposed to a metaphor for
Nukes and the consequences of weapons of creating and using Mass destruction
and the lasting damage they cause. Let’s see if these films being unique in
terms of Hollywood films can be an advantage for Pacific Rim, or will the
producers of next year second attempt at an American Godzilla film have a lot
to worry about.
At The Edge...
