#pacrim

“When I was a kid, whenever I would feel small I’d look up at the stars wonder if there was life out there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered the world it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.” ah I see why it’s called Pacific Rim

The Breach! TØP coded

The fake video of Obama, LOL

“The world came together, pooling its resources and throwing aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good” okay PHM coded

“The jaeger program was formed” Okay it’s pronounced yay-ger

Interesting about the neural load

It’s 2020! I guess this happened before COVID? Lol

They’re brothers! That should make it easier possibly for the whole sharing a drift thing

“Hey kid, don’t get cocky” oh he’s gonna. I can tell

“It turns out we had a unique skill. We were drift compatible” first name drop of the drift compatible thing

Neural handshake…fascinating

“The drift. Jaeger tech. Two pilots mindmelding through memories with a giant machine. The deeper the bond, the better you fight” okay that’s why they’re good together, they’re brothers

let’s go fishing :D (PHM reference)

This is funnnnn

Avengers level tech

Not the brother! I knew something was gonna happen

How is he still alive & operating the Gipsy Danger though if he’s supposed to operate with his bro

Dang, Idris Elba feels bad

Love this old searcher guy and his kid lol

Oooo they’re gonna die

Or not

How on earth are that guy and his kid or grandkid not freezing to death?!

Well that was an intro

Aha 2025

Avengers-esque screen with the representative council meeting lol

Well there’s our boy!

So he got moved to working on the wall :/

This is sooooo Marvel coded fr

It’s Nick Fury….! Jk it’s Heimdall

Okay, he went to go find Raleigh, that’s why he’s here

“An old jaeger, a Mark 3” how much more Marvel coded can they make this (prolly a lot)

“I can’t have anyone else in my head again” 😭 he was connected to his brother when he died :(

“So where would you rather die? Here or in a jaeger?” Dang that’s a good line. Also PHM coded (with the whole ‘you’re gonna die whether on earth or in space’ thing)

[when the jet lands and we see Mako for the first time] Oh it’s a laaaadyyyyy

Love interest. Calling it now

They’re gonna be drift compatible prolly

He walks off the plane, rain in his hair, blue eyes…lol

“I imagined him differently” lol of course you did (it’s like “I thought he’d be taller” and I can’t think of where that came from but it feels familiar. Maybe I’m thinking of “I thought you’d be dead” “I thought you were smaller??” from Captain America: The First Avenger)

Also yeah he speaks Japanese too ofc. Because of course he does.

[when we meet the research team guys Nick and Herman] Chaotic twins? XD oh gosh they’re so Cala and Beshelar coded of course [that was a little premature of me but it was my first impression]

Talkative Cala guy is great and looks familiar somehow (okay looking him up post movie: it’s Charlie Day…aha, he’s the voice of Benny in The LEGO Movie. Seems like that’s about all I would know of him tho. Also a PHM reference, sort of, bc Chris Miller and Phil Lord—PHM directors—also directed The LEGO Movie)

The researchers are hilarious, love it. Newt is of course the one into the kaiju. Herman is not

“Welcome to the Shatterdome” yep, sooooo marvel. It’s sooo SHIELD [the whole place]

Dog! :D

Australian guy. I think he was there earlier?

Oooo we’re going for the breach!

Lemme guess. They’re gonna try to blow it up suicide-mission style. Holy crap this is just the Avengers meets PHM isn’t it? XD XD

Oh maybe not

Still

(I bet it’s going to be or it’s gonna be suuuuper close)

Okay we’re gonna have Miss Mori and Herc or the marshal as his co pilots

Or the other broody guy who has been watching Raleigh

“I’ve got a plan, be ready” so Nick Fury coded

Oh this guy [Herman] may not be as Beshelar like as I thought lol

“Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of God” dang what a line

LOLLL at Newt making the “yadda yadda” gesture with his hand behind Herman

So Bruce Banner of him [Herman] with so many equations and things

“They’re clones” which I realized RIGHT before he said it

LOL COLLECTOR STYLE CONTAINER WITH THE YELLOW GLASS FOR KAIJU BRAIN

Oh interesting. Neural connection with the kaiju brain sounds dangerous of course

Okay yeah they’re [the researchers] not Cala and Besh as much as I thought (maybe). They can get a lil condescending/mean to each other

“Fortune favors the brave, dude”

“You’ll kill yourself” “or I’ll be a rock star!!!” Lol

Oh there’s the jaeger he [Raleigh] and his brother “flew”

Double core nuclear reactor - yeah yeah that’s Tony Stark speak to me

Awww it’s Mr Chernol (?)! He’s back!

“The marshal has his reasons [for not including me as a pilot]” me: cause he’s a MISOGYNIST (ok jk jk I’m sure there’s some other reason)

“he always does [have his reasons], doesn’t he? But with 51 kills I can’t imagine what they could be” yes it’s bc the marshal is Stratt and doesn’t want ppl on the mission to fall in love. Simple

“I don’t think you’re the right man for this mission” of course she doesn’t, lol

“One day when you’re a pilot you’ll see that you make decisions and you have to live with the consequences” okay this could come across as condescending but he’s not being that way, he’s saying that if you haven’t had to make hard choices in real time it’s easy to say he’s wrong. At the same time. She was simply saying he was unpredictable. Idk I see it both ways

[when Raleigh takes his shirt off and Mako is ogling him] Literally started laughing. Obligatory shirtless scene LOL. Yeah yeah he’s conventionally attractive and good looking, we all see it

“Vengeance is like an open wound” oh so she’s got some hang ups too apparently

Okay so the son [of the Australian guy Herc] doesn’t like Raleigh

Why on earth is he being so mean. Dude

Why are we having wrestling/sparring matches? I guess they should know how to fight but this is way more fast paced than against Kaiju?? Weird lol [I realized/learned later this is for testing drift compatibility]

Hehe of course they manage to get her to fight him

Raleigh: “It’s a dialogue, not a fight. But I’m not gonna dial down my moves” (“for a GIRL” is the unspoken end of that sentence. Maybe)

“Then neither will I” yeahhhh get him

And this is about drift and physical compatabilityyyy apparently

They are *so* flirting

Of course the marshal is like yeah no u guys still can’t be copilots

“You felt it right? We are drift compatible!” Okay but how do you KNOW?!! That’s what I wanna know

Aww I do feel bad for her :(

Mako: “It’s not obedience, Mr. Becket. It’s respect” OOOOOOO

I get both of them. Fight for what u want but also respect authority

Oh gosh he’s [the marshal] got a nosebleed something is happening to him. He’s sick he’s dying or whatever

I love this science guy [Newt] :D

Oh interesting. The kaiju brain showed memories of some smaller aliens cloning. I think

I KNEW they had some kind of father daughter connection

Aha he’s letting her go!

Oh yeahhhhh they’re in the Gipsy Danger

“The drift is silence” interesting

Yeah of course they both felt that. His brother and her childhood

Cool tech stuff

“I don’t think they’re attacking us out of animalistic urges, they’re under orders of some kind” tbh? Not that surprised

“You, keep talking” THAT’S WHERE THAT MEME COMES FROM!!!!

Lol black market for Kaiju stuff. Very Collector-esque guy it sounds like “Hannibal Chau. do not trust him”

Oop Raleigh’s getting flashbacks

Okay he’s back. She’s not tho. Why do they not have like full on simulations (unless this is just a test which I guess it is…?)

Ah I see. Her mother was killed in a kaiju attack when she was like…between 6 and 11 ish

Okay yeah she’s gonna release a weapon accidentally lol

This clearly isn’t just a test run if she could fire a weapon guys (if they didn’t fully power it off last minute) 🙄

Poor girl tho

Lol Newt in Hong Kong is giving “Guardians [of the Galaxy] in whatever space city they were in in the movie” vibes

Ohhhh yeah. Very Collector like

Lol I knew Newt would like his space😂

Oh my gosh the guy is SO COLLECTOR LIKE

Okay yeah I get that jerk face doesn’t like Raleigh or Mori bc he doesn’t trust them to defend him while blows up the thing but STILL

“One of you b****** needs a leash” gosh I wish it had been her beating jerkface up. Oh well

“On your feet, both of you!” Giving Adrian Von Ziegler “on your feet, you lazy mongrels”

The marshal: “No, it was my mistake” for not getting her some proper therapy? “I should have never let you two in the same machine” oh I see how it is

She’s having one of the worst days of her life. Poor girl

“She is the strongest candidate by far, what other options do we have?” Very Grace and Stratt coded. Except this isn’t a sacrifice. Also I really wanted to know how they determine strongest candidate!!!

“She’s too inexperienced to rein in her emotions during combat” bc you haven’t tried to LET HER OKAY

Aha yeah im not surprised that memory wasn’t over yet. Marshal guy was there wasn’t he

Cue the music of awe with the sun rising

Yeeeeppppp it’s Heimdall [the marshal]! He came and saved her

“Raleigh: can we just talk about this for one second??” *grabs arm* / Marshal: *gives him a look like boyyyyy you did not just touch my arm* lol

“One: don’t u ever touch me again. Two: don’t u ever touch me again”

“First drift is rough. You were tapping into my brother’s memories too” 🥺

The whole living in someone else’s head part makes me think of Elrond and Elros 😭

Oh there we go. Double kaiju

Marshal is gonna have to utilize them [Raleigh and Mako] won’t he. When the other teams can’t fully defend Hong Kong

Why do they only ever seem to be out when it’s raining? Lol

What’s the miracle mile also? Maybe it’s a mile out from shore?

Also wow the tech to lift those giant heavy jaegers up must be soooo powerful

Oh dang that’s right Newt is still in the city

“And what do you believe?” “I believe that kaiju bone powder is 500 bucks a pound” haha

Oh wait. What if they get the brain from one of the kaiju coming out rn

“The brain. Too much ammonia” Eridian-like!

Why are u telling this guy [Hannibal] you’re trying to drift with a kaiju?? Okay huh Hannibal thinks it’s dumb

Dang that’s crazy the jaeger can power up enough to basically fly if they have to

Bet this is the 2nd biggest battle in the movie (it was)

Poor marshal. Always getting disobeyed bc ppl wanna protect each other lol

“Chittering then screeching” v accurate captions

They are SO gonna need Raleigh and Mako

Yeah they’re getting pummeled

I do hope the Australian guys live. Even jerkface

Lol shooting missiles from the pecs of the jaeger

Oh no oh gosh they almlst got electrocuted

There was some kind of blast. Oh did the kaiju do that?

“The jaegers here are all digital!” The moment he said that I knew—

Yup “not all of them! The gipsy is analog”

[Newt realizing the kaiju will want to come after him] Ahhhh. Right, drifting is a 2 way street, so sounds like the kaiju might’ve gotten that with Newt and knows where he is/are looking for him

Yeah let’s hope Hong Kong has a loooooot of insurance for parking garages and stuff

I was calling it earlier but calling it again now. There’s gonna be a kaiju brain that lands right in front of Newt somehow

Gosh they never could’ve had refuges like that during covid where everyone is packed in together

[when Herc gets his son to go out with him and shoot the kaiju with flare guns even if they die bc it’s their last resort] See I love Herc.

Wonder why they’ve got bioluminescence in their mouth (the kaiju)

Oh yeahhhhhh baby

LETS GO GIPSYYYYUY

Lol trying to be iron man while skidding across the city

Oh yraghhhh BEAT HIM DOWN

Good, check for the pulse

MAYBE GET THE BRAIN OKAY?!!! Oh wait right there’s another live one

Newt looking for his glasses >> so Ryland Grace

I’m telling you that brain is gonna fall down right there

Oh wait it’s the alive one. I think! Yup

Ooooo more bioluminescence. This time tentacles

Okay why is it going away now. What’s that about

Oh yes I like this music

HIT IM WITH A BOAT!!!!

Yeah they’re out here just casually taking a stroll through the city smashing cars n stuff

WOW that is a lot of glass. That office building is never gonna be the same. None of them are

Oh that bad boy’s got WINGS!!!

we’re talking dragons now!!!

“Sword deployment” HECK YEAH

HOW ARE U GONNA KILL A DRAGON? With a SWORDDDD

Yeah u weren’t made to be up in the sky

Dang. That football field’s never gonna be the same again

THEY LIVED! (I knew it)

Okay now brain harvesting time. Please

We’re back to Hannibal, who is gonna go harvest some stuff. Aha there’s newt “guess who’s back, you one eyed b***? And you owe me a kaiju brain” ha

Awww yay Herc said he’s thankful

“In all my years of fighting, I’ve never seen anything like it. Well done. Proud of you. Proud of us all” of course. Thanks dad (marshal)

“We lost 2 crews, no time to grieve” (there’s the Stratt in him)

Nose bleeding again yeah he’s dying

Harvesting time! Lol. Scienceeee

It’s also lowkey giving Vulture and his team in Spider-Man: Homecoming trying to collect stuff for the black market (how many Marvel movies can we reference challenge) (Homecoming was in 2021 tho so this wasn’t a reference at the time)

Oh apparently this thing is PREGNANT?

Lol yeah I’d freak out too

Okay yeah the baby’s birthing itself. Baby kaiju on the loose. Yuck

It’s gonna die right in front of Newt won’t it

Yup. That thing’s—Oh he’s NOT [dead]

well RIP Hannibal oh dang

Okay maybe nowwww it’s dead

Just the one shoe left. Why are singular shoes a thing in this film. Cinderella vibes (except they don’t need to go find people XD) [the singular shoe thing is referring to Mako holding a shoe in her flashback]

Ahhh, radiation shielding. The Mark 1s didn’t have it. (Again, PHM-coded…)

“[I did my last mission solo.] For 3 hours, I burned. They warned me if I ever stepped into a jaeger again it would be too much” okay but WHY. How does that WORK. (I guess the radiation would be too much even if it’s minimized in newer models?)

“You and I are the only two that ever ran solo combat” oh wait so did his partner die too? I missed whether that was the case but I would assume so

Lol yup Newt is harvesting

Love how Herman is just going *type type type type* on the computer lol. How did he even get there

Yea of course Newt and Herman are gonna drift together XD for the neural load

“We’re gonna own this bad boy!” Haha

WAIT

MARSHAL’s GOING IN WITH JERKFACE (bc Herc is hurt)

“Not getting into a jaeger would kill us all”

Awww he’s saying goodbye to her :(

SPEEEEEECH

Avengers-esque speech

“Today we are CANCELING the apocalypse!” This movie has a lot of epic one liners doesn’t it

“I carry nothing into the drift. No memories, no emotions. No ego” yeahhhh cuz you rock, marshal

Oh jerkface’s name is Chuck

“You’re an egotistical jerk with daddy issues” HA yeah I like that he thought of him as a jerk too

“But you are your father’s son. so we’ll drift just fine.” Hmm did Herc drift with the marshal before?

Herc: “When you drift with someone, you feel like there’s nothing to talk about. I just don’t want to regret all the things I never said out loud” awww Herc cares about Raleigh

“You don’t need to. I’ve known them all. I always have” 😭

Of course there’s the dog being cute moment

“That’s my son you’ve got there. That’s my son” ohhhh

“You know, Mako, all those years living in the past…I never really thought about the future. Till now. I never did have very good timing” what does that mean???

Neural handshake! For the science boys

What are we even getting from the kaiju

“The jaegers, the breach. The plan, it’s not going to work!” Of course not

Feels like Iron Man and Rhodeyyyyy [the two jaegers]

Off they go into the deep

I guess these things kinda were made for water weren’t they? They had to be bc that’s where ppl aren’t and that’s where kaiju are

Scientists go go go!

“Move you fascist” LOL

Okay uhhhh I only got some of that but this is sounding like a Tony Stark type jump [in The Avengers where he has to go send the bomb through the wormhole]

Oop we got category 5 kaiju. Crazy

Big big big fightttttt time

Oooof smoking under water

Oh dang the arm got cut off!!

Aha sword action going on

Okay yeah I’m betting that Striker [aka the jaeger that the marshal and jerkface are in] will have to basically do the suicide jump

Ohhhh they’re going to have to sacrifice Madshal I knew it!

“You can always find me in the drift” 🥺

Chuck says yeah they can sacrifice themselves “my dad always says to take the shot” aww

“All systems critical” yeah it’s giving Jarvis or FRIDAY in Tony Stark’s suit

“What are they doing” “finishing the mission” 😭

Off they go with the corpse

Aha one more kaiju to defeat

Into the breach we go!

Oh interesting they’re in now okay. Lots of lightning!

Critical oxygen levels for Mako

Oh he’s gonna give—yup

She’s getting his oxygen

“We did it. I can finish this alone. All I have to do is fall”

I’m trying to figure out what on earth—oh he’s sending her off in a pod okay

So the jaeger needs to explode down there?

What is going on

Okay so he’s exploding the nuclear core

This is honestly a really cool alien wasteland

He’s in his evac pod!!!

He’s going!

BANMMMMM

The breach has collapsed—okay yay! Good! But how on earth are they getting OUT of it [I guess they got out before it fully collapsed]

Well there’s one evac pod

“Where’s the second one” it’s coming I believe it

Oh she’s swimming okay

There it is!

Get his helmet off

Time for CPR

time for a kiiiiiiiss probably (bc that’s how these movies go)

The only explanation I can give as to why she’s so upset is that a) she saw his memories and b) he was close to her father figure. Otherwise…movie logic bc she’s the love interest

Oh, ha, try for humor now Raleigh. “You’re squeezing me too tight” ha

Okay no kiss yet

“Stop the clock!” YAYYYYY

Okay that’s pretty great. I’m grinning

Their foreheads are together awww hug aww. Oh they didn’t kiss! That’s honestly the most surprising part of this whole movie to me

Got a Guillermo del toro movie under my belt now. Nice

OH THERE’S AN EXTRA CREDIT SCENE! I feel like I shouldn’t have been surprised about that, considering how Marvel-esque this movie is 😆

Okay it’s the corpse

HA it was Hannibal cutting his way out of the creature. Lol