Pacific Rim(job)

Title:  Pacific Rim

Release: 2013!

Summary:
Big robots fighting even bigger monsters, with a dash of multi-nationality crew running around giving me feelings. (Bet you didn't expect all that family feelings coming out, nah, neither did I.)

Commentary:
If you know me, you will know that I care nothing for robots. (So I have a little thing for Godzilla but that's as far as I care for Kaiju too.) So I wasn't even going to watch this film, but because my sisters are oddly enthusiastic about it, I went along.

FIRST FIVE MINUTES I WAS ALREADY CLUTCHING TO MY SEAT, BAWLING BECAUSE I DID NOT SIGNED UP FOR MIND FUCKING MELDS. THAT IS MY SOFT SPOT OKAY, WHAT THE HELL MY FUCKING HEART. (Goes to show that I obviously didn't even watch a single trailer, aside from knowing that Rinko Kikuchi was in it and that there were going to be giant robots, I knew absolutely nothing about this film.)

All the characters were delightful, even the ones that barely got a line.

• Mako: you’re the cutest, gummi bears and flowers indeed  ヽ(●´∀｀●) ノ✿
• Raleigh Becket: the hard candy to the above gummi bear, BUT SOMEONE BRING BACK YANCY ALREADY /tears
• Daddy Pentecost: He is practically a chocolate Jesus, I mean, he is also part of team hot dads.
• Daddy Hansen: My hands down favorite because SINGLE DAD. (And yeah, he is practically universally compatible, I bet his bloodtype is O too ;DDD)
• Chuck Hansen: The other half of my team daddy (issues), I just love how no one denies that he is a class A jerk but still loves him anyway because he is just that much of an asshole. (These are the kind of boys our mothers warned us about.)
• Max the Bulldog: I NEED A MOMENT ALONE BECAUSE TEAM DADDY (ISSUES) AND THIS DOG JUST GIVES ME ALL THESE POTENTIAL FOR ANGST.
• Yancy Becket: part 2 of the Becket brothers, which spoilers, DIES. /curls up crying
• The Kaidonovskys: PRECIOUS RUSSIAN BABES WITH THEIR SHARED HAIR DYES AND CONFUSING NAMES.
• The Wei Clan: Like the Kaidonovskys, they also died too fast. /saddest face to ever sad
• The K-Science Bros: These smart smart idiots, oh, they are just adorable with their tattooed bodies and fluffy parkas.

And kudos for making Hong Kong the backdrop of this film. (PS: It is painfully accurate, we will harvest that Kaiju corpse and turn it into food, I felt like the film capture that Chinese sentiment perfectly.)

Guise, guise, I must add: the pseudo-science in this pleased me so much. /content sigh

I won't argue anything about social justice, ex: this film don't have enough strong female characters (and if you give me crap about Mako getting emotional over her tragic past the first time she drifted is reinforcing gender stereotypes and that females always need to get rescued I will personally shove a Kaiju down your throat because let girls be girls and there are girls that cry and there are girls that don't and yes, there are girls who cry and is still strong, so don't even give me that emotional is equivalent to weak) or that it may still reinforce those stereotypes that we promised not to touch with a ten foot pole or that it uses language that could be avoided. This movie will have its flaws but it is one (if not THE ONE) of my favorite films of this year, and I won't be apologetic about loving this film. I will defend it till the end of the world because I won't have it any other way (maybe unless everyone gets to live long happy lives together as one big family).

So if you couldn’t tell by now, this film was made of awesomesauce and exactly everything I never knew I needed. I only have one bone to pick, and it is with the Wei triplets: the national Chinese sport is either Ping Pong or badminton, basket ball isn’t really our thing.

PS: of course I had to use the poster for Australian team Striker Eureka, they are my favoritest of the favorites.