Why did Pacific Rim Look SO Realistic?

[@erasmus_locke]

The animation selling the inertia of these giant robots that weigh tens of thousands of tons. That is my favorite part.

[@guntere1004]

Yeah you can Feel the weight of the Mechs and Kaiju, combine that with all the little moving parts and it's as realistic as it can get

[@cjkalandek996]

Hence, why I said in my comment that this movie is the gold standard on how to animate giant robots and monsters. Which is why the latter half of the MonsterVerse movies (especially the ones directed by Adam Wingard) piss me off so much.

[@hyposlasher]

1000 times yes

[@alderwield9636]

Which is removed from the (non exist) sequel Kinda same with some of the latest godzilla movie tbh

[@Diago767]

another aspect of this film I always loved that isn't touched on in the video is camera placement. its always "filmed" as if it was a real camera being operated by a human, either from the ground or in a helecopter, that really helps sell the sense of scale. The sequel that we don't talk about got that wrong and just had a virtual camera flying around in impossible locations and it was a big factor in why that film didnt work as well (among other things)

[@JoeMwangi]

I wish you also included lighting. There was no hidden light source, but rather lighting from motivated light like helicopter or street lights, etc.

[@garlicbreadstick404]

I genuinely never thought about that, really cool

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

meaning?

[@rodgerrodger1958]

@@MGrey-qb5xzI think they mean that there were no random sources of light and that it would come from things like the helicopters, buildings and other robots

[@wanderingbufoon]

@@MGrey-qb5xz it takes you out of realism like the scene is off. For example, you have scenes that are in dark rooms. Say, pitch black. BUT you can see the actors faces still (because they're lit up so the audience can see their faces). That takes you out of immersion. Directors that aim for realism will keep things just that, dark. Directors that are artistic but realistic would make the scene playout with silhouettes (backdrop is somewhat lit from believable yet unlikely sources but not the face).

[@k9foru2]

@@wanderingbufoon there are ways to do it well but yeah few films do

[@RHR199X]

I wish the Monsterverse stuck with this style, Pacific Rim is arguably more out there in terms of sci fi and still manages to not only pull off the effect but become the standard for it

[@davidostapenko2578]

There are two MonsterVerse movies with this style. That being 2014's "GODZILLA" and maybe 2017's "KONG: SKULL ISlAND". The rest of the movies are nothing more but an overrated incompetent garbage.

[@factualopinion4275]

those first 2 are ass though ​@@davidostapenko2578

[@austin3789]

@@davidostapenko2578 Skull Island is sooo good. Right up there with Pacific Rim.

[@Samsonfs]

The effects in the monster verse look like such a joke in comparison, just big weightless dumb dogs clattering into eachother.

[@azrieldalusong5042]

​@@davidostapenko2578 I really hate they just ditched something like these and make everything goofy for the sake of wider audience.

[@PeterRichardsandYoureNot]

The fact that del toro used a very unique design on each robot so that the audience could follow them very easily makes the difference between a “good” director and a “stand out amaze-balls f’ing awesome” director.

[@kanter1598]

And then, 6 years later, Disney made remake of the lion king with undisguisable lions xD

[@thedarkbard]

Yeah, b/c they used the night to mask some of the imperfections, they really needed to make sure each Jaeger had a unique silhouette.

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

This works mostly because the team thought giant robots are cool. They had a good vision and it overshadowed technological limitations. However, no work exists in a vacuum. This probably has a bit of Mamoru Oshi in it (Guilermo del Toro says that it's patlabor influenced) but the Eva-01 silhouette in the concept art at 3:34 says a lot about where the core ideas came from. Machine induced mind links with people and monsters... What that does to you... This is very evangelion.

[@davidgarrett4796]

All of the Jaegers looked awesome and powerful, but my favourite one based purely on aesthetics is Cherno Alpha, hands-down. Also love the fact that the other Jaegers have complex and fancy weaponry like plasma cannons, rockets, saw blades etc and Cherno Alpha is just BIG PUNCH

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

​@@hypothalapotamus5293definitely more battletech and evangelion than gundam

[@KingVenom302]

The Avatar the last airbender fandom has: "There is no war in Ba Sing Sei" The Pacific Rim fandom has: "There is no Pacific Rim sequel"

[@Cryonan]

People forget that Pacific Rim: The Black is an actual good show lol. And uprising while not the absolute best, isn’t hot unwatchable garbage like most say

[@KingVenom302]

@Cryonan I agree, Pacific Rim: The Black is a good show. It's just that Uprising didn't meet the quality of the original movie and didn't meet my or I think anyone's expectations compared to the first one.

[@glizzygladiator8055]

Well yeah, we all wish there was but it never got done. For all we know the sequel could’ve just been a crappy cashgrab utilizing a couple up and coming faces with the pointless inclusion of a character from the first movie who dies immediately without contributing to the plot of the sequel.

[@glizzygladiator8055]

@CryonanPacific Rim itself isn’t the absolute best. Having the sequel be considerably worse in action, emphasis of scale. It’s a weak/bad storyline. Horrible character handling from the previous movie. And lastly, poor character development within itself is why Uprising is just a bad dream most want to forget.

[@KingVenom302]

@glizzygladiator8055 Exactly

[@Adumperson1]

Shame there’s no sequel to such a good movie 😔 Edit: guys what’s uprising? (Btw thanks so much for 8k likes)

[@FightingBoredom]

I know right

[@manuel.camelo]

Exactly.. NO SEQUEL 👁️👃👁️🙏

[@Tonyten39]

Yup, true 😏

[@steprockmedia]

Oh well. A sequel couldn't have lived up to this original. So I'm glad they never. made. a. sequel. ever.

[@Galaxyeyez]

We were robbed. Legendary should get to work on a sequel it's been way too long 😔

[@erickvonengelwalten8568]

I remember watching this on IMAX, and i tell you, it was a crazy one! All the water effects, rain drops, splashes, waves, water whiplashs and particles splashing on your face during fights, an action scenes, was annoying, but very realistic, it felt like the water was part of the whole thing! It was one the most memorable IMAX experience i had.

[@yx_wonwotblitz4155]

So you watched it 4d?

[@theprocess5769]

I'll never forget that imax experience either... I really wish they'd re release it again someday on imax

[@yx_wonwotblitz4155]

@@theprocess5769 I wish so too, considering I never watched in the cinemas

[@mazuzuri]

Also just the sheer volume of the bass rattling through your body helped bring the immersion to life. Feeling every step or punch not just seeing it. I would happily pay to see it in cinema again just for that experience.

[@theprocess5769]

@yx_wonwotblitz4155 aww man, last month amc had it in theaters for a week in honor of Hispanic heritage month i think

[@HassaelMartinez]

Also the camera is always set in places where a human would be able to put a camera, instead of the camera flying freely like many movies nowadays do

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

I believe there might be a couple exceptions (the part where the camera is unaffected by a nuclear blast comes to mind) but it tries to sell the motion of being a camera on a craft following the events even if one couldn't ever really be there. In multiple scenes during the city fights you can actually see helicopters recording the events, which both helps with this and also subconsciously reminds you of the scale of each scene.

[@NakedAvanger]

What?

[@steprockmedia]

I always wanted a sequel, but I'm glad they NEVER DID. I'm sure they would have screwed it up. Can't improve on perfection.

[@Mug-Red]

Yep never happened.

[@theboi9382]

go watch The Black instead, it's better than the Chinese one

[@tomh225]

transformers screwed up hard the first bay formers movie was awesome

[@alexc4300]

Um, they did. And yes, they did.

[@JustSomeGuy49]

@@alexc4300it was a joke of how shit and forgettable the sequel is, cant believe it flew over your head like that.

[@williammiller4768]

Because there’s a difference between “Its my job.” And “This is my passion.” Del Toro is so good at his craft.

[@DanSilverhound]

To me, this movie is still the holy grail of vfx. The artistry that went into evoking emotion and expression through both nature and the destruction of the structured. I saw this twice in IMAX and it was worth every damn penny, if it ever gets a rerelease in IMAX or Dolby, I'll be there for it again

[@Healthy_Toki]

Imax was definitely worth it.

[@chrislaf89]

It's the Jurassic Park of its age.

[@Proks7]

The transformers vfx is the Jurassic Park of this era. Michael Bay is an entertaining at best director. But the vfx in the Bayverse was an accumulation of all the vfx technology at the time.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

it also helps that there's a lot of physicality, the monsters jiggle, the Jaeger's plates have momentum to them shame that they never made a sequel, i guess Del Toro's style is just too unique

[@haydentravis3348]

According to google, the sequel made back its production costs (cost 150mil, returned 290mil.) but the companies stated themselves that they need 350 to break even. Weird.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

@@haydentravis3348 yup, very sad that a Sequel never happened

[@haydentravis3348]

@@Artista_Frustrado Well, several somebody cashed in on the good will Pacific Rim built. To the tune of 140mil usd.

[@VitorHugoOliveiraSousa]

​@@haydentravis3348there is marketing budget on top of those 150 million. They probably still made a profit with auxiliary like steaming licensing and merchandise (like toys). Still Hollywood doesn't like to just barely make a profit, a third movie could make even less money and then they would have a out right flop on their hands.

[@xenontesla122]

@@Artista_Frustrado Must be one of those Mandela effects, like the Last Airbender movie that never happened…

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

IF there were a sequel to this film (I know, crazy right?), it sure would be interesting to dive into why it did or didn't succeed in the visual department where the first one did...

[@DicksonJuma-iv2sc]

Yes, that would (theoretically speaking, of course) be a great topic. I do believe that the KZbinrs Pointless Hub,and Film Junkie have explored this completely hypothetical scenario. But then again... It's all just theories

[@RedTail1-1]

Because China... That's why.. It was basically just a movie designed to make money in China..

[@polloman15]

There’s no sequel for Pacific Rim, what are you talking about? :v

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

@ nono of course, I meant hypothetically

[@AHappyCub]

@@RedTail1-1 And the problem is what again ? (outside of your own racism)

[@ChristopherGrisolia]

The fact that this movie exists and is as great as it is a miracle

[@Tonyten39]

I definitely agree, as it is one of my favorite movies of all time 😊

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

americans don't deserve it but they got it

[@Serenity_Dee]

"When you're in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane. You can win." And they made every fight feel like that.

[@SolidGoldHedgehog]

Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla deserves an honourable mention. That sold their scale.

[@louiswright8282]

I honestly don't understand the hate for that film outside of Bryan Cranstons death. The cinematography, the soundtrack, the CGI, the dark and grounded tone, THE SCALE makes it one of my favourite Giant Monster films, up there with Peter Jacksons King Kong for me personally.

[@SolidGoldHedgehog]

@@louiswright8282 Yeah, except for that bug canyon scene. Fuck that scene.

[@si2foo]

@@louiswright8282 The problem with the film is they didn't give him enough budget to include more scenes with godzilla. the scale felt great the story are alright but the complaints i heard all came from the lack of godzilla in the Godzilla film. they anchored it around soldier boy which is fine but they could have done with having more scenes of godzilla. I think the total godzilla time was like 15 mins if that in a 120+ film aklso didn't hellp they got kick-ass for the serious soldier role when he really is better in a more jokey light hearted affair.

[@Inv1xxity]

@@louiswright8282compared to what we have now, definately the best godzilla movie ever

[@sapitron]

@Inv1xxity have you watched godzilla minus one? it's just perfect .

[@julz_swag]

I believe Del Toro also had the Kaiju designed in such a way that if they were all costumes, they could all be worn and fit into by a real person. That’s just so cool.

[@larimatolaganon4946]

What really sold me, was how everything moved with weight. They were not moving an elephant with cat reflexes, which immediately pulls you out. That and it got right into what we were there to see, Giant Robots fighting Kaiju without making us wait over an hour for boring human story we don't care all that much about. The movie knew its audience.

[@Skarrier]

The reason the human story bits in this movie works is because the goal of those stories is to set up more fights. All characters basically either want to kick kaiju's rears or to find the better ways to kick kaiju's rears. No "saving" something irrelevant, no needless quests unrelated to the plot. The Newt side mission is the closest they go to annoying human plot, but the line isn't crossed, because it acts as a tool to foreshadow the lose of two jaegers and sets up the success in the final encounter, having charismatic characters and cool interactions on top of all that.

[@connivingkhajiit]

@@Skarrier 13 years later and we're still talking about this movie how awesome is that

[@cjkalandek996]

This movie is my gold standard for how to animate giant robots and monsters in movies.

[@mexa_t6534]

It’s so nice that we can have a stand-alone film still be talked about all these years later

[@suhelpal1843]

One thing you missed massively ...compositing the art behind making the cg realistic ... the compositors did a great job merging the cg elements along with practical and live action setpieces .......the water render merged with the cg creature along with dmp with photorealistic shadows , reflection and continiuity in the lighting ...... it deserved a spot in your video..

[@romxxii]

There was a lot of darkness that helped hide the seams in this movie. In fact, it was quite common during this time for VFX to be "in the dark" as to make the CG elements more blended into the scene. You sorta figured out a big CGI battle was coming when the scene changed to nighttime.

[@joshuamueller3206]

A movie about giant CGI robots punching giant CGI monsters should not have been this good, but here we are Pacific Rim has to unironically be a top 5 movies I have ever watched.

[@Jerhevon]

Some of my comments about the original Pacific Rim was that this was a movie that knew what it's audience wanted. And then worked hard to deliver as much of that as possible. Tucking the exposition and world building in around that tight knit core.

[@joeydestructo]

A couple other things that really made Pacific Rim stand out visually in my opinion: -Great fight choreography. As cool as just seeing giant robots and monsters is, it's way better if the action is cool too. In one of Super Eyepatch Wolf's videos, he made a very interesting point about how fights are just dialogues between characters, and if the fight is done well, you can follow the logic of the "conversation" and understand what's happening and why they make the moves they do. This is done very nicely in this film, especially by Raleigh and Mako. When they fight together in Gipsy Danger, you can see them process the threats they're presented with and reply with a logical counter. They also use a variety of tools, weapons, and moves, which keeps the fights fresh and unique. They don't just spam the same moves over and over until one falls over. Even a lot of modern, high-budget kaiju movies fail to do this right. (Major exception being Godzilla vs Kong. For all its flaws the action scenes were top notch.) -Realistic camera angles and moves. The camera is rarely if ever positioned where a human could not be, nor does it make impossible moves that a real camera could not make. This helps sell not only the scale of the kaiju and jaegers, by giving us the perspective of a human on the ground or in a building, but it also helps make it feel more real, because the camera isn't whizzing around to remind us this is all CGI.

[@zyron1180]

I've heard from somewhere the camera angle part when it's like on air(mainly the otachi, leatherback fight) the camera perspective are the helicopters view angle I think ?

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@zyron1180yep, that’s the most likely scenario. Since the spotlights are also from the surrounding helicopters

[@sleeplessindefatigable6385]

A couple of thinvs I want to add here. 1) You mentioned about the speed of the robots, but I think one thing that got glossed over (which is perfectly fine, this is a video about the VFX) is how much the actors, writers, set designers, director and practical effects team worked to sell that weight. Whenever you see inside the jaeger, the pilots are always shown with some kind of mechanical arm holding them up, and a complex mechanical system around them. Whenever the actors move, they're ALWAYS struggling, like they're moving through water, and it's very clear that the jaeger is constantly exerting some amount of mechanical resistance on the pilots. This gives a solid, believable reason why the speed of the humans and the jaeger match up, because if the robot was just controlled by motion capture or a control panel, the human could do something and then have to wait for the robot to respond. It's a genius solution to the problem of giant robot control that everything else I've seen usually gets around by just cheating a bit and having fast, nimble robots. 2) Something I only noticed now after over 10 years of loving this film, is that the reactor on the jaegers moves from one generation to the next. When Stacker says that the MK1 jaegers all gave their pilots cancer through inadequate reactor shielding, we see his jaeger, which clearly had the reactor somewhere in the torso like Gipsy. By comparison, the Russian pilots are the only remaining MK1 crew that aren't dead from radiation because the reactor on Cherno Alpha was placed on top of the jaeger. From there, we see Gipsy Danger, which has the reactor in the chest, but also a huge exposed turbine. Presumably, having a big "punch here for results" spot on the robot led to a lot of MK3 jaegers going down, and so we see on Crimson Typhoon, it's moved to a bulky apparatus on the back. Finally, on Striker Eureka, it's integrated into the back completely. I only just realised that and it's super cool to me.

[@vanzeralltheway8638]

Fun fact, i was JUST NOW realizing point 2 after i read all this, lmfao😂 I mean, i see it all myself, but i never even thought about it so i never noticed !! Dang, cant believe i there are still details i have never knew. Truly an epic movies

[@Bitumesilicatissimo]

Why did Pacific Rim Look SO Realistic? Because Guillermo Del Toro is Cinema as it finest. Fullstop.

[@davidostapenko2578]

Exactly.

[@MaticTheProto]

Massive Mechs called "Jäger" (German for hunter) *looks inside* No German Mech

[@mememan1081]

Which is ironic

[@Lewd-Tenant_Isan]

I mean, the movie IS called "Pacific Rim" not Atlantic edge lol

[@MaticTheProto]

@ if only we had such things like globalization

[@Idk_Anymore-l7d]

It was most likely Germany who made a breakthrough that helped with the creation of the Jaegers

[@MaticTheProto]

@ I just want a German Jäger with a comically oversized gun ;-;

[@ThePrimordialArchon]

Ironically you can tell the cgis limitations DUE to the water. You never see a jaeger outside of water except for a couple scenes and even then its a very curated scene to ensure the jaeger looks best, its similar to how jurassic park used the fact there was a storm to cover the cgis issues (its so they didn’t have to shader the lighting fully). The water itself is impressive however its even more impressive when there is no water as that would’ve been misery to handle as a VFX artist. The dark lighting as made it easy to hide all mistakes along with the mist. Ultimately the water wasnt just for visual appeal, it was there to make the VFX artists not kill themselves,

[@Furydragonstormer]

What is also nice, is they actually added a believable explanation in the world as to why they engage kaiju in the ocean instead of on land every time

[@ThePrimordialArchon]

@@Furydragonstormer which that reason is that the kaijus blood is toxic and really hard to get rid of, which makes me wonder how bad the oceans ecosystem was affected by this

[@beth1271]

@@ThePrimordialArchonpretty sure he was talking about the portal they exit being underwater

[@Furydragonstormer]

@@ThePrimordialArchon Actually that's just the reason for why the jaegers are designed to primarily use blunt force trauma or weapons that will cauterize wounds. The reason for engaging them in the ocean is to minimize the damage done to cities on land

[@soep19]

​@@Furydragonstormer Yup, that's why Gypsy only pulled out the blade as a last resort. You can't really claim that you saved a city if 75% of it is covered in toxic Kaiju blood. However, that was pretty much the only working Jaeger they had, so decisions had to be made

[@Gillymonster18]

On the subject of the Jaegers’ speed, I always figured the control armatures the pilots are strapped into had some thing like computer controlled force feedback and governors. Similar to how modern fighter jet computers won’t let the pilot do something that will break the aircraft, these armatures would basically limit the speed of pilot motion input so the Jaeger could keep up.

[@BEN-eu6xq]

Sequel? WHAT Sequel?!? there was only ONE Movie!

[@eskayseries3587]

It have a sequel not movie but is anime Pasific rim: the black

[@marcelzocker947]

Hm? No there is actually „Pacific Rim Uprising“. 🤷🏼‍♂

[@BEN-eu6xq]

@@marcelzocker947 ANTI-Fanfic doesn't count!

[@The_Mountain_Of_Smiling_Bodies]

@@marcelzocker947 we don’t acknowledge THAT movie, I mean, what movie?

[@Healthy_Toki]

Midnight screening, people were standing and applauding when the kaiju got sliced in half. This film is a genre classic

[@rim12345-e]

one of the things they missed on the sequel and the Godzilla vs Kong movies is the speed to weight ratio. "Larger size = Slower Speed" simple

[@The_chill_man.4989]

We need a goddamn prequel of this quality

[@aerithofmyore]

A prequel with Idris Elba would be great, then a total reboot. I bet that Del Toro wouldn't entertain it though. He's more of a one and done guy

[@theworkshopwhisperer.5902]

I always thought Pacific Rim was far too well put together for a monster film. Need I remind you this came out in 2013! The visuals are amazing and still hold up. Not to mention a number of deeper plot threads that are only just implied. My favourite one being how the humans had the upper hand despite having less advanced jaegers until a monster defeated one by attacking the head rather than centre mass. Now they all go for the head but some jaegers whether by design or as a response just happen to have their pilots in the torso.

[@SuperPuggle]

That scene where Gypsy Danger came through the sea to crash on land felt monumental. With surround sound it felt so intense!

[@krawlak]

About how animation speed relates to scale, there is a blog post titled "Game Development: How much to slow animation down for giant creatures", which explains the formula that can be used as basis: when you scale up by factor x, divide animation speed by the square root of x.

[@somerandomfaerie6840]

you have to admire the incredible talent it takes to be handed such a promising series and kill it with a single sequel

[@BoboyMagdalera]

What sequel?

[@szewc0svd]

I saw it as it came out to cinemas, and have never seen it since. Speed to wieght ratio in this movie was best, you see and almost feel inertia of the robot mass while it moves.

[@lukefortune8314]

In my opinion it's definitely worth watching a second time. it has aged, but pretty well. also watching it is relatively cheap right now.

[@sovokentertainment1458]

@@lukefortune8314I re-watch this film from time to time. Always a fun experience

[@doodskie999]

I just love how more and more people begin to appreciate this masterpiece and constantly deny there was a sequel 😂😂

[@DeletedTaters001]

Pacific Rim: wow, look at these mechanical marvels, it's a miracle they're moving *at all* The sequel that shall not be named: wow, look at the miracles being performed while the robots move They lost all sense of scale and weight.

[@unhinged_films]

The dp COOKED with this movie, I think it’s often overlooked how much the composition and camera angles contribute to the massive feeling of the jaegers. Badass tier film

[@SMITESHSURESH]

Each and every part of this movie does get the appreciation it deserves from the people who truly care. Pacific Rim has always been one of my favorite movies

[@skullnoor8008]

people might ask, "why art is so expensive?" the answer is to create beautiful art, it takes a lot of hard work, passion and skill, normal people can understand it, but they can't define it. Thank you CGY for explaining this. and Salute to the artists who worked in Pacific Rim 🖤

[@Rutherfordium2023]

Pacific rim needs more recognition, this was the first film I actually chose to watch and ive been spoiled ever since

[@ahlatagaci2018]

I wish there was a game with fighting mechanics that also had the same feeling as this movie. There's no single game that you manually move hands of a giant bipedal mech and go into a hand-to-hand fight while also having the weighty and realistic feeling. Even if there is a game for hand-to-hand mech fight, they are usually very hard to believe to be a giant mech game due to lack of sense of weight in movements and mechanics and even too unrealistic for a human-sized combat, ironically. I remember starving for such a game that doesn't exist. Many old games have very unique ways of gameplay and so possibly at some point some game had a hand-to-hand weighted giant mech combat. Atmosphere-wise, Jaeger Combat Simulator (It is shut down but available to play through game archive apps that have it built-in) is the closest to Pacific Rim so far but it is fairly outdated in terms of mechanics and is just a web game without continuity. I WANT GIANT METAL FISTS CLASHING.

[@najlitarvan921]

if we want direct mech arm control ,we are probably looking at vr, problem becomes that we have no way to climit the player's arms moving speed,since we have no way to induce that level of haptic feedback

[@jaredcramsie182]

I've been playing '13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim' recently. While it isn't a hand-to-hand fighting game, the gameplay section gets the feeling of using giant robots to fight invading monsters. The attack animations feel weight, especially the physical units. It achieves this by stopping the time to give each animation as much time as it needs to achieve results, but stops the combat from feeling too fast by balancing it out with long cool down times until the unit can move again.

[@VitorHugoOliveiraSousa]

The problem with mecha games is two fold. First you have to design and build environments that a giant can walk into to sell the scales, that has always been a economical and technical problem. Economical in the sense that it would be very expensive to model those giant maps with enough granular detail to sell the scale. And the technical problem is that just recently personal computing hardware can actually render big worlds. So most mecha games you feel like you are controlling a toy robot in a toy world or a human sized robot in a model world like they filmed the megazord in power rangers. The only game that I know that kinda break this rule is Armored Core VI. Everything is model real world scale, the robots in engine units are actually massive and so is the world. But they still don't have that much details in the environment, just enough to fool you at the distance or high speed. The second problem is that to sell the scale you need physical interaction. A person can walk through a street and cause no effect on it, but a mecha just like the movie show, each step will cause massive holes in the ground. Their battle will level cities. This level of physical destruction is still limited in games, but we are getting there (the game Teardown for example, a generation or two down the line and we can have that destruction with voxel resolution upped to the point it looks realistic enough and not Minecrafted, maybe sooner if someone figure out how to use AI to infer destruction properties instead of brute force calculation). Which again makes most mecha games look like you are controlling a toy because the environment do not interact as you would expect by a giant walking or fighting through it.

[@VitorHugoOliveiraSousa]

Maybe one day when technology have evolved to resolve those issues we will have the dreaming mecha game or games.

[@ryatt9365]

The new Doom game will have sections where you pilot a humanoid mech of similar size. I was worried when I saw the trailer that it’d just be a one-time gimmick. The devs said it’ll be more fleshed out than that, and the game will have multiple mech sections. I hope it feels heavy. I don’t want to pilot a giant mech just for it to feel like I’m the Doom Slayer but bigger. And we’ve already seen the mech I’m talking about fight before, and it does have a good sense of weight. I’m looking forward to seeing how well they can translate that to the first person combat. Time will tell.

[@masonl87]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I love everything about it, even the weird stuff that barely holds together.

[@fuzzythoughts8020]

Pacific Rim is legitimately one of, if not the best monster movie ever made. Its shocking that people don't just understand that stretching a few rules makes the best entertainment, you don't want a world divorced from reality, you want to take your twist and make a new sort of hyper-reality with it, an alternate universe if you will. Its why Godzilla worked, its why Dracula worked, its why Sherlock Holmes worked, and so many more. By having a world that has those little realistic details, you allow the audience to imagine themselves there.

[@WheeledHamster]

Meanwhile the latest Kong vs Godzilla movie looks like a god damn cartoon.

[@Cryonan]

How?

[@samuelbaker8724]

It's kind of annoying that people keep saying that. First, Kong is a damn ape, and Godzilla is evolving every movie. Not to mention, this movie was made in 2013. Now, there's better shit they can do with CGI. Well, aside from the newer Marvel movies. Those are trash

[@HamburgExpress]

Guillermo was also a great art director. He told his team what he wanted, and then let the team go free. He didn't force them into a specific art style or micro managed evey step of the creative process. He understood weight, movement and realism. As the the mechs move, you can see moving parts inside of them. While the monsters have a sense of intelligence, making them more deadly. It's so awesome, that the worst part of the film, is that we weren't able to see more fights in the film.

[@AceTheRandomMoron-cp7tj]

What do you mean was? He’s not dead

[@VygoUwU]

ALMOST 100K BABYYYYY

[@-Raylight]

Glad to see we all agree that Pacific Rim -has no sequel- needs a sequel ASAP xD

[@AmanPatel-ye6im]

The Absolute favourite thing is that you can feel the weight and force of punches, robots and monsters. this makes this movie far superior to other Mecha movies.

[@HunterSteel29]

When the Rule of Cool is one of the reasons that some stuff just works in action movies like this, you know they did everything they could to sell that scene to the audience. Like Gypsey's fist making the Newton's Cradle move was completely and utterly pointless as an action shot, but it was so damn cool that it added to the movie instead of detracting to it. The production staff knew that they were doing Giant Robots vs Giant Monsters. It has to be cool, it has to be epic and there needs to be weight behind their actions too, there has to be some seriousness to keep up the edge of your seat action and investment into the plot, but also a little bit of goofiness (again the Newton's Cradle scene) so the audience can have a slight breather for a quick laugh before going back to the action. Forgot to add: You should definitely review the CGI of Godzilla Minus One which is a masterpiece showcasing how practical affects and good CGI can still do well in the 2020s.

[@VHavengrad]

PR2:U did one thing I'll praise it for, it really showed how tight and well done the first movie was.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow. So dark. So very, very, dark.

[@zigman1976]

I remember watching this flick in an almost empty movie theater with my wife. She told me afterwards I was hooting and hollering like a kid during the incredible fight scenes. I was having such a blast I didn’t even realized what I was doing.

[@d1arkblue]

The sound design was also amazing and on point. It also helped sell the scale of the Jaegers and Kaiju

[@n1njafish894]

0:55 stop spreading misinformation 😤, there is no sequel

[@brimstoneplays5471]

Do you not know about Pacific Rim: Uprising?

[@Whatamidoing987]

What sequel? (In case the joke flew over you harder than a boeing 747, the pacific rim fan base has collectively come to the agreement that Uprising, the piece of shit, doesn't exist.)

[@blackc1479]

Sequel? That could be cool. When's filming start?😂

[@Headonkrash]

I’m a sucker for mech movies…. So I enjoyed the sequel…..and jlo’s movie atlas…. I just want more mech movies!

[@fluffernaut9905]

There is no sequel in Ba-Sing-Sae.

[@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938]

Pacific Rim remains one of my favourite Guillermo Del Toro movies and my favourite movie featuring giant robot battles. Thanks CGY. You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this! 😎👍

[@carpemkarzi]

It continues to amaze me that this movie came out 11 years ago (as of my writing today) and it looks so damned amazing still. That’s what you get when you don’t rush your VFX team and plan out everything first. As a life long lover of (as I referred to them in my long since faded youth) Japanese Stompers, this movie is such a joy and love letter to all those Saturday matinees. Lovely

[@itst1998]

Formidable villain and the fact that the journey of the Jaegars won't be smooth sailing, lastly, the emotional factor behind each Jaegar. Perfect recipe for a perfect film.

[@Yokomation]

This was an Awesome Movie and made me really Hyped for the Godzilla 2014 movie even more so.

[@lukestippo9650]

Such an amazing movie, the flow and weight of these monsters and machines was so well done I’ll never forget this movie.

[@krinklehinkle]

should’ve highlighted “abs” in “absurd” at 11:26 for number 3

[@knightmare8894]

The first 10 mins of Pacific Rim and the build up narration about fighting a hurricane is just pure adrenaline.

[@OscarLam1203]

I had a fever dream of a horrible sequel of Pacific Rim, I’m glad I woke up quickly 😊

[@austin3789]

This and Skull Island are my two favorite giant monster movies of all time.

[@Kokorocodon]

This.

[@davecrupel2817]

Video starts at 2:47

[@sevynblanes]

🙌🏼

[@RuslanArtur]

Hero we deserve

[@_MECHA_]

This movie is genuinely a masterpiece, I'm not kidding at all. Genuinely amazing and underated film. Also, amazing and underated video!!!!!! Great work!!!

[@Maxiax117]

1:00 don't fall in that trap the snail (gaijin) wants your soul

[@beyez]

Hail the snail

[@beyez]

Hail the snail

[@beyez]

Hail the snail

[@beyez]

Hail the snail

[@OfficialArthusamakh]

You can add to all that that the movie was conscious of what it wanted to be and did just that. It's not trying to be a super complex story or one that makes you think or trying to reinvent the wheel, it's just big robots fighting big monsters. And in that sense it nails it 10/10. Movies nowadays lack that quite often, they're trying to cover 5 groups of audiences and styles in one movie but at the end they're just disappointing to everyone. Now I wanna watch this one and Transformers 1-3 again

[@iljasbergmann6681]

01:00 Dont sell your soul to this game.

[@blissful_hate2657]

The thing that makes the movie so good is the level of detail they put into even the most MINUTE things. Just by making the pistons in the underarm of Striker Eureka move when she lifts Otachi up makes this movie as good as it is

[@StealthGamers157]

Yeah

[@INVINCIBLE7R]

Goated Movie

[@LvLcrou]

This movie is and will always be my favorite. I havent found any "modern" movie that has such good CGI and this impression of giganticness. Like transformers is a good movie BUT everything moves so fast, that you can be lost at some point. Anyway good video, you made me want to watch it again for the X time ahah.

[@doktor_ghul]

PACIFIC RIM was, is, and will continue to be my favorite modern robots vs. monsters film, because del Toro took the time to have his team make that world look like it not only looked cool, but made sense. The team designed the Jaegers from the inside out, THUNDERBIRDS style, so that they worked, but they also echoed the design feel of the country that made them. My favorite Jaeger, the clunky monster Cherno Alpha, looked so Russian that it might as well have gone into battle singing Stalin's favorite military march. The camera work looked like the camera was being held by a real person, and was getting splashed with water, hit with debris, and pushed off shot by the wall of air left behind when the Jaeger's arms swept by! It looked REAL, not just cool.

[@sheena1521]

This is one of the movies I wish I could've seen on the big screen. 10 years later this movie looks better than most that have come out since.

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

"How did Pacific Rim have such good VFX?" ILM. The effects were made by ILM, of course they're groundbreaking

[@Guardsmen4]

how sad they they have fallen in recent years

[@Demetrius900000]

Love how professional this feels and you being so confident. Also I asked for subtitles many times, but the new mic makes the sound good enough to understand by ear for nonnative, even on x2 :D

[@Rocky-rh3rz]

Yup 0:55 , I regret that sequel.. Pacific Rim 2 is not as good as the first.. _much like Independence Day 2 is not anywhere as great as ID 1.._

[@hdWWtchR]

IT NEVER EXIST IT NEVER EXIST IT NEVER EXIST IT NEVER EXIST

[@hunterakb]

What are you saying? There is no sequel

[@wasco7992]

It's wrong of you guys to judge the sequal even tho it got canceled and was never released

[@Cryonan]

I bet yall didn’t even know Pacific Rim: The Black existed. It’s genuinly a great cinematic show

[@tayty1238]

What sequel

[@Chezquack]

I've watched this movie more than 20 times, yet I still get goosebumps whenever I see gypsy danger.

[@d3j4v00]

I went for years thinking that Pacific Rim was a garbage Michael Bay movie with incomprehensible smashy smash.. then i watched it and i've never been so glad to be so wrong! The concept of the drift is philosophically fascinating and rocketed my impression of the film to sit just slightly under The Matrix.

[@EXODIADIO]

Lethal Eternity !

[@Goodfellow-w6i]

15:43, the best part of the vid 🤣🤣

[@nicklarson801]

This is still one of the best looking movies I have ever seen. The colors, the CG, the lack of any noise/grain. It just looks really good.

[@markfrankenberry2440]

There is NO sequel to Pacific Rim!!! Anyone who thinks there was a sequel is just suffering a delusion of some horrible alternate universe where good movies have bad sequels.

[@124thDragoon]

The choice to give all of the mechs easily distinguishable “helmet visors”, color palettes, and silhouettes was a masterstroke. It made the heavy use of rain, fog, and explosions actually reasonable. It also reminded me a ton of what was attempted in Gundam Wing in the 90s.

[@Jordan_C_Wilde]

12:40 you may joke about it but i genuinly believe that could happen with the fuckery that's the stock market

[@captainonion301]

I love this film and always thought the effects were amazing and your video has shown me why it was so good. Think I'll watch it again tonight!

[@dobby9996]

8:40- the smuggest ive ever seen someone claim they have no friends 😂 Also a factor you forgot to mention was the camera positioning. The cameras are all placed in a realistic place (on a rooftop, in a helicopter, low on the ground) which adds to the realism of whats on screen because it tricks the audience that it was actually filmed. The non-existent sequel didnt have that and had the camera zipping about all over the place which pulled the audience out... if a sequel was ever made 😉

[@dhanyanm.s3933]

Really need a multiverse thing between Godzilla universe and this pacific rim universe

[@tuck3771]

12:53 HUH?!?!

[@Owen5K8T4]

EXACTLY‼️‼️⁉️⁉️

[@bengieDMZ]

It’s incredible how people are able to tell instantly if a movie was made with or without passion.

[@rodoherty1]

Finding the rate at which the shots change in this video, a little hard for my slow brain to process. I paused a couple of times because I wanted to just take it in. Not sure if anyone feels the same. I love the subject matter but find the video little hard to watch.

[@JK-xz1lt]

This is literally the best movie of the last decade. I watched it at the theater 7 times. It was such a beautiful movie.

[@ghostywarrior]

3:30 IS THAT A FORTNITE REFERENCE!?!?!?

[@Warhawk198]

1:11 YOUR DEVILISH TRICKS DON’T WORK ON ME! FOR I HAVE ALREADY SOLD MY SOUL TO THE SNAIL!

[@LucidRadio7]

0:37 is that Frankensteins monster?

[@Cotygeek]

The thing I love about Pacific Rim is that it takes all of those Kaiju and Tokusatsu films and shows what those movies look like in the heads of people who are able to look beyond the fact that they feature guys in rubber suits and miniatures.

[@oxide9679]

I still want the bigger story to end with a dozen or so Jaegers dropping through the Breach and taking the fight directly to the Kaiju in their home.

[@rolytnz]

This was a great movie that made no illusions as to what it was about. Top notch VFX that got the scale of the fights absolutely spot on. The "elbow rocket" was the bit that cracked me up, I just about fell of my chair laughing.

[@Guardsmen4]

that was del toros way of thanking japans mech shows with the trope of "calling your attacks"