Pacific Rim 2: The One We Agreed To Never Mention Again

sometimes a sequel can be as good as the original sometimes even better sometimes the sequel is bad and ruins the legacy of the first and sometimes a sequel is so bad that everyone collectively agrees it doesn't exist, that's Pacific Rim 2. Explaining the existence of Pacific Rim Uprising to a fan of the first film is often met with confusion, surprise, bewilderment. This is a Lake Lao type situation where a second movie just

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happened. It sure would have been cool if a sequel happened. It's a pity that it was like that. t and in my opinion, that is without a doubt the best way to watch this movie.

In fact, I wasn't originally going to make this video my own. I was going to put it in Pacific Rim 1 so as not to break the joke, but it was going to be like a 50 minute video and I had other things to do, but even though I'm talking about Pacific Rim 2, that doesn't mean it technically existed, just think about this video like I'm making fun of a piece of fan fiction. because that's essentially what it is, this is just fan fiction. Studio-led corporate fan fiction. Del Toro and Beacham did not return for this and instead, entirely new creative heads arrived at the studio's request.

People may say this movie was a mistake or an abomination. but I couldn't disagree more when you think about it, Uprising is actually the perfect sequel because it shows how easy this premise could have been for the original. You can watch it with the mindset that it's not really Canon and in fact it's just a theoretical movie about what they would have done if the original was as soulless and shameless as possible or you just can't watch it at all, that's a good one too option now that a Pacific Rim sequel isn't the worst idea. the world nor was it impossible to be sure that those aliens were nuked at the end of the last movie, but if I know one thing about the Xeno scum it's that there are probably more, I don't think they're going to let that slide, a sequel could may have worked, but it didn't, it didn't at all, so what went wrong, well, let's start with our new protagonist is Jake Pentecost, the son of Idris Elba's older Pentecost played by John Ryan Johnson, he will pay for what he did boyega, apparently Pentecost had a son this The whole time was a little strange, he

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ed it once years before, Boyega had a fight with his father.

He was a promising pilot in training, but he tried piloting a Jaeger alone for some reason and it nearly melted his brain. Why did he do that? stupid for this stupid act Elba kicked him out of school, wow what a way to cancel his absence in the original, his father was just ashamed of him, damn he doesn't talk about me much, betrayed by the country, loves Jake the dog. a life of crime becoming a rich criminal dismantling Jager parts and selling them on the black market you know it's not such a bad idea that the son of the most sensible man is a punk that's interesting what they don't do anything with that, but it's interesting, Boyega's backstory is really only used for the first 15 minutes of the movie, his life of debauchery catches up with him after a deal goes wrong and then the rest of the movie happens as if we'll never get this aspect of him

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. he. he just becomes another generic protagonist this is our time this is our chance to make a difference the movie has to move on to all the other fascinating characters in Pacific Rim 2. white girl Scott Eastwood Chinese CEO random kids no, come on, I don't We are Another base, sorry, remember that everyone had come together to develop and maintain the Jaeger program.

How Jaegers were so expensive that the program was scrapped entirely. Yes, this girl built one in her garage. I understand that technology is expensive at first and then trickles down. the public later, but this girl is building a Mech with a variety of Jaeger parts in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland. It takes her forever to build a custom car in a suburban garage. Imagine building a robot by yourself as a teenager. The film excuses this by saying. It's a smaller robot, so that makes it more logical, but this little guy can roll around and do things I've never seen another Mech do before, even though this girl builds her own little robot, she just becomes another pilot. , it's like in Top Gun Goose he can just design his own super plane but they just make him fly them instead of talking about Top Gun Jaeger school to avoid a life sentence in Guantanamo Bay.

Boyega is forced to become the new instructor for the next generation of Jaeger pilots. What better teacher than the guy he was? expelled from Jaeger school all those years ago it's like the new teacher went to the same high school years before but he was that kid who fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a wall talking about falling asleep Scott Eastwood you gotta I understand there was a time when Hollywood tried to make something out of Scott Eastwood, but he's always there, he's not bad, he's just nothing more and he's the co-lead of this movie, so that's our main Stellar cast, for sure there are others like the Chinese CEO and Charlie Day and the random assortment of forgettable kids, but we'll get to those, oh boy, we'll get to those.

You are both strong enough. The tone is important. The tone is the atmosphere. The energy of the film. Or, to put it simply, what do you do? How I feel about watching it and that tone is why many may simply dismiss this as a fake sequel. Simply put, this is mainly due to a completely different directing style, an inherent lack of del Toro's charm, which is my way of saying that the original seemed nice. weird and cheesy, but I liked it, there was a strangeness to the world, most of the movie was in the dark or at night.

Ron Perlman Pacific Rim 2 took everything the original did and threw it out the window now every fight is during the day, the brightest day imaginable, remove any appearance of these machines being big, make those Jaegers do jumps, do it Whatever, who cares about any of Wade's sense, just destroy the illusion that these mechs are controlled by people, remove the anticipation between hits along with those vital pauses in movement now they just look like giants and power armor instead of 100-pound robots. feet tall just because the action is faster now doesn't make it more impressive, if anything it does the opposite, any bump or knock feels less impactful, but Hey, the movie has a solution for that, the classic way of showing any major slow motion moment, dutch angles and licensed music, it's really not the same.

Well, it's been so long in the video and I haven't even talked about it. what happens in it, silly, silly, ten years after the Kaiju attack, humanity is still rebuilding. Jake Pentecost, although he is living the high life thanks to his life of crime, like me, his time of debauchery catches up with him, although after a deal goes wrong and along with a teenager named Amara, they are both forced by the feds to join the Jaeger program. You might be wondering why the Jaeger program still exists while Humanity continues to prepare for something just in case, meaning that none of these Jaegers or their pilots actually have experience fighting a Kaiju.

I think the only one left with real experience is Mako in Raleigh too, but he's not in the movie, that's fine, don't worry because all these pilots will be replaced with drones. Chinese drones by a private Chinese company before this can be approved, although the city of Sydney is attacked by an evil and rogue Jaeger, yes there are bad Jaegers, now just move on, but who controls them and why we don't know, the only thing certain is that the giant Chinese robot drones are the future and in no way can they be counterproductive. Luckily, Manka was there to continue voting

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st the robot drones.

She dies in a helicopter crash abroad. Yeah, Marco, the driving character in the last movie, has like three scenes in the whole movie and then. dies in a helicopter crash, lovely, I can't believe they murdered a character like that, you know, they killed her in such a way, it's not a real murder, no, that's reserved for Charlie Day, the main antagonist. I'm ending the world. Charlie Day is evil, get up from that, you trash pilot, you might agree with that assessment that this was a character assassination, ruining a pivotal character like Dr. Newt Geisler in that previous segment might have given you pause.

I also think it was a character assassination, but no, it was just. For a moment I couldn't think of a better transition. Sorry, I'm going to be honest. I wouldn't call Charlie Day being evil. A decision that ruins the character. It was not implemented very well. Now listen to me, this guy always was. obsessed with Kai juice remember drifting brain did it all those years ago well it didn't exactly stop you read my mind it's him that brain is Charlie Day that monster brain just like with years of social media use his mind has been corrupted beyond belief Charlie Day isn't really evil now that he's basically possessed.

They confirmed that behind the scenes she is something like the girl from The Exorcist. Bye, he still handles himself pretty terribly. The biggest problem with Uprising is that for half the movie we just don't do it. We know what the plot is, there's nothing at stake here, the consequences of this world were decided in the last movie, we eventually learn of Charlie's big plan for years, he's been rising through the ranks of the Shell Corporation and he came up with the idea of ​​thousands of Jaegers drones. of Jaegers drones and he was able to successfully implant all of these Jaegers with Kaiju brains.

That evil Jaeger was just a Kaiju brain. The Kaiju brains control the Jaegers now, so Charlie Day betrays the rest of humanity by unleashing his horde of half-Kaiju Jaegers on the shattered Dome and the world now somehow, by combining their laser powers, the robots can open dozens of new cracks throughout the Pacific. Honestly, when I saw this I thought, Oh my god, that's crazy, how the hell are they going to get out of this like just one glitch is almost over? Last time in the world, dozens of Kaiju arrived simultaneously and the Jaeger bases were destroyed, not to

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that there are now half of the Kaiju Jaegers running around the place, the stakes are high now that these giant corrupted robots look pretty good, movie, I'm on board.

Why shouldn't they have to fight this army of monstrous Jaegers? Then they just shut down the Jaegers. Yes, that took about 10 minutes. The CEO of the Shell Corporation shut down the army of Jaegers. They just aren't there. an already foreign threat, this all builds up for these monster robots and then resolves, they had to reset their computers at the end, just three guys, you go through the rift and head towards Tokyo, you see that the precursors have a definitive plan to blow up the Mountain. Fuji blowing up Mount Fuji will activate the entire Pacific Ring of Fire, causing all the volcanoes to explode, terraforming the world first with the Precursors, that's what people call aliens now.

I swear I'm not trying to relate everything to Halo, it just keeps happening. I understand why the name precursors that name implies something that came before as a past tense, that is why they were the name of the alien race before the precursors, what exactly are these aliens, the precursors of them and humans exist at the same time. same time they are actively? fighting each other, what does this name mean? Second, why didn't they blow up Mount Fuji in the first place two decades ago, even with the first Kaij? Two had about 10 years to continue sending monsters, but they decided to attack everyone. over the Pacific, on the other hand, the whole tradition is fundamentally broken now, yes, so everything was prepared to have this final fight in Tokyo.

Our surviving team of child soldiers made their way to Japan to take on the Kaiju in the 2010s. Hollywood really tried to take advantage. that Chinese market and, as some Taps tend to do, it blew up in their faces. What does it mean for a movie to be pro-China? It may simply be depicting the Chinese like an average Michael Bay movie portrays the military. He could be making a movie. It is identifiable to mainland Chinese audiences or can even be filmed next to a concentration camp thanks to Disney and in 2016 the Dylan Wanda group bought legendary films for $3.5 billion, making some changes even to existing projects like Pacific Rim 2.

I'm not going to complain about China having a more prominent role in the sequel. Pacific Rim only got a sequel because it was so successful in China that these movies are set in the Pacific that it makes sense that there are more Chinese people in the sequel. that just background characters now that they said the character is an uprising, okay, let's go back to Evil Charlie Day. I'm ending the world, so Charlie Day is the chief scientist at Shell Industries, the main figure driving the Drone program. anything subordinate to Xiao Lee CEO and founder Wen Chao Lee Wen is cold andStern's okay, sorry, he doesn't do that whole handshake thing.

Charlie is scared of him for basically the entire movie, it's pretty obvious that they are one hundred percent. behind Jaeger's evil attack, they probably even killed Mako to prevent the vote from taking place. This plays out for half the movie and then Charlie's day turns evil Lee, when Charlie was employed and trusted by Xiao, she gave him free rein to create these drones and yeah. Even though Charlie betrayed her, they are still responsible for this happening in some way. Imagine that an arrogant corporation arises and ends up flying too close to the Sun, as if Xiao created these drones and then the drones betrayed them, as the movie would portray. in that show how her arrogance was a bad thing, yeah that's not what happens, most systems are online sending help after Charlie's betrayal, Lee was Xiao immediately solves the Drone problem, she and her Corporation they became estranged from Charlie and then became the protagonist she becomes the protagonist she becomes the Jaeger pilot I'm not saying Lee Wen should have been blamed or punished for Charlie going rogue but at least he acknowledged the accidental contribution in some way, such Maybe a character could have called out Xiao for not being more alert about what Charlie was doing, maybe Xiao feels immense guilt for being tricked, instead we don't understand anything about Xiao Industries.

It's an incredibly powerful corporation and it's also not to blame for Charlie's actions. It seems like the movie expects the audience to just move on, and if anything, happily as she helps Save the Day and he's gone. You're reading this? That's one of my automated factories. was Newt Pacific Rim 2 isn't just pandering to a market that liked the original. This is the only movie I've seen where the almighty business is the protagonist. It's like the Wanda group really bought something legendary and rewrote the script to include a Chinese company saving the world. Imagine if, instead of kids writing Vaught like the heartless corporation they were, Amazon forced the writers to make Vaught the real heroes all the time and a Jeff Bezos equivalent descended to kick Homelander in the ORV Zuckerberg produced The Social Network and the lesson of the movie is that Andrew Garfield was stupid and dumb, so now I guess the question we all have is who the hell is responsible for this foreign situation.

As easy as it is to simply blame studio interference. or the director, the answer is not that simple, there is not much information available, but the best information I got was from an interview in a video that at the time of this recording has less than 2000 views thanks to the channel's cinema and the fandom. by the way, so let's go back to the first movie, it's a huge success, the studio wants a sequel. Del Toro wants a sequel and is totally on board. He wanted to run everything, but delays kept happening. Legendario was bought by the Wanda group and this.

It led to an internal reorganization that delayed the project even further, a few years behind schedule, and by then del Toro had already moved on to another project, something about deboning a fish. I don't know if you've heard of him, so Del Toro just pushed Pacific Rim back into the studio with some suggestions and ideas of course, but he's not in charge of anything right now, the studio can do whatever they want. and they wanted to bring in someone new so someone could write. live, a full creative vision for the new sequel, and, in my opinion, someone who wasn't influential enough to overrule any decision the studio wanted to make, so what the hell happened?

First, Del Toro's lack of involvement, the studio moved forward without his Vision really should have killed this project from the start, that doesn't mean Del Toro contributed absolutely nothing. There were actually some ideas that del Toro had for an initial sequel that were included in this movie because Charlie was evil, yeah, yeah, people's biggest complaint. With this movie, that was something del Toro discussed with Charlie for a sequel idea. I just don't feel fully myself these days in the first draft of the movie. Raleigh was supposed to return. Mako was supposed to die and this scene would have been Raleigh failing to save Mako instead of John Boyega now I'll just say it: Mako dying like that is still stupid.

She does not go out in a Jaeger but as a passenger and helicopter. What the hell does tonight hint that maybe Mako is? He's not permanently dead like hint, hint, nudge, nudge. I'm going to interpret that as Mako coming back to life via some alien Kaiju shenanigans, so cool script is written, everything is good to go, well Charlie Dunham has a scheduling conflict so they have to rewrite another one script with a different lead, they have some proposed ideas and none of them go anywhere, then Del Toro comes in and has the idea of ​​Idris Elba having a child.

John Boyega's character was a creation of Del Toro, which even the director thought was strange because no one mentioned this guy before, but that's why they wrote this elaborate behind-the-scenes story of them having a fight, so the John Boyega's character was just his best attempt at resolving a scheduled dispute. The Gentleman mentioned how many of the problems. what he saw in the movie simply came down to the budget, he wanted Mako to have a lot more presence in the movie but in the end she only got a few scenes, he kept mentioning that he was a bit powerless despite being the director and at the same time time not to do it.

Blame the studio at the same time and in my opinion this sounds like a small director who doesn't want to miss any future job opportunities. It's really hard to say where his vision ends at the beginning of the studies. As much as we can talk about Studio. interference in China sometimes A creative vision just isn't cool. I can't imagine the studio told him to change everything about Pacific Rim, how the Jaegers fundamentally fight for the camera to move like that in slow motion and Dutch angles, so many Dutch angles according to denying that del Toro told him not to do a Delta Pacific Rim but to make his own, which, while it's an incredibly nice thing to say, I wish he wouldn't say it because after he did, the Gentleman was off to the races that night.

He ended up differentiating Pacific Rim 2 from the original by simply removing everything that people liked about the original. I guess it really is a shame that del Toro never got to make the Pacific Rim sequel he wanted, who knows Pacific Rim could have continued. To be a successful franchise, I mean, of course, assuming that a Del Toro sequel would have been good, which I mean, come on, of course, you'd be right. When I was researching this, I found this quote that del Toro said about three years ago. It was his original idea for the sequel, which I'm going to read word for word.

The villain was a tech guy who had basically invented some kind of Internet 2.0 and then they realized that all of his patents came to him one morning little by little. They started putting this together and said oh, he got them from the Precursors, the guys who control the Kaiju and then we find out that the Precursors are us, thousands of years in the future. Del Toro went on to explain that they are trying to terraform. re-harvest the Earth to survive wow and that we were in EXO biosuits that looked like aliens but there were nine of them, we were inside and it was a really interesting paradox if Del Toro had made Pacific Rim 2.

It was going to be revealed that the aliens were future humans all the time the humans sent the Kaiju, you know, sometimes things just aren't meant to have aftermath, why was it called an uprising?