i don't remember who said it but they nailed it. the movie is internally consistent. it is consistent to what it sets up as the rules of that movie's universe. if you are comparing it to the rules of OUR universe, you're going to run into a bunch of problems. for starters, mechs can't and won't exist. there's a reason why the larger dinosaurs spent 90% of their life underwater. because gravity does not affect mass linearly. That's why a spider can lift 10x it's body weight but humans are considered at their peak when they can lift 1x their body weight. a mech that big would literally crush it's own legs the first time it's stabilizing clamps were off. but that would make for a stupid movie.
in reality, you wouldn't have a singular mech. you'd have several mobile defense weapons platforms that you could launch aircraft from. in the pacific rim universe, that doesn't work because f-22's apparently have a 100 foot striking distance. there's no reason why those jets were ANYWHERE close to being melee'd, other than to demonstrate that that doesn't work in their universe.
almost every single nit-pick that people have with this movie can be answered with the idea of internal consistency. the acting complaints are vaild, to a point. i personally found it charming and campy. Charlie Hunnam was fine. he wasn't excellent and he didn't suck. he was average.
Saw it at home, the lack of weapons is still a valid complaint that goes against their internal consistency. Weapons were always extremely effective, even just trash weapons (Oil Tanker, Storage Cars.)....While the Jaegers had built in weapons, they used their fists, a lot. It made no sense that all of them didn't have some kind of sword or melee weapon with them, at all times (Yeah, their firsts could be clubs, but again we saw longer weapons work extremely well.)
Since the movie actually has organic weapons that make sense, the tech-based ones should also. A humanoid shape isn't the best shape for combat. Humans evolved this way because bipedal locomotion is extremely energy efficient (From what I remember), which is needed to feed our brain (Which was needed for tool use and tools>physical adaptations). So building robots like humans, that don't use tools--is pretty much as stupid as a human being trying to toe to toe with a lion using only his fists.
And again, that
isn'tcomparing it to the real world. In the movie there was a consistency of "goodness" with weapon use. The reason they always weren't use right away is obviously a homage to Japanese Mecha, but it does dampen that internal consistency.
Also, why there wasn't 3-4 Jaegers on a Kaiju at every encounter. They
mentionthat during one encounter they sent three out and they mention "standard two formation"--so they used exposition to say they used multiple Jaegers...
Butin the only 3 encounters we see from the past, it's one vs one. Again, this doesn't feel very internally consistent, especially considering deployment domes housed tons of Jaegers. Gypsy+2 other Jaegers should have butt fucked that Cat 3 at the start of the movie, but for some unexplained reason, Gypsy was alone (And this was before the speed up--so they hadn't started losing tons of Jaegers yet.)...He did this, obviously, for the plot and because that original Jaeger Vs Mako Kaiju was cooler as a duel. But it was a bit sloppy on story telling to not toss in a bit of exposition as to why. (Have Elba say "You're the only one in range, other Jaeger's ETA X minutes, or something.)
Another flaw. Rockets and Plasma cannons work
reallywell. So why not build floating platforms staring at the breech full of fucking plasma cannons? Okay, in this universe, jets and tanks and shit don't work--
we get it. But these other weapons mounted in Jaegers? Obviously
dowork. Also they work underwater. And we have the technology to deploy to the breech itself (They do it in the movie AND they say they've tried it before.)
ANDwe know Kaiju must physically emerge from the breach. So your enemy has to invade using a tiny little choke point.............and we're waiting to engage them where they please. Why? There's no internal reason for that, at all. It's just needed for the plot, no other reason.
Even if we take internal consistency and say only Jaegers can fire those weapons (lol)...Then why not take your 30+ Jaegers, deploy 3 at a time, and have them take shifts surrounding the hole with plasma cannons and rockets and shit aimed at it? WHY are you allowing them through, and giving them the element of surprise.
Those are three internal inconsistencies. Given all them though? I still really liked it. You just can't analyzes it that deeply, because all the homage GDT was trying to do forced him to toss in some silly things. And that's
okay. The movie was good enough to cover for that kind of poor consistency and that's all that really matters. But on the whole? Yeah, there were certainly some hugely inconsistent bits in the movie itself (Without having to go to reality vs movie.)
